Jurisprudence and general issues

This collection studies the rise of neutral bodies as a challenge to the constitutional paradigm of the nation state.

This book challenges conventional assumptions about the afterlife of Magna Carta and tells a new story.

Das Völkerrecht fordert, dass ehemals repressive Staaten ihre gewaltvollen Vergangenheiten aufklären müssen und verpflichtet diese darüber hinaus dazu, den Opfern von schweren Menschenrechtsverletzungen Wiedergutmachung zukommen zu lassen.

L’accès au financement est un enjeu crucial pour l’Entreprise qui doit financer sa création et son développement.

Ombudsmen are a global phenomenon.

The Law and Practice of Extradition provides an in-depth overview of extradition law and practice, providing students with an understanding of how key elements have been shaped by the state, the fugitive and the international community.

Evaluates the successes and failures of the 1996 South African Constitution following the twentieth anniversary of its enactment.

This book explores critical issues about how courts engage with questions of fact in public law adjudication.

Why the Police Should be Trained by Black People aligns scholarly and community efforts to address how Black people are policed.

Perhaps more than any other scholar, Michael Moore has argued that there are deep and necessary connections between metaphysics, morality, and law.

This book defends an event-causal theory of libertarian free will and argues that the belief in such free will plays an important, if not essential, role in supporting certain important values.

With over sixty cases as support, this text presents the philosophy of law as a perpetual series of debates with overlapping lines and cross connections.

This book describes how to use logic, reasoning, critical thinking, and the scientific method to conduct and improve criminal and civil investigations.

For more than century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and seeking work.

Engel examines changing politicians'' perceptions of the threat posed by opposition and how it influenced manipulations of judicial authority.

Prisons are dangerous places, and assaults, threats, theft and verbal abuse are pervasive - attributable both to the characteristics of the captive population and to an institutional sub culture which promotes violence as a means of resolving conflicts.

Environmental crime is one of the most profitable and fastest growing areas of international criminal activity.

While scholars have rightly focused on the importance of the landmark opinions of the United States Supreme Court and its Chief Justice, John Marshall, in the rise in influence of the Court in the Early Republic, the crucial role of the circuit courts in the development of a uniform system of federal law across the nation has largely been ignored.

This book traces the emergence and transformations of asbestos compensation to explore the wider issue of to what extent legal systems have converged in the era of globalization.

This yearbook focuses on law and its interdisciplinarity in India.

Dissent in courts has always existed.

Contracts for Construction and Engineering Projects provides unique and invaluable guidance on the role of contracts in construction and engineering projects.

La République Démocratique du Congo est confrontée à des défis énormes : aggravation de la pauvreté, sous-développement dus notamment au manque d’infrastructures de transport, d’équipement.

The academic or scientific occupation with international relations is not always an encouraging task.

Focusing on paid work that blurs traditional legal boundaries and the challenge this poses to traditional forms of labour regulation, this collection of original case studies illustrates the wide range of different forms of regulation designed to provide decent work.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide for college students and high school seniors considering law school.

In June 1870, the residents of the city of New Orleans were already on edge when two African American women kidnapped seventeen-month-old Mollie Digby from in front of her New Orleans home.

This comparative study explores the lives of some of the women who first initiated challenges to male exclusivity in the legal professions in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

In the nineteenth century many Canadians took pride in their country's policy of liberal treatment of Indians.

States are erecting walls at their borders at a pace unmatched in history, and the wall between the United States and Mexico stands as an icon among these dividing structures.

When a loved one with mental illness comes into contact with the law, trying to advocate for them can be an overwhelming and frustrating endeavor.

As Americans wrestle with red-versus-blue debates over traditional values, defense of marriage, and gay rights, reason often seems to take a back seat to emotion.

Contempt of court has been aptly described as the Proteus of the legal world, assuming an almost infinite diversity of forms.

Finck examines the emergence of blockchains (and other forms of distributed ledger technologies) and the implications for regulation and governance.

As the USA's domination of world affairs meets ever-widening international resentment, this revealing interrogation of America's global footprint explores the complexities of its impact on the world.

This reader presents a comprehensive review of the research on mass incarceration as it relates to causes, impact, and solutions.

Egal ob Kunstausstellung, klassisches Konzert, Opernaufführung, Popkonzert oder Werbeveranstaltung - Kulturveranstaltungen und Events haben heutzutage einen hohen Stellenwert.

The recent global financial crisis has been characterised as a turning point in the way we respond to financial crime.

Pre-crime aims to pre-empt 'would-be-criminals' and predict future crime.

This book examines how, in response to crises, law tends to construct singular 'events' that obscure the underlying structural causes that any adequate response needs to acknowledge and address.

A close study of lawyers who practise occupational safety and health law in the US.