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The Trial

A History from Socrates to O. J. Simpson

by Sadakat Kadri ...

In an extraordinary history of the criminal trial, Sadakat Kadri shows with wit, legal insight and a travel writer’s eye for detail, how the irrationality of the past lives on in the legal systems of the present. A bold and brilliant debut from a prize-winning writer.‘The Trial’ spans a vast distance in time, opening in the dread silence of the Egyptian Hall of the Dead and ending with the ... Read more

$16.99 NZD

In an extraordinary history of the criminal trial, Sadakat Kadri shows with wit, legal insight and a travel writer’s eye for detail, how the irrationality of the past lives on in the legal systems of the present. A bold and brilliant debut from a prize-winning writer.‘The Trial’ spans a vast distance in time, opening in the dread silence of the Egyptian Hall of the Dead and ending with the
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Disability, Sexuality, and Gender in Asia

Intersectionality, Human Rights, and the Law

Edited by Wanhong Zhang, Peng Ding, Wei Gao, Hanxu Liu, Yijun Liu, Elisabeth Bjørnstøl ...

This book introduces experiential knowledge of the intersectionality of disability, sexuality, and gender equality issues. Scholars and disabled persons’ organizations in different Asian countries such as China, Vietnam, Myanmar, Nepal, and Japan have contributed to the book. It is a preliminary introduction of the frontline practice of Asian disability activism and the experience of women and ... Read more

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This book introduces experiential knowledge of the intersectionality of disability, sexuality, and gender equality issues. Scholars and disabled persons’ organizations in different Asian countries such as China, Vietnam, Myanmar, Nepal, and Japan have contributed to the book. It is a preliminary introduction of the frontline practice of Asian disability activism and the experience of women and
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The Harm in Hate Speech

by Jeremy Waldron ...

Series Book 10 - The Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures, 2009.
For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Waldron rejects this view, and makes the case that hate speech should be regulated as part of a commitment to human dignity and to inclusion and respect for members of vulnerable minorities. ... Read more

$34.95 NZD

For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Waldron rejects this view, and makes the case that hate speech should be regulated as part of a commitment to human dignity and to inclusion and respect for members of vulnerable minorities.
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Making Laws That Work

How Laws Fail and How We Can Do Better

by Justice David Goddard ...

This book examines why laws fail and provides strategies for making laws that work.Why do some laws fail? And how can we make laws that actually work? This helpful guide, written by a leading jurist, provides answers to these questions and gives practical strategies for law-making. It looks at a range of laws which have failed; the 'damp squibs' that achieve little or nothing in practice; laws ... Read more

$51.05 NZD

This book examines why laws fail and provides strategies for making laws that work.Why do some laws fail? And how can we make laws that actually work? This helpful guide, written by a leading jurist, provides answers to these questions and gives practical strategies for law-making. It looks at a range of laws which have failed; the 'damp squibs' that achieve little or nothing in practice; laws
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Judges and Judging in the History of the Common Law and Civil Law

From Antiquity to Modern Times

Edited by Paul Brand, Joshua Getzler ...

In this collection of essays, leading legal historians address significant topics in the history of judges and judging, with comparisons not only between British, American and Commonwealth experience, but also with the judiciary in civil law countries. It is not the law itself, but the process of law-making in courts that is the focus of inquiry. Contributors describe and analyse aspects of ... Read more

$73.70 NZD

In this collection of essays, leading legal historians address significant topics in the history of judges and judging, with comparisons not only between British, American and Commonwealth experience, but also with the judiciary in civil law countries. It is not the law itself, but the process of law-making in courts that is the focus of inquiry. Contributors describe and analyse aspects of
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Human Rights and their Limits

by Wiktor Osiatyński ...

Human Rights and their Limits shows that the concept of human rights has developed in waves: each call for rights served the purpose of social groups that tried to stop further proliferation of rights once their own goals were reached. While defending the universality of human rights as norms of behavior, Osiatyński admits that the philosophy on human rights does not need to be universal. Instead ... Read more

$80.83 NZD

Human Rights and their Limits shows that the concept of human rights has developed in waves: each call for rights served the purpose of social groups that tried to stop further proliferation of rights once their own goals were reached. While defending the universality of human rights as norms of behavior, Osiatyński admits that the philosophy on human rights does not need to be universal. Instead
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Small States and the Changing Global Order

New Zealand Faces the Future

Edited by Anne-Marie Brady ...

Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
This book provides a critical examination of the foreign policy choices of one typical small state, New Zealand, as it faces the changing global balance of power. New Zealand’s foreign policy challenges are similar with those faced by many other small states in the world today and are ideally suited to help inform theoretical debates on the role of small states in the changing international system ... Read more

$284.38 NZD

This book provides a critical examination of the foreign policy choices of one typical small state, New Zealand, as it faces the changing global balance of power. New Zealand’s foreign policy challenges are similar with those faced by many other small states in the world today and are ideally suited to help inform theoretical debates on the role of small states in the changing international system
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Varieties of Capitalism:The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage

The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage

Edited by Peter A. Hall, David Soskice ...

What are the most fundamental differences among the political economies of the developed world? How do national institutional differences condition economic performance, public policy, and social well-being? Will they survive the pressures for convergence generated by globalization and technological change? These have long been central questions in comparative political economy. This book provides ... Read more

$117.98 NZD

What are the most fundamental differences among the political economies of the developed world? How do national institutional differences condition economic performance, public policy, and social well-being? Will they survive the pressures for convergence generated by globalization and technological change? These have long been central questions in comparative political economy. This book provides
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The Veiled Sceptre

Reserve Powers of Heads of State in Westminster Systems

by Anne Twomey ...

Series Book 20 - Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
This book is a comprehensive review and analysis of the reserve powers and their exercise by heads of state in countries that have Westminster systems. It addresses the powers of the Queen in the United Kingdom, those of her vice-regal representatives, and those of heads of state in the less studied realms and former colonies that are now republics. Drawing on a vast range of previously ... Read more

$66.69 NZD

This book is a comprehensive review and analysis of the reserve powers and their exercise by heads of state in countries that have Westminster systems. It addresses the powers of the Queen in the United Kingdom, those of her vice-regal representatives, and those of heads of state in the less studied realms and former colonies that are now republics. Drawing on a vast range of previously
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Socialism and Legal History

The Histories and Historians of Law in Socialist East Central Europe

Edited by Ville Erkkilä, Hans-Peter Haferkamp ...

Series series Routledge Research in Legal History
This book focuses on the way in which legal historians and legal scientists used the past to legitimize, challenge, explain and familiarize the socialist legal orders, which were backed by dictatorial governments.The volume studies legal historians and legal histories written in Eastern European countries during the socialist era after the Second World War. The book investigates whether there was ... Read more

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This book focuses on the way in which legal historians and legal scientists used the past to legitimize, challenge, explain and familiarize the socialist legal orders, which were backed by dictatorial governments.The volume studies legal historians and legal histories written in Eastern European countries during the socialist era after the Second World War. The book investigates whether there was
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The Unity of Public Law?

Doctrinal, Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives

Edited by Mark Elliott, Professor Jason NE Varuhas, Shona Wilson Stark ...

This major collection contains selected papers from the second Public Law Conference, an international conference hosted by the University of Cambridge in September 2016. The collection includes contributions by leading academics and judges from across the common law world, including senior judges from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK. The contributions engage with the theme of unity (and ... Read more

$115.91 NZD

This major collection contains selected papers from the second Public Law Conference, an international conference hosted by the University of Cambridge in September 2016. The collection includes contributions by leading academics and judges from across the common law world, including senior judges from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK. The contributions engage with the theme of unity (and
... Read more
Poder público e litigiosidade

by Hugo de Brito Machado Segundo ...

A ideia de escrever este livro surgiu em Viena, Áustria. Realizei pesquisa em torno da tributação indireta, em 2012, e, analisando seus resultados, foi possível perceber o que poderia ser uma questão de princípio, talvez extensível a situações diversas: a tensão, no âmbito do direito da União Europeia, entre autonomia e efetividade, e a importância do devido processo legal a conectar o direito ... Read more

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A ideia de escrever este livro surgiu em Viena, Áustria. Realizei pesquisa em torno da tributação indireta, em 2012, e, analisando seus resultados, foi possível perceber o que poderia ser uma questão de princípio, talvez extensível a situações diversas: a tensão, no âmbito do direito da União Europeia, entre autonomia e efetividade, e a importância do devido processo legal a conectar o direito
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Redesigning Justice for Plural Societies

Case Studies of Minority Accommodation from around the Globe

Edited by Katayoun Alidadi, Marie-Claire Foblets, Dominik Müller ...

