2009SUMMERREADING[1]

UCL FACULTY OF LAWS

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDONFaculty of Laws

SUMMER READING

Session 2009 - 2010

INDEX

PageCompulsory Subject

Tort 3

Jurisprudence & Legal Theory 3

Property II 5

Public Law II 5

Optional Subjects

Alternative Dispute Resolution 5

Commercial Law 6

Company Law 6

Competition Law 6

Conflict of Laws 7

Crime and Criminal Justice 7

Criminal Law 8

Employment Law 9

Environment, Planning and Development Law 10

European Union Law 11

European Legal Studies II 12

Law of Evidence 12

Family Law 13

History of English Law 13

Industrial and Intellectual Property Law 16

Medicine, Ethics and the Law 17

Public International Law 18

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Roman Law 19

Law of Taxation 20

TORTLAWS2007 / LAWS6207

The required reading for tort is focused on Jenny Steele, /Tort Law: Text, Cases and Materials /(OUP, 2007). Chapter 1 provides a useful introduction to the course.

Prof Maria LeeJuly 2009

JURISPRUDENCE & LEGAL THEORYLAWS2004 / LAWS6204

For an introduction to Jurisprudence you may find the following two books useful: James Penner, McCoubrey & White's Textbook on Jurisprudence (Oxford University Press 2008), and Nigel Simmonds, Central Issues in Jurisprudence (2008) published by Sweet & Maxwell, third edition.

Lloyd & Freeman’s Introduction to Jurisprudence (7th ed) is an extremely useful resource, containing extracts from original sources.

Jurisprudence is more abstract than other subjects in the LLB and often seems, at first sight, to be unconnected with the practice of law. But it is connected. Legal practice does not fail to engage in abstract argument, nor is ‘abstract’ the same as ‘vague’. During the last year you must have formed views about law’s nature, purposes, and point. The study of Jurisprudence will give you an opportunity to air and develop your views

ExaminationIn Part A there will be a choice of at least eleven questions, two of which must be answered. There will be one compulsory question on Part B of the course.

LecturesThere will be two introductory lectures in the first week of term. This will introduce some basic ideas about the nature of jurisprudence, and will explain in more detail the teaching and examining arrangements of the course.

Seminars

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Part A consists of weekly two-hour seminars to the end of the third week of the second term. Seminars have about 15 students in each class.

Part B (the Big Book) consists of three consecutive weekly two-hour seminars beginning in the week after Reading Week of the second term. You will be required to read and critically assess one complete major work in legal theory, political theory, or philosophy. Last year there were works by Plato, Mill on Liberty, James on pragmatism, Kant on international justice, Isiah Berlin, Machiavelli and many others.

Vacation reading and essayVacation reading. Since one of the main topics in jurisprudence is the relationship between law and morality, it is important to have a basic understanding of the concept of morality and its different uses. The vacation reading is a classic (and short!) introduction to moral philosophy by Bernard Williams, Morality: An Introduction to Ethics. The book is widely available and you can get it on Amazon’s marketplace for as low as £4. Read the book reflecting carefully upon the ideas of moral subjectivism and relativism and explore further in your own mind the issues they might raise in connection to law. Then attempt the vacation essay, below.

It is also recommended that you start reading chapters 1-3 of H. L. A Hart’s, The Concept of Law, which is one of the main books studied in this course.

Vacation essay. An essay of no more than 1800 words should be written over the Summer and given to your tutor before the first seminar, no later than 1 week before the first class. The exercise is designed to help you, and if you do it thoroughly and sensibly it will be ery useful to you as the first term gathers pace.

The essay topic is the following:

“Suppose you witness the following conversation on the wrongness of rape. A argues that rape is a universal moral wrong. B disagrees with A and claims that, in the society where he comes from, it is not considered morally wrong to rape women of a certain social group. C disagrees with both A and B, arguing that rape is not morally wrong if you can get away with it. Finally, D claims that there is no right answer as to whether rape is wrong, there is just each person’s opinion”

Critically evaluate the arguments by A, B, C, D. Who has the better argument and why?Try to justify your answer and to explain the objections to which each of above arguments is vulnerable.

