Jurisprudence category: 1225 books
Pregnant Pause
An International Legal Analysis of Maternity Discrimination
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Maternity Discrimination is an ever increasingly important area of the law around the world, affecting both women and men as they juggle parenthood and the workplace. Pregnant Pause provides readers with a better understanding of the issue of maternity discrimination and inequality by looking at the...
The Changing Nature of Customary International Law
Methods of Interpreting the Concept of Custom in International Criminal Tribunals
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
This book examines the evolution of customary international law (CIL) as a source of international law. Using the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) as a key case study, the book explores the importance of CIL in the development of international criminal law and focuses...
by Ryan C. Black, Ryan J. Owens, Justin Wedeking
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
This book is the first study specifically to investigate the extent to which US Supreme Court justices alter the clarity of their opinions based on expected reactions from their audiences. The authors examine this dynamic by creating a unique measure of opinion clarity and then testing whether the...
The Disruption of International Organised Crime
An Analysis of Legal and Non-Legal Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Analyzing the structures of transnational organized crime, this book considers whether traditional mechanisms and national jurisdictions can tackle this increasing menace. Highlighting the strengths and weaknesses in the present methods of control, the book discusses the possibilities of developing...
by Baudouin Heuninckx
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
States increasingly cooperate to buy expensive defence equipment, but the management and legal aspects of these large collaborative procurement programmes are complex and not well understood. The Law of Collaborative Defence Procurement in the European Union analyses how these programmes are managed,...
by Dr Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The received view on the nature of legal authority contains the idea that a sound account of legitimate authority will explain how a legal authority has a right to command and the addressee a duty to obey. The received view fails to explain, however, how legal authority truly operates upon human beings...
Legitimacy, Legal Development and Change
Law and Modernization Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This book addresses critical questions about how legal development works in practice. Can law be employed to shape behavior as a form of social engineering, or must social behavior change first, relegating legal change to follow as ratification or reinforcement? And what is legal development's source...
A Straightforward Guide To Producing Your Own Will
Sixth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
For anyone, the process of producing a will and ensuring that their affairs after death are catered for is a complex task. In addition, the process of probate and administration of estates is an area which many people do not understand. This book aims to demystify the whole area of wills and probate...
Foucault's Politics of Philosophy
Power, Law, and Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Oriented around the theme of a ‘politics of philosophy’, this book tracks the phases in which Foucault’s genealogy of power, law, and subjectivity was reorganized during the 14 years of his teaching at the College de France, as his focus shifted from sovereignty to governance. This theme, Sandro...
Playing by the Rules
A Philosophical Examination of Rule-Based Decision-Making in Law and in Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 1991
This is a philosophical but non-technical analysis of the very idea of a rule. Although focused somewhat on the role of rules in the legal system, it is also relevant to the place of rules in morality, religion, etiquette, games, language, and family governance. In both explaining the idea of a rule...
Product Liability Law in Transition
A Central European Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This volume examines the evolution of Central European product liability systems, with particular reference to the effect of the implementation of the Product Liability Directive in the context of the recent enlargement of the EU. This book also provides a comparison of how product liability law has...
by Peter Cane
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Since publication of the seventh edition of this seminal text, personal injury law has witnessed momentous changes. A major overhaul of the social security system began in 2012 and the Equality Act 2010 significantly modifies anti-discrimination law and its impact on the disabled. But perhaps the...
The Demise of the Reasonable Man
A Cross-cultural Study of a Legal Concept
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Judges in most societies often resort to resolving disputes by means of applying a criterion of reasonableness. In The Demise of the'Reasonable Man' Michael Saltman explores the ways in which reasonableness varies from one legal culture to another, defined by the relative presence or absence of centralized...
Decisions to Imprison
Court Decision-Making Inside and Outside the Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Rasmus Wandall uses quantitative and qualitative methods from studies carried out in Denmark, to address the formal and informal norms and ideologies that are used to generate decisions to imprison. Focusing on the operations of the courtroom participants, his work investigates how court decision-making...