Hart Publishing imprint: 910 books
Unjust Enrichment and Public Law
A Comparative Study of England, France and the EU
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
This book examines claims involving unjust enrichment and public bodies in France,England and the EU. Part 1 explores the law as it now stands in England and Wales as a result of cases such as Woolwich EBS v IRC, those resulting from the decision of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Metallgesellschaft...
by Dr Sharon Erbacher
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
This book examines claims in negligence arising from illegal conduct of the claimant. An array of public policy and other grounds have been advanced for resolving these claims, resulting in an area that is characterised by confusing and contradictory case law. The book analyses the various explanations...
Wrongful Enrichment
A Study in Comparative Law and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
This book analyses enrichment law and its development and underpinning in social culture within three geographical regions: the United States, western members of the European Union and the late Ottoman Empire. These regions correspond, though imperfectly, with three different legal traditions: the...
Minimum Contract Justice
A Capabilities Perspective on Sweatshops and Consumer Contracts
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
The collapse of the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh (2013) is one of many cases to invoke critical scrutiny and moral outrage regarding the conditions under which consumer goods sold on our markets are produced elsewhere. In spite of abiding moral concerns, these goods remain popular and consumers continue...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
This book brings together a wide range of contributors from across the common law world to identify and debate the principal moral and systemic challenges facing private law in the remaining part of the twenty-first century. The various contributions identify serious problems relating to complexity...
The Principle of Subsidiarity and its Enforcement in the EU Legal Order
The Role of National Parliaments in the Early Warning System
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
In this book, Katarzyna Granat analyses and evaluates Europe's experience with the Early Warning System (EWS) which allows national parliaments to review draft legislative acts of the European Union for their compatibility with the subsidiarity principle. The EWS was introduced in response to the...
by Alina Tryfonidou
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
The book's aim is to consider the impact that the introduction and development of the status of Union citizenship has had on the interpretation of the EU's market freedoms. Starting by providing, in its introductory part (part one), a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the status of Union citizenship...
EU Security and Justice Law
After Lisbon and Stockholm
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
The coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty has provided the EU with new powers in the fields of criminal law and security law while reinforcing existing powers in immigration and asylum law. The Stockholm Programme is the latest framework for EU action in the field of justice and home affairs. It...
Law’s Impunity
Responsibility and the Modern Private Military Company
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
When faced with those who act with impunity, we seek the protection of law. We rely upon the legal system for justice, from international human rights law that establishes common standards of protection, to international criminal law that spearheads efforts to end impunity for the most heinous atrocities....
Simester and Sullivan's Criminal Law
Theory and Doctrine
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
This is the fifth edition of the leading textbook on criminal law by Professors Simester, Spencer, Sullivan and Virgo. Simester and Sullivan is an outstanding account of modern English criminal law, combining detailed exposition and analysis of the law with a careful exploration of its theoretical...
Drafting Legislation
Art and Technology of Rules for Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
This book constitutes the first thorough academic analysis of legislative drafting. By placing the study of legislation and its principles within the paradigm of Flyvberg's phronetic social sciences, it offers a novel approach which breaks the tradition of unimaginative past descriptive reiterations...
The South China Sea Arbitration
A Chinese Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
On 22 January 2013, the Republic of the Philippines instituted arbitral proceedings against the People's Republic of China (PRC) under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) with regard to disputes between the two countries in the South China Sea (South China Sea Arbitration)....
The Legal Order of the Oceans
Basic Documents on the Law of the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2009
This compendium of documents brings together, for the first time in an affordable format, the essential documents needed to gain a thorough knowledge of the laws of the sea. There has been a long felt need for such a collection to provide students, scholars and practitioners with a working library...
Human Rights and Drug Control
The False Dichotomy
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
It has become almost accepted knowledge within international policy circles that efforts against drug trafficking and drug abuse violate human rights, and that the entire international drug control regime needs to be changed (or even discarded altogether) to adopt a more 'rights respecting' approach....