This book describes how governments formulate policies, draft legislation, and manage stocks of legislation and how approaches to these tasks are converging.
This Palgrave Pivot provides a conceptual and practical discussion of the factors that comprise a standard economic damage model in an employment termination case.
The book analyzes the most relevant developments in the relation between contracts and technology, from automatically concluded contracts to today's revolutionary "e;smart contracts"e; developed through blockchain, which are beginning to and will increasingly disrupt many economic and social relations.
This book offers a window into the mechanisms that drive events when countries with poor track records in environmental protection and low administrative capacity, join an organisation with ambitious environmental regulatory regimes, which include some of the highest environmental protections standards in the world.
This book discusses civil litigation at the supreme courts of nine jurisdictions - Argentina, Austria, Croatia, England and Wales, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United States - and focuses on the available instruments used to keep the caseload of these courts within acceptable limits.
This book presents oral histories, collective dialogues, and analyses of rural and indigenous livelihoods facing global socio-environmental regime change in Latin America (LA).
This book explores convergences of legal doctrine despite jurisdictional, cultural and political barriers, as well as divergences due to such barriers, examining topics that are of vital importance to contemporary legal scholars.
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the illegal extraction of metals and minerals from the perspectives of organized crime theory, green criminology, anti-corruption studies, and victimology.
The 2005 Avant-projet de r forme du droit des obligations et de la prescription, also dubbed the Avant-projet Catala, suggests the most far-reaching reform of the French Civil code since it came into force in 1804.
The question of whether dogs should be allowed off the leash in public places has become a major political issue in cities and suburbs across the United States.
Small claims court is a place where some look to level the playing field against individuals, businesses, or partnerships that have wronged them in the past.
At a time when the collective redress landscape is undergoing a period of transformative change, this important and timely research focuses on class actions in England and Wales.
At a time when the collective redress landscape is undergoing a period of transformative change, this important and timely research focuses on class actions in England and Wales.
Taking a fresh and innovative approach to the subject, Making Sense of Land Law is an essential textbook designed to help those coming to the subject for the first time.
In its current state, the global food system is socially and ecologically unsustainable: nearly two billion people are food insecure, and food systems are the number one contributor to climate change.
A newly updated edition of "e;the most readable and succinct account of the origins, the development, and the philosophy of the civil law"e; (Houston Law Review).