In addition to the reading above, you might also find helpful the entry on the definition of morality in the Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy, available here: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/morality-definition/

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Enjoy!

Dr George LetsasJune 2009

PROPERTY IILAWS2002

Property II is the second half of the 2 year Property course, and it builds on (and assumes knowledge and understanding of) all the topics covered in Property I last year. The first term will be spent studying the law of trusts. If you wish to do some reading before term starts, read (or re-read) the required text, JE Penner, The Law of Trusts (6th edn, Oxford, 2008) from the beginning. It will help you consolidate what you learned about trusts in Property I and introduce you to concepts that you will encounter for the first time in Property II.

Prof Robert ChambersJuly 2009

PUBLIC LAW IILAWS2005

We will be using the third edition of C. Harlow and R. Rawlings, Law andAdministration, for the first parts of the course. It should be published in late August. Chapter 1 offers a suitable introduction.

Prof Rick RawlingsJuly 2009

ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTIONLAWS3039 / LAWS6039

In preparation for the course, students should read Chapters 1 and 2 of M Palmer and S Roberts, Dispute Resolution Processes: ADR and the Primary Forms of Decision Making, Cambridge Law in Context 2005.

Ms Louise Campbell BrownJuly 2009

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COMMERCIAL LAWLAWS3009

In preparation for the course, students should read chapter 1 of:

L Sealy and R Hooley, Commercial Law:Cases and Materials (4th edition, 2008)

In the first week of the term, the content of the course and the approach to its teaching will be outlined and materials provided for the first set of seminars, which will be on sale of goods.

Dr Hse-yu (Iris) ChiuJuly 2009

COMPANY LAWLAWS3007 / LAWS6307

There is no summer reading for Company Law

COMPETITION LAWLAWS3020 / LAWS6020

Recommended Textbooks:M. Furse Competition Law of the EC and the UK (OUP)V. Korah An Introductory Guide to EC Competition Law and Practice (Hart Pub)G. Monti EC Competition Law (Cambridge Univ. Press)P.J. Slot & A. Johnston An Introduction to Competition Law (Hart Pub)

Useful links:Competition Appeal Tribunal: http://www.catribunal.org.uk/Office of Fair Trading: http://www.oft.gov.uk/default.htmCompetition Commission (UK): http://www.competition-commission.org.uk/Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (UK):http://www.berr.gov.uk/whatwedo/businesslaw/competition/index.html

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European Commission – DG Competition:http://ec.europa.eu/comm/competition/index_en.htmlEuropean Competition network (ECN):http://ec.europa.eu/comm/competition/antitrust/ecn/ecn_home.htmlOECD Competition:http://www.oecd.org/topic/0,2686,en_2649_37463_1_1_1_1_37463,00.htmlIn order to understand the emergence of the competition law idea, itsobjectives and its global success (measured by the fact that more than 100jurisdictions have adopted competition law statutes, last but not leastthe People’s Republic of China) I would recommend you to watch thefollowing film realized by the American Antitrust Institute on USantitrust (competition) law “Fair Fight in the Marketplace” movie (seehttp://www.fairfightfilm.org/, also available on You Tube). The followingnon-fiction books could also be of interest for summer reading:Christopher Mason, Inside the Sotheby’s-Christie’s Auction House Scandal(Berkley Books, New York) or Kurt Eichenwald, The Informant (BroadwayBooks, New York) on the international lysine cartel (waiting for therelease of Steven Soderbergh’s film based on the book).

Dr Ioannis LianosJuly 2009

CONFLICT OF LAWSLAWS3040 / LAWS6340

For a short readable introduction to the subject students should read Adrian Briggs' The Conflict of Laws.

CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICELAWS3043

The special topic is designed to allow students to choose an area within the broad field of Crime and Criminal Justice for in-depth personal study. The selection of topics allows for the introduction of an important sociological dimension to the function, range, operation and enforcement of Criminal Law. In addition to enabling students to pursue their own interest within the field of crime or criminal justice, the special topic aims to develop research skills, critical and analytical skills, and writing and presentational skills.

