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.
Baber’s monograph contains ten cross-referenced writings on different aspects of international law. Issues covered include different types of legal instruments in international law settings and the past, present and future of international law.
This book challenges the foundations of US and UK trademark systems, arguing for the “co-authorship” of trademarks by the public and owners. It shows how current laws threaten freedom of expression and proposes a new model to foster a just culture.
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.
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.
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.
This text contains research on various aspects of environmental migration in the context of international law. It focuses on the emergence and development of regulation in the field of environmental migration at the global and regional levels.
Labour Regulation in the 21st Century
The economic crisis proved the EU’s flexicurity strategy inadequate. These papers investigate 21st-century labour regulation, exploring the essential balance between flexibility and security from a comparative and transnational perspective.
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.
This book offers a comparative analysis of pre-trial detention. It considers the philosophical principles, policies, and checks and balances used to protect individual freedoms across countries with differing legal traditions.
Private Military and Security Companies
Calazans investigates the application of International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law in addressing the business conduct of Private Military and Security Companies during armed conflicts.
Social Inequality and Leading Principles in Welfare States
Since the 1990s, European welfare states have undergone a paradigmatic shift. This book analyzes these fundamental reforms, showing how marketization and fragmentation have redefined society and changed the mechanisms and visibility of social inequality.
Modern Legal Interpretation
Legalism depicts judges as merely applying pre-existing rules. But is this theory too naïve? Can such a formalist approach withstand critiques from Dworkinian interpretivism or legal realists? Prominent legal philosophers discuss these and other issues of legal interpretation.
Picart gives a critical legal analysis of how American self-radicalizing terrorists become what they are. She illustrates, through cutting-edge studies on terrorism, how the internet allows a self-activating terrorist to first self-radicalize with an organized terrorist network.
The Medical Device Industry
As medical device software grows more complex, new safety challenges emerge that require better risk management. This book examines a unified approach, investigating how software engineering models like CMMI® can be adapted to medical device regulations.
EU Energy Law
This book investigates legal shortfalls in new EU energy legislation from a business perspective. By comparing former and present rules, it shows how liberalisation of the EU energy market is achievable and suggests improvements for future legislation.
Rethinking Sustainable Development in Terms of Justice
This title explores renewed and distinctive approaches to the sustainability and justice debate, integrating a range of perspectives that include moral philosophy, sociology and law.
This book discusses international and regional telecommunication regimes and their role in facilitating economic integration. It examines regulations from organizations like the ITU, WTO, and the African Union, providing insights for policymakers, regulators, and investors.
This is one of the first English publications to offer a profound analysis of Russian Constitutional Law. It covers the Constitution, federalism, the President, the court system, and human rights, and is useful for anyone interested in Russia’s system of power.
Language and Law in Professional Discourse
This book critically focuses on how language is used and exploited in everyday legal discourse. Bringing together scholars from around the globe, it explores legal language as a tool for social action where authority, power, and ideology are involved.