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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Civil Service in Europe

    A Research Companion

    Series series Routledge Research Companions in Law
    This book opens an often nationally focused field of research to a transnational, common European debate. It addresses the ongoing transformation of the civil service, examining its evolving landscape across Europe and exploring the intricate web of historical, social, and political influences that are shaping its current state and setting the future direction. Written by experts from different ... Read more

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  • Il presidente del Consiglio dei ministri

    Mediatore o decisore?

    Series series Riscoprire le istituzioni
    Senza conoscere le istituzioni, non esistono salde e praticabili libertà. Memore dell'esperienza fascista, la Costituzione repubblicana ha tratteggiato appena la figura del Presidente del Consiglio dei ministri. Fin dalle sue origini, la posizione costituzionale di questa istituzione è stata come sospesa, oscillando tra il ruolo di mediatore tra i partiti che "davano le carte" e quello di primo ... Read more

    S$ 16.34 SGD

  • Germany’s Dual Constitution

    Parliamentary Democracy in the Federal Republic

    Series series Parliamentary Democracy in Europe
    This book offers a compelling and persuasive framework for understanding the German constitutional system. It argues that it can only be fully understood as a dual structure combining two layers with little in common. The first layer is the basic administrative institutional structure, comprised of federal institutions. The second layer is that of parliamentary democracy. It is the interplay ... Read more

    S$ 55.25 SGD

  • Arbeitsschutzrecht

    Ein Einstieg in die Materie

    Series series Social Science and Law (German Language)
    Jana Brauweiler, Markus Will und Anke Zenker-Hoffman stellen den umfangreichen und heterogenen Themenbereich des Arbeitsschutzrechts in Deutschland übersichtlich und kompakt vor. Sie erlauben es dadurch dem Leser, sich schnell einen Überblick zu verschaffen oder wesentliche Aspekte des Arbeitsschutzrechts, das in Deutschland im dualen System geregelt und überwacht wird, zu wiederholen. Während ... Read more

    S$ 7.57 SGD

  • On demand

    trabalho sob demanda em plataformas digitais

    O livro discute a regulação jurídica do trabalho sob demanda em plataforma, focalizando duas de suas espécies que exercem maior impacto nas relações de trabalho: o trabalho sob demanda por aplicativos e o crowdwork. Propõe uma agenda para a regulação indicando objetivos, critérios e possibilidades, destacando a atuação do Estado como indutor de iniciativas de autorregulação e da prática da ... Read more

    S$ 9.67 SGD

  • The Federal Idea

    Public Law Between Governance and Political Life

    Edited by Dr Amnon Lev ...
    Series series Hart Studies in Comparative Public Law
    A significant part of the world's population lives under some sort of federal arrangement. And yet, the concepts of federalism and federation remain under-theorised. Federalist theorists have, for the most part, defined their object by opposition to the unitary state. As a result, they have not developed public law theories that capture the specificity of this type of polity.Bringing together ... Read more

    S$ 65.50 SGD

  • Report on the Rule of Law Index in China 2

    Edited by He Tian, Yanbin Lv, Xiaomei Wang ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book reviews and assesses the status quo concerning the rule of law in China in 2017 and predicts its future development in such fields as legislation, judicial reform, civil, commercial and economic law, social law, safeguarding of human rights, criminality, Internet finance, the securities market, pilot free trade zones, administrative public interest litigation, regulation of investment ... Read more

    S$ 233.79 SGD

  • Les sources internationales du droit des marchés publics algérien

    Loi type de la CNUDCI sur la passation des marchés publics

    Les exposés des motifs du décret présidentiel n° 15-247 portant réglementation des marchés publics et délégations de service public et de la loi 23-12 du 5 août 2023 fixant les règles générales relatives aux marchés publics marquent, d’une façon limpide et assumée, l’ouverture de la réglementation algérienne des marchés publics aux sources internationales. De plus, l’exposé des motifs du décret ... Read more

    S$ 32.59 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Migration and the New Technological Borders of Europe

    Edited by H. Dijstelbloem, A. Meijer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    European borders that aim to control migration and mobility increasingly rely on technology to distinguish between citizens and aliens. This book explores new tensions in Europe between states and citizens, and between politics, technology and human rights. ... Read more

