Four Faces of the Law

Few have shaped the field of law, both as practitioner and writer, as Michael Beloff KC. This expertly curated collection tracks this impact through his writings and lectures. In a work divided into four interrelated parts - Advocacy, Judges, History and Sport - each is singly illuminated by the author's own experience and insight reflected in the accompanying illustrations.

The Hon Michael Beloff KC is a barrister at Blackstone Chambers, a former President of Trinity College Oxford. He is Treasurer of Gray's Inn and Senior Ordinary Appeal Judge of the Channel Islands Courts of Appeals. He is also a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport. He has also served as an Olympic arbitrator on five separate occasions. 'Michael Beloff QC is in the small pantheon of great civil barristers of the last half century' The Times 'The law according to W.S. Gilberts Lord Chancellor is "the true embodiment or everything that's excellent'" and, by common consent, Michael Beloff QC has been one of the prime exemplars of that excellence over the past fifty years' The Spectator 'Michael Beloff KC is generally regarded as the legal giant of his generation. There are no historical or contemporary barristers who have come close to sitting at the top of the advocacy tree for so long and so successfully' Times Literary Supplement

Part One - Introduction Part Two - Advocacy i. A View from the Bar ii. Advocacy as Art. iii. Virtuous Voices - the Advocates contribution to the Rule of Law iv. Looking at the Locus Part Three - Judges i. Towards a Supreme Court - the British Experience ii. Neither Cloistered nor Virtuous; Judges and their Independence in the New Millenium iii. Paying Judges - why, who, whom, how much? Part Four - History i. Women in Wigs - the Irresistible Rise of Sisters in Law ii. FE Smith - Lessons from a Legal Life iii. Law and the Judiciary in Blair's Britain iv. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography a. Carman b. Slynn c. Nicholls d. Laws Part Five - Sport i. Pitch, Pool, Rink Court? Judicial Review in the World of Sport ii. The Specificity of Sport; Rhetoric or Reality? iii. Is there a Lex Sportiva? iii. Sport Ethics and the Law.