New Directions In Legal Services

New Directions in Legal Services examines the fast pace of change in the legal services sector, driven in part by new technologies, and considers what the future holds.

For reasons of effectiveness, efficiency and equity, Australian law reform should be planned carefully. Academics can and should take the lead in this process. This book collects over 50 discrete law reform recommendations, encapsulated in short, digestible essays written by leading Australian scholars. It emerges from a major conference held at The Australian National University in 2016, which featured intensive discussion among participants from government, practice and the academy. The book is intended to serve as a national focal point for Australian legal innovation. It is divided into six main parts: commercial and corporate law, criminal law and evidence, environmental law, private law, public law, and legal practice and legal education. In addition, Indigenous perspectives on law reform are embedded throughout each part. This collective work—the first of its kind—will be of value to policy makers, media, law reform agencies, academics, practitioners and the judiciary. It provides a bird’s eye view of the current state and the future of law reform in Australia.

The Office for Victims of Crime of the U.S. Department of Justice presents the full text of "New Directions from the Field: Victims' Rights and Services for the 21st Century, Strategies for Implementation--Tools for Action Guide." The guide covers topics, such as victims' rights, law enforcement, prosecution, corrections, victim assistance, compensation, restitution, civil remedies, and child victims.

This three-volume set presents recent materials pertaining to GLOBAL developments in the law of the sea and related areas. It focuses on rapid adjustment, consolidations and strengthening ofinternational laws and policy on ocean issues. It covers not only treaties, agreements, and conventions, but also declarations, resolutions, guidelines, model laws, principles, policy statements,decrees, memoranda between countries and reports of the Secretary General of the United Nations.

This in-depth book explores the changing role of comparative law in an era of Europeanisation and globalisation. It explains how national law coexists and interacts with supranational and international law and how legal rules are produced by a variety of institutions alongside and beyond the nation-state. The book combines both theoretical and practically oriented contributions in the areas of law and development, comparative constitutional law, as well as comparative private and economic law. It offers a plurality of perspectives on the theory and methods of comparative law as a legal discipline, but also on comparative law when concretely applied in projects of legal aid, harmonisation of law and legal reform. Offering a multi-disciplinary perspective, this book will appeal to researchers and policymakers in international organisations. It will also serve as a valuable resource for advanced level courses on comparative law, and on law reform and legal aid.