Critical Race Theory and the Struggle at the Heart of Legal Education
As states legislate against teaching critical race theory, law schools are struggling to respond. How should legal education view CRT? This book seeks answers, encouraging a recommittal to the foundational beliefs of free speech, equality, and the due process of law.
Family Dispute Resolution from a Cultural Perspective
This book uniquely focuses on how South Sudanese families in Australia resolve family disputes. It makes a vital contribution to our understanding of how the Australian legal system works within the context of legal pluralism, social integration, and family well-being.
This book shows how Geographic Information Systems unveil territorial injustice: the disproportionately higher exposure of vulnerable communities to pollution. Using case studies from ten Latin American countries, it demonstrates how law and GIS can build fairer public policies.
Controversies in Islam
A passionate call for reform and revival within Islam. Confronting pressing issues from women’s rights to democracy, this work offers a lode star to guide the faith to a safe harbor.
A Holistic Analysis of Law, Connecting Theory and Practice
A holistic analysis of law, with roots in ancient Greece and Rome, may lead to broader justice. This book explores this approach through its theory, history, and practice in international law, then applies it to modern issues like artificial intelligence and climate change.
Critical Race Theory and the American Justice System
Critical Race Theory is skeptical of racial justice in the courtroom. Yet the guilty verdicts in the Floyd and Arbery cases offer a challenge to that view. This book uncovers how these landmark convictions were won and asks what they mean for America.
Al Qaeda and the Islamic State
This book analyses attacks by Al Qaeda and the Islamic State in Western Europe. It details their ideological sources, financing, and dissemination of their message through social media, as well as the radicalisation of Europeans who go to Syria and Iraq to wage jihad.
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.
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.
This book analyzes former President Trump’s domestic and foreign policies, from trade wars to nuclear programs. It details their successes, failures, and negative impact on the US and its allies, while offering recommendations to resolve the conflicts they generated.
This book examines the civil liabilities of corporations for torts and breaches of international and human rights law. It illustrates how legal principles, such as the duty of care, can be applied to promote corporate accountability and resolve human rights abuses issues.
The Law of Contributory Liability on the Internet
This book explores the contributory liability of Internet intermediaries for third-party trademark infringements in an EU context. Filling a gap in the literature, it provides a trademark-specific analysis, addresses emerging issues, and proposes solutions to the issues arising.
Freedom of Navigation in the Exclusive Economic Zone
This book examines the EU’s initiatives on ship-source pollution. It analyzes this first regional approach to criminalize pollution beyond international standards, and asks how this will impact the freedom of navigation for other States in the exclusive economic zone.
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.
Regulating Decision-Making in Multiple Pregnancy
This book examines fetal reduction in multiple pregnancies, finding legal, ethical, and professional norms offer little explicit guidance for this difficult decision. Using new evidence, it shows doctors are weakly guided and advances recommendations for shared decision-making.
The Value of Work and Its Rules between Innovation and Tradition
Amid global challenges, this book examines the principle “labour is not a commodity” and its practical implications. It helps academics and practitioners understand today’s socio-economic changes, globalization, and the role of public and private institutions.
Trade Union Powers
Following Portugal’s austerity crisis (2011-2015), how did trade unions resist devastating impacts like wage cuts and unemployment? This book explores case studies in the metal, telecom, and transport sectors to reveal how some unions reinvented themselves while others imploded.
This unique book unravels the authority and limitations of coast guards in maritime law enforcement. Based on the author’s experience as a Commissioner General, it provides practical insights by examining international law, comparative studies, and key cases.
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.
Islamic kafala has no legal correspondence with secular systems, requiring measures to protect society’s most vulnerable. As international conventions prioritize child protection, this study explores the balance between religious freedoms, cultural identity, and legal rules.