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  • The United States Constitution

    One Document, Many Choices

    by J. Vile ...
    This book examines the U.S. Constitution by focusing on its origins in Western political thought and its organization and subsequent amendments. It describes the document as a series of choices among alternative governmental institutions that are designed to provide national security and secure ordered liberty. ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • Choosing Not to Choose

    Understanding the Value of Choice

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    Our ability to make choices is fundamental to our sense of ourselves as human beings, and essential to the political values of freedom-protecting nations. Whom we love; where we work; how we spend our time; what we buy; such choices define us in the eyes of ourselves and others, and much blood and ink has been spilt to establish and protect our rights to make them freely. Choice can also be a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • On the Limits of Constitutional Adjudication

    Deconstructing Balancing and Judicial Activism

    by Juliano Zaiden Benvindo ...
    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

    $143.99 USD

  • Global Perspectives on Subsidiarity

    Edited by Michelle Evans, Augusto Zimmermann ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Global Perspectives on Subsidiarity is the first book of its kind exclusively devoted to the principle of subsidiarity. It sheds new light on the principle and explores and develops the many applications of the principle of subsidiarity. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the principle in all its facets, from its philosophical origins in the writings of Aristotle and Aquinas, to its ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • General Reports of the XVIIIth Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law/Rapports Généraux du XVIIIème Congrès de l’Académie Internationale de Droit Comparé

    Edited by Karen B. Brown, David V. Snyder ...
    Series series Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law
    This title presents twenty-nine topics, prepared by leading scholars in more than 20 countries, providing a comparative analysis of cutting-edge legal topics of the 21st century. Considering topics of vital moment to contemporary legal scholars, the title includes pieces on Surrogate Motherhood, The Balance of Copyright in Comparative Perspective, International Law in Domestic Systems, ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Non-State Justice Institutions and the Law

    Decision-Making at the Interface of Tradition, Religion and the State

    Edited by M. Kötter, T. Röder, F. Schuppert, R. Wolfrum ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book focuses on decision-making by non-state justice institutions at the interface of traditional, religious, and state laws. The authors discuss the implications of non-state justice for the rule of law, presenting case studies on traditional councils and courts in Pakistan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Bolivia and South Africa. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The European Union as Guardian of Internet Privacy

    The Story of Art 16 TFEU

    by Hielke Hijmans ...
    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

    $170.09 USD

  • Normative Plurality in International Law

    A Theory of the Determination of Applicable Rules

    by Carlos Iván Fuentes ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book provides a theoretical framework for explaining the choices made by international decision-makers in terms of what constitutes law. It comprehensively analyzes the practice of human rights courts in applying legal instruments outside their competence and proposes that this practice recognizes that different normative instruments coexist in an un-ordered space, and that meaning can be ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Taking Property and Just Compensation

    Law and Economics Perspectives of the Takings Issue

    Edited by Nicholas Mercuro ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    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

    $89.09 USD

  • Legislative Delegation

    The Erosion of Normative Limits in Modern Constitutionalism

    by Bogdan Iancu ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    An overarching question of contemporary constitutionalism is whether equilibriums devised prior to the emergence of the modern administrative-industrial state can be preserved or recreated by means of fundamental law. The book approaches this problem indirectly, through the conceptual lens offered by constitutional developments relating to the adoption of normative limitations on the delegation of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Racism and the Law

    The Legacy and Lessons of Plessy

    Edited by Gerald Postema ...
    Plessy v Ferguson (1897) established racial segregation in American constitutional law for over fifty years and its moral and political legacy lives on, despite attempts in the United States to counter its devastating effects during the last half century. Ironically, in the current debate over affirmative action, Justice Harlan's eloquent dissent has been used to justify attacks on government ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Juristic Concept of the Validity of Statutory Law

    A Critique of Contemporary Legal Nonpositivism

    by Andrzej Grabowski ...
    Translated by Malgorzata Kieltyka ...
    This book presents the theory of the validity of legal norms, aimed at the practice of law, in particular the jurisdiction of the constitutional courts. The postpositivist concept of the validity of statutory law, grounded on a critical analysis of the basic theories of legal validity elaborated up to now, is introduced. In the first part of the book a contemporary German nonpositivist conception ... Read more

    $143.99 USD