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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

  • 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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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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  • 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

  • I Presidenti di Assemblea parlamentare

    Riflessioni su un ruolo in trasformazione

    Series series Percorsi
    Il ruolo dei Presidenti di Assemblea parlamentare è stato, nel corso degli ultimi vent’anni, oggetto di trasformazioni il cui significato è assai dibattuto, anche in relazione al loro carattere permanente o transeunte e alla loro natura “fisiologica” o “patologica” (in rapporto alle dinamiche della forma di governo). I lavori qui raccolti, frutto di ricerche originali condotte da costituzionalisti ... Read more

    S$ 29.09 SGD

  • Ley de la Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos

    DOF 20/05/2021

    Ordenamiento de tipo orgánico para darle vida jurídica a la CNDH ... Read more

    S$ 1.41 SGD

  • Street-Level Sovereignty

    The Intersection of Space and Law

    Street-Level Sovereignty: The Intersection of Space and Law is a collection of scholarship that considers the experience of law that is subject to social interpretation for its meaning and importance within the constitutive legal framework of race, deviance, property, and the communal investiture in health and happiness. This book examines the intersection of spatiality and law, through the ... Read more

    S$ 129.26 SGD

  • Defensoria Pública

    acesso à justiça, princípios e atribuições

    Series series Manuais Profissionais
    A Defensoria Pública constitui hoje ferramenta indispensável à democracia brasileira. No Estado de São Paulo, o órgão é marcado pela abertura ao diálogo com a sociedade e com as instituições com as quais se relaciona, em razão sobretudo de sua Lei Orgânica. Referida lei, aliás, se mostrou absolutamente relevante na conformação de todas as demais Defensorias brasileiras, figurando como uma das ... Read more

    S$ 35.74 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oceans: Key Issues in Marine Affairs

    Edited by Hance D. Smith ...
    Series Book 78 - GeoJournal Library
    HANCE D. SMITH 1. Introduction The millennium has been widely regarded as a time to take stock among other things, of the planet and its relationships with the people who inhabit it. Why this should be so is not always clear, apart from an apparent fixation with counting years. Further, the fact that the counting itself is based on the origins of the Christian religion is, for many, not of primary ... Read more

    S$ 204.58 SGD

  • Autogestão e Estado

    empresas recuperadas e as Políticas Públicas Argentinas

    Os autores José Victor Medeiros e Claudia Soares somam suas diferentes perspectivas de formação jurídica e econômica, respectivamente, para tratar de um tema extremamente atual e relevante, principalmente em tempos de crises financeiras: a relação entre a autogestão e o Estado por meio das empresas recuperadas por trabalhadores, assunto pouco discutido no Brasil e que nessa obra difere-se ainda ... Read more

    S$ 14.88 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Le regole dei giornalisti

    Istruzioni per un mestiere pericoloso

    Series series Contemporanea
    In un paese come il nostro si è soliti pensare che non vi sia alcun controllo, che ognuno possa scrivere ciò che vuole, senza rischiare severe sanzioni, come nelle democrazie più serie, né la vita o il carcere, come nei paesi a democrazia sospesa. Eppure anche qui da noi la vita può essere dura per coloro che non hanno un padrone e rispondono solo al lettore. Basata unicamente su notizie ... Read more

    S$ 15.25 SGD

  • Ensaios sobre Direito Público contemporâneo

    Temas sobre Direito Penal e Direito Processual Penal

    Series series Ensaios sobre Direito Público contemporâneo
    No ano em que se comemora os 30 (trinta) anos da Constituição Federal brasileira de 1988, os 70 (setenta) anos da Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos e os 50 (cinquenta) anos do curso de Direito da Universidade Regional de Blumenau (FURB), esta obra, contando com a participação de diversos colaboradores, é o segundo dos três volumes que formam a coleção 'Ensaios sobre Direito Público', cuja ... Read more

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  • Disability, Sexuality, and Gender in Asia

