Jurisprudence and general issues

The integration of robotic systems and artificial intelligence into healthcare settings is accelerating.

Although prison can present a critical opportunity to engage with offenders through interventions and programming, reoffending rates among those released from prison remain stubbornly high.

The growing economic and political significance of Asia has exposed a tension in the modern international order.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to consumer Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADRs) and the unconventional challenges they pose for emerging economies, aiming to advance their growth within developing nations.

Illuminating US constitutional concepts in plain language and clarifying nuances in the law, this third edition of Constitutional Law and Criminal Justice simplifies understanding of the United States judicial system for those without advanced legal training.

The carbon markets are in the middle of a fundamental crisis - a crisis marked by collapsing prices, fleeing actors, and ever increasing greenhouse gas levels.

This book investigates the ways in which people in the Lake Chad region that divides Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon deal with the crises of violence, jihadism, drought, and climate change that continue to afflict the area.

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

Presents a robust defence of the essential place of stable marital families in modern liberal societies.

This collection focuses on the particular nexus of popular sovereignty and constitutional change, and the implications of the recent surge in populism for systems where constitutional change is directly decided upon by the people via referendum.

Explores the shaping of China and India''s energy and climate policies by two-level pressures characterized as wealth, status and asymmetrical interdependence.

This book provides a timely analysis of the use of cultural narratives and narratives of credibility in rape trials in England and Wales, drawing on court observation methods.

This book explores the ways language is used by the professional legal community for the communication of its main business - the negotiation of justice - in today's globalized world.

Courts and Terrorism examines the response of judiciaries in nine separate nations to terror tactics and the common themes experienced.

La obra que el lector tiene entre manos recoge las aportaciones más relevantes del Congreso Unijes 2013, convocado por las Facultades de Derecho de las universidades de Deusto, Pontificia Comillas de Madrid y ESADE-URL, y que bajo el título ?

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Global Justice and Social Conflict offers a ground-breaking historical and theoretical reappraisal of the ideas that underpin and sustain the global liberal order, international law and neoliberal rationality.

This book addresses age-based persecution of children as a crime against humanity in connection with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes (persecution - with some variation in the elements of the crime - is an existing offence under the Rome Statute of the permanent International Criminal Court, the statutes of various international criminal tribunals i.

These original essays focus on fundamental issues and practical implications of the relationship between disability and the good human life.

This volume, published in association with the United Nations Environment Programme, examines how co-ordinated action among neighbouring countries could reduce greenhouse gas emissions in ways which are environmentally, economically and socially beneficial.

The role of general counsel and in-house lawyers is changing continually.

Chronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of the rise of Trump's populist support in 2016, and his failed efforts to nullify the result of the 2020 election.

This book examines the international, regional and domestic human rights frameworks that establish victim rights as a central force in law and policy in the twenty-first century.

This textbook provides readers with the fundamentals and the intent of environmental regulations so that compliance can be greatly improved and streamlined.

Federalismincluding its meanings and limitsremains one of the most contested principles in constitutional law.

Words That Bind presents a careful and nuanced treatment of constitutional interpretation and judicial review.

This book presents an important discussion on the implementation of sustainable soil management in Africa from a range of governance perspectives.

What does the law require of social workers when deciding how to intervene to protect children and adults at risk?

Integrating research methods from linguistics with contemporary legal argumentation theory, this book highlights the complexities of legal justification by focusing on the role of value-laden language in argument construction and use.

The framers of the Constitution of India envisaged three major crisis situations calling for the declaration of Emergency : war, external aggression and "e;armed rebellion,"e; failure of the constitutional machinery of a state; and a financial crisis.

Focusing on systemic risks caused by climate change, this book examines how these risks can be effectively regulated to ensure resilience and avoid catastrophe.

Das vorliegende Praxisbuch verschafft  dem Baujuristen als Einstiegswerk und dem Baupraktiker als ständiger Begleiter einen gesamtheitlichen Überblick über die einschlägigen Regelungen der VOB/B und die Nebenregelungen des BGB im Bezug auf die Thematik "Gestörter Bauablauf".

Issues of religious diversity in the workplace have become very topical and have been raised before domestic courts and the European Court of Human Rights.

Over 2 billion people (61% of the world's employed population) work in the informal economy.

Crime prevention, surveillance, and restorative justice have transformed the response to crime in recent years.

This book focuses on the Polish Constitution of 1997, concentrating on its structure, its substance and some of the institutional choices made by the drafters.

Charity Law & Social Policy explores contemporary law, policy and practice in a range of modern common law nations in four parts and from the perspective of how this has evolved in the UK.

From Anthony Trollop to Sinclair Lewis, and from Jane Austen to James Joyce and John Steinbeck, many important novels touch on fundamental questions about the role of money in human affairs.

In the current legal climate where everyone is an originalist, conventional wisdom suggests that judges merely find law, rather than make it.

Embodying Punishment offers a theoretical and empirical exploration of women's lived experiences of imprisonment in England.

Professional misconduct within the academic community is highly publicised.

Explores the role of NGOs as mediators in crucial litigation cases on women''s rights in South Africa.

Disorder and instability are matters of continuing public concern.