Jurisprudence and general issues

Can the Australian state be restructured to empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and ensure that their distinct voices are heard in the processes of government?

Labour law is widely considered to be in crisis by scholars of the field.

What the presence of law tells us about our beliefs, our language, and the world around usIn a strikingly original work intended not only for practicing lawyers but for anyone interested in the modern dilemma of the loss of meaning, Joseph Vining invites us to reconsider law as a unique form of thought, inseparably connected to everything in the world that makes up human identity.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the law surrounding PPPs in the Middle East and North African region.

Understanding and Reducing Prison Violence considers both the individual and prison characteristics associated with violence perpetration and violent victimization among both prison inmates and staff.

Jessie Blackbourn is a research fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford, UK.

For decades, the question of judicial review's status in a democratic political system has been adjudicated through the framework of what Alexander Bickel labeled "e;the counter-majoritarian difficulty.

The rapidly increasing number of different ignitable liquid formulations available today poses a new challenge to fire debris analysts and other forensic chemistry specialists - that of accurately identifying and classifying ignitable liquids with unfamiliar chromatographic patterns.

Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice defines "e;international law"e; to include not only "e;custom"e; and "e;convention"e; between States but also "e;the general principles of law recognized by civilized nations"e; within their municipal legal systems.

This book explores the current state of society in Europe in general and the regimes and societies of the Western Balkans in particular.

Why this report, why now?

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of personal participation in criminal proceedings and in absentia trials.

The distinction between male and female, or masculinity and femininity, has long been considered to be foundational to society and the organization of its institutions.

Explains why lawyers seeking gender progress from primary legal materials should start with the common law.

This handbook advances the interdisciplinary field of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) by identifying thirty-five topics of ongoing research.

This volume brings together in a single source a set of perspectives by leaders in the clinical treatment of criminal offenders in outpatient settings, particularly those whose crimes have involved domestic violence and/or substance abuse.

Formulation of Appropriate Laws: A New Multidisciplinary Modelling Approach and an Application to Electronic Funds Transfer Regulation.

Young offenders given custodial sentences in youth institutions constitute an important group in the context of crime prevention research, given that offenders within this group are at high risk of reoffending or continuing with a criminal career into adulthood.

The law is a well-known tool in fighting gender inequality, but which laws actually advance women's rights?

Dans cet ouvrage 100 concepts de nature juridique sont traités de manière transversale et pluridisciplinaire afin de donner au lecteur des éléments de culture juridique et judiciaire.

This book examines the UK's response to terrorist communication.

This collection of essays honours Rosemary Auchmuty, Professor of Law at the University of Reading, UK.

Drawing upon socio-legal research, this insightful book considers labour migration within the context of ('eastward') European Union enlargement.

This book examines the possibility of creating new ways of existing beyond human rights.

Zunehmend werden Juristen mit betriebswirtschaftlichen Fragestellungen konfrontiert und müssen über das entsprechende Fachwissen verfügen.

One of the hallmark features of the post-civil rights United States is the reign of colorblindness over national conversations about race and law.

The book discusses discrimination based on sexual orientation in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Constitutional Court of Korea.

Despite clear evidence of a serious decline in morale, the major competitors in the law firm management marketplace have virtually ignored the motivational facet of current managerial theory and practice.

Drawing on research conducted at 17 Catholic universities in the United States, making it the largest study of its kind, this volume explores effective practice in improving institutional policy relating to issues of sexuality.

Territorial autonomy in Spain has reached a crossroads.

This book employs actor-network theory in order to examine how representations of crime are produced for contemporary prime-time television dramas.

Information requirements have become a key element of consumer policy at the European level and are also gaining increasing importance in all other areas of private law.

Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London explores a largely obscured marketplace of motherhood that provided ways for women to manage the stigma of illegitimacy and their respectable identities within Victorian and Edwardian society.

This book provides a review of central contributions from a variety of countries, and is intended to enhance and expand the national professional dialogue on curricula in nursing and midwifery education.

Kirk Ludwig develops a novel reductive account of plural discourse about collective action and shared intention.

Institué pour garantir l’État de droit, le juge constitutionnel d’Afrique subsaharienne ne cesse de faire évoluer son office.

This collection of essays presents Jeffrie G.

A Southern Criminology of Violence, Youth and Policing examines public experiences of insecurity and the social impacts of security programmes that aim to address violence in Brazil.

Explores the possibilities of constitutionalism from diverse theoretical and comparative perspectives, particularly those from outside liberal and Anglo-European paradigms.

This volume examines the relationship between law and sacrifice as a crucial nexus for theorizing the dynamics of creation, destruction, transcendence, and violence within the philosophical and legal discourse of western society.