Constitutional

Constitutionalism is the permanent quest to control state power, of which the judicial review of legislation is a prime example. Although the judicial review of legislation is increasingly common in modern societies, it is not a finished project. This...

This book is the first comprehensive description of the Church-State systems that are in force in the post-Communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The reports it contains are structured along similar lines, so that analogies and differences of...

This book provides an overview of the state of EU migration law in 2014. It explores the meaning of EU legislation on migration in the light of fundamental rights and principles of Union law as explained in leading case-law of the European courts. It is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798230034896Author James R WhitfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Fiel LLCPublisher Fiel LLCWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947660786Author James Ronald KennedyFormat HardbackPage Count 434Imprint Shotwell Publishing LLCPublisher Shotwell Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942806288Author William RawleFormat HardbackPage Count 386Imprint Scuppernong PressPublisher Scuppernong PressWeight(grams) 717g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513630359Author Patrick John McGinleyFormat HardbackImprint Law Office of Patrick John McGinley, P.A.Publisher Law Office of Patrick John McGinley, P.A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584775430Author Robert LuceFormat HardbackPage Count 676Imprint Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Publisher Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Weight(grams) 1157g

Implied constitutional principles form part of the landscape of the development of fundamental rights in common law jurisdictions, affecting issues ranging from the remuneration of judges to the appropriation of property by the state. Principled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487579029Author Edward McWhinneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 349g

This new book in the Constitutionalism in Asia series considers the idea of origins, and of change and continuity in terms of 'constitution-making', which is an on-going process in the Northeast Asian states. The book examines the drafting, nature, core...

'[The] scholarship is consistently thorough and lucid, and absolutely reliable' European Public Law As reviews of the first edition attest, this book gives a unique critical and contextual insight into the Constitution of one the world’s most powerful...

'Rule of law' is not a simple concept when it comes to defining the political, economic, and legal developments of a country like Brazil which is a young democracy, struggling with longstanding extractive institutions and entrenched interests. In this...

This book is based upon the papers written by a group of leading international scholars on the 'constitution of social democracy', delivered at a conference to celebrate Professor Keith Ewing's scholarly legacy in labour law, constitutional law, human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781776561841Author Elizabeth McLeayFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Victoria University PressPublisher Te Herenga Waka University Press

This book provides an overview of Mexico's political evolution since it became independent from Spain in 1821, and its current constitutional arrangements, principles and structures. The aim is to explain this evolution as the result of struggles between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616195069Author Francis T FureyFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Publisher Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Weight(grams) 431g

In April 2007 COMBAR held its annual meeting in conjunction with the University of Richmond, Virginia. The timing of the meeting was designed to form part of the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the signing of the Virginia Charter and the...

The contributions brought together in this book derive from joint seminars, held by scholars between colleagues from the University of Oxford and the University of Paris II. Their starting point is the original divergence between the two jurisdictions,...

This book tackles the important topic of the relationship between three parts of the public law regime in a common law jurisdiction: the common law of judicial review or the unwritten constitution, the written constitution and public international law...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068545160Author Gordon GuthrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Digital PolicyPublisher Digital PolicyWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

From the McDonald's hot coffee case to the cattle ranchers' beef with Oprah Winfrey, from the old English ""Assize of Bread"" to current nutrition labeling laws, what we eat and how we eat are shaped as much by legal regulations as by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781545625804Author Douglas Robinson BuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Mill City Press, Inc.Publisher Mill City Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068545108Author Gordon GuthrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Digital PolicyPublisher Digital PolicyWeight(grams) 304g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509989065Author Brice DicksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 454g

The first edition of this textbook presented students with a variety of humanities-based readings in an effort to provide them with a culturally responsive approach to analyzing legal cases. The second edition of A Socio-Legal Approach to Constitutional...

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The Bill of Rights and Civil War Amendments created a triangular power struggle among state, nation and individual. Using chronological court cases, this book examines how the Supreme Court became arbiter among the three claimants to power, sometimes...

This timely edited collection brings together experts in the fields of legal history, criminal justice, human rights and counter-terrorism law to appraise Ireland's Offences Against the State Act on the eightieth anniversary of its enactment. The...

This book examines territorial governance in Asia in the context of central-local relations. In an era of attempts to deal with issues such as decentralisation, conflict involving ethnic and religious enclaves, and demands for regional autonomy, it is...

Behind every government there is an impressive team of hard-working lawyers. In Australia, the Solicitor-General leads that team. A former Attorney-General once said, 'The Solicitor-General is next to the High Court and God.' And yet the role of...

Anonymous Speech: Literature, Law and Politics discusses the different contexts in which people write anonymously or with the use of a pseudonym: novels and literary reviews, newspapers and political periodicals, graffiti, and now on the Internet. The...

This book shines a light on the still unexplored relationships between federalism and disability rights. It investigates how the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is implemented by different federal systems around the world...

US constitutional jurisprudence often conflates two distinct enquiries: how to interpret the Constitution and how to allocate interpretive authority. This book explains the distinct role of judgements about interpretive authority in constitutional...

Implied constitutional principles form part of the landscape of the development of fundamental rights in common law jurisdictions, affecting issues ranging from the remuneration of judges to the appropriation of property by the state. Principled...

This book focuses on the Polish Constitution of 1997, concentrating on its structure, its substance and some of the institutional choices made by the drafters. The core of the Constitution is similar to other liberal democratic constitutions, but, in...

This open access book explains why a democratic reckoning will start when European societies win the fight against COVID-19. Have democracies successfully mastered the challenges of the pandemic? How has the coronavirus impacted democratic principles,...

Jeffrey Goldsworthy is a renowned constitutional scholar and legal theorist whose work on the powers of Parliament and the interpretation of constitutional and statute laws has helped shape debates on these topics across the English-speaking world. The...

This book presents a new constitutional argument for the legitimacy of evolutive interpretation of the ECHR. It constructs a model, in which evolutive and static constitutional principles are balanced with each other. The author argues that there are...

How do you protect rights without a Bill of Rights? Australia does not have a national bill or charter of rights and looks further away than ever from adopting one. But it does have a range of individual elements sourced from common law, statute and the...