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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$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$27.16
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Comparative Law and Anthropology
Edited by James A.R. Nafziger
The topical chapters in this cutting-edge collection at the intersection of comparative law and anthropology explore the mutually enriching insights and outlooks of the two fields. Comparative Law and Anthropology adopts a foundational a...eBook:Find out more$64.76
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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$43.96
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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$50.36
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Research Handbook on Transitional Justice
Edited by Cheryl Lawther, Luke Moffett, Dov Jacobs
Providing detailed and comprehensive coverage of the transitional justice field, this Research Handbook brings together leading scholars and practitioners to explore how societies deal with mass atrocities after periods of dictatorship o...eBook:Find out more$61.56
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Advanced Introduction to Freedom of Expression
Mark Tushnet
The Advanced Introduction to Freedom of Expression provides an overview of major issues in the doctrinal structure of a law of freedom of expression, relevant to discussions of freedom of expression under many national constitutions. Ass...eBook:Find out more$23.96
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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$39.16
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Empirical Legal Research
Frans L. Leeuw, Hans Schmeets
Empirical Legal Research describes how to investigate the roles of legislation, regulation, legal policies and other legal arrangements at play in society. It is invaluable as a guide to legal scholars, practitioners and students on how ...eBook:Find out more$48.76
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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$34.36
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Eutopia
Philip Allott
There is a vacuum of philosophy to make sense of a world dominated by a disorderly global economy, by science and engineering, by ideologies, and by popular culture. There is a vacuum of law to bring order to relations between states tha...eBook:Find out more$29.56
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Privacy and Legal Issues in Cloud Computing
Edited by Anne S.Y. Cheung, Rolf H. Weber
Adopting a multi-disciplinary and comparative approach, this book focuses on emerging and innovative attempts to tackle privacy and legal issues in cloud computing, such as personal data privacy, security and intellectual property protec...eBook:Find out more$54.36