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International Secured Transactions Law
Facilitation of Credit and International Conventions and Instruments
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
This book focuses on international harmonisation and the law of secured transactions by distilling and analysing the unifying principles of various significant international conventions and instruments such as the UN Convention on the Assignment of Receivables, the Unidroit Convention on International...
Exploiting the Limits of Law
Swedish Feminism and the Challenge to Pessimism
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Moving beyond the question of whether an area of scholarly investigation can truly be characterized as 'legal', Exploiting the Limits of Law combats the often unhelpful constraints of law's subject-matter and formal processes. Through a process of reflection on the limits of law and repeated efforts...
The Greening of European Business under EU Law
Taking Article 11 TFEU Seriously
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
The relationship between environmentally sustainable development and company and business law has emerged in recent years as a matter of major concern for many scholars, policy-makers, businesses and nongovernmental organisations. This book offers a conceptual analysis of the principles of sustainable...
Law in the Pursuit of Development
Principles into Practice?
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Law in the Pursuit of Development critically explores the relationships between contemporary principles and practice in law and development. Including papers by internationally renowned, as well as emerging, scholars and practitioners, the book is organized around the three liberal principles which...
by Roger O'Keefe
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
International Criminal Law provides a comprehensive overview of an increasingly integral part of public international law. It complements the usual accounts of the substantive law of those international crimes tried to date before international criminal courts and of the institutional law of those...
by Steven E. Kraft, Christopher L. Lant, J. B. Ruhl
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services is the first comprehensive exploration of the status and future of natural capital and ecosystem services in American law and policy. The book develops a framework for thinking about ecosystem services across their ecologic, geographic, economic, social, and...
International Investment Law
Reconciling Policy and Principle
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This book offers an up-to-date, scholarly overview of the law of foreign investment, incorporating a thorough and succinct analysis of the principles and standards of treatment available to foreign investors in international law. It is authoritative and multi-layered, offering an analysis of the key...
International and European Monetary Law
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
This book introduces the fundamental monetary law problems of cross-border economic activity and the solutions thereto in international monetary law, and in EU law. After decades of having been neglected by legal scholars, international and European monetary law has attracted increasing attention...
by Raphael J. Heffron
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
The aim of this short text is simply to introduce a reader to this topic. It is intended for a global audience and rather than being restricted to potential energy law students of a particular country. It is also written for students of other disciplines such as geographers, social scientists and...
by Charles Nemeth, JD, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Private Security and the Law, Fourth Edition, is a unique resource that provides a comprehensive analysis of practices in the security industry as they relate to law, regulation, licensure, and constitutional questions of case and statutory authority. It is an authoritative, scholarly treatise that...
by Professor Peter Cane
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
This book offers nine key ideas about tort law that will help the reader to understand its various social functions and evaluate its effectiveness in performing those functions. The book focuses, in particular, on how tort law can guide people's behaviour, and the political and social environments...
Contract Law Minimalism
A Formalist Restatement of Commercial Contract Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Commercial contract law is in every sense optional given the choice between legal systems and law and arbitration. Its 'doctrines' are in fact virtually all default rules. Contract Law Minimalism advances the thesis that commercial parties prefer a minimalist law that sets out to enforce what they...
The Rise of Big Data Policing
Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Winner, 2018 Law & Legal Studies PROSE Award
The consequences of big data and algorithm-driven policing and its impact on law enforcement
In a high-tech command center in downtown Los Angeles, a digital map lights up with 911 calls, television monitors track breaking news stories,...
by John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
One of the leading IP law journals in the world presents it second special symposium issue to go ebook (the 2010 issue, available as well, centered on the "green" movement and its intellectual property law issues). This edition of John Marshall RIPL is the new 2011 Special Issue, with seven...