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Modernising Charity Law: Recent Developments and Future Directions
Author(s): Myles McGregor-Lowndes (Editor), Kerry O’Halloran
- Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
- Publication Date: December 29, 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 296 pages
- ISBN-10: 1849802505
- ISBN-13: 9781849802505
Book Description
In recent years the pressure for charity law reform has swept across the common law jurisdictions with differing results. Modernising Charity Law examines how the UK jurisdictions have enacted significant statutory reforms after many years of debate, whilst the federations of Canada and Australia seem merely to have intentions of reform. New Zealand and Singapore have begun their own reform journeys. This highly insightful book brings together perspectives from academics, regulators and practitioners from across the common law jurisdictions. The expert contributors consider the array of reforms to charity law and assess their relative successes. Particular attention is given to the controversial issues of expanded heads of charity, public benefit, religion, competition with business, government participation and regulation. The book concludes by challenging the very notion of charity as a foundation for societies which, faced by an array of global threats and the rising tide of human rights, must now also embrace the expanding notions of social capital, social entrepreneurism and civil society.
This original and highly topical work will be a valuable resource for academics, regulators and legal practitioners as well as advanced and postgraduate students in law and public policy. Specialists in charity law, comparative law, and law and public policy should also not be without this important book.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘Hard on the heels of a recent surge in charity-law reforms around the world comes this comprehensive volume of analysis and caution by leading academics and practitioners from many of the countries undergoing change. This timely and essential resource will not only aid those jurisdictions where welcome modernization has occurred, but also provide guidance and lessons for policy makers and scholars in Australia’s renewed push for reform – as well as in the United States, where serious debates are just starting.’ — Evelyn Brody, Chicago-Kent College of Law and Reporter, American Law Institute’s Project on Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations, US
About the Author
Edited by Myles McGregor-Lowndes, Queensland University of Technology, Australia and Kerry O’Halloran, formerly Assistant Director, Centre for Voluntary Action, University of Ulster, UK and Adjunct Professor, Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Non-Profit Studies, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
