Jurisprudence & General Issues

This book brings together leading experts in the fields of insurance and the law of obligations to consider how insurance law is attempting to deal...

This ground-breaking volume examines enduring and emerging discourses around communication rights in Africa, arguing that they should be considered...

Narratives on Prison Governmentality explores prison governmentality through the analysis of letters of prisoners. The collection of testimonies re...

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

This book shows how international criminal courts have paid only limited and inconsistent attention to atrocity crimes affecting children.It elucid...

Sharia-compliance is the raison detre of Islamic banks. All of their instruments and activities should be based on sharia principles, which unfortu...

This book examines the greening of civil codes from a comparative perspective. It takes into account the increasing requirements of supranational r...

The second of two volumes, this book about the criminology of Carlo Morselli includes a diversity of contributions that study the social inter-depe...

This volume bridges contemporary philosophical conceptions of risk and responsibility and offers an extensive examination of the topic. It shows th...

The first of two volumes, this book about the criminology of Carlo Morselli includes diverse contributions that study the social inter-dependence o...

This book assesses the relationship between cosmopolitanism and sovereignty. Often considered to be incompatible, it is argued here that the two co...

This book brings together contributions from twenty-three world-leading scholars and commentators that address a range of contemporary and pressing...

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

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the teaching of an eclectic range of family law topics and the unique opportunities and challenges o...

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

This book explores the various issues that characterise the African mining sector, drawing examples from different African countries and regional o...

This collection brings together international experts to present a comparative analysis of wrongful conviction and criminal procedure. The volume t...

This book explores and explains how traditional and alternative media have framed the issues of gun trafficking into Mexico, drug-related violence,...

In this new and distinctive contribution to the desistance literature, Dr David Honeywell draws on his own lived experience to consider his route t...

This volume explores in depth femicide and feminicide, bringing together our current knowledge on this phenomenon and its prevention.No country is ...

Taking up the study of legal education in distinctly biopolitical terms, this book provides a critical and political analysis of structure in the l...

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

Health and healthcare are vitally important to all of us, and academic interest in the law regulating health has, over the last 50 years, become an...

One of the first to provide a socio-legal comparative history of under-studied or ignored Jewish attempts in the 1930s Anglosphere to counter the r...

This volume celebrates the achievements of Julian V Roberts KC (Hon), Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford, over 40 years ...

This book employs scholarly analysis to ground practical tools for applying the EU Trade Mark law (EUTM) functionality refusal grounds to address b...

The Nordic states were among the first in the world to enact general gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low threshold enforcement me...

The Greek philosopher, Socrates, posed a guardian model that would protect his Athenian world, the custodes (watchmen), yet mused who would guard t...

This book investigates the historical economic and legal regimes that legitimated the resource extraction and exploitation of Africa between the 15...

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

This book addresses key questions around gender-sensitive legislation as a key output of gender sensitive Parliaments and explores practical ways t...

High levels of remand or pre-trial detention (PTD) is a matter of growing concern in many countries, and at a European level. Despite being respons...

Drawing on experiences from other jurisdictions within the UK, Criminalising Coercive Control explores the challenges and potential successes which...

First published in 1973, Wrongful Imprisonment aims to combine the human interest of individual cases of wrongful imprisonment with a general analy...

Faced with evolving trade and health dynamics, this book presents a historical, conceptual, and empirical examination of public health and medical ...

This book introduces experiential knowledge of the intersectionality of disability, sexuality, and gender equality issues. Scholars and disabled pe...

Preventing Prison Violence introduces the idea of prison ecologies a multi-layered perspective to understanding prison violence as a product of hu...

This collection provides an innovative and engaging way of assessing the development of legal profession scholarship and its potential future devel...

This book aims to present a picture of one of the worlds leading credit rating agencies. Credited as being the first credit rating agency, Moodys s...

Memetic War analyses memetic warfare included in cyber war and aims to develop a framework for understanding the parameters included in utilising t...

It has long been argued that families play a crucial role in helping support prisoners during and beyond their time in prison. Through harnessing m...

This book provides an up-to-date interdisciplinary assessment of the accountability of executive power in different European States and at the Euro...

Getting divorced and remarried are now common practices in European societies, even if the rules differ from one country to the next. Civil marriag...

Marking the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh's Constitution, this book gauges its development from 1972 to 2022, focusing on its foundational goals, ...

This book examines the everyday judicial experience in four multicultural jurisdictions as a means of exploring the relationship between legal syst...

This book analyses a selection of leading works in the criminal law to ask questions about how the modern discipline of criminal law has developed,...

This book critically engages the emerging field of global animal law from the perspective of an intersectional ethical framework. Reconceptualising...