Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Going to the dogs
A history of greyhound racing in Britain, 1926-2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Greyhound racing emerged rapidly in Britain in 1926 but in its early years was subject to rabid institutional middle-class opposition largely because of the legal gambling opportunities it offered to the working class. Though condemned as a dissipate and impoverishing activity, it was, in fact, a...
Understanding Environmental Policy Convergence
The Power of Words, Rules and Money
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Over recent decades national environmental policies have become increasingly alike. This book analyses the driving forces of this process of policy convergence, providing an in-depth empirical analysis of the international forces at work. It does so by investigating how four countries - France, Hungary,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This is the first examination of how China is currently dealing with environmental problems and challenges, and of its successes, failures and dilemmas.
This new book gives special attention to the development of ‘environmental governance’ in contemporary China, especially on the urban...
Statebuilding and State Formation in the Western Pacific
Solomon Islands in Transition?
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This book provides a rigorous and cross-disciplinary analysis of this Melanesian nation at a critical juncture in its post-colonial and post-conflict history, with contributions from leading scholars of Solomon Islands. The notion of ‘transition’ as used to describe the recent drawdown of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This volume comprises the texts of the main international treaties which formed the legal skeleton of international relations during the 1980s, with details of signatories and amendments and a commentary on the general and particular situations to which they apply.
The treaties are grouped...
by Franklin E. Zimring
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
American Juvenile Justice is a definitive volume for courses on the criminology and policy analysis of adolescence. The focus is on the principles and policy of a separate and distinct system of juvenile justice. The book opens with an introduction of the creation of adolescence, presenting a justification...
State, Labor, and the Transition to a Market Economy
Egypt, Poland, Mexico, and the Czech Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
In response to mounting debt crises and macroeconomic instability in the 1980s, many countries in the developing world adopted neoliberal policies promoting the unfettered play of market forces and deregulation of the economy and attempted large-scale structural adjustment, including the privatization...
The European Union's Non-Members
Independence under hegemony?
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
The EU is a supranational organization, whose reach and influence extends well beyond its member states, especially to the many states that have signed various forms of association agreement with it.
This book asks whether qualifying states who have eschewed EU membership experience negative...
by Nicolas M. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
The landmark legal document (parodically) of the Chakerian Reich, the Chakerian Charter comprises the primary law of the Elite. Signed by the members of the Fifth Order in California on September 23, 2016, the Charter outlines the powers of the sole branch of the Meritocratic Government, as well as the basic privileges of the citizens of its encompassing states.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
This collection examines the opportunities and challenges, rights and wrongs, and prospects and risks of Brexit from the perspectives of gender and sexuality. While much has been written about Brexit from legal, political, social and economic perspectives, there has been little analysis of the effects...
Fighting for Rights
From Holy Wars to Humanitarian Military Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In the light of NATO's humanitarian war in Kosovo is it possible to understand or explain wars as an outcome of perceptions of rights? How did rights, be they divine rights in the Middle Ages, territorial rights in the eighteenth century, or human rights today, become something that people are willing...
Revolution on the Nile
A New Afterword to The Black Nile: A Penguin eSpecial
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
*Revolution on the Nile *is a new introduction to Dan Morrison's acclaimed work, The Black Nile.
Upon hearing the news of tenuous peace in Sudan, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison bought a plank-board boat, summoned a friend who'd never left America, and set out from Uganda, paddling the...
Political Realignment
Economics, Culture, and Electoral Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
The process of electoral change is accelerating in contemporary democracies, and this book explains why. The emergence of Green parties in the 1980s and recent far right parties, Brexit and Trump's 2016 victory are parts of this overall process. Political Realignment tracks the evolution of citizen...
Bleeding Mountains of Nepal
A Story of Corruption, Greed, Misuse of Power and Resources
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2001
Whether it is politics, journalism or literature the most talked about topic today is undoubtedly corruption. This book deals with it throughout.
Each page of Bleeding Mountains of Nepal is a ghastly tale of how the country is run by people whose unsaturated greed and avarice for power and...