Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law

This edited book provides a comprehensive survey of the modern state of the art in forensic linguistics.

This book, the second of two volumes edited by Kemshall and McCartan, focuses on responses to sexual offending, and how risk is used by policy makers, stakeholders, academics and practitioners to both construct and respond to unknown and known sex offenders within the contexts of criminal justice, health and social policy.

This book focuses on a central success factor for family businesses: maintaining the decision-making ability over generations while not jeopardizing the business due to family conflict, inefficient governance structures, or lack of identification.

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

This book provides a critical examination of contemporary approaches to environmental regulation in the UK and the European Union.

Bioinvasions is a current top research subject for natural sciences, social sciences and humanities and a major concern for conservationists, land managers and planners.

The expanding remit of policing as a fundamental part of the public health continuum is increasingly acknowledged on the international scene.

This revised second edition takes account of developments in the field of dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration.

This book reports on cutting-edge legal, ethical, social and economic issues relating to robotics and automation, human-machine interaction and artificial intelligence, in different application areas.

This book offers an innovative approach to the analysis of the current crisis in the South China Sea.

This book examines the institutions that are producing consumer law at the international level, the substantive issues enshrined in these laws, and the enforcement mechanisms meant to ensure effective protection.

With regard to family law, this volume examines claims based on cultural tradition, ethnic background, custom, religious affiliation and sexual orientation, as well as various other "e;claims"e; that are not officially recognized in state law, in 15 jurisdictions around the world.

This book evaluates the protection of traditional cultural expressions in Africa using South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana as case study examples in the light of regional and international approaches in this respect.

This volume focuses on the responsibilities of online service providers (OSPs) in contemporary societies.

This book explores the conflict between the Catalan project to become independent and the Spanish state's opposition to any attempt of secessionism.

This volume explores from a legal perspective, how blockchain works.

This volume analyses criminal procedural issues from a European perspective, particularly in connection with EU law and ECHR law.

This book analyzes Nancy Chodorow's canonical book The Reproduction of Mothering, bringing together an original essay from Nancy Chodorow and a host of outstanding international scholars-including Rosemary Balsam, Adrienne Harris, Elizabeth Abel, Madelon Sprengnether, Ilene Philipson, Meg Jay, Daphne de Marneffe, Alison Stone and Petra Bueskens-in a mix of memoir, festschrift, reflection, critical analysis and new directions in Chodorowian scholarship.

This book analyzes the issue of European fiscal State aid in order to provide insights into the related evolution prospects and legal problems.

This book presents a thorough and critical evaluation of the monetary and financial system prevalent in Western economies.

This book, adopting a multidisciplinary approach, investigates the definition of autonomous work and the kind of protection it receives and should receive in a global perspective.

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the most important and fundamental elements for the management of team sports organisations.

This book investigates recent policy initiatives dealing with the online enforcement of copyright in the European Union, providing unique insights into the current stalemate in the field.

This volume presents the most recent joint study of the research group Religion and Human Rights.

This book presents a comprehensive review of fundamental rights issues that are currently in the spotlight.

This book gathers selected peer-reviewed papers from the 14th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM), which was held in Singapore on 28-31 July 2019, as well as papers presented during the 1st WCEAMOnline event which focused on the ramifications of Covid-19 on infrastructure systems.

This book is designed to provide specialists, spectators, and students with a brief and engaging exploration of media usage by radical groups and the laws regulating these grey areas of Jihadi propaganda activities.

Drawing on our growing knowledge of animal cognition, this book provides a critical analysis of the use of animals in the legal regime and the practice of toxicity testing.

This book explores the impacts of current mining licensing regimes in Africa and how they influence sustainable development principles.

Cybersecurity, data privacy law, and the related legal implications overlap into a relevant and developing area in the legal field.

This book introduces Cyber Justice as a viable approach for promoting good governance based on human rights norms in the internet.

This book assesses Afghanistan's transit trade with Pakistan in the context of WTO transit regime for landlocked countries and its impacts on Members' regional transit agreements.

This book focus on critical infrastructure protection.

This book provides an applied model of corruption to identify, analyse, and assess the ethics of major types of corruption in the media involving practices such as cash-for-comment, media release journalism, including video news releases (VNRs), fake news, deep fakes, and staged news.

The aim of this book is to delve into the impact of the Information and Communications Technologies in the criminal prevention and investigation, by addressing the state of the art of different measures and its implementation in different legal systems vis a vis the protection of human rights.

This book offers a very interesting deep-dive into EU and South Korean approaches to cybersecurity issues.

This book examines central aspects of the new technologies and the legal questions raised by them from both an international and an inter-disciplinary perspective.

Blockchains and cryptocurrencies, open banking, virtual assets, and artificial intelligence have become the buzzword of this decade.

The book focuses on the interactions between international legal regimes related to biodiversity governance.

This book analyses Nicaragua's role in the development of international law, through its participation in cases that have come before the International Court of Justice.

This edited book promotes and facilitates cybercrime research by providing a cutting-edge collection of perspectives on the critical usage of online data across platforms, as well as the implementation of both traditional and innovative analysis methods.

This book discusses the multilayered legal structures concerning the regulation of crimes under international law.

Critically synthesising a range of disparate literatures and debates, this book asks what is at stake in mounting a decisive response to the 'socio-ecological crisis' - a crisis of humanity's relationship with the rest of nature that places social life as we know it in jeopardy.

Written by one of the world's leading scholars in the field, this book provides a unique perspective on the connections between energy justice and human rights.

This book discusses the implementation of privacy by design in Europe, a principle that has been codified within the European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

This book brings together leading authorities from the fields of international human rights law, criminology, legal medicine, and political science with international human rights judges and UN experts to analyze the current situation of detainees in Europe, the Americas and Africa.

This anthology discusses important issues surrounding environmental law and economics and provides an in-depth analysis of its use in legislation, regulation and legal adjudication from a neoclassical and behavioural law and economics perspective.

This book traces the evolution of the constitutional order, explaining Donald Trump's election as a symptom of a degraded democratic-capitalist system.

This book provides an in-depth study of Private International Law reasoning in the field of international sale of goods contracts.

This book addresses the latest approaches to holistic Cyber-Physical System (CPS) resilience in real-world industrial applications.