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Arbitration Press - Catalogue
| Title | EARLY ENGLISH ARBITRATION | | Author | Derek Roebuck | | Abstract | This is the first history of mediation and arbitration in England before the Common Law. In prehistoric times, archaeology and genetics provide evidence of assemblies to deal with disputes. From Roman times, documents survive which show mediation and arbitration in practice. A fragment of an award is dated 14 March 114AD. A Wiltshire arbitrator reports in his own words of arbitrating in Alfred’s time. A Worcestershire award a thousand years ago could teach today’s practitioners new tricks. After the Norman Conquest, a compromise could still be mediated in the middle of trial by battle, one side’s champion concealing that he had lost his sight. | | Reviews | None | | ISBN | 9780954405618 | | Notes | Hardback 336 pages, 4 maps, endpapers, dustjacket, 220x140mm
Published by HOLO Books: The Arbitration Press | | Published | 2008 | | Price | £40 |
| Title | ROMAN ARBITRATION | | Author | Derek Roebuck and Bruno de Loynes de Fumichon | | Abstract | This history of Roman arbitration covers a long period and a vast area, from a small Italian city, 6th century BC, to every part of the Roman empire, 7th century AD. By then, Justinian’s comprehensive codification had been completed but the Arab conquest of Egypt had shown the empire was finished. It describes the procedures by which those who lived under Roman administration dealt with their disputes. It relies not only on the great mass of legal learning preserved in Justinian’s Corpus Juris but on literary works (including the works of surveyor-arbitrators) and on original sources which have survived by chance as public inscriptions on stone and bronze, or private documents on wax tablets and papyrus. They reveal much more than the technicalities of law and practice. They bring back to life the men and women who believed that by mediation and arbitration they could get their problems resolved: electoral corruption; boundaries; the quality of wine; niggling family rows resolved by the papyrus deeds in an arbitrator’s files from a long lost town in Roman Egypt. Mediators and arbitrators everywhere, not only in jurisdictions directly influenced by Roman law, still think in categories and use techniques inherited from their Roman forebears. | | Reviews | ‘For a long time Roebuck’s publications have won the admiration of arbitration specialists by their combination of prodigious learning and a light and elegant style. Ancient Greek Arbitration (2001) and The Charitable Arbitrator (2002) are both masterpieces. A Miscellany of Disputes (2000), whose sub-title should perhaps be ‘a researcher’s divertissements’, is an anthology of tales about arbitration which Roebuck has discovered in the literature of the whole world going back as far as ancient China…. The pleasure which the reader will find in this book is in the detail; the authors bring back to life these ancient ancestors and their preoccupations, so similar to ours…. The distant past is no doubt as unforeseeable as the future. This is why Messrs Roebuck and de Fumichon, as they teach us about it, also make us dream.’ Jan Paulsson Revue de l’Arbitrage
‘This meticulous study of the ways and means in which Roman law asserted control over disputes between individuals, communities and even states, is based on an in-depth analysis of legal texts’ Oxbow Book News 62, Winter 2004
‘Derek Roebuck is to arbitration what Sue Grafton is to mystery fans…. Roebuck has written a great series of books about arbitration in ancient times…. He makes wonderful use of the expertise of French co-author Bruno de Loynes de Fumichon…. An excellent reference for researchers, academicians and students.’ Cindy Fazzi Dispute Resolution Journal | | ISBN | 0-9537730-3-5 | | Notes | Hardback, 295 Pages | | Published | 2004 | | Price | £40 |
