Hart Publishing Textbook Catalogue 2019

Legal Ethics THIRD EDITION The Ethics and Conduct of Lawyers in England andWales Andrew Boon This is the third edition of the leading textbook on legal ethics and the regulation of the legal profession in England and Wales. As such it maps the complex regulatory environment in which the legal profession inEnglandandWales now operates. It opens with a critical overview of professional ideals, organisation, power and culture and an examination of the mechanisms of professions, exercised through governance, regulation, discipline and education. The core of the book explores the conflict between duties owed to clients (loyalty and confidentiality) and wider duties (to the profession, third parties and society). The final part applies lawyers’ ethics to dispute resolution and settlement (litigation, negotiation, advocacy and alternative dispute settlement). Now laid out in a more accessible format and written in a more approachable style, the book is ideal reading for those teaching and learning in the field of legal ethics. Andrew Boon is Professor of Law at the City Law School, City University London. Nov 2014 9781849466691 836pp Pbk RSP: £42.99 Lawyers’ Ethics and Professional Responsibility Andrew Boon This book aims to produce lawyers who can debate, criticise and change professional ethics as well as understand their underlying rationale. Written by the author of the leading work on the subject, The Ethics and Conduct of Lawyers inEnglandandWales , this book is aimed at the undergraduate or postgraduate student taking a half or full course in the subject. The book is divided into four parts dealing with the professional and regulatory framework for delivering legal services, the obligations owed to clients, wider duties and responsibilities and practice settings. It sets out the important background to the modern practice of law, and explains the theoretical underpinning of professional ethics and its everyday application through conduct rules and principles. Extracts from legislation, cases and conduct rules are provided, and comparative issues are considered where relevant. The book is also interactive, raising issues and posing questions that will encourage students to engage with the material as they read, which will also be helpful for classroom discussion. Andrew Boon is Professor of Law at the City Law School, City University London. Aug 2015 9781849467841 464pp Pbk RSP: £36.99 21 Law and History SECOND EDITION Law and Society in England 1750-1950 William Cornish, Stephen Banks, Charles Mitchell, Paul Mitchell and Rebecca Probert Law and Society in England 1750-1950 has become an indispensible text for those wishing to study English legal history and to understand the foundations of the modern British state. In this new updated edition the authors explore the complex relationship between legal and social change. They consider the ways in which those in power themselves imagined and initiated reform and the ways in which they were obliged to respond to demands for change from outside the legal and political classes. What emerges is a lively and critical account of the evolution of modern rights and expectations and an engaging study of the formation of contemporary institutions and the road that was travelled to create them. The book is divided into eight chapters: Institutions and Ideas; Land; Commerce and Industry; Labour Relations; The Family; Poverty and Education; Accidents and Crime. This extensively referenced analysis of modern legal history will be invaluable to students and teachers of the law alike, as well as political scientists and historians. William Cornish was Professor of English Law at the London School of Economics and Political science, then Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge. Steve Banks is a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Forum for Legal and Historical Research at the University of Reading. Charles Mitchell is a Professor of Law and Paul Mitchell is a Professor of Law, both at University College London. Rebecca Probert is Professor of Law at the University of Warwick. Sep 2019 9781849462730 672pp Pbk RSP: £39.99