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The 1949 Geneva Conventions
A Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
The four Geneva Conventions, adopted in 1949, remain the fundamental basis of contemporary international humanitarian law. They protect the wounded and sick on the battlefield, those wounded, sick or shipwrecked at sea, prisoners of war, and civilians in time of war. However, since they were adopted...
Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law - Volume IV
Human Perspectives on the Development and Use of Nuclear Energy
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
This fourth volume in the book series on Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law focuses on human perspectives regarding the development and use of nuclear energy; the need for regional solutions; and recent activities towards prohibiting and abolishing nuclear weapons.
Jonathan L. Black-Branch...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Prison Law is the leading text in its field. It offers comprehensive coverage of the substantive law, the Prison Rules, and the remedies available to prisoners, including complaints procedures, civil claims, judicial review, and claims under the Human Rights Act. Both domestic and international avenues...
Fighting at the Legal Boundaries
Controlling the Use of Force in Contemporary Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The international law governing armed conflict is at a crossroads, as the formal framework of laws designed to control the exercise of self-defense and conduct of inter-state conflict finds itself confronted with violent 21st Century disputes of a very different character. Military practitioners who...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2013
National Guard Domestic Law Enforcement Support and Mission Assurance Operations - This regulation/instruction prescribes policies, procedures, responsibilities, and direction for activities related to National Guard domestic law enforcement support and mission assurance operations. It governs the...
by Sandra Fredman FBA
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Equality is an ideal to which we all aspire. Yet the more closely we examine it, the more its meaning shifts. How do we explain how equal treatment can in effect lead to inequality, while unequal treatment might be necessary in order to achieve equality? The apparent paradox can be understood if we...
by Jens David Ohlin
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
International law presents a conceptual riddle. Why comply with it when there is no world government to enforce it? The United States has a long history of skepticism towards international law, but 9/11 ushered in a particularly virulent phase of American exceptionalism, as the US drifted away from...
by John Finnis
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
First published in 1980, Natural Law and Natural Rights is widely heralded as a seminal contribution to the philosophy of law, and an authoritative restatement of natural law doctrine. It has offered generations of students and other readers a thorough grounding in the central issues of legal, moral,...
Fragmentation vs the Constitutionalisation of International Law
A Practical Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The current system of international law is experiencing profound transformations. Indeed, the simultaneous processes of globalization combined with the disintegration of international systems of governance and law-making pose complex challenges for legal scholarship. The doctrinal response to these...
A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence
Volume 7: The Jurists’ Philosophy of Law from Rome to the Seventeenth Century, Volume 8: A History of the Philosophy of Law in The Common Law World, 1600–1900
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
The first-ever multivolume treatment of the issues in legal philosophy and general jurisprudence, from both a theoretical and a historical perspective. The work is aimed at jurists as well as legal and practical philosophers. Edited by the renowned theorist Enrico Pattaro and his team, this book is...
Latin American Law
A History of Private Law and Institutions in Spanish America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Private law touches every aspect of people's daily lives—landholding, inheritance, private property, marriage and family relations, contracts, employment, and business dealings—and the court records and legal documents produced under private law are a rich source of information for anyone researching...
Law and Enjoyment
Power, Pleasure and Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
This book advocates, and develops, a critical account of the relationship between law and the largely neglected issue of ‘enjoyment’. Taking popular culture seriously – as a lived and meaningful basis for a wider understanding of law, beyond the strictures of legal institutions and professional...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
'International law' is no longer a sufficient rubric to describe the complexities of law in an era of globalization. Accordingly, this collection situates cross-border norm development at the intersection of interdisciplinary scholarship on comparative law, conflict of laws, civil procedure, cyberlaw,...
Transnational Legality
Stateless Law and International Arbitration
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
What should we call law when it is not the law of one or several states? Does it actually matter what we call law? How can we take into account the consequences of calling something law when we shape the concept of law in the first place? How does international arbitration help to illustrate the problem?...