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  • Bicycle Accident Guidebook

    A Step-by-Step Process for Injured Bicyclists

    by Jonathan Rosenfeld ...
    It is unfortunate, however, that busy city streets are not always safe for bicyclists— regardless of the laws and protections that are put in place to safeguard them. Bicyclists are often treated with contempt by the motorists who must share the road with them are these drivers fail to see how their attitudes and actions can permanently negatively impact the lives of others. I founded Rosenfeld ... Read more

    $23.41 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • HOW TO BUILD NEW COUNTRIES

    by Julien Andrew Starr ...
    Can a brand-new sovereign state be lawfully built from scratch on dry land, through a negotiated treaty, upon territory with no pre-existing population? This study argues that it can. How to Build New Countries is a comprehensive legal analysis of de novo state creation through the mechanism of a 999-year sovereign lease of jurisdictional authority from a willing grantor state, combined with a ... Read more

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  • History of Law

    by Blake Carson ...
    Series series History of Education and Communication
    From Hammurabi’s Code to modern justice systems—how has law evolved over time? Law has been the backbone of civilization, shaping societies through rules, governance, and justice. Ancient legal codes, like Hammurabi’s Code and Roman law, laid the foundation for modern legal systems. The Magna Carta introduced principles of democracy, while the U.S. Constitution set precedents for human rights and ... Read more

    $7.75 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Citizen Participation in Local Governance

    An Urban-Rural Perspective

    Edited by Karl Kössler, Erika Schläppi ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This is an Open access book. It provides a comparative and multidisciplinary analysis of public participation in local governance. The volume stands out with three essential features. First, the comparative research reflected in the volume has a global geographical scope because it is the outcome of a Horizon 2020 project involving 18 partners from six continents. Therefore, it includes highly ... Read more

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  • Article 8 ECHR, Family Reunification and the UK’s Supreme Court

    Family Matters?

    by Dr Helena Wray ...
    Series series Human Rights Law in Perspective
    How do courts reconcile protecting family life with immigration control in human rights cases? This book addresses that question through an analysis of 11 UK Supreme Court decisions on immigration and family life, mostly focusing on Article 8 ECHR, the right to respect for family life, and starting with Huang v SSHD in 2007. The analysis is set against a national context that includes the Human ... Read more

    $380.29 HKD

  • Serviço Público na Constituição Federal

    by Noel Antônio Baratieri ...
    O livro desponta como um relevante trabalho sobre o serviço público na Constituição Federal. A temática é abordada, pelo autor, com objetividade e clareza, constituindo, assim, numa obra de esmerada qualidade teórico-prática. Nele foram examinadas temáticas atuais e polêmicas relativas aos serviços públicos, tais como, por exemplo, o novo papel do Estado na prestação dos serviços públicos as ... Read more

    $98.09 HKD

  • Code de commerce

    Partie Arrêtés - Livre VII : Des juridictions commerciales et de l'organisation du commerce (droit français)

    by Various ...
    Découvrez le Code de commerce Partie Arrêtés - Livre VII : Des juridictions commerciales et de l'organisation du commerce, un ouvrage incontournable pour les professionnels du droit. Ce livre, conçu avec rigueur et précision, regroupe l'ensemble des dispositions réglementaires et des textes officiels relatifs aux juridictions commerciales. Il offre une vision claire et structurée des mécanismes ... Read more

    $210.13 HKD

  • Soft Law and Public Authorities

    Remedies and Reform

    by Greg Weeks ...
    Series series Hart Studies in Comparative Public Law
    This book considers the phenomenon of soft law employed by domestic public authorities. Lawyers have long understood that public authorities are able to issue certain communications in a way that causes them to be treated like law, even though these are neither legislation nor subordinate legislation. Importantly for soft law as a regulatory tool, people tend to treat soft law as binding even ... Read more

