Hart Publishing imprint: 910 books
Central European Judges Under the European Influence
The Transformative Power of the EU Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The onset of the 2004 EU enlargement witnessed a number of predictions being made about the approaches, capacity and ability of Central European judges who were soon to join the Union. Optimistic voices, foreshadowing the deep transformative power that Europe was bound to exercise with respect to...
by Murray Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1997
The primary purpose of this book is to demonstrate the scope that already exists for using international human rights law in English courts, regardless of its status as 'incorporated' or 'unincorporated'. Murray Hunt addresses directly what are commonly supposed to be the theoretical obstacles to...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
In this book, leading scholars from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States deal with important theoretical and practical issues in the law of contract and closely-related areas of private law. The articles analyse developments in the law of estoppel,...
Contract Damages
Domestic and International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2008
This book is a collection of essays examining the remedy of contract damages in the common law and under the international contract law instruments such as the Vienna Convention on Contracts for the International Sales of Goods and the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts. The...
by Matthew Lewans
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
In recent years, the question whether judges should defer to administrative decisions has attracted considerable interest amongst public lawyers throughout the common law world. This book examines how the common law of judicial review has responded to the development of the administrative state in...
Criminal Judicial Review
A Practitioner's Guide to Judicial Review in the Criminal Justice System and Related Areas
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
This is a comprehensive guide to challenging decisions of criminal courts and public bodies in the criminal justice system using judicial review. Written by a team of criminal and public law practitioners, it considers claims for judicial review arising in the criminal justice system, which now represent...
Intermediated Securities
Legal Problems and Practical Issues
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
Globally, there has been a shift from securities being held directly by an investor, to a situation in which many securities are held via an intermediary. The existence of one or more intermediaries between the investor and the issuer has a potentially significant impact on the rights of the investor,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
This book contains a collection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the Eleventh Biennial Modern Studies in Property Law Conference held at Queen's University Belfast in April 2016. It is the ninth volume to be published under the name of the Conference. The Conference and its published proceedings...
Forms Liberate
Reclaiming the Jurisprudence of Lon L Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Lon L Fuller's account of what he termed 'the internal morality of law' is widely accepted as the classic twentieth century statement of the principles of the rule of law. Much less accepted is his claim that a necessary connection between law and morality manifests in these principles, with the result...
The Constitutional Systems of the Independent Central Asian States
A Contextual Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This book undertakes the first comparative constitutional analysis of the Kyrgyz Republic and Republics of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in their cultural, historical, political, economic and social context.
The first chapter provides a general overview of the diverse...
by Patrick Capps
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
International lawyers have often been interested in the link between their discipline and the foundational issues of jurisprudential method, but little that is systematic has been written on this subject. In this book, an attempt is made to fill this gap by focusing on issues of concept-formation...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Methodological and metaphilosophical disputes in the contemporary philosophy of law are very vivid. Basic issues remain controversial. The purpose of the book is to confront approaches of Anglo-Saxon and continental philosophy of law to the following topics: the purpose of legal philosophy, the role...
by Professor Andrei Marmor
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2005
This is a revised and extensively rewritten edition of one of the most influential monographs on legal philosophy published in recent years. Writing in the introduction to the first edition the author characterized Anglophone philosophers as being ..."divided, and often waver[ing] between two main...
Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Misconceptions and Confusion in French Law and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
This book explores the ambiguities of the French law of genocide by exposing the inexplicable dichotomy between a progressive theory and an overly conservative practice. Based on the observation that the crime of genocide has remained absent from French courtrooms to the benefit of crimes against...