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  • Essays on Private Law

    Foreign Law and Foreign Judgments

    by Ian Baxter ...
    Series series Heritage
    This book contains a series of essays on conflict laws, including jurisdiction of the courts, choice of law, renvoi, property, recognition of family status, and recognition of foreign corporations. It is not a text-book, but an analysis and criticism of existing principles with recommendations for reform and for a different approach to the subject. In general, an approach is advocated that will be ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Regulation by Municipal Licensing

    Series series Heritage
    Municipal licensing serves a variety of regulatory purposes such as consumer protection and public health and safety. The municipal licensing power is delegated from the provincial government, up to the present, municipalities have been restricted to enumerated, specific powers, and the result has been the growth of a disorganized and unwieldy accumulation of bylaws, many of which conflict or are ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Law and Business of International Project Finance

    A Resource for Governments, Sponsors, Lawyers, and Project Participants

    This 2007 third edition continues to be a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the business, practice, law, and practical use of project finance. It covers the complete project finance structure, from conception to negotiation to debt closing, and from project difficulties to successful restructuring. The book continues to be accessible to those with little experience in project finance, while ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict Resolution

    by Rajan Kumar ...
    The concluding chapter focuses on the issues of conflict resolution in Chechnya. Here, I have reasserted my faith in democratic federalism as the most viable solution of the conflict in Chechnya. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Conflict of Laws

    by Adrian Briggs ...
    Series series Clarendon Law Series
    Could you sue in England if you made a contract with someone overseas, or if you had an accident overseas? If you were to sue in England in one of these cases, which country's laws would be applied? Would you have anything to worry about if you were sued overseas but didn't intend to go back to the country concerned? Could you take steps in England to stop someone suing you overseas? The Conflict ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • The Scotia Widows

    Inside Their Lawsuit Against Big Daddy Coal

    by Gerald Stern ...
    On March 9, 1976, a violent explosion, fueled by high concentrations of methane gas and coal dust, ripped through the Scotia mine in the heart of Eastern Kentucky coal country. The blast killed fifteen miners who were working nearly three and a half miles underground; two days later, a second explosion took the lives of eleven rescue workers. For the miners’ surviving family members, the loss of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Hindu Law

    Beyond Tradition and Modernity

    by Werner Menski ...
    This book presents a study on a postmodernist analysis of classical Hindu law, which has become neglected due to the modernist assumptions about the increasing irrelevance of ‘religious’ legal systems. The book is split into three parts. The first part focuses on the historical and conceptual background of Hindu law, while the second part concentrates on five facets of Hindu law that go beyond ... Read more

    $224.99 USD

  • The Street-Law Handbook

    Surviving Sex, Drugs, and Petty Crime

    Can you be arrested for wearing a thong if you're ugly? Unknowingly renting a house to drug dealers? Becoming too familiar with your Halloween pumpkin?The Street Law Handbook answers these questions and more, as lawyer Neeraja Viswanathan cracks the tough nut of small-time law enforcement and lays the rules bare. Exactly how much pot do you need to have in your possession to warrant a felony ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Law Market

    Today, a California resident can incorporate her shipping business in Delaware, register her ships in Panama, hire her employees from Hong Kong, place her earnings in an asset-protection trust formed in the Cayman Islands, and enter into a same-sex marriage in Massachusetts or Canada--all the while enjoying the California sunshine and potentially avoiding many facets of the state's laws. In this ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Normas de papel

    La cultura del incumplimiento de reglas

    Series series Derecho y Ciudadanía
    La cultura del incumplimiento de reglas en América Latina se remonta a los tiempos de la colonia. Desde entonces, escritores, pensadores y gobernantes se han referido a la inobservancia de reglas y han visto en ella un obstáculo para el desarrollo social y político de los países. Este libro intenta analizar en profundidad esta cultura del desacato de reglas, a través de dos estrategias: una serie ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Confluence of Public and Private International Law

    Justice, Pluralism and Subsidiarity in the International Constitutional Ordering of Private Law

    by Alex Mills ...
    A sharp distinction is usually drawn between public international law, concerned with the rights and obligations of states with respect to other states and individuals, and private international law, concerned with issues of jurisdiction, applicable law and the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in international private law disputes before national courts. Through the adoption of an ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • A Discourse on Domination in Mandate Palestine

    Imperialism, Property and Insurgency

    British discourse during the Mandate, with its unremitting convergence on the problematic ‘native question’, and which rested on racial and cultural theories and presumptions, as well as on certain givens drawn from the British class system, has been taken for granted by historians. The validity of cultural representations as pronounced within official correspondence and colonial laws and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • EU Private International Law

