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Private Law in Context
Marc Loth
Contemplating the nature, practice and study of private law, this comprehensive book offers a detailed overview of private law’s theoretical dimensions. It promotes a reflective attitude towards the topic, encouraging the reader to quest...eBook:Find out more$37.60
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The Future of Animal Law
David Favre
This unique book establishes potential future avenues within the law to enhance the welfare of animals and grant them recognised legal status. Charting the direction of the animal-human relationship for future generations, it explores th...eBook:Find out more$33.56
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Women and International Human Rights in Modern Times
Rosa Celorio
This casebook provides an overview of the main international and regional legal standards related to the human rights of women and explores their development and practical application in light of contemporary times, challenges, and advan...eBook:Find out more$44.00
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Regulating the Use of Force in International Law
Russell Buchan, Nicholas Tsagourias
This book provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the nature, content and scope of the rules regulating the use of force in international law as they are contained in the United Nations Charter, customary international law and ...eBook:Find out more$36.00
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Intersections of Law and Culture at the International Criminal Court
Edited by Julie Fraser, Brianne McGonigle Leyh
This pioneering book explores the intersections of law and culture at the International Criminal Court (ICC), offering insights into how notions of culture affect the Court’s legal foundations, functioning and legitimacy, both in theory ...eBook:Find out more$46.36
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Life and the Law in the Era of Data-Driven Agency
Edited by Mireille Hildebrandt, Kieron O’Hara
This ground-breaking and timely book explores how big data, artificial intelligence and algorithms are creating new types of agency, and the impact that this is having on our lives and the rule of law. Addressing the issues in a thoughtf...eBook:Find out more$38.36
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A Research Agenda for Global Crime
Edited by Tim Hall, Vincenzo Scalia
This multidisciplinary collection of essays by leading international scholars explores many pressing issues related to global crime. The book opens with essays that look across this diverse terrain and then moves on to consider specific ...eBook:Find out more$35.96
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Gender, Alterity and Human Rights
Ratna Kapur
Human rights are axiomatic with liberal freedom. Yet more rights for women, sexual and religious minorities, has had disempowering and exclusionary effects. Revisiting campaigns for same-sex marriage, violence against women, and Islamic ...eBook:Find out more$26.36
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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$26.36
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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$42.36
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Risk, Resilience, Inequality and Environmental Law
Edited by Bridget M. Hutter
This insightful book considers how the law has adapted to the environmental challenges of the 21st Century and the ways in which it might be used to cope with environmental risks and uncertainties whilst promoting resilience and greater ...eBook:Find out more$48.76
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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$37.56