Jurisprudence category: 1225 books
A Straightforward Guide To Probate And The Law
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
A Straightforward Guide to Probate and the Law, Revised Edition, is a concise and informative guide to all the processes that underpin probate and the obtaining of probate. The book is designed exclusively for anyone who is either a family member or who is acting as an executor of an estate. By using...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Civil Liability and Financial Security for Offshore Oil and Gas Activities provides insights into the liability and compensation regime for offshore-related damage. The book analyses the legal regime in a variety of states (including the US and the UK) as well as the EU regime. In addition, the various...
Securities Markets and Corporate Governance
A Chinese Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This book explores the rationalities and functions of securities markets and takeover activities. Focusing on the Chinese experience of utilizing the securities market as an effective mechanism of corporate control, this volume analyses the future development of China's financial market in the era...
The European Union and the Culture Industries
Regulation and the Public Interest
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
This edited collection brings together leading academics in their respective fields to examine the European Union's impact on media and public policy. It provides an analysis of the broader areas of EU policy and links these together to give a greater appreciation of the nuances and scope of EU regulatory...
Law, Society and Community
Socio-Legal Essays in Honour of Roger Cotterrell
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
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...
Ignorance of Law
A Philosophical Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
This book argues that ignorance of law should usually be a complete excuse from criminal liability. It defends this conclusion by invoking two presumptions: first, the content of criminal law should conform to morality; second, mistakes of fact and mistakes of law should be treated symmetrically....
Living Law
Studies in Legal and Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Living Law presents a comprehensive overview of relationships between legal and social theory, and of current approaches to the sociological study of legal ideas. It explores the nature of legal theory and sociolegal studies today as teaching and research fields, and the work of many of the major...
Legal Violence and the Limits of the Law
Cruel and Unusual
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
What is the meaning of punishment today? Where is the limit that separates it from the cruel and unusual? In legal discourse, the distinction between punishment and vengeance—punishment being the measured use of legally sanctioned violence and vengeance being a use of violence that has no measure—is...
Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law
The Legacy of Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law -The Legacy of Modernism addresses the legacy of contemporary critiques of language for the concept of the rule of law. Between those who care about the rule of law and those who are interested in contemporary legal theory, there has been a dialogue of the deaf,...
Respect and Equality
Transsexual and Transgender Rights
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Reading Modern Law
Critical Methodologies and Sovereign Formations
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Reading Modern Law identifies and elaborates upon key critical methodologies for reading and writing about law in modernity. The force of law rests on determinate and localizable authorizations, as well as an expansive capacity to encompass what has not been pre-figured by an order of rules. The key...
Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance
Making it Stick
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The past few decades have witnessed an explosion of judgments on social rights around the world. However, we know little about whether these rulings have been implemented. Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance is the first book to engage in a comparative study of compliance of social...
by Rainer Hellweg
Language: German
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Das Buch untersucht die Subsidiarität der Lebendorganspende, wie sie im deutschen Transplantationsgesetz normiert ist. Der Autor erörtert, welche juristischen Fragestellungen und Probleme in der medizinischen Praxis diese Regelung aufwirft. Er beleuchtet die relevanten medizinischen, ethischen und...
Nationalism and the Rule of Law
Lessons from the Balkans and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
The relationship between nationalism and the rule of law has been largely neglected by scholars although separately they have often captured public discourse and have emerged as critical concepts. This book provides the first systematic account of this relationship. It develops an analytical framework...