Download or read book The basics of international law written by Math Noortmann and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the UK government’s Brexit Bill, to China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea, to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, violations of international law have made headlines across the world in recent years. This book offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to the essential rules and facts of international law, explaining what international law is and how it shapes the world around us. Graham and Noortmann provide specific examples to contextualise key concepts in international law, directing readers to a range of further sources to supplement their reading. Topics range from the place of international law in the national legal order, the United Nations and other global international organisations, international human rights, and international environmental law. An essential quick reference text for students and practitioners of international law.

Download or read book The Law Book written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the most important legal milestones in history in The Law Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Law in this overview guide to the subject, great for novices looking to find out more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Law Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics and diagrams to immerse yourself in. This captivating book will broaden your understanding of Law, with: - More than 90 ground-breaking legal milestones - Packed with facts, charts, timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts - A visual approach to big subjects with striking illustrations and graphics throughout - Easy to follow text makes topics accessible for people at any level of understanding The Law Book is a captivating introduction to the legal precedents, and religious, political, and moral codes that have shaped the world we live in, aimed at adults with an interest in the subject and students wanting to gain more of an overview. Discover the most important milestones in legal history, from the Code of Hammurabi to groundbreaking legislation including Magna Carta and the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, all through exciting text and bold graphics. Your Law Questions, Simply Explained This engaging overview goes into legal history across the world, all the way into the 21st century, with copyright in the digital age, same-sex marriage, and the “right to be forgotten”. If you thought it was difficult to learn about legislations and legal history, The Law Book presents key information in an easy to follow layout. Learn about the most important breakthroughs, like the fight for universal suffrage and workers’ rights, and the establishment of international legal bodies like INTERPOL and the European Court of Justice. The Big Ideas Series With millions of copies sold worldwide, The Law Book is part of the award-winning Big Ideas series from DK. The series uses striking graphics along with engaging writing, making big topics easy to understand.

