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  • Children, Human Rights and Temporary Labour Migration

    Protecting the Child-Parent Relationship

    Series series Routledge Research in Asylum, Migration and Refugee Law
    This book focuses on the neglected yet critical issue of how the global migration of millions of parents as low-waged migrant workers impacts the rights of their children under international human rights law.The work provides a systematic analysis and critique of how the restrictive features of policies governing temporary labour migration interfere with provisions of the Convention on the Rights ... Read more

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  • Underground Warfare

    Underground warfare, a tactic of yesteryear, has re-emerged as a global and rapidly diffusing threat. This book is the first of its kind to examine tunnel warfare in a systematic and comprehensive way, addressing the legal issues while keeping in mind operational and strategic challenges. Like many other aspects of contemporary warfare, the renewed use of the subterranean in armed conflict ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Judicial Law-Making in European Constitutional Courts

    Edited by Monika Florczak-Wątor ...
    This book analyses the specificity of the law-making activity of European constitutional courts. The main hypothesis is that currently constitutional courts are positive legislators whose position in the system of State organs needs to be redefined.The book covers the analysis of the law-making activity of four constitutional courts in Western countries: Germany, Italy, Spain, and France; and six ... Read more

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  • The Policy State

    An American Predicament

    The steady accretion of public policies over the decades has fundamentally changed how America is governed. The formulation and delivery of policy have emerged as the government’s entire raison d’être, redefining rights and reconfiguring institutional structures. The Policy State looks closely at this massive unnoticed fact of modern politics and addresses the controversies swirling around it. ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Seven Pillars of Wisdom

    by T.E. Lawrence ...
    Seven Pillars of Wisdom is a memoir of the soldier known as 'Lawrence of Arabia.' Lawrence is a fascinating and controversial figure and his talent as a vivid and imaginative writer shines through on every page of his masterpiece. 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' written between 1919 and 1926, is an extraordinary tale of action, politics and adventure. The story describes heroism through instances of war ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • International Disability Law

    A Practical Approach to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

    This book provides a concise guide to international disability law. It analyses the case law of the CRPD Committee and other international human rights treaty bodies, and provides commentaries on more than 50 leading cases. The author elaborates on the obligations of States Parties under the CRPD and other international treaties, while also spelling out the rights of persons with disabilities, and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Technology and Legal Systems

    by Noel Cox ...
    The advent of the knowledge economy and society has made it increasingly necessary for law reformers and policy makers to take account of the effects of technology upon the law and upon legal and political processes. This book explores aspects of technology's relationship with law and government, and in particular the effects changing technology has had on constitutional structures and upon ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Business and Human Rights

    From Principles to Practice

    In a global economy, multinational companies often operate in jurisdictions where governments are either unable or unwilling to uphold even the basic human rights of their citizens. The expectation that companies respect human rights in their own operations and in their business relationships is now a business reality that corporations need to respond to. Business and Human Rights: From Principles ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • The Concept of Genocide in International Criminal Law

    Developments after Lemkin

    This book presents a review of historical and emerging legal issues that concern the interpretation of the international crime of genocide.The Polish legal expert Raphael Lemkin formulated the concept of genocide during the Nazi occupation of Europe, and it was then incorporated into the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. This volume looks at the issues that ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Politics of Parking

    Rights, Identity, and Property

    by Sarah Marusek ...
    There is more to parking law than just parking penalties. Considering the ways in which law works in everyday life, and in familiar places of common experience where the presence of law is not obvious, this book explores the various notions of the right to park, which jurisprudentially is enacted between individuals in everyday parking. From parking areas to the courtroom, parking engenders ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Networking the Rule of Law

    How Change Agents Reshape Judicial Governance in the EU

    Series series Studies in Modern Law and Policy
    Judicial networks have proved effective in influencing recent judicial policies enacted by both old and new EU member states. However, this influence has not been standard. This volume seeks to improve our understanding of how networks function, as well as the extent they matter in the governance of a constitutional democracy. The authors examine the judicial function of networks, the way they ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Fiduciary Duty and the Atmospheric Trust

    This book explores the application of concepts of fiduciary duty or public trust in responding to the policy and governance challenges posed by policy problems that extend over multiple terms of government or even, as in the case of climate change, human generations. The volume brings together a range of perspectives including leading international thinkers on questions of fiduciary duty and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Dialogues on Italian Constitutional Justice

