Professional & Technical

Study with the help of the best-selling law revision series designed for students.

Law Express: Contract Law, 7th Edition by Finch and Fafinski is the ultimate revision guide in the field, and an excellent companion for students who need to understand key cases, statutes, and legal terms surrounding the subject.

As part of the UK’s best-selling law revision series, this book is designed for students and will help you review and get a deeper understanding of the essential cases and legal terminology of the topic, by assessing and approaching the issues using expert advice. As part of your study, you will also learn how to lead further discussions and form your own view and understanding of how the law works.

The useful revision checklist at the beginning of the book will help you organise your study for the course, and the topic map sets the learning expectations that will guide you through the learning and revision process.

The comprehensive Index guide and Glossary at the end of the text condense all the necessary terminology, ensuring you have everything you need to succeed in the course.

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This is a guide to the law of limitation periods in personal injury actions. Pitfalls and problems are highlighted and the limitation periods and service rules are clearly explained, ensuring that you never issue or serve proceedings outside the legal time limits. Each chapter is supplemented by summaries of the key cases for that topic and Part 2 contains all the relevant legislation.

New coverage includes landmark cases, explaining and analysing their impact on practice:

– Collins v Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (Court of Appeal, 2014) – an asbestos-related lung cancer case of ‘seminal importance in relation to long tail industrial disease claims’
– Platt v BRB (Residuary) Ltd (Court of Appeal, 2014) – examination of constructive knowledge in the context of limitation in disease cases
– RE v GE (2015) – consideration of the court’s discretion, conferred by section 33 of the Limitation Act 1980 in the context of a sexual abuse case
– Abela v Baadarani (Supreme Court, 2013) – highlights an important shift of emphasis away from the traditional approach to service out of the jurisdiction and considerations of national sovereignty, and towards a more practical and pragmatic approach
– Barton v Wright Hassall (Supreme Court, 2018) – a crucial judgment regarding whether litigants in person should be granted a special status in civil litigation

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional’s Personal Injury Law online service.

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A high level of English remains essential for any lawyer wishing to work internationally, but transferring language skills from the classroom to the workplace can be challenging. This book shows non-native, English speaking lawyers how to apply their English language skills to everyday legal situations and contexts, providing essential guidance to ensure they can work confidently in different settings and mediums.

Including activities based on real-life scenarios, the book will allow lawyers and law students to practise their English in key areas of working life, from networking and client meetings, to telephone and conference calls, contract drafting and contract negotiations, presentations and using social media. Written by two highly experienced legal English language tutors, both former legal professionals, it also features online support material that includes listening exercises to complement those based on writing and reading comprehension.

Designed to hone skills required in working life, Practical English Language Skills for Lawyers is practical, accessible and fun. Including guidance on job applications and interview practice, this book is an invaluable resource not only for current legal professionals but also for those students considering their first career step.

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Principles of International Energy Transition Law introduces the energy transition problem by situating the climate emergency in its broader energy and development context, showing how global energy value chains are deeply enmeshed in and drive global economic and human development. It combines the different legal perspectives in one consistent analysis by outlining their interactions and showing how they can be reconciled. The book discusses thirty-two international legal principles
governing different aspects of the energy transition trilemma’s three parts. It then uses a commons governance perspective to propose a holistic approach to applying and balancing these different parts and their different legal principles.

Highlighted sections summarise the most important concepts and ideas for easy reference, making the title particularly accessible for students and policy-makers as well as law practitioners.

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All you need to protect and profit from your invention

You’ve got a great idea and you’re ready to strike it rich.
Now, you need to find a company or partner you can trust, hash out a fair
licensing deal, and get your idea to the marketplace.

Profit From Your Idea will
help you negotiate and draft a licensing agreement that protects your interests
and maximizes your chances of earning a profit. With this all-in-one guide
you’ll understand how to:

•  navigate the
licensing landscape

•  protect your
intellectual property rights

•  sort out
ownership rights

•  work with
licensing agents

•  protect
confidential information

•  find and pitch
to potential licensees

•  license
overseas

•  disclose your
invention safely, and

•  negotiate a
winning license agreement.

The 11th edition covers the latest developments in licensing
law and patent filing rules, and discusses new tools to help you research the
market for your invention and identify potential licensees.

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Governed by local rulers, the princely states of colonial South Asia were subject to British paramountcy whilst remaining legally distinct from directly ruled British India. Their legal status and the extent of their rights remained the subject of feverish debates through the entirety of British colonial rule. This book traces the ways in which the language of sovereignty shaped the discourse surrounding the legal status of the princely states to illustrate how the doctrine of sovereignty came
to structure political imagination in colonial South Asia and the framework of the modern Indian state.

Opening with a survey of the place of the princely states in the colonial structures of South Asia, Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia goes on to illustrate how international lawyers, British politicians, colonial officials, rulers and bureaucrats of princely states, and anti-colonial nationalists in British India used definitions of sovereignty to construct political orders in line with their interests and aspirations. By invoking the
vernacular of sovereignty in contrasting ways to support their differing visions of imperial and world order, these actors also attempted to reconfigure the boundaries among the spheres of the national, the imperial, and the international. Throughout the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries,
debates and disputes over the princely states continually defined and redefined the concept of sovereignty and international legitimacy in South Asia.

Using rich material from the colonial archives,Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia conveys an understanding of the history of sovereignty and the construction of the modern Indian nation-state that is still relevant today. A riveting read, this book will be of considerable interest and importance to scholars of international law and South Asia, legal historians, and political scientists.

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