Hart Publishing imprint: 910 books

by Sarah Vigers
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011

There is growing enthusiasm for the use of mediation to seek to resolve cases arising under the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (the Convention). However, despite being endorsed by the conclusions of meetings of experts, judicial comment and...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015

Landmark Cases in Property Law explores the development of basic principles of property law in leading cases. Each chapter considers a case on land, personal property or intangibles, discussing what that case contributes to the dominant themes of property jurisprudence – How are property rights...

The Constitution of Singapore

A Contextual Analysis

by Dr Kevin YL Tan
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

Singapore's Constitution was hastily cobbled together after her secession from the Federation of Malaysia in 1965. In the subsequent 50 years, the Constitution has been amended many times to evolve a Constitution like no other in the world. Outwardly, Singapore has a Westminster-type constitutional...

The Constitution of Pakistan

A Contextual Analysis

by Sadaf Aziz
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018

This volume provides a contextual account of Pakistan's constitutional laws and history. It aims to describe the formal structure of government in reference to origins that are traced to the administrative centralisation and legal innovations of colonial rule. It also situates the tide of Muslim nationalism...

Confronting Homophobia in Europe

Social and Legal Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011

Homophobia exists in many different forms across Europe. Member States offer uneven levels of legal protection for lesbian and gay rights; at the same time the social meanings and practices relating to homosexuality are culturally distinct and intersect in complex ways with gender, class and ethnicity...
by Johanna Friman
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017

The purpose of the jus ad bellum is to draw a line in the sand: thus far, but no further. In the light of modern warfare, a state should today have an explicitly recognised and undisputed right of delimited unilateral defence not only in response to an occurring armed attack, but also in interception...

Whose Freedom, Security and Justice?

EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy

by Anneliese Baldaccini, Professor Elspeth Guild, Dr Helen Toner
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2007

This book brings together contributions from some of the leading authorities in the field of EU immigration and asylum law to reflect upon developments since the Amsterdam Treaty and, particularly, the Tampere European Council in 1999. At Tampere, Heads of State and Government met to set guidelines...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018

Clinical Legal Education (CLE) can be defined in broad terms as the study of law through real, or simulated, casework. It enables students to experience the law in action and to reflect on those experiences. CLE offers an alternative learning experience to the traditional lecture/seminar method and...
by Vladyslav Lanovoy
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016

This book examines the responsibility of States and international organizations for complicity (aid or assistance) in an internationally wrongful act. Despite the recognition of responsibility for complicity as a rule of customary international law by the International Court of Justice, this book...

The Right to Housing

Law, Concepts, Possibilities

by Jessie Hohmann
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

A human right to housing represents the law's most direct and overt protection of housing and home. Unlike other human rights, through which the home incidentally receives protection and attention, the right to housing raises housing itself to the position of primary importance. However, the meaning,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016

Of the many challenges that society faces today, possibly none is more acute than the security of ordinary citizens when faced with a variety of natural or man-made disasters arising from climate and geological catastrophes, including the depletion of natural resources, environmental degradation,...

Unpacking Normativity

Conceptual, Normative, and Descriptive Issues

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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018

This book provides a new and wide-ranging study of law's normativity, examining conceptual, descriptive and empirical dimensions of this perennial philosophical issue. It also contains essays concerned with, among other issues, the relationship between semantic and legal normativity; methodological...

The Method and Culture of Comparative Law

Essays in Honour of Mark Van Hoecke

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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014

Awareness of the need to deepen the method and methodology of legal research is only recent. The same is true for comparative law, by nature a more adventurous branch of legal research, which is often something researchers simply do, whenever they look at foreign legal systems to answer one or more...

Freedom of Artistic Expression

Essays on Culture and Legal Censure

by Dr Paul Kearns
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014

This book presents a unique and comprehensive examination of the human and moral rights of artists. In what is arguably the first exhaustive book-length account of artists' rights, Paul Kearns explores the problems associated with censorship, both from philosophical and legal perspectives, and focuses...
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