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Sustainable-Resilience and Food Security by Victor Akoa 9786206889205
£38.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786206889205Author Victor AkoaFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams) 100g -
Togo: How to deal with the past for lasting reconciliation? by Bernard Anoumo Dodji Bokodjin 9786206665533
£38.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786206665533Author Bernard Anoumo Dodji BokodjinFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Seeking Supremacy: The Pursuit of Judicial Power in Pakistan by Yasser Kureshi 9781009016445
RRP: £23.99£21.51The emergence of the judiciary as an assertive and confrontational center of power has been the most consequential new feature of Pakistan's political system. This book maps out the evolution of the relationship between the judiciary and military in... -
Government Cloud Procurement: Contracts, Data Protection, and the Quest for Compliance by Kevin McGillivray 9781108931519
RRP: £26.99£24.08In Government Cloud Procurement, Kevin McGillivray explores the question of whether governments can adopt cloud computing services and still meet their legal requirements and other obligations to citizens. The book focuses on the interplay between the... -
Data-Driven Personalisation in Markets, Politics and Law by Uta Kohl 9781108813082
RRP: £26.99£24.08The most fascinating and profitable subject of predictive algorithms is the human actor. Analysing big data through learning algorithms to predict and pre-empt individual decisions gives a powerful tool to corporations, political parties and the state... -
Law and Mind: A Survey of Law and the Cognitive Sciences by Bartosz Brożek 9781108736923
RRP: £26.99£24.08Are the cognitive sciences relevant for law? How do they influence legal theory and practice? Should lawyers become part-time cognitive scientists? The recent advances in the cognitive sciences have reshaped our conceptions of human decision-making and... -
Constitutional Challenges in the Algorithmic Society by Hans-W. Micklitz 9781108823890
RRP: £26.99£24.08New technologies have always challenged the social, economic, legal, and ideological status quo. Constitutional law is no less impacted by such technologically driven transformations, as the state must formulate a legal response to new technologies and... -
Jesus On My Shoulder: The Life Of A Police Officer by Sgt Dennis R Sands 9798891276949
RRP: £23.00£13.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798891276949Author Sgt Dennis R SandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dorrance Publishing Co.Publisher Dorrance Publishing Co.Weight(grams) 132g -
Clean Air at What Cost?: The Rise of Blunt Force Regulation in China by Denise Sienli van der Kamp 9781009152662
RRP: £22.99£20.66China's green transition is often perceived as a lesson in authoritarian efficiency. In just a few years, the state managed to improve air quality, contain dissent, and restructure local industry. Much of this was achieved through top-down, 'blunt force'... -
Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice: How Societies Recover after Collective Violence by Janine Natalya Clark 9781108826358
RRP: £23.99£21.51Processes of post-war reconstruction, peacebuilding and reconciliation are partly about fostering stability and adaptive capacity across different social systems. Nevertheless, these processes have seldom been expressly discussed within a resilience... -
Justice for Everyone: The Jurisprudence and Legal Lives of Brenda Hale by Rosemary Hunter 9781108749732
RRP: £27.99£25.65As the first woman to be appointed President of the UK Supreme Court, Brenda Hale was one of the UK's most high profile and influential judges, and she is among the most powerful women leaders of our time. For almost half a century, she pioneered as an... -
Women and the Judiciary in the Asia-Pacific by Melissa Crouch 9781108999878
RRP: £23.99£21.51Courts can play an important role in addressing issues of inequality, discrimination and gender injustice for women. The feminisation of the judiciary – both in its thin meaning of women's entrance into the profession, as well as its thicker forms of... -
The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy by Ignacio Cofone 9781108995443
RRP: £29.99£25.94Our privacy is besieged by tech companies. Companies can do this because our laws are built on outdated ideas that trap lawmakers, regulators, and courts into wrong assumptions about privacy, resulting in ineffective legal remedies to one of the most... -
Silicon Valley Bank: The Rise and Fall of a Community Bank for Tech by Xuan-Thao Nguyen 9781009416160
RRP: £29.99£25.94This book provides a first-hand account of the founding, ascent, and dissolution of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a tech community bank founded in 1982 with US$5 million that became the nation's 13th largest bank and tech industry's lender and bank. In this... -
