Books written by Fiona Cownie

  • English Legal System in Context

    As an illustration, Fitzpatrick has attempted to show, in a Third World context, how the family and its legal order (one semi-autonomous legal field) is profoundly affected by the state ...

  • English Legal System in Context 6e

    ... sometimes at its own instance.83 Falk Moore's ideas have been developed by Peter Fitzpatrick,84 who has emphasized that an ... Fitzpatrick has attempted to show, in a Third World context, how the family and its legal order (one ...

  • 'A Great and Noble Occupation!': The History of the Society of Legal Scholars

    The following year, Professor JA Coutts (Bristol) used his Presidential Address to consider the question of law examinations, during the course of which he commented: First, I suggest that we need to pay heed to what Lord Rosebery said ...

  • English Legal System in Context

    Thus , for example , White , in the first edition to his work , then entitled The Administration of Justice , wrote that , the old institutional , historical and rule - oriented approaches to the English legal system ] have given way in ...

  • The Law School - Global Issues, Local Questions

    Program', NYU: The Law School Magazine (Special Issue). Ohmae, K. (1991), The Borderless World, Fontana, London. ... 98-99. Teubner, G. (1997), '“Global Bukowina”: Legal Pluralism in the World Society', in G. Teubner (ed), Global Law ...

  • Stakeholders in the Law School

    ... a fundamental reconceptualisation of the legal subject, from the ground up—from his lace-up shoes to his collar and tie. ... the prevailing tone of turn-of-the-century feminist legal writing was pessimistic, even desperate in tone.

  • Key Directions in Legal Education: National and International Perspectives

    This book will be of great interest for researchers, academics and post-graduate students in the field of law and legal pedagogy.

  • Legal Academics: Culture and Identities

    More importantly, academics teaching the Bar Vocational Course or the Legal Practice Course (the training courses for would-be barristers and solicitors), are involved in the 'vocational stage' of legal education, which is exclusively ...

  • The Law School: Global Issues, Local Questions

    First published in 1999, this international collection of essays on legal education addresses the following issues: The Law School and the University.

  • Living Without Law: An Ethnography of Quaker Decision-making, Dispute Avoidance, and Dispute Resolution

    A study of Quaker decision-taking, seen as a form of dispute avoidance, and Quaker dispute resolution. At its core is an ethnography of one Quaker meeting, a faith group which...