ISSN 1062-7421 Vol. 11 No. 10 (October 2001) pp. 457-459.
BOOK NOTICES:
THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION by Walter Bagehot. Paul Smith (Editor). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2001. 253pp. Cloth $54.95. ISBN: 0-521-46535-4. Paper $19.95. ISBN: 0-521-46942-2.
This volume reprints, in an annotated edition, the author's classic nineteenth century depiction of English constitutionalism
and his introduction to the work's second edition. The editor provides an assessment of Bagehot's perspective on
English politics and constitutionalism.
THE LEGAL GEOGRAPHIES READER by Nicholas Blomley, David Delaney, and Richard T. Ford. Oxford: Basil Blackwell
Publishers, 2001. 328 pp. Cloth $64.95. ISBN: 0-631-22015-1. Paper $34.95. ISBN: 0-631-22016-X.
This collection of twenty-two previously published articles is designed to introduce the reader to the encompassing
nature and effects of spatial and geographic variables in legal settings. The editors' introductions to the chapters
provide illumination about an emerging stream of law and society and political geography research.
EUROPEAN COMPETITION LAW ANNUAL 2000: THE MODERNISATION OF EC ANTITRUST POLICY by Claus Dieter Ehlermann
and Isabela Antanasiu (Editors). Oxford: hart Publishing Co., 2001. 649 pp. Cloth $150.00. ISBN: 1-84113-242-X.
The editors have complied two panel discussions and thirty-two papers from the annual EC Competition Law and Policy
Workshop in this volume. The book
may be useful for persons interested in issues related to how transnational legal institutions are emerging to
grapple with the regulation of global enterprises.
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FRENCH CRIMINAL LAW by Catherine Elliot. Cullompton, United Kingdom: Willan Publishing, 2001. 244 pp. Cloth
$64.95. ISBN: 1-903240-31-X. Paper $35.00. ISBN: 1-903240-30-1.
This treatise describes the essentials of French criminal law in English. There are chapters on the evolution of
French criminal law, procedure, evidentiary requirements for proof and defense, and various categories of offenses.
Sections of the French Criminal Code and a sample French judgment, in English, are appended. There is a glossary
of French legal terms, also.
AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS AND SELECTED CASES, thirteenth edition, by Alpheus Thomas
Mason and Donald Grier Stephenson. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2002. 728 pp. Cloth $72.00. ISBN: 0-13-093293-0.
This new edition of a respected undergraduate casebook features the first significant change in the organization
of materials. A new chapter, The Electoral Process, appears after the chapter on federalism and addresses reapportionment,
the status of political parties, and BUSH v. GORE (2000). Also, in this edition the two commerce clause chapters
of previous editions have been collapsed into one. Other changes appear in the chapter on freedom of expression,
and several changes occur in the included cases.
CONSTITUTIONS OF THE WORLD, second edition, by Robert L. Maddex. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2001. 417 pp.
Cloth $99.95. ISBN: 1-560802-682-X.
The author offers a brief introduction to the idea and objectives of constitutionalism, and then he presents summaries
of the constitutions of 100 nations. Most entries describe the country and its economy and people, provide a history
of its constitutional politics, and describe the constitution's provisions on rights, executive and legislative
power, its judicial system and its powers, and the process of constitutional amendment. Most national entries are
three to six pages long.
ART AND COPYRIGHT by Simon Stokes. Oxford: Hart Publishing Co., 2001. 184 pp. Cloth $45.00. ISBN: 1-84113-225-X.
This text describes in detail intellectual property rights that protect artistic works in the United Kingdom. After
an introduction to the history and general provisions of copyright law, the author discusses moral rights and copyright
and current issues such as computer generated art, publication and transmission of art via the Internet, photographs
as art, parody, art in advertising, website art, and property rights in art and the scope of the public domain.
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TORT LAW by Walter van Gerven, Jeremy Lever, and Pierre Larouche. Oxford: Hart Publishing Co., 2000. 969
pp. Paper $70.00. ISBN:1-84113-139-3.
This combination treatise and casebook is part of a series of Casebooks for the Common Law of Europe. After an
introduction to differences among European legal systems, the authors present chapters on the general approach
of tort laws, scope of protection, liability for personal conduct and for the conduct of others, causation, liability
not based on conduct, defenses, remedies, and the impact of transnational law. Each chapter has several segments
that detail tort law in specific European nations.