Legal systems: general

A rigorous and empirically-based analysis of the legitimacy challenges facing investment arbitration and the potential for reforms to remedy critique.

Spanning the years from 1946 until 1953, the Vinson Court made the legal transition from World War II to the Korean War, and the outspoken justices Felix Frankfurter and Hugo Black helped shape its legacy.

A comprehensive examination of international environmental litigation which addresses the major environmental challenges of the twenty-first century.

This book presents a creative synthesis of two ostensibly disparate fields of law - arbitration and human rights.

Digital Audio Forensics Fundamentals offers an accessible introduction to both the theory and practical skills behind this emerging field of forensic science.

What role should the Senate play in the selection and confirmation of judges?

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In law, gains, like losses, don't always lie where they fall.

Class arbitration first developed in the United States in the 1980s as a means of providing large numbers of individuals with the opportunity to assert their claims at the same time and in the same proceeding.

How we understand what procedure is due as a fundamental or constitutional right can have a critical impact on designing a civil procedure.

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This book argues that Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Helter-Shelter is an ethnographic account of the manner in which an emergency shelter is governed on a daily basis, from the perspective of the personnel who are employed and tasked with providing care.

Legal Writing guides students comprehensively through this vital legal skill and addresses a range of assessment methods from exam questions to final essays and problem answers.

Dieses Lehrbuch bietet eine umfassende Einführung in das deutsche und internationale Schiedsverfahrensrecht - ein Gebiet, welches nicht nur im internationalen Geschäftsverkehr, sondern auch in der juristischen Ausbildung zunehmend an Bedeutung gewinnt.

Presents a new approach to prominent judgments of the European Court of Justice drawing on the writings of Judge Robert Lecourt.

Key Facts and Key Cases: Family Law will ensure you grasp the main concepts of your Family Law module with ease.

This book critically analyses the availability of environmental counterclaims in investment arbitration presented by the respondent host state against the claimant investor.

This book offers contemporary assessment of the challenges facing international investment law and proposes innovative solutions for reform.

Transnational Construction Arbitration addresses topical issues in the field of dispute resolution in construction contracts from an international perspective.

Sudden Deaths and Fatal Accident Inquiries in Scotland: Law, Policy and Practice considers the unique Scottish system of sudden deaths investigations leading to Fatal Accident Inquiries (FAIs).

Keeping up-to-date and informed about the changes to the Civil Procedure Rules is important to practitioners and students alike.

This book brings together feminist academics and lawyers to present an impressive collection of alternative judgments in a series of Australian legal cases.

During the early development and throughout the short history of green/conservation criminology, limited attention has been directed toward quantitative analyses of relevant environmental crime, law and justice concerns.

This book offers a timely and detailed examination of the reality of criminal legal practice today.

Trade liberalization has shaped international economic relations since the conclusion of the GATT 1947.

A sound understanding of legal professional privilege provides practitioners with a strategic advantage not to be underestimated.

Explores the effects in theory and in practice of recent foreign inspired legal reforms in East Asia and Oceania.

This book sets out to defend the claim that Equity ought to remain a separate body of law; the temptation to iron-out the differences between neighbouring doctrines on the two sides of the Equity/Common Law divide should, in most cases, be resisted.