    Third Edition

    by Stone, P. ...
    Series series Elgar European Law series
    Thoroughly revised and updated, this third edition of EU Private International Law incorporates many developments in legislation and case-law since the publication of the second edition in 2010. Building on the book’s reputation for comprehensive coverage and attention to detail, Peter Stone provides an authoritative and accessible introduction to the subject.The book provides full analysis of the ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • Private International Law, Art and Cultural Heritage

    by Christa Roodt ...
    In this timely book Christa Roodt demonstrates how the structure and method of private international law can be applied in its expanding relationship with cultural heritage law. In particular, she explores the use of private international law in the context of ownership claims and the illicit trafficking of cultural objects. She shows how, in decisions about classification and the public policy ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Transitional Justice, Judicial Accountability and the Rule of Law

    Transitional Justice, Judicial Accountability and the Rule of Law addresses the importance of judicial accountability in transitional justice processes. Despite a general consensus that the judiciary plays an important role in contemporary governance, accountability for the judicial role in formerly authoritarian societies remains largely elided and under-researched. Hakeem O. Yusuf argues that ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to European Union Private Law

    Edited by Christian Twigg-Flesner ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Law
    The emergence of EU Private Law as an independent legal discipline is one of the most significant developments in European legal scholarship in recent times. In this 2010 Companion, leading scholars provide a critical introduction to the subject's key areas, while offering original and thought-provoking comment on the field. In addition to several chapters on consumer law topics, the collection ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Rough Consensus and Running Code

    A Theory of Transnational Private Law

    Series series Hart Monographs in Transnational and International Law
    Private law has long been the focus of efforts to explain wider developments of law in an era of globalisation. As consumer transactions and corporate activities continue to develop with scant regard to legal and national boundaries, private law theorists have begun to sketch and conceptualise the possible architecture of a transnational legal theory. Drawing a detailed map of the mixed regulatory ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Claims against Iraqi Oil and Gas

    Legal Considerations and Lessons Learned

    This volume presents the first comprehensive examination of the legal issues surrounding international debt recovery on claims against Iraqi oil and gas. In addition to presenting a snapshot view of Iraq's outstanding debt obligations and an analysis of the significance of the theory of odious debt in the context of the Iraqi situation, the list of legal issues examined includes relevant ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Unconscionability in European Private Financial Transactions

    Protecting the Vulnerable

    Given the unprecedented recent turmoil on financial markets we now face radically challenged, 'post-Lehmann' assumptions on protecting the vulnerable in financial transactions. This collection of essays explores conceptions of, and responses to, unconscionability and similar notions across Europe with specific reference to financial transactions. It presents a detailed analysis of concepts of ... Read more

    $95.99 USD

  • Legitimacy and Legality in International Law

    An Interactional Account

    Series Book 67 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    It has never been more important to understand how international law enables and constrains international politics. By drawing together the legal theory of Lon Fuller and the insights of constructivist international relations scholars, this book articulates a pragmatic view of how international obligation is created and maintained. First, legal norms can only arise in the context of social norms ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Internet Jurisdiction and Choice of Law

    Legal Practices in the EU, US and China

    The adoption of electronic commercial transactions has facilitated cross-border trade and business, but the complexity of determining the place of business and other connecting factors in cyberspace has challenged existing private international law. This comparison of the rules of internet jurisdiction and choice of law as well as online dispute resolution (ODR) covers both B2B and B2C contracts ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • Criminal Procedure and the Supreme Court

    A Guide to the Major Decisions on Search and Seizure, Privacy, and Individual Rights

    In any episode of the popular television show Law and Order, questions of police procedure in collecting evidence often arise. Was a search legal? Was the evidence obtained lawfully? Did the police follow the rules in pursuing their case? While the show depicts fictional cases and scenarios, police procedure with regard to search and seizure is a real and significant issue in the criminal justice ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • International and Comparative Competition Law

    Series series Antitrust and Competition Law
    This thorough appraisal of competition law and policy from an international and comparative perspective covers the role of different international organisations active in the area, the significance of multinational enterprises and, in particular, the differences between US and EU systems. Taking examples from regions such as Africa, the Middle East and Asia, Maher M. Dabbah looks at the law and ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • International Commercial Disputes

    Commercial Conflict of Laws in English Courts

    This is the fourth edition of this highly regarded work on the law of international commercial litigation as practised in the English courts. As such it is primarily concerned with how commercial disputes which have connections with more than one country are dealt with by the English courts. Much of the law which provides the framework for the resolution of such disputes is derived from ... Read more

    $153.99 USD