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Law for Criminologists

A Practical Guide

by Mrs. Ursula Smartt
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2008

Book launch pictures available here! 'This book is a triumph in its clarity, scholarship and sheer scope. It is increasingly vital that criminologists understand crime and the criminal justice system in depth, and Ursula Smartt unmasks the mysteries and lays bare the complexities of law like...
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by Brendan Tobin
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014

This highly original work demonstrates the fundamental role of customary law for the realization of Indigenous peoples’ human rights and for sound national and international legal governance. The book reviews the legal status of customary law and its relationship with positive and natural law from...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017

International Criminal Law in Context provides a critical and contextual introduction to the fundamentals of international criminal law. It goes beyond a doctrinal analysis focused on the practice of international tribunals to draw on a variety of perspectives, capturing the complex processes of internationalisation...
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Fundamental Rights and Private Law in Europe

The Case of Tort Law and Children

by Nuno Ferreira
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011

The book explores, from a comparative and inter-disciplinary perspective, the relationship between fundamental rights and private law in Europe, a debate usually referred to as Drittwirkung or ‘horizontal effect of fundamental rights’. It discusses the different models of ‘horizontal effect’...
Cover of The Development of International Law by the International Court of Justice
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Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013

This book traces the impact that the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, has had on various areas of international law. A number of prominent international experts examine whether, and to what extent, international law has been shaped by the Court's...
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The Transformation of American Law, 1870-1960

The Crisis of Legal Orthodoxy

by Morton J. Horwitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994

When the first volume of Morton Horwitz's monumental history of American law appeared in 1977, it was universally acclaimed as one of the most significant works ever published in American legal history. The New Republic called it an "extremely valuable book." Library Journal praised it as "brilliant"...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016

Rules controlling State aid and subsidies on the EU and the WTO level can have a decisive influence on both regulatory and distributive decision-making. This field of law has grown exponentially in importance and complexity over the past decades. Rules on State aid and subsidies control are one of...
Cover of Evidence Lawcards 2012-2013
by Routledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

Routledge Lawcards are your complete, pocket-sized guides to key examinable areas of the undergraduate law curriculum and the CPE/GDL. Their concise text, user-friendly layout and compact format make them an ideal revision aid. Helping you to identify, understand and commit to memory the salient points...
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Institutions of Law

An EsSay in Legal Theory

by Neil MacCormick
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2007

Institutions of Law offers an original account of the nature of law and legal systems in the contemporary world. It provides the definitive statement of Sir Neil MacCormick's well-known 'institutional theory of law', defining law as 'institutional normative order' and explaining each of these three...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011

Customary laws and traditional institutions in Africa constitute comprehensive legal systems that regulate the entire spectrum of activities from birth to death. Once the sole source of law, customary rules now exist in the context of pluralist legal systems with competing bodies of domestic constitutional...
Cover of The Historical and Institutional Context of Roman Law
by George Mousourakis
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017

Roman law forms an important part of the intellectual background of many legal systems currently in force in continental Europe, Latin America and other parts of the world. This book traces the historical development of Roman law from the earliest period of Roman history up to and including Justinian's...
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Agape, Justice, and Law

How Might Christian Love Shape Law?

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Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017

In a provocative essay, philosopher Jeffrie Murphy asks: 'what would law be like if we organized it around the value of Christian love, and if we thought about and criticized law in terms of that value?'. This book brings together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to address that question....
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by Brian Bix
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013

A book about family law is necessarily a book both about family life and the role law can and should take in regulating family life. Individually and together, these are vast topics. American family law is ever-changing and affects every facet of our lives. The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Family...
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Public Health Law

Power, Duty, Restraint

by Lawrence O. Gostin, Lindsay F. Wiley
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016

Lawrence O. Gostin’s seminal Public Health Law is widely acclaimed as the definitive statement on public health law at the turn of the twenty-first century. In this bold third edition, Gostin is joined by Lindsay F. Wiley to analyze major health threats of our time such as chronic diseases, emerging...
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