Nigeria’s telecommunications industry is fast-growing but legally under-researched. This book bridges that gap by providing an essential analysis of the legal and policy instruments that regulate this dynamic sector, from licensing and competition to consumer protection.
The African Human Rights Judicial System
This book examines two forgotten realities of African constitutionalism: the state power to create international courts and the role they play, focusing on the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights and its landmark merger.
The Balance between Worker Protection and Employer Powers
This book analyses the challenges of the current labour market, focusing on the balance of power in employment contracts. International contributors discuss the future of work, worker protection, the limits of employers’ power, and workers’ rights with new technologies.
The Collectio Avellana is an exceptional documentary collection from antiquity. This volume is the first to reconstruct its history, using a new approach to offer fresh hypotheses on the compilation’s origins, its author, and how it took shape.
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?
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.
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.
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?
The Jurisprudence of Lord Denning
This definitive trilogy explores the jurisprudence of Lord Denning, the 20th century’s most pivotal judge. It reveals his shaping of the common law, his view of English identity, and his response to an era of immense social change.
The Last Political Law Lord
Viscount Sumner was one of the greatest English judges, his rulings classics of the Common Law. Yet he was also a controversial political force, defying convention to speak on sensitive topics. He stands out as an outstanding judge and ‘the last political law lord’.
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.
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.
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.
In 2013, 12-year-old Asunta Basterra was found murdered. Her parents were convicted, but the trial left matters unsolved. This is the first book in English on the case, featuring exclusive interviews with Asunta’s mother in prison, the lawyers, and the police involved.
This title delves into a variety of problems connected to philosophy and philosophy of law. It discusses monism-pluralism in philosophy, philosophy of post-positivism and postmodernism, and dialectics as a methodological basis of scientific cognition and philosophy of law.
This book critiques the outdated Turkish framework for co-ownership and proposes a solution. It argues for a new institution, inspired by the English trust of land, to overcome the complex and inefficient management of co-owned properties.
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.
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.
The Sharing Economy
The sharing economy’s use of digital technology blurs traditional economic roles, but the legal framework is unable to cope. This book highlights where new regulations are required, with a focus on the Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, British and Brazilian contexts.
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.