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Inheritance Matters

Kinship, Property, Law

1. Introduction: Why Inheritance? Daniel Monk ( University of London, UK) and Suzanne Lenon (University of Lethbridge, Canada) Part One: Foregrounding Inequalities - Past and Present 2. Defining Family Trees and Building Family Fortunes: A Look into Dispossession and Enrichment Through Inheritance Laws, Allison Tait (University of Richmond, UK) 3. 'My Reputed Children': Legacies of Enslavement in Atlantic-Island Wills, Anne Bottomley (Kent Law School, UK) 4. 'Charitable Inclinations': Women's Bequests to Ireland's Magdalene Laundries, Máiréad Enright (Birmingham Law School, UK) Part Two: Legal Fiction and Wills in Fiction 5. Surnames and Inheritance: Will-Plotting and Female Economic Power in the Eighteenth-Century Novel, Jolene Zigarovich (University of Northern Iowa, USA) 6. Murder, Inheritance and Family Provision in the Golden Age of English Detective Fiction, Rebecca Probert (Exeter University, UK) Part Three: Resistance, Rights and Agency 7. The Story of the Pink Cat: An Exploration of the Ways Care-Experienced People Navigate Inheritance, Delyth Edwards (University of Leeds, UK) and Rosie Canning (University of Southampton, UK) 8. Queer Property, Russell Perkins (Artist, USA) 9. Sentimental Value: Keeping Inheritance in the Family, Sarah Gilmartin (Lancaster University, UK) and Anita Purewal (Lancaster University, UK) Part Four: Adjudicating Inheritance/Adjudicating 'Family' 10. How Social Norms and Values Influence the Balance between Wills Variation Claimants and Testators, Allison A Cartier (Juris Doctor, Canada) 11. Testamentary Freedom in Debate: The Prerequisite of the Notary to Pass Down and to Inherit, Corinne Delmas (Université Gustave Eiffel, France) 12. Children in Need and the Great Intergenerational Wealth Transfer: Squaring the Impossible Circle of Testamentary Freedom, Family Obligations and the Role of the State, Heather Conway (Queen's University Belfast, UK) and Sheena Grattan (TEP, UK) Part Five: Looking Backwards into the Future 13. The Power of Blood: How Succession Law's Reliance on DNA Reinvigorates White Supremacy and the Politics of Biological Privilege, Danaya C Wright (University of Florida, USA) 14. Women, Property and Agency: Contours of Matrilineal Inheritance among the Nayars in Kerala, India, Lekha N B (Sree Narayana College, India) and Antony Palackal (University of Kerala, India) 15. Egalitarianism or Just a Need for Revenues? Debates on Inheritance Taxation in Scandinavia, Martin Dackling (Lund University, Sweden) 16. Émile Durkheim's Proposal to Abolish Inheritance, Mélanie Plouviez (Côte d'Azur University, France)

This book explores criminal sentencing as a political, legal and social process, setting out a democratic account of sentencing in common law jurisdictions. 

Taking sentencing as a case study of public decision-making in which judges manage public interests, often through value-laden and discretionary choices, it draws on a particular vision of deliberative democracy. This is a vision on which the legitimacy of sentencing decisions is shown to hinge on processes of public reasoning, listening, and deliberation aimed at justifying sentences. The book thereby contributes to the broader project of grounding criminal justice, and the state power that enforces it, within political theory, and aligns criminal scholarship with a leading perspective on public governance.

Over the course of its chapters, the book unpacks and illustrates the demands of deliberative democracy for both sentencing participants and the legal frameworks that envelop them. This occurs with reference to the law, scholarship, and practices of various jurisdictions-primarily Canada, England and Wales, and the United States-and engagement with a range of issues: the public character of criminal wrongs and responses, mandatory sentencing provisions, sentencing rationales, lay input, and sentencing guidelines. 

The book offers a compelling account of criminal justice's public nature, outlines a framework of legitimacy for the everyday politics of sentencing courts, and provides a coherent foundation for more effective sentencing. In doing so, it shows the moral and practical value of taking democracy seriously and lays groundwork for both reform and future research in criminal theory.

Democracy, Justification, and the Politics of Responding to Crimes

Deliberative Sentencing

Modern Studies in European Law

This collection explores the cooperation between the European Union and the Nordic states.

It tracks its evolution from informal arrangements to highly legalised arrangements. Drawing on expert contributions, it gives a full understanding and elucidation of the impact of the interplay of these legal regimes and cultures. Each chapter takes a comparative Nordic perspective, combining it with the EU legal perspective. Drawing on both academic and practitioner perspectives, this important work offers fascinating insights into this unique relationship.