    S$ 73.13 SGD

  • The Struggle over Law in Europe

    by Aldo Sandulli ...
    Series series Law and Politics
    This book examines the role of law in Europe at a time when economic policies have become dominant not only on this continent but globally. Can law be seen as a mere infrastructure? Or does it contribute to defining the social and legal order through its own inherent rules? If the second hypothesis is true, what might these rules be, and how may they be identified? Lastly, to what extent can ... Read more

    S$ 90.57 SGD

  • Privatization, Vulnerability, and Social Responsibility

    A Comparative Perspective

    Series series Gender in Law, Culture, and Society
    Taking a cross-cultural perspective, this book explores how privatization and globalization impact contemporary feminist and social justice approaches to public responsibility. Feminist legal theorists have long problematized divisions between the private and the political, an issue with growing importance in a time when the welfare state is under threat in many parts of the world and private ... Read more

    S$ 112.87 SGD

  • Ils ont détruit notre Justice !

    Le cri d’un justiciable révolté

    by Achour Rezzik ...
    "Ils ont détruit notre Justice !" est une dénonciation acerbe de l’état de la Justice en France. L’auteur y réfute l’idée selon laquelle la Justice manque de moyens, la qualifiant de mensonge et d’alibi. Selon lui, l’institution n’a pas la culture de l’efficience et fonctionne essentiellement pour le profit d’une caste de professionnels du droit. L’ouvrage plaide pour une réforme en profondeur, ... Read more

    S$ 18.86 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Icelandic Constitutional Reform

    People, Processes, Politics

    Series series Comparative Constitutional Change
    This collection documents, analyses, and reflects on the Icelandic constitutional reform between 2009 and 2017. It offers a unique insight into this process by providing first-hand accounts of its different stages and core issues. Its 12 substantive chapters are written by the main actors in the reform, including the Chair of the Constitutional Council that drafted the 2011 Proposal for a New ... Read more

    S$ 87.78 SGD

  • Labour Law and the Person

    An Agenda for Social Justice

    by Lisa Rodgers ...
    Series series Bristol Studies in Law and Social Justice
    This book aims to revitalise the link between social justice and labour law through exploring the issue of personhood and the 'subject' of the law.Rodgers argues that incorporating a more 'relational' notion of self into labour law not only provides a fresh normative perspective through which to evaluate existing labour laws, but will also make us more able to respond to labour market 'shocks' and ... Read more

    S$ 56.78 SGD

  • Law, Drugs and the Politics of Childhood

    From Protection to Punishment

    by Simon Flacks ...
    Series series New Advances in Crime and Social Harm
    Debates about the regulation of drugs are inseparable from talk of children and the young. Yet how has this association come to be so strong, and why does it have so much explanatory, rhetorical and political force? The premise for this book is that the relationship between drugs and childhood merits more exploration beyond simply pointing out that children and drugs are both ‘things we tend to ... Read more

    S$ 87.78 SGD

  • Routledge Readings on Law, Development and Legal Pluralism

    Ecology, Families, Governance

    Edited by Kalpana Kannabiran ...
    Series series Routledge Readings
    Routledge Readings on Law, Development and Legal Pluralism presents some of the finest essays on social justice, environment, rights and governance. With a lucid new Introduction, it covers a vast range of issues and offers a compelling guide to understanding the harm and risk relating to biodiversity, agro-ecology, disaster and forest rights. The book covers critical themes such as ecology, ... Read more

    S$ 87.78 SGD

  • Die Rolle des Bundesrates bei der Wahl der Bundesverfassungsrichter

    Series series Social Science and Law (German Language)
    In einem Bundesstaat wie der Bundesrepublik Deutschland wirken die Länder bei den wesentlichen staatlichen Aufgaben mit. Aus diesem Grund werden die Richter des Bundesverfassungsgerichts von beiden Gesetzgebungskörperschaften gewählt. Die Richterwahlen erlangen so, aber auch wegen der besonderen Rolle des Gerichts, eine besondere Bedeutung und politische Dimension.In der Vergangenheit stand ... Read more

    S$ 118.80 SGD