Hart Publishing imprint: 910 books
Hague Law Interpreted
The Conduct of Hostilities under the Law of Armed Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Given the centrality of Hague Law to the lawful prosecution of warfare, the relative paucity of dedicated works is surprising. The general formulation of Hague Law rules is largely uncontroversial, but this clarity stands in stark contrast to their interpretation and practical application. How precisely,...
The 'New' Public Benefit Requirement
Making Sense of Charity Law?
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
This book examines the 'public benefit requirement', which provides that a charity's purposes must be for the public benefit. This requirement was given statutory force by the Charities Act 2006, which also provided that 'public benefit' is to be construed in accordance with existing case law and...
Temporary Labour Migration in the Global Era
The Regulatory Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
In the global era, controversies abound over temporary labour migration; however, it has not previously been subjected to a sustained socio-legal analysis on a comparative basis, critiquing the underpinning concepts conventionally accepted as fundamental in this area. This collection of essays aims...
Answering for Crime
Responsibility and Liability in the Criminal Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2007
In this long-awaited book, Antony Duff offers a new perspective on the structures of criminal law and criminal liability. His starting point is a distinction between responsibility (understood as answerability) and liability, and a conception of responsibility as relational and practice-based. This...
by Andrew Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
What does conservatism, as a body of political thought, say about the legal regulation of intimate relationships, and to what extent has this thought influenced the Conservative Party's approach to family law? With this question as its focus, this book explores the relationship between family law,...
by Allan Beever
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive theory of the rights upon which tort law is based and the liability that flows from violating those rights. Inspired by the account of private law contained in Immanuel Kant's Metaphysics of Morals, the book shows that Kant's theory elucidates a conception of interpersonal...
Ethical Judgments
Re-Writing Medical Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
This edited collection is designed to explore the ethical nature of judicial decision-making, particularly relating to cases in the health/medical sphere, where judges are often called upon to issue rulings on questions containing an explicit ethical component. However, judges do not receive any specific...
by Dr Mark Dsouza
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
“Despite the existing scholarly literature on criminal defences, many issues remain contested or unresolved. Dr Dsouza offers a thorough and scholarly treatment of a complex topic which can be expected to become a point of reference for future work in the field.”
Professor...
Crimes, Harms, and Wrongs
On the Principles of Criminalisation
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
When should we make use of the criminal law? Crimes, Harms, and Wrongs offers a philosophical analysis of the nature and ethical limits of criminalisation. The authors explore the scope of harm-based prohibitions, proscriptions of offensive behaviour, and 'paternalistic' prohibitions aimed at preventing...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This book explores the relevance of virtue theory to law from a variety of perspectives. The concept of virtue is central in both contemporary ethics and epistemology. In contrast, in law, there has not been a comparable trend toward explaining normativity on the model of virtue theory. In the last...
The Proposed Nordic Saami Convention
National and International Dimensions of Indigenous Property Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
In 2005 an expert group representing the governments of Norway, Sweden and Finland, and the Saami parliaments of these countries agreed upon a draft text of a Nordic Saami Convention. Key parts of the text deal with the recognition of Saami land and resource rights. More recently the three governments...
by Professor Jingxia Shi
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
This book attempts to reconcile the concept of free trade with a key non-trade social value - cultural diversity - in an era of economic globalisation. It first shows how we can look at culture in many different ways, and explains why we should care about cultural diversity. The book then examines...
Constitutionalising the EU Judicial System
Essays in Honour of Pernilla Lindh
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
These essays, written in honour of retired ECJ judge Pernilla Lindh, reflect on the development of courts and judging in the EU since the founding of the Union. In particular they focus on recent reforms and proposals aimed at further increasing public confidence and democratic accountability throughout the EU judicial system.
Global Order Beyond Law
How Information and Communication Technologies Facilitate Relational Contracting in International Trade
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Well-functioning contract law is a crucial prerequisite for economic development. However, even though international trade has increased enormously in recent decades, we still know little about the contract enforcement mechanisms that exist in today's globalised markets. The aim of this work is to...