Jurisprudence and general issues

Originally published in 1922, Juvenile Delinquency was written while the author was Director of the Ohio Bureau of Juvenile Research.

Understanding Police Operational Performance provides a roadmap for police agencies to implement performance-improvement strategies that work.

This book examines how science fiction informs the legal imagination of technological futures.

Michel Villey a fait un travail de Titan, rendant accessible à tous l’apport d’Aristote et de Saint Thomas à la pensée juridique dans les grandes phases de son histoire – ce qui n’était pas une mince affaire !

In this volume Professor Gaudemet examines the growth and development of the law of the Church.

First published in 1980, but then out of print for several years, this collection, together with The History of Ideas and Doctrines of Canon Law in the Middle Ages, presents a series of fundamental articles by the acknowledged master of medieval canon law studies.

This fourth selection of articles by Professor Kuttner complements the volumes previously published by Variorum.

This book considers whether Parliament recognises a constitutional right to property.

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.

Since 9/11, the terms homeland security and terrorism have become firmly entrenched in our lexicon.

Cet ouvrage retrace les enjeux et les difficultés de la Criminologie dans un pays africain francophone.

A CANADIAN BESTSELLER FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED For more than 30 years, Canadian Family Law has helped us to understand the legal issues surrounding marriage, separation and divorce, child custody and support.

This book discusses contemporary standards of legal safeguards in the area of bulk electronic surveillance from the perspective of the European legal model.

Quel peut être l’intérêt du présent recueil de travaux de recherche qui se sont étalés sur plusieurs décennies ?

Les Autorités Administratives Indépendantes (AAI) sont des organismes administratifs qui agissent au nom de l’État et qui disposent de pouvoirs de décision, de sanction, d’avis ou de conseil, sans pour autant être placés sous la tutelle d’une quelconque autorité administrative ou politique.

Changing Abortion Laws in Mexico Through Advocacy and Human Rights presents the recent evolution of abortion laws in Mexico (2007-2021) and how advocates have shaped them through human rights discourses, challenging social norms.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), which began as a theoretical concept, has sparked a significant cultural revolution.

This book presents an analysis of climate change and agricultural laws in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa in order to determine whether they adequately addressed the concept of agricultural adaptation.

This book examines the issue of injustice, and our responses to it, in a range of contemporary contexts.

Breaking new ground in criminology, this book reflects on the expansion of outer space endeavours, the new pathways this presents for crime, challenges to Earth-based conceptions of justice, and the ethical issues raised.

Bringing together scholars, journalists, and researchers from 27 European countries, this book provides a comparative and longitudinal analysis of the evolution of conditions and standards relevant for sustainable, free, and plural media and journalism in Europe in the last ten years.

Ce volume collectif marque un moment de référence dans la recherche juridique internationale, réunissant des études présentées lors de la 4e  Conférence internationale sur le droit comparé et international qui a eu lieu à Bucarest le 14 juin 2024.