Books in the Cambridge Law Handbooks series

This Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the past, present, and future of the European Economic and Monetary Union in its broader context. It incorporates economic, legal and political science perspectives to provide an in-depth and forward-looking scrutiny of the rationales, the main features and the shortcomings of the economic, monetary and financial integration in the euro area. Studying its complex, highly interconnected governance structures, the authors suggest directions for necessary reforms. With contributions from a diverse group of leading experts in their fields, this volume is truly versatile in its scope and approach, whilst remaining accessible for readers of different academic backgrounds.

"Despite a long and venerable tradition, the material constitution almost disappeared from constitutional scholarship after the Second World War. Its marginalisation saw the rise of a normative and legalistic style in constitutional law that neglected the role of social reality and political economy. This collection not only retrieves the history and development of the concept of the material constitution, but it tests its theoretical and practical relevance in the contemporary world. With essays from a diverse range of contributors, the collection demonstrates that the material constitution speaks to several pressing issues, from the significance of economic development in constitutional orders to questions of constitutional identity. Offering original analyses supported by international case studies, this book develops a new model of constitutional reality, one that informs our understanding of the world in profound ways"--

Compliance, or the behavioral response to legal rules, has become an important topic for academics and practitioners. A large body of work exists that describes different influences on business compliance, but a fundamental challenge remains: how to measure compliance or noncompliance behavior itself? Without proper measurement, it's impossible to evaluate existing management and regulatory enforcement practices. Measuring Compliance provides the first comprehensive overview of different approaches that are or could be used to measure compliance by business organizations. The book addresses the strengths and weaknesses of various methods and offers both academics and practitioners guidance on which measures are best for different purposes. In addition to understanding the importance of measuring compliance and its potential negative effects in a variety of contexts, readers will learn how to collect data to answer different questions in the compliance domain, and how to offer suggestions for improving compliance measurement.

Despite the global endorsement of the Sustainable Development Goals, environmental justice struggles are growing all over the world. These struggles are not isolated injustices, but symptoms of interlocking forms of oppression that privilege the few while inflicting misery on the many and threatening ecological collapse. This handbook offers critical perspectives on the multi-dimensional, intersectional nature of environmental injustice and the cross-cutting forms of oppression that unite and divide these struggles, including gender, race, poverty, and indigeneity. The work sheds new light on the often-neglected social dimension of sustainability and its relationship to human rights and environmental justice. Using a variety of legal frameworks and case studies from around the world, this volume illustrates the importance of overcoming the fragmentation of these legal frameworks and social movements in order to develop holistic solutions that promote justice and protect the planet's ecosystems at a time of intensifying economic and ecological crisis.

Combining conceptual insights with empirical data, this handbook explains what compliance is, what mechanisms and interventions shape it, how it is studied, and how it functions in practice across different sectors. It is for academics studying compliance and regulation and professionals managing compliance systems or forms of regulatory oversight.

This Handbook provides an intellectually rigorous and accessible overview of the relationship between natural law and human rights. It fills a crucial gap in the literature with leading scholarship on the importance of natural law as a philosophical foundation for human rights and its significance for contemporary debates. The themes covered include: the role of natural law thought in the history of human rights; human rights scepticism; the different notions of 'subjective right'; the various foundations for human rights within natural law ethics; the relationship between natural law and human rights in religious traditions; the idea of human dignity; the relation between human rights, political community and law; human rights interpretation; and tensions between human rights law and natural law ethics. This Handbook is an ideal introduction to natural law perspectives on human rights, while also offering a concise summary of scholarly developments in the field.

The most comprehensive and systematic study of the impact of AI on private law, this volume uses an interdisciplinary and comparative approaches. It is timely, as various organizations and nations are drafting regulations, guidelines, and principles to address the use of AI in a wide range of areas.

A reference work on the theoretical foundations of sanctioning that reviews the practice of nineteen countries, this handbook will be used by law and business academics, students, practicing lawyers, and enforcers from all over the world who are interested in competition law and policy, and in sanctioning policies in general.

