Profits Of Charity Hardcover

Kerry O'Halloran

The Profits of Charity examines the contemporary law governing the involvement of charity in commerce and explores the reasons why this involvement is dramatically changing. From a perspective familiar to charity lawyers, NGO managers, and scholars, Kerry O'Halloran identifies the concepts and the law underpinning charities and their profits by tracing legal developments in the field and identifying the resulting opportunities and challenges for the future. At a time when many leading nations are confronting economic recession, the threat of terrorism, and the retreat of the 'welfare state,' this book explores why governments are turning to charities in their quest to cultivate social capital, consolidate

0199767718

9780199767717

English

Oxford University Press

26-Jun-08

636

Kerry O'Halloran is an Adjunct Professor at the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies at the Queensland University of Technology. He has served as Assistant Director (Research) at the Centre for Voluntary Action Studies at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, and advised the Court Service (Northern Ireland) on their training program for lay magistrates as well as the Guide to Family Proceedings in Northern Ireland. He is also a consultant to Open University on the law relating to child care and social work. He has authored Charity Law, 2nd edition (2009), Charity and Social Inclusion (2006), Charity Law (2000), and numerous other publications.