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Cover of The Hidden History of International Law in the Americas
by Dr. Juan Pablo Scarfi
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017

International law has played a crucial role in the construction of imperial projects. Yet within the growing field of studies about the history of international law and empire, scholars have seldom considered this complicit relationship in the Americas. The Hidden History of International Law in the...
Cover of The Limits of International Law
by Jack L. Goldsmith, Eric A. Posner
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2005

International law is much debated and discussed, but poorly understood. Does international law matter, or do states regularly violate it with impunity? If international law is of no importance, then why do states devote so much energy to negotiating treaties and providing legal defenses for their...
Cover of Law and Democracy in the Empire of Force
by James Boyd White, H. Jefferson Powell
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009

The authors of this book share a concern for the state of law and democracy in our country, which to many seems to have deteriorated badly. Deep changes are visible in a wide array of phenomena: judicial opinions, the teaching of law, legal practice, international relations, legal scholarship, congressional...
Cover of Criminal Law

Criminal Law

A Comparative Approach

by Markus Dubber, Tatjana Hörnle
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014

Criminal Law: A Comparative Approach presents a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the substantive criminal law of two major jurisdictions: the United States and Germany. Presupposing no familiarity with either U.S. or German criminal law, the book will provide criminal law scholars and students...
Cover of Harvard Law Review: Volume 125, Number 7 - May 2012
by Harvard Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013

The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition for ereaders, featuring active Contents, linked notes and cross-references, legible tables, and proper ebook formatting. Featured articles and essays in this issue no. 7 May 2012 are from recognized scholars in law and legal theory, including...
Cover of Contract, Status, and Fiduciary Law
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016

Contractual and fiduciary relationships are the two primary mechanisms through which the law facilitates coordinated pursuit of our personal interests. These fields are often represented in oppositional terms, and many accept the distinction that contract law allows an individual to pursue their interests...
Cover of Reconstructing American Legal Realism & Rethinking Private Law Theory
by Hanoch Dagan
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013

In the myriad choices of interpretation judges face when confronted with rules and cases, legal realists are concerned with how these doctrinal materials carry over into judicial outcomes. What can explain past judicial behavior and predict its future course? How can law constrain judgments made by...
Cover of How to Do Things with International Law
by Ian Hurd
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017

A provocative reassessment of the rule of law in world politics Conventionally understood as a set of limits on state behavior, the “rule of law” in world politics is widely assumed to serve as a progressive contribution to a just, stable, and predictable world. In How to Do Things with...
Cover of Cases, Materials and Text on National, Supranational and International Non-Discrimination Law
by Janneke Gerards, Gay Moon, Professor Olivier De Schutter
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2007

This casebook, the result of the collaborative efforts of a panel of experts from various EU Member States, is the latest in the Ius Commune Casebook series developed at the Universities of Maastricht and Leuven. The book provides a comprehensive and skilfully designed resource for students, practitioners,...
Cover of Althusser and Law
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013

Althusser and Law is the first book specifically dedicated to the place of law in Louis Althusser’s philosophy. The growing importance of Althusser’s philosophy in contemporary debates on the left has - for practical and political, as well theoretical reasons - made a sustained consideration of...
Cover of The Influence of Human Rights and Basic Rights in Private Law
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015

This book provides a comparative perspective on one of the most intriguing developments in law: the influence of basic rights and human rights in private law. It analyzes the application of basic rights and human rights, which are traditionally understood as public law rights, in private law, and...
Cover of Law without Force

Law without Force

The Function of Politics in International Law

by Gerhart Niemeyer, Michael Henry
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018

Law Without Force is a landmark in political and social philosophy. It proposes nothing less than a completely new basis for international law. As relevant today as when it was first published nearly sixty years ago, it commands the attention of all concerned with what the future may bring to the...
Cover of United Kingdom reforms of the law on the passing of property of a specific quantity of goods forming part of a bulk
by Lucie Novotna Krtousova
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Law - Civil / Private / Law of Obligation / Property Law, grade: 72, Cardiff University (School of Law), course: LLB Module Sales of Godds and Agency, language: English, abstract: In this essay I will analyse the appropriateness of the reform of the...
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Climate Change Impacts on Ocean and Coastal Law

U.S. and International Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015

Ocean and coastal law has grown rapidly in the past three decades as a specialty area within natural resources law and environmental law. The protection of oceans has received increased attention in the past decade because of sea-level rise, ocean acidification, the global overfishing crisis, widespread...
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