Portail universitaire du droit

Internet of Things and the Law

Guido Noto La Diega

After a thorough analysis of how existing laws can be interpreted to empower IoT end users, Noto La Diega leaves us with the fundamental...

Defensive Federalism

Ferran Requejo, Marc Sanjaume-Calvet

Defensive Federalism presents an original contribution to the field of federalism and multinational democracies, exploring the concept...

Refugees, Democracy and the Law

Dana Schmalz

The work introduces readers to the evolution of refugee law and its core issues today, as well as central lines in the debate about...

Legal Data and Information in Practice

Sarah A. Sutherland

Legal Data and Information in Practice provides readers with an understanding of how to facilitate the acquisition, management, and...

The Limits of Criminological Positivism

Michele Pifferi

This volume presents the first major study of the limits of criminological positivism in the West and establishes the subject as a...

Constitutional Imaginaries

Jiří Přibáň

This book offers a social theoretical analysis of imaginaries as constituent social forces of positive law and politics.

The League of Nations and the Development of International Law 

P. Sean Morris

This volume examines the contributions to International Law of individual members of the Advisory Committee of Jurists in the League...

From the Cloister to the State

Annalena Müller

From the Cloister to the State examines the French order of Fontevraud, one of the largest monastic networks under female leadership...

The Right to Know

Lani Watson

This book provides the first comprehensive examination of the right to know and other epistemic rights: rights to goods such as information,...

Law and Christianity in Latin America 

M.C. Mirow, Rafael Domingo

This volume examines the lives of more than thirty-five key personalities in Latin American law with a focus on how their Christian...

Obligations 

Scott Veitch

Obligations: New Trajectories in Law provides a critical analysis of the role of obligations in contemporary legal and social practices.

Problem-Solving Courts, Criminal Justice, and the International Gold Standard 

Anna Grace Kawałek

This book presents findings from a process evaluation carried out at a problem-solving court located in England: Manchester Review...

Legal Rules in Practice 

Baudouin Dupret, Julie Colemans, Max Travers

Understanding legal rules not as determinants of behavior but as points of reference for conduct, this volume considers the ways in...

Socialism and Legal History

Ville Erkkilä, Hans-Peter Haferkamp

This book focuses on the way in which legal historians and legal scientists used the past to legitimize, challenge, explain and familiarize...

Christianity and Private Law

Robert F. Cochran, Jr, Michael P. Moreland

This volume examines the relationship between Christian legal theory and the fields of private law. Recent years have seen a resurgence...

The European Union and Global Environmental Protection 

Mar Campins Eritja

This book examines how the EU can be a more proactive actor in the promotion of the principles of sustainability and fairness from...

Gender, Law and Material Culture 

Annette Caroline Cremer

This interdisciplinary volume discusses the division of the early modern material world into the important legal, economic, and personal...

Law and The Christian Tradition in Scandinavia 

Kjell Å Modéer, Helle Vogt

This book presents a comprehensive history of law and religion in the Nordic context.

Law and the Dead 

Marc Trabsky

The governance of the dead in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to a new arrangement of thanato-politics in the West....

Law and Time

Sian Beynon-Jones, Emily Grabham

Research on law's relationship with time has flourished over the past decade. This edited collection aims to put law and time scholarship...

Voices in the Legal Archives in the French Colonial World 

Nancy Christie, Michael Gauvreau, Matthew Gerber

Voices in the Legal Archives in the French Colonial World: "The King is Listening" offers, through the contribution of thirteen original...

What Works (and Doesn't) in Reducing Recidivism

Edward J. Latessa, Shelley L. Johnson, Deborah Koetzle

While other texts have addressed issues regarding treatment in corrections, this text is unique in that it not only discusses the research...

Crime and Fear in Public Places

Vania Ceccato, Mahesh K. Nalla

The book aims to illustrate the complexity of patterns of crime and fear in public places with examples of studies on these topics...

The Concept of Genocide in International Criminal Law

Marco Odello, Piotr Łubiński

This book presents a review of historical and emerging legal issues that concern the interpretation of the international crime of genocide.

Law and the Christian Tradition in Italy 

Orazio Condorelli, Rafael Domingo

Firmly rooted on Roman and canon law, Italian legal culture has had an impressive influence on the civil law tradition from the Middle...

Kant, Global Politics and Cosmopolitan Law

Claudio Corradetti

Why is there so much attention on Kant's global politics in present day law and philosophy? This book highlights the potential fruitfulness...

Innovations, Reinvented Politics and Representative Democracy

Alexandra Goujon, Guillaume Gourgues, Agnès Alexandre-Collier

This volume focuses on the issue of change in democratic politics in terms of experimental or actual innovations introduced either...

Peer Mentoring in Criminal Justice

Gillian Buck

Peer mentoring is an increasingly popular criminal justice intervention in custodial and community settings. Peer mentors are community...

Labour Law and the Gig Economy

Jo Carby-Hall, Lourdes Mella Méndez

This international book analyses the impact of digitisation in labour markets, on labour relationships and also on labour processes.

People’s Tribunals, Human Rights and the Law 

Regina Menachery Paulose

This book presents a balance of academic and practitioner perspectives on People’s Tribunals. It explores key questions relating...