There is no set text for the special topic although a useful starting point for summer reading to help with the selection or development of a research topic might be to dip into:

Maguire, M., Morgan, R. & Reiner, R. (2007) (4th edition) ‘The Oxford Handbook of Criminology’ (OUP)= cujas

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King, R.D. & Wincup, E. (2000 or latest edition) ‘Doing Research on Crime & Justice’ (OUP)

Ms Elaine GendersJuly 2009

CRIMINAL LAWLAWS7003/LAWS6703

You will be advised to purchase either of the following textbooks for studying the Criminal law course next year.

Simester, A & Sullivan, R Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine (Hart, 3rd ed. 2007)

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D Ormerod, Smith and Hogan: Criminal Law (12th edn, OUP 2008)

We are giving students a free choice which book to buy. Simester and Sullivan has more depth in its theoretical discussion, but some students prefer the straightforward black letter approach of the traditional Smith and Hogan text.

You may wish to buy a copy of your preferred text now, and in any event to ponder the following questions:

1 If punishment involves the intentional infliction of suffering, why should any civilised state assume responsibility for inflicting it on one of its citizens?

(Suppose that a mother foolishly leaves the bathroom to answer the phone while her baby is in the bath, and the baby drowns less than a minute later. She is distraught. What would be the point of punishing her?)

2 Should we criminalise only "harmful" activity?

(How, for example, is underage sex with a consenting, relatively mature and willing partner "harmful"?)

3 and is there any way of deciding whether any harmful activity should be the subject of criminal sanctions, as opposed to (say) merely being remediable in tort by any affected party?

(If a policeman shoots an inoffensive man dead, because he (stupidly) believes him to be armed and about to commit a murder, should he be criminally liable, or liable only in tort to the estate of the deceased?) If you wish to do some further reading, then whilst I would hesitate to advise that anyone should seek to learn some substantive law over the summer - it will always seem different in the lecture hall! - I am happy to recommend

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some further background reading which will introduce you to some of the major themes of the course:

P. Devlin Easing the Passing: The Trial of Dr John Bodkin Adams (London: Bodley Head, 1985)

This is an account of a doctor accused of murder through having given too much morphine to a dying patient. The author is the trial judge himself, who had to direct the jury on the difficult issues of causation and intention. Fascinating and readable.

Alternatively, try this account of an American cause celebre involving an eccentric man who shot four youths on a subway because he thought that they were about to rob him. Naturally, American case law has no binding effect in England and indeed some of the issues of self-defence would be differently decided here (and the jury would not be pre-screened either!), but the book contains so many insights into the underlying issues that reading it is sure to inspire an interest in English criminal law too.

G.Fletcher A Crime of Self-Defence (Collier MacMillan, 1988)

Both of these books are in the UCL library. In fact, the library is generally rather well stocked (honestly!) in the areas of criminal law and criminal justice, and you should find many other books between H4 and H10 which will give you an appetite for studying criminal law. So you are strongly encouraged to browse.

Dr Jonathan RogersJuly 2009

EMPLOYMENT LAWLAWS3002 / LAWS6300

For perspectives on the role of ‘labour’ or ‘employment’ law, see:

Guy Davidov, ‘The (changing?) idea of labour law’ (2007) 146: 3-4 International Labour Review, 311-320. This article is available online (Athens login required) at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118902548/home

Two examples of contemporary debates within employment and equality law you may wish to consider are:

the response of employers and trade unions to issues of political belief, particularly membership of far right political parties: John Bowers QC, ‘The BNP cases: balancing the freedom from discrimination and the rights of free

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speech and association’, November 2007, available at http://www.industriallawsociety.org.uk/dmdocuments/johnbowerspaper.pdf

the interaction of UK law on rights of agency workers, minimum wages, strike action with European Union law on the free movement of workers and companies: ACAS, ‘Report of an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the Lindsey Oil Refinery dispute’, February 2009 available at http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2146

For a fictionalised perspective on the world of work, we recommend you watch:

Dirty Pretty Things (2002, directed by Stephen Frears).

