Forensic Psychiatry
This book provides an update on forensic psychiatry, incorporating changes from the ICD-11. It covers criminal and civil topics, addressing controversial issues like chemical castration. It is for psychiatrists, psychologists, and legal practitioners.
Amidst global transformations, the criminal law of post-Soviet states has a new function: ensuring security. This book reveals how the boundaries of law are expanding, the concept of “crime” is shifting, and the emphasis is moving from punishment to new criminal-legal measures.
A Guide to Oil Marginal Field Law
This book offers insight into Nigeria’s oil marginal field farm-out, addressing international concerns over its legality. It links developing these fields to a switch to renewable energy, concluding the exercise is legal based on UN and OPEC resolutions on national sovereignty.
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.
Protection, Preservation, and Conservation of Our Oceans
This book discusses the conservation, protection and preservation of oceans and the public trust and responsibility in State governments. This trustee responsibility of States was enshrined in the UN Law of the Sea Convention. An Oceans Public Trust is now required by Mankind.
Explore contemporary law’s pivotal shifts and pressing challenges. Delve into landmark cases, human rights, environmental law, and the transformative impact of technology on jurisprudence. A compass for navigating our modern legal discourse, this is an indispensable resource.
Sex-Based Harassment in the World of Work
This book explores the evolving jurisprudence on workplace sexual harassment. It examines the judiciary’s approach to complex issues: the ambit of ‘workplace’, handling vague or anonymous complaints, ensuring balance in inquiries, and the interplay with criminal proceedings.
Gender Identity in International Law
This book challenges prevailing narratives by refashioning gender identity as a belief. This reframing protects the conflicting rights of women, children, and LGB people, as well as the right of people to express a gender identity incongruent with their sex.
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.
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.
This book delves into the Ukraine conflict through international law. It scrutinizes Russia’s arguments, drawing parallels to legal doctrines previously used by other major powers. A pioneering and impartial analysis essential for anyone wishing to stay informed.
Geographical Indications (GIs) give products like Darjeeling tea legal protection. This book analyzes the inclusion of GIs in Free Trade Agreements signed by Asian countries, examining the challenges, opportunities, and impact on local economies, agriculture, and industries.
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.
An essential guide exploring the intersection of energy, public international, and environmental law. It covers fossil fuels, renewables, energy economics, diplomacy, and dispute settlement, providing a holistic view for practitioners of international law and management.
This book explores why international conventions on terrorism and organized crime falter. It reveals how divergent national laws create obstacles to state cooperation and argues that without legal symmetry between nations, effective collaboration remains out of reach.
This book reveals new information on the oldest Slavic legal text, Zakón Súdnyi Liúdem, shrouded in mystery for centuries. Exploring its influence on Croatian society, it asks crucial questions: who was its compiler, was it official, and why were some crimes never mentioned?
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 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.
Healing Cultures
Based on a case study of Sri Lanka, this book explores diverse healing cultures and how government action can protect or destroy them. It argues these practices are vital for community wellbeing and as intangible cultural heritage, filling a crucial gap in the literature.
The first study from a public international law perspective on recognizing academic qualifications. This book argues recognition depends on the credibility of the awarding institution and explores the first global UNESCO treaty on the subject.