Joining, Staying in, and Leaving the European Union
This book explores the legal, political, and economic perspectives of a Member State’s “circle of life” in the EU: accession, participation, and potential exit in the form of withdrawal or expulsion.
This book examines Nigeria’s reform of personal property security law. While the new unitary system is acclaimed for enhancing credit access for small businesses, this text highlights the enactment’s drawbacks, offering lessons for stakeholders within and outside Nigeria.
Understanding Digital Labour Platforms
Dive into the future of work as digital platforms reshape the global labour market. This essential guide examines the gig economy through economic, social, and legal perspectives, offering invaluable insights for navigating the new employment landscape.
Corporations Have Almost as Many Constitutional Rights as Individuals
This book explains how, over 225 years, US Supreme Court decisions have enshrined corporations with constitutional rights, transforming them from individual freedoms to corporate entitlements used to evade government regulations.
A History of Women’s Prisons in England
This revisionist history challenges the invisibility of women in penal policy. Examining women’s prisons in England from the late 18th to the 20th century, it investigates the clash between desirable policy and its detrimental implementation on female prisoners.
This volume presents papers on recent developments in administrative law. It covers the reconfiguration of administrative law, codification in comparative law, and contemporary challenges. The book will appeal to practitioners, researchers, and students in the field.
Khan presents a critical analysis of anti-dumping laws enforced by the World Trade Organisation. Anti-dumping laws are the most debatable provisions of the WTO, which, though legally permitted, have a significant distorting effect on trade.
Usongo explores the political and romantic impulses of Shakespeare’s tragic characters, studying their overblown ambition as they embrace cunning and evil in order to acquire power. As such, he shows how these forces propel the demise or fall of the heroes and heroines.
Legal Issues in the Digital Economy
Artificial Intelligence and the collaborative economy are blurring traditional legal categories and creating new requirements for worker protection. This book analyzes the ongoing changes, challenges, and opportunities from a European Union law perspective.
Sasco provides an in-depth analysis of how industrial relations in Italy’s shipbuilding sector have developed over recent years, taking the leading and most well-known Italian shipbuilding company as a case study.
Mental Condition Defences and the Criminal Justice System
This collection brings together medical and legal conceptions of mental disorder to appraise mental condition defences. It provides invaluable, original insights into a sensitive area of criminal law that has struggled to keep pace with psychiatry.
Social Trust and Life Insurance
This book investigates how incomplete knowledge, social trust and risk perceptions influence acceptance of the risks of insurers using genetic test results. It analyzes the consequences for society and explores the difficulties of managing these risks.
Twins and Deviance
Cusack draws on nearly one thousand cases and anecdotes about twins bending and breaking rules in order to fulfill or flout tenets of twinhood. She challenges and improves previous research by collecting new topics to retool twins and deviance discussions.
Youth are the last to be hired in an expansion and the first to be let go in a recession. Ensuring today’s youth do not become a “lost generation” is an urgent matter. This book deals with these challenges, to make sure that youth is not wasted on the young.
This book introduces comparative law to Eastern and Central Europe. It covers the unification of law, private and public law, offering an engaging commentary on the current topics discussed by academics in the region.
Palestine Membership in the United Nations
Leading scholars explore the legal and political aspects of Palestine’s UN membership as a State. This collection goes beyond statehood to consider prospects for resolving one of history’s longest conflicts as the two-State solution seems to be failing.
Law and Popular Culture
Most people derive their basic understanding of law from cultural products like movies and television. This book explores the global transmission of law-related popular culture across borders, with two dozen authors from nine countries offering international perspectives.
International law recognizes children’s rights, but national legal and cultural practices often fail to see children as holders of rights. This book examines the child as a self-ruling subject of justice with an independent legal personality.
Islamic Law and Human Rights
This book argues the Muslim Brotherhood has exacerbated, not solved, tensions between Islamic law and human rights in Egypt. Its ideology and actions in power restricted religious freedom and freedom of expression, and reversed previous reforms related to women’s rights.
The Concept of Coexistence in Islamic Primary Sources
This book explores the theological aspect of Muslim coexistence in non-Muslim lands. It raises key questions pertinent to this issue: Is it permissible for Muslims to acquire non-Muslim citizenship? How do they perceive civic duties, and are they obliged to fulfil them?
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