Jurisprudence category: 1225 books
by Kathleen Birrell
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Examining contested notions of indigeneity, and the positioning of the Indigenous subject before and beyond the law, this book focuses upon the animation of indigeneities within textual imaginaries, both literary and juridical. Engaging the philosophy of Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin, as well...
Figuring Victims in International Criminal Justice
The case of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Most discourses on victims in international criminal justice take the subject of victims for granted, as an identity and category existing exogenously to the judicial process. This book takes a different approach. Through a close reading of the institutional practices of one particular court, it demonstrates...
Power, Prose, and Purse
Law, Literature, and Economic Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
From Anthony Trollop to Sinclair Lewis, and from Jane Austen to James Joyce and John Steinbeck, many important novels touch on fundamental questions about the role of money in human affairs. These questions are explored in this volume through the lens of law and literature. The sixteen essays collected...
Contesting Economic and Social Rights in Ireland
Constitution, State and Society, 1848–2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
This book presents a political understanding of socio-economic rights by contextualising constitution-makers' and judges' decision-making in terms of Ireland's rich history of people's struggles for justice 'from below' between 1848 and the present. Its theoretical framework incorporates critical...
Emergency Powers in Asia
Exploring the Limits of Legality
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
What is the relevance of contemporary debates over emergency powers for countries situated in Asia? What role does, and should, the constitution play in constraining these powers? The essays in this collection address these issues, drawing on emergency situations in over 20 countries in Asia as a...
Sub-State Governance through Territorial Autonomy
A Comparative Study in Constitutional Law of Powers, Procedures and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2011
This study focuses on territorial autonomy, which is often used in different conflict-resolution and minority situations. Four typical elements are identified on the basis of the historical example of the Memel Territory and the so-called Memel case of the PCIJ; distribution of powers, participation...
Making Habeas Work
A Legal History
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
A reconsideration of the writ of habeas corpus casts new light on a range of current issues
Habeas corpus, the storied Great Writ of Liberty, is a judicial order that requires government officials to produce a prisoner in court, persuade an independent judge of the correctness of their claimed...
On Secular Governance
Lutheran Perspectives on Contemporary Legal Issues
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
This volume puts forth an unprecedented, distinctive Lutheran take on the intersection of law and religion in our society today. On Secular Governance gathers the collaborative reflections of legal and theological scholars on a range of subjects — women’s issues, property law and the environment,...
by Aileen Kavanagh
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Under the Human Rights Act, British courts are for the first time empowered to review primary legislation for compliance with a codified set of fundamental rights. In this book, Aileen Kavanagh argues that the HRA gives judges strong powers of constitutional review, similar to those exercised by the...
Creating Legal Worlds
Story and Style in a Culture of Argument
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
A legal judgment is first and foremost a story, a narrative of facts about the parties to the case. Creating Legal Worlds is a study of how that narrative operates, and how rhetoric, story, and style function as integral elements of any legal argument.
Through careful analyses of notable cases...
Public Sentinels
A Comparative Study of Australian Solicitors-General
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In recent years, controversy has surrounded the role of top government lawyers in the United States and the United Kingdom. Allegations of bad lawyering and bad ethics in public office over the ’torture memos’ in the United States and the political pressure placed on the Attorney-General in the...
Executive Measures, Terrorism and National Security
Have the Rules of the Game Changed?
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
David Bonner presents an historical and contemporary legal analysis of UK governmental use of executive measures, rather than criminal process, to deal with national security threats. The work examines measures of internment, deportation and restriction on movement deployed in the UK and (along with...
by Joseph M. Jacob
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
The end of the last century witnessed two major events in the field of civil justice: the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) came into force and the Human Rights Act (HRA) gave effect to the European Convention on Human Rights. This volume assesses the effect of the Act and attempts to reconcile the expediency...
Ritual and Rhythm in Electoral Systems
A Comparative Legal Account
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
’Why do we vote in schools?’ ’What is the social meaning of secret balloting?’ ’What is lost if we vote by mail or computers rather than on election day?’ ’What is the history and role of drinking and wagering in elections?’ ’How does the electoral cycle generate the theatre of election...