Modern studies in property Law

volume 3

This book comprises a collection of papers given at the fifth biennial conference of the Centre for Property Law at the University of Reading held in March 2004, and is the third in the series 'Modern Studies in Property Law'. The Reading conference has become ...

Social welfare and EU Law

essays in european Law

This work takes stock of how community membership is reshaping the legal environment of welfare provision across Europe. It provides a valuable collection of essays which explore the emergence of new models of social solidarity within the European Union. Table of Contents: Introduction by Michael ...

Discrimination Law

text, cases and materials

Contemporary issues of the semiotics of Law

cultural and symbolic analyses of Law in a global context

The law is a symbolic construction and therefore rests on a variety of undertakings. What gives law its meaning is, for some, ideology, for others, the welfare of the majority. However, what is manifest is a conception of the law as a material structure that ...

The legal framework of EU-China investment relations

a critical appraisal

EU investment in China has increased dramatically since the early 1990s and is poised to increase further in light of China's recent accession to the World Trade Organisation. This book explores and critically appraises the existing legal framework governing EU-China investment relations, particularly EU ...

Human Rights, culture and the rule of Law

This new book examines the relationship between culture and respect for human rights. It departs from the oft-made assumption that culture is closely linked to ideas about community. Instead, it reveals culture as a quality possessed by the individual with a serious impact on her ...

French criminal justice

a comparative account of the investigation and prosecution of crime in France

Basing much of its analysis upon the first major empirical study of the French pre-trial process, this monograph breaks new ground in the field of comparative criminology. Moving away from idealised accounts of judicially supervised investigations, it provides a better understanding of the ways in ...

The morality of conflict

reasonable disagreement and the Law

This book explores the relationship between the law and pervasive and persistent reasonable disagreement about justice. It reveals the central moral function and creative force of reasonable disagreement in and about the law and shows why and how lawyers and legal philosophers should take reasonable ...

Devils and angels

youth policy and crime

Youth Justice is a key area of the current government's criminal justice policy in England and Wales. It has been the subject of an inordinate amount of recent legislation seeking to enhance the criminal courts' powers to punish and prevent offending and re-offending by ...

Legal academics

culture and identities

Securing compliance

a principled approach

The development of positive obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights by the European Court of Human Rights

The chapter VII powers of the United Nations Security Council

This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the questions pertaining to the powers of the Security Council under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations. In doing so it departs from the premise that an analysis of the limitations to the powers of ...

The unity of public Law

Risks and legal theory

Risks and legal theory

Studies in the history of Tax Law

This work contains the full text of the papers given at the first Tax Law History Conference in Cambridge in September 2002 and organised by the Cambridge Law Facultys Centre for Tax Law. The papers ranged widely from the time of King John to the ...

Understanding Unjust Enrichment

The EU charter of fundamental rights

Politics, law and policy.

Eu enlargement

a legal approach

The enlargement of the EU to embrace Central, Eastern and Southern Europe is usually analysed from political and economic points of view, but the current process also has significant legal implications, which this edited collection aims to explore. Written by scholars and officials from both ...

Ecological sensitivity and global legal pluralism

rethinking the trade and environment conflict

The tension between trade liberalisation and environmental protection has received remarkable attention since the establishment of the WTO. It has been the subject of a wide-ranging debate, and is one of the central themes of the anti-globalisation movement. This book explores that debate. It argues ...

The permanent International Criminal Court

legal and policy issues

The idea of an International Criminal Court has captured the international legal imagination for over a century. In 1998 it became a reality with the adoption of the Rome Statute. This book critically examines the fundamental legal and policy issues involved in the establishment and ...