How did the European Community's legal system become the most effective international legal system in the world? This book starts where traditional legal accounts leave off, explaining why national judiciaries took on a role enforcing European law... Zobraziť viac
This impartial legal analysis of the Lisbon Treaty's historical and political context explores the EU's purpose, its powers and the treaties which govern it. Jean-Claude Piris, the Director General of the Legal Service of the Council of the European... Zobraziť viac
The ever-evolving nature of electronic commerce and social media continues to challenge the capacity of the courts to respond to privacy and security violations in 'cyberlaw'. Social Media and Electronic Commerce Law is designed to provide students and... Zobraziť viac
This book examines the coherent international tax regime that is embodied in both the tax treaty network and in domestic laws, and the way it forms a significant part of international law, both treaty based and customary. The practical implication is... Zobraziť viac
More than half a century after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defined what a human being is and is entitled to, MacKinnon asks: Are women human yet? She exposes the consequences and significance of the systematic maltreatment of women and... Zobraziť viac
A comprehensive introduction to western Christianity and western law. Zobraziť viac
This book proposes a strategic pressure theory that argues that in emerging democracies, political competition eggs on rather than restrains power-hungry politicians. Using data from Russia and Ukraine in 1998–2004, the author finds that independent... Zobraziť viac
An analysis of the legal issues raised by the international fight against money laundering. Zobraziť viac
This book discusses one of the central problems in the philosophy of law--the question of legal determinacy. Is the law a seamless web or are there gaps? Bix argues that the major re-thinking of the common and "common sense" views about law that have... Zobraziť viac
In this wide-ranging interdisciplinary work, Paul W. Kahn argues that political order is founded not on contract but on sacrifice. Because liberalism is blind to sacrifice, it is unable to explain how the modern state has brought us to both the rule of... Zobraziť viac
Updated to reflect recent legal cases, The Power of Precedent presents an in-depth look at the role that precedent plays in constitutional decision making. Clearly outlining the major issues in the continuing debates on the significance of precedent... Zobraziť viac
Synthesises the vast literature on economic regulation into a coherent overview of regulatory theory and practice. Zobraziť viac
Rules are a central component of such diverse enterprises as law, morality, language, games, religion, etiquette, and family governance, but there is often confusion about what a rule is, and what rules do. Offering a comprehensive philosophical... Zobraziť viac
Examines Europe's first significant national policies on social welfare in the late nineteenth century, which saw regulation focused on workplace accidents and had major implications for state-society relations. Ideal for scholars in history and law... Zobraziť viac
Over the last thirty years, the European Union has created a system of environmental governance in Europe. This work seeks to understand this new system of environmental governance both at the European level and at the level of member states. It argues... Zobraziť viac
This book analyzes the courts' role, conditioned by the principles of progressiveness and of prevalence of human rights, particularly regarding the important rediscovery of the right to equality and non-discrimination. Zobraziť viac
This 2005 volume is a history of war, from the standpoint of international law, from the beginning of history to the present day. Its primary focus is on legal conceptions of war as such, rather than on the substantive or technical aspects of the law... Zobraziť viac
This commentary provides a critical insight into the negotiating history that led to the adoption of the elements of war crimes. It also presents existing jurisprudence, which is relevant for the interpretation of the war crimes in the ICC Statute. Zobraziť viac
A Comparative Study of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict and the Aland Islands Precedent... Zobraziť viac
The book explains why it is warranted to speak of the European constitution even after the debacle of the EU Constitutional Treaty. It explains how European constitutionalism seeks to achieve its legitimating task through its interaction with national... Zobraziť viac
