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Brownlie, Principles of International Law (7th ed 2008)Shaw, International Law (6th ed 2008)Dixon, Textbook on International Law (7th ed 2010)Students may also find the following introductory texts useful:Lowe, International Law (2007)Malanczuk, Akehurst’s Modern Introduction to International Law (9th ed 2009)Aust. Handbook of International Law (2nd ed 2010)Cases and materials:Harris, Cases and Materials on International Law (6th ed 2004)Students may also find useful:Dixon and McCorquodale, Cases and Materials on International Law (2010)Basic documents:Evans, Blackstone’s International Law Documents (2009)Suggested further reading:Charlesworth and Chinkin, The Boundaries of International Law (2000)Evans (ed), International Law (3rd ed 2010)Current controversies are well covered in the American Journal of International Law and the International & ComparativeLaw Quarterly (both quarterly). International Legal Materials (6 times a year) prints major documents, treaties anddecisions, which for the most part can also be found in Westlaw and Lexis. Also recommended is the European Journalof International Law. Most important cases in the field are reported in the International Law Reports. The contemporarypractice of the UK is to be found in the British Yearbook of International Law. The following websites also contain usefulmaterial: www.un.org and www.icj-cij.org.PAPER 13. CIVIL LAW IIThe paper is divided into two parts.1. European Legal History. The revival of Roman law and the formation of the canon law; glossators andcommentators; humanists. Roman law in England and practice in the Courts of the Church and Admiralty.Developments in France (natural law, national laws, codification, the emergence of public law), in Germany (thehistorical school, codification) and elsewhere.2. The Lex Aquilia, with particular reference to Digest IX.2. The main areas covered are the origins and early history ofthe lex; the scope of chapters 1 and 3; iniuria and culpa; causation; damages; and praetorian extensions to liabilityunder the lex. The course will also consider the later development of the Civil law tradition of Aquilian liability.READING44