This book is for scholars and practitioners across all disciplines who are interested in understanding and rethinking the management and governance of many kinds of shared resources, including natural resources, digital resources, knowledge and intellectual resources, and housing and other urban infrastructure, among others.

The connection between organized labor and democracy in contemporary global politics is not well understood. This handbook fills that gap by exploring the role of labor in constructing democratic regimes; deepening democracy by expanding social and economic citizenship rights; and defending democracy against authoritarian challenges.

What makes some goods and services fundamentally public and why? Sometimes public entities are superior because of the quality of their decisions or the fairness of their decision-making procedures. At other times, they have intrinsic value. This volume explores the justifications for public provision and the justifications for state's authority.

This book gives legal practitioners, academics, and law students a comprehensive look at the main impacts of artificial intelligence use in legal practice. Contributors identify the main challenges surrounding a legally compliant and ethical development of AI and craft a framework for analyzing the costs and benefits of new technology.

Promoting entrepreneurial action is a fundamental goal of the U.S. legal system. Assembling legal experts from diverse fields, this volume examines how law facilitates or impedes entrepreneurial action. The book is a definitive source for students, academics, policy makers, and practitioners.

Exploring the often-neglected social dimension of sustainability and its relationship to human rights and environmental justice, this book is a resource for scholars, students and practitioners. It examines intersecting forms of oppression that produce environmental injustice, including subordination based on gender, race, poverty, and indigeneity.

This multi-disciplinary Handbook examines human health research and its regulation. It uses real world examples - research using patient data, tissue and other human materials - to explore current challenges in delivering good medical research for the public good. Practical recommendations for real-world situations are a key feature of the book.

Combining conceptual insights with empirical data, this handbook explains what compliance is, what mechanisms and interventions shape it, how it is studied, and how it functions in practice across different sectors. It is for academics studying compliance and regulation and professionals managing compliance systems or forms of regulatory oversight.

With contributions from over thirty leading scholars and senior regulators from around the world, this book is for anyone interested in effective models for financial regulation. It provides a scholarly, multi-disciplinary, cross-jurisdictional and internationally comparative examination of current trends, with an emphasis on the Twin Peaks model.

This volume is for academics, lawyers, and policymakers seeking to understand some of the biggest lawsuits across the world. Contributing authors describe and assess class action procedure (or its equivalent) in nearly two dozen countries, provide empirical data on how regions are implementing the procedure, and make recommendations for reform.

Featuring thirty-five chapters from US, EU, and Asian scholars, this volume explores how algorithms are not only challenging current law, but also the foundations of society itself. The book's interdisciplinary approach makes it a key resource for scholars of law, information and computer science, and engineering, as well as legislators.

This is the only comprehensive book on consumer privacy. It brings together world-class and highly diverse scholars, activists, business leaders, and policymakers. It is the only volume that readers need to consult to learn why consumer privacy is hotly debated and how progress can be made on the key issues.

This Handbook addresses, conceptually and practically, what the sharing economy means for law and how law, in turn, is shaping the sharing economy. It will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience of scholars and students studying the burgeoning sharing economy, along with policy makers, legislators, and regulators across multiple jurisdictions.

This volume is a guide for scholars, policymakers, attorneys, teachers, judges, and students interested in the theories, policies, and doctrines of copyright law. Featuring experts from around the world, the handbook offers a systematic, comparative study of copyright in major jurisdictions including the United States, the European Union, and China.

This volume provides a comprehensive collection of essays on police and policing, written by leading experts in political theory, sociology, criminology, economics, law, public health, and critical theory. This accessible, interdisciplinary work will be valuable for anyone interested in understanding the present and future of policing in the US.

In this timely work, leading labor scholars analyze the decline in unions and offer a variety of innovative law reforms to reverse that trend. It will appeal to academics and students in law, economics, public policy, and industrial relations, as well as policymakers and practitioners interested in labor questions.

This volume describes and critically analyzes the international and regional frameworks of trademark law. A valuable resource for scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers, the book also provides comparative perspectives on substantive issues in trademark law and related fields, such as geographic indications, advertising law, and domain names.