Hart Publishing Textbook Catalogue 2019

Medical Law & Ethics Debating Euthanasia Emily Jackson and John Keown In this new addition to the Debating Law series, Emily Jackson and John Keown re-examine the legal and ethical aspects of the euthanasia debate. Emily Jackson argues that we owe it to everyone in society to do all that we can to ensure that they experience a 'good death'. For a small minority of patients who experience intolerable and unrelievable suffering, this may mean helping them to have an assisted death. In a liberal society, where people's moral views differ, we should not force individuals to experience deaths they find intolerable. This is not an argument in favour of dying. On the contrary, Jackson argues that legalisation could extend and enhance the lives of people whose present fear of the dying process causes them overwhelming distress. John Keown argues that voluntary euthanasia and physician- assisted suicide are gravely unethical and he defends their continued prohibition by law. He analyses the main arguments for relaxation of the law - including those which invoke the experience of jurisdictions which permit these practices - and finds themwanting. Relaxing the lawwould, he concludes, be both wrong in principle and dangerous in practice, not least for the dying, the disabled and the disadvantaged. Emily Jackson is a Professor of Law at the London School of Economics. John Keown holds the Rose F Kennedy Chair in Christian Ethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. Formerly, he taught the law and ethics of medicine at the Faculty of Law at Cambridge, where he was a Fellow of Queens' College and of Churchill College. Dec 2011 9781849461788 200pp Pbk RSP: £21.99 Debating Autonomy Imogen Goold and Jonathan Herring Who is best placed in medical decision-making, to decide: the patient or the doctor? In this important new volume in the Debating Law series, Imogen Goold argues that the law should strongly support individual choice and autonomy. Medical decisions, she argues, are deeply personal, with life-changing consequences, and it must be for the patient to make them. Even in the event of those decisions ultimately harming the patient, fully informed, autonomous decisions by the patient must be supported by the law. Jonathan Herring counters, arguing that placing the an overriding emphasis on personal autonomy does not always achieve the best outcome for the patient. He argues instead that in certain circumstances, best interest considerations must take precedence over autonomous decision-making. He suggests that the law does not support autonomy as is commonly claimed, but instead takes a much more nuanced approach, balancing the principle of autonomy against other principles and considerations. Imogen Goold is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oxford. Jonathan Herring is Professor of Law at the University of Oxford. Jan 2020 9781509915682 128pp Pbk RSP: £19.99 Private International Law Statutes on the Conflict of Laws Edited by Martin George and Andrew Dickinson Statutes on the Conflict of Laws provides students with the principal, current EU and UK legislation encountered in the study of private international law in one clear and easy-to- use volume. The legislation is not annotated, enabling the book to be used in examinations. It has been structured and designed so that students can find the material they need quickly and efficiently, with a table of contents organised chronologically by source type, and alphabetical index. Martin George is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the School of Law, University of Leicester. Andrew Dickinson is a Fellow at St Catherine’s College and a Professor of Law at the University of Oxford. Sept 2015 9781849463430 768pp Pbk RSP: £25.99 SECOND EDITION European Private International Law Geert van Calster As one of the most definitive texts on the market, European Private International Law provides an essential guide for both students and practitioners to the complex field of international litigation within the EU. The private international law of the Member States is increasingly regulated by European law, making private international law ever less ‘national’ and ever more EU based. Consequentially EU law in this area has penetrated national law to a very high degree, making it an essential area of study and an area of increasing importance to practising lawyers. This book provides a thorough overview of core European private international law, including the Brussels I, Rome I and Rome II Regulations (jurisdiction, applicable law for contracts and tort), while additional chapters deal with the recently adopted Succession Regulation, private international law and insolvency, freedom of establishment, and the impact of PIL on corporate social responsibility. Geert Van Calster is Professor and Head of the Department of International and European Law at KU Leuven. He holds visiting positions at King’s College London, Monash University and CESL, Beijing. Apr 2016 9781849466721 576pp Pbk RSP: £36.99 23