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  • Choosing Not to Choose

    Understanding the Value of Choice

    Our ability to make choices is fundamental to our sense of ourselves as human beings, and essential to the political values of freedom-protecting nations. Whom we love; where we work; how we spend our time; what we buy; such choices define us in the eyes of ourselves and others, and much blood and ink has been spilt to establish and protect our rights to make them freely. Choice can also be a ... Read more

    S$ 26.48 SGD

  • Digital Constitutionalism

    The Role of Internet Bills of Rights

    Series series Routledge Research in the Law of Emerging Technologies
    Investigating the impact of digital technology on contemporary constitutionalism, this book offers an overview of the transformations that are currently occurring at constitutional level, highlighting their link with ongoing societal changes. It reconstructs the multiple ways in which constitutional law is reacting to these challenges and explores the role of one original response to this ... Read more

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  • Key Ideas in Law: The Rule of Law and the Separation of Powers

    Series series Key Ideas in Law
    Prompted by the events following the 2016 referendum on EU membership and written during the COVID-19 pandemic by one of the leading public lawyers of our day, this book considers two key constitutional principles, the rule of law and separation of powers, by examining the generality, certainty and predictability of law, relations between the different branches of the state, and the mechanisms of ... Read more

    S$ 27.35 SGD

  • Over Ruled

    The Human Toll of Too Much Law

    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAmerica has always been a nation of laws. But today our laws have grown so vast and reach so deeply into our lives that it’s worth asking: In our reverence for law, have we gone too far?Over just the last few decades, laws in this nation have exploded in number; they are increasingly complex; and the punishments they carry are increasingly severe. Some of these laws come ... Read more

    S$ 27.46 SGD

  • Key Ideas in Constitutional Law

    Series series Key Ideas in Law
    This book examines how constitutions, and the UK's in particular, emerge from disagreement and power tussles.Tensions arise over both distribution and use of powers. A constitution seeks a degree of stability, but also adjusts dynamically to social, economic, military and political events and changing expectations of the state and what makes it legitimate. To show how these processes work, the ... Read more

    S$ 21.46 SGD

  • Ambiguity in EU Law

    A Linguistic and Legal Analysis

    Series series Law, Language and Communication
    Ambiguity – an expression or utterance giving rise to at least two mutually exclusive interpretations – has been traditionally regarded as an ever-present, and therefore trivial, feature of EU law, alongside other forms of linguistic indeterminacy. At the same time, ambiguity has been condemned as a perilous defect in the legal text, since it is commonly assumed that the Court of Justice of the EU ... Read more

    S$ 85.00 SGD

  • Law and Revolution

    Past Experiences, Future Challenges

    The last one hundred years have seen a number of events that could be perceived as disruptive challenges to the normal operation of the legal order. Some have been disruptive innovations of technologies or business practices, others social changes or constitutional transformations, further buttressed by the impact of globalisation and interdependence affecting the development of international, ... Read more

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  • Code de l'éducation

    Partie réglementaire - Livre Ier : Principes généraux de l'éducation (droit français)

    by Various ...
    Découvrez le Code de l'éducation Partie réglementaire - Livre Ier : Principes généraux de l'éducation, un ouvrage incontournable pour les professionnels du droit. Ce recueil exhaustif vous plonge au cœur des fondements réglementaires qui régissent notre système éducatif. En rassemblant les dispositions officielles et les textes réglementaires, cet ouvrage offre une vision claire et précise des ... Read more

    S$ 34.31 SGD

  • Human Rights Law and Evidence-Based Policy

    The Impact of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency

    Edited by Rosemary Byrne, Han Entzinger ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
    The EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) was established to provide evidence-based policy advice to EU institutions and Member States. By blending social science research with traditional normative work, it aims to influence human rights policy processes through new ways of framing empirical realities. The contributors to this volume critically examine the experience of the Agency in its first ... Read more

    S$ 87.78 SGD

  • Secession in International Law

    A New Framework

    by Milena Sterio ...
    Secession in International Law argues that the effective development of criteria on secession is a necessity in today’'s world, because secessionist struggles can be analyzed through the legal lens only if we have specific legal rules to apply. Without legal rules, secessionist struggles are dominated by politics and sui generis approaches, which validate secessionist attempts based on geo ... Read more

    S$ 47.51 SGD

  • The Responsibility to Protect and the Failures of the United Nations Security Council

    by P M Butchard ...
    Series series Studies in International Law
    What can be done if the United Nations Security Council fails to protect people from mass atrocities? At a time of inaction and political paralysis at the United Nations, this book explains the legality of alternative action beyond the Security Council.This book takes a fresh look at the responsibility to protect and offers new and compelling insights into the powers and limits of the UN Security ... Read more

    S$ 66.59 SGD

  • Death, Dying and the Ending of Life, Volumes I and II

    Series series The International Library of Medicine, Ethics and Law
    The two volumes of Death, Dying, and the Ending of Life present the core of recent philosophical work on end-of-life issues. Volume I examines issues in death and consent: the nature of death, brain death and the uses of the dead and decision-making at the end of life, including the use of advance directives and decision-making about the continuation, discontinuation, or futility of treatment for ... Read more

