Constitutional

India has a parliamentary system. Yet the president has authority to occasionally enact legislation (or ordinances) without involving parliament. This book is a study of ordinances at the national level in India, centred around three themes. First, it...

Nations often turn to international courts to help with overcoming collective-action problems associated with international relations. However, these courts generally cannot enforce their rulings, which begs the question: how effective are international...

This volume brings together essays by many of the leading scholars of comparative constitutional design from many perspectives to collectively assess what we know - and do not know - about the design process as well as particular institutional choices...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616193119Author Vernon V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 214Imprint Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Publisher Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Weight(grams) 472g

When judges disagree, those in the minority write a dissenting opinion. This book considers the great dissents in Australian law. Their worth may derive from numerous factors, including their rhetorical force as a piece of legal reasoning or emotive...

This book aims to explore the construction of Chinese law, with an evolution that has been strongly inspired by international law that has functioned as a "pioneer of legal civilization" in China. Chinese law is a fluid sedimentation of traditional...

This book is an interdisciplinary guide to the religion clauses of the First Amendment with a focus on its philosophical foundations, historical developments, and legal and political implications. The volume begins with fundamental questions about God,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584773801Author Jean Jaques BurlamaquiFormat HardbackPage Count 386Imprint Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Publisher Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Weight(grams) 735g

This book addresses a seemingly paradoxical situation. On the one hand, nationalism from Scotland to the Ukraine remains a resilient political dynamic, fostering secessionist movements below the level of the state. On the other, the competence and...

This historically embedded treatment of theoretical debates about prerogative and reason of state spans over four centuries of constitutional development. Commencing with the English Civil War and the constitutional theories of Hobbes and the...

A concise, authoritative guide to civil liberties issues in American society, from freedom of speech and religious liberty to due process, equal protection, and privacy. Written for a general audience, this work clearly defines civil liberties and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616193065Author William Jr RawleFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Publisher Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Weight(grams) 517g

Corruption, being the abuse of public office for private or political gain, currently receives an increasing amount of attention from scholars and practitioners in various disciplines, including law. While the phenomenon is as old as mankind, the last...

This book is a grand review of the centurial development of rule of law in China. It covers the most important issues in this area and presents "political constitution," a new interpretative framework that allows the Chinese experience of rule of law to...

This book analyses the common law's approach to retroactivity. The central claim is that when a court considers whether to develop or change a common law rule the retroactive effect of doing so should explicitly be considered and, informed by the common...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604979831Author Robert MaxonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 499g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584772569Author James MadisonFormat HardbackPage Count 810Imprint Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Publisher Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Weight(grams) 1347gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789803652272Author Allan R Brewer-CariasFormat PaperbackImprint Fundacion Editorial Juridica VenezolanaPublisher Fundacion Editorial Juridica...

In Towering Judges: A Comparative Study of Constitutional Judges, Rehan Abeyratne and Iddo Porat lead an exploration of a new topic in comparative constitutional law: towering judges. The volume examines the work of nineteen judges from fourteen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798201526825Author Peter SerefineFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Peter SerefinePublisher Peter SerefineWeight(grams) 82g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781316519325Author Tofigh MaboudiFormat HardbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781108843577Author Tamara Rice LaveFormat HardbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

Since 1875, Canadian courts have been permitted to act as advisors alongside their ordinary, adjudicative role. This book offers the first detailed examination of that role from a legal perspective. When one thinks of courts, it is most often in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683054931Author Baby ProfessorFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Baby ProfessorPublisher Baby ProfessorWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627555289Author Samuel AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Black Curtain PressPublisher Black Curtain PressWeight(grams) 73g

This book takes a wide-ranging approach to tackle the complex question of the current state of constitutional democracy in the EU. It brings together a broad set of academics and practitioners with legal and political perspectives to focus on both...

Entick v Carrington is one of the canons of English public law and in 2015 it is 250 years old. In 1762 the Earl of Halifax, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, despatched Nathan Carrington and three other of the King's messengers to...

For decades, Indonesia's 1945 Constitution, the second shortest in the modern world, was used as an apologia by successive authoritarian regimes. A bare-bones text originally intended as a temporary measure, it did little beyond establish basic state...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610271967Author Joseph StoryFormat HardbackPage Count 442Imprint Quid Pro, LLCPublisher Quid Pro, LLCWeight(grams) 156g

Using a key religious freedom Act, the book analyzes legislative process, Supreme Court jurisprudence, and discusses the role of religion in public life. "Religious Free Exercise and Contemporary American Politics" explains why the Religious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584773313Author William RawleFormat HardbackPage Count 354Imprint Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Publisher Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Weight(grams) 689g

For a generation, Jerry L. Mashaw, the most boundary-pushing scholar in the field of administrative law, has argued that bureaucrats can and should self-generate the norms that give us a government of laws. Administrative Law from the Inside Out brings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593327507Author Tracy L CookFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint LFB Scholarly PublishingPublisher LFB Scholarly PublishingWeight(grams) 449g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789041169433Author Suzie NavotFormat PaperbackImprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law International

Sources of Constitutional Law contains a selection of constitutions and fundamental legislative instruments from five Western democracies: the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. In addition, it provides the text of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389136432Author Sumit Dutt MajumderFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Niyogi BooksPublisher Niyogi Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617200724Author The Constitutional ConventionFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Gadsden PressPublisher Gadsden PressWeight(grams) 104g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781108717427Author Stephan StohlerFormat PaperbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781108825900Author Tamara Rice LaveFormat PaperbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584777045Author Bernard SchwartzFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Publisher Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Weight(grams) 744g