Jurisprudence and general issues

The intellectual development of American legal thought has progressed remarkably quickly form the nation's founding through today.

Unaccompanied child asylum seekers are amongst the world's most vulnerable populations, and their numbers are increasing.

Who Killed Panayot?

Living in pluralist India has had critical consequences for Muslim women who are expected to follow a determined and strict code of conduct.

Progressives who opposed the Trump administration's policies found themselves repeatedly relying on constitutional principles grounded in federalism, separation of powers, and free speech to resist the federal government.

The second edition of Critical Company Law provides a framework in which to understand how the company functions in society and a thorough grounding in modern legal doctrine.

The interaction between military and civilian courts, the political power that legal prerogatives can provide to the armed forces, and the difficult process civilian politicians face in reforming military justice remain glaringly under-examined, despite their implications for the quality and survival of democracy.

Gain an international perspective on law library practices and precedents!

Over the past twenty years, the volume of international litigation and arbitration has increased exponentially.

La médiation pour tous met à la portée de chacun l’esprit, les règles et les techniques utilisés en médiation.

For several years legal professions across the world have, to varying degrees, been undergoing dramatic changes as a result of a range of forces such as globalization, diversification and changes in regulation.

Richter entscheiden Rechtsstreitigkeiten.

Law firm practice group leadership is not for the faint hearted.

This book analyses the gendered nature of patent law and the knowledge governance system it supports.

This volume in the Osgoode Society's distinguished series on the history of Canadian law is a collection of the principal essays of Professor Emeritus R.

In 1877, the American Humane Society was formed as the national organization for animal and child protection.

This book is a practical and thoughtful guide for the forensic interview of children, presenting a synthesis of the empirical and theoretical knowledge necessary to understand the account of child victims of abuse or witnesses of crime.

This book explains, compares and assesses the legal implications of Dieselgate within a range of selected jurisdictions and at the EU, international and comparative law level.

This book is a research guide and bibliography of Parliamentary material, including the Old Scottish Parliament and the Old Irish Parliament, relating to patents and inventions from the early seventeenth century to 1976.

Scholars and lay persons alike routinely express concern about the capacity of democratic publics to respond rationally to emotionally charged issues such as crime, particularly when race and class biases are invoked.

international Encyclopedia of Crime and Conniption is made to serve the purpose of a sourcebook on the subject areas of direct and related interests pertaining to crime and corruption.

Inspired by comparative law scholar Patrick Glenn''s work, an international group of legal scholars explores the state of the discipline.

Desde el siglo XVI, momento en que dieron comienzo los viajes pesquero- comerciales de guipuzcoanos y vizcainos a las costas de Terranova para ocuparse en la pesca del bacalao y en la caza de la ballena, naturalistas, historiadores, economistas, linguistas y arqueologos, entre otros colectivos, se han ocupado de las navegaciones vascas al litoral atlantico canadiense.

This book provides a detailed analysis of mutual fund regulations and governance in the UK from the investor protection perspective.

The Art of Argument guides readers through the process of developing, defending and presenting a compelling argument.

In Constitutional Revolutions Robert Justin Lipkin radically rethinks modern constitutional jurisprudence, challenging the traditional view of constitutional change as solely an extension or transformation of prior law.

In Sanierungssituationen stoßen unterschiedliche Interessen, Chancen und Risiken der beteiligten Stakeholder aufeinander.

This book is a first-of-its-kind, five-country empirical study of the causes and consequences of social and economic rights litigation.

In Coercion and Responsibility in Islam, Mairaj Syed explores how classical Muslim theologians and jurists from four intellectual traditions argue about the thorny issues that coercion raises about responsibility for one's action.

Over the past few years, opposition to the privatisation in public services in the United Kingdom and elsewhere has grown, especially in areas related to criminal justice.

This book addresses the interrelationship between economic and financial crises, the responses thereto, and economic and social rights.

With expert evidence used more and more often in criminal jury cases, evaluation of its admissibility and presentation is being increasingly thrust into the spotlight.

Codes of Jewish law may look similar, but they represent very different ways of thinking about the law.

Das vorliegende Werk untersucht erstmals die Bezüge zwischen dem deutschen Recht und dem Rechtssystem in den Harry-Potter-Büchern.

What information should jurors have during court proceedings to render a just decision?

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This book explores the language of judges.

This, the first of two volumes of Liberty and Union, is a comprehensive constitutional history of the United States from the Anglo-American origins of the Constitution through the colonial and antebellum periods, to the Civil War and the consequent restructuring of the nation.

Esta obra presenta un estudio completo y clarificador de una de las corrientes que concurren en el planteamiento y explicación de la metodología jurídica: la tópica.