Jurisprudence and general issues

This book discusses in what sense constitutional law has a political dimension, raising the question whether constitutional law is fundamentally political as to its validity, terms of its origin, conceptual structure and/or corresponding practice.

This book is based on the assumption that the world is governed by a widespread field of interconnected laws.

This book features peer reviewed contributions from across the disciplines on themes relating to protection of data and to privacy protection.

The book is the first comprehensive consideration, since the UK Cadbury Report recommended a voluntary Corporate Governance Code, of the question whether Corporate Governance Codes are the most effective way of ensuring adherence to good corporate governance principles.

This innovative volume examines the nexus between war crimes trials and the pursuit of collaborators in post-war Asia.

This book is dedicated to a fundamental conflict in modern states: those persons holding public office are no more than ordinary citizens.

This book analyses current developments in Europe and Latin America towards the greater involvement of the parties in the administration of criminal justice.

Elektromobilität ist spätestens seit dem Pariser Klimaschutzabkommen und Fridays for Future im Fokus der Öffentlichkeit.

This book brings to life the experiences of children affected by maternal imprisonment, and provides unique, in-depth analysis of judicial thinking on this issue.

The focus of this publication is the uniqueness of the Baltic Sea from a legal perspective, and the regulatory voids that result from the multiple layers of regulation this area is subjected to: up to six layers of regulation (general international law, regional conventions, EU law, national laws, local and municipal rules plus a whole range of non-binding norms and other 'soft law' arrangements) act in parallel.

This book examines  how the nation - and its (fundamental) law - are 'sensed' by way of various aesthetic forms from the age of revolution up until our age of contested democratic legitimacy.

This book offers a new perspective on advance directives through a combined legal, ethical and philosophical inquiry.

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of personal participation in criminal proceedings and in absentia trials.

This book analyses the history of international law to reveal the significant role utopianism has played in developing the international legal system.

The book provides an overview of the right to counsel and the attorney-client privilege in the following 12 jurisdictions: China, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, UK and USA.

This timely book provides contributions on international, comparative crime phenomena: gangs, trafficking, fear of crime, and crime prevention.

The book analyses the Indian Supreme Court's jurisprudence on homosexuality, its current approach and how its position has evolved in the past ten years.

This edited collection draws together new historical writing on the Commonwealth.

This book arises from a research project funded in Australia by the Criminology Research Council.

This is the first book to present the law of the Baltic States in one comprehensive and coherent volume in English.

This book offers a detailed account of the legal issues concerning the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands) by leading experts in the field.

This book, which updates and expands the third edition published by Springer in 2015, explains, compares and evaluates the social and legal functions of adoption within a range of selected jurisdictions and on an international basis.

American Indian Sovereignty and Law: An Annotated Bibliography covers a wide variety of topics and includes sources dealing with federal Indian policy, federal and tribal courts, criminal justice, tribal governance, religious freedoms, economic development, and numerous sub-topics related to tribal and individual rights.

This book argues for the abolition of the employment system in favor of workplace democracy and thus escapes the usual capitalism-versus-socialism binary choice by reframing the basic issue as the employment contract, not private property or a market economy.

This book reflects the research output of the Committee on the International Protection of Consumers of the International Law Association (ILA).

This book explores the pros and cons of the death penalty and the history of capital punishment.

This book provides fresh perspectives in the legal study of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

This book explores critical questions pertaining to the character and content of the "e;American People"e; as posited in the US Supreme Court's interpretation of the fundamental law.

This book presents a detailed analysis of Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) program.

This volume is the first to explore the vibrant history of Magna Carta in Aotearoa New Zealand's legal, political and popular culture.

This book represents the first multi-disciplinary introduction to the study of war crimes trials and investigations.

This book examines the history of cosmopolitanism from its origins in the ancient world up to its use in Kantian political philosophy.

Diese Arbeit behandelt die patentrechtliche Fallkonstellation, bei der durch einen bekannten Stoff oder durch eine bekannte Sache eine Wirkung erzeugt wird, die in diesem Kontext bisher noch nicht in Erscheinung getreten ist.

This book offers a novel interdisciplinary approach to interpret the emergence of the Basque-Spanish nationalist conflict.

This book compares the respective concepts of the law of nations put forward by the Spanish theologian Francisco Suarez and by the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius.

This book explores sexual violence and crime in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s, a period of intense social and legal change.

This book explores the history of public land tenure records, which first began in colonial Massachusetts as English settlers and Native Americans tried to resolve differing ideas about rights to land in the seventeenth century.

This book intends to contribute to the consolidation of the new approach to lawmaking that has taken place in the last 20 years in legal philosophy and legal theory, spreading to other legal fields, especially criminal law.

Bei dem Praxishandbuch des Amts-, Staatshaftungs- und Entschädigungsrechts handelt es sich um eine verständliche, umfassende und systematische Darstellung aller relevanten Anspruchsgrundlagen und Problemfelder bei schädigendem Verhalten der öffentlichen Hand (Bund, Länder und Gemeinden mit allen Untergliederungen).

This book critically analyses the impact of digital media technologies on police scandal.

This book is the first-ever to explore commercial arbitration in the Ethiopian context.

The book examines the potential for regional competition law systems as enforcement tools in developing countries, based on a case study of the West African Economic and Monetary Union, the Andean Community and the Caribbean Community.

This book analyses the perceived legitimacy of health and safety in post-1960 British public life.

This book explores the shortcomings of the criminal justice system's response to sexual violence.

The subject of this book is human rights law, focusing on historic achievement of a common standard viewed from a perspective of Pengchun Chang's contributions to the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

This book studies the practical experience and theoretical development of rule of law in China, and provides fundamental theory for the construction of rule of law in contemporary China.

This book maps the changes in court advocacy in England and Wales over the last three centuries.

This book presents a critical reassessment of theories of property rights, in response to conflicts and competition between different groups, and the state.

This book seeks to fill a gap in the existing literature by describing the formulation, interpretation and enforcement of the rules on consumer contracts in China and the EU, and by mapping key similarities and differences.