Hart Publishing imprint: 910 books
by Professor Maria Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
A vast and diverse body of EU law addresses an enormous range of environmental matters. This book examines a number of areas of substantive EU environmental law, focusing on the striking preoccupation of EU environmental law with the structure of decision-making. It highlights the observation that...
The Constitution of South Africa
A Contextual Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
South Africa's 1996 'Final' Constitution is widely recognised as the crowning achievement of the country's dramatic transition to democracy. This transition began with the unbanning of the liberation movements and release of Nelson Mandela from prison in February 1990. This book presents the South...
The Constitution of Romania
A Contextual Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
In December 1989, Romania became the last Eastern European communist country to break with its communist dictatorship, the most powerful in the region at the time. It has struggled ever since to overcome the transition to democracy and to become a 'full-time' member of the Western democratic community...
Democratic Statehood in International Law
The Emergence of New States in Post-Cold War Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
This book analyses the emerging practice in the post-Cold War era of the creation of a democratic political system along with the creation of new states. The existing literature either tends to conflate self-determination and democracy or dismisses the legal relevance of the emerging practice on the...
by Eric Fripp
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
International refugee law anticipates state conduct in relation to nationality, statelessness, and protection. Refugee status under the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees 1951 and regional and domestic instruments referring to it can be fully understood only against the background of international...
The Emergence of EU Criminal Law
Cyber Crime and the Regulation of the Information Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Criminal law can no longer be neatly categorised as the product and responsibility of domestic law. That this is true is emphasised by the ever-increasing amount of legislation stemming from the European Union (EU) which impacts, both directly and indirectly, on the criminal law. The involvement of...
International Investment Law
Reconciling Policy and Principle
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
The third edition of this acclaimed scholarly book offers an up-to-date, critical overview of the law of foreign investment, incorporating a thorough and succinct analysis of the principles and standards of treatment available to foreign investors in international law. It is authoritative and multilayered,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This collection examines law and justice on television in different countries around the world. It provides a benchmark for further study of the nature and extent of television coverage of justice in fictional, reality and documentary forms. It does this by drawing on empirical work from a range of...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Antarctica, one of the world's last great wildernesses, presents special challenges for international law. Fears that Antarctica would become a front in the Cold War catalysed agreement on the 1959 Antarctic Treaty which neither legitimised nor challenged the existing sovereign claims to the continent....
Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights
International and Regional Jurisprudence
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights explores how general human rights standards have enabled, empowered and constrained indigenous peoples in claiming and defending their essential economic, social, cultural, civil and political interests. The book examines the jurisprudence of United Nations treaty...
Criminologies of the Military
Militarism, National Security and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
This innovative collection offers one of the first analyses of criminologies of the military from an interdisciplinary perspective. While some criminologists have examined the military in relation to the area of war crimes, this collection considers a range of other important but less explored aspects...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
This collection examines the role and value of rights in divided and post-conflict societies, approaching the subject from a comparative and theoretical perspective.
Societies emerging from violent conflict often opt for a bill of rights as part of a wider package of constitutional reform. Where conflict...
The Scope and Intensity of Substantive Review
Traversing Taggart’s Rainbow
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Inspired by the work of Professor Michael Taggart, this collection of essays from across the common law world is concerned with two separate but related themes. First, to what extent and by what means should review on substantive grounds such as unreasonableness be expanded and intensified? Jowell,...
The Unity of Public Law?
Doctrinal, Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This major collection contains selected papers from the second Public Law Conference, an international conference hosted by the University of Cambridge in September 2016. The collection includes contributions by leading academics and judges from across the common law world, including senior judges...