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Innehållsförteckning “...History / Ed Bates -- Justifications / Samantha Besson -- Critiques / Marie-Bénédicte Dembour -- Sources / Christine Chinkin -- Nature of obligations / Frédéric Mégret -- Scope of application / Sarah Joseph and Adam Fletcher -- Categories of rights / Theo van Boven -- Equality and non-discrimination / Daniel Moeckli -- Integrity of the person / Nigel S Rodley -- Adequate standard of living / Asbjorn Eide -- Thought, expression, association, and assembly / Kevin Boyle and Sangeeta Shah -- Education and work / Fons Coomans -- Detention and Trial / Sangeeta Shah -- Sexual orientation and gender identity / Michael O'Flaherty -- Women's rights / Dianne Otto -- Group rights / Robert McCorquodale -- United Nations / Jane Connors and Markus Schmidt -- The Americas /Jo Pasqualucci -- Europe / Steven Greer -- Africa / Christof Heyns and Magnus Killander -- Within the state / Andrew Byrnes and Catherine Renshaw -- International humanitarian law / Sandesh Sivakumaran -- International criminal law / Robert Cryer -- International refugee law / Alice Edwards -- Non-state actors / Andrew Clapham -- Terrorism / Martin Scheinin -- Poverty / Stephen P Marks -- Environmental degradation / Malgosia Fitzmaurice....”

Innehållsförteckning “...Introduction / Doreen Weisenhaus and Simon NM Young -- Defending media freedom in the internet age / Peter Noorlander -- Advances in open justice in England and Wales / Lord Dyson MR -- Free speech, reputation and media intrusion : law reform now / Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC -- Independence of the press as a constitutional necessity / Gillian Phillips -- Rethinking reynolds : defending public interest speech / Andrew T Kenyon -- Defamation law in Canada and England : emerging differences / Paul Schabas and Adam Lazier -- The internet and politics in the development of Hong Kong defamation law / Rick Glofcheski -- China's defamation law : the contest between criminal and civil defamation law / Xu Xun -- The Philippine Supreme Court on cyber libel : lost in overbreadth / H Harry L Roque, Jr -- Confidentiality of journalists' sources in Singapore : silence is not golden / George Hwang and Intan Krishanty Wirayadi -- Challenges for communications in a changing legal landscape / Rolf H Weber -- Self-regulation of the press in the United Kingdom / Lord Hunt of Wirral -- Regulatory responses from a southern archipelago / Ursula Cheer -- Privacy down under / Peter Bartlett -- Two faces of freedom of the press in Indonesia's reformation era / T Mulya Lubis....”

Innehållsförteckning “...Historical introduction to the Law relating to the duties and liabilities of directors / Simon Mortimore, QC -- The current legal framework relating to directors / Simon Mortimore, QC -- Directors and other officers : requirement and definitions / Adam Goodison -- Directors' powers and responsibilities / Adam Goodison -- Directors' decision-making and delegation / William Willson -- Appointment of directors / Martin Griffiths, QC -- Termination of appointment of directors / Edward Brown -- Directors' terms of service / Edward Brown -- Taxation of directors' earnings and benefits / Thomas Chacko -- General duties of directors / Mark Arnold, QC -- Duty to act within powers / Marcus Haywood -- Duty to promote the success of the company / Mark Arnold, QC and Marcus Haywood -- Duty to exercise resonable care, skill, and diligence / Mark Arnold, QC -- Duty to avoid conflicts of interest / Mark Arnold, QC and Marcus Haywood -- Duty not to accept benefits from third parties / Marcus Haywood -- Duty to declare interest in transaction or arrangement / Lloyd Tamlyn and Marcus Haywood -- Transactions with directors requiring approcval of members / Lloyd Tamlyn -- The company's remedies for breach of directors' general duties / Antony Zacaroli, QC -- Directors' liabilities : exemption, indemnification, and ratification / Blair Leahy and Andrew Feld -- Directors' liabilities : provision of insurance / Stuart Hill -- Members' personal and derivative claims / Georgina Peters -- Members' unfair prejudice claims and winding-up petitions / Adam Al-Attar -- Liabilities of directors to third parties / Lexa Hilliard, QC -- Decision-making by members / Hannah Tornley -- Accounting records and disclosure requirements / Stephen Robins -- Capital and distributions / Stephen Robins -- Reorganizations and takeovers / Tom Smith, QC -- Pensin schemes / Henry Legge, QC -- Investigations and public interest winding-up petitions / Glen Davis, QC -- Disqualification proceedings / Robert Amey -- Civil penalties forDD market abuse / Glen Davis, QC and Robert Amey -- Directors' functions and duties in insolvency proceedings / Charlotte Cooke -- Directors' liabilities in insolvency proceedings / Charlotte Cooke -- Criminal liability of directors / Clare Sibson, QC -- Duties and liabilities of directors of foreign companies / Tom Smith, QC....”

Innehållsförteckning “...An international comparison of police systems in a legal context / Rob Mawby -- 4. Living law in public order: trust, risk, dominion and universality / Willem de Lint and Adam Pocrnic -- 5. ...”

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Innehållsförteckning “.../ Isabel Kessler -- Wrongful convictions in France: the limits of "pourvoi en révision" / Nathalie Dongois -- The sanctity of criminal law: thoughts and reflections on wrongful conviction in Israel / Arye Rattner -- Wrongful convictions in Poland: from the communist era to the Rechtstaat experience / Emil W. ...”
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Innehållsförteckning “...Terrorism and anti-terrorism laws; Selda Dagistanli and Scott Poynting -- 23. ...”
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Innehållsförteckning “...Hafferty and Brian Castellani -- The sociology of law / Robin Stryker -- Military sociology / David R. ...”