    A Comparative Perspective

    Series series Routledge-Giappichelli Studies in Law
    This collection adopts a distinctive method and structure to introduce the work of Italian constitutional law scholars into the Anglophone dialogue while also bringing a number of prominent non-Italian constitutional law scholars to study and write about constitutional justice in a global context.The work presents six distinct areas of particular interest from a comparative constitutional ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • EU External Relations Law

    Text, Cases and Materials

    The first edition of this seminal textbook made a significant impact on the teaching of EU external relations law. This new edition retains the hallmarks of that success, while providing a fully revised and updated account of this burgeoning field. It offers a dual perspective, looking at questions from both the EU constitutional law perspective (the principles underpinning EU external action, the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Religion, Law, Politics and the State in Africa

    Applying Legal Pluralism in Ghana

    Applying a legal pluralist framework, this study examines the complex interrelationships between religion, law and politics in contemporary Ghana, a professedly secular State characterised by high levels of religiosity. It aims to explore legal, cultural and moral tensions created by overlapping loci of authority (state actors, traditional leaders and religious functionaries). It contends that ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Human Rights and Judicial Review in Australia and Canada

    The Newest Despotism?

    Series series Hart Studies in Comparative Public Law
    It is commonly asserted that bills of rights have had a 'righting' effect on the principles of judicial review of administrative action and have been a key driver of the modern expansion in judicial oversight of the executive arm of government. A number of commentators have pointed to Australian administrative law as evidence for this 'righting' hypothesis. They have suggested that the fact that ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Integration of Refugees in Higher Education

    Integración de refugiados en la educación superior (versión en inglés)

    Series series Estudios
    The book «Integration of Refugees in Higher Education» is the result of a hard work over more than three years as part of a capacity building project under the Erasmus + program, funded by the European Commission and coordinated by Mohamed Lamine Debaghine Sétif 2 University, in Algeria. Ci-RES, «creation of institutional capacities for the integration of refugees in higher education» is a pilot ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Rohingya, Justice and International Law

    Written by an international judge, professor and former ambassador with decades of experience in the field, this is an incisive and highly readable book about international law as well as realpolitik in bilateral and multilateral diplomacy in the quest for justice by victims of serious human rights violations amounting to grave crimes of international concern.Focusing on the plight of the ethnic ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Law, Society and Community

    Socio-Legal Essays in Honour of Roger Cotterrell

    This collection of socio-legal studies, written by leading theorists and researchers from around the world, offers original, perceptive and critical contributions to ideas and theories that have been expounded by Roger Cotterrell over a long and distinguished career. Engaging with many classic issues and theories of the sociology of law, the contributions are likely to become classics themselves ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Law and Society in East Asia

    The massive and complex process of change in East Asia over recent decades has brought about a transformation in the nature of law and legal institutions in the region. Whilst the process of change has to some degree mimicked western models of law and legal change, there have been significant differences in approach due to the different social foundations of East Asian societies. The more obvious ... Read more

    $425.99 USD

  • Fiscal Year 2013 Budget of the U.S. Government

    The complete federal budget of the United States Government for Fiscal Year FY 2013. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Peace, Discontent and Constitutional Law

    Challenges to Constitutional Order and Democracy

    Edited by Martin Belov ...
    Series series Comparative Constitutional Change
    This book offers a multi-discursive analysis of the constitutional foundations for peaceful coexistence, the constitutional background for discontent and the impact of discontent, and the consequences of conflict and revolution on the constitutional order of a democratic society which may lead to its implosion. It explores the capacity of the constitutional order to serve as a reliable framework ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Criminal and Quasi-criminal Enforcement Mechanisms in Europe

    Origins, Concepts, Future

    Series series Hart Studies in European Criminal Law
    This book looks at the interplay between criminal and other branches of public law pursuing similar objectives (referred to as 'quasi-criminal law'). The need for clarifying the concepts and the interlink between criminal and quasi-criminal enforcement is a topic attracting a lot of discussion and debate both in academia and practice across Europe (and beyond). This volume adds to this debate by ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • A Study of Mixed Legal Systems: Endangered, Entrenched or Blended

    Series series Juris Diversitas
    A Study of Mixed Legal Systems: Endangered, Entrenched, or Blended takes the reader on a fascinating voyage of discovery. It includes case studies of a number of systems from across the globe: Cyprus, Guyana, Jersey, Mauritius, Philippines, Quebec, St Lucia, Scotland, and Seychelles. Each combines its legal legacies in novel ways. Large and small, in Europe and beyond, some are sovereign, some ... Read more

    $68.99 USD