Portail universitaire du droit

From Cosmopolitanism to Human Rights

Olivier De Frouville

This book explores a democratic theory of international law. Though written for an academic audience, it will have a more general appeal...

Constitutional Bricolage

Eugénie Mérieau

This book analyses the unique constitutional system in operation in Thailand as a continuous process of bricolage between various Western...

The Limits of Private Governance

Florian Grisel

Since the 1980s, socio-legal scholars have argued that governance based on social norms (or “private governance”) can offer an...

Rule of Law vs Majoritarian Democracy

Giuliano Amato, Benedetta Barbisan, Cesare Pinelli

With contributions from judges and scholars from different backgrounds and nationalities this book explores the framework in which...

The Hague Judgments Convention and Commonwealth Model Law

Abubakri Yekini

This book undertakes a systematic analysis of the 2019 Hague Judgments Convention, the 2005 Hague Choice of Court Convention 2005,...

The Rule of Law and the Separation of Powers

Jack Beatson

Prompted by the events following the 2016 referendum on EU membership and written during the COVID-19 pandemic by one of the leading...

Paradigms in Modern European Comparative Law

Balázs Fekete

This book uses the philosophy of Thomas Kuhn to provide a new vision of the development of European comparative law that will challenge...

EU Soft Law in the Member States

Mariolina Eliantonio, Emilia Korkea-aho, Oana Stefan

This volume analyses, for the first time in European studies, the impact that non-legally binding material (otherwise known as soft...

Law's Humility

Triantafyllos Gkouvas

This book invites newcomers to analytical legal philosophy to reconsider the terms in which they are accustomed to describing and defending...

Art as an Interface of Law and Justice

Frans-Willem Korsten

This book looks at the way in which the 'call for justice' is portrayed through art and presents a wide range of texts from film to...

Cassis de Dijon

Albertina Albors-Llorens, Catherine Barnard, Brigitte Leucht

Why is the 1979 the Court of Justice judgment in Cassis de Dijon so famous and so significant in the evolution of EU trade law? As...

The Legal History of the European Banking Union

Pedro Gustavo Teixeira

How was the Banking Union, the most advanced legal and institutional integration in the single market, created? How does European law...

Artificial Intelligence and the Legal Profession

Michael Legg, Felicity Bell

How are new technologies changing the practice of law? With examples and explanations drawn from the UK, US, Canada, Australia and...

Challenging Private Law

William Day, Sarah Worthington

Lord Sumption has been one of the most influential judges of his generation. This book critically reflects on the important and controversial...

Principle and Pragmatism in Roman Law

Benjamin Spagnolo, Joe Sampson

This edited collection presents an interesting and original series of essays on the roles of principle and pragmatism in Roman private law.

Tax Justice and Tax Law

Dominic de Cogan, Peter Harris

Most people would agree that tax systems ought to be 'just', and perhaps a great deal more just than they are at present. What is more...

The Role of Monarchy in Modern Democracy

Robert Hazell, Bob Morris

How much power does a monarch really have? How much autonomy do they enjoy? Who regulates the size of the royal family, their finances,...

Law and the Arms Trade

Laurence Lustgarten

This ground-breaking book offers an extensive legal analysis-grounded in public, EU, and international law-of arms trade regulation,...

Revolution and Evolution in Private Law

Sarah Worthington, Andrew Robertson, Graham Virgo

The essays in this volume explore some of the highlights in this fascinating revolutionary and evolutionary development of private...

Law Reform in Early Modern England

Barbara J Shapiro

This book provides an illuminating commentary of law reform in the early modern era (1500–1740) and views the moves to improve law...

Sixty Years of European Integration and Global Power Shifts

Julien Chaisse

This book focuses on a review of how sixty years of case-law and regulatory activity transformed the European continent and the world....

The Frontiers of Public Law

Jason NE Varuhas, Shona Wilson Stark

The collection explores the frontiers of public law, examining cutting-edge issues at the intersection of public law and other fields.

English Legal Histories

Ian Ward

English Legal Histories is an exciting and innovative approach to the study of English law. Written in an accessible style intended...

French Civil Liability in Comparative Perspective

Jean-Sébastien Borghetti, Simon Whittaker

This work considers important aspects of this developing area of French law in a series of essays by French lawyers and comparative...

Founding Moments in Constitutionalism

Richard Albert, Menaka Guruswamy, Nishchal Basnyat

This edited collection brings together leading and emerging scholars to theorise the phenomenon of a founding moment. Drawing from...

Feminist Judgments in International Law

Loveday Hodson, Troy Lavers

This important new volume makes a significant contribution to the endeavour, exploring how key judgments in international law might...

Ideology and Criminal Law

Stephen Skinner

Bringing together expert legal historians from four continents, the collection's 16 chapters examine aspects of criminal law and related...

The Court of Justice and European Criminal Law

Valsamis Mitsilegas, Alberto di Martino, Leandro Mancano

The aim of this book is to provide an insight into the landmark rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in European Criminal Law (ECL).

The Transformation of Economic Law

Lucila de Almeida, Marta Cantero Gamito, Mateja Djurovic, Kai Peter Purnhagen

Hans-W. Micklitz has gained international recognition for dedicating his extensive and fruitful career to diverse areas of law: European...

Cases, Materials and Text on Judicial Review of Administrative Action

Chris Backes, Mariolina Eliantonio

This casebook studies the law governing judicial review of administrative action. It examines the foundations and the organisation...

The EU as a Global Regulator for Environmental Protection

Ioanna Hadjiyianni

This book critically examines the extension of EU environmental legislation beyond EU borders through measures that determine access...

Jurisdiction and Cross-Border Collective Redress

Alexia Pato

In recent decades, the rise in cross-border law violations has harmed numerous victims around the globe. The damages are often dispersed...