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New essays on the Fish-Dworkin debate

This book considers the seminal debate in jurisprudence between Ronald Dworkin and Stanley Fish. It looks at the exchange between Dworkin and Fish, initiated in the 1980s, and analyses the role the exchange has played in the development of contemporary theories of interpretation, legal reasoning ...

Sceptical perspectives on the changing constitution of the United Kingdom

This book examines the far-reaching changes made to the constitution in the United Kingdom in recent decades. It considers the way these reforms have fragmented power, once held centrally through the Crown-in-Parliament, by means of devolution, referendums, and judicial reform. It examines the reshaping of ...

The structural transformation of European private law

a critique of juridical hermeneutics

This book proposes a new analysis of the transformation of Europe through integration, exactly 30 years after the beginning of transformation scholarship. It consists of a reconstruction of the development and present condition of European integration in relation to private ordering. Looking at the interface ...

The architecture of constitutional amendments

history, law, politics

This innovative book blends constitutional theory with real-life political practice to explore the impact of codifying constitutional amendments on the operation of the constitution in relation to democracy, the rule of law, and the separation of powers. It draws from comparative, historical, political and theoretical ...

Jurisdiction over non-EU defendants

should the Brussels Ia regulation be extended?

This book looks at the question of extending the reach of the Brussels Ia Regulation to defendants not domiciled in an EU Member State. The Regulation, the centrepiece of the EU framework on civil procedure, is widely recognised as one of the most successful legal ...

Tax law in times of crisis and recovery

This book examines the relationship between tax law and crisis. In times of environmental, financial, and public health breakdown, policymakers look to tax for solutions. Yet these crises also constrain the ways in which tax liabilities can be imposed and administered, and limit the revenues ...

Sentencing the self-convicted

the ethics of pleading guilty

This book addresses the fundamental ethical and legal aspects, penal consequences, and social context arising from a citizen's acceptance of guilt. The focus is upon sentencing people who have pleaded guilty; in short, post-adjudication, rather than issues arising from discussions in the pretrial phase ...

Puerto Rico's constitutional paradox

colonial subordination, democratic tension, and promise of progressive transformation

This book explains how the People of Puerto Rico managed to adopt a constitution whose content and process were both original and colonialist, participatory and undemocratic, as well as progressive and anticlimactic. It looks in detail at the rich contradictions of the Puerto Rican constitutional ...

Shaped by the nuanced constitution

a critique of common law constitutional rights

There is growing judicial, academic and political interest in the concept of common law constitutional rights. Concurrently, significant public law judgments, including R (Miller) v The Prime Minister, R (Begum) v Special Immigration Appeals Commission and R (Privacy International) v Investigatory Powers Tribunal, continue to ...

Populism and the people in contemporary critical thought

politics, philosophy and aesthetics

Is populism the unsurpassable horizon of our own time or is it a temptation that should at all costs be resisted? Who, and to what end, does the jargon of populism serve? To answer these questions, Alexander Stagnell, Gustav Strandberg, David Payne, and their contributors ...

Russia and the GCC

the case of Tatarstan's paradiplomacy

In recent decades Russia has played an increasingly active role in the Middle East as states within the region continue to diversify their relations with major external powers. Yet the role of specific Russian regions, especially those that share an 'Islamic identity' with the GCC ...

The UAE after the Arab Spring

strategy for survival

Why did the Gulf monarchies – and the UAE in particular - avoid the upheavals and challenges of the Arab uprisings? This book examines how the UAE survived the waves of regional unrest. It departs from attributing regime survival to rentier state theory and instead offers a ...

Democracy and capitalism in Turkey

the state, power, and big business

While a positive correlation between capitalism and democracy has existed in Western Europe and North America, the example of late-industrializing nations such as Turkey has demonstrated that the two need not always go hand in hand, and sometimes the interests of business coincide more firmly ...

Politics

This best-selling textbook continues to lead the way in providing an approachable and wide-ranging introduction to politics. It covers the key concepts, theories and debates, actors and institutions that drive politics, exploring their application and relevance to contemporary political developments. This sixth edition's new ...

Tides of fortune

the rise and decline of great militaries

An ambitious look at how the twentieth century’s great powers devised their military strategies and what their implications mean for military competition between the United States and China How will the United States and China evolve militarily in the years ahead? Many experts believe ...

Good judgment

the European Court of Justice as a context-conscious lawmaker

Courts are context-conscious. They solve legal disputes with societal impact in mind, using interpretive tools and procedural means. This book develops concepts and methods for a systematic and legally informative analysis of this complex process. The evidence delivered prompts a conversation about the authority courts ...

Law, death, and robots

the regulation of artificial intelligence in high-risk civil applications

Can the law keep up with AI? This book examines liability and regulation for artificial intelligence causing serious physical harm, both now and in the future. While AI moves quickly, regulation follows more slowly – an increasing problem for an evolutionary, fast-paced emerging technology. AI has ...

L'errore invisibile

dalle indagini alla sentenza

Negli ultimi tre decenni, in Italia sono stati registrati circa trentamila casi di ingiusta detenzione. Nei paesi democratici, la possibile condanna di un innocente spinge a migliorare le regole del processo al fine di evitare o quantomeno ridurre al minimo gli errori nel giudizio. Ma ...

Contra la guerra imperialista

Selección de textos (1907-1922)

Edición imprescindible para luchar hoy, igual que hace más de un siglo, contra la guerra imperialista. Esta recopilación de escritos, elaborados en su mayoría en las inmediaciones de la Primera Guerra Mundial, permite conocer la posición y análisis de Lenin y del bolchevismo sobre la ...

Kit básico para la implantación de la Inteligencia Artificial en el Sector Público

La Inteligencia Artificial se ha convertido en una realidad inaplazable en el sector público, potenciando la eficiencia, la calidad de los servicios y la relación con la ciudadanía. Su despliegue exige conocimiento, responsabilidad, garantías éticas y una visión estratégica. Esta obra ambiciosa ofrece un kit ...