Law

This is the first book to critically assess how "supersession thesis," developed by legal and political philosopher Jeremy Waldron, might be reconstructed, challenged, or applied to empirical cases, with an eye toward larger questions surrounding the temporal orientation of justice. This book concludes with a reply by Jeremy Waldron.

Geopolitical Landscapes of Donald Trump examines the role of local actors in Mexico, Central America and the United States have played in shaping the Mexico-Guatemala transborder region.

This book offers an in-depth critical account of the state's responses to the biosecurity and the economic crises. It is thus the first study to address both crises ensuing from the pandemic, and to synthesise the responses to them in a comprehensive account of political power.

This book provides transnational insight into cultural property crimes and the cutting-edge work tackling issues ranging from currency crimes to innovative research methods.

This book considers the question of spatial justice after apartheid, from several disciplinary perspectives - jurisprudence, law, literature, architecture, photography and psychoanalysis are just some of the disciplines engaged here.

This interdisciplinary investigation presents in-depth linguistic and legal analysis of ambiguity found in the text of key provisions of EU Treaties and in the language of some of the CJEU's leading preliminary rulings in the area of fundamental rights, freedom of movement and EU citizenship.

This book critically challenges the usual territorial understanding of borders by examining the often messy internal, transborder, ambiguous, and in-between spaces that co-exist with traditional borders.

This book provides an overview and analysis of the term 'lawfare', as it has come to describe a range of conflicts in which legal instruments are used to pursue political goals.

This book examines the social and legal regulation of domestic violence within Kesarwani business community following the enactment of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005.

This book presents a study of politico-ideological mobilisation and violence by focusing on the life stories, trajectories and narratives of individuals who mobilised for causes and conflicts in the Arab World.

This book studies the history of intercultural human rights. It examines the foundational elements of human rights in the East and the West and provides a comparative analysis of the independent streams of thought originating from the two different geographic spaces.

This volume brings together a collection of original investigations of the current thinking on three broad themes: the assetization of land and buildings, the relationship of land rent to valuation and speculation in the markets for private and public properties, and the different ways in which land functions as a social relation.

This book advances the study of the right to nationality, the prevention of statelessness and the protection of stateless persons, using Nigeria as a case study. It assesses international legal regimes on statelessness, their efficacy in practice, what can be improved under international law and the relevance of the regimes in the Nigerian context.

This book uses a controversial criminal immigration court procedure along the México-U.S. border called Operation Streamline as a rich setting to understand the identity management strategies employed by lawyers and judges.

This book explores existing and emerging issues of food law and policy in the context of technology governance to offer an overarching framework for the interaction between food regulation and technology.

This book engages with the concept of age-friendly environments, adopting multi-perspectivity to demonstrate how age-friendly environments can contribute to shifting how we think, feel and act toward issues of age and ageing and operate as a vehicle to improve understandings of ageism.

This book proposes a new model of professional ethics enabling lawyers to advise clients upon both the law and ethics. This will better protect clients, and society, and enhance lawyers' professional obligations. It draws on moral philosophy to present a new model of legal ethics that explains the analytical process to include ethical advice.

This book reviews the challenges and opportunities in the implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) at the regional and national levels in Africa. It contains an analysis of the relevant norms and monitoring mechanisms at the regional level, and case studies from selected African and other developing countries.

The Covid 19 pandemic has revealed the need to verify the existing principles of functioning of public authorities, in relation to various decision-making processes, both at the conceptual level and at law implementation.

The Routledge Handbook of Differentiation in the European Union offers an essential collection of ground-breaking chapters reflecting on the causes and consequences of this complex phenomenon.

This handbook fills a significant gap in the European studies literature by providing crucial and groundbreaking coverage of several key areas that are usually neglected or excluded in European integration collections.

This book critically examines the active role played by youth-led social movements in pushing for change and promoting peacebuilding in Africa, and their impacts on society. It will be of interest to researchers across the fields of social movement studies, youth studies, peace and conflict studies, history, and African studies.

Focusing on systemic risks caused by climate change, this book examines how these risks can be effectively regulated to ensure resilience and avoid catastrophe.

This book introduces readers to the concept of territory, as it applies to law, while demonstrating the particular work that territory does in organizing property relations.