    $348.59 HKD

  • Le domaine public

    by Jean-François Giacuzzo ...
    Series series Connaissance du droit
    Le domaine public est une vénérable institution du droit administratif des biens. Lointain héritier du domaine de la Couronne, il est l'enfant de l'impossible divorce entre la propriété et la puissance publique. Il regroupe les immeubles et les meubles appartenant aux personnes publiques et qui, en raison de leurs caractéristiques ou de leur affectation à l'intérêt général, ne sont pas ... Read more

    $100.19 HKD

  • Human Rights and Judicial Review in Australia and Canada

    The Newest Despotism?

    by Dr Janina Boughey ...
    Series series Hart Studies in Comparative Public Law
    It is commonly asserted that bills of rights have had a 'righting' effect on the principles of judicial review of administrative action and have been a key driver of the modern expansion in judicial oversight of the executive arm of government. A number of commentators have pointed to Australian administrative law as evidence for this 'righting' hypothesis. They have suggested that the fact that ... Read more

    $430.99 HKD

  • Code électoral

    Partie législative - Livre II : Election des sénateurs des départements (droit français)

    by Various ...
    Découvrez le Code électoral Partie législative - Livre II, une référence incontournable pour les professionnels du droit désireux de maîtriser les subtilités de l'élection des sénateurs des départements. Cet ouvrage, rigoureusement élaboré, compile l'ensemble des dispositions réglementaires et des textes officiels en vigueur, offrant ainsi une vision claire et précise des mécanismes électoraux. ... Read more

    $210.13 HKD

  • Responsabilidade e corrupção

    by Renato Romero Polillo ...
    A EDITORA CONTRACORRENTE tem a satisfação de publicar o segundo título da Coleção IREE, intitulado RESPONSABILIDADE E CORRUPÇÃO, do ilustre advogado Renato Romero Polillo. Trata-se de um denso e bem articulado estudo sobre a Lei Anticorrupção, com especial atenção ao instituto da responsabilização da pessoa jurídica na ordem jurídica brasileira. O autor alicerça sua obra em doutrina especializada, ... Read more

    $78.00 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Derecho Internacional Público

    by Álvaro Paúl ...
    En un mundo cada vez más interconectado, el derecho internacional público es un elemento clave, que regula y da estructura a las relaciones entre los Estados, así como a sus vínculos con otros actores globales. Esta rama del derecho es, además, cada día más relevante en la vida de las personas, debido a su aplicación por los tribunales nacionales. Este libro, que cuenta con una sólida base ... Read more

    $148.00 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Loss of Control and Diminished Responsibility

    Domestic, Comparative and International Perspectives

    by Alan Reed ...
    Series series Substantive Issues in Criminal Law
    This book provides a leading point of reference in the field of partial defences to murder and with respect to the mental condition defences of loss of control and diminished responsibility in general. The work includes contributions from leading specialists from different jurisdictions. Divided into two parts, the first provides an analysis from the perspective of the UK, looking at particular ... Read more

    $493.26 HKD

  • Declarations of Interdependence

    A Legal Pluralist Approach to Indigenous Rights

    by Kirsten Anker ...
    Series series Cultural Diversity and Law
    This book takes up the postcolonial challenge for law and explains how the problems of legal recognition for Indigenous peoples are tied to an orthodox theory of law. Constructing a theory of legal pluralism that is both critical of law's epistemological and ontological presuppositions, as well as discursive in engaging a dialogue between legal traditions, Anker focusses on prominent aspects of ... Read more

    $649.88 HKD

  • Droit de l'enseignement

    en Communauté française

    by Mathias El Berhoumi, Laurence Vancrayebeck ...
    Series series Répertoire pratique du droit belge
    La matière du droit de l’enseignement ne se laisse pas appréhender facilement.Fruit d’une histoire jalonnée de conflits, l’organisation de l’école repose sur des principes qui lui sont propres. Son architecture baroque est d’autant plus difficile à saisir qu’elle est en constante évolution. L’inflation législative n’a pas épargné le droit de l’enseignement. Les textes fondateurs – loi du pacte ... Read more