Download or read book Global Environmental Governance written by Louis J. Kotzé and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÔThis book is a novel, sophisticated, broad ranging and insightful study of the idea of global environmental governance but from a legal dimension and perspective. While recognising that concepts and ideas used to describe governance are generally abstract, vague and slippery, this project brings clarity to the field by being theoretically informed, contextually sensitive and pragmatically circumscribed. Its conclusions and arguments open up a field of inquiry that has to be genuinely interdisciplinary and in that sense has great potential to contribute to a better understanding of environmental themes and issues. This book is destined to become a landmark for legal academics who will write about environmental governance in that its concern is with the global governance of nature rather than a text that uses the environment as a pretext for understanding governance. It is well written, easy and enjoyable to read and while it traverses through diverse bodies of literature it manages to effectively communicate with a variety of scholarly communities.Õ Ð Afshin Akhtarkhavari, Griffith Law School, Australia ÔFourth generation global environmental regulation attempts to address the complex realities of an interconnected environment, global environmental problems and collective regulatory responses. It merits conceptual clarity. Louis KotzŽ reveals the legal contours and content of global environmental governance by chipping away such parts of the conceptual marble block as are not needed. For the environmental lawyer, it is a welcome Ð and much needed Ð process of elimination. This book provides a toolkit for lawyers to engage critically with the extra-legal concept of environmental governance. Its scrutiny and careful analysis contribute meaningfully to the environmental discourse.Õ Ð Christine Voigt, University of Oslo, Norway ÔGlobal Environmental Governance is a truly important book. Drawing on a multitude of disciplines, award-winning environmental law Professor Louis KotzŽ masterfully explains the emerging concept of Òglobal environmental governanceÓ and its elements of globalism, environmental law, regulation, and governance theory. He makes a compelling case that the world has outgrown the ÒsustainabilityÓ model and moved toward this more all-encompassing approach to environmental regulation. This admirable book makes global environmental governance theory understandable and pertinent so environmental leaders, lawyers, and regulators can engage comfortably with this new vision for an ecologically and economically healthy world.Õ Ð George (Rock) Pring, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, US ÔThis book, in examining the relationship between global environmental governance and environmental law, provides an important and timely contribution to the quest to fashion a more viable approach to regulating the relationship between humanity and the environment. While the term ÒgovernanceÓ is much employed in international environmental law scholarship, its conceptual underpinnings have not, on the whole, been adequately addressed in the legal sphere and understanding of the symbiotic relationship between the two areas has suffered as a result. This book makes a welcome start to tackling these issues and, it is to be hoped, will trigger renewed vigour in this socially and legally vital area of inquiry.Õ Ð Karen Morrow, University of Swansea, Wales, UK ÔFor years, scholars of international law and international relations have developed parallel literatures. In Global Environmental Governance, Louis KotzŽ offers a common conceptual, theoretical, and normative ground in the global environmental field. As a skillful lawyer, he dissects terminology, explains core assumptions, and constructs causal chains. But he does not stop there. His shrewd analysis of power and authority, individual incentives and collective action, management and regulation builds a bridge between law and politics as disciplines concerned about what global environmental governance is and how it can be improved.Õ Ð Maria Ivanova, University of Massachusetts, US ÔIn search of shelter from the buffeting blasts of climate change, biodiversity loss, resource depletion, famine and disease, states and public agencies, community representatives, resource users, advocacy networks and citizens huddle together under the vast and varied institutional umbrellas of environmental governance. Louis KotzŽÕs innovative study systematically describes the role of environmental law as the springs, stretchers, ribs and handles of the decision-making umbrellas we so desperately hope will hold firm when they are opened up in times of need.Õ Ð Jamie Benidickson, University of Ottawa, Canada ÔThe concept of Òglobal environmental governanceÓ has been part of the lexicon in accounts of global environmental politics for some time. Yet to date it has escaped comprehensive assessment from a legal perspective. This groundbreaking work fills this gap in the literature. It offers a masterful analysis of the theoretical underpinnings of the environmental governance, and highlights the critical importance of environmental regulation in ensuring that environmental governance lives up to its promise as a means for achieving truly ecologically sustainable development.Õ Ð Tim Stephens, University of Sydney, Australia This timely book brings much-needed clarity to the concept of Ôenvironmental governanceÕ as manifested in the global regulatory domain. The author argues that despite being used as a fashionable term by many Ð including economists, political scientists, environmentalists and, increasingly, lawyers Ð its theoretical contours and conceptual content remain unclear, incoherent, and inconsistent. In addressing this problem, the book begins by describing globalization as a general context of governance. It comprehensively interrogates and clarifies both the governance and global governance concepts, and then explains aspects and components of global environmental governance. Finally it investigates the role of law in global environmental governance. Providing a much-needed definition of environmental governance and global environmental governance, this comprehensive study will appeal to academics and researchers, post-graduate and under-graduate students, intergovernmental organizations such as UNEP, WTO, IUCN, as well as governments and governmental agencies involved with environmental regulation.

