Hart Publishing imprint: 910 books
Sword and Scales
An Examination of the Relationship between Law and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2000
This short and accessible book provides a provocative re-assessment of the various tangled relationships between law and politics and in so doing examines legal and political thinking on such critical areas as justice,the state, constitutionalism and rights. It introduces lawyers especially to certain...
Entick v Carrington
250 Years of the Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Entick v Carrington is one of the canons of English public law and in 2015 it is 250 years old. In 1762 the Earl of Halifax, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, despatched Nathan Carrington and three other of the King's messengers to John Entick's house in Stepney. They broke into...
by Dr Paul Raffield
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Through an examination of five plays by Shakespeare, Paul Raffield analyses the contiguous development of common law and poetic drama during the first decade of Jacobean rule. The broad premise of The Art of Law in Shakespeare is that the 'artificial reason' of law was a complex art form that shared...
Transitional Justice and the Prosecution of Political Leaders in the Arab Region
A Comparative Study of Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
The dramatic uprisings that ousted the long-standing leaders of several countries in the Arab region set in motion an unprecedented period of social, political and legal transformation. The prosecution of political leaders took centre stage in the pursuit of transitional justice following the 'Arab...
Human Rights Encounter Legal Pluralism
Normative and Empirical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This collection of essays interrogates how human rights law and practice acquire meaning in relation to legal pluralism, ie, the co-existence of more than one regulatory order in a same social field. As a social phenomenon, legal pluralism exists in all societies. As a legal construction, it is characteristic...
The Constitution of China
A Contextual Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This book on China's constitution and its tradition of constitutionalism is one of the first in the English language, and as such provides a much needed overview of China's constitutional history and present arrangements. The nine chapters are divided into three parts. The first part (Chapters 1 &...
The House of Lords 1911-2011
A Century of Non-Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
House of Lords reform is often characterised as unfinished business: a riddle that has been left unanswered since 1911. But rarely can an unanswered riddle have had so many answers offered, even though few have been accepted; indeed, when Viscount Cave was invited in the mid-1920s to lead a Cabinet...
Five Masters of International Law
Conversations with R-J Dupuy, E Jiménez de Aréchaga, R Jennings, L Henkin and O Schachter
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
This book consists of interviews with five distinguished international lawyers from the UK, USA, Uruguay and France, conducted by the editor, Antonio Cassese, between 1993 and 1995. Each interview is preceded by a brief 'intellectual portrait' of the interviewee. In his general introduction Cassese...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
There is a growing interest within law schools in the intersections between law and different areas of social theory. The second edition of this popular text introduces a wide range of traditions in sociology and the humanities that offer provocative, contextual views on law and legal institutions.
The...
Final Judgment
The Last Law Lords and the Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
The House of Lords, for over 300 years the UK's highest court, was transformed in 2009 into the UK Supreme Court. This book provides a compelling and unrivalled view into the workings of the Court during its final decade, and into the formative years of the Supreme Court. Drawing on over 100 interviews,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
A commonly expressed view is that the citizens and the Member States are destined to be overcome by the European Union. There is a sense that the Union of today is not what was intended to be created or acceded to by the Member States or its citizens. The Outer Limits of European Union Law brings...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
This edited volume aims to reveal the Janus-faced character of federalism in the European Union. Federalism appears in two main forms in the EU. On the one hand, numerous formerly unitary Member States have embarked on a path towards a (quasi-)federal governance structure. On the other hand, the EU...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In recent decades there has been a considerable growth in the activities of international tribunals and the establishment of new tribunals. Furthermore, supervisory bodies established to control compliance with treaty obligations have adopted decisions in an increasing number of cases. National courts...
by Ms Anna Kocharov
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Constitutional orders constitute political communities – and international orders deriving from them – by managing conflicts that threaten peace. This book explores how a European political community can be advanced through EU constitutional law. The constitutional role of the Union is to ensure...