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Environmental Policy
Implementation and Enforcement
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This title was first published in 2002. Environmental Policy is an astute and far-reaching text which analyzes the intersections between environmental policy formation and its ultimate implementation and enforcement through the law. It sets this theme against the axis of EU law and policy and UK law...
by Gary P. Bagnall
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Law as Art presents a radical new legal theory, the Law as Art Hypothesis, which conceives law, not as a system of rules, but as a distinctive kind of art work. Law is differentiated as art by the Law as Compound Artistic Type Hypothesis, which uses the heuristic metaphor of the Operatic Music Drama,...
by Hilaire Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
This highly-respected textbook is regularly updated to provide complete coverage of the Public Law syllabus and is accompanied by a range of interactive resources designed to support teaching and learning. Mapped to the common course outline, it equips students with an understanding of the constitution’s...
Communication and Law
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Communication and Law brings together scholars from law and communication to talk both generally and specifically about the theoretical and methodological approaches one can use to study the First Amendment and general communication law issues. The volume is intended to help graduate students and...
Law in the Time of Oxymora
A Synaesthesia of Language, Logic and Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
What do different concepts like true lie, bad luck, honest thief, old news, spacetime, glocalization, symplexity, sustainable development, constant change, soft law, substantive due process, pure law, bureaucratic efficiency and global justice have in common? What connections do they share with innumerable...
The Journalist's Guide to Media Law
A handbook for communicators in a digital world
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
We are all journalists and publishers now: at the touch of a button we can send our words, sounds and images out to the world. No matter whether you're a traditional journalist, a blogger, a public relations practitioner or a social media editor, everything you publish or broadcast is subject to the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
This book critically examines the conception of legal science and the nature of law developed by Hans Kelsen. It provides a single, dedicated space for a range of established European scholars to engage with the influential work of this Austrian jurist, legal philosopher, and political philosopher.
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Transnational Law
Rethinking European Law and Legal Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In this era of globalisation, different legal systems and structures no longer operate within their own jurisdictions. The effects of decisions, policies and political developments are having an increasingly wide-reaching impact. Nowhere is this more keenly felt than in the sphere of European Union...
Dalhuisen on Transnational Comparative, Commercial, Financial and Trade Law Volume 1
The Transnationalisation of Commercial and Financial Law and of Commercial, Financial and Investment Dispute Resolution. The New Lex Mercatoria and its Sources
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2019
This is the seventh edition of the leading work on transnational and comparative commercial, financial, and trade law, covering a wide range of complex topics in the modern law of international commerce and finance. As a guide for students and practitioners it has proven to be unrivalled. The work...
by Christopher Bell, F. William Brownell, David R. Case
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
The environmental field and its regulations have evolved significantly since Congress passed the first environmental law in 1970, and the Environmental Law Handbook, published just three years later, has been indispensable to students and professionals ever since. The authors provide clear and accessible...
by Simon Gardner, Ms Emily MacKenzie
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
The rules of land law are numerous, complex, and in some cases baffling to students. The study of land law is also often portrayed as dull. Too frequently those who find success in working out how the law operates in other areas find themselves defeated by land law. Even the great jurist Blackstone,...
by Guanghua Yu
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014
This book examines China’s economic development from the end of 1970s, integrating perspectives from law, economics and political science. Particular attention is given to the role of formal law and political changes in China’s development, presenting the argument that formal law has made a useful...
The Politics of the Globalization of Law
Getting from Rights to Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
How does the globalization of law, the emergence of multiple and shifting venues of legal accountability, enhance or evade the fulfillment of international human rights? Alison Brysk’s edited volume aims to assess the institutional and political factors that determine the influence of the globalization...
Legal Reform and Business Contracts in Developing Economies
Trust, Culture, and Law in Dakar
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This book examines the prospects for business law reform to drive economic development in developing countries. It argues that, despite statements to the contrary, cultural factors and other local conditions in developing countries are not properly taken into account in current business law reform...