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The Internationalisation of Criminal Evidence
Beyond the Common Law and Civil Law Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Although there are many texts on the law of evidence, surprisingly few are devoted specifically to the comparative and international aspects of the subject. The traditional view that the law of evidence belongs within the common law tradition has obscured the reality that a genuinely cosmopolitan...
by Betül Aslan
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2013 in the subject Law - Public Law / Constitutional Law / Basic Rights, University of Regensburg, language: English, abstract: The constitutional integration in Turkish law is made by the constitutional harmony among all legal norms. The first stage of...
by Markku Kiikeri
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Comparative Legal Reasoning and European Law deals with the use of comparative law in European legal adjudication. It describes the different forms of the use of comparative law in legal reasoning, argumentation and justification in several national legal orders and in European level legal institutions....
Democracy and Rule of Law in the European Union
Essays in Honour of Jaap W. de Zwaan
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
The present collection of essays offers the reader a broad range of original perspectives on democracy and the rule of law in the European Union, approaching the existing policy area from new points of view. Leading experts from different countries and backgrounds focus on how democracy and the rule...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
What does it mean for courts and other legal institutions to be culturally sensitive? What are the institutional implications and consequences of such an aspiration? To what extent is legal discourse capable of accommodating multiple cultural narratives without losing its claim to normative specificity?...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
This book examines the role and importance of reason and emotion in justice and the law. Eight lawyers and philosophers of law consider law's basis in the universal human need for society, our innate sense of justice, and many other powerful inclinations and emotions, including the desire for fairness...
Database Law
Perspectives from India
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
This book focuses on database law (a branch of intellectual property law) and further explores the legal protection currently available for data and data-related products in India. It offers a comparative study of the position of copyright law in protecting databases in the US and EU, while also presenting...
The EU, World Trade Law and the Right to Food
Rethinking Free Trade Agreements with Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
In recent years the European Union has developed a comprehensive strategy to conclude free trade agreements which includes not only prominent trade partners such as Canada, the United States and Japan but also numerous developing countries.
This book looks at the existing WTO law and at the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
This volume explores the nature of intellectual property law by looking at particular disputes. All the cases gathered here aim to show the versatile and unstable character of a discipline still searching for landmarks. Each contribution offers an opportunity to raise questions about the narratives...
International Law and Humanitarian Assistance
A Crosscut Through Legal Issues Pertaining to Humanitarianism
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
It is becoming increasingly apparent that there are major gaps in International Humanitarian Law and Public International Law in the area of humanitarian assistance. In response international organizations such as the UN and the EU are developing their own legal frameworks for humanitarian assistance...
Safeguarding Adults and the Law, Third Edition
An A-Z of Law and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Safeguarding Adults and the Law, now in its third edition, sets this complex area of work within an extensive legal framework and provides many useful pointers for practitioners and students. It is now in an A-Z format, enabling quick reference to a wide range of civil and criminal law, and to legal...
Catholic and Reformed Traditions in International Law
A Comparison Between the Suarezian and the Grotian Concept of Ius Gentium
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
This book compares the respective concepts of the law of nations put forward by the Spanish theologian Francisco Suárez and by the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius. This comparison is based on the fact that both thinkers developed quite similar notions and were the first to depart from the Roman conception,...
UNHCR and International Refugee Law
From Treaties to Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
This book considers the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ contribution to international refugee law since the establishment of UNHCR by the United Nations General Assembly in 1951. The book explores the historical and statutory foundations that create an indelible link between UNHCR...
by Stephanie Owen, J.R. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Law for the Construction Industry provides a comprehensive introduction to the English legal system and basic contract law for those involved in the construction industry. It covers the level 2 module on legal studies of The CIOB's Education Framework and is officially sanctioned by The CIOB as the...