Constitutional and administrative law: general

Using post-colonial Hong Kong as a case study, this book examines why and how legal mobilization arises in authoritarian regimes.

This book shines a spotlight on the way in which parliamentary scrutiny of regulations provides the primary support for democratic legitimacy for regulations in the UK and Australia.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the law and procedure of the European Court of Human Rights.

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In Queers in Court, Susan Gluck Mezey examines the contemporary battle for gay and lesbian rights in the United States, tracing the evolution of issues from same sex marriage and privacy rights to military service and employment discrimination.

The so-called Quistclose trust probably represents the single most important application of equitable principles in commercial life.

The legacy of Jean Chretien, Canadian prime minister from 1993-2003, is difficult to assess in the context of the sponsorship scandal and the subsequent cloud of uncertainty surrounding the Liberal Party's electoral prospects.

American Spies is an entertaining, accessible, and sophisticated exposition of the existing laws and technologies that enable massive modern surveillance.

Covering 17 Asian jurisdictions representing differing stages in the development of data protection regulatory systems this book offers an in-depth, cross-jurisdictional commentary on the developing world of Asian privacy and personal data protection, with a special focus on private international law issues.

This book brings together researchers from the fields of international human rights law, EU law and constitutional law to reflect on the tug-of-war over the positioning of the centre of gravity of human rights protection in Europe.

This study of exemplary writings from the debates over the ratification of the 1787 Constitution deals with the American constitutional founders' understandings of citizenship and civic virtue.

In this book top scholars analyse the historic and contemporary influence of Magna Carta, challenging its common myths.

This book is a contemporary, comprehensive, and accessible text on the use of force and international law suitable for a range of audiences.

This important new book penetrates that veil of secrecy with thirteen interviews tape recorded in the chambers of the respective judges.

This feminist critique of just war reasoning argues for an expansion of responsibility for harms inflicted on civilians in war.

Law often purports to require people, including government officials, to act in ways they think are morally wrong or harmful.

This book explicates the morality of human rights and elaborates three internationally recognized human rights that are entrenched in US constitutional law.

Das Buch vermittelt praxisbezogen die grundlegenden Prinzipien, Methoden und den Ablauf der erfolgreichen Mediation.

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In 2014, Conrad Roy committed suicide following encouragement from his long-distance girlfriend, Michelle Carter, in what has become known as the Texting Suicide case.

Designed to succeed previous books on the Maastricht and Amsterdam treaties,this new work includes contributions from leading EU lawyers assessing the Nice Treaty and the Post-Nice process, which is rapidly developing in the lead-up to the next Intergovernmental conference.

As a critical analysis of the law-making process, this book has no equal.

This work deals with the temporal effect of judicial decisions and more specifically, with the hardship caused by the retroactive operation of overruling decisions.

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of factors that transform a prima facie non-international armed conflict (NIAC) into an international armed conflict (IAC) and the consequences that follow from this process of internationalization.

This book presents an in-depth exploration of the intricate negotiations of married Muslim women within Cape Town's Muslim communities, navigating the complexities of legal pluralism governed by Muslim Personal Law (MPL).

Despite repeated declarations of 'never again' in response to the commission of atrocities, civilians have continued to be targeted by their leaders and opposition groups.

This Commentary provides an article-by-article summary of the TEU, the TFEU, and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, offering a quick reference to the provisions of the Treaties and how they are interpreted and applied in practice.

A basic feature of the modern US administrative state taken for granted by legal scholars but neglected by political scientists and historians is its strong judiciality.

Commissions of inquiry are a vital and ubiquitous part of the Canadian policy landscape.

This book discusses the extent to which the UK Human Rights Act successfully balances protection of rights and democracy.

This book, which originated from the broadly held view that there is a lack of Rule-of-law in Mexico, and from the emphasis of traditional academia on cultural elements as the main explanation, explores the question of whether there is any relationship between the system of constitutional review - and thus the 'law' as such - and the level of Rule-of-law in a given state.

An examination of how the constitutional frameworks for autonomies around the world really work.

How secular are the political and legal concepts that underpin liberal democracy?

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This book examines the socio-economic rights challenges of refugees and asylum seekers in Africa.

Europe is currently experiencing a "e;refugee crisis"e;, demonstrated by millions of displaced people unseen since World War II.

The law relating to freedom of speech has grown faster than any other area of employment law over the past decade.

This book asks: what are extreme television media, and are they actually bad for American politics?

The first comprehensive study of the human rights of hostages.

In this book Dimitrios Kyritsis advances an original account of constitutional review of primary legislation for its compatibility with human rights.

While many recent observers have accused American judges-especially Supreme Court justices-of being too driven by politics and ideology, others have argued that judges are justified in using their positions to advance personal views.

Francis Gurry's renowned work, Breach of Confidence, published in 1984, was groundbreaking and invaluable in the field of intellectual property as the first text to synthesise the then burgeoning case law on breach of confidence into a systematic form.

Politicians outdo each other with tough measures to deal with asylum seekers and illegal immigrants.