Civil Law category: 2427 books
International Humanitarian Law
Cases, Materials and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Drawing together key documents, case law, reports and other essential materials, International Humanitarian Law offers students, lecturers and practitioners an accessible and critically informed account of the theory, law and practice of international humanitarian law. Providing comprehensive, thematic...
Liberty Intact
Human Rights in English Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
What are the connections between conceptions of rights found in English law and those found in bills of rights around the World? How has English Common Law influenced the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) 1948 and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) 1950? These questions and...
Gender in Refugee Law
From the Margins to the Centre
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Questions of gender have strongly influenced the development of international refugee law over the last few decades. This volume assesses the progress toward appropriate recognition of gender-related persecution in refugee law. It documents the advances made following intense advocacy around the world...
by Jill Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
This book explores the role human rights law plays in the formation, and protection, of our personal identities. Drawing from a range of disciplines, Jill Marshall examines how human rights law includes and excludes specific types of identity, which feed into moral norms of human freedom and human...
Law and Asylum
Space, Subject, Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
In contrast to the claim that refugee law has been a key in guaranteeing a space of protection for refugees, this book argues that law has been instrumental in eliminating spaces of protection, not just from one’s persecutors but also from the grasp of sovereign power. By uncovering certain fundamental...
Federal Criminal Law Doctrines
The Forgotten Influence of National Prohibition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1994
This book offers a close look at the development of legal thought during the era of prohibition and documents the impact of prohibition on law as an intellectual discipline. Kenneth M. Murchison examines changes in federal criminal law doctrines from 1918 to 1933 in light of recent historical scholarship...
Socializing States
Promoting Human Rights through International Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
The role of international law in global politics is as poorly understood as it is important. But how can the international legal regime encourage states to respect human rights? Given that international law lacks a centralized enforcement mechanism, it is not obvious how this law matters at all, and...
by Paul Venus
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Affidavits and witness statements have become increasingly important aspects of modern civil litigation. Yet it is somewhat surprising that there are relatively few texts devoted in whole or even in part to this topic. Perhaps in part, this is because the topic is an amalgamation of evidentiary and...
The Law Handbook 2014
Your Guide to the Law in Victoria
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
The Law Handbook is a comprehensive guide to the law in Victoria, Australia. Updated every year by over 70 legal specialists, this leading guide to the law covers more than 90 common law topics and includes summaries of the areas of law that most affect people in their everyday life. It also provides...
by António Santos Abrantes Geraldes
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 4, 2016
O autor, que integrou a Comissão de Revisão do Código de Processo Civil, aborda nesta obra todo o articulado sobre matéria de recursos, seguindo metodologia semelhante à que foi adoptada em Recursos em Processo Civil. Embora o Novo Código de Processo Civil tenha respeitado, na generalidade,...
by Howard Davis
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Whether you’re new to higher education, coming to legal study for the first time or just wondering what Human Rights Law is all about, Beginning Human Rights Law is the ideal introduction to help you hit the ground running. Starting with the basics and an overview of each topic, it will help you...
Human Rights and the Protection of Privacy in Tort Law
A Comparison between English and German Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
In its case law, the European Court of Human Rights has acknowledged that national courts are bound to give effect to Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) which sets out the right to private and family life, when they rule on controversies between private individuals. Article...
Law, Rights and Ideology in Russia
Landmarks in the Destiny of a Great Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Law, Rights and Ideology in Russia: Landmarks in the destiny of a great power brings into sharp focus several key episodes in Russia’s vividly ideological engagement with law and rights. Drawing on 30 years of experience of consultancy and teaching in many regions of Russia and on library research...
The Complete Bill of Rights
The Drafts, Debates, Sources, and Origins
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
The fundamental, inalienable rights and privileges set forth in the Bill of Rights represent the very foundations of American liberty. The Complete Bill of Rights is a documentary record of the process by which these rights and privileges were defined and recorded as law. Now in its second edition,...