Jurisprudence and general issues

The nature of sweating and the origins of low pay legislation are of fundamental social, economic and moral importance.

This book critically analyses the role of theUnited Arab Emirates Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) in the SuspiciousActivities Reports regime.

The Most Dangerous Branch shows that the Supreme Court has done exactly this in dealing with abortion, assisted suicide, homosexuality, and Quebec secession through decisions that were guided not by reasoned understanding of the principles of law but by the values of judges - values they, as unelected representatives of the Canadian state, had no right to impose.

From the 1930s to the early 1960s civil rights law was made primarily through constitutional litigation.

Building Justice draws on the inspiring life of former Canadian Supreme Court Justice Frank Iacobucci to offer insight into the meaning of engaged citizenship through law.

Beginning in the late eighteenth century, British rule transformed the relationship between law, society, and the state in South Asia.

This book provides a leading point of reference in the field of partial defences to murder and with respect to the mental condition defences of loss of control and diminished responsibility in general.

This book collects the latest research by leading Bentham scholars and challenges the dominant understandings of Bentham in legal and political philosophy.

Terrorism, Law and Policy: A Comparative Study is a textbook offering a comparative study of the terrorism-related legislation, policy and practice introduced from international governmental bodies such as the UN and the European Union, and individual states, with a focus on Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the US.

In this penetrating book, Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado use historical investigation and critical analysis to diagnose the cause of the pervasive unhappiness among practicing lawyers.

A Financial Times Book to Read in 2022Operation Car Wash is the inside story of two Brazilian Federal Police officers who found themselves at the centre of the biggest corruption scandal in history; uncovering a web of political and corporate racketeering which would lead them all the way to the arrest and imprisonment of the nation's President.

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This book sheds new light on early twentieth-century secularism by examining campaigns to challenge dominant Christian approaches to the teaching of morality and citizenship in English schools, and to offer superior alternatives.

This title was first published in 2000.

This book provides an analysis of the European policy approach to combined heat and power (CHP), a highly efficient technology used by all EU Member States for the needs of generating electricity and heat.

Die Fallsammlung richtet sich an Studierende, die sich mit den gesetzlichen Schuldverhältnissen beschäftigen - sowohl an Anfänger als auch an Fortgeschrittene und Examenskandidaten.

Honouring Social Justice brings together a diverse group of leading legal scholars, criminologists, and sociologists to study numerous contemporary social justice issues.

In this memoir by the former attorney general and senator, "e;Ashcroft tells his own story [and] reflects on the lessons he learned"e; (Publishers Weekly).

A thorough examination of Pashukanis' writings, this book is a significant contribution to a proper assessment of Pashukanis' work, the value of his theoretical legacy and the contemporary relevance of Marxist legal theory.

This book explores the recent trend of enhancing the role of the people in constitutional change.

'Inquisitorial processes' refers to the inquiry powers of administrative governance and this book examines the use of these powers in administrative law across seven jurisdictions.

Takes an in-depth look into the war victim''s right to reparation from the seventeenth century until the present day.

Shortlisted for the 2024 Wildlife Society's Publication Awards First Honorable Mention for the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award U.

Drawing on empirical work and secondary analysis from the UK and Finnish construction industries, this book contributes a deep-rooted analysis of construction industry harms that originate from corporate-industrialstate processes.

Wild Life documents a nuanced understanding of the wild versus captive divide in species conservation.

This book offers new readings of Kant's "e;universal law"e; and "e;humanity"e; formulations of the categorical imperative.

In 1907, William Jennings Bryan described the proposed constitution for Oklahoma as "e;The best constitution in the United States today.

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Originally published in 1984, Literature and Law in the Middle Ages is a comprehensive bibliography on the subject of literature and law in the Middle Ages.

Latin American Constitutions provides a comprehensive historical study of constitutionalism in Latin America from the independence period to the present.

The Max Planck Handbooks in European Public Law series describes and analyses the public law of the European legal space, an area that encompasses not only the law of the European Union but also the European Convention on Human Rights and, importantly, the domestic public laws of European states.

L’actualité montre que la France n’est pas encore sortie d’une histoire faite de blocages et d’affrontements entre la population et un pouvoir central qui se voudrait dominateur, quel que soit le régime.

This book explores, through a children's rights-based perspective, the emergence of a safeguarding dystopia in child online protection that has emerged from a tension between an over-reliance in technical solutions and a lack of understanding around code and algorithm capabilities.

Introduces the concept of ''IP accidents'' to establish a new way to look at intellectual property law and its enforcement.

This exciting new textbook introduces students to the key aspects of the law and legal frameworks essential for social work practice in Australia.

Indonesia's criminal law system faces major challenges.

In this follow-up volume to the critically acclaimed The Constitutional State, N.

There has been a widespread resurgence of rights talk in social and legal discourses pertaining to the regulation of family life, as well as an increase in the use of rights in family law cases, in the UK, the US, Canada and Australia.

Vor dem Hintergrund der Mehrdeutigkeit des Nachhaltigkeitsbegriffs untersucht diese Monografie dessen Konzipierung und Justiziabilität rechtsvergleichend im deutschen und griechischen Recht und veranschaulicht Rationalitätskonzepte und Rationalitätspotenziale des Nachhaltigkeitsgebots.

Cultural and religious identity and family law are inter-related in a number of ways and raise various complex issues.

Although the adoption of market reforms has been a key factor leading to China's recent economic growth, China continues to be governed by a communist party and has a socialist-influenced legal system.

This book introduces law in the context of international business.

This volume sheds light on how lawyers have made sense of, engaged in, and shaped international politics over the past three hundred years.