Jurisprudence category: 1225 books

Protracted and bitter resistance by alter- and anti-globalisation movements shows that the globalisation of law transpires as the globalisation of inclusion and exclusion. Humanity is inside and outside global law in all its possible manifestations. But how is this possible? How must legal orders...

Healthcare professionals face an increasing threat of litigation from parties whom they have never met in their daily medical practice and who look nothing like the traditional patient. The so-called ’non-patient’ may take many forms”for example, a person who is injured or killed by a mentally-ill,...

The Dual State, first published in 1941, remains one of the most erudite books on the logic of dictatorship. It was the first comprehensive analysis of the rise and nature of National Socialism and the only such analysis written from within Hitler's Germany. Ernst Fraenkel's courageous ethnography...

Die Zielsetzung des Insolvenzverfahrens erschöpft sich nicht alleine in der effektiven Befriedigung der Gläubiger. Seine Aufgabe ist ebenso, insolvente Unternehmen zu sanieren und redliche Schuldner von ihren Verbindlichkeiten zu befreien. Um dieser Funktion auch im Gewerberecht Geltung zu verschaffen,...

Il processo italiano non solo è complicato, ma anche schizofrenico.Il rimedio principale non sta tanto nella modifica di questa o quella norma, quanto nel tornare, noi, a essere un popolo serio.Alla data del 30 giugno 2011 la massa dell'arretrato nei tribunali italiani era pari quasi a 9 milioni...

How can we characterise law and legal theory in the twenty-first century? Law After Modernity argues that we live in an age 'after Modernity' and that legal theory must take account of this fact. The book presents a dynamic analysis of law, which focusses on the richness and pluralism of law, on its...

Interrogating supply/demand from an inter- and multi-disciplinary perspective, this collection broadens engagement beyond the routine analysis of the locus of violence in prostitution and the validity of the prostitute's consent. A focus on the supply/demand dynamic brings into play a range of other...

Das Recht der Europäischen Union wird nicht nur durch mitgliedstaatliche Behörden, sondern zunehmend auch durch Private vollzogen. Rose von Richthofen beschreibt Struktur, Bindungen und Rechtsfolgen dieses privaten Vollzugs aus der Sicht des deutschen Verwaltungsrechts wie auch des Unionsrechts....

This book presents a comprehensive investigation of the notion of obligation in Bentham’s thought. For Bentham, obligation is a fictitious – namely linguistic – entity, whose import and truth lie in empirical perceptions of pain and pleasure, ‘real’ entities. This work explores Bentham’s...

In the wake of Brexit and Trump, the debate surrounding post-truth fills the newspapers and is at the center of the public debate. Democratic institutions and the rule of law have always been constructed and legitimized by discourses of truth. And so the issue of "post-truth" or "fake...

China and Islam examines the intersection of two critical issues of the contemporary world: Islamic revival and an assertive China, questioning the assumption that Islamic law is incompatible with state law. It finds that both Hui and the Party-State invoke, interpret, and make arguments based on...

Critical legal scholars have made us aware that law is made up not only of rules but also of language. But who speaks the language of law? And can one lawfully speak in one’s voice? For the Italian philosopher Adriana Cavarero, to answer these questions we must not separate who is speaking from...

Thema des Buches ist der Erste Glücksspieländerungsstaatsvertrag, der am 1. Juli 2012 in Kraft trat und das Glücksspielrecht der Länder grundlegend reformierte. Das Staatsmonopol für Sportwetten wurde durchbrochen und der Markt für private Anbieter geöffnet. Deutlich strengere Regeln gelten...

Das intertemporale Erbrecht geht von dem Grundsatz aus, dass Erbfälle, die nach dem Inkrafttreten einer Gesetzesänderung eintreten, nach dem neuen Recht zu beurteilen sind. Knüpfen die geänderten Vorschriften an Sachverhalte aus der Zeit vor der Gesetzesänderung an, ist dieser Grundsatz nicht...