The Rule of Fair Play - British Gunboat Lawfare

Is fair play possible in legal matters? Can anyone play fair in facts of social justice? Are fair laws nothing but a play in a collective game of sheer fantasy?

To try and answer these questions, this volume observes, from their own actions and own words, how the heirs apparent of the violent and successful periods of the British mercantilism and of the agrarian, mechanical and industrial British revolutions -some, bourgeois merchants of legal and illegal wares, others, wealthy and nimble politicians of the aristocratic establishment, at times indiscriminately both- actively sought to take advantage of Britain's 19th-century supremacy to forcibly and forcefully promote the rules of British Liberalism, domestically at Westminster and internationally in the Indo-Pacific region, whilst their will-to-trade on their own terms, under the odd rules of their not-so-common laws, went so far as to subdue entire populations, in India, China and all over the world.

The author, a Swiss legal practitioner with a PhD in Philosophy of Law and three Masters, is admitted to practice Swiss, English and Hong Kong laws and is established in Hong Kong (China) since 2004.