The Balance between Worker Protection and Employer Powers
This book analyses the challenges of the current labour market, focusing on the balance of power in employment contracts. International contributors discuss the future of work, worker protection, the limits of employers’ power, and workers’ rights with new technologies.
Digital Work and Personal Data Protection
International contributors explore the impact of new information technologies on the labour market, covering work, rights, health, and personal data protection. With chapters in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, this book will appeal to lawyers, academics, and HR experts.
Unlock the value of your intellectual property. Experts use in-depth case studies to reveal how companies profit from patent licensing, strategic litigation, and M&A. An essential guide for business leaders and IP law professionals navigating today’s competitive landscape.
This volume analyses the challenges that health, age and the environment introduce in the labour market, affecting people’s work and rights. With a global perspective, it provides solutions to improve workers’ rights and guarantee the viability of public social security systems.
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.
The Jurisprudence of Lord Denning
This definitive trilogy explores the jurisprudence of Lord Denning, the 20th century’s most pivotal judge. It reveals his shaping of the common law, his view of English identity, and his response to an era of immense social change.
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.
The Sharing Economy
The sharing economy’s use of digital technology blurs traditional economic roles, but the legal framework is unable to cope. This book highlights where new regulations are required, with a focus on the Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, British and Brazilian contexts.
Demystifying the Legal Art of Order, Power and Fun
Law has a reputation for being an incomprehensible art, leaving many feeling helpless. This book introduces readers to the past, present, and future of Law in an accessible and exciting way, using literary and artistic works to demystify it and prove that Law can be fun.
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.
This groundbreaking book examines how vast sums of Nigeria’s wealth vanish into the financial systems of the UK and UAE. It assesses the laws that allow bribery, corruption and money laundering to thrive, offering innovative solutions to curb the outflow of illicit wealth.
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.
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.
Explore the interplay of law, language, and migration in the 21st century. This interdisciplinary collection analyzes challenges faced by migrants, using corpus linguistics to challenge conventional arguments and offer actionable insights for fostering social cohesion.
This handbook details an EU case law approach to discretionary eligibility in public procurement. Using examples from the CJEU, it provides insights into the discretionary power of contracting authorities and the legitimized limits set by both EU and WTO interpretations.
An Analytical Study of Lord Hewart
This book is a long-overdue reappraisal of Lord Hewart, an unjustly neglected figure in English legal history. It shows that oft-quoted assessments of him are unfair and that his warnings about executive power are vital to the debate on the constitutional future of the country.
This book provides an up-to-date analysis of Latin American cases brought before the International Court of Justice. It provides summaries of all contentious cases submitted by or against Latin American states before the Court in order to illustrate case law.
Industrial growth has created complex products with health and environmental risks, prompting the new field of regulatory science. Leaders in the field contribute to these pages, providing a multidisciplinary overview and guide to critical topics in this evolving discipline.
Nigeria’s telecommunications industry is fast-growing but legally under-researched. This book bridges that gap by providing an essential analysis of the legal and policy instruments that regulate this dynamic sector, from licensing and competition to consumer protection.
Putin’s war in Ukraine is a stark violation of international humanitarian law. This book analyzes the International Criminal Court and alternative judicial avenues to hold perpetrators accountable for war crimes and secure justice for the victims.