Download or read book The Genesis of the Global Table of Legal Elements written by Patrick Beattie and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hades Legal - Legal science and legal violence. 'The Table of Legal Elements and this accompanying explanatory book give the reader an overview of how the full system of legal science across the world and specifically in the UK fit together. Across the world, there are around 200-500 million sources of law and around 1-10 billion points of law in total. There are estimated to be around 1-2 million sources of law in the UK, with around 50,000 of them being considered key sources. There are around 10-25 million points of law in the UK, with around 1 million of them being widely considered to be key points of law. This book shows how these hundreds of millions of sources of law and 1 billion+ points of law in all countries across the world and in the UK can be broken down into a Table of Legal Elements which has 5 legal categories and 117 legal elements. The 117 legal elements in the Table of Legal Elements make up all of the subjects within the discipline of law across the world. Each legal element has 10 numbers in total within it: (i) 1 number to reflect the legal element's number in the overall order of legal elements between 1-117; 5 numbers to reflect the number of the sources of law within the legal element - (ii) principles, (iii) treaties, (iv) legislation, (v) regulations, (vi) cases; 2 numbers to reflect (vii) the total number for all of the sources of law in the element added together and (viii) the total number of points of law from all of the element's sources added together; and the other 2 numbers (ix and x) to reflect the different jurisprudence epistemologies on the ontology of the total legal sources and total points of law - these 2 final numbers are reflective of more advanced jurisprudential legal concepts and can be ignored by 99% of people. The Global Table of Legal Elements has a 'trunk and branch' structure - all formally recognised 196 sovereign countries have their own unique composition of each of the 117 legal elements (branches) but they all have the same underlying basic Table structure which is central to them (trunk). The 'trunk and branch' structure illustrates how even although an individual country may have a different composition in a legal element compared to another country - i.e. a different numbers of legal sources and different numbers/natures of points of law in each element --the underlying Table of Legal Elements with the 5 categories of law and the 117 legal elements is the same in every country. The Table of Legal Elements is posited to be the trunk which keeps all the different branches of all the different legal systems across the world together - it converges legal issues and legal questions but acknowledges that legal answers will be different all over the world meaning that laws do not become convergent. There are also 6 different versions of the Table of Legal Elements - General, Fundamental, Advanced, Specialist, Comprehensive and Absolute - with the number of points of law and legal sources in each version respectively incrementing to reflect that many people just want to know the absolute legal basics and nothing more - and these people only have to know principles and landmark cases to acquire a basic, working legal knowledge they can defend their legal position with. There is an introductory overview of the 'General' Table of Legal Elements UK where the 2000 key principles of UK law are assimilated across the 117 legal elements. Assimilating the key 2000 principles of UK law across the 117 legal elements demonstrates how the Table of Legal Elements is arguably not just an abstract academic concept, but a practical one which helps people without a legal background fairly easily understand the basic concepts of legal science. It is posited that almost anyone can look at the visual depiction of the General Table of Legal Elements UK and fairly easily obtain a broad and basic understanding of the legal system there.Hades Legal - Become a legal weapon.

Download or read book Legal Theory and the Legal Academy written by MaksymilianDel Mar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third in a series of three volumes on Contemporary Legal Theory, this volume deals with four topics: 1) the role of legal theory in the legal curriculum; 2) the teaching of legal theory; 3) the relationship of legal theory to legal scholarship; and 4) the relationship of legal theory to comparative law. The focus of the first two topics is on the common law world, where the debates over the aims and proper place of legal theory in the study of law have traversed a good deal of ground since John Austin's 1828 lecture, 'The Uses and the Study of Jurisprudence.' These first two parts offer a selection of the most important papers, including surveys, as well as pedagogical viewpoints and particular course descriptions from analytical, critical, feminist, law-and-literature and global perspectives. The last three decades have seen just as many changes for legal scholarship and comparative law. These changes (such as the rise of empirical legal scholarship) have often attracted the attention of legal theorists. Within comparative law, the last thirty years have witnessed intense methodological reflection within the discipline; the results of these reflections are themselves properly recognised as legal theoretical contributions. The volume collects the key papers, including those by Neil MacCormick, Mark Van Hoecke, Andrew Halpin, William Ewald and Geoffrey Samuel.

Download or read book The Law of Nations written by Emer de Vattel and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Introduction to Law and Global Governance written by Elaine Fahey and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative textbook introduces the idea of law existing, operating, and functioning beyond the Nation State. Offering a structured approach, Elaine Fahey breaks down the core aspects of theory, practice and regulation in order to examine the key conceptual and factual components of the relationship between law and global governance.

Download or read book The Law of Good People written by Yuval Feldman and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato has famously argued ...

Download or read book The Rule of Law written by Tom Bingham and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A gem of a book ... Inspiring and timely. Everyone should read it' Independent 'The Rule of Law' is a phrase much used but little examined. The idea of the rule of law as the foundation of modern states and civilisations has recently become even more talismanic than that of democracy, but what does it actually consist of? In this brilliant short book, Britain's former senior law lord, and one of the world's most acute legal minds, examines what the idea actually means. He makes clear that the rule of law is not an arid legal doctrine but is the foundation of a fair and just society, is a guarantee of responsible government, is an important contribution to economic growth and offers the best means yet devised for securing peace and co-operation. He briefly examines the historical origins of the rule, and then advances eight conditions which capture its essence as understood in western democracies today. He also discusses the strains imposed on the rule of law by the threat and experience of international terrorism. The book will be influential in many different fields and should become a key text for anyone interested in politics, society and the state of our world.