Aside from that we suggest that you concentrate on developing an awareness of contemporary debates about employment and equality issues. A good idea would be to start a portfolio of news articles, stories and essays that touch on employment and law. This will enable you to build up an image of the role played in our political, economic and social life by the questions at the heart of employment and equality. See, for example:

http://www.ft.com/home/uk/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/ http://www.spectator.co.uk/ http://www.newstatesman.com/

Course text-bookThe course is not organized around a single text-book. So you should not treat any one book as a ‘one stop’ guide to the course. Rather, we will ask you to read from textbooks where we think this will help you. You will be provided with a detailed handout containing full case references and recommended reading. We will also guide you to the order in which to read; so the textbook may well be the last thing you should look at. Nonetheless, we think it would be helpful for you to buy the following general books:

Hugh Collins, Employment Law (OUP, 2003) NB: You may be able to obtain a second hand copy of this;Deakin & Morris, Labour Law (Hart, 5th edition, August 2009).

Throughout the course, we will also be making reference to Nick Bamforth, Maleiha Malik & Colm O'Cinneide, Discrimination Law: Theory and Context (Sweet & Maxwell, 2008).

Dr Diamond Ashiagbor and Mr Colm O’CinneideJune 2009

ENVIRONMENTAL, PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT LAW

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LAWS3012 / LAWS6012

The main text for Environment, Planning and Development is Jane Holder and Maria Lee, /Environmental Protection, Law and Policy/ (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Students should try to read the Preface to the book, and the Preface to Part 1 before the start of term.

Dr Jane HolderJuly 2009

EUROPEAN UNION LAWLAWS7005 / LAWS6705

The recommended text for this course is:

Paul Craig & Gráinne de Búrca, EU Law: Text, Cases & Materials (4th ed. OUP, 2007)

During the summer vacation, you should read Chapter 1 of this book. For wider perspectives on the ‘idea’ of Europe, the legal/constitutional, economic and social implications of European integration, you may also like to read:

Ian Ward, A Critical Introduction to European Law (CUP, third edition, 2009). Cambridge University Press has kindly allowed us to have the final proofs of the first two chapters new edition. The extracts from the Ward book are available online, on the Laws undergraduate home page. You will need your UCL username and password to access these documents: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/current/undergraduate/index.shtml.

These proofs are made available for teaching purposes within UCL only, and may not be copied beyond UCL

The Financial Times newspaper http://www.ft.com/home/uk/;

John Pinder and Simon Usherwood, The European Union: A Very Short Introduction (2nd ed., OUP, December 2007).

Dr Diamond AshiagborJune 2009

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EUROPEAN LEGAL STUDIES IILAWS7007 / 7008 / 7009 / 7010

J.P. Dawson, The Oracles of the Law, pp 160-165; 196-213Lord MacMillan, Two ways of reasoning in Law & Other Things (1937), pp 76-101B.S. Markesinis, Litigation Mania in England, Germany and the USA; are we so very different?, pp 233-236 in Cambridge Law Journal 1990B.S. Markesinis, Judicial Style & Judicial Reasoning in England & Germany, in Always on the Same Path (2001), pp 305-320B.S. Markesinis, Conceptualism, Pragmatism and Courage – A Common Lawyer looks at some Judgements of the German Federal Court, in Foreign Law & Comparative Methodology (1997), pp 211-227K. Zweigert and H. Kötz, An Introduction to Comparative Law (3rd ed, 1998), pp 1-97; 132-156; 180-204John H. Merryman, The Civil Law Tradition (2nd ed, 1985), Esseays 1, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9Jean-Louis Halperin, The French Civil Code (2006)

Dr Myriam Hunter-HeninJuly 2009

LAW OF EVIDENCELAWS3006

You will be advised to purchase the following textbook for studying the law of evidence course next year.

I H Dennis The Law of Evidence (Sweet & Maxwell, 3rd ed. 2007)

Please read the first two Chapters, and think about the following questions:

Why do we have a law of evidence? What is it trying to do?

What is the right to a fair trial? What rights, if any, should victims and witnesses have in the criminal process?

Is there such a thing as a ‘true fact’?

