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Law: A Very Short Introduction Raymond Wacks (Emeritus Professor of Law and Legal Theory, University of Hong Kong)

Law: A Very Short Introduction By Raymond Wacks (Emeritus Professor of Law and Legal Theory, University of Hong Kong)

Summary

Law touches every aspect of our daily lives, and yet the main concepts, terms, and processes of the legal system remain obscure to many. This Very Short Introduction, in its second edition, provides a lucid, accessible guide to modern legal systems, explaining how the law works across our contemporary digital world.

Law: A Very Short Introduction Summary

Law: A Very Short Introduction by Raymond Wacks (Emeritus Professor of Law and Legal Theory, University of Hong Kong)

Law is at the heart of every society, protecting rights, imposing duties, and establishing a framework for the conduct of almost all social, political, and economic activity. Despite this, the law often seems a highly technical, perplexing mystery, with its antiquated and often impenetrable jargon, obsolete procedures, and endless stream of complex statutes and legislation. In this Very Short Introduction Raymond Wacks introduces the major branches of the law, describing what lawyers do, and how courts operate, and considers the philosophy of law and its pursuit of justice, freedom, and equality. In this second edition, Wacks locates the discipline in our contemporary world, considering the pressures of globalization and digitalisation and the nature of the law in our culture of threatened security and surveillance. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

About Raymond Wacks (Emeritus Professor of Law and Legal Theory, University of Hong Kong)

Raymond Wacks is Emeritus Professor of Law and Legal Theory at the University of Hong Kong. He is a prolific and influential writer on legal theory and human rights, in particular the protection of privacy, on which he is a leading international authority. Previous books include Understanding Jurisprudence: An Introduction to Legal Theory (OUP, 2012), Philosophy of Law: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2006), and Privacy: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2015), which is now in its second edition.

Table of Contents

1. Law's roots ; 2. Law's branches ; 3. Law and morality ; 4. Courts ; 5. Lawyers ; 6. The future of law ; Further reading ; Index

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GOR008894844
9780198745624
0198745621
Law: A Very Short Introduction by Raymond Wacks (Emeritus Professor of Law and Legal Theory, University of Hong Kong)
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Oxford University Press
2015-09-24
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