Comparative category: 2220 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
What should be the primary goals of a judicial appointments system, and how much weight should be placed on diversity in particular? Why is achieving a diverse judiciary across the UK taking so long? Is it time for positive action? What role should the current judiciary play in the appointment of...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
In the past century, Asian nations have experienced a wave of democratisation as countries in the region have gained independence or transitioned from authoritarian military rule towards more participatory politics. At the same time, there has been an expansion of judicial power in Asia, whereby new...
The Mandate of Dignity
Ronald Dworkin, Revolutionary Constitutionalism, and the Claims of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
A major American legal thinker, the late Ronald Dworkin also helped shape new dispensations in the Global South. In South Africa, in particular, his work has been fiercely debated in the context of one of the world’s most progressive constitutions. Despite Dworkin’s discomfort with that document’s...
Church and State in Western Society
Established Church, Cooperation and Separation
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
The role of religion as a contentious and motivating force in society is examined here through the lens of the church-state dynamic in countries with three very different approaches to this crucial relationship. Focusing on the United Kingdom, where there is official recognition of one religion by...
Emergencies in Public Law
The Legal Politics of Containment
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Debates about emergency powers traditionally focus on whether law can or should constrain officials in emergencies. Emergencies in Public Law moves beyond this narrow lens, focusing instead on how law structures the response to emergencies and what kind of legal and political dynamics this relation...
Vitiation of Contracts
International Contractual Principles and English Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Vitiation of Contracts proposes a new theory to explain the rationale of general vitiating factors in English contract law. It provides a clear link to voluntariness as the foundation of contractual liability and compares the English position, in light of this theory, with the Principles of International...
Fates of Political Liberalism in the British Post-Colony
The Politics of the Legal Complex
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
What explains divergences in political liberalism among new nations that shared the same colonial heritage? This book assembles exciting original essays on former colonies of the British Empire in South Asia, Africa and Southeast Asia that gained independence after World War II. The interdisciplinary...
Networking the Rule of Law
How Change Agents Reshape Judicial Governance in the EU
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
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...
Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad
In Search of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
"Over the past decade, Carothers has established himself as the leading U.S. expert on democracy promotion. He is a powerful critic not only of the nuts-and-bolts of democracy assistance but also of U.S. grand strategy overall."-SAIS Review Promoting the rule of law has become a major part...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Cosmopolitan Justice and its Discontents pursues a reflection upon the institutional orders designed to ensure respect for the rule of law, human rights, and social justice. The majority of literature on cosmopolitanism tends to be oriented in sociology, political science or philosophy, and is largely...
Recasting Welfare Capitalism
Economic Adjustment in Contemporary France and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2009
In Recasting Welfare Capitalism, Mark Vail employs a sophisticated and original theoretical approach to compare welfare states and political-economic adjustment in Germany and France. He examines how and why institutional change takes place and what factors characterize economic evolution when moving...
by Susan Nathan
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
The pioneering autobiographical story of a British Zionist in her fifties who moves to Israel and chooses to live among 25,000 Muslims in the all-Arab Israeli town of Tamra, a few miles from Nazareth. Susan Nathan’s revelatory book about her new life across the ethnic divide in Israel is already...
The World Trade Organization
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
The World Trade Organization is one of the most important yet least understood organizations in the world. As a lynchpin of globalization, the WTO allows us to enjoy products and services from around the world, but it also lays bare the frailty of many industries, in some cases leading to unemployment...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The work of both socio-legal scholars and specialists working in social movements research continues to contribute to our understanding of how law relates to and informs the politics of social movements. In the 1990s, an important line of new research, most of it initiated by those working in the...