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Truyol y Serra's Doctrines of International Law
Robert Kolb
Inspired by Antonio Truyol y Serra’s classic work, Doctrines sur le fondement du Droit des gens, this book offers a fully revised and updated examination and discussion of the various doctrines forming the foundations of international la...eBook:Find out more£27.16
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The Turning Point in Private Law
Ugo Mattei, Alessandra Quarta
Can private law assume an ecological meaning? Can property and contract defend nature? Is tort law an adequate tool for paying environmental damages to future generations? The Turning Point in Private Law explores potential resolutions t...eBook:Find out more£19.16
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Authority in Transnational Legal Theory
Edited by Roger Cotterrell, Maksymilian Del Mar
The increasing transnationalisation of regulation – and social life more generally – challenges the basic concepts of legal and political theory today. One of the key concepts being so challenged is authority. This discerning book offers...eBook:Find out more£32.76
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Comparative Law as Critique
Günter Frankenberg
This book presents a critique of conventional ways to do comparative law. The author argues that, for comparative law to qualify as a discipline, comparatists must reflect on how and why they compare. The author discusses not only method...eBook:Find out more£27.16
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The History of Law in Europe
Bart Wauters, Marco de Benito
Comprehensive and accessible, this book offers a concise synthesis of the evolution of the law in Western Europe, from ancient Rome to the beginning of the twentieth century. It situates law in the wider framework of Europe’s political, ...eBook:Find out more£24.76
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A Short Introduction to Judging and to Legal Reasoning
Geoffrey Samuel
This Short Introduction looks at judging and reasoning from three perspectives: what legal reasoning has been; what legal reasoning is from the view of judges and jurists themselves (the internal view); and what legal reasoning is from t...eBook:Find out more£24.76
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Advanced Introduction to Private Law
Jan M. Smits
In this Advanced Introduction, one of the world’s leading private law scholars takes the reader on an intellectual journey through the different facets and dimensions of the field, from the family home to Kuta Beach and from Thomas Piket...eBook:Find out more£15.16
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The Rule of Law
Christopher May
This timely book explores the complexities of the rule of law – a well-used but perhaps less well understood term – to explain why it is so often appealed to in discussions of global politics. Ranging from capacity building and the role ...eBook:Find out more£24.76
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Political Technology and the Erosion of the Rule of Law
Günter Frankenberg
This timely volume by distinguished scholar Günter Frankenberg offers a sophisticated analysis and sharp critique of the reactions of nations such as the US, Great Britain and Germany to perceived terrorist threats, organized crime actio...eBook:Find out more£24.76
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A Short Introduction to the Common Law
Geoffrey Samuel
This book provides a short, accessible introduction to the English common law tradition, in particular to the civil process. It adopts an approach which explains the historical development of the common law institutions and procedures w...eBook:Find out more£25.56
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Legal Thought and Philosophy
Bert van Roermund
Legal Thought and Philosophy clarifies background questions in legal research projects, such as the relationship between law and justice, law and politics, law and knowledge, facts and norms, normativity and validity, constituent and con...eBook:Find out more£29.56
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Law as Engineering
David Howarth
Law as Engineering proposes a radically new way of thinking about law, as a profession and discipline concerned with design rather than with litigation, and having much in common with engineering in the way it produces devices useful for...eBook:Find out more£24.76