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The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
  • Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum
  • In collaboration with Laurie Bauer, Betty Birner, Ted Briscoe, Peter Collins, David Denison, David Lee, Anita Mittwoch, Geoffrey Nunberg, Frank Palmer, John Payne, Peter Peterson, Lesley Stirling, Gregory Ward
  • Published online:
    26 May 2017
    Print publication:
    15 April 2002
  • This book presents a new and comprehensive descriptive grammar of English, written by the principal authors in collaboration with an international research team of a dozen linguists in five countries. It represents a major advance over previous grammars by virtue of drawing systematically on the linguistic research carried out on English during the last forty years. It incorporates insights from the theoretical literature but presents them in a way that is accessible to readers without formal training in linguistics. It is based on a sounder and more consistent descriptive framework than previous large-scale grammars, and includes much more explanation of grammatical terms and concepts, together with justification for the ways in which the analysis differs from traditional grammar. The book contains twenty chapters and a guide to further reading. Its usefulness is enhanced by diagrams of sentence structure, cross-references between sections, a comprehensive index, and user-friendly design and typography throughout.

  • 22 - Judges and the non-judicial function in New Zealand

  • from Part V
  • Edited by H. P. Lee, Monash University, Victoria
  • Book:
    Judiciaries in Comparative Perspective
    Published online:
    07 September 2011
    Print publication:
    11 August 2011, pp 452-473

  • Summary

    New Zealand has a population of 4.4 million people and is one of the world’s oldest democracies. New Zealand’s population is diverse: 78 per cent European ethnicity; 15 per cent Maori, the indigenous people; 6.6 per cent Asian; and 6.5 per cent Pacific peoples. Its British heritage ensured that New Zealand enjoyed strong judicial institutions from the beginning, very much in the tradition of the common law. In 2010 there were almost two hundred permanent judges in the New Zealand judiciary, a quantity that seems generous given the size of the population. But there does exist an elaborate court structure with generous rights of appeal. Furthermore, New Zealand has at present about 11,000 lawyers with current practising certificates, providing one lawyer for approximately every four hundred people. New Zealand has a mature legal system with a strong tradition of the rule of law.

    Any analysis of the New Zealand Constitution and the place of the judiciary within it must start with the Constitution Act 1986. This ordinary statute is perhaps the most important constitutional law New Zealand has, although it lacks many of the features of constitutions in other countries. The Constitution Act can be amended by an ordinary Act of Parliament. Further, it provides little guidance on the rules and principles under which government will be conducted.

  • New Ways to Make International Environmental Law

  • Geoffrey Palmer
  • Journal:
    American Journal of International Law / Volume 86 / Issue 2 / April 1992
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    27 February 2017, pp. 259-283
    Print publication:
    April 1992

  • The purpose of this article is to suggest new ways to make international law for the environment. The existing methods are slow, cumbersome, expensive, uncoordinated and uncertain. Something better must be found if the environmental challenges the world faces are to be dealt with successfully. Nearly twenty years after the Stockholm Declaration, we still lack the institutional and legal mechanisms to deal effectively with transboundary and biospheric environmental degradation. The 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development presents an opportunity to make progress. Unfortunately, my reading of the situation in late 1991 suggests that there is no political will to take decisions that will give us the tools to do the job.