Jurisprudence category: 1225 books
European Union Non-Discrimination Law and Intersectionality
Investigating the Triangle of Racial, Gender and Disability Discrimination
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
This book contributes to a critical reflection of current legislative and jurisprudential developments in Non-Discrimination Law, focusing on the European Union. The book is focused on intersectionality between gender, race and disability and the question of whether, and to what extent, this intersection...
by Tarunabh Khaitan
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Marrying legal doctrine from five pioneering and conversant jurisdictions with contemporary political philosophy, this book provides a general theory of discrimination law. Part I gives a theoretically rigorous account of the identity and scope of discrimination law: what makes a legal norm a norm...
South African Law
What you should know
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
An accessible and utterly readable guide to the South African legal system. This book provides expert answers to all your legal questions and addresses a comprehensive list of day-to-day issues such as: Family law: from marriage through divorce to deceased estates Money matters, such as buying, leasing...
by Julen Etxabe
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Adjudication between conflicting normative universes that do not share the same vocabulary, standards of rationality, and moral commitments cannot be resolved by recourse to traditional principles. Such cases are always in a sense tragic. And what is called for, in our pluralistic and conflictual...
Race, Reform, and Regulation of the Electoral Process
Recurring Puzzles in American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
This book offers a critical re-evaluation of three fundamental and interlocking themes in American democracy: the relationship between race and politics, the performance and reform of election systems and the role of courts in regulating the political process. This edited volume features contributions...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Reexamining Customary International Law takes on the complex issues and controversies surrounding the history, theory, and practice of customary international law as it reexamines customary law's increasingly important role in world affairs. It incorporates the expertise of distinguished authors to...
by Mariana Valverde
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
If knowledge is power, then the power of law can be studied through the lens of knowledge. This book opens up a substantive new area of legal research--knowledge production--and presents a series of case studies showing that the hybridity and eclecticism of legal knowledge processes make it unfruitful...
Electoral College Reform
Challenges and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The United States has not updated the Electoral College system since the Twelfth Amendment was ratified in 1804, despite public opinion polls showing a majority of Americans are in favor of changing or outright abolishing it. So why hasn't the United States reformed this system? Electoral College...
Justice through Apologies
Remorse, Reform, and Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
In this follow up to I Was Wrong: The Meanings of Apologies, Nick Smith expands his ambitious theories of categorical apologies to civil and criminal law. After rejecting court-ordered apologies as unjustifiable humiliation, this book explains that penitentiaries were originally designed to bring...
Hannah Arendt
Legal Theory and the Eichmann Trial
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Hannah Arendt is one of the great outsiders of twentieth-century political philosophy. After reporting on the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, Arendt embarked on a series of reflections about how to make judgments and exercise responsibility without recourse to existing law, especially when...
The Scottish Independence Referendum
Constitutional and Political Implications
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The September 2014 Scottish independence referendum was an event of profound constitutional and political significance, not only for Scotland, but for the UK as a whole. Although Scottish voters chose to remain in the UK, the experience of the referendum and the subsequent political reaction to the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This volume brings together some of the best journal articles of the last twenty years which deal with various aspects of the relationship between parents and children. Adopting an inter-disciplinary and comparative approach, the book reproduces articles from a variety of journals in law and the social...
by Anne Lise Kjær, Silvia Adamo
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
What role does linguistic diversity play in European democratic and legal processes? Is it an obstacle to deliberative democracy and a hindrance to legal certainty, or a cultural and economic asset and a prerequisite for the free movement of citizens? This book examines the tensions and contradictions...
From Apec to Xanadu: Creating a Viable Community in the Post-cold War Pacific
Creating a Viable Community in the Post-cold War Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
This volume analyzes the concerns that must be addressed if Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is to be a viable component of the post-Cold War international order, such as what the future role of the USA who made Asia's transformation possible since 1945, is as a leader in that region.