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Advantages: Easy to Read
Disadvantages: Quite Expensive

I am a first year Law degree student and have found this book extremely helpful. The recommended text on my course was very confusing and I needed something which covered all the relevant topics but explained them in an easier format. The Book covers many areas: Agreement, Consideration, Intention to Create Legal Relations, Capacity, Formalities, Terms, Exemption Clauses, Misrep, Mistake, Duress, Illegality, Discharge, Frustration, Damages, Privity ...
...be the expected price for Law books. Before you buy any Law book make sure it is the most up to date edition. Sometimes, even a book which is a year old will be very out of date and you will be learning old law Overall, I would recommend this for anyone studying contract law, or for anyone who wants to know more about it. ... Read review

Advantages: The authoritative jurisprudential work of the 20th Century
Disadvantages: Not for those that don't like to think.

...at Oxford University ranks in the highest echelons of 20th Century legal thinking. Perhaps not such an impressive boast to the layman, but certainly an honour that was well deserved. Born in 1907, he won a scholarship to Oxford where he undertook his legal training. He worked as a barrister before the 2nd World War, and for MI5 during that conflict. He later returned to Oxford, first as a fellow in philosophy and later as Professor of Jurisprudence. ...
...Hart's legal philosophy differs from the Austinian idea that all rules are commands, and instead uses the word "rule" to describe in a specific and normative way the concept of law. Hart begins his reasoning by stating that a legal system must consist of valid obligation rules, which he then splits into two distinct categories. These are the primary rules of obligation, and the secondary rules of obligation. The former category he sees as imposing ... Read review

Advantages: great for getting a backgrd understanding of the philosophies running through the law
Disadvantages: bad if you only want a brief overview

...punishment, the general principles of criminal liability, general defences, homicide and offences against property. Although I did'nt find this textbook particularly helpful for prepping 3hrs before hand and needing something that would give me an extremely clear picture of the topic, it did however, help in allowing me to appreciate the criminal law in its various aspects, its historical derivation, the philosophy behind some of the defences and ...
...and classify all that it had to say. However, the textbook I own is a fourth edition by Sweet and Maxwell of 1998 and may not include some of the more previous cases in 1999 and 2000, which may be pertinent to the new laws as the UK heavily reliant on the decisions of the judges when it comes to laying down new law. It costs about £ 15.00 and I would definitely recommend it to a law student. ... Read review