Rastell’s law dictionary was the first English language dictionary of any type, with its alphabetical arrangement of terms and their definitions. First published in Anglo-Norman French around 1523 as ...

Guy Beringer, a director of LegalUK and a former chair of UK Export Finance, writes about why businesses and policymakers in the UK need to ensure the global benefits of English law endure. In the ...

Every few years, a familiar anxiety resurfaces in British public discourse: that sharia law is establishing a parallel legal system and threatening the sovereignty of English law. Those fears were ...

In London's historic "Inns of Court", barristers practise law in the shadow of the distinctive medieval Temple Church. But does English law really owe a debt to Muslim law? For some scholars, a ...

This book, a monumental work of scholarship, is one of a number of books in the Oxford University Press Private International Law series. The first edition came out in 2014 and the second edition this ...

When deciding whether or not to enforce the adjudicator’s decision, the court had to decide if the contract was assessed under the English or the Scottish Scheme The court’s reasoning and decision in ...