Series series Law and Anthropology
This volume examines cases of accommodation and recognition of minority practices: cultural, religious, ethnic, linguistic or otherwise, under state law. The collection presents selected situations and experiences from a variety of regions and from different legal traditions around the world in which diverse societal stakeholders and political actors have engaged in processes leading to the ... Read more

$110.99 NZD

This volume examines cases of accommodation and recognition of minority practices: cultural, religious, ethnic, linguistic or otherwise, under state law. The collection presents selected situations and experiences from a variety of regions and from different legal traditions around the world in which diverse societal stakeholders and political actors have engaged in processes leading to the
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Framework Agreements, Supplier Lists, and Other Public Procurement Tools

Purchasing Uncertain or Indefinite Requirements

by Dr Serban Filipon ...

This book looks at regulation, policy and implementation of framework agreements, supplier lists and other similar public procurement tools, with a strategic and pragmatic perspective.Whilst procurements of huge volumes and value are performed worldwide through such tools on a daily basis, and despite their complexity and diversity, this topic has rarely been studied in a systematic way. The book ... Read more

$77.99 NZD

This book looks at regulation, policy and implementation of framework agreements, supplier lists and other similar public procurement tools, with a strategic and pragmatic perspective.Whilst procurements of huge volumes and value are performed worldwide through such tools on a daily basis, and despite their complexity and diversity, this topic has rarely been studied in a systematic way. The book
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Leading Works in Law and Social Justice

Edited by Faith Gordon, Daniel Newman ...

Series series Analysing Leading Works in Law
This book assesses the role of social justice in legal scholarship and its potential future development by focusing upon the ‘leading works’ of the discipline.The rise of socio-legal studies over recent decades has led to a more interdisciplinary approach to the study of law, which prioritises placing law into its wider social context. Recognising the role that culture, economics and politics play ... Read more

$113.99 NZD

This book assesses the role of social justice in legal scholarship and its potential future development by focusing upon the ‘leading works’ of the discipline.The rise of socio-legal studies over recent decades has led to a more interdisciplinary approach to the study of law, which prioritises placing law into its wider social context. Recognising the role that culture, economics and politics play
... Read more
Tracing British West Indian Slavery Laws

A Comparative Analysis of Legal Transplants

by Justine K. Collins ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Comparative Legal History
This book provides a legal historical insight into colonial laws on enslavement and the plantation system in the British West Indies.The volume is a work of comparative legal history of the English-speaking Caribbean which concentrates on how the laws of England served to catalyse the slavery laws and also legislation pertaining to post-emancipation societies. The book illustrates how these ... Read more

$113.99 NZD

This book provides a legal historical insight into colonial laws on enslavement and the plantation system in the British West Indies.The volume is a work of comparative legal history of the English-speaking Caribbean which concentrates on how the laws of England served to catalyse the slavery laws and also legislation pertaining to post-emancipation societies. The book illustrates how these
... Read more
Visual Language for the World Wide Web

by Paul Honeywill ...

In this digital age, are there cultural lessons for us in looking to the earliest kinds of communications? The icons used in ancient Mayan and Sumerian language systems are presented here as direct cultural links to the visual presentation of World Wide Web pages on the Internet. The book shows how the development of digital screens has caused visual human communication to come full circle from ... Read more

$42.99 NZD

In this digital age, are there cultural lessons for us in looking to the earliest kinds of communications? The icons used in ancient Mayan and Sumerian language systems are presented here as direct cultural links to the visual presentation of World Wide Web pages on the Internet. The book shows how the development of digital screens has caused visual human communication to come full circle from
... Read more
Law and Philosophy of Language

Ordinariness of Law

by Pascal Richard ...

Series series Routledge Research in Constitutional Law
Academic legal production, when it focuses on the study of law, generally grasps this concept on the basis of a reference to positive law and its practice.This book differs clearly from these analyses and integrates the legal approach into the philosophy of normative language, philosophical realism and pragmatism. The aim is not only to place the examination of law in the immanence of its practice ... Read more

$110.99 NZD

Academic legal production, when it focuses on the study of law, generally grasps this concept on the basis of a reference to positive law and its practice.This book differs clearly from these analyses and integrates the legal approach into the philosophy of normative language, philosophical realism and pragmatism. The aim is not only to place the examination of law in the immanence of its practice
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Artificial Intelligence and the Law

Cybercrime and Criminal Liability

Edited by Dennis J. Baker, Paul H. Robinson ...

