This study explores the different ways people view the law. It identifies three common narratives: one is based on the idea of the law as magisterial and remote; another views the law as a game with rules that can be manipulated to one's advantage; and a third narrative describes the law as an arbitrary power to be actively resisted. Drawing on more than 400 extensive case stud...(展开全部)

This study explores the different ways people view the law. It identifies three common narratives: one is based on the idea of the law as magisterial and remote; another views the law as a game with rules that can be manipulated to one's advantage; and a third narrative describes the law as an arbitrary power to be actively resisted. Drawing on more than 400 extensive case stud...(展开全部)

This book is part of the new, ABA Classics Series. In the history of the law there have been many great treatises written by many great legal minds, but only a few have had the influence and staying power to truly be called the classics. First published in 1881, The Common Law has retained its relevance through the elegant writing of Justice Holmes and the sound, thorough cov...(展开全部)

克雷斯蒂安·冯·巴尔（CHRISTIAN VON BAR），1952年出生于汉诺威，先后就读于弗赖堡大学、基尔大学和哥廷根大学，获法学博士学位。1981年就任奥斯纳布吕克大学法学院教授，1987年创建该校私法与国际法比较研究所并一直担任所长至今。其著述等身，代表作有《社会生活一般义务》、《国际私法》和《欧洲比较侵权行为法》。巴尔教授是欧洲当代最著名的私法学者之一，其所担任主席的“欧洲民法典”研究项目是欧洲私法界最引人注目的研究项目。除了教学和研究所的工作外，他还担任众多兼职和客座职务。

This book is the second of a two-volume treatise on the law of non-contractual obligations. The result of a unique attempt to discover the common elements of the law of torts of all the member states of the EU, it is founded on the belief that the approximation of European laws should not be left to the directives and regulations of Brussels alone. To this end, von Bar has unde...(展开全部)

First published in 1973, The Birth of the English Common Law has come to enjoy classic status. In a new preface, Professor van Caenegem discusses some recent developments in the study of English law under the Norman and earliest Angevin kings. The book provides a challenging interpretation of the emergence of the Common Law in Anglo-Norman England, against the background of t...(展开全部)