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What does it mean to say that evidence is “relevant”, i.e that if we accept x to be true, we might then more readily infer that y is also true? Is it a logical matter, or one of experience or even imagination?

What possible reasons could there be for a court to exclude evidence which it nonetheless accepts is “relevant”?

The course is constructed around my book, but I strongly encourage you to look at works by other writers as well as the usual primary sources of statutes and cases. The library is well stocked with materials on the law of evidence. For example, it contains two classic books by Devlin, Trial by Jury, and Glanville Williams, The Proof of Guilt. These were written many years ago and are out of date on some of the detail. But they are very readable, and thought provoking about some of the ongoing fundamental problems which arise in controlling a criminal trial in order to be fair to the defendant, whilst knowing at the same time that (in serious cases) a jury will decide the case and may do so without giving any reasons for its decisions.

Prof Ian DennisJuly 2009

FAMILY LAWLAWS3010 / LAWS6310

There are many family law textbooks and we do not prescribe one in particular for the course. For introductory reading over the summer, students may look at Douglas, An Introduction to Family Law  2nd edition 2004, which provides a nice overview of the issues, or Freeman, Understanding Family Law, 2007.  Otherwise, students may look at Cretney, Masson and Bailey-Harris Principles of Family Law, 7th ed. Herring, Family Law 4th ed., both of which are helpful for the course. 

There are two good cases and materials books. Diduck and Kaganas Family Law, Gender and the State 2nd edition 2005, and Hale, Pearl, Cooke and Bates, The Family, Law and Society, 5th ed 2002 would both be useful for the course. It would be helpful to look at Chapter one in either of these over the summer.

Prof Michael FreemanJuly 2009

HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAWLAWS3004 / LAWS6340

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“The real question is not whether we should teach legal history but whether we can give to students law, and nothing but law, and still call it a liberal education.” (Theodore Plucknett, formerly Professor of Legal History in the University of London)

Legal history may be only one way of contextualising the law but it is amongst the more satisfying ways of relating law to other human achievements. This course is an introductory one in the sense that it requires no previous detailed knowledge of English legal history and is tolerant (up to a point) of relative ignorance of the English political, social and constitutional history with which the history of law is necessarily connected. It will however be necessary to undertake a modest amount of undirected learning of general English history in order to provide this background. Furthermore it is to be noted that English legal history is a very lively field of study at present so that those who would apply themselves to it must expect not only to have to master the accepted details of its development but also to absorb and express judgement upon a range of possible interpretations of these phenomena.

Legal history is a field which attracts the attention both of legally-trained legal historians and historically-trained historians: their differences of perspective give rise to interesting questions of interpretation. Serious work by large numbers of legally-trained historians is a relatively recent phenomenon and the pioneers in the field, including Baker and Milsom, are still amongst the leaders in the field. In addition to occasional publications in the leading general English law journals (particularly OJLS and CLJ) and American journals (especially Chicago LJ and Michigan LR) there is a dedicated Journal of Legal History as well as the American Journal of Legal History.

The course is taught on a seminar basis for two hours a week: participants are expected to write at least two course essays (not for assessment) and prepare a seminar presentation during the session.

Assessment of the course is by a two and a half hour written examination in May.

Outline of course

First semester

I. Institutions of English Law

The Common law and its predecessors and rivals: the emergence of the Royal courts; procedure - bills and writs; modes of proof - the origin of the jury; Equity and the conciliar courts. The Civil and Canon law in England. The development of appeal in Common law procedure and the systematic reforms of the nineteenth century.

Second semester

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II. The History of tort and contract

Debt and detinue; covenant; trespass and case; assumpsit; doctrine of consideration; negligence.

III. The History of land law

Feudal origins; Estates - for life, fee simple, fee tail; leases for years and copyhold; uses and trusts; perpetuities and settlements.

Recommended introductory reading (all of which will be of general use during the course itself):

R C van Caenegem, The Birth of the English Common Law (2nd edn 1988 CUP p/b) The text of four lectures on the origins of the Common law, the first three of which provide the basic themes of the opening seminars of the course.