| Title | THE CHARITABLE ARBITRATOR How to Mediate and Arbitrate in Louis XIV’s France | | Author | Derek Roebuck | | Abstract | Derek Roebuck has translated with a substantial introduction this previously unused source of importance to all concerned with the development of mediation and arbitration. Printed first in 1666, it is both an instruction manual and a plea for reform. It describes mediations and arbitrations of the period, with forms and precedents, practical examples and handy tips. The author, Alexandre de la Roche, was a cleric with a close knowledge of the Paris courts. Eight plates, five showing arbitrations. The text of the first edition is reproduced in facsimile and the translation (of the expanded edition) catches the salty and forceful style of La Roche, who recommends all kinds of threats and guile ‘To prevent suits and disputes, or at least to finish them quickly, without trouble and cost.’ He would have recommended today’s arbitrators and mediators to buy this book not just for its message of reform but to bring up-to-date their tricks-of-the-trade. | | Reviews | ‘A stunning piece of scholarship… direct lessons for modern practice’ Professor Michael O’Reilly Arbitration | | ISBN | 0-9537730-2-7 | | Notes | Hardback, 450 Pages, 8 Plates | | Published | 2002 | | Price | £40 |
| Title | ANCIENT GREEK ARBITRATION | | Author | Derek Roebuck | | Abstract | The first full-length description and analysis of how dispute resolution by mediation and arbitration developed in the Ancient Greek world, from Homer to Cleopatra. Based on all the primary sources, with the relevant extracts in new translations: not only poetry, drama, history, philosophy and oratory, but also inscriptions and the mass of arbitration documents surviving as papyri. Introductory chapters deal with theory and method, language and translation, and the Greek legal system. The conclusions show how mediation and arbitration were partners in the ordinary processes of dispute resolution, and widespread in all the times and places examined. | | Reviews | ‘Immense merit as a prodigious scholastic work and historical resource… full of human interest… eminently readable’ Julian Critchlow Arbitration
‘Most compelling was the detail in the Egyptian papyri… disputes about the precise methods of quarrying stone, with the parties, the arbitrators and even the witnesses… in a manner that brings the whole story to life’ Professor John Uff QC
‘A very comprehensive book about arbitral jurisdiction in Ancient Greece is now available to the legal historian’ Gerhard Thür Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung
‘This is a historical study aiming to present as accurate a picture as possible of arbitration in the Greek world along with as comprehensive a collection of ancient evidence as possible. In these terms it succeeds admirably. Professor Michael Gagarin Ordia Prima | | ISBN | 0-9537730-1-9 | | Notes | Hardback, 420 Pages | | Published | 2001 | | Price | £40 |
| Title | A MISCELLANY OF DISPUTES | | Author | Derek Roebuck | | Abstract | The first anthology of stories about disputes resolved without litigation, from rich sources from old and new China, Ancient Greece, Rome, Aesop’s fables, medieval England, French vaudeville, as well as Shakespeare, Chaucer, the romantic novel and Stravinsky as arbitrator. What may surprise many is the role that women have played as arbitrators since history began. | | Reviews | ‘I began to read one story, then another. I began to chuckle…. Story after story kept me gripped’ Professor Michael O’Reilly Arbitration | | ISBN | 0-9537730-0-0 | | Notes | Hardback, 128 Pages | | Published | 2000 | | Price | £20 |
| Title | MANAGING THE RECOVERY OF INTERNATIONAL DEBTS | | Author | Edited by Michael Shone | | Abstract | Everyone whose work includes international trade needs to know as much as possible about the problems of recovering international debts and how to resolve them. Each of the papers collected here seeks to increase their understanding in different ways, without assuming they are professional lawyers. Antonio Bueno’s ‘The Recovery Toolbox’ explains the most important topics; Axel Bösch deals with interim measures; Eugen Salpius compares institutional arbitrations; Derek Roebuck analyses the different financial instruments; Michael Shone discusses the remedies of an unpaid seller and Basil Chan describes difficulties which face chief financial officers. Together these experts, brought together at the Commercial Intelligence Conference in Lucerne in 2004, provide invaluable insights for practitioners in international trade and finance. | | ISBN | 0-9544056-0-9 | | Notes | Hardback, 113 Pages | | Published | 2005 | | Price | £40 |
| Title | THE FINANCING OF FOREIGN TRADE: FINANZIERUNG DES INTERNATIONALEN HANDELS | | Author | Michael Shone and Francesca Stevens | | Abstract | A guide for importers and exporters to the problems of law and practice in the export trade, with analysis of shipping documents, documentary credits, risk, exchange, payment and all aspects of finance. | | ISBN | 0-9537730-5-1 | | Notes | Hardback, 508 pages, bilingual German and English | | Published | 2003 | | Price | £40 |
