Jurisprudence & general issues books

This book examines the interrelationship between law, culture, patriarchy and religion in the context of contemporary...  Read More >>

In recent years, controversy has surrounded the role of top government lawyers both in the US and the UK where allegations...  Read More >>

Technological change is ongoing and holds great influence over society as a whole. This volume focuses on the consequences...  Read More >>

This book explores the disclosure and sharing of data within the area of healthcare and aims to stimulate and inspire...  Read More >>

Published in 1998. A selection of 18 essays by experts working in the area of refugee and asylum law and policy,...  Read More >>

This collection studies the rise of neutral bodies or `independent agencies’ as a challenge to the constitutional...  Read More >>

This volume examines constitutional adjudication in Central Europe with a special focus on the relationship between...  Read More >>

This book analyses the too-big-to-fail problem of banks in the EU. It approaches the topic from an interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

This book explores the contemporary phenomenon of forced marriage and 'honour' killings in Britain. Set against...  Read More >>

This book takes a radical look at organizational crime and deviance through the prism of cultural theory derived...  Read More >>

Bringing together Zygmunt Bauman and a number of internationally distinguished legal scholars, this collection of...  Read More >>

This book investigates how and why the criminal law differentiates between different types of body alterations,...  Read More >>

This collection addresses the concept of transitional justice and portrays three different dimensions of the transitional...  Read More >>

The video game industry is big business, not only in terms of the substantial revenue generated through retail sales...  Read More >>

Presenting a practice-oriented theory of compliance with international law, this book shows how international law...  Read More >>

The death penalty is embodied in Indian law, yet there is very little known about the people who are on death row...  Read More >>

Medical confidentiality has long been recognised as a core element of medical ethics, with areas currently under...  Read More >>

Whilst firmly situated within the field of EU law, this book also employs theories developed in linguistics and...  Read More >>

While various aspects of violence (warfare, murder, theft, piracy) have been long studied on their own, there has...  Read More >>

This book reports on a study of current 'hidden' users of illegal drugs aged 40 and over. These are individuals...  Read More >>

Combining the latest work of leading sentencing and punishment scholars from ten different countries, this major...  Read More >>

This book explores the political, economic and regulatory context in which credit regulation is taking place following...  Read More >>

This volume deals with the domestic effects of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights as a challenge to...  Read More >>

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Published in 1998. Using a comparative framework to examine the laws relating to product safety, this book provides...  Read More >>