This volume presents new research in artificial intelligence (AI) and Law with special reference to criminal justice.It brings together leading international experts including computer scientists, lawyers, judges and cyber-psychologists. The book examines some of the core problems that technology raises for criminal law ranging from privacy and data protection, to cyber-warfare, through to the ... Read more

$113.99 NZD

This volume presents new research in artificial intelligence (AI) and Law with special reference to criminal justice.It brings together leading international experts including computer scientists, lawyers, judges and cyber-psychologists. The book examines some of the core problems that technology raises for criminal law ranging from privacy and data protection, to cyber-warfare, through to the
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Regional Autonomy, Cultural Diversity and Differentiated Territorial Government

The Case of Tibet – Chinese and Comparative Perspectives

Edited by Roberto Toniatti, Jens Woelk ...

Series series Law, Development and Globalization
Regional Autonomy, Cultural Diversity and Differentiated Territorial Government assesses the current state of the international theory and practice of autonomy in order to pursue the possibility of regional self-government in Tibet. Initiated by a workshop and roundtable with political representatives from different autonomous regions, including His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, this book brings ... Read more

$125.99 NZD

Regional Autonomy, Cultural Diversity and Differentiated Territorial Government assesses the current state of the international theory and practice of autonomy in order to pursue the possibility of regional self-government in Tibet. Initiated by a workshop and roundtable with political representatives from different autonomous regions, including His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, this book brings
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Family Law

Volume 1: Family Laws and Constitutional Claims

by Flavia Agnes ...

Family law in India has a complex legal structure where different religious communities are guided by their own personal laws, each of which historically evolved under various social, religious, political, and legal influences. In two comprehensive and lucid volumes, Flavia Agnes, a leading activist and advocate in the area, examines family law in the light of social realities, contemporary rights ... Read more

$85.99 NZD

Family law in India has a complex legal structure where different religious communities are guided by their own personal laws, each of which historically evolved under various social, religious, political, and legal influences. In two comprehensive and lucid volumes, Flavia Agnes, a leading activist and advocate in the area, examines family law in the light of social realities, contemporary rights
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Social Exclusion and the Criminal Justice System

A Comparative Analysis

Edited by Elisa García-España, Anabel Cerezo ...

Series series New Advances in Crime and Social Harm
This book presents the results of the latest in a long-running research project using the RIMES instrument, developed by scholars in Spain. Here, RIMES is used to measure the extent of social exclusion resulting from the penal system in comparative perspective. The volume shows the results of the application of the instrument in seven criminal justice systems: Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, ... Read more

$117.99 NZD

This book presents the results of the latest in a long-running research project using the RIMES instrument, developed by scholars in Spain. Here, RIMES is used to measure the extent of social exclusion resulting from the penal system in comparative perspective. The volume shows the results of the application of the instrument in seven criminal justice systems: Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland,
... Read more
Resolving Disputes in Telecommunications

Global Practices and Challenges

by R.U.S Prasad ...

The Indian telecommunication sector has seen far-reaching changes in the last two decades due to increasing globalization, rapid pace of technological innovations, and rising consumer demands. Myriad and complex problems have arisen as a result of these developments. Though attempts have been made to tackle these issues at the levels of policymaking, regulation, and dispute settlement, these have ... Read more

$136.99 NZD

The Indian telecommunication sector has seen far-reaching changes in the last two decades due to increasing globalization, rapid pace of technological innovations, and rising consumer demands. Myriad and complex problems have arisen as a result of these developments. Though attempts have been made to tackle these issues at the levels of policymaking, regulation, and dispute settlement, these have
... Read more
Criminalising Hate Speech

A Comparative Study

Edited by Eric Heinze ...

Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
Never in history have crises surrounding free speech raged with greater ferocity than we are witnessing today. This is the world’s first book to gather detailed, country-by-country studies devoted entirely to the problem of hate speech, spanning more than twenty nations. The introductory chapter summarises various key concepts, followed by a composite of the questions that were originally put to ... Read more

$365.57 NZD

Never in history have crises surrounding free speech raged with greater ferocity than we are witnessing today. This is the world’s first book to gather detailed, country-by-country studies devoted entirely to the problem of hate speech, spanning more than twenty nations. The introductory chapter summarises various key concepts, followed by a composite of the questions that were originally put to
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