This title offers a comprehensive examination of the events surrounding the shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer on August 9, 2014, and their aftermath, and will serve to generate an on-going dialogue about the role race and class play in the criminal justice system.
Modern Administrative Law in the 21st Century
Administrative law is a guardian of governmental actions, ensuring accountability and justice. This book offers a comparative perspective on global governance challenges and serves as a practical guide for navigating the complexities of administrative law and digital governance.
Crisis is the essence of labour law. As the COVID-19 pandemic creates a new reality, this volume critically reflects on the discipline. Using philosophical, sociological, and economic insights, it asks new questions to reconcile the past with the future of labour law.
This exploration of constitutionalism and human rights in Latin America is rooted in constitutional pluralism. Drawing on the Inter-American Human Rights System, it examines the impact on local courts, covering civil, social, and emerging digital and environmental rights.
Human Rights and Diverse Societies
In a world of increasing diversity, how can universal human rights be practically realized? This book explores the tensions between group identities and individual freedoms, identifying new frameworks to empower marginalized groups in diverse societies.
Misapplying Globalization
This book studies Jordan’s rapid adoption of TRIPS intellectual property laws. It argues these standards, designed for multinationals, are damaging Jordan’s legal institutions and foreclosing possibilities of innovation that could bring economic benefits.
Labour Regulation in the 21st Century
The economic crisis proved the EU’s flexicurity strategy inadequate. These papers investigate 21st-century labour regulation, exploring the essential balance between flexibility and security from a comparative and transnational perspective.
Civil Law Studies
As a rising superpower, India must engage with the Civil Law System dominant in the global market. In “Civil Law Studies,” scholars from India, Lisbon, and Coimbra collaborate to strengthen the study of Civil Law for its future prospects in India.
Globally, young people’s access to the labour market is a complex issue. In advanced economies, the educated face unemployment, while in developing countries, young workers are exploited. This book offers a comparative approach to understanding these challenges.
Professional roles may require people to do things that conflict with ordinary morality and personal integrity. How can we reconcile the demands of our roles with our ethics? This collection explores these questions for lawyers, judges, politicians, and more.
Corporate criminal liability is laced with contradictions. This book shows how these may be avoided with an adequate mechanism of imputation, proposing how to aggregate the acts and intents of agents to hold corporations liable for their crimes.
Though the value of human integrity is increasingly consolidated in law, sexual exploitation of children remains widespread. This book analyzes the legal framework and the international responsibility of states to eliminate the crime, and to prosecute and punish offenders.
This book offers a comparative analysis of pre-trial detention. It considers the philosophical principles, policies, and checks and balances used to protect individual freedoms across countries with differing legal traditions.
Confessing the International Rights of Children
This book brings together all international documents significant to the protection of the rights of children. While children’s rights obviously exist, the implementation of those rights is not so easy.
The Collectio Avellana is an exceptional documentary collection from antiquity. This volume is the first to reconstruct its history, using a new approach to offer fresh hypotheses on the compilation’s origins, its author, and how it took shape.
This book establishes a novel duty of care for corporate human rights violations and environmental damages. It examines how tort law can provide accountability for victims and proposes a new international court to effectively interpret and enforce the corporate duty of care.
This book provides an overview of recent developments in freedom of religion in Turkey. While progress has been made towards meeting EU norms, many restrictions remain in a country defined as a democratic, secular state, focusing on the most urgent issues.
Social Inequality and Leading Principles in Welfare States
Since the 1990s, European welfare states have undergone a paradigmatic shift. This book analyzes these fundamental reforms, showing how marketization and fragmentation have redefined society and changed the mechanisms and visibility of social inequality.
This is one of the first English publications to offer a profound analysis of Russian Constitutional Law. It covers the Constitution, federalism, the President, the court system, and human rights, and is useful for anyone interested in Russia’s system of power.
This book examines pressing intellectual property issues, using in-depth case studies to show how companies can profit from patent licensing and integrated IP rights. It is essential for legal and business professionals seeking smart competitive strategies.
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