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This edited volume is a timely and insightful contribution to the growing discourses on public law in Asia. Surveying many important jurisdictions in Asia including mainland China, Hong Kong, India,……続きを見る

In recent years the Chinese legal system has undergone many reforms and this book brings the literature up to date, offering a contemporary account of the law and administration in China. This book ……続きを見る

Throughout his early career, Sir Edward Coke joined many of his contemporaries in his concern about the uncertainty of the common law. Coke attributed this uncertainty to the ignorance and entrepren……続きを見る

The February 2014 issue (Volume 127, Number 4) features the following articles and essays: -- Article, "Partisan Federalism," by Jessica Bulman-Pozen -- Book Review, "Never Mind the Constitution," b……続きを見る

Princeton political scientist Walter Murphy analyzed the role of Congress in trying to manage an activist Supreme Court at a time of seismic change in the law and evolving interplay between these po……続きを見る

En pleine congruence avec l’ambition du Groupe Européen pour l’Administration Publique d’encourager les échanges interculturels, ce livre constitue une entreprise originale, mi-anglophone mi-francop……続きを見る

Le présent manuel porte sur les règles juridiques appliquées à l’activité de défense nationale en France. Les aspects de droit public (droit constitutionnel, droit administratif, droit européen) son……続きを見る

Interrogating the concepts of allegiance and identity in a globalised world involves renewing our understanding of membership and participation within and beyond the nation-state. Allegiance can be ……続きを見る

Cet ouvrage étudie les mécanismes de collaboration institutionnalisés (P.P.P.I.) des pouvoirs locaux en Région wallonne. Il expose de manière synthétique et concrète les principales règles qui prési……続きを見る

There are few intellectual movements in modern American political history more successful than the Federalist Society. Created in 1982 to counterbalance what its founders considered a liberal legal ……続きを見る

By exploring different approaches to the study of labour law, this book re-evaluates how it is conceived, analysed, and criticized in current legislation and policy. In particular, it assesses wheth……続きを見る

A obra "A Constituição e o Supremo" traz a Constituição Federal anotada pela jurisprudência do STF, atualizada até dezembro/2011, contendo a Emenda Constitucional nº 67. Trata-se da versão em livro ……続きを見る

Andrew Petter is a leading constitutional scholar who served from 1991 to 2001 as a British Columbia MLA and cabinet minister, including Attorney General. In The Politics of the Charter, Petter asse……続きを見る

The Anishinabek Nation's legal traditions are deeply embedded in many aspects of customary life. In Drawing Out Law, John Borrows (Kegedonce) skillfully juxtaposes Canadian legal policy and practice……続きを見る

Twenty-five years after its ratification, the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines has survived serious attempts to change it during several presidencies. Why were there attempts and why did they fa……続きを見る

The October 2014 issue of The Yale Law Journal (the first for academic year 2014-2015) features new articles on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include: --Artic……続きを見る

When police are called in to investigate a crime, what powers and limitations apply to them? What are their rights to question strangers, search without warrants, or detain individuals who might bec……続きを見る

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER YOU’VE BEEN LIED TO BY THE GOVERNMENT We shrug off this fact as an unfortunate reality. America is the land of the free, after all. Does it really matter whether our politi……続きを見る

The attitudes and assumptions of different cultures and historical periods toward war and the maintenance of peace are reviewed by recalling authors who include Euripides, Sophocles, Plato, Cervante……続きを見る

For centuries, the writ of habeas corpus has served as an important safeguard against miscarriages of justice, and today it remains at the center of some of the most contentious issues of our timeー……続きを見る

An urgent and necessary polemic on the government’s assault on our fundamental freedoms and the proliferation of Human Rights. From 42 days detention to ASBOs, as citizens of modern Britain we are s……続きを見る

The rise of Asia in global political and economic developments has been facilitated in part by a profound transformation of Asian courts. This book provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive ana……続きを見る

The boisterous freedom promised by the First Amendment is both the heart of American experiment and the fissure along which it divides itself. Those who would fight freedom's enemies, from political……続きを見る

In this EU referendum year, it's time for people across Europe to look at what really goes on in Brussels in our name. It has been estimated that the EU costs us around 〓1,000 billion a year - an i……続きを見る

Written at a time when furious arguments were raging about the best way to govern America, The Federalist Papers had the immediate pratical aim of persuading New Yorkers to accept the newly drafted ……続きを見る

Whether competent, terminally ill patients have a right to die with the assistance of their physicians or whether state and national governments have legitimate interests in forbidding the exercise ……続きを見る

Ronald J. Pestritto's and Thomas G. West's earlier volume The American Founding and the Social Compact addressed the nature of the thought and philosophy of the men who shaped the American founding.……続きを見る

In this insightful book about constitutional law and slavery, George Anastaplo illuminates both how the history of race relations in the United States should be approached and how seemingly hopeless……続きを見る

This book describes the process of amending the federal constitution as defined in Article V by means of a convention for proposing amendments. It shows that the constitution can be amended in two w……続きを見る

Plessy v Ferguson (1897) established racial segregation in American constitutional law for over fifty years and its moral and political legacy lives on, despite attempts in the United States to coun……続きを見る