Jurisprudence and general issues

Explores the effect of justice measures on ''regime consolidation'' in a post-transition context.

Scholars from many disciplines discuss the crucial roles played by narrative and metaphor in the theory and practice of law.

Looks at the early development of the federal income tax in the United States.

Marking the Sesquicentennial of Confederation in Canada, this book examines the growing global influence of Canada''s Constitution and Supreme Court on courts confronting issues involving human rights.

Leading Anglo-American scholars assess the significance of the fusion of law and equity from comparative, doctrinal, historical and theoretical perspectives.

Tells the story of a sensational 1791 Virginia murder case, and explores Revolutionary America''s debates over justice, criminal punishment, and equality before the law.

Explores judicial independence, integrity and impartiality in Asia-Pacific countries.

Offers new understandings of the famous foxhunting case, Pierson v.

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

Evaluates the challenges and changes that the Belt and Road Initiative brings to China in international law and governance.

The book explores the role and importance of reason and emotion in justice and the law.

Develops a new account of historical injustice and redress, demonstrating why a consideration of history is crucial for gender equality.

This book investigates how some corporations have avoided tax liability with intellectual property holding companies, and how different constituencies are working to stop them.

This book takes an original and comparative approach to issues of causation in tort law across many European legal systems.

Identifies and explains the constitutional problems triggered by the government''s speech, and proposes a new framework for thinking about them.

Will help its audience gain an understanding of the dimensions to contemporary constitutions, and their role in the interpretation, legitimacy and stability of different constitutional systems.

Presents comprehensively the currently un-mapped constellation of issues related to climate change, public health, and the law.

Examines clashes over religious liberty spanning the life cycle of families - from birth to death.

How do immigration and refugee laws work ''in action'' in Russia?

Examines and compares East Asian and European perspectives of Global Constitutionalism.

The first in-depth study to integrate the study of legal language with analysis of multimodal communication.

This book applies and explores Catholic social thought, focusing on the relevance of the encyclical Laudato Si'' in an era of climate crises.

Engages with the life and work of Larry Alexander to explore puzzles and paradoxes in legal and moral theory.

Examines how law regulates religion and explores the influence of world religions on the legal systems in Asia.

Evaluates the successes and failures of the 1996 South African Constitution following the twentieth anniversary of its enactment.

Malcolm Feeley''s classic scholarship on courts, criminal justice, legal reform, and the legal complex, examined by law and society scholars.

This book examines an unexplored method of interpretation: the use of domestic law in the interpretation of international law.

Tells the tragic story of Puerto Ricans who sought the post-Civil War regime of citizenship, rights, and statehood but instead received racist imperial governance.

A theory of religious freedom for the modern era that uses natural law from ancient Greek, Jewish, Christian and Islamic sources.

Draws on archival research to tell the story of the nineteenth and twentieth-century development of commercial law through practice.

Offers a more complex and nuanced understanding of the Russian justice system than stereotypes and preconceptions lead us to believe.

Challenges the myths of common law''s superiority over statute law using newly available historical sources and a comparative law analysis.

Looks at international negotiation from a novel, relational international law perspective and challenges prescriptive models.

Who Judges?

A comparative, systematic and critical analysis of constitutional courts and constitutional review in Asia.

Follows the activist campaign that contested the Botswana government''s removal of indigenous peoples from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.

With newly uncovered personal papers, this volume offers in-depth analysis of Wesley Hohfeld''s pioneering contributions to legal theory.

These specially commissioned essays by prominent lawyers and philosophers analyse a range of approaches to legal authority beyond the state.

A contextualized and critical reading of the origin and evolution of China''s rural land takings law.

Explores how courts vary the depth of scrutiny in judicial review and the virtues of different approaches.

A new understanding of the transformative effect of vernacular writing on customary law in medieval France.

This is the first book on the theory and practice of proportionality in Latin American constitutional law.

This book explores the comparative evolution and varying approaches of the European, Inter-American and African human rights systems.

A concise and readable guide to reasoning about the source and content of contractual obligations when disagreements arise.

Develops a framework to explain shifts in judicial assertiveness towards militaries, using Pakistan as an illuminating case study.

Studies the largest foreign bribery case in history to identify the drivers, impact and dilemmas of resolute anti-corruption efforts.

This book bridges the gaps between ethnoecological, legal frameworks, political systems, and global ideologies to create a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and opportunities surrounding environmental sustainability.

This book bridges the gaps between ethnoecological, legal frameworks, political systems, and global ideologies to create a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and opportunities surrounding environmental sustainability.

This book casts an analytical eye on the legal dynamics of mediation premised on a multidisciplinary approach.