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by Dr Suzanne Kingston, Veerle Heyvaert, Aleksandra Čavoški
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
EU Environmental Law is a critical, comprehensive and engaging account of the essential and emerging issues in European environmental law and regulation today. Suitable for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, the book delivers a thematic and contextual treatment of the subject for those...
Law Mart
Justice, Access, and For-Profit Law Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
American law schools are in deep crisis. Enrollment is down, student loan debt is up, and the profession's supply of high-paying jobs is shrinking. Meanwhile, thousands of graduates remain underemployed while the legal needs of low-income communities go substantially unmet. Many blame overregulation...
The Coherence of EU Free Movement Law
Constitutional Responsibility and the Court of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
At the heart of the European Union is the establishment of a European market grounded in the free movement of people, goods, services, and capital. The implementation of the free market has preoccupied European lawyers since the inception of the Union's predecessors. Throughout the Union's development,...
by Don Chalmers
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Genetic Testing and the Criminal Law is a unique international treatment of the dynamic and established criminal investigation technique of DNA testing.
Gathering together expert practitioners, judges and researchers from twelve countries, each chapter deals with the specific criminal law...
The Constitutional Foundations of European Contract Law
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Situated within the context of the ongoing debate about European contract law, this book provides a detailed examination of the European Union's competence in the field of contract law. It analyses the limits of Union competence in relation to several relevant Treaty provisions which potentially confer...
Beyond Human Rights
The Legal Status of the Individual in International Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
A paradigm change is occurring, in the course of which human beings are becoming the primary international legal persons. In numerous areas of public international law, substantive rights and obligations of individuals arguably flow directly from international law. The novel legal status of humans...
Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2012
Legal Equality and the International Rule of Law - Essays in Honour of P.H. Kooijmans
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
The Netherlands Yearbook of International Law (NYIL) was first published in 1970. It offers a forum for the publication of scholarly articles of a more general nature in the area of public international law including the law of the European Union. With this volume on ‘Legal Equality and the International...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This book explores the relevance of virtue theory to law from a variety of perspectives. The concept of virtue is central in both contemporary ethics and epistemology. In contrast, in law, there has not been a comparable trend toward explaining normativity on the model of virtue theory. In the last...
by Professor William Lucy
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Law's Judgement elucidates and defends a feature of contemporary law that is currently either overlooked or too glibly dismissed as morally troublesome or historically anachronistic. That feature is the abstract nature of law's judgement and its three components show that, when law judges us, it often...
Practical Social Work Law
Analysing Court Cases and Inquiries
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Practical Social Work Law*: analysing court cases and inquiries* presents legal issues associated with social work in an accessible format. It approaches the law in a way that is less daunting and more engaging by examining actual court cases and public inquiries, and explores the stories of real...
The ICJ and the Evolution of International Law
The Enduring Impact of the Corfu Channel Case
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
In 1949 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) handed down its first judgment in the Corfu Channel Case. In diffusing an early Cold War dispute, the Court articulated a set of legal principles which continue to shape our appreciation of the international legal order. Many of the issues dealt with...
Concepts in Law and Economics
A Guide for the Curious
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
"Law and economics" involves the application of economic analysis to legal problems. Law and economics features in public policy debates as well as across the social sciences in fields such as political economy, constitutional economics, and political science. Concepts in Law and Economics: A Guide...
by Karon Monaghan QC
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Written by a leading human rights and employment practitioner, the new edition of Monaghan on Equality Law combines a comprehensive survey of UK equality law with an analytical critique of the legal framework and the concepts that underpin it. The text provides practical guidance on equality law as...
by The Right Honourable Lady Justice Jill Black DBE, Jane Bridge, Tina Bond
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Family Law practice has undergone a period of rapid and significant change with the removal of legal aid funding and the establishment of the single Family Court in particular represent major adjustment for those working in the field. A Practical Approach to Family Law provides a clear picture of...