Download or read book Global Legal Pluralism written by Paul Schiff Berman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world of legal pluralism, where a single act or actor is potentially regulated by multiple legal or quasi-legal regimes imposed by state, substate, transnational, supranational and nonstate communities. Navigating these spheres of complex overlapping legal authority is confusing and we cannot expect territorial borders to solve all these problems. At the same time, those hoping to create one universal set of legal rules are also likely to be disappointed by the sheer variety of human communities and interests. Instead, we need an alternative jurisprudence, one that seeks to create or preserve spaces for productive interaction among multiple, overlapping legal systems by developing procedural mechanisms, institutions and practices that aim to manage, without eliminating, the legal pluralism we see around us. Global Legal Pluralism provides a broad synthesis across a variety of legal doctrines and academic disciplines and offers a novel conceptualization of law and globalization.

Download or read book Possession Relative Title and Ownership in English Law written by Luke Rostill and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-02-10 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph provides a sustained analysis of two foundational principles of English property law: the principle of relative title and the principle that possession is a source of title. It examines several central concepts in the law of property, including possession and ownership.

Download or read book Refugees Race and the Legal Concept of Asylum in Britain written by Prakash Shah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically interrogates the principle of asylum for refugees in UK law and proposes that, when faced with the migration of non-European refugee groups, this principle has often been limited. The book considers the response of the State to the migration of various groups of refugees through five centuries. The reaction of the legal system to the arrival of gypsies and Huguenots from the Gudor period is analysed. The responses to the arrival of African refugees from the American War of Independence is also considered here, along with an examination of the reactions to refugees from the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars; various European refugee groups in the mid-Victorian period; Jews from Eastern Europe and later from Nazism; and groups displaced in Europe as a result of the Second World War. Refugees, Race and the Legal Concept of Asylum in Britain also provides a detailed discussion of the backlash against African and Asian refugee groups, in particular, as against the East African Asians, Vietnamese and Tamils from Sri Lanka. An analysis of the major legislative reforms of the 1990s which have been directed against the settlement of Asian and African refugees is also presented. The post-Second World War period is scrutinised in the context of the failure of European human rights law and international norms of refugee protection to secure the principle of asylum, and the implications of the development of a 'Fortress Europe' that is premised on the tight control of non-European migrants are drawn out.

