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Daunting Enterprise of the Law
Essays in Honour of Harry W. Arthurs
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Professor emeritus at Osgoode Hall Law School and former president of Toronto’s York University, Harry W. Arthurs is one of Canada’s most widely respected scholars, educators, and policy makers in the world today. His enormous academic and institutional productivity has extended to administrative...
by Margaret Davies
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book engages with a traditional yet persistent question of legal theory – what is law? However, instead of attempting to define and limit law, the aim of the book is to unlimit law, to take the idea of law beyond its conventionally accepted boundaries into the material and plural domains of...
by Marcus Klamert
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Despite its seemingly innocuous wording, in what is now Article 4 (3) TEU,...
The Law and Politics of WTO Waivers
Stability and Flexibility in Public International Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Despite being an important legal instrument in the law of the WTO, the waiver has hitherto been the subject of little scholarly analysis. Isabel Feichtner fills this gap by challenging the conventional view that the WTO's political bodies do not engage in significant law-making. She systemises the...
by Professor Duncan Sheehan
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
The law of personal property covers a very wide spectrum of scenarios and, unfortunately, has had little detailed scrutiny of its overarching structure over the years. It is a system and can best be understood as a system. Indeed, without understanding it as a system, it becomes much more difficult...
Proportionality, Equality Laws, and Religion
Conflicts in England, Canada, and the USA
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This book considers how the law should manage conflicts between the right of religious freedom and that of non-discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation. These disputes are often high-profile and frequently receive a lot of media attention and public debate. Starting from the basis that...
by E.A. Christodoulidis
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Law is the great concealer; and law is everywhere. Or so claimed Marxists once upon a time. [Law] was imbricated within the mode of production and productive relations themselves . . . it intruded brusquely within alien categories, re-appearing bewigged and gowned in the form of ideology; . . . it...
Cross-Border Insolvency
A Commentary on the UNCITRAL Model Law, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Cross-border insolvency is an increasingly topical issue and cross-border insolvency practice continues to develop rapidly. Cross-Border Insolvency: A Commentary on the UNCITRAL Model Law (Fourth Edition) is an updated, enhanced edition covering the national implementation of the United Nations Commission...
by Michael Bridge
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
What type of right is a property right? How are items of property classified for legal purposes? In this revised edition of Personal Property Law, Michael Bridge provides answers to these fundamental questions of property law. His critical analysis includes new material on insolvency, in particular...
Law's Cut on the Body of Human Rights
Female Circumcision, Torture and Sacred Flesh
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Scenes of violence and incisions into the flesh inform the demand for law. The scene of little girls being held down in practices of female circumcision has been a defining and definitive image that demands the attention of human rights, and the intervention of law. But the investment in protecting...
Child Refugee Asylum as a Basic Human Right
Selected Case Law on State Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
This book addresses the intersection of various domains of international law (refugee law, human rights law including child rights international law and humanitarian law) in terms of the implications for State obligations to child refugee asylum seekers in particular; both as collectives and as individual...
The Future of the Law of the Sea
Proceedings of the Symposium on the Future of the Sea organized at Den Helder by the Royal Netherlands Naval College and the International Law Institute of Utrecht State University 26 and 27 June 1972
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
It is no surprise that the subject "The Future of the Law of the Sea" meets with special interest in the Netherlands. "The sea is our element, the roaring sea our glory," as the old folksong says. For a nation whose and prosperity are so closely connected with the sea, it is of...
by Michael Widener
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
“Rare books and archives come alive when consulted by readers and researchers.” --from the Introduction
In the administrative and budgetary environment of law librarianship, outstanding reference service is crucial to the survival and growth of special collections. Public Services Issues...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Feminist Perspectives on Tort Law offers a distinctly feminist approach to key topics in tort law. Ten original essays written by feminist legal scholars from the UK, US, Canada and Australia encompass a range of ways of thinking about women, tort law and feminism. The collection provides a fresh...