Constitutional & Administrative Law

This book considers whether term limits help curb careerism in the US state legislatures. Term limits are popular among the public and have been ov...

Sex and sexuality are an integral part of human life and vital for the survival of the human race, but sexual freedoms in many countries have yet t...

This book examines the socio-economic rights challenges of refugees and asylum seekers in Africa. It seeks to fill a major gap in the literature by...

This book sheds light on the latest trends in environmental law by analyzing some of the main sectors of law, including administrative law, constit...

While the rise of autocratic presidential powers has been widely noted by scholars in recent years, with calls by some for a stronger or more accou...

Democracy and data have a complicated relationship. Under the influence of big data and artificial intelligence, some democracies are being transfo...

This book opens an often nationally focused field of research to a transnational, common European debate. It addresses the ongoing transformation o...

Drawing on a lifetime's experience of working in the public sector, John Seddon here condenses what he has learnt about public sector 'improvement'...

Direct Effect in EU Law is the first book in English to thoroughly examine this revolutionary legal principle, tracing direct effect's evolution fr...

How a nineteenth-century lawsuit over the estate of a wealthy Tunisian Jew shines new light on the history of belongingIn the winter of 1873, Nissi...

Information is not only a human-fundamental right, but it has been shaped as a pillar for the exercise of other human rights around the world. It i...

Law is a fast globalizing field and many lawyers, judges, and political leaders are engaged in a process of comparative 'borrowing'. But this new f...

The constitutional system of South Korea is a work in progress, and this volume fleshes out and makes intelligible to foreign readers that process ...

This open access book presents the first comparative study on the legal sources of administrative law. Every modern legal order needs a set of gene...

Organised crime and financial crime are pressing global problems, increasingly recognised as policy priorities both by national governments and int...

The 1st edition of this seminal text was written as a response to the constitutional crisis of 2009, sparked by the 'expenses scandal', which led a...

Through a comparative analysis involving 13 countries from Africa, America, Asia and Europe, this book provides an invaluable assessment of womens ...

The 1st edition of this seminal text was written as a response to the constitutional crisis of 2009, sparked by the 'expenses scandal', which led a...

This book analyses the problem of the possibility of guaranteeing the constitutionality of law in cases when a constitutional court either has been...

Religious freedom is a fundamental and relatively uncontested right in both the United States and Europe. But other values like equality, justice, ...

The book reflects on constitutional balancing from the perspective of fundamental labour rights. It draws on neo-constitutional theories and builds...

Beginning his volume in the ancient and medieval worlds, Geoffrey R. Stone demonstrates how the Founding Fathers, deeply influenced by their philos...

This book offers insights into the legal mechanisms that are adopted in multilevel constitutional orders to accommodate the tension between contras...