Jurisprudence & General Issues

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...

By exploring crimmigration at its intersection with international refugee law, this book exposes crimmigration as a system focused on the governanc...

This book analyses the multifaceted ways law operates in the context of human mobility, as well as the ways in which human mobility affects law.Mig...

This open access book explores the intertwined histories of mapmaking and copyright law in Britain from the early modern period up to World War 1, ...

Through a wide range of international and interdisciplinary case studies, this book develops the notion of legacy, and in particular, living legacy...

This book presents the case law of Polish courts, namely the Supreme Court, administrative courts and the Constitutional Tribunal, in which the pri...

At the intersection of law, feminism and philosophy, this book analyses the ways in which certain bodies and selves continue to be treated as monst...

This edited book addresses contemporary challenges in clinical legal education (CLE), considering its role in legal education and in the broader co...

This book provides an analysis of how penal discourses are used to legitimate post-Cold War military interventions through three main case studies:...

This book critically examines the colonial dimensions of restorative justice through the lens of justice policy reform in Jamaica.Restorative justi...

What is a contract in Islam? Is it an aspect of Muslim religion or of secular life? How much has it changed over the centuries? Undertaking a searc...

The scope of criminal justice surveillance, from the police to the prisons, has expanded rapidly in recent decades. At the same time, the use of bi...

In Muslim countries, apostasy and blasphemy laws are defended on the grounds that they are based on Islamic Sharia and intended to protect religion...