J H Baker, An Introduction to English Legal History 4th edn 2002 Butterworths p/b)A far from basic textbook by the acknowledged master of the largely unpublished sources for English legal history (and a UCL laws graduate).

S F C Milsom, Historical Foundations of the Common Law (2nd edn 1981 Butterworths p/b) An attempt to write an intellectual history of the common law in terms of its basic ideas and their operation. Although subject to challenge in recent years by historians it remains a most stimulating source of interpretative understandings.

A W B Simpson, A History of the Land Law (1986 OUP p/b)A no-nonsense and fairly positivist account of the rules of the developing land law.Recently reported out of print it is well worth looking out second hand copies (the original hard back publication of 1961 is identical).

D J Ibbetson, A Historical Introduction to the Law of Obligation, (1999, OUP h/b)An excellent and detailed account of the history of Tort and Contract at Common law.

J H Baker & S F C Milsom, The Sources of English Private Law to 1750 (Butterworths p/b) Lacking any commentary, this extremely useful collection of materials is difficult to use unaided but gives a good idea of what needs to be understood during the course.

Dr Ian WilliamsJuly 2009

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INDUSTRIAL AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWLAWS3005 / LAWS6005

Intellectual property is a subject that is technically quite complex in a legal sense, as we will see during the course of the year. However, it also is associated with subject-matter of great public interest – just think about the controversies surrounding access to life-saving medicine for developing countries, the recent actions against individuals who have downloaded music over the internet and the fight between Apple Computer and the Beatles over the use of apples as a logo.

We have recommended some reading below that should introduce you to some of the wider debates surrounding intellectual property and give you some perspective from which to criticise the law on intellectual property that we will be studying throughout the year. You might want to dip into the books, rather than reading them cover-to-cover, since often the chapters are standalone, although if you do this, you may miss out on the arguments of the books as a whole. There are a few copies of the books in the UCL Main Library and they’re not too expensive to buy from a general bookshop.

The books are meant for a general audience, and tend to be quite good fun. You should note that the anti-IP lobby sometimes isn’t entirely objective…

Recommended reading:

Lawrence Lessig, The Future of Ideas (Random House, 2001) – the leading work on why the internet, which is inherently ‘free’ and IP, which is based on a proprietary model, don’t mix. Naomi Klein, No Logo (Flamingo, London, 2001) – Ms Klein describes in detail why branding (which relies on trade mark protection) is, in her eyes, pretty evil. David Bollier, Brand Name Bullies (Wiley, New York, 2005) – describes trade mark and brand owners behaving badly, and how this has impacted on creativity.Gowers Review of Intellectual Property (TSO, December 2006, available from http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/583/91/pbr06_gowers_report_755.pdf ) – this is an independent report on the state of intellectual property in the UK today, commissioned by the Treasury. It’s shaping the debate in the UK on what changes to the IP system are required and is definitely worth a read. It also starts with a basic introduction to IP.

You may also want to start reading the recommended course textbook:

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Bently & Sherman, Intellectual Property Law (3rd ed, OUP, Oxford, 2009), Ch.1

You could also visit the website of the UK’s Intellectual Property Office for an overview of the forms of IP:http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types.htm

Recommended film:

The Corporation (2004) - especially the parts on branding and patents, see http://www.thecorporation.com/index.cfm

Dr Ilanah Simon FhimaJuly 2009

MEDICINE, ETHICS & THE LAWLAWS3016 / LAWS6316

The prescribed reading for this course isEmily Jackson, Medical Law – Text, Cases and Materials 2nd Ed OUP 2009 (published in August)

The book is in 16 chapters and each chapter will correspond roughly to a week’s seminar assignment. You will have a weekly 2-hour seminar to discuss as many of the issues in relation to a particular subject as is possible. You will be provided with a seminar question sheet in the form of a study guide. Since the book is up to date there will not be much additional reading, though you will be encouraged to do this for tutorials, which will be held fortnightly. Jackson also lists ‘Further Reading’ at the end of each chapter.

