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  • The Struggle over Law in Europe

    by Aldo Sandulli ...
    This book examines the role of law in Europe at a time when economic policies have become dominant not only on this continent but globally. Can law be seen as a mere infrastructure? Or does it contribute to defining the social and legal order through its own inherent rules? If the second hypothesis is true, what might these rules be, and how may they be identified? Lastly, to what extent can ... Read more

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  • Law and Revolution

    Past Experiences, Future Challenges

    The last one hundred years have seen a number of events that could be perceived as disruptive challenges to the normal operation of the legal order. Some have been disruptive innovations of technologies or business practices, others social changes or constitutional transformations, further buttressed by the impact of globalisation and interdependence affecting the development of international, ... Read more

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  • Constitutional Review in Western Europe

    Judicial-Legislative Relations in Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Kálmán Pócza ...
    Recent confrontations between constitutional courts and parliamentary majorities in several European countries have attracted international interest in the relationship between the judiciary and the legislature.Some political actors have argued that courts have assumed too much power and politics has been extremely judicialized. Yet the extent to which this aggregation of power may have ... Read more

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  • Eurasian Legal Systems in a World in Transition

    Economic prosperity or disparity, and the return of politics in international law

    Series Book 20 - Cultures juridiques et politiques
    Eurasia is neither a juxtaposition of sub-regions – Central Asia, West Europe, East Asia – nor a single, coherent legal system. It mixes sui generis evolutions and mutual influences of its constituent systems. The period of Eurasian countries going their own, national(ist) way in building a legal system (Europe before 1950, Central Asia under Soviet rule, East Asia in colonialisms) has yielded to ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • States of Emergency and Human Rights Protection

    The Theory and Practice of the Visegrad Countries

    Emergencies are ubiquitous in 21st-century societal discourses. From the rise of emergency pronouncements in the United States since 9/11 accompanied by the associated violations of fundamental rights, through talks of ‘crises’ in the EU in relation to the economy, Putin’s occupation of Crimea (as recently amplified by the full-scale invasion of Ukraine) or refugees, to the long-neglected looming ... Read more

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  • Constitutional Review in Central and Eastern Europe

    Judicial-Legislative Relations in Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Kálmán Pócza ...
    Recent confrontations between constitutional courts and parliamentary majorities in several European countries have attracted international interest in the relationship between the judiciary and the legislature.Some political actors have argued that courts have assumed too much power and politics has been extremely judicialized. This volume accurately and systematically examines the extent to ... Read more

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  • Impeachment in a Global Context

    Law, Politics, and Comparative Practice

    Series series Routledge Frontiers in Accountability Studies
    This volume considers the use of impeachment within a global context. The book brings together leading scholars and experts to give an insight into significant periods in the development of impeachment and its modern comparative use. Divided into five parts, the opening chapter introduces the topic and underlines its significance in terms of understanding the relationship and inter-dependence ... Read more

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  • Law for Leviathan

    Constitutional Law, International Law, and the State

    For the past several centuries of Anglo-American legal thought, law has been paradigmatically understood as the product of the state. The state, operating through the legal and political institutions of its government, imposes law on the people who are its subjects. Over the same centuries, however, the development of international law and constitutional law has made the state itself subject to ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Equality Before the Law

    Equal Dignity, Wrongful Discrimination, and the Rule of Law

    Series series Hart Studies in Constitutional Theory
    This book presents a defence of the value of equality within law which is neither purely formal nor an entirely speculative theory of justice. It does this by combining a theoretical with a doctrinal project.At the theoretical level, it argues that there is a distinct and meaningful conception of equality before the law which can be separated from concerns of distributive justice. It therefore ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • British Origins and American Practice of Impeachment

    Series series Routledge Frontiers in Accountability Studies
    This collection brings together historians, political scientists and legal scholars to explore the Anglo-American origins of impeachment and its use in the USA. Impeachment originated in England during the Good Parliament of 1376. It was used, subject to several periods of disuse, until the beginning of the nineteenth century. The British form of impeachment in turn inspired the drafters of the US ... Read more

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  • Indigenous Peoples and Constitutional Reform in Australia

    Beyond Mere Recognition

    by Bede Harris ...
    This book examines whether Australia’s constitution should be reformed so as to enable the country to fulfil its obligations under the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which it ratified in 2009. The book surveys the history of the constitutional status of Australia’s Indigenous peoples from the time of colonisation through to the current debate on ‘Indigenous ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • The Law, Politics and Theory of Treaty Withdrawal