Enforcing Morality by Steven Wall 9781009363761
RRP: £25.99£21.99What parts of morality ought the law to enforce? What considerations justify its enforcement? What is the relationship between the legal and social enforcement of morality? Are there principled moral limits that constrain the enforcement of morality? How... -
The Differentiation and Autonomy of Law by Emilios Christodoulidis 9781009454391
RRP: £49.99£49.85This Element looks first at the fundamental principle of modernity that is the functional differentiation of society, and the emergence of autonomous, positive law. The careful architecture of differentiation, balance, and mutual performance between the... -
Towards the Rule of Law in China: Social Diversification and the Power System by Weidong Ji 9781009431514
RRP: £29.99£27.80Growing up in China while educated in Japan and the US, the author has in the past few decades both witnessed and actively participated in the historical process of legal transformations in contemporary China. Through a series of academic contributions,... -
The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms by Paul Gowder 9781108971904
RRP: £26.99£22.80Governments and consumers expect internet platform companies to regulate their users to prevent fraud, stop misinformation, and avoid violence. Yet, so far, they've failed to do so. The inability of platforms like Facebook, Google, and Amazon to govern... -
The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms by Paul Gowder 9781108838627
RRP: £80.00£72.17Governments and consumers expect internet platform companies to regulate their users to prevent fraud, stop misinformation, and avoid violence. Yet, so far, they've failed to do so. The inability of platforms like Facebook, Google, and Amazon to govern... -
Morality as Legislation: Rules and Consequences by Alex Tuckness 9781009055611
RRP: £24.99£22.37'What would happen if everyone acted that way?' This question is often used in everyday moral assessments, but it has a paradoxical quality: it draws not only on Kantian ideas of a universal moral law but also on consequentialist claims that what is... -
The Differentiation and Autonomy of Law by Emilios Christodoulidis 9781009001311
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Element looks first at the fundamental principle of modernity that is the functional differentiation of society, and the emergence of autonomous, positive law. The careful architecture of differentiation, balance, and mutual performance between the... -
The Reasoning State by Edward H. Stiglitz 9781108725392
RRP: £23.99£21.51Administrative bodies, not legislatures, are the primary lawmakers in our society. This book develops a theory to explain this fact based on the concept of trust. Drawing upon Law, History and Social Science, Edward H. Stiglitz argues that a fundamental... -
Conscience and the Common Good: Reclaiming the Space Between Person and State by Robert K. Vischer 9780521113779
RRP: £65.00£58.56Our society's longstanding commitment to the liberty of conscience has become strained by our increasingly muddled understanding of what conscience is and why we value it. Too often we equate conscience with individual autonomy, and so we reflexively... -
Saving the Constitution from Lawyers: How Legal Training and Law Reviews Distort Constitutional Meaning by Robert J. Spitzer 9780521721721
RRP: £26.99£22.80This book is a sweeping indictment of the legal profession in the realm of constitutional interpretation. The adversarial, advocacy-based American legal system is well suited to American justice, in which one-sided arguments collide to produce a just... -
AI Development and the 'Fuzzy Logic' of Chinese Cyber Security and Data Laws by Max Parasol 9781009073639
RRP: £27.99£26.05The book examines the extent to which Chinese cyber and network security laws and policies act as a constraint on the emergence of Chinese entrepreneurialism and innovation. Specifically, how the contradictions and tensions between data localisation laws... -
Five Republics and One Tradition: A History of Constitutionalism in Chile 1810–2020 by Pablo Ruiz-Tagle 9781108793155
RRP: £23.99£21.51Like many countries around the world, Chile is undergoing a political moment when the nature of democracy and its political and legal institutions are being challenged. Senior Chilean legal scholar and constitutional historian Pablo Ruiz-Tagle provides... -
Jewish Identity and Civil Rights in America by Kenneth L. Marcus 9780521766739
RRP: £63.00£56.40Given jurisdiction over race and national origin but not religion, federal agents have had to determine whether Jewish Americans constitute a race or national origin group. They have been unable to do so. This has led to enforcement paralysis, as well as... -
Gift Exchange: The Transnational History of a Political Idea by Gre goire Mallard 9781108489690