    $1,156.20 HKD

  • Manuel de droit européen de la protection des données à caractère personnel

    by Olivia Tambou, Juan Fernando López Aguilar ...
    Series series Droit administratif / Administrative law
    L’Europe a créé un modèle sophistiqué de droit de la protection des données à caractère personnel reposant sur des règles communes dégagées par le Conseil de l’Europe, l’Union européenne, et concrétisées par les États. La protection des données à caractère personnel a été consacrée en tant que droit fondamental. La circulation de ces données est subordonnée à une exigence de protection élevée. Le ... Read more

    $840.85 HKD

  • Asymmetry, Multinationalism and Constitutional Law

    Managing Legitimacy and Stability in Federalist States

    by Maja Sahadžić ...
    Series series Comparative Constitutional Change
    This book examines the link between constitutional asymmetry and multinationalism and the effects asymmetry produces on legitimacy and stability in federal and quasi-federal systems. This is done through a structured and exhaustive comparative analysis, covering states in Africa, America, Asia, and Europe.Contrary to traditional federal theory, contemporary scholars have linked constitutional ... Read more

    $493.26 HKD

  • Understanding Public Law

    by Hilaire Barnett ...
    Public Law is concerned with the law governing the institutions of the state and the relationship between the state and the individual, and is a core subject for all students reading for a qualifying law degree. This concise, student-friendly guide will help equip students with an understanding of the key aspects of the UK’s political and legal systems as well as building an understanding of the ... Read more

    $454.11 HKD

  • Memory, Imagination, Justice

    Intersections of Law and Literature

    by David Gurnham ...
    Through the creative use of literary analysis, Memory, Imagination, Justice provides a critical and highly original discussion of contemporary topics in criminal law and bioethics. Author David Gurnham uses popular and classical texts, by authors including Shakespeare, Dickens, Euripides, Kafka, the Brothers Grimm, Huxley and Margaret Atwood to shed fresh light on such controversial legal and ... Read more

    $602.90 HKD

  • Stateless Law

    Evolving Boundaries of a Discipline

    by Helge Dedek, Shauna Van Praagh ...
    Series series Juris Diversitas
    This volume offers a critical analysis and illustration of the challenges and promises of ’stateless’ law thought, pedagogy and approaches to governance - that is, understanding and conceptualizing law in a post-national condition. From common, civil and international law perspectives, the collection focuses on the definition and role of law as an academic discipline, and hybridity in the practice ... Read more

    $602.90 HKD

  • Legal and Rhetorical Foundations of Economic Globalization

    An Atlas of Ritual Sacrifice in Late-Capitalism

    by Keren Wang ...
    Series series Globalization: Law and Policy
    This book examines the subtle ways in which rhetorics of sacrifice have been re-appropriated into the workings of the global political economy in the 21st century. It presents an in-depth analysis of the ways in which ritual practices are deployed, under a diverse set of political and legal contexts, as legitimation devices in rendering exploitative structures of the prevailing political-economic ... Read more

    $493.26 HKD

  • The Constitutional System of the Hong Kong SAR

    A Contextual Analysis

    by Po Jen Yap, Albert HY Chen ...
    Series series Constitutional Systems of the World
    This book provides an account of the evolving constitutional arrangement known as “One Country, Two Systems”, as practised in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (PRC).The British colony of Hong Kong, one of the “Four Little Dragons” of East Asia, reverted to Chinese rule in 1997. Since then, Hong Kong has continued to be an international financial centre, ... Read more

    $272.39 HKD

  • The Dynamics of Law

    by Michael S Hamilton, George W Spiro ...
    Thoroughly revised and updated, this widely used text offers a concise introduction to the American legal system for students without a legal background. The book's coverage is cross-disciplinary, informed by the literature of law, business administration and the social sciences, especially public administration and policy. Its goal is to give non-lawyers in all these areas a lucid overview of the ... Read more

    $571.57 HKD