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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905536481Author Tadgh KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Clarus Press LtdPublisher Clarus Press Ltd

This book provides a clear, comprehensive and critical account of the industrial relations law that governs the relationship between workers, trade unions, and employers. It aids in understanding the contemporary framework and functioning of industrial...

The partial defence of provocation is one of the most controversial doctrines within the criminal law. It has now been abolished in a number of international jurisdictions. Addressing the trajectory of debates about reform of the provocation defence...

The system of jury trial has survived, intact, for 750 years. In the light of contemporary opposition to jury trial for serious offences, this book explains the nature and scope today of jury trial, with its minor exceptions. It chronicles the origins...

Rising economic inequality has put capitalism on trial globally. At the same time, existential environmental threats worsen while corporations continue to pollute and distort government policy. These twin crises have converged in calls to revamp...

Race in the Shadow of Law offers a critical legal analysis of European responses to institutional racism. It draws connections between contemporary legal knowledge practices and colonial systems of thought, arguing that many people of colour experience...

This book contains a series of essays discussing the uses of precedent as a source of law and a basis for legal arguments in nine different legal systems, representing a variety of legal traditions. Precedent is fundamental to law, yet theoretical and...

This collection investigates the sharpening conflict between the nation state and the internet through a multidisciplinary lens. It challenges the idea of an inherently global internet by examining its increasing territorial fragmentation and,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781275310650Author J L RaynerFormat PaperbackImprint Gale, Making of Modern LawPublisher Gale, Making of Modern LawWeight(grams) 653gDimensions(mm) 246mm *...

Unaccompanied minor migrants are underage migrants, who for various reasons leave their country and are separated from their parents or legal/customary guardians. Some of them live entirely by themselves, while others join their relatives or other adults...

Compliance and Ethics in Law Firms provides guidance on SRA regulations for non-lawyers working in law firms and for those who are responsible for ensuring that they comply with the SRA's rules (such as COLPs, COFAs and learning and development...

This book develops a new framework for analyzing the spatio-temporal workings of law and other forms of governance. Chronotopes of Law argues that studies of law and governance can be reinvigorated by drawing on a bundle of quite heterogenous analytical...

"One of the most important contributions to the field of contract theory-if not the most important-in the past 25 years." -Stephen A. Smith, McGill UniversityCan we account for contract law on a moral basis that is acceptable from the standpoint of...

The last twenty years have witnessed an astonishing transformation: the fight against corruption has grown from a handful of local undertakings into a truly global effort. Law occupies a central role in that effort and this timely book assesses the...

This new edition of International Trade Law Statutes and Conventions presents all the key legislation for international trade law in one student-friendly volume. Developed in response to feedback from lecturers and students, this book is:* Up-to-date...

A significant revision of a classroom mainstay for the twenty-first centuryA significant revision of a classroom mainstay for the twenty-first centuryAbout the AuthorRichard Delgado, University Professor of Law at Seattle University, is one of the...

Considering general philosophical and theoretical questions about the nature, purpose and operation of law as a whole, this book introduces students to contemporary debates in jurisprudence and encourages them to think in a theoretical and critical way...

This book presents the first detailed history of the modern passport and why it became so important for controlling movement in the modern world. It explores the history of passport laws, the parliamentary debates about those laws, and the social...

Surveillance of citizens is a clear manifestation of government power. The act of surveillance is generally deemed acceptable in a democratic society where it is necessary to protect the interests of the nation and where the power is exercised...

This original book is a comprehensive, richly documented and critical examination of laws applicable to Anglican cathedrals in England, some of the most iconic monuments in the national heritage and centres of spiritual and cultural capital. Law is the...

Cases and Materials on the Carriage of Goods by Sea, fifth edition, offers tailored coverage of the most commonly taught topics on Carriage of Goods by Sea courses. Combining a collection of legislative materials, commentaries, scholarly articles,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781717003690Author The Law LibraryFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

This book addresses the relevance of the state of exception for the analysis of law, while reflecting on the deeper symbolic and jurisprudential significance of the coalescence between law and force.The concept of the state of exception has become a...

Highlighting key issues in Criminal Justice that students need to consider, the Fifth Edition of this popular text contains a wide and varied selection of materials which help to explain the evolution of the criminal justice process in England and Wales...

With wit and intelligence, Leo Katz seeks to understand the basic rules and concepts underlying the moral, linguistic, and psychological puzzles that plague the criminal law. "Bad Acts and Guilty Minds ...revives the mind, it challenges superficial...

A forceful argument for why we need to repeal drug prohibitionA forceful argument for why we need to repeal drug prohibitionAbout the AuthorJames P. Gray is Judge of the Superior Court in Orange County in Southern California. He has served as former...

The law is heavily implicated in creating, maintaining, and reproducing racialised hierarchies which bring about and preserve acute global disparities and injustices. This essential book provides an examination of the meanings of decolonisation and...

This book provides a comprehensive collection of Cases and Materials On Marine Insurance Law. The sources included here are not always readily accessible. Each chapter is introduced with a brief resume of the general principles,before the facts of each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780414089723Author Jo Boylan- KempFormat PaperbackImprint Sweet & MaxwellPublisher Sweet & Maxwell Ltd

This book examines the almost entirely neglected realm of public property, identifying and describing a number of key organizing principles around which a nascent jurisprudence of public property may be developed. In property law terms, the public realm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781491793152Author Mitchell KowalskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 10mm

Examining specific areas of family law from a feminist perspective, this book assesses the impact that feminism has had upon family law. It is deliberately broad in scope, as it takes the view that family law cannot be defined in a traditional way. In...

Calling for nothing less than a radical reform of family law and a reconception of intimacy, The Neutered Mother,The Sexual Family, and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies argues strongly against current legal and social policy discussions about the family...

Written in a clear and direct style, each chapter offers a detailed treatment of a particular topic, explaining key principles and concepts and illustrating their development through significant case law. Extensive references assist in guiding research...

This book examines the issues of crime and its control in the twenty-first century - an era of human history where people live in an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world - providing invaluable and first-hand readings for undergraduate and...

Essential Business Law and Practice for SQE1 explains the key principles of business law and practice as required for the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) Part 1, in a clear, easy-to-follow style.The key principles of law in each topic are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781986929707Author The Law LibraryFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

The idea of human dominion over nature has become entrenched by the dominant rights-based interpretation of private property. Accordingly, nature is not attributed any inherent value and becomes merely the matter of a human property relationship. Earth...

Under current business law, it is already possible to give legal personhood, or a very close surrogate of it, to software systems of any kind (from a simple automated escrow agent to a more hypothetical, truly smart artificial intelligence). This means...

This book analyses the Habitats Directive; one of the most prominent piece of EU environmental legislation of the past decades. Seen by some as the cornerstone of Europe's nature conservation policy, among other measures the Directive established the...