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Law texts wanted.

  • 18-11-2007 11:35pm
    #1
    Gobán Saor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 415 ✭✭


    I'd like to buy any or all of the following texts. Good condition, latest editions.

    Family Law, Shatter
    Laws of Evidence, Healy
    Company Law, Forde
    Introduction to Jurisprudence, Lloyd
    Law's Empire, Dworkin

    PM with details and price wanted.

    Thanks!


Comments

  • #2
    Tom Young
    Legal Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,338 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tom Young


    I just 'gave' most of the above away. Apologies.

    Shatter is possibly out of date.
    Forde's latest 'blue cover' is worth getting or Keane's latest on Company.
    If you can afford McGrath on Evidence its a good investment, I found Healy better on some items but McGrath more useful.

    Law's Empire is really only relevant in about 3 chapters, I've covered it off a couple of times, but its widely available.


  • #3
    Gobán Saor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 415 ✭✭Gobán Saor


    I've now got Healy and Dworkin. Still looking for Forde, Shatter and Lloyd.


  • #4
    johnnyskeleton
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,550 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    Gobán Saor wrote: »
    I've now got Healy and Dworkin. Still looking for Forde, Shatter and Lloyd.

    My advice - Don't by Forde - it's wrong. Get Courtney instead.

    Also, try not to buy jurisprudence books, as they don't really have that re-readability/reference quality that other books have.


  • #5
    Tom Young
    Legal Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,338 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tom Young


    Claps in agreement!


  • #6
    Gobán Saor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 415 ✭✭Gobán Saor


    Hmmm, consensus from respected posters.....thinks:confused: Lecturer in Kings Inns strongly recommends Forde:confused: Is Courtney that much better:confused:


    Confession time, cough, I actually like jurisprudence:o


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  • #7
    johnnyskeleton
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,550 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    Gobán Saor wrote: »
    Hmmm, consensus from respected posters.....thinks:confused: Lecturer in Kings Inns strongly recommends Forde:confused: Is Courtney that much better:confused:


    Confession time, cough, I actually like jurisprudence:o

    Courtney is the go to book for Company law. Forde's books are often badly edited.

    Liking jurisprudence is fine, no one is saying you shouldn't like it. It's just that the reality is that in 2 or 3 years time your jurisprudence books will be in an attic somewhere gathering dust, while you will be wishing you bought more substantive text books and used library copies of the jurisprudence ones.

    By the by, JM Kelly's A short history of western legal thought (or whatever it's called) is a great little overview of jurisprudence, and it deals with people who wouldn't have considered themselves to be jurisprudes at all.


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