Jurisprudence and general issues

The first in-depth analysis of the independent director in Asia: who they are, what they do and how they are regulated.

A unique comparative analysis of Chinese contract law accessible to lawyers from civil, common, and mixed law jurisdictions.

A fresh response to the problem of illegal immigration in the United States through the context of Christian theology.

Explores how the first treaty-based UN international tribunal''s judges innovatively applied the law to perpetrators of international crimes in one of the worst conflicts in recent history.

Qiao demonstrates how an impersonal and unbounded market can operate without legal protection or enforcement of property and contract rights.

Explores the multifaceted debate on the interconnection between conscientious objections, religious liberty, and the equality of women and sexual minorities.

A fresh descriptive and normative perspective on law and religion supported by comparative case studies of Greater China.

The Jewish Family examines Jewish family law in the light of new attitudes concerning the role of women.

Reinventing Legal Education explores how clinical legal education - a new frontier for European public interest lawyering - is reforming law teaching and practice in Europe.

Excessive household debt has allowed for economic growth, but this model has become increasingly unstable.

A lucid analysis of the constitutional and legal issues arising from Australian governmental responses to various sorts of emergencies.

Provides a unified account of the notion of law - both natural and moral - in Kant''s abstract and empirical philosophy.

This book examines how Gustav Radbruch, H.

Addresses the often overlooked connection between cultural issues and tax law by applying insights from the social sciences.

Examines Nazi legal theory, the normative ideas driving the Führer state and the legal subtext to the regime''s escalating atrocities.

Offers a pluralist reading of transitional justice to deal with conflicts constructively and to enable diversity in approaches.

Investigates papal government in the later-twelfth century, focusing on the decrees issued at papal councils, and their reception.

Biography of the Abortion Act, exploring how it was shaped by and shaped a changing UK.

This book explores the ''clean hands'' doctrine, a safety valve in the legal system designed to correct injustice.

A compelling collection of essays by female scholars examining the relationships between sustainability, corporations and the role of gender.

A revolutionary approach exploring legal themes such as justice, legitimacy, sovereignty, and power through close readings of major works of art.

Examines the social, legal and cultural challenges navigating the boundaries of ''normal''-''problematic''-''risky'' sexual behaviours among peers.

Provides an in-depth assessment of the exhaustion doctrine and explores how its various implementations have shaped international trade issues.

LGBT, faith, and academic thought-leaders explore prospects for laws protecting each community''s core interests and possible resolutions for culture-war conflicts.

Analyses the mediation of property rights and social justice through the prism of ''progressive'' constitutional property rights guarantees.

This volume studies the implications of the right to inclusive education in human rights law for disability law, policy and practice.

This book argues that overcoming people''s inability to recognize their own wrongdoing is the most important but regrettably neglected area of the behavioral approach to law.

Explores unspoken beliefs that engender workplace behaviour and legislative/judicial failures that contribute to the “glass ceiling” and workplace inequality.

Highlights the severity of the Civil War''s psychological aftereffects for veterans of the Union army.

Aesthetic philosophy and the arts offer an innovative and attractive approach to enhancing international law in support of peace.

Challenges the persistent orthodoxies of the Tokyo tribunal and provides a new framework for evaluating the trial, revealing its importance to international jurisprudence.

Explores the historical origins and emerging technologies of government profiling and examines law''s role in contemporary technological environments.

Makes a significant contribution to substantive representation, and examines the various political identities of justices in the American political system.

Clinical legal education has revolutionized legal education, from its deepest origins in the nineteenth century to its now-global reach.

A unique collection of legal, religious, ethical, and political perspectives on debates surrounding biotechnology patents or ''patents on life''.

Moral Contagion highlights the central roles that race and international diplomacy played in the development of American citizenship.

Fourteen leading scholars explore the lives of seven of the most famous Jewish lawyers in the history of international law.

Detailed study of the ICC''s practice in prosecuting gender-based crimes, current up to the ICC Statute''s twentieth anniversary in 2018.

This book provides a contextual analysis of ASEAN law and its impact on the business and commercial aspect of laws.

Discusses the nature of corporate groups and networks, and provides arguments for rules extending liability beyond insolvent entities.

Leading corporate lawyers and academics evaluate Delaware''s dominance of corporate law and the challenges it now faces.

An exploration of how petty theft in the nineteenth-century German countryside contributed to the modern-day legal system and property laws.

Shows how the Norwegian model of judicial review provides an alternative to American and European constitutionalism.

Strict enforcement of unreasonable contracts can produce outrageous consequences.

A longitudinal history of Islamic child custody law, challenging Euro-American exceptionalism to reveal developments that considered the best interests of the child.

A fresh perspective on socialist law as practiced in China and Vietnam, two major socialist states.

Few treatments of Catholic Social Teaching are as comprehensive as this, and none is nearly so devoted to a critical scholarly presentation and analysis of the whole corpus.

Shows that the diverse ways of reasoning and judging in our law arise from the same root: a commitment to liberal legality.

Examines the experiences of couples in controversial unions and the legal and cultural backlash against contested marital arrangements in twentieth-century America.

This is a detailed account of interpretative practices and the ''law in action'' that draws lessons for the drafting of copyright exceptions.