Hart Publishing imprint: 910 books
by Charles Foster
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Dignity is often denounced as hopelessly amorphous or incurably theological: as feel-good philosophical window-dressing, or as the name given to whatever principles give you the answer that you think is right. This is wrong, says Charles Foster: dignity is not only an essential principle in bioethics...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Dementia is a topic of enormous human, medical, economic, legal and ethical importance. Its importance grows as more of us live longer. The legal and ethical problems it raises are complex, intertwined and under-discussed. This book brings together contributions from clinicians, lawyers and ethicists...
by Jean-Bernard Auby
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Globalisation, Law and the State begins – as is customary in globalisation literature – with an acknowledgement of the definitional difficulties associated with globalisation. Rather than labour the point, the book identifies some economic, political and cultural dimensions to the phenomenon and...
Criminal Fair Trial Rights
Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The Article 6 fair trial rights are the most heavily-litigated Convention rights before the European Court of Human Rights, generating a large and complex body of case law. With this book, Goss provides an innovative and critical analysis of the European Court's Article 6 case law.
The category of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
How does the state, as a public authority, relate to those under its jurisdiction through the criminal law? Connecting the ways in which criminal lawyers, legal theorists, public lawyers and criminologists address questions of the criminal law's legitimacy, contributors to this collection explore...
by Professor Martti Koskenniemi
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Today international law is everywhere. Wars are fought and opposed in its name. It is invoked to claim rights and to challenge them, to indict or support political leaders, to distribute resources and to expand or limit the powers of domestic and international institutions. International law is part...
by Dr Mario Prost
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
'Fragmentation' has become a defining, albeit controversial, metaphor of international law scholarship in the era of globalisation. Some scholars see it as a new development, others as history repeating itself; some approach it as a technical issue and some as the reflection of deeper political struggles....
Arendtian Constitutionalism
Law, Politics and the Order of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The meaning and function of law in Hannah Arendt's work has never been the subject of a systematic reconstruction. This book examines Arendt's work and reconstructs her ideas through political, legal and constitutional theory, and shows that her engagement with law is continuous as well as crucial...
Freedom and Force
Essays on Kant’s Legal Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
This collection of essays takes as its starting point Arthur Ripstein's Force and Freedom: Kant's Legal and Political Philosophy, a seminal work on Kant's thinking about law, which also treats many of the contemporary issues of legal and political philosophy. The essays offer readings and elucidations...
Criminal Justice in Transition
The Northern Ireland Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
This book represents a critical examination of key aspects of crime and criminal justice in Northern Ireland which will have resonance elsewhere. It considers the core aspects of criminal justice policy-making in Northern Ireland which are central to the process of post-conflict transition, including...
Cases, Materials and Text on National, Supranational and International Non-Discrimination Law
Ius Commune Casebooks for the Common Law of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2007
This casebook, the result of the collaborative efforts of a panel of experts from various EU Member States, is the latest in the Ius Commune Casebook series developed at the Universities of Maastricht and Leuven. The book provides a comprehensive and skilfully designed resource for students, practitioners,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
This is the fourth in the Series of Select Proceedings of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) featuring the most important and interesting papers presented at the Fifth Biennial Conference on 'Regionalism and International Law', organised by ESIL and the University of Valencia in 2012....
Reforming the French Law of Obligations
Comparative Reflections on the Avant-projet de réforme du droit des obligations et de la prescription ('the Avant-projet Catala')
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
The 2005 Avant-projet de réforme du droit des obligations et de la prescription, also dubbed the Avant-projet Catala, suggests the most far-reaching reform of the French Civil code since it came into force in 1804. It reviews central aspects of contract law, the law of delict and the law of unjustified...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
This book continues the series Select Proceedings of the European Society of International Law, containing the proceedings of the Fourth Biennial Conference organised by ESIL and the University of Cambridge in 2010. The title of the conference was 'International Law 1989-2010: A Performance Appraisal'....