    S$ 1,087.02 SGD

  • Gun Control: Do We Need to Ban Guns? Should We Allow Guns? The Gun Debate and What We Can Do

    GUN CONTROL, DO WE NEED IT OR NOT?If there's one thing that alot of people around the world know about the USA it's that the people love guns. Depending on who you are this might be a source of pride; knowing that your country provides you with the ultimate freedom to preserve life and liberty. For others it's a source of shame that even while being the richest nation in the world, it doesn't come ... Read more

    S$ 3.82 SGD

  • Legal Frameworks and Educational Strategies for Sustainable Development

    In today's complex world, achieving sustainable development poses a significant challenge. Legal frameworks often need help to keep pace with rapidly evolving environmental issues. In contrast, educational systems may need to prepare future leaders to address sustainability challenges adequately. This gap between policy and practice inhibits progress towards a more sustainable future. Legal ... Read more

    S$ 475.77 SGD

  • Handlungsformen und gerichtlicher Rechtsschutz im Informationsfreiheitsrecht

    Series series Social Science and Law (German Language)
    Die Entwicklung von Gesetzen und Regelungen im Informationsverwaltungsrecht in Deutschland schreitet seit den neunziger Jahren stetig voran und dauert bis heute an. Das Buch bildet das IFG, VIG, UIG des Bundes sowie die dreizehn vorhandenen Informationsfreiheitsgesetze der Länder im Hinblick auf die gerichtliche Rechtsdurchsetzung des Informationszugangsanspruchs ab.Es ergibt sich eine ... Read more

    S$ 95.58 SGD

  • The Far-Right in International and European Law

    Series series Routledge Research in International Law
    Since the Second World War, the international community has sought to prevent the repetition of destructive far-right forces by establishing institutions such as the United Nations and by adopting documents such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Jurisprudence and conventions directly prohibit far-right speech and expression. Nevertheless, recently, violent far-right entities, such as ... Read more

    S$ 87.78 SGD

  • Religion, Law, Politics and the State in Africa

    Applying Legal Pluralism in Ghana

    Series series ICLARS Series on Law and Religion
    Applying a legal pluralist framework, this study examines the complex interrelationships between religion, law and politics in contemporary Ghana, a professedly secular State characterised by high levels of religiosity. It aims to explore legal, cultural and moral tensions created by overlapping loci of authority (state actors, traditional leaders and religious functionaries). It contends that ... Read more

    S$ 87.78 SGD

  • 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

    S$ 115.66 SGD

  • Law for Leviathan

    Constitutional Law, International Law, and the State

    For the past several centuries of Anglo-American legal thought, law has been paradigmatically understood as the product of the state. The state, operating through the legal and political institutions of its government, imposes law on the people who are its subjects. Over the same centuries, however, the development of international law and constitutional law has made the state itself subject to ... Read more

    S$ 31.82 SGD

  • EU Chemicals Regulation

    New Governance, Hybridity and REACH

    This perceptive book provides an exploratory, explanatory and normative account of the EU Regulation on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), and its regulator, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).With more than one million words of official ECHA guidance to accompany and underpin the 516 pages of REACH, comprehension of these cooperative regimes is ... Read more

    S$ 47.51 SGD

  • Il Consiglio superiore della magistratura

    Organo dell'autonomia o luogo di potere?

    Series series Riscoprire le istituzioni
    Senza conoscere le istituzioni, non esistono salde e praticabili libertà. Come si "governa" la magistratura? È una domanda cui i costituenti risposero istituendo un Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura, radicalmente diverso da quello del periodo monarchico, che era un mero organo consultivo-amministrativo. Presieduto dal Capo dello Stato, il CSM repubblicano è, infatti, un organo di rilievo ... Read more

    S$ 16.34 SGD

  • Sword and Shield

    A Practical Approach to Section 1983 Litigation, Fifth Edition

    This fifth edition of Sword & Shield: A Practical Approach to Section 1983 Litigation is substantially reorganized to provide practitioners with easier access to the information they need as they are handling civil rights claims. As in prior editions, the authors provide a timely analysis of practical considerations necessary to practice effectively in this technically difficult and ever-evolving ... Read more

    S$ 150.52 SGD

  • LAS - Licence Accès Santé - Tome 2

    Destiné aux étudiants de L.AS (Licence Accès Santé) qui souhaitent postuler et intégrer la filière MMOPK vers les études de santé, via la passerelle détaillée dans la loi du 24 mars 2017.En vous inscrivant dans la licence de votre choix avec un module de santé, vous pouvez postuler en 2e ou 3 année des études de santé.Pour vous accompagner ce parcours**, deux ouvrages** couvrent la quasi-totalité ... Read more

    S$ 23.86 SGD

  • Indirect Criminalisation

    The True Limits of Criminal Punishment

    This book presents the first detailed study of 'indirect criminalisation' (the legal treatment of antisocial behaviour through civil preventative measures such as the ASBO) in England and Wales.Since the late 20th century many Western jurisdictions introduced a range of civil preventive measures in order to prevent and deal with various types of criminality. Although the stated objective of these ... Read more

    S$ 65.50 SGD