Law category: 29588 books
Contesting Femicide
Feminism and the Power of Law Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Focusing on femicide, this book provides a contemporary re-evaluation of Carol Smart’s innovative approach to the law question as first outlined in her ground-breaking book, Feminism and the Power of Law (Routledge 1989). Smart advocated turning to the legal domain not so much for demanding law...
The Law and Practice of Expulsion and Exclusion from the United Kingdom
Deportation, Removal, Exclusion and Deprivation of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Resort by the state to measures of exclusion and expulsion from the territory of the UK and/or from British citizenship have multiplied over the past decade, following the so-called 'War on Terror', increased globalisation, and the growing politicisation of national policies concerning immigration...
by Li Lianjun, Liang Zhao
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
A comprehensive treatment of Chinese maritime law and judicial practice, this book covers both substantive law and procedure law of maritime law in mainland China. This is a professional book for both academics and practitioners in the field of maritime law.
Including analysis of and comment...
Carter v Boehm and Pre-Contractual Duties in Insurance Law
A Global Perspective after 250 Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Revisiting Carter v Boehm, the collected papers in this book are intended as a catalyst for rethinking the pre-contractual duties in insurance law and the related principle of utmost good faith at a critical time for insurance law. In so doing, it endeavours to provide insurance law students, academics,...
General Principles of Law and International Due Process
Principles and Norms Applicable in Transnational Disputes
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice defines "international law" to include not only "custom" and "convention" between States but also "the general principles of law recognized by civilized nations" within their municipal legal systems. In 1953, Bin Cheng wrote his seminal...
International Dispute Resolution
Selected Issues in International Litigation and Arbitration
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
The contributions in this book cover a wide range of topics within modern dispute
resolution, which can be summarised as follows: harmonisation, enforcement and
alternative dispute resolution. In particular, it looks into the impact of harmonised
EU law on national rules of civil...
by Alessandro Stasi
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
This book offers a general framework for understanding the main concepts, rules, and institutions of the Thai legal system. It details the history of the civil and commercial code and provides readers with valuable information about the main principles that regulate relations between private individuals....
Transnational Crime
Law, Theory and Practice at the Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Philip Jessup coined the term "transnational law" in his Storrs Lecture on Jurisprudence delivered in 1956 to describe law that regulates activities or actions that transcend national borders. The term redefined the development and practice of the law, and became a distinct field of study....
The Great Transition in Legal Education
Special Issue of the Manitoba Law Journal, Volume 39(1)
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
In the 1960s, the University of Manitoba Law School moved from being an downtown, practitioner-taught law school to the suburban campus of a large university. This great transition was modelled after many in Canada. The debate has arisen as to whether law schools have become excessively immersed in...
The Law Handbook 2014
Your Guide to the Law in Victoria
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
The Law Handbook is a comprehensive guide to the law in Victoria, Australia. Updated every year by over 70 legal specialists, this leading guide to the law covers more than 90 common law topics and includes summaries of the areas of law that most affect people in their everyday life. It also provides...
by Dr Ulla Secher
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Described as 'ground-breaking' in Kent McNeil's Foreword, this book develops an alternative approach to conventional Aboriginal title doctrine. It explains that aboriginal customary law can be a source of common law title to land in former British colonies, whether they were acquired by settlement...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Originally published in 2005. It is now possible to identify, within the discipline of law, a distinct body of international commercial law. This engaging book consists of a wide-ranging series of essays which demonstrates the breadth and scope of the subject matter of international commercial law....
by Vera Parisio
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 11, 2016
This book features a series of essays on the most important issues regarding food safety and quality law. Consumer health is increasingly connected to food production, localization and free circulation of food products in Europe and worldwide. The global market is ruled by a complex and transnational...
by Christina Hießl
Language: German
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: October 14, 2014
The present book sets out - in a concise manner - the social law of the European Union. It covers all core areas of European labour law, as well as the coordination of social security. Apart from regulation based on the EU's competence in social policy and the free movement of workers and other citizens,...