Thai Legal History: From Traditional to Modern Law (the “Book”) serves as an excellent academic tool for a reader desiring to a gain a deeper understanding of the constitutional status and roles of the King of Thailand, impacts of coups d’état on the Thai legal system, influence of foreign laws on moderation of the legal system, Buddhism, and legal consciousness in a modernised Thai legal system. As a law lecturer and legal researcher, I found that this Book, as highlighted by Andrew Harding in Chapter 1, meticulously reveals the origin and evolution of laws and concepts beyond written law in the pre-modern time—the old Siam—and later.

The law of private nuisance is riddled with archaic rules and modern contradictions, and in recent years, it has received significant attention from the courts and legal scholars as it attempts to evolve to address interferences with one's access to telecommunications and sunlight in an increasingly urbanised environment. In The Law of Private Nuisance, Allan Beever criticises the proclivity of a majority of commentators for describing the law of private nuisance "as coming in separate parts" and therefore engaging in an exercise of "limited rationality" (at p. 3). Beever claims to propose an alternative framework that "focuses on the prioritising of property rights" (at p. 2).