Obviously, Jackson is not the only book. In 2006 alone two other text books have been published, by respectively Fox and McHale (Sweet and Maxwell) and Herring (OUP), and Kennedy and Grubb (Butterworths, now OUP) is an outstanding student text, long used on this course, but now very out of date.

If you want a text in addition to Jackson I recommend the very readable Penguin by Margaret Brazier and Emma Cave, Medicine, Patients and the Law (3rd edition).

The course is divided into three parts, with ‘ethics’ sandwiched between two periods of studying medical law. Medical ethics is examined by a dissertation handed in after Reading Week in the second term. The law is examined by an examination in May. Although we will study ethics in the middle of the academic year. Jackson’s first chapter introduces this and we will spend the first ‘introductory’ seminar examining the issues in the first chapter.

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For the 1st seminar – this is held in week 1 – read Jackson, chapter 1. At the beginning of the chapter, she usefully identifies six ‘central issues’. In the seminar we will discuss these. As you study this chapter think about issues, problems, implications. As you will be aware, hardly a day passes when medical ethics / law is not in the media. You might find it useful to keep a file of these. You will be expected to have studied ch.1 of Jackson by the time of the first seminar. It is advisable to bring the textbook to seminars. Needless to say you should purchase your own copy of Jackson.

Professor Michael FreemanJune 2009

PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAWLAWS7002 / LAWS6702

During the summer vacation, you should read (but not necessarily buy) one of the following:

Moynihan, D P, On the Law of Nations, paperback - 224 pages (6 March, 1992) Harvard University Press; ISBN: 0674635760. This is the best short overview of the development of international law, mainly covering the twentieth century. It is not a textbook.

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The introductory chapters from a current edition of a textbook on international law, such as:

Vaughan Lowe, International Law (Oxford University Press 2007), chapter 1

Malcolm Evans (ed), International Law (second edition, Oxford University Press, 2006) – dip into the contributions to the introduction, and to Part I

Further guidance on books and materials will be given at the start of the course.

You should also look at ‘100 ways international law shapes our lives’ at http://www.asil.org/pdfs/asil_100_ways_05.pdf

Prof Catherine RedgwellJuly 2009

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ROMAN LAWLAWS3036 / LAWS6701

There are three basic patterns for preparing yourself for taking the Roman law course next year.

If you have no previous historical acquaintance with the period during which Roman law was created (roughly 500 BC to 500 AD) you may improve your knowledge by reading one of the following:

E.D. Nelson, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Roman Empire (Alpha, 2001) or more soberly

C. Kelly, The Roman Empire: a Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, 2006)If you want to add to a basic knowledge some outline of the development and nature of Roman law then I recommend:

O.F. Robinson, The Sources of Roman law (Routledge, 2001) or

O.Tellegen-Couperus, A Short History of Roman law (Routledge, 1993)

If in addition you want to acquire some contextual background then I suggest:

J. A. Crook, Law and Life of Rome (Cornell University Press, 2006: a reprint of the original 1967 edition) or

D. Johnston, Roman Law in Context (Cambridge UP, 1999)

The books in the second and third categories will be of some use during the course. But you will need in addition to acquire a basic Roman law textbook and I currently recommend the following:

Borkowski and P. du Plessis, Textbook on Roman law (3rd edn Oxford UP, 2005) NB I do not recommend earlier editions.

Dr Paul MitchellJune 2009

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LAW OF TAXATIONLAWS3008

Kay and King, The British Tax System, OUPThis is a book to stimulate thought about tax. I suggest that it should be used to dip into. The first three chapters will be especially useful.

Monroe, Intolerable Inquisition? Reflections on the Law of Tax, Hamlyn LecturesThis is a short monograph with some interesting historical perspectives about tax which help to understand the system today.

Davies Principles of Tax Law 5th ed. 2004Read Part 1 which is a lively introduction to tax.

Do not buy any of these books. Advice on text books next term.

Financial pages of newspapers. There are often articles relevant to our study of tax law. Look in particular at the weekend press.

You will need the tax legislation but do not buy it before next session, as I will be able to provide vouchers to obtain discounts for the legislation. We will discuss course textbooks at the first class.

Lady Jacqueline DysonJuly 2009

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