Hart Publishing imprint: 910 books

Prohibition of Abuse of Law

A New General Principle of EU Law?

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Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011

The Court of Justice has been alluding to 'abuse and abusive practices' for more than thirty years, but for a long time the significance of these references has been unclear. Few lawyers examined the case law, and those who did doubted whether it had led to the development of a legal principle. Within...
by Professor Thérèse Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014

This book aims to bolster the burgeoning discourse of health and human rights. In so doing, it charts the history of the linkage between health and human rights. It also pinpoints the sense of imperative that surrounds this relationship. More importantly, the book identifies a series of threats and...
by Clemens Kaupa
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016

This monograph intervenes in the long-standing and controversial debate on the socio-economic orientation of the European Union. Arguing that the European economic constitution is pluralist in the sense that it does not favour any specific socio-economic paradigm, it shows that European law allows...
by Dr Mavluda Sattorova
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018

Traditionally, international investment law was conceptualised as a set of norms aiming to ensure good governance for foreign investors, in exchange for their capital and know-how. However, the more recent narratives postulate that investment treaties and investor–state arbitration can lead to better...

Academic Freedom and the Law

A Comparative Study

by Professor Eric Barendt
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010

Academic Freedom and the Law: A Comparative Study provides a critical analysis of the law relating to academic freedom in three major jurisdictions: the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States. The book outlines the various claims which may be made to academic freedom by individual university...

Networks as Connected Contracts

Edited with an Introduction by Hugh Collins

by Professor Dr Gunther Teubner
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011

Business networks consist of several independent businesses that enter into interrelated contracts, conferring on the parties many of the benefits of co-ordination achieved through vertical integration in a single firm, without creating a single integrated business such as a corporation or partnership....

The Constitution of Canada

A Contextual Analysis

by Professor Jeremy Webber
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

The book introduces and describes the principal characteristics of the Canadian constitution, including Canada's institutional structure and the principal drivers of Canadian constitutional development. The constitution is set in its historical context, noting especially the complex interaction of...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017

This book is the third in a series of essay collections on defences in private law. It addresses defences to liability arising in contract. The essays range from those adopting a predominantly black-letter approach to others that examine the law from a more theoretical or historical perspective. Some...

Extending Working Life for Older Workers

Age Discrimination Law, Policy and Practice

by Alysia Blackham
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016

The UK population is ageing rapidly. While age discrimination laws are seen as having broad potential to address the 'ageing challenge' and achieve instrumental and intrinsic objectives in the context of employment, it is unclear what impact they are having in practice. This monograph addresses two...
by Mr Nicholas McBride
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017

This book introduces the reader to a number of ideas and issues that underlie the English law of contract-an area of law that is often regarded as forbiddingly dry and technical but which is here made easy to understand and full of interest. Taking as its starting point the role contract law plays...

Discrimination as Stigma

A Theory of Anti-discrimination Law

by Iyiola Solanke
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016

This monograph reconceptualises discrimination law as fundamentally concerned with stigma. Using sociological and socio-psychological theories of stigma, the author presents an 'anti-stigma principle', promoting it as a method to determine the scope of legal protection from discrimination. The anti-stigma...

Religion, Equality and Employment in Europe

The Case for Reasonable Accommodation

by Dr Katayoun Alidadi
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017

The management of religious and ideological diversity remains a key challenge of our time – deeply entangled with debates about the nature of liberal democracy, equality, social cohesion, minorities and nationalism, security and foreign policy. This book explores this challenge at the level of the...
by Tim Kerr, Marie Demetriou, The Hon. Michael Beloff
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012

Sports law has been growing with increasing rapidity over the years since the first edition of this book was published in 1999, regularly making headlines as well as leading to a developing body of law practised by specialist lawyers. This revised work, by leading practitioners in the field, with...

Modern Sports Law

A Textbook

by Dr Jack Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010

The aim of this book is to provide an account of how the law influences the operation, administration and playing of modern sports. Although the book focuses on legal doctrine it has been written bearing in mind sport's historical, cultural, social and economic context, including the drama and colour...
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