Jurisprudence category: 1225 books
Migration and Refugee Law
Principles and Practice in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Migration and Refugee Law: Principles and Practice in Australia is a comprehensive overview of the legal principles governing the entry of people into Australia. This fully revised third edition provides an accessible analysis of the theory and practice of this complex and controversial area of the...
Normativity and Power
Analyzing Social Orders of Justification
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Humans are justificatory beingsthey offer, demand, and require justifications. The rules and institutions they follow rest on justification narratives that have evolved over time and, taken together, constitute a dynamic and tension-laden normative order. In this collection of essays, the first translation...
by Rafael Domingo
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
This timely book offers a theistic approach to secular legal systems and demonstrates that these systems are neither agnostic nor atheist. Critical but succinct in its approach, this book focuses on an extensive range of liberal legal approaches to religious and moral issues, and subjects them to...
Public Interest Rules of International Law
Towards Effective Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This book clarifies factors that play an important role in securing the effectiveness of legal regimes that aim to protect public interests of the international community. In Part 1, the authors focus on theoretical problems arising in the implementation process of those legal regimes from both a...
The Limits of Criminal Law
A Comparative Analysis of Approaches to Legal Theorizing
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This book compares the civil and common law approach to analyze the question - 'What sorts of conduct may the state legitimately make criminal?'. Through a comparative focus on an Australian and German context, this book utilizes interviews with Australian criminal law experts and contrasts them with...
by Mark Hill QC
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Ecclesiastical Law has established itself as the leading authority on the laws of the Church of England. Offering a uniquely detailed and scholarly exposition of the law, it has become an essential reference for anyone with a professional interest in ecclesiastical and canon law. The fourth edition...
State Secretaries of State
Guardians of the Democratic Process
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Nearly a decade after the 2000 Presidential elections invited a firestorm of questions about the sanctity of our democratic process, there continues to be a heightened interest in the role of state-wide elections officials, typically the state's Secretary of State - this book looks into their pivotal...
The Evolving Dimensions of International Law
Hard Choices for the World Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
This book examines recent developments in sources of public international law, such as treaties and custom operating among nations in their mutual relations, as well as developments in some of the primary rules of law international institutions created by these processes. It finds that public international...
The Legitimacy of The European Union through Legal Rationality
Free Movement of Third Country Nationals
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Third country nationals (TCNs) play an important part in the economy of the European Union, reflected in the rights granted to them under European Union Law. Political expediency is however shaped by world, regional and domestic influences that in turn determine policy towards third country nationals...
by Laura Grenfell
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
In most post-conflict states, a strong level of legal pluralism is the norm, particularly in regions of Africa and Asia where between eighty and ninety per cent of disputes are resolved through non-state legal mechanisms. The international community, in particular the United Nations, persistently...
Power and Principle in the Market Place
On Ethics and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
In the global financial crisis, the need to develop a new kind of economy with a closer relation between ethics and economics has become an important challenge to the international society. This book contributes to this debate by investigating different aspects of global business ethics and corporate...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This original collection of jurisprudential essays furthers our understanding of the nature of rights. In Part 1, Halpin considers the value of Hohfeldian neutrality when theorising about law in general, and legal rights in particular, and Kurki focuses on Hohfeld's operative notion of power. In Part...
The World Bank Legal Review
Legal Innovation and Empowerment for Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Much has been written about the role of law in furthering development. More analysis and debate is needed to understand more fully the true nature of this role. The World Bank Legal Review collects much of this debate and analysis, contributed by scholars and practitioners from around the world. The...
Hate on the Net
Extremist Sites, Neo-fascism On-line, Electronic Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Terrorists, subversive political groups and gangs with violent agendas have found an easy and convenient means to promulgate their messages of hate - cyberspace. Whilst debate about the use of the internet by extremist groups rages around governments and media alike, little has hitherto been presented...