Edward Elgar Publishing: 369 books
Trade in Water Under International Law
Bulk Fresh Water, Irrigation Subsidies and Virtual Water
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
It is clear that more sustainable and efficient use of fresh water resources will become crucial in future global water management to avoid major threats to biological life. Trade in Water Under International Law offers a careful and well-reasoned introduction and analysis of this emerging and largely...
Legal Services Regulation at the Crossroads
Justitia’s Legions
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Who should be allowed to provide legal services to others? What characteristics must these services possess? Through a comparative study of English-speaking jurisdictions, this book illuminates the policy choices involved in legal services regulation and the important consequences of these choices.Regulation...
Analysis and Public Policy
Successes, Failures and Directions for Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
How do we incorporate analytical thinking into public policy decisions? Stuart Shapiro confronts this issue in Analysis and Public Policy by looking at various types of analysis, and discussing how they are used in regulatory policy-making in the US. By looking at the successes and failures of incorporating...
North-South Regional Trade Agreements as Legal Regimes
A Critical Assessment of the EU-SADC Economic Partnership Agreement
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
This book offers a critical reflection of the North-South regional trade agreements (RTAs), known as the Economic Partnership Agreements, negotiated between the EU and the African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries. Conceiving of regions as legal regimes, Clair Gammage highlights the challenges facing...
State and Local Financial Instruments
Policy Changes and Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The ability of a nation to finance its basic infrastructure is essential to its economic well-being in the 21st century. This book covers the municipal securities market in the United States from the perspective of its primary capital financing role in a fiscal federalist system, where subnational governments...
Classification of Conflicts in International Humanitarian Law
The Legal Impact of Foreign Intervention in Civil Wars
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Noam Zamir provides a thorough examination of the theoretical basis of classification of conflicts in international humanitarian law (IHL), with special focus on the legal impact of armed foreign intervention in civil wars. Classification of Conflicts in International Humanitarian Law enriches the discourse...
Global Women Leaders
Breaking Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Global Women Leaders showcases narratives of women in business, nonprofit organizations and the public sector who have achieved leadership positions despite cultural obstacles and gender bias. Featuring leaders from India, Japan, Jordan and the United Kingdom, the book examines how these women have overcome challenges and served as role models in their professions.
Business, Organized Labour and Climate Policy
Forging a Role at the Negotiating Table
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This impartial study analyses the role of employer’s organisations and trade unions in climate change policy and its impacts on the labour market. The policies of government to manage greenhouse gas emissions will require business to change its product and service delivery arrangements, which in turn...
Conflict of Laws: A Comparative Approach
Text and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
The Conflict of Laws, also known as private international law, is a field of the greatest importance in an increasingly globalized world. The analysis of any legal issue, in a case involving more than one country, must start with an assessment of which court could potentially hear the case and which law it would apply
Japan and Civil Jury Trials
The Convergence of Forces
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
As societies around the world increasingly face complex challenges, effective solutions are at a premium. In response, reformers have advanced varied forms of jury systems as means of fostering positive political, economic, and social change. Many countries have recently integrated lay participation...
American Judicial Power
The State Court Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
American Judicial Power: The State Court Perspective is a welcome addition to the breadth of studies on the American legal system and provides an accessible and highly illuminating overview of the state courts and their functions.
by Yenkong Ngangjoh Hodu
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
The concept of compliance of World Trade Organization (WTO) law as part of international economic law is examined in this discerning book. The issue of compliance is examined through a broad perspective, considering the key conceptual issues which continue to dominate debate around contemporary world...
Law’s Political Foundations
Rivers, Rifles, Rice, and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Law’s Political Foundations explains the development of the two basic systems of public and private law and their historical transformations. Examining the historical development of law in China, Japan, Western Europe, and Hispanic America, Haley argues that law is a product, rather than a constitutive element, of political systems.
Citizen Journalists
Newer Media, Republican Moments and the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
This monograph explores the phenomenon of ‘citizen journalism’ from a legal and constitutional perspective. It describes and evaluates emerging patterns of communication between a new and diverse set of speakers and their audiences. Drawing upon political theory, the book considers the extent to...