Jurisprudence category: 1225 books
by Panu Minkkinen
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
Sovereignty, Knowledge, Law investigates the notion of sovereignty from three different, but related perspectives: as a legal question in relation to the sovereign state, as a political question in relation to sovereign power, and as a metaphysical question in relation to sovereign self-knowledge....
Law, Legal Culture and Society
Mirrored Identities of the Legal Order
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
This volume addresses the pluralistic identity of the legal order. It argues that the mutual reflexivity of the different ways society perceives law and law perceives society eclipses the unique formal identity of written law. It advances a distinctive approach to the plural ways in which legal cultures...
Temporal Boundaries of Law and Politics
Time Out of Joint
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
In the last decade, the changing role of time in society has once again taken centre stage in the academic debate. A prominent, but surely not the only, aspect of this debate hinges on the so-called acceleration of time and its societal consequences. Despite the fact that time is fundamental to the...
The World Bank Legal Review, Volume 5
Fostering Development through Opportunity, Inclusion, and Equity
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This volume will explore the potentially transformative role of effective laws and legal institutions in providing people with more opportunity that is both inclusive and equitable. Laws, legal frameworks and judicial institutions can create opportunity by providing the space to build human capital and...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
This collection of essays brings together jus post bellum and transitional justice theorists to explore the legal and moral questions that arise at the end of war and in the transition to less oppressive regimes. Transitional justice and jus post bellum share in common many concepts that will be explored...
Theatre of the Rule of Law
Transnational Legal Intervention in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Theatre of the Rule of Law presents a sustained critique of global rule of law promotion - an expansive industry at the heart of international development, post-conflict reconstruction and security policy today. While successful in articulating and disseminating an effective global public policy,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
This volume addresses the relationship between law and neoliberalism. Assembling work from established and emerging legal scholars, political theorists, philosophers, historians, and sociologists from around the world – including the Americas, Australia, Europe, and the United Kingdom – it addresses...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Labour law is widely considered to be in crisis by scholars of the field. This crisis has an obvious external dimension - labour law is attacked for impeding efficiency, flexibility, and development; vilified for reducing employment and for favouring already well placed employees over less fortunate...
Neoliberal Legality
Understanding the Role of Law in the Neoliberal Project
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Neoliberalism has been studied as a political ideology, an historical moment, an economic programme, an institutional model, and a totalising political project. Yet the role of law in the neoliberal story has been relatively neglected, and the idea of neoliberalism as a juridical project has yet to...
Global Justice and International Economic Law
Three Takes
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
For centuries, international trade has been seen as essential to the wealth and power of nations. More recently we have started to understand its problematic role as an engine of distributive justice. In this compelling book Frank J. Garcia proposes a new way to evaluate, construct and manage international...
Who Owns Knowledge?
Knowledge and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Who Owns Knowledge? explores the emerging linkages between the extension of knowledge and the law. It anticipates that the legal system will not only be called upon to adjudicate in matters of creative minds, but will be expected to do so to an ever increasing degree.
Linkages between the legal...
Critical Race Theory (Third Edition)
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Updated to include the Black Lives Matter movement, the presidency of Barack Obama, the rise of hate speech on the Internet, and more.
Since the publication of the first edition of Critical Race Theory in 2001, the United States has lived through two economic downturns, an outbreak of terrorism,...
The Intellectual Property Holding Company
Tax Use and Abuse from Victoria's Secret to Apple
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Many companies that have become household names have avoided billions in taxes by 'parking' their valuable intellectual property (IP) assets in holding companies located in tax-favored jurisdictions. In the United States, for example, many domestic companies have moved their IP to tax-favored states...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In the European Union, competition law has expanded and matured, assuming a key role in the promotion of consumer welfare, economic progress and public interest in general. Nevertheless, several issues remain open. Should the European Union remain faithful to antitrust public enforcement or fully...