Jurisprudence and general issues

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Capital punishment is one of the more controversial subjects in the social sciences, especially in criminal justice and criminology.

If you're involved in drafting or amending legislation in the Commonwealth or beyond, you need a guide that will help you with both the traditional and modern techniques of drafting good quality statutory law.

This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data-processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine.

Constitutional and administrative law govern the affairs of the state.

A comprehensive and in-depth analysis of how courts in the countries of Commonwealth Africa decide claims under private international law.

This book organizes the intent and purpose of the Japanese competition law (Antimonopoly Act) to address the digitalized socio-economy and provides a detailed explanation of its basic content as well as advanced issues.

This book examines the issues of urban governance and local democracy in South India.

The terrorist attacks occurred in the United States on 11 September 2001 have profoundly altered and reshaped the priorities of criminal justice systems around the world.

This book draws on interviews and primary sources to argue that the protection of judicial independence is a political achievement.

Set in different national contexts (Brazil, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Laos, Norway, Thailand) and in different social science disciplines, the chapters of this volume aim at questioning anti-trafficking policies and their practical impact on sex work regulation.

Uses economic and reflexive governance theories to demonstrate how EC law achieves the necessary balance between integration and regulatory diversity.

An essential, in-depth analysis of the key legal issues that governments face when adopting cloud computing services.

In a contemporary setting of increasing social division and marginalisation, Policing Hate Crime interrogates the complexities of prejudice motivated crime and effective policing practices.

"Las Lecciones mexicanas de Derecho Procesal, impartidas por el profesor Michele Taruffo en México (2002 y 2009), están plagadas, sin duda alguna, de sugerencias, de caminos simplemente apuntados, de vías de profundización, en los que se resalta contundentemente la importancia de la justicia como guía para resolver controversias, rechazando con ello una concepción del proceso meramente formal.

This book examines Islam and women's everyday life, focusing in particular on the highly controversial issue of polygamy.

A must-read for students involved in mooting, this new edition of Jeffrey Hill's textbook has been fully updated and revised, and provides students with clear and compelling advice on every aspect of mooting.

International developments within the last twenty years have demonstrated controversial shifts in treatment for people with mental illnesses and the care of persons with intellectual disabilities.

This book demonstrates creative ways law can regulate corporate social responsibility and address governance challenges in national and transnational contexts.

Adopts an interdisciplinary approach to study ''expert ignorance'', or the power of experts who continually admit the limits of their knowledge.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Often photographed in a cowboy hat with her middle finger held defiantly in the air, Florynce "e;Flo"e; Kennedy (1916-2000) left a vibrant legacy as a leader of the Black Power and feminist movements.

This study looks at environmental problems from the perspective of the victims.

This collection of essays examines the multi-faceted roles of experts and expertise in and around contemporary legal and regulatory cultures.

In the wake of Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary renditions, and secret torture centres in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, Revenge versus Legality addresses the relationship between law and wild or vigilante justice; between the power to enforce retribution and the desire to seek revenge.

Through a landmark court case in mid-nineteenth-century colonial India, this book investigates hierarchy and racial difference.

Considers whether and how constitutions have affirmed women''s equal citizenship status, from the birth of constitutionalism to the present.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg believed that the equal rights of women belonged in the Constitution.

Over the last decade, the U.

The proportionality test, as proposed in Robert Alexy's principles theory, is becoming commonplace in comparative constitutional studies.

It is generally accepted in legal and bioethical discourse that the patient has a right to self-determination.

In recent years, few federal requirements have been as controversial as the mandate for what critics call 'bilingual ballots'.

The aim of this book is to assess the moral permissibility of corporal punishment and to enquire into whether or not it ought to be legally prohibited.

This book analyzes the impact of the U.

Cultural genocide is the systematic destruction of traditions, values, language, and other elements that make one group of people distinct from another.

This book examines the presence of ethnic, religious, political, and ideational pluralities in Southeast Asian societies and how their respective constitutions respond to these pluralities.

A multidisciplinary empirical study of how juvenile justice standards were operationalised by the state and UNICEF in post-genocide Rwanda.

This book offers an answer to the question: who ought to do what, and for whom, if global justice is to progress?

This book aims to investigate whether, and if so, how, an institution designed to bring to justice perpetrators of the most heinous crimes can be regarded a tool of oppression in a (neo-)colonial sense.

Die Hoffnungen und Erwartungen der Politik in den elektronischen Rechtsverkehr und die elektronische Akte sind sehr hoch.

Providing an in-depth interrogation of the practitioner/academic role within the context of criminal justice, this book outlines the benefits and challenges of different roles through exploring the lived experience of the contributing authors.

Explains the adoption, diffusion of, and resistance to gender quotas in politics, corporate boards and public administration across Europe.

This book provides a critical overview of the policy frameworks underpinning the contemporary practices of non-conviction information disclosure during pre-employment 'screening'.

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

This volume, originally published in 1925, outlines the historical development of the Muslim law of inheritance in pre-Islamic Law.