50 Years of Legal Integration

Nordic Cooperation and the European Union

This book offers a broad and systematic introduction to the study of miscarriages of justice by defining them and examining the dimensions, forms, and scale of the problem. The work examines the causes in detail with reference to key cases while also exploring official and unofficial responses. The book's discussion of how specific cases and campaigns have acted as drivers for change in relation to policy, practice and legislation aims to minimize future miscarriages of justice. The final chapters of the book apply a comparative approach, comparing the experiences of England and Wales to those of the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and France.

Miscarriages of Justice in Contemporary Context

An expert lineup of contributors fill in the methodological and intellectual gaps in the field of comparative international law.

Foundations and Critique

Comparative International Law

Oxford Legal Philosophy

A Theory of Wrongful Discrimination

Faces of Inequality

The law codes in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region are a well-crafted blend of civil and Islamic law in which civil law principles do not violate Islamic provisions. Yet, common law principles derived either from English common law or Islamic customary usages remain unidentified and thus ignored. Here, this complex scenario is rectified through a comparative analysis of the primary data (e.g. cases, statutes and arbitral award decisions), adding common law and uncodified Islamic custom to MENA law codes. The purpose of this comparative analysis is to allow common legal principles found in civil, common and Islamic law to be distilled in order to create a new, harmonised international commercial arbitration law code (HICALC) or uniform Arab arbitration law (UAAL) for adoption in the MENA region, where these principles already greatly influence the legal systems and can be readily assimilated into a harmonised or uniform code. The work demonstrates that this new code would lead to improved arbitral award enforcement in the MENA.

A Model Harmonised International Arbitration Law Code for the Middle East and North Africa

Improved usage of forensic science evidence by legal practitioners is essential to reduce miscarriages of justice. This book presents critical insights into contemporary issues of forensic proof from a broad perspective. Using DNA and fingerprint evidence, the authors compare and contrast the science of forensics and how it is communicated to judges, juries, and counsel. With authors from Australia, the UK, and the U.S., the book also addresses how these different countries address science in the courtroom. This resource is ideal for all those who work in forensic capacities, including those scientists who increasingly are called to testify abroad.

Best Practices for Law

Forensic Science Evidence

Written in a straightforward, modern style and providing a comprehensive set of trust precedents this book is a value-adding reference work on key areas of trust law for private client practitioners. Containing a detailed discussion of administrative provisions, some of which are not generally dealt with in conventional textbooks on English trust law, it provides answers (with appropriate reasons and authority, where available) to a number of important questions for practitioners, such as: Are forfeiture clauses valid, and do automatic flee clauses work? How should a drafter provide for the trust's proper purpose, and would STAR trusts be recognised in other jurisdictions? How can one validly restrict a beneficiary's right to information and trust documents, and what indemnities should retiring trustees request from their successors? The Second Edition reflects important new case law (in the Cayman Islands, England and other leading trust jurisdictions), legislative changes, changes to drafting practice and includes fully updated precedents which are also supplied as an accompanying electronic download. The meaning and, where relevant, the source of each provision used in the precedents is explained in the book, with suggested wording for common alternative options, as well as discussions of some common drafting mistakes and traps to avoid. This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Banking and Finance Law online service.

Drafting Cayman Islands Trusts

This book considers the derivative action, an important corporate governance tool which is commonly considered to serve two basic functions, i.e., enabling shareholders to gain redress for a wrong done to their company and deterring potential breaches of directors’ fiduciary duties. This book critically examines the derivative action from theoretical, evolutionary, and comparative perspectives. It considers how controversial issues such as locus standi, demand requirements, indemnity cost orders, information asymmetry and res judicata are approached in selected civil law countries as well as throughout the Commonwealth. The book also assesses whether derivative litigation could fulfill a similar role in China, which is one of the most rapidly developing economies in the world, yet lacks adequate corporate governance mechanisms. The ultimate aim discussed in the book is how to establish a remedial mechanism which makes derivative actions more accessible and consistent, while maintaining the balance between corporate efficiency and protecting minority shareholders’ interests. Lastly, based on different approaches in the latest reforming infrastructure, it explores whether there is a general converging trend for derivative actions between the two major legal systems.

The Comparative Perspectives on Derivative Actions

Corporate Governance in China

The new edition of Comparative Media Law and Ethics further explores differing legal and ethical systems as they relate to media practice and regulation around the world. Updated material in this expanded edition includes exploration of different approaches to libel law on social media, assessment of the impact of WikiLeaks on state and national security law, libel law developments in US and UK, changes to privacy media law and media regulation in the UK in light of the Leveson Inquiry and more international analysis of media law issues in countries including Denmark, India, Indonesia, China and Hong Kong. Additional updates include an expanded glossary and new companion website materials.

Comparative Media Law and Ethics

Hart Studies in Constitutional Law

Making and Amending the Constitution

IMLI Studies in International Maritime Law

The book discusses the law of laytime and demurrage from a comparative perspective, drawing on UK, US and Norwegian/Scandinavian law case law.

A comparative perspective

Laytime and Demurrage

Inheritance Matters

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