This book helps candidates preparing for SQE1 to revise the constitutional theories and their workings in the UK, including legitimacy, the rule of law and the separation of powers.
An unprecedented look at the evolution of American police, from filling their intended role as peacekeepers and guardians of citizen rights to calling themselves-and acting primarily as-"e;law enforcement officers.
On the Right of Exclusion: Law, Ethics and Immigration Policy addresses the current immigration laws and practices of Western states, and argues that if states cannot substantially justify the exclusion of an alien, the latter should be admitted.
En el interior de una democracia constitucional se viven fricciones que son resultado de la convergencia entre diversos ideales políticos (la soberanía popular o el ideal de un poder limitado para evitar la arbitrariedad), así como de la pluralidad ideológica propia de las sociedades modernas.
Bentham on Liberty focuses on the crucial formative years, when the English social philosopher Jeremy Bentham was in his twenties and thirties between 1770 and 1790, and draws on the unpublished manuscripts held at University College, London, to throw a new light on his early intellectual development.
In Medieval Poor Law: A Sketch of Canonical Theory and Its Application in England, Brian Tierney provides an insightful and groundbreaking exploration of the Church's pivotal role in the development of social services during the Middle Ages.
This book uses the Canadian cannabis legalization experiment, analyzed in the historical context of wider drug criminalization in Canada and placed in an international perspective, to examine important lessons about the differential implementation of federal law in jurisdictions within federalist constitutional democracies.
Canadian news reports are riddled with accounts of Access to Information requests denied and government reports released with large swaths of content redacted.
Das Handbuch bietet dem Praktiker für seine tägliche Arbeit ein umfassendes und fundiertes Werk zu den Konkurrenzen rund um das Beamtenverhältnis, Richteramt sowie das Soldatenrecht.
After fleeing homophobia and threats to her life in her native El Salvador, 'Carla' was detained for two years inside the Buffalo Federal Detention Center.
Andrew Petter is a leading constitutional scholar who served from 1991 to 2001 as a British Columbia MLA and cabinet minister, including Attorney General.
The use of referendums around the world has grown remarkably in the past thirty years and, in particular, referendums are today deployed more than ever in the settlement of constitutional questions, even in countries with little or no tradition of direct democracy.
This book will discuss the legal tools offered by international law that can support foreign direct investment (FDI) in the renewable energy sector in the Global South.
This new addition to Hart's acclaimed Landmark Cases series is a diverse and engaging edited collection bringing together eminent commentators from the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, to analyse cases of enduring significance to privacy law.
First published in 1980, Copyright offers an explanation and an analysis of the wider implications of copyright as an instrument for ordering the flows of information and culture within and among societies.
How most presidents avoid upsetting the racial status quoand why those who do pave the way for lawless, norm-violating successorsWhen Barack Obama won the White House in 2008, becoming the nation's first Black president, the stage was set for Donald Trump's eventual rise to power.
Social Identity and the Law: Race, Sexuality and Intersectionality is an important resource for inquiry into the relationship between law and social identity in the contexts of race, sexuality and intersectionality in the United States.
Un debate sobre principios constitucionalesEl número 34 (2011) de la prestigiosa Revista Doxa, dedicó como tema de debate la contraposición entre constitucionalismo garantista y constitucionalismo principialista que iniciaba con un texto de Ferrajoli en el que se establecía la distinción, marcando las diferencias desde el lado del constitucionalismo garantista defendido por el jurista italiano.
Verwaltungswissenschaft wird in dem Buch als eine interdisziplinäre Integrationswissenschaft präsentiert, die eine selbstständige Wissenschaftsdisziplin neben Rechtswissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft und anderen Sozialwissenschaften ist.
Dieses Buch gibt Antworten darauf, wie in Zeiten von Facebook und Fake News der verfassungsrechtliche Schutz des freien öffentlichen Diskurses gelingen kann.