Download or read book Full Horizontal Effect of Human Rights and Values in UK Law written by Uchenna Felix Aneto and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FULL HORIZONTAL EFFECT OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND VALUES IN UK LAWThis book focuses on UK human rights and tort law; and on the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. It provides detailed and comprehensive coverage of human rights and values in the private sphere. An introductory chapter explains the book's overarching aim, structure and contents in a clear and simple language, which makes it easy for the reader to understand the key arguments advanced in subsequent chapters. In addition, each chapter contains a brief introduction, which outlines its specific purpose, structure, and the complex issues it seeks to address. Each chapter also contains a conclusion that summarises all the main points in ways that make complex issues easy to understand. In addition, a concluding chapter collates all the key arguments advanced in the book, as a whole, which enables the reader to remember what matters. The book contains two main parts.KEY FEATURES OF THE BOOK The General Introduction Identifies the anodyne maxim that "all things are possible in UK law, even in human rights law, if the courts or the litigants try." PART A Identifies a clear and sound justification to abandon the "classic constitutional theory" in UK law or elsewhere. Provides a detailed analysis of the moral and politico-legal philosophy underpinning human dignity and equality and therefore human rights. Makes it easy for the reader to understand why every human being has inherent equal dignity and rights, which deserve to be given full and effective protection in UK law against private individuals and public authorities alike. Posits an entirely novel ground for the first ever legal use of human dignity, as a juridical concept, in the world. Claims that several writers of eminence and character have contributed to the understanding of human dignity, but that none of them noticed that the first ever legal use of human dignity or "indignity" was made here in Britain over 300 years ago, not elsewhere. PART B Clarifies the meaning of "full horizontal effect", given that some distinguished writers, interested in the concept, do not seem to understand its "proper" meaning and scope. Identifies six routes through which the ECHR rights and values have had, or can have, full horizontal effect in UK law. Provides a thorough analysis of each route, in ways that validate the maxim that all things are possible in UK law, if the courts or the litigants try. Relies on old and recent transformative tort cases, such as Robinson and Poole, to clarify the Caparo test, which was wrongly assumed to be tripartite in nature by some judges and previous writers. Identifies effective ways in which the UK courts can utilise ordinary principles of liability, such as third party liability and assumption of responsibility, to enjoin the police to stop domestic violence. Relies on recent HRA and European cases, such as Talpis and Kurt, to clarify that Osman has been radically relaxed in order to enjoin police officers, prosecutors and domestic courts across Europe to eliminate domestic violence or to restrain private individuals from violating Convention rights. Relies on latest cases, such as X and Others v Bulgaria, to demonstrate the apparent self-determination of some judges of the ECtHR to enjoin police officers, prosecutors and domestic courts to eliminate all forms of sexual abuse and violence against children. Analyses the "principle of complementarity" in a way that makes it easy for the reader to understand why it is necessary for common law principles and remedies and HRA/ECHR principles and remedies to complement each other in appropriate cases to achieve justice.

Download or read book The Culture of Judicial Independence written by Shimon Shetreet and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Culture of Judicial Independence: Rule of Law and World Peace, is the third book by Shimon Shetreet on Judicial Independence. The first was Judicial Independence: The Contemporary Debate (edited by Shimon Shetreet and Jules Deschênes, Nijhoff,1985). The second was The Culture of Judicial Independence: Conceptual Foundations and Practical Challenges (Edited by Shimon Shetreet and Christopher Forsyth, Nijhoff, 2012). This volume contains essays by senior academics, judges and practitioners across jurisdictions offering an analysis of several central issues relative to the culture of Judicial Independence. These include judicial review, human rights, democracy, the rule of law and world peace, constitutional position of top courts, relations between the judiciary and the other branches of government, impartiality and fairness of the judicial process, judicial ethics, dispute resolution in arbitral awards and international investments, international courts and cross country issues, judicial selection. The volume also offers an update report on the International Project of Judicial Independence of the International Association of Judicial Independence and World Peace, including the relations of top courts and international courts, administrative judges, culture of judicial independence and public inquiries by judges.

Download or read book The Brussels Effect written by Anu Bradford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many observers, the European Union is mired in a deep crisis. Between sluggish growth; political turmoil following a decade of austerity politics; Brexit; and the rise of Asian influence, the EU is seen as a declining power on the world stage. Columbia Law professor Anu Bradford argues the opposite in her important new book The Brussels Effect: the EU remains an influential superpower that shapes the world in its image. By promulgating regulations that shape the international business environment, elevating standards worldwide, and leading to a notable Europeanization of many important aspects of global commerce, the EU has managed to shape policy in areas such as data privacy, consumer health and safety, environmental protection, antitrust, and online hate speech. And in contrast to how superpowers wield their global influence, the Brussels Effect - a phrase first coined by Bradford in 2012- absolves the EU from playing a direct role in imposing standards, as market forces alone are often sufficient as multinational companies voluntarily extend the EU rule to govern their global operations. The Brussels Effect shows how the EU has acquired such power, why multinational companies use EU standards as global standards, and why the EU's role as the world's regulator is likely to outlive its gradual economic decline, extending the EU's influence long into the future.

Download or read book Core Concepts in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice written by Kai Ambos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative and collaborative study of the foundational principles and concepts that underpin different domestic systems of criminal law.

Download or read book Commentaries on the Laws of England written by William Blackstone and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: