Jurisprudence and general issues

This book distinguishes Islam as a spiritual message from the sociopolitical context of its revelation.

This book examines how alcohol intoxication impacts upon the memory of rape victims and provides recommendations for how best to investigate and prosecute such rape complaints.

From Van Gend en Loos and Costa v ENEL to Cassis de Dijon and Consten and Grundig, Landmark Cases in EU Law explores the most important and well-known EU law cases in two volumes.

This book describes and analyzes the conceptual ambiguity of vulnerability, in an effort to understand its particular applications for legal and political protection when relating to groups.

This book analyses the doctrinal structure and content of secondary liability rules that hold internet service providers liable for the conduct of others, including the safe harbours (or immunities) of which they may take advantage, and the range of remedies that can be secured against such providers.

This book discusses the relationship between law and memory and explores the ways in which memory can be thought of as contributing to legal socialization and legal meaning-making.

This book offers an historical and contemporary analysis of policing and police-citizen relations in Nigeria, to understand why people co-operate (or don't) with the police.

This book describes and examines three EU legal frameworks (EU competition law, EU consumer law, and EU fundamental rights law) that may affect the extent to which consumers purchase more sustainably.

This book examines the controversial and repercussive contention that an objective of the law should be to promote personal morality - to make people ethically better.

This edited collection analyses the prison through the most fundamental challenge it faces: escapes.

This book presents a creative synthesis of two ostensibly disparate fields of law - arbitration and human rights.

This revised second edition takes account of developments in the field of dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration.

With regard to family law, this volume examines claims based on cultural tradition, ethnic background, custom, religious affiliation and sexual orientation, as well as various other "e;claims"e; that are not officially recognized in state law, in 15 jurisdictions around the world.

This book evaluates the protection of traditional cultural expressions in Africa using South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana as case study examples in the light of regional and international approaches in this respect.

This book provides an analysis of the institutional and constitutional effects of EU international agreements, with a particular focus on their potential effects on private parties.

War crimes have devastating effects on victims and perpetrators and endanger broader political and military goals.

This volume explores from a legal perspective, how blockchain works.

This volume, incorporating the work of scholars from various parts of the globe, taps the wisdom of the Westphalian (and post-Westphalian) world on the use of federalism and secession as tools for managing regional conflicts.

The book examines how the growth of public finance law within the European Union has both influenced and continued to impact the structure of national-level public administration in EU Member States.

This book presents a thorough and critical evaluation of the monetary and financial system prevalent in Western economies.

This book investigates stakeholders' interests, market players, and governance models for the takeover market in the changing global economic orders.

The original essays in this book address the influential writings of Peter A.

This book considers the law, policy and procedure for child witnesses in Australian criminal courts across the twentieth century.

This book offers new international perspectives on captivity in wartime during the twentieth century.

The aim of this book is to delve into the impact of the Information and Communications Technologies in the criminal prevention and investigation, by addressing the state of the art of different measures and its implementation in different legal systems vis a vis the protection of human rights.

How do ordinary people experience and make sense of the informal justice system?

The book focuses on the interactions between international legal regimes related to biodiversity governance.

This book examines American solitary confinement - in which around 100,000 prisoners are held at any one time - and argues that under a moral reading of individual rights such punishment is not only a matter of public interest, but requires close constitutional scrutiny.

This book offers a comparative perspective on 18 countries' legal regulation of crowdfunding.

This book conducts a comparative legal study from two analytical points of view.

This anthology discusses important issues surrounding environmental law and economics and provides an in-depth analysis of its use in legislation, regulation and legal adjudication from a neoclassical and behavioural law and economics perspective.

This book provides an in-depth study of Private International Law reasoning in the field of international sale of goods contracts.

This book examines Britain's complex relationship with the mine in the years 1900-1915.

This book provides international perspectives on the law of copyright in relation to three core themes - copyright and developing countries; the government and copyright; and technology and the future of copyright.

The first of two volumes, this book examines constitutionalism in Ireland in the 1930s.

This book maps various national legal responses to gender mobility, including sex and name registration, access to gender modification interventions, and anti-discrimination protection (or lack thereof) and regulations.

This book explores how the construction and contestation of victims in societies emerging from conflict impact processes of peacebuilding.

This volume considers the ethics of policing and imprisonment, focusing particularly on mass incarceration and police shootings in the United States.

This book critically explores the development of radical criminology through a range of written Ancient Greek works including epic and lyrical poetry, drama and philosophy, across different chapters.

This book addresses the 'three moments' in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) asylum seekers' and refugees' efforts to secure protection: The reasons for their flight, the Refugee Status Determination process, and their integration into the host community once they are recognized refugee status.

This collection considers human rights and incarceration in relation to the liberal-democratic states of Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

This book charts the writing of the English constitution through the work of four of the most influential jurists in the history of English constitutional thought-Edmund Burke, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Walter Bagehot and Albert Venn Dicey.

This book delineates the discovery of a previously unknown manuscript of a letter from Granville Sharp, the first British abolitionist, to the "e;Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.

This book explores commercial contract law in scholarship and legal practice, suggests new research agendas and provides a forum for debate of typical issues that might benefit from further attention by scholarship and legislatures.

This book explores different theories of law, religion, and tradition, from both a secular and a religious perspective.

This book brings together a large and diverse collection of philosophical papers addressing a wide variety of public policy issues.

This innovative textbook provides an introduction into comparative constitutional law to undergraduate and graduate students.

This volume discusses EU criminal justice from three perspectives.