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Law, Cultural Studies and the "Burqa Ban" Trend
Publication date: July 1, 2021
This book offers an in-depth account of the "burqa ban" trend, bringing together law and cultural studies. With a focus on Europe and America, leading academics and professionals provide insights to value and identity politics, diversity, discrimination, human rights and the discussions surrounding the national and international courts' contradictory judgments.Hardback
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Minority Rights, Freedom of Expression and of the Media: Dynamics and Dilemmas
Publication date: October 25, 2011
This book offers a rigorous, theory-based, and uniquely comprehensive, analysis of European and international legal standards shaping minorities’ right to freedom of expression. The analysis pays particular attention to the instrumental role played by traditional and new forms of media in ensuring that the right to freedom of expression of persons belonging to minorities is effective in practice.Paperback -
Collective Judging in Comparative Perspective
Publication date: August 31, 2020
This book focuses on the decision-making processes in modern collegiate courts. Judges from some of the world's highest and most significant judicial bodies, both national and supranational, share their experiences and reflect on the challenges to which their joint judicial endeavour gives rise.Hardback -
Elderly Care and Upwards Solidarity
Publication date: July 1, 2020
This book examines the legal and societal challenges facing ageing nations in Europe. With a focus on informal care, it poses the question of how, in light of historical and socio-demographic changes, we can take care of our elderly.Paperback -
Rome I and Rome II in Practice
Publication date: November 5, 2020
This book is devoted to the applicable law to contractual and non-contractual obligations in the European Union as applied before the Courts. It is a valuable resource for practitioners, the judiciary, and academics who are interested in understanding how EU law is applied on national level.Hardback -
Protecting Trans Rights in the Age of Gender Self-Determination
Publication date: October 9, 2020
This book brings together international experts to discuss questions and challenges relating to the legal articulation of the emerging right to gender self-determination and its consequences for law and society, such as the future of sex/gender registration and the protection of trans persons against discrimination.Paperback -
Legal Foundations of Macroprudential Policy
Publication date: June 12, 2020
Macroprudential policy focuses on the financial system as a whole, as distinct from individual institutions, and its objective is to limit the costs to the real economy from system-wide distress of the financial sector. This book helps readers discover and decipher the multi-faceted and fascinating area of macroprudential policy through taking a theoretical, interdisciplinary and legal-focused approach.Hardback -
Populist Constitutionalism and Illiberal Democracies
Publication date: February 19, 2021
This book examines the rise of populist constitutionalism and the main trends that have led to the current, ongoing crises in liberal democracy. Combining theoretical contributions, comparative typologies and important case studies, the spread of populism and illiberal democracy in Europe is critically explored.Hardback -
European Yearbook on Human Rights 2020
Publication date: December 1, 2020
The European Yearbook on Human Rights brings together renowned scholars, emerging voices and practitioners. Split into parts devoted to recent developments in the European Union, the Council of Europe and the OSCE as well as through reports from the field, the contributions engage with some of the most important human rights issues and developments in Europe.Paperback
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Public Interest in Law
Publication date: January 20, 2021
This book analyses in a comprehensive manner the phenomenon of 'public interest' in different areas of law, both public and private. The contributions focus on the definition of public interest and the distinction between public and private interest. Further, they define the relevant 'public' and investigate the weight of public interest in case of conflict with other considerations and the legal consequences of its breach.Hardback
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Non-Regression in International Environmental Law
Publication date: December 14, 2020
This book analyses the emerging concept of 'non-regression' as a novel legal principle of international environmental law. In order to do so, it traces the development of related concepts in the framework of international human rights law and advocates their application to international environmental law using a novel approach of comparative law method.Hardback
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Climate Change, Resulting Natural Disasters and the Legal Responsibility of States
Publication date: December 20, 2020
Extreme weather events, resulting from anthropogenic climate change, disproportionately affect developing States such as the Caribbean and Pacific Islands, yet these states make a relatively small contribution to climate change compared to developed States and emerging markets. This book examines the legal responsibility of states with regard to post-disaster reconstruction and the duty to provide early warning from the perspective of various ...Hardback
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Legal Systems of the Pacific
Publication date: October 4, 2021
With no new books written on these legal systems for nearly 30 years, this book fills a gap in the literature and offers a true 'insider' perspective with the majority of authors being indigenous or long-term residents of the countries in question.Paperback
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The Privatized Art of War
Publication date: February 5, 2015
In the modern globalized world, so-called private military and security companies (PMSCs) are employed by a variety of actors in times of both war and peace. They are employed by, and perform a plethora of services for, not only international organizations, NGOs and multinationals, but also States. Given that there are still regulatory gaps in the national and international legal frameworks applicable to PMSCs and that the lines of responsibil...Paperback -
Gender and War
Publication date: February 22, 2019
This book explores and challenges common assumptions about gender, conflict, and post-conflict situations. It critically examines the gendered aspects of international and transitional justice processes by subverting traditional understandings of how wars are waged, the power dynamics involved, and the experiences of victims.Paperback -
The Interaction between Family Law, Succession Law and Private International Law
Publication date: January 4, 2021
This book brings together a range of views on the reciprocal influences of substantive and private international law in the fields of family and succession law. It outlines some key elements of this interplay in selected jurisdictions and provides a basis for discussion and future work on the reciprocal influences of domestic and European law.Paperback
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