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.
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.
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?
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human Rights
This publication presents an international dialogue on the right to knowledge and information. Researchers from diverse cultures reflect on difficult human rights issues, exploring the foundations for an equal, knowledge-based society for all.
Best Practices in a Child-Friendly Justice System and Child Rights
This multidisciplinary book is dedicated to child rights protection across criminal, civil, and administrative law. It addresses key issues like juvenile justice, the rights of child victims, and restorative justice. Intended for lawyers, social workers, and psychologists.
Medical Cannabis
Medical Cannabis is one of the most misunderstood holistic medications. This book cuts through the confusing scientific terms to chronicle its history, current uses, and the ever-changing social and political landscape. A must-read for anyone who wants to know the facts.
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.
Disfellowshipping and Discrimination of a Religious Minority
This book assesses the Norwegian Government’s policy of denying Jehovah’s Witnesses state grants and registration through the lens of the European Convention on Human Rights, focusing on the overarching principles of religious autonomy and state neutrality.
Experimental Legal Education in a Globalized World
Addressing the lack of literature on legal education in the Middle East, this title offers comparative studies on practical legal education throughout the world, and will benefit legal educators and justice practitioners.
The Free Movement of Capital and Financial Services
This book investigates the compliance of financial services legislation in Estonia, Poland, and other EU states with the free movement of capital. It offers recommendations and draws implications for the financial services sector.
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 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.
Minors’ Crimes in Saudi Arabia
This book investigates key problems in Saudi Arabia’s juvenile detention system: lack of codification, misclassification of crimes, and inconsistent penalties. Through an analysis of court cases in Riyadh, it clarifies the traditional classification of juveniles’ crimes.
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.
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.
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.
Overcoming the Corruption Conundrum in Africa
This book takes a socio-legal approach to the corruption conundrum in Africa. It suggests solutions can be found by interrogating how society reacts to it, and argues that the problem endures primarily due to a critical lack of political will.
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.
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.
Covering a vast range of sex case law, this exhaustive volume will be of particular use in legal research, learning, and argument at any stage of advocacy, politicization, activism, prosecution, defense, and education.