Hart Publishing imprint: 910 books
Penal Censure
Engagements Within and Beyond Desert Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
This exploration of penal censure is inspired by the 40th anniversary of the publication of Andreas von Hirsch's Doing Justice, which opened up a fresh set of issues in theorisation about punishment that eventually led von Hirsch to ground his proposed model of desert-based sentencing on the notion...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Poor public resource management and the global financial crisis curbing fundamental fiscal space, millions thrown into poverty, and authoritarian regimes running successful criminal campaigns with the help of financial assistance are all phenomena that raise fundamental questions around finance and...
The Tapestry of Reason
An Inquiry into the Nature of Coherence and its Role in Legal Argument
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
In recent years coherence theories of law and adjudication have been extremely influential in legal scholarship. These theories significantly advance the case for coherentism in law. Nonetheless, there remain a number of problems in the coherence theory in law. This ambitious new work makes the first...
by Professor Aileen McColgan
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This monograph explores some of the conceptual questions which underpin the legal disputes which arise in relation to equality and discrimination. Among these are questions about the meaning of 'equality' as a legal concept and its relationship to the principle of non-discrimination; symmetrical and...
Food Law
European, Domestic and International Frameworks
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
This book provides a broad conspectus on the application of EU and international regulation of the food sector on English law. It is aimed at practitioners and students of this vital and emerging branch of law, which has become an important part of current political and legal debate. It is written...
by Jaan Paju
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
The aim of this book is to examine how EU law relates to and impacts on the national social security systems of the Member States. It asks three key questions. Firstly, it looks at how the internal market and its developments have eroded Member States' sovereignty over their social security systems,...
The EU and Nanotechnologies
A Critical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
This book investigates the role of law in confronting major societal transformations embodied by the emergence of nanotechnologies. Taking the case of the European Union, it explores who the key decision-makers in the regulation of nanotechnologies are and how they take decisions. The questions are...
Beyond Magna Carta
A Constitution for the United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
The 800th anniversary of Magna Carta falls in June 2015. In this work Dr Blick argues that this event should be the occasion for a reassessment of the past, present and future of the UK constitution. He draws on his experience as research fellow to the first ever parliamentary inquiry into the possibility...
by Michael Barnes QC
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This book is a statement of the current law of compulsory purchase of land and compensation for that purchase. It covers all major aspects of the procedure for the compulsory acquisition of land and deals in full detail with all aspects of the law of compensation for such an acquisition. The many...
by Philip Strik
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The Treaty of Lisbon (2009) has brought foreign direct investment (FDI) within the scope of the European Union's common commercial policy (CCP). In light of this development, this book analyses the internal and external dimension of EU law and policy in the field of FDI. It takes four perspectives:...
Equality
The Legal Framework
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The second edition of this widely-acclaimed book about the Equality Act 2010 by one of its leading architects brings forward the story of how and why this historic legislation was enacted and what it means, to cover the first four years of its implementation by the Coalition Government and in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
"Environmental crime is a growing challenge for policy makers and law enforcers. This is an important and timely study which examines in depth how environmental crime is treated at national level within the European Union and the impact of the 2008 EU Directive on environmental crime on national systems....
The Division of Competences between the EU and the Member States
Reflections on the Past, the Present and the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
The issue of competence division is of fundamental importance as it reflects the 'power bargain' struck between the Member States and their Union, determining the limits of the authority of the EU as well as the limits of the authority of the Member States. It defines the nature of the EU as a polity,...
Shared Authority
Courts and Legislatures in Legal Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
This new book advances a fresh philosophical account of the relationship between the legislature and courts, opposing the common conception of law, in which it is legislatures that primarily create the law, and courts that primarily apply it. This conception has eclectic affinities with legal positivism,...