This Open Access book presents the evolution of diplomacy from its historical roots to its modern-day practices. It explores how diplomacy has been shaped by key events, such as the Congress of Vienna (1815), and the establishment of the United Na...More info...
(Pub. Date: 17-Oct-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198707622)
Forests are central to international security, peace, and justice, as they provide livelihoods for millions of impoverished people in developing countries. Threats to the worlds forests may result in a reduction in basic livelihood resources and wi...More info...
The book is a practical guide to be used by people with no or little knowledge of sustainability and also sustainability professionals and experts who intend to prepare software companies to undergo sustainability audits and assessments conducted...More info...
The book is a practical guide to be used by people with no or little knowledge of sustainability and also sustainability professionals and experts who intend to prepare software companies to undergo sustainability audits and assessments conducted...More info...
Why do people represent themselves?What works and what doesnt for self-represented parties?And how can we improve Litigant in Person (LiP) experiences to make the civil justice system fairer?Based on in-depth interviews wit...More info...
This book presents environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings and scorings and their providers and lists problems with data quality, data sources, and unknown methodology, contributing to the green- and social-washing ESG rating phenomeno...More info...
Planning law is one of the most rapidly moving legal areas, with major structural changes to the planning system occurring in recent years. Despite attempts at simplification, it remains one of the most complex fields for both students and practition...More info...
This book introduces the concept of Technical Normative Power (TNP) to explain how the European Union (EU) transforms internal legal frameworks into external influence. Over the past two decades, the EU has emerged as a global regulatory force in th...More info...
This book critically examines the practice of international criminal justice based on the experience of war criminals who have been tried for their crimes. Presenting the perspectives of those commonly referred to as genocidaires, war criminals...More info...
Comprehensive and reliable, Blackstones Handbook for Policing Students 2026 is the ideal companion for the multitude of avenues into policing now open to future police officers, from pre-join degree courses, degree holder entry and degree a...More info...
This book provides the first comprehensive treatment of the principles shaping EU law: autonomy, conferral, equality, national identity, loyalty, solidarity, supremacy and effectiveness. Much has been written about principles of EU...More info...
Shows how international economic law addresses climate and environmental issues associated with the unsustainable energy production and use across countries. This book will appeal to scholars, researchers, policymakers, students and others intereste...More info...
Offering the first comprehensive account of the history and function of the common laws most legendary character, the book argues that the reasonable person is best understood as a legal device inviting those who apply it to take the perspective of...More info...
Many firms have implemented corporate governance, yet have fallen into collapse and scandal involving their operations. What has gone wrong? This is the definitive, practical guide to the ever changing corporate governance landscape highlighting t...More info...
(Pub. Date: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9798765137284)
Explores pivotal state and federal firearms cases and traces the conflicting legal opinions that have made the second amendment so controversial. Explores pivotal state and federal firearms cases and traces the conflicting legal opinion...More info...
Ambitious and innovative, this important study offers a fresh perspective on the normative framework of the EUs internal market.The book explores the place of the ideals of private autonomy in the EUs legal order. Indeed, it goes...More info...
In referendums on fundamental constitutional issues, do the people come together to make decisions instead of representatives? This book argues no. It offers an alternative theory of referendums whereby they are one of many ordinary ways th...More info...
Offering practitioners an in-depth analysis of the law in Ireland surrounding surrogacy, adoption, fostering and Assisted Human Reproduction, this much-needed title provides guidance and precedents on the legalities of family-formation in all its g...More info...
This book explores the historical, comparative and global dimensions of the constitutional phenomenon.From the origins of constitutionalism to the diverse trajectories of North American and European constitutionalism, the book consi...More info...
This book analyses the informal decision making process in the EU against the background of a gradually emerging European legal order. Based on extensive multi-archival research in the UK, France, Germany, the Benelux countries and...More info...
A critical analysis of issues posed by the changes to the governance of charities and charity law in Australia, New Zealand, and England. This book presents a critical, in-depth analysis of the changes taking place in the governance of...More info...
Using Norway as a case study, this book examines what role the supranational European Court of Human Rights plays in the development and contestation of child protection and children’s rights as they are laid out in the Convention on the Rights of th...More info...
With recent events in Gaza, Martin Shaw seeks to restore the idea of genocide to its central place in thinking about mass atrocities, to apply it to neglected cases, and ultimately to settle the question of ‘What is genocide’? The Israeli des...More info...
The Israeli destruction of Gaza has returned the idea of genocide to the centre of world politics, with sharp conflicts between protesters and international lawyers who invoke it and Western governments and media that deny it.The idea has...More info...
This book gives extraordinary new insights into the legal, political and industrial strife in the UK of the early 1970s, focusing on the National Industrial Relations Court and how its independence came to be injured at a time of national crisi...More info...
This book explores what judges do and how they perceive their roles in the context of growing dissensus over liberal democracy.Focusing on the European landscape, it asks eighteen judges how they perceive their roles when judicial i...More info...
