Jurisprudence and general issues

344 pages, 253 images, 26 contributorsThis second volume focuses on the particular needs of sexual assault survivors in various age groups, including chapters on child sexual abuse and sexual violence against adolescents, adults, and the elderly.

444 pages, 174 images, 64 contributorsThe Third Edition of Child Abuse Quick Reference is completely revised and expanded, with new and emerging science for the multidisciplinary response to child abuse.

This book provides a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the emerging fourth generation of Chinese investment treaties.

This book presents an inquiry into the sort of creatures we are.

This fourth volume in the Comparative Succession Law series provides a historical and comparative study of how and by whom the estates of deceased persons are administered, drawing upon the legal traditions of Europe and beyond.

Appellate judges wield enormous influence in the United States.

This volume tells the story of the interaction between Christianity and law-historically and today, in the traditional heartlands of Christianity and around the globe.

Since the mid-2000s Venezuela has been ranked one of the most violent countries in the world as homicides and police violence skyrocketed.

This book examines piracy not just as a historical and contemporary criminal activity but as a complex phenomenon deeply interwoven with legal constructs and cultural perceptions.

Latin America has been a pivotal site for influential and innovative developments in international law since the colonial era.

We are all subjected to the power of the state and other entities such as the EU.

Over ten million people are incarcerated throughout the world, even though punishment theorists have struggled for centuries to morally justify the practice.

At a time when the integration of the European Union's peoples through the rule of law is faltering, this book develops a critical theory of postnational constitutionalism.

At a time when the integration of the European Union's peoples through the rule of law is faltering, this book develops a critical theory of postnational constitutionalism.

The early twenty-first century ushered in a period of change in Bolivia.

Global tax policy has long determined which states can access the resources necessary to flourish.

On both a national and global stage we are witnessing a reckoning on issues of racial justice.

The boundaries between the history of law and the history of everything else are quite blurry nowadays.

Law and law-like institutions are visible in human societies very distant from each other in time and space.

Money in Imperial Rome offers an in-depth examination of the institutional framework within which money operated as an economic agent in the Roman empire, emphasising its systemic complexity.

By any measure, Julius Caesar is one of the most significant and famous figures in Roman history.

The Law and Ethics of Medicine: Essays on the Inviolability of Human Life explains the principle of the inviolability of human life and its continuing relevance to English law governing aspects of medical practice at the beginning and end of life.

The idea of a reason for acting is ubiquitous in philosophy, social science, the law, and in our everyday lives.

Celebrating the scholarship of Andrew Ashworth, Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford, this collection brings together leading international scholars to explore questions of principle and value in criminal law and criminal justice.

Since the mid-20th century, many postcolonial states have engaged in multiple constitution-making exercises, with the turnover in written constitutions often due to coups or internal conflict.

What makes murder, murder?

Within the discipline of criminology and criminal justice, relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between criminal law, punishment, and imperialism, or the contours and exercise of penal power in the Global South.

This essential book offers a comprehensive and concise overview of the complex global framework of air passenger rights, examining not only national laws but also regional agreements.

Global tax policy has long determined which states can access the resources necessary to flourish.

This book takes an inductive approach to the question of whether there is a hierarchy in international law, with human rights obligations trumping other duties.

In the two related works in this volume, Bentham offers a detailed critique of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-9).

This twelfth volume of Correspondence contains authoritative and fully annotated texts of all known letters sent both to and from Bentham between July 1824 and June 1828.

This volume tells the story of the interaction between Christianity and law-historically and today, in the traditional heartlands of Christianity and around the globe.

During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the United States and much of the developed world were rocked by three successive economic shocks, each one more severe than the one before.

In Foundations of Institutional Reality, Andrei Marmor provides a novel account of the ontological foundations of institutional facts, and argues that there are important epistemic and methodological implications that follow from this ontology.

Strongly-held values can stabilize a society.

Strongly-held values can stabilize a society.

In Foundations of Institutional Reality, Andrei Marmor provides a novel account of the ontological foundations of institutional facts, and argues that there are important epistemic and methodological implications that follow from this ontology.

This book, with contributors from nine countries, seeks to critically understand the processes of legal education reform and resistance and to point to what these processes mean for law and lawyers inside and outside of the United States.

The second edition of The Ohio State Constitution begins with a detailed summary and analysis of the history of the Ohio Constitution, including the pre-statehood Northwest Ordinance of 1787 (i.

The 2020 edition marks the 20th Anniversary of The Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence.

The second edition of The Ohio State Constitution begins with a detailed summary and analysis of the history of the Ohio Constitution, including the pre-statehood Northwest Ordinance of 1787 (i.

The 2020 edition marks the 20th Anniversary of The Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence.

International law is usually communicated in more than one language and reflects common norms that lawyers and adjudicators across national legal cultures agree on and develop together.

International law is usually communicated in more than one language and reflects common norms that lawyers and adjudicators across national legal cultures agree on and develop together.

The past two decades have seen renewed scholarly and popular interest in the law and morality of war.

The past two decades have seen renewed scholarly and popular interest in the law and morality of war.

Advocacy has become a key part of public health degree programs across the country.

Advocacy has become a key part of public health degree programs across the country.

A comprehensive, engaging, and revisionist account of the Court fight that ties it to contemporary policy debates.