Law

Leading Anglo-American scholars assess the significance of the fusion of law and equity from comparative, doctrinal, historical and theoretical perspectives.

Peoples'' Tribunals and International Law is the first book to analyse how civil society tribunals implement and develop international law.

Tells the story of a sensational 1791 Virginia murder case, and explores Revolutionary America''s debates over justice, criminal punishment, and equality before the law.

A new perspective on how far law''s power derives from socially situated communication rather than from abstract rules.

Argues that the Eurasian steppe political tradition has been globally influential, particularly in the socio-political formation of modern Russia and Turkey.

A comprehensive discussion of international trade courts and tribunals with specific emphasis on their performance and legitimacy.

Explores judicial independence, integrity and impartiality in Asia-Pacific countries.

Offers new understandings of the famous foxhunting case, Pierson v.

This book examines how justice and reconciliation in world politics should be conceived in response to the injustice and alienation of modern colonialism?

Explores the inescapable experience of injury and its implications for social inequality in different cultural settings.

Explores the shaping of China and India''s energy and climate policies by two-level pressures characterized as wealth, status and asymmetrical interdependence.

Evaluates the challenges and changes that the Belt and Road Initiative brings to China in international law and governance.

The book explores the role and importance of reason and emotion in justice and the law.

Compares national concepts of social justice with the developing European concept of access justice.

Develops a new account of historical injustice and redress, demonstrating why a consideration of history is crucial for gender equality.

This book investigates how some corporations have avoided tax liability with intellectual property holding companies, and how different constituencies are working to stop them.

Research volume on urban energy transition that will have wide interdisciplinary appeal to researchers in energy, urban and environmental studies.

Offers evidence that opportunity structures created by state weakness can allow NGOs to exert unparalleled influence over local human rights law and practice.

Explains why successful international peacebuilding depends on the unorthodox actions of country-based staff, whose deviations from approved procedures make global governance organizations accountable to local realities.

This multidisciplinary book examines the potential of economic and social rights to contest adverse impacts of neoliberalism on human wellbeing.

Captures significant transformations in the theory and practice of economic and social rights in constitutional and human rights law.

Analyzes the role of self-determination and territorial integrity in some of the most difficult decolonization cases.

This book takes an original and comparative approach to issues of causation in tort law across many European legal systems.

Identifies and explains the constitutional problems triggered by the government''s speech, and proposes a new framework for thinking about them.

Identifies how and why ''dialogue'' can describe and evaluate institutional interactions over constitutional questions concerning democracy and rights.

Considers the ICTY to demonstrate illiberal practices of international criminal tribunals, and proposes a return to process to protect the rule of law.

Will help its audience gain an understanding of the dimensions to contemporary constitutions, and their role in the interpretation, legitimacy and stability of different constitutional systems.

Presents comprehensively the currently un-mapped constellation of issues related to climate change, public health, and the law.

Examines clashes over religious liberty spanning the life cycle of families - from birth to death.

This book situates protection at the centre of the global history of empires, thus advancing a new perspective on world history.

How do immigration and refugee laws work ''in action'' in Russia?

This book presents a searching critique of excessive reliance on courts as ''democracy-builders'' in states emerging from authoritarian rule.

Examines and compares East Asian and European perspectives of Global Constitutionalism.

The first in-depth study to integrate the study of legal language with analysis of multimodal communication.

This book applies and explores Catholic social thought, focusing on the relevance of the encyclical Laudato Si'' in an era of climate crises.

Engages with the life and work of Larry Alexander to explore puzzles and paradoxes in legal and moral theory.

Examines the law governing American education and proposes social constructivist pedagogy as a model for reform efforts.

Contributes to a better understanding of the policy, economic, and legal options of countries struggling with debt problems.

Responds to current world events and offers ''a rich resource for initiating new conversations about potential futures for the trade regime''.

Examines how law regulates religion and explores the influence of world religions on the legal systems in Asia.

Explores the role of law in different areas of BRICS cooperation and the impact it can make on global governance.

This book proposes a novel theory of justice in international trade law, examining what justice means and demands in this domain.

Kessler-Mata argues for a constitutive theory of tribal sovereignty based on the interconnected relationships between tribes and non-federal governments.

Aimed at political sciences students and teachers, Ferreras presents the new idea of ''economic bicameralism'' to redefine firms as political entities.

This book critically analyses the origins, the creation, and the evolution of an international law on investment contract protection.

Evaluates the successes and failures of the 1996 South African Constitution following the twentieth anniversary of its enactment.

Investigates the relationship between international organizations and private subjects under the unexplored perspective of procurement by international organizations.

Studies the GATS prudential carve-out as well as prudential carve-outs in preferential trade agreements.

A guide to the meaning of environmental regulation in an era of transnational cooperation for sustainability.

A critical examination of the effect of the European Court of Human Rights on Russia''s approach to human rights.