A rigorous analytical examination of how constitutional law can impact and inform the operation of private law. This book provides the philosophical foundations for the application of constitutional rights in private law-and more...More info...
(Pub. Date: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Publisher: University of British Columbia Press, ISBN-13: 9780774872843)
In September 1945, Canada proposed exiling Japanese Canadians to Japan, a country devastated by war. Thousands who had experienced internment and dispossession were now at risk of banishment.In Challenging Exile, Eric M. Adams a...More info...
This book explores how digital public infrastructures (DPI) should be governed in the public interest, harnessing their potential to drive innovation, inclusion, and societal progress in the age of supercomputers and generative AI. DPI - from hardwa...More info...
The book systematically discusses how to better regulate and reduce ship-source hazardous substance pollution. It analyzes international, U.S., and Chinese laws and regulations from the perspectives of pollution prevention and control, emergency res...More info...
This collection presents a leading contribution in the substantive arena relating to Causation in Criminal Law. The volume addresses three specific elements within this arena, embracing an overarching synergy between them....More info...
This book addresses how the EU can promote European strategic autonomy to overcome contemporary military challenges while respecting the sovereignty of its Member States. At a time of rising military expenditure and growing European military coopera...More info...
Over a time lapse of only about 170 years, the trajectory of greenhouse gas (GHG) in the atmosphere has exceeded the 1.5°C security level established in the Paris Agreement. States and i...More info...
(Pub. Date: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Publisher: University of British Columbia Press, ISBN-13: 9780774872768)
When the body of thirteen-year-old Linda Lampkin was found, raped and strangled, on Toronto’s industrial waterfront in 1956, locals feared a sex maniac was on the loose. Within a day, detectives announced the arrest of Robert Fitton. He was c...More info...
(Pub. Date: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Publisher: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487571368)
Unsure of what to do after university and considering law school? Mid-career and wondering if you should take the LSAT?In The Case for Law School, father-daughter duo Victoria and Christopher C. Nicholls aim to explain what app...More info...
(Pub. Date: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Publisher: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487564926)
In a world rife with cameras and audiovisual technologies, photographers, both casual and professional, may often find themselves wondering where the legalities of their practices lie. In this groundbreaking book, respected legal author Robert Ra...More info...
Brazilian aviation law is often a mystery for people outside Brazil. Despite being based on German and Italian law, Brazilian law does not resemble any other legal system; for instance, it took nearly a decade and the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court...More info...
(Pub. Date: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Publisher: University of British Columbia Press, ISBN-13: 9780774872126)
Examines the legality of assisted suicide in Canada. Should people have the right to medical assistance in dying? If so, under what conditions? Deciding on Death delves into the legal and political aspects of these controversial...More info...
Commercial Real Estate Analysis for Investment, Finance and Development, a fully revised fourth edition of the authors’ leading textbook, presents the foundations of real estate investment analysis with the rigor of general finance and econ...More info...
Commercial Real Estate Analysis for Investment, Finance and Development, a fully revised fourth edition of the authors’ leading textbook, presents the foundations of real estate investment analysis with the rigor of general finance and econ...More info...
There are lot of take-aways as the book discusses for the first-time various dimensions of national security, the risks involved due to cyber threats and ultimately the prevention & detection through cyber forensics and cyber security architecture...More info...
(Pub. Date: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Publisher: University of British Columbia Press, ISBN-13: 9780774872423)
Examines how international issues are handled between the Canadian federal government and its provinces. The ability to make decisions impacting international affairs can be a thorny subject for a federal state like Canada. Provinces w...More info...
Transform your classroom into a liberatory space for student voice, belonging, and intellectual development.Too often, traditional educational models silence students’ voices and stifle their genius. Pedagogies...More info...
This collection teaches us how language and legislation interact to produce effective laws. It brings linguistics, lawyers, theory, and practices together to show how linguistic tools, concepts, and methodologies can be applied to improve the laws...More info...
(Pub. Date: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Simon & Schuster, ISBN-13: 9781668052747)
Serves as a reflection on the role of a judge and the life story?—?filled with personal heartbreak and incredible accomplishment?—?of a precocious boy from Sacramento, California, who became the man Chief Justice John Roberts describes as “a special...More info...
Anthony Kennedy’s journey from an idyllic youth in 1940s Sacramento to service on the highest courts in America.Anthony Kennedy did not take the usual path to a seat on the Supreme Court. Often, the phrase “constitutional lawyer” bring...More info...
In this profoundly important reassessment of constitutional interpretation, the eminent legal philosopher Hadley Arkes argues that originalism alone is an inadequate answer to judicial activism. Untethered from “mere Natural Law”—the...More info...
Series: The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
(Pub. Date: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469689579)
Migration between the United States and Mexico is often compared to the river that runs along the border: a “flow” of immigrants, a “flood” of documented and undocumented workers, a “dam” that has broken. Sch...More info...