    This book explores how the law of treaty withdrawal operates.Many commentators have observed a wider sense of crisis in international law as governments of different ideological stripes withdraw or threaten to withdraw from international organisations and treaties. There are different political forces behind all of these cases, but they all use the same basic device in international law – a treaty ... Read more

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  • Local Governance in Multi-Layered Systems

    A Comparative Legal Study in the Federal-Local Connection

    Series Book 108 - Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
    The book provides a comprehensive analysis of local government in federations. It fills the gap in current legal research and positions local government in federal studies through the lenses of comparative law, adopting a more nuanced approach to local government. The book considers the shortcomings between the black-letter constitution and its operational rules. Whether (and how) the regime of ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Global Health Law & Policy

    Ensuring Justice for a Healthier World

    Globalization has unleashed the spread of communicable and non-communicable diseases, connected societies through vulnerability to common threats, and revealed the limitations of domestic legislation in addressing economic, social, and political determinants of health. Yet if globalization has presented challenges to disease prevention and health promotion, with the COVID-19 pandemic making clear ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Facts in Public Law Adjudication

    This book explores critical issues about how courts engage with questions of fact in public law adjudication.Although the topic of judicial review - the mechanism through which individuals can challenge governmental action - continues to generate sustained interest amongst constitutional and administrative lawyers, there has been little attention given to questions of fact. This is so despite such ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

    A System of Regulation

    Series series Globalization: Law and Policy
    The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) has for four decades been considered by many to be one of the most important legislative achievements of international law. It is revered as a "constitution of the oceans", providing the legal framework for the governance of the oceans.This volume explores how the UNCLOS is functioning in various complex settings, how it adapts to ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Comparative Approaches in Law and Policy

    This book encompasses areas of research like comparative constitution, transformative constitution, environmental law, family law, child rights and so on. The main theme of the book is comparative law. We intend to incorporate into this book laws pertaining to diverse field wherein it can be compared with the laws of other countries which brings in better understanding and conceptual clarity. The ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • The Law of Loyalty

    by Lionel Smith ...
    The Law of Loyalty is a study of the principles governing the use of legal powers that are held for other-regarding ends. It addresses both public law and private law, and examines both the common law and the civil law. It aims to provide a theory of how Western law regulates the situations in which we hold legal powers, not for ourselves, but for and on behalf of others. It does this by ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Constitutional and Administrative Law

    Hilaire Barnett’s Constitutional and Administrative Law has consistently provided students with reliable, accessible and comprehensive coverage of the Public Law syllabus. Mapped to the common course outline, the Fifteenth edition equips students with a thorough understanding of the UK constitution’s past, present and future by analysing and illustrating the political and socio-historical contexts ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Constitutional System of the Hong Kong SAR

    A Contextual Analysis

    Series series Constitutional Systems of the World
    This book provides an account of the evolving constitutional arrangement known as “One Country, Two Systems”, as practised in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (PRC).The British colony of Hong Kong, one of the “Four Little Dragons” of East Asia, reverted to Chinese rule in 1997. Since then, Hong Kong has continued to be an international financial centre, ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • The Design of Digital Democracy

    Series series Springer Textbooks in Law
    Ever-stronger ties between technology, entertainment and design are transforming our relationship with democratic decision-making. When we are online, or when we use digital products and services, we tend to focus more on certain factors like speed of service and user-friendliness, and to overlook the costs – both for ourselves and others. As a result, a widening gap separates our expectations of ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Disability, Sexuality, and Gender in Asia

    Intersectionality, Human Rights, and the Law

    This book introduces experiential knowledge of the intersectionality of disability, sexuality, and gender equality issues. Scholars and disabled persons’ organizations in different Asian countries such as China, Vietnam, Myanmar, Nepal, and Japan have contributed to the book. It is a preliminary introduction of the frontline practice of Asian disability activism and the experience of women and ... Read more

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  • Constitutional Law and Politics of Secession

    Edited by Antoni Abat i Ninet ...
    This collection presents an analysis of the concept of secession and its constitutional accommodation alongside an assessment of the effects of secession in constitutional and international law. The work proposes a new approach and insights into the existing literature that fill a gap from multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives.The book approaches the topics of secession, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Legal Engineering in the Supervisory System Reform

    by Qianhong Qin ...
    Translated by Lu Da ...
    This book is the latest work on the reform of supervisory system by Qin Qianhong. The author demonstrates China’s supervisory system at both the theoretical and practical levels, discusses the historical development of supervisory system reform in depth and offers the prospect of supervisory system from his unique perspective. Theoretically, focusing on the context of China, the book studies ... Read more

    $152.99 USD