| Title | BILLS OF EXCHANGE a South East Asian Perspective | | Author | Michael Shone | | Abstract | A short guide to bills of exchange, for exporters who want to know more about the legal and practical realities of a method of payment in widespread everyday use. Michael Shone, leading practitioner with unequalled experience in Asia, also provides a synopsis of the law in the principal export markets of South East Asia: Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia and Hong Kong, comparing Common Law and Civil Law systems; with forms and precedents. | | ISBN | 0-9537730-4-3 | | Notes | Paperback, 64 pages, bilingual Dutch and English | | Published | 2001 | | Price | £20 |
| Title | A Digest of Hong Kong Criminal Procedure | | Author | General editor Derek Roebuck; Chinese General editor Zhao Bingzhi | | Abstract | This is the digest of the law of criminal procedure which completed the Chinese Digest project. It presents in an accessible form the rules which govern the application of criminal law in Hong Kong. | | ISBN | 7-301-13440-7 | | Notes | English and Chinese; published Peking University Press; UK distribution HOLO Books | | Published | 1997 | | Price | £40 |
| Title | A Digest of Hong Kong Criminal Law | | Author | General editor Derek Roebuck; Chinese editor Zhao Bingzhi | | Abstract | From the descriptive text, now in Chinese, it is possible to extract the principles and present them in the form of a digest, in many respects a code without legislative authority. This is that digest of criminal law in Hong Kong. For the first time, Chinese readers in Hong Kong can find the law which governs their daily lives. | | ISBN | 7-301-03194-7 | | Notes | English and Chinese; published Peking University Press; UK distribution HOLO Books | | Published | 1996 | | Price | £40 |
| Title | Criminal Procedure of Hong Kong: a descriptive text (Chinese) | | Author | General editor Derek Roebuck; Chinese editor Zhao Bingzhi | | Abstract | The next stage in creating a digest is to translate the descriptive text into the target language, Chinese. This is a translation of the English text on criminal procedure. | | ISBN | 7-301-03228-5 | | Notes | Chinese; published Peking University Press; UK distribution HOLO Books | | Published | 1996 | | Price | £40 |
| Title | Criminal Law of Hong Kong: a descriptive text (Chinese) | | Author | General editor Derek Roebuck; Chinese editor Zhao Bingzhi | | Abstract | The next stage in creating a digest is to translate the descriptive text into the target language, Chinese. This is a translation of the English text on criminal law. | | ISBN | 7-301-03089-4 | | Notes | Chinese; published Peking University Press; UK distribution HOLO Books | | Published | 1996 | | Price | £40 |
| Title | Criminal Procedure of Hong Kong: a descriptive text | | Author | General editor Derek Roebuck | | Abstract | In the creation of the digest of criminal law, it became clear that criminal procedure was best dealt with separately. This is the comprehensive description of the law of criminal procedure in Hong Kong in English. | | ISBN | 7-301-03193-9 | | Notes | English; published Peking University Press; UK distribution HOLO Books | | Published | 1996 | | Price | £40 |
| Title | Criminal Law of Hong Kong: a descriptive text | | Author | General Editor Derek Roebuck | | Abstract | Experience in producing A Digest of Hong Contract Law showed that the most effective way of preparing a digest is to start by creating a comprehensive description of the law in its own language, English. This is that descriptive text of the criminal law of Hong Kong. | | ISBN | 7-301-02959-4 | | Notes | English; published Peking University Press; UK distribution HOLO Books | | Published | 1995 | | Price | £40 |
| Title | A Digest of Hong Kong Contract Law | | Author | General Editor Derek Roebuck | | Abstract | Nine out of ten people in Hong Kong speak Cantonese and read Chinese; few are functionally bilingual in English. The Basic Law retains the English Common Law principles. The Chinese Digest sets out to provide practitioners and scholars with translations of that law into Chinese. This is the first volume, containing the general principles of the law of contract. | | ISBN | 7-301-02887-3 | | Notes | English and Chinese; published Peking University Press; UK distribution HOLO Books | | Published | 1995 | | Price | £40 |
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