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  • French Law

    A Comparative Approach

    by Eva Steiner ...
    The second edition of French Law: A Comparative Approach provides an authoritative, comprehensive, and up to date account of the French legal system and its internal workings. It sets out the institutional frameworks, substantive law, and methodologies that underpin the system, and provides expert insight into the civil law way of thinking and an explanation of how law is made and enforced in ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Comparing the Prospective Effect of Judicial Rulings Across Jurisdictions

    by Eva Steiner ...
    Series Book 3 - Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law
    This work deals with the temporal effect of judicial decisions and more specifically, with the hardship caused by the retroactive operation of overruling decisions. By means of a jurisprudential and comparative analysis, the book explores several issues created by the overruling of earlier decisions.Overruling of earlier decisions, when it occurs, operates retrospectively with the effect that it ... Read more

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    The Renaissance of Comparative Constitutional Law

    by Ran Hirschl ...
    Comparative study has emerged as the new frontier of constitutional law scholarship as well as an important aspect of constitutional adjudication. Increasingly, jurists, scholars, and constitution drafters worldwide are accepting that 'we are all comparativists now'. And yet, despite this tremendous renaissance, the 'comparative' aspect of the enterprise, as a method and a project, remains under ... Read more

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  • On the Limits of Constitutional Adjudication

    Deconstructing Balancing and Judicial Activism

    Juliano Z. Benvindo investigates the current movement of constitutional courts towards political activism, especially by focusing on the increasing use of the balancing method as a “rational” justification for this process. From the critical perception of the serious risks of this movement to democracy, the book takes as examples two constitutional realities, Germany and Brazil, in order to ... Read more

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  • Natural Law in Court

    A History of Legal Theory in Practice

    The theory of natural law grounds human laws in the universal truths of God’s creation. Until very recently, lawyers in the Western tradition studied natural law as part of their training, and the task of the judicial system was to put its tenets into concrete form, building an edifice of positive law on natural law’s foundations. Although much has been written about natural law in theory, ... Read more

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  • The Right to Be Punished

    Modern Doctrinal Sentencing

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Does an offender have the right to be punished? "The right to be punished" may sound like an oxymoron, but it is not necessarily so. With the emergence of modern criminal law, the offender gained the right to be punished by rational criminal law rather than being lynched by an angry mob. The present-day offender may have the right to be punished by doctrinal sentencing rather than being subjected ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The German Prosecution Service

    Guardians of the Law?

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Acclaimed as the "the most objective prosecutors in the world", the German prosecution service has long attracted the attention in the past of comparative law scholars. At first glance, the institutional position and statutory mandate of German prosecutors indicate that that reputation is well-deserved. Unfortunately, the introduction of charge-bargaining has opened the door to criticism that ... Read more

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  • The European Union as Guardian of Internet Privacy

    The Story of Art 16 TFEU

    Series Book 31 - Law, Governance and Technology Series
    This book examines the role of the EU in ensuring privacy and data protection on the internet. It describes and demonstrates the importance of privacy and data protection for our democracies and how the enjoyment of these rights is challenged by, particularly, big data and mass surveillance.The book takes the perspective of the EU mandate under Article 16 TFEU. It analyses the contributions of the ... Read more

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  • Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad

    In Search of Knowledge

    Edited by Thomas Carothers ...
    "Over the past decade, Carothers has established himself as the leading U.S. expert on democracy promotion. He is a powerful critic not only of the nuts-and-bolts of democracy assistance but also of U.S. grand strategy overall."-SAIS Review Promoting the rule of law has become a major part of Western efforts to spread democracy and market economics around the world. Yet, although programs to ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Liability for Crimes Involving Artificial Intelligence Systems

    The book develops a general legal theory concerning the liability for offenses involving artificial intelligence systems. The involvement of the artificial intelligence systems in these offenses may be as perpetrators, accomplices or mere instruments. The general legal theory proposed in this book is based on the current criminal law in most modern legal systems.In most modern countries, unmanned ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Practising Self-Government

    A Comparative Study of Autonomous Regions

    Edited by Sophia Woodman, Yash Ghai ...
    Series series Law in Context
    Autonomy provides a framework that allows for regions within countries to exercise self-government beyond the extent available to other sub-state units. This book presents detailed case studies of thirteen such autonomies from around the world, in which noted experts on each outline the constitutional, legal and institutional frameworks as well as how these arrangements have worked in practice to ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Taking Property and Just Compensation

    Law and Economics Perspectives of the Takings Issue

    Edited by Nicholas Mercuro ...
    Series Book 26 - Recent Economic Thought
    While much has been gained from the traditional legal scholars' doctrinal mode of analysis of the takings issue, this volume is presented in the belief that contributions from scholars from the various schools of thought that comprise Law and Economics can complement the traditional doctrinal approach to law. As the discipline of Law and Economics continues to advance, it remains heterodox; there ... Read more

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