A great deal has been written about the decarceration movement which involves the transfer of mental patients from the mental hospital to the community.
The book examines how the growth of public finance law within the European Union has both influenced and continued to impact the structure of national-level public administration in EU Member States.
Citizenship has come to mean legal and political equality within a sovereign nation-state; in international law, only states may determine who is and who is not a citizen.
This book explicates the morality of human rights and elaborates three internationally recognized human rights that are entrenched in US constitutional law.
Mit dem Königreich Westphalen (1807-1813) wurde in Deutschland erstmals ein moderner Verfassungsstaat aufgebaut, der die Rechte des Monarchen und der Stände gesetzlich verankerte.
Why it's time to enshrine the right to vote in the ConstitutionThroughout history, too many Americans have been disenfranchised or faced needless barriers to voting.
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.
In an epoch of transnational armed conflict, global environmental harm, and rising inequality, the extraterritorial application of human rights law has become a pressing and controversial legal issue.
This book includes focal and vital cases tried by presiding justices, guiding cases from the Supreme People's Court, and cases discussed at the Joint Meetings of Presiding Judges from various tribunals.
Alexander Hamilton is commonly seen as the standard-bearer of an ideology-turned-political party, the Federalists, engaged in a struggle for the soul of the young United States against the Anti-Federalists, and later, the Jeffersonian Republicans.
Offering a more accessible alternative to casebooks and historical commentaries, Law Among Nations explains issues of international law by tracing the field's development and stressing key principles, processes, and landmark cases.
The Changing Terrain of Religious Freedom offers theoretical, historical, and legal perspectives on religious freedom, while examining its meaning as an experience, value, and right.
In countries such as Syria, Iraq, South Sudan, and Yemen, internationally recognized governments embroiled in protracted armed conflicts, and with very little control over their territory, have requested direct military assistance from other states.
Ronald Dworkin famously argued that fidelity in interpreting the Constitution as written calls for a fusion of constitutional law and moral philosophy.
Die Edition "Ius Publicum Europaeum" behandelt das Verfassungsrecht nebst Verfassungsprozessrecht und das Verwaltungsrecht im Lichte des gemeinsamen europäischen Rechtsraums.
This book on the politics of electoral reform in Central Europe since 1989 explains by whom, why, and how the electoral rules were changed in Central Europe in the post-Communist period.
This book gives a comprehensive overview of the state of Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially machine learning (ML) applications in public service delivery in Estonia, discussing the manifold ethical and legal issues that arise under both European and Estonian law.
An essential primer on impeachment for today's divided public squareWe are witnessing an unprecedented moment in American politics in which impeachments are increasingly common.
Nie mehr Missverständnisse zwischen Juristen und ArchitektenDie Mischung aus baurechtlichen und bautechnischen Begriffen in den Rechtsvorschriften führt in der Praxis immer wieder zu Unklarheiten bei den Rechtsanwendern.