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 and a former President of Trinity College Oxford, UK.

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.