Jurisprudence and general issues

Consumer credit information systems are the tools used by the majority of lenders to manage credit risk, with lenders accessing credit reference databases managed by third party providers to evaluate a consumer's credit application.

This book seeks to interrogate the classical fiqh formulation on gender and homicide with a view to exploring further the debate on whether the so-called gender injustice in Islamic law is a human creation or attributable to the divine sources of the Qur'an and Sunnah.

The federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 was passed in a time of turmoil, conflict, and often conflagration in cities across the nation.

Behaviour change programs fail more often than they succeed.

In his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln declared that as president he would "e;have no lawful right"e; to interfere with the institution of slavery.

This book brings the insights of theatre theory to law, legal interpretation and the jurisprudential to reshape law as a practice of response and responsibility.

The Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies provides a new forum for the scrutiny of significant issues in European Union Law,the law of the Council of Europe, and Comparative Law with a 'European' dimension, and particularly those which have come to the fore during the year preceding publication.

This book uncovers the influence of racial and prejudicial stereotyping during police investigation of suspects from stigmatised communities.

Criminological and penological scholarship has in recent years explored how and why institutions and systems of punishment change - and how and why these changes differ in different contexts.

This detailed portrait of American lawyers traces their efforts to professionalize during the last 100 years by erecting barriers to control the quality and quantity of entrants.

This book provides a nuanced picture of how diverse legal debates on the pursuit of economic development and modernization have played out in Latin America since independence.

This book provides a normative analysis of the justifications and limits of asset confiscation as a crime control measure in a comparative perspective.

Das Werk richtet sich - der Konzeption der Reihe entsprechend - in erster Linie an Studierende in den ersten Semestern des Jurastudiums, ist aber auch zur Wiederholung und Vertiefung geeignet.

A novel framework for understanding the role and relevance of coherence in international dispute settlement and judicial reasoning.

For centuries, denuded landscapes, fouled streams, and dirty air were accepted by society as part of the price that had to be paid for mineral production.

By definition, international law, once agreed upon and consented to, applies to all parties equally.

Providing a comprehensive exploration, this volume explains connections between American culture and the incidence of serial murder, including reasons why most identified serial murderers are white, male Americans.

For decades, companies in other industries have refined techniques to better understand their customers' needs, uncover insights, and develop new-to-the-world ideas, which are now products and services we use every day.

This textbook covers the Tort Law option of the A-level law syllabus, and provides at the same time an ideal introduction for anybody coming to the subject for the first time.

This book is the first of its kind to explore the problems inherent in the unification of maritime law.

This accessible introduction tells the American story of religious liberty from its colonial beginnings to the latest Supreme Court cases.

Sykes' The Society of Captives has stood as a classic of modern penology for nearly 60 years.

Based on original historical data, this book shows that key changes in design can extend constitutional life.

This book challenges accounts about the development and operation of the common law.

Here is the most up-to-the-minute interdisciplinary research that has been conducted on older offenders.

When the name Constance Baker Motley is mentioned, more often than not, the response is "e;Who was she?

Although Mexico's Constitution of 1917 mandated the division of large landholdings, provided land for the landless, and guaranteed workers the rights to organize, strike, and bargain collectively, it also guaranteed fundamental liberal rights to property and due process that enabled property owners and employers to resist the implementation of the new social rights by filing suit in federal court.

Conventionally, international legal scholarship concerned with norm conflicts focuses on identifying how international law can or should resolve them.

Capital punishment, serial killings, war, terrorism, abortion, honour killings, euthanasia, suicide bombings, war, and genocide: all involve the taking of life.

This book establishes legisprudence, in contrast to jurisprudence, as a legal theory of rational law-making.

Bringing together an international group of authors, this book addresses the important issues lying at the intersection between urban space, on the one hand, and incivilities and urban harm, on the other.

Challenge your understanding of corporate, securities, and financial law and regulation with this ground-breaking book.

Law and economics is the field of study devoted to understanding laws and legal institutions using the tools of economic theory.

This book critically assesses legal frameworks involving the bulk processing of personal data, initially collected by the private sector, to predict and prevent crime through advanced profiling technologies.

This title explores the normative foundations of European contract law.

This book reviews the challenges and opportunities in the implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) at the regional and national levels in Africa.

This multidisciplinary volume offers an essential, comprehensive study of perspectives on the scope and application of the best interests of the child and focuses mainly on its application in relation to child custody.

Providing a comparative analysis of both vulnerable witnesses and vulnerable suspects, this book discusses the increasingly difficult issue faced by many in modern policing, forensic psychology, criminology, and social justice studies.

Child Sexual Abuse: Forensic Issues in Evidence, Impact, and Management covers the issue of child sexual abuse from several viewpoints.

This book considers how legal reforms and awareness raising associated with building the rule of law have engaged the popular legal consciousness, producing contradictions that have in turn shaped the nature of the resultant legality.

The Insurance Act 2015 represents the first major reform of English commercial insurance law for many years.