Sovereignty and Justice
The ICC’s legitimacy rests on complementing, not violating, national sovereignty. For this to work, states must ensure their trials meet international standards, with support from the ICC and the global community. This book offers recommendations to succeed.
The Concept of Coexistence in Islamic Primary Sources
This book explores the theological aspect of Muslim coexistence in non-Muslim lands. It raises key questions pertinent to this issue: Is it permissible for Muslims to acquire non-Muslim citizenship? How do they perceive civic duties, and are they obliged to fulfil them?
Islamic Law and Human Rights
This book argues the Muslim Brotherhood has exacerbated, not solved, tensions between Islamic law and human rights in Egypt. Its ideology and actions in power restricted religious freedom and freedom of expression, and reversed previous reforms related to women’s rights.
International law recognizes children’s rights, but national legal and cultural practices often fail to see children as holders of rights. This book examines the child as a self-ruling subject of justice with an independent legal personality.
Law and Popular Culture
Most people derive their basic understanding of law from cultural products like movies and television. This book explores the global transmission of law-related popular culture across borders, with two dozen authors from nine countries offering international perspectives.
Palestine Membership in the United Nations
Leading scholars explore the legal and political aspects of Palestine’s UN membership as a State. This collection goes beyond statehood to consider prospects for resolving one of history’s longest conflicts as the two-State solution seems to be failing.
This book introduces comparative law to Eastern and Central Europe. It covers the unification of law, private and public law, offering an engaging commentary on the current topics discussed by academics in the region.
Youth are the last to be hired in an expansion and the first to be let go in a recession. Ensuring today’s youth do not become a “lost generation” is an urgent matter. This book deals with these challenges, to make sure that youth is not wasted on the young.
Twins and Deviance
Cusack draws on nearly one thousand cases and anecdotes about twins bending and breaking rules in order to fulfill or flout tenets of twinhood. She challenges and improves previous research by collecting new topics to retool twins and deviance discussions.
Social Trust and Life Insurance
This book investigates how incomplete knowledge, social trust and risk perceptions influence acceptance of the risks of insurers using genetic test results. It analyzes the consequences for society and explores the difficulties of managing these risks.
Mental Condition Defences and the Criminal Justice System
This collection brings together medical and legal conceptions of mental disorder to appraise mental condition defences. It provides invaluable, original insights into a sensitive area of criminal law that has struggled to keep pace with psychiatry.
Sasco provides an in-depth analysis of how industrial relations in Italy’s shipbuilding sector have developed over recent years, taking the leading and most well-known Italian shipbuilding company as a case study.
Usongo explores the political and romantic impulses of Shakespeare’s tragic characters, studying their overblown ambition as they embrace cunning and evil in order to acquire power. As such, he shows how these forces propel the demise or fall of the heroes and heroines.
Khan presents a critical analysis of anti-dumping laws enforced by the World Trade Organisation. Anti-dumping laws are the most debatable provisions of the WTO, which, though legally permitted, have a significant distorting effect on trade.
Understanding Digital Labour Platforms
Dive into the future of work as digital platforms reshape the global labour market. This essential guide examines the gig economy through economic, social, and legal perspectives, offering invaluable insights for navigating the new employment landscape.
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.
Society and Law
This book investigates a range of hypothetical issues concerning the relationship between law and society and how it plays out, specifically in fields of legitimacy and social strategy. This will allow the reader to comprehend the hidden standards and ideas in socio-legal reviews
Stricto Sensu Investor Protection under MiFID II
This book analyses Articles 24-30 of MiFID II, the cornerstone investor protection rules for EU capital markets shaped by the 2007-2009 financial crisis. It identifies changes from MiFID I while presenting the detailed delegated acts and ESMA Guidelines.
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.