Law

The first socio-legal study of legal experts and their influence on EU policy-making at national, European, and international levels.

The first interdisciplinary empirically-grounded pluri-jurisdictional assessment of the origins, operation and main causes of the growing global investment migration trend.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program.

This book offers innovative insights from across disciplines to explore the soulful survival of migrants, refugees, and displaced individuals and communities amidst stalemates, crises and compromises in human rights.

A bold and timely proposal for rethinking the role of the Supreme Court in the separation of powers.

Situates donor conception debates in a global context, exploring the interaction between law, technology, and relationships.

Reveals that slavery has remained embedded in private law well after its ostensible demise.

This book develops ''Collective Equality'' as a new theoretical basis for the law of peace and for transitional justice.

Jurisdictional accumulation reveals varieties of early modern extraterritorial practices and how consuls, ambassadors, merchants and lawyers drove European imperial expansion.

Studying moral responsibility in world politics sheds light on changing accountability relations, justice and legitimacy in global governance.

This book introduces a comprehensive model for evaluating the effects of artificial intelligence (AI) on human rights, democracy, and the rule of law and an innovative framework that merges Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIAs) practices with AI-focused algorithmic impact assessment approaches.

Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty explores the religious freedom implications of defining marriage to include same-sex couples.

Essays in honour of John Bell on the art of comparative law, focussing on the manner of ''legal development''.

A critical evaluation of the latest reform in Chinese law that engages legal scholarship with research of Chinese legal historians.

A thorough analysis of how effectively international courts and tribunals adjudicate transboundary water disputes, using detailed case studies.

Using a multi-disciplinary approach, this volume shows how international law shapes behavior.

Reveals how early modern religious conceptions of covenant and community were deployed for surprisingly radical political ends.

Provides the first scholarly and comprehensive book on the national renewable energy laws of every country that has them (113 countries).

Compares Australia''s new misuse of market power law with US and EU tests for monopolization and abuse of dominance.

Brings together experts from North and South to examine the impact of globalization on the corporate legal environment in Brazil.

Shah uncovers the complex interaction between constitutional law, religion and politics in three key plural societies in Asia.

The first in-depth analysis of the independent director in Asia: who they are, what they do and how they are regulated.

The first in-depth study of the history of copyright protecting the visual arts.

A unique comparative analysis of Chinese contract law accessible to lawyers from civil, common, and mixed law jurisdictions.

A fresh response to the problem of illegal immigration in the United States through the context of Christian theology.

Putting Children''s Interests First in US Family Law and Policy details the rise of federal ''sexual expressionism'' policy.

Explores how the first treaty-based UN international tribunal''s judges innovatively applied the law to perpetrators of international crimes in one of the worst conflicts in recent history.

Qiao demonstrates how an impersonal and unbounded market can operate without legal protection or enforcement of property and contract rights.

Introduces citizens to solutions for reforming the American campaign finance system.

Analyzes the political roots of the systems of constitutional justice in Latin America, tracing their development over the last 40 years.

Explores the multifaceted debate on the interconnection between conscientious objections, religious liberty, and the equality of women and sexual minorities.

This thought-provoking study examines the backstory and enduring contemporary effects of Australia''s claim to an absolute right to exclude foreigners.

This book sets out the legal issues surrounding privatized peacekeepers, and asks the essential questions for the debate going forward.

A fresh descriptive and normative perspective on law and religion supported by comparative case studies of Greater China.

Examines the involvement of local actors in conflicts over global norms at the intersection between international relations and international law.

An original analysis of the practical operation of the party autonomy principle in contractual choice of law in China.

This book theoretically explores intersectionality within human rights norms on violence against women and the derived duties for States.

The Jewish Family examines Jewish family law in the light of new attitudes concerning the role of women.

Reinventing Legal Education explores how clinical legal education - a new frontier for European public interest lawyering - is reforming law teaching and practice in Europe.

Excessive household debt has allowed for economic growth, but this model has become increasingly unstable.

Explores how international assistance shapes transitional justice around the world, and asks how civil society can play a larger role in them.