    Intersectionality, Human Rights, and the Law

    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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  • The Role of Law in Social Work Practice and Administration

    The strong nexus between law and social work is beyond dispute: the law informs day-to-day social work practice and administration, and social workers are employed by the courts. Moreover, they work collaboratively with attorneys in legal aid offices, public defenders'offices, and other law enforcement settings, interviewing clients, preparing reports for use in court, interpreting social science ... Read more

    S$ 131.77 SGD

  • Our Enemy The Government 2nd Edition

    by Ramesh Thakur ...
    In this updated and expanded edition, Ramesh Thakur exposes how the COVID-19 pandemic enabled unprecedented expansions of state power, with a new focus on Australia's experience.Panicked governments turned the world upside down. From coercive lockdowns in Melbourne to federal overreach in border closures, the boundary between liberal democracy and authoritarianism proved virus thin. Tools of ... Read more

    S$ 25.17 SGD

  • Servizi Segreti: Struttura ed Organizzazione del Sistema di Informazione per la Sicurezza della Repubblica Italiana

    Legge 3 agosto 2007, n. 124

    Il presente libro è stato composto con il fine di riunire in un unico semplice testo tutta la normativa aggiornata, comprese le modifiche apportate dalla legge 7 agosto 2012, n.133, inerente al Sistema di informazione per la sicurezza della repubblica italiana con la possibilità di avere tutta la legislazione collegata a cui la legge in oggetto fa riferimento. Visto la particolare precisione e ... Read more

    S$ 13.49 SGD

  • Política Pública Formal e Política Pública Real

    análise crítica da participação no projeto Agente Ambiental Comunitário do Amapá

    O livro apresenta a dissertação defendida pelo autor no curso de Mestrado em Direito Ambiental e Políticas Públicas na Universidade Federal do Amapá, contendo uma análise dos processos participativos na criação, execução e avaliação do Projeto Agente Ambiental Comunitário do Amapá. Discute-se tal política pública como uma apresentação de um Projeto Formal, a ser confrontado pela abordagem crítica ... Read more

    S$ 17.86 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fondamentaux - Droit des sociétés 2021-2022 - Ebook epub

    Ce manuel d’initiation couvre le programme de droit des sociétés enseigné dans les facultés de droit. Conçu pour permettre un apprentissage rapide, il facilitera également la révision du cours avant les examens.PLAN DE L’OUVRAGEFormes de l’entreprise et fondement des sociétésLa constitution des sociétésLa personnalité morale des sociétésL’organisation des sociétésLes évolutions des sociétésLes ... Read more

    S$ 12.53 SGD

  • Access to Justice for Persons with Psychosocial Disabilities

    A Comparative Analysis of Participation in the Kenyan Criminal Justice System

    Series series Routledge Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice and Procedure
    Taking Kenya as a case study, this book examines the application of criminal procedure in the context of persons with psychosocial disabilities. It discusses how the right to participation of persons with psychosocial disabilities who have been declared unfit can be best protected during and after the criminal process in Africa and at the international level. In doing so, it hypothesises that the ... Read more

    S$ 90.57 SGD

  • Law and the Christian Tradition in Modern Russia

    Edited by Paul Valliere, Randall Poole ...
    Series series Law and Religion
    This book, authored by an international group of scholars, focuses on a vibrant central current within the history of Russian legal thought: how Christianity, and theistic belief generally, has inspired the aspiration to the rule of law in Russia, informed Russian philosophies of law, and shaped legal practices.Following a substantial introduction to the phenomenon of Russian legal consciousness, ... Read more

    S$ 87.78 SGD

  • Military Courts, Civil-Military Relations, and the Legal Battle for Democracy

    The Politics of Military Justice

    The interaction between military and civilian courts, the political power that legal prerogatives can provide to the armed forces, and the difficult process civilian politicians face in reforming military justice remain glaringly under-examined, despite their implications for the quality and survival of democracy. This book breaks new ground by providing a theoretically rich, global examination of ... Read more

    S$ 87.78 SGD