The politics of the common law : perspectives, rights, processes, institutions / Adam Gearey, Wayne Morrison and Robert Jago.

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0821/2008026165.html

'As a system ... the common law is a thing merely imaginary' -- Recording law's experience : features of the 'case' -- Institutionalising judicial decision making : the judicial practice of precedent -- The judicial practice of statutory interpretation -- The politics of the judiciary revisited : rights, democracy, law -- Racism and law : 'no dogs, no blacks, no Irish' -- Rights, politics and the law of the European Union -- Constituting human rights -- Human rights and the integrity of the law -- The general jurisprudence of human rights -- The jurisprudence of Article 6 : due process and the common law -- Imagining civil justice -- The principles of civil procedure -- Imagining criminal justice -- The principles of criminal procedure -- The politics of representation : legal aid, human rights and access to justice.