During the 2016 presidential campaign millions of voters, concerned about the economic impact of illegal immigration, rallied behind the notion of a border wall between the United States and Mexico.
FIRST PRIZE WINNER OF THE SLS BIRKS PRIZE FOR OUTSTANDING LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP 2011How are we to assess and evaluate the quality of the tribunal systems that do the day-to-day work of adjudicating upon the disputes individuals have with government?
This title undertakes an impartial, authoritative, and in-depth examination of the moral arguments and ideas behind the laws and policies that govern personal, corporate, and government behavior in the United States.
This title undertakes an impartial, authoritative, and in-depth examination of the moral arguments and ideas behind the laws and policies that govern personal, corporate, and government behavior in the United States.
The essays which appear in this volume have been written to pay tribute to the Hon Mr Justice Nial Fennelly, judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland and former Advocate General at the European Court of Justice, on the occasion of his retirement.
The relationship between culture and the law has become an emergent concern within contemporary Cultural Studies as a field, but the recent focus has been largely limited to the role played by cultural representations and identity politics in the legitimation of legal discourse and policies.
The concept of convention has been used in different fields and from different perspectives to account for important social phenomena, and the legal sphere is no exception.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.
En esta obra colectiva se destaca el papel de los pueblos indígenas en favor de la conservación y protección del territorio amazónico como un elemento vital de sus prácticas, conocimientos y saberes ancestrales, los cuales constituyen una fuente única de aprendizaje para "deconstruir" el paradigma de desarrollo económico que, históricamente, se fundamenta en las prácticas del modelo extractivista y agroindustrial a gran escala en cada uno de los países amazónicos, tanto en Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Perú, Surinam como en Venezuela.
Die strafrechtliche Verantwortlichkeit für die Wahrung der Verkehrssicherungspflichten in Unternehmen zielt darauf ab, dass Gefahren für Rechtsgüter Dritter oder der Umwelt, die durch den Betrieb eines Unternehmens, durch ausgelieferte Produkte oder durch Handlungen von Unternehmensangehörigen entstehen können, abgewendet werden.
A través de esta breve monografía se busca ofrecer un texto divulgativo para que lectores no necesariamente especialistas en Derecho puedan tener una visión clara, general y sintética del papel que le corresponde al Tribunal Constitucional como intérprete supremo de la Constitución.
Negligence Without Fault: Trends Toward an Enterprise Liability for Insurable Loss offers a profound exploration of the evolving landscape of liability law, focusing on the emerging concept of enterprise liability.
Aoife O''Donoghue explains why normative constitutionalism must underpin the global constitutionalisation debate if it is to realise its critical potential.
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?
Understand the complexities of EU law and its implications on UK lawLaw of the European Union, 13th Edition, by Morano-Foadi and Neller is a comprehensive and visually appealing coverage of the structure, law and practice of the European Union and its impact on UK law.
Als Schnittstelle zwischen dem Verfassungsrecht und dem Strafrecht beleuchtet das Werk die Rahmenbedingungen der non-conviction-based confiscation im deutschen Recht.
Well-selected and authoritative, Hart Core Statutes provide the key materials needed by students in a format that is clear, compact and very easy to use.
Most recent discussion of the United States Constitution and war-both the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq-has been dominated by two diametrically opposed views: the alarmism of those who see many current policies as portending gross restrictions on American civil liberties, and the complacency of those who see these same policies as entirely reasonable accommodations to the new realities of national security.
This book presents interdisciplinary and comparative analyses of judicial independence in transitional democracies across Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Coronial Law is an area that attracts great public scrutiny, reflected in the recent establishment of the office of the Chief Coroner, and the number of Judges of the High Court and the Court of Appeal made deputy assistant coroners to particularly sensitive inquests.
Asylum, Welfare and the Cosmopolitan Ideal: A Sociology of Rights puts forward the argument that rights must be understood as part of a social process: a terrain for strategies of inclusion and exclusion but also of contestation and negotiation.
The book shares the results of project research granted by the Castilla-La Mancha government, which has been composed by philosophers of law and criminal law researchers, whose main conclusions are represented by the manifestations and trends of the current crisis of the constitutional State.