RRP: £68.00£61.19Since Marcel Mauss published his foundational essay The Gift in 1925, many anthropologists and specialists of international relations have seen in the exchange of gifts, debts, loans, concessions or reparations the sources of international solidarity and... -
The Trust Revolution: How the Digitization of Trust Will Revolutionize Business and Government by M.Todd Henderson 9781108494236
RRP: £58.00£52.01While conventional wisdom dictates that people's trust - in the government, in corporations, in each other - is at a historic low, the rise of the Internet is offering new ways to rehabilitate and strengthen trust. Uber is probably the best example of a... -
A Practical Guide to International Philanthropy by Jonathon R. Moore 9780521116411
RRP: £76.99£69.90This book is a practical guide addressing the issues faced by philanthropists seeking to engage in international charitable activities and offers alternative approaches to traditional US-based foundations. A significant portion of the regulatory burdens... -
Decoupling: Gender Injustice in China's Divorce Courts by Ethan Michelson 9781108738156
RRP: £29.99£27.80Michelson's analysis of almost 150,000 divorce trials reveals routine and egregious violations of China's own laws upholding the freedom of divorce, gender equality, and the protection of women's physical security. Using 'big data' computational... -
The Fundamental Holmes: A Free Speech Chronicle and Reader - Selections from the Opinions, Books, Articles, Speeches, Letters and Other Writings by and about Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. by Ronald K. L. Collins 9780521143899
RRP: £24.99£21.58No figure stands taller in the world of First Amendment law than Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. This is the first anthology of Justice Holmes's writings, speeches and opinions concerning freedom of expression. The book contains eight original essays designed... -
When States Go Broke: The Origins, Context, and Solutions for the American States in Fiscal Crisis by Peter Conti-Brown 9781107023178
RRP: £68.99£62.06When States Go Broke collects insights and analysis from leading academics and practitioners that discuss the ongoing fiscal crisis among the American states. No one disagrees with the idea that the states face enormous political and fiscal challenges... -
The Politics of Bureaucratic Corruption in Post-Transitional Eastern Europe by Marina Zaloznaya 9781107184312
RRP: £75.00£67.74Using a mix of ethnographic, survey, and comparative historical methodologies, this book offers an unprecedented insight into the corruption economies of Ukrainian and Belarusian universities, hospitals, and secondary schools. Its detailed analysis... -
Soft Skills for the Effective Lawyer by Randall Kiser 9781108416443
RRP: £71.00£64.60In this groundbreaking book, Randall Kiser presents a multi-disciplinary, practice-based introduction to the major soft skills for lawyers: self-awareness, self-development, social proficiency, wisdom, leadership, and professionalism. The work serves as... -
Property Rights in Post-Soviet Russia: Violence, Corruption, and the Demand for Law by Jordan Gans-Morse 9781107153967
RRP: £75.00£68.14The effectiveness of property rights - and the rule of law more broadly - is often depicted as depending primarily on rulers' 'supply' of legal institutions. Yet the crucial importance of private sector 'demand' for law is frequently overlooked. This... -
Civic Power: Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis by K.Sabeel Rahman 9781108422116
RRP: £63.00£56.40What will it take to restore American democracy and rescue it from this moment of crisis? Civic Power argues that the current threat to US democracy is rooted not just in the outcome of the 2016 election, but in deeper, systemic forms of inequality that... -
Transatlantic Jurisdictional Conflicts in Data Protection Law: Fundamental Rights, Privacy and Extraterritoriality by Mistale Taylor 9781108489560
RRP: £95.00£85.45This book looks at transatlantic jurisdictional conflicts in data protection law and how the fundamental right to data protection conditions the EU's exercise of extraterritorial jurisdiction. Governments, companies and individuals are handling ever more... -
Speech Out of Doors: Preserving First Amendment Liberties in Public Places by Timothy Zick 9780521517300
RRP: £45.00£40.99The Supreme Court has emphasized that expressive liberties require 'breathing space' in which to thrive. At a minimum, speakers need places in which to assemble, speak, and petition government. This book is a comprehensive examination of First Amendment... -
The Abortion Act 1967: A Biography of a UK Law by Sally Sheldon 9781108733656
RRP: £25.99£23.63The Abortion Act 1967 may be the most contested law in UK history, sitting on a fault line between the shifting tectonic plates of a rapidly transforming society. While it has survived repeated calls for its reform, with its text barely altered for over...