Books in the Law in Context series

This book is the first ever written on English marine conservation regulation from a socio-legal perspective. The monograph presents an in-depth analysis of key aspects of Marine Protected Areas regulation in England, offering the reader access to an under-investigated field. Such regulatory mapping is complemented by an interdisciplinary treatment of the subject exploring the relationship between people and marine parks through central themes in environmental social sciences and regulatory theory, namely space, rationalisation, democracy and adaptation. Thus, the book is of interest to environmental lawyers and regulatory scholars but also to human geographers, environmental sociologists and political scientists. As the book provides critical reflections on current legal and regulatory structures, it contains valuable insights for policymakers and regulators. The book has a strong methodological basis drawing on in-depth desk-based research, complemented by primary qualitative research, conducted over a number of years.

This book will interest students and scholars examining the complex relations between the West and the so-called Muslim world. Using a specific legal issue, the study interrogates the broad topics of international law and Islamic law, demonstrating the exceptionalisms at play that make more general human rights debates so fraught.

"Employing an interdisciplinary, comparative approach, this book explores the inconsistent treatment of victims of involuntary sterilisation and castration in three Nordic countries over the last century. Using a vast range of primary and secondary sources, it investigates the development of rights and state responsibility"--

Can the concept of law be indiscriminately extended to times and places in which it did simply not exist? Such an extension is at best useless and at worst misleading. Producing an intelligible jurisprudence of the concept of law means keeping it within the reasonable boundaries of its contemporary common-sense understanding: positive law. Parallel to Western societies in which it firstly emerged, the concept of positive law developed in many places, including countries characterized as Muslim. There, it faced other existing normativities, like customs and the Sharia. This book aims, from the Muslim world's perspective, to clarify the uses of the concept of law and the ways of studying it, to describe some of its historical developments, including the ideas of constitutional law, customary law and forensic evidence, and to describe present-day practices, including reference to law sources, rules and interpretation.

How are enterprises wielding economic power, distributing wealth and income, and affecting our environment and rights built by law? This book is for students studying law, business, sociology, economics or history, for interested people who seek answers about our economic constitution, and is an original guide for experts in all fields.

Provides unique insight into debates in the field of human rights around how to address violent and traumatic pasts, reconcile divided nations, and strengthen state institutions in the aftermath of conflict. It will be of interest to policy-makers, practitioners, and scholars of transitional justice, international relations, and art theory.

This book studies the rise of access and the effect of the sharing economy on property as a social and legal institution. It will benefit academics, students, policymakers and practitioners interested in the sharing economy, property, legal theory, and more broadly, Internet and society, market economy, and law and society.

This is the first history and analysis of the impact of technology on the workings of the UK Parliament, situating it within the wider global debates on democracy in the age of the Internet, constitutional law and history, and 'law and technology'.

Covering substantive and dispute settlement matters, this textbook provides analyses accessible to readers who are discovering international investment law and arbitration anew, while it offers a wealth of in-depth studies for readers who are already familiar with this field of law.

The book explores beyond the borders of identity politics by offering a more precise understanding of belonging as a basic and all-encompassing concern. Academics, scholars, and students in the fields of philosophy, law, history, and religious studies will benefit from these interdisciplinary analyses of belonging within kinship, law, and politics.

This book pushes the boundaries of transitional justice and cultural heritage law, relying on insights from across all continents, and on multiple disciplines. Its original insights are of great use in the fields of law, heritage studies, transitional justice, international relations, human rights, history, and memory studies.

Provides students with an introduction to legal philosophy, using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to reflect on human rights.

This book is about common sense and it takes us on a journey from the exhaustion of the paradigm of classical science and modernity to the necessary construction of utopias via a detailed analysis of legal institutions and theorizing over several hundred years.

This new edition brings together and analyses a wide range of materials dealing with dispute processes and current debates on civil justice. Students of law, social sciences and the humanities, as well as dispute resolution specialists will benefit from this broad, comparative study.

An essential resource for those who need to understand the UK land law system. Aimed at law students and those interested in political theory, environmental studies, resource economics and land administration needing a clear understanding of property law, Principles of Property Law helps demystify this wide-impacting subject.

What makes one crime story convincing and another implausible? Evidence law provides only a partial answer. This study explores the meaning of plausibility and the materials from which it is constituted in a particular historical and socio-cultural setting: proving sex offences in Mandate Palestine.

Atiyah's Accidents, Compensation and the Law is the only book written in a Commonwealth jurisdiction that examines the accident compensation system in its broader social context. It provides the reader with a significantly richer understanding of the relevant law than they would obtain from books that concentrate on just the legal principles.

An important contribution to the field which explores both the legal and economic dimensions of EU economic governance in a clear and comprehensive way. It is an essential resource for law and economics students focusing on European Union economic governance.

This book analyses the legal construction of the national and the foreigner in ten countries across South America during a period of two hundred years. It will be of interest to migration and citizenship scholars interested in global, regional, comparative, historical and constitutional developments.

Argues that Australian discussions of law should be seen through the lens of British race patriotism. Only then can it be recognised that there were distinctively Australian contributions to developing the common law of tort in the first half of the twentieth century.

Engaging with topics as diverse as Islamic constitutionalism, Islamic finance, human rights and internet fatawa, this book explores what constitutes Islamic law in the contemporary world by considering theoretical perspectives of Islamic law and its application in everyday life. It is an invaluable resource for scholars, students and practitioners.

With her characteristic clarity and verve, Susan Haack brings her original and distinctive work in theory of knowledge and philosophy of science to bear on real-life legal issues. She includes analyses of a variety of cases and summaries of relevant scientific work, of the many roles of the scientific peer-review system, and of relevant legal developments.