Constitutional and administrative law: general

As the second chamber of the Westminster parliament, the House of Lords has a central position in British politics.

This book examines the countervailing arguments in the religious exemption debate and explains why this issue continues to be so heated and controversial in modern-day America.

This book contributes to and broadens the field of Border Criminology, by bringing together a collection of chapters from leading scholars engaged in cross-national and comparative conversations on bordered penality and crimmigration practices, with a specific focus on research conducted in places that may be considered peripheral and semi-peripheral jurisdictions.

Evaluates and reconsiders how the human rights of vulnerable migrants are protected through Europe''s supranational courts.

Altruistische Klagerechte stellen eine Besonderheit in dem vom Grundsatz des subjektiven Rechtsschutzes beherrschten Verwaltungsprozess dar.

American constitutionalism rests on premises of popular sovereignty, but serious questions remain about how the "e;people"e; and their rights and powers fit into the constitutional design.

Good faith is already a familiar concept in international commercial law and a recognised principle of substantive law in several major legal systems.

This book investigates Turkey's departure from a 'flawed democracy' under Kemalist secularism, and its transitioning into Islamist authoritarian Erdoganism, through the lenses of informal law, legal pluralism, and legal hybridity.

Kommunalpolitik zum Anfassen …… so lautet das Motto dieses Leitfadens für politisch interessierte Jugendliche und Heranwachsende.

This important new book provides a framework for complementarity between promoting and protecting human rights and combating corruption.

The book systematically analyses the relationship and interaction between rules of engagement (ROE) and the legal framework regulating armed conflicts, both at the international and national levels.

International law is increasingly applied in domestic courts.

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2013 American Educational Research Associations (AERA) Moral Development and Education Outstanding Book AwardIn Character Compass, Scott Seider offers portraits of three high-performing urban schools in Boston, Massachusetts that have made character development central to their mission of supporting student success, yet define character in three very different ways.

A memoir from one of the country’s top civil rights lawyers—from his work with Dr.

Recent political science research into the American legal academy has been 'captured by conservatism'-this research has framed the institutional and ideological developments occurring within the law schools over the past forty years solely through the prism of modern conservatism.

Protecting the Social Service Client: Legal and Structural Controls on Official Discretion examines the treatment of clients of public and private social service agencies and highlights the role of consumer protection in dealing with the existence and abuse of administrative discretion.

Elections in America provides a thorough and objective explanation of American elections at the local, state, and national levels.

Explores the politics of raising revenue from the most dynamic sectors of an economy as an expression of the relationship between state and society, and the capacity of state institutions.

In der Schweiz gibt es in 19 Kantonen eine monopolistische, öffentlich-rechtliche Gebäudeversicherung mit einer obligatorischen Pflichtversicherung für Gebäudeeigentümer.

This book presents an analysis of the concept of the administrative act and its classification as 'foreign', and studies the administrative procedure for adopting administrative acts in a range of countries in and outside Europe.

Justice Antonin Scalia (1936-2016) was the single most important figure in the emergence of the "e;new originalist"e; interpretation of the US Constitution, which sought to anchor the court's interpretation of the Constitution to the ordinary meaning of the words at the time of drafting.

Paul Daly develops a theory concerning the appropriate allocation of authority between courts and administrative bodies.

Contemporary political and legal theory typically justifies the value of political and legal institutions on the grounds that such institutions bring about desirable outcomes - such as justice, security, and prosperity.

The growth in administrative law has to a large extent mirrored the increase in the level of state involvement in many aspects of everyday life during the twentieth century, generating the need for a coherent and effective body of rules to govern relations between individuals and the state.

The criminalization of migration is heavily patterned by race.

How to repair the dysfunction at the Supreme Court in a way that cuts across partisan ideologies The Supreme Court, once the most respected institution in American government, is now routinely criticized for rendering decisions based on the individual justices' partisan leanings rather than on a faithful reading of the law.

In Lawless, George Mason University law professor David E.

Drawing from multiple scholarly fields, Kenyon examines free speech''s positive dimensions of enablement and how they can be pursued.

Über das Internet vertriebene "Zweitlotterien" privater Anbieter ohne deutsche Erlaubnis ermöglichen das Wetten auf große nationale und internationale Lotterien ohne an diesen selbst teilzunehmen – und bedrohen die Milliardenerträge, die der Staat hierzulande durch sein weitgehendes Lotteriemonopol generiert.

The remarkable story of the innovative legal strategies Native Americans have used to protect their religious rightsFrom North Dakota's Standing Rock encampments to Arizona's San Francisco Peaks, Native Americans have repeatedly asserted legal rights to religious freedom to protect their sacred places, practices, objects, knowledge, and ancestral remains.

Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning are key figures in the struggles playing out in our democracies over internet use, state secrets, and mass surveillance in the age of terror.

The Routledge Handbook of Language Policy and Planning is a comprehensive and authoritative survey, including original contributions from leading senior scholars and rising stars to provide a basis for future research in language policy and planning in international, national, regional, and local contexts.

A practical guide for legal practitioners to the Civil Partnership Act for same-sex couples.

Despite over two hundred years of experience with constitutional government, much remains unclear about the power of the political branches to curtail or re-define the judicial power of the United States.

Fighting for Virtue investigates how Thailand's judges were tasked by the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) in 2006 with helping to solve the country's intractable political problems-and what happened next.

This book investigates the limits of the legitimate role of the state in regulating the human body.

Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia provides an authoritative account of the contract law regimes of selected Asian jurisdictions, including the major centres of commerce where limited critical commentaries have been published in the English language.

Bei der Asylentscheidung sieht sich der Rechtsanwender mit der Aufgabe der Feststellung von gesellschaftlichen und politischen Umständen im Ausland konfrontiert.