Constitutional politics in the Middle East

with special reference to Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan

This is the first comparative and interdisciplinary study of constitutional politics and constitution- making in the Middle East. This innovative study provides an up-to-date analysis of the political and constitutional struggles in the Middle East. It is an important and topical issue that will be ...

The language question in Europe and diverse societies

political, legal, and social perspectives

Recent developments in the European integration process have raised, amongst many other things, the issue of linguistic diversity. This is regarded by some as a stumbling block to the creation and sustainability of a European democratic polity and to the fair working of its legal ...

The geography of Law

landscape, identity and regulation

The essays in this collection relate notions of space and representations of interior and exterior spaces to concerns for individual identity and autonomy as these are framed by practices of governance or codified by law. They examine the manner in which imaginative frameworks forming an ...

Luhmann on Law and politics

critical appraisals and applications

Perhaps more than any other social theorist in recent history, Niklas Luhmann's work has aroused extreme, and often antagonistic, responses. It has generated controversies about its political implications, its resolute anti-humanism and its ambitious critique of more established definitions of society, social theory and ...

Precarious work, women, and the new economy

the challenge to legal norms

Globalisation, the shift from manufacturing to services as a source of employment, and the spread of information-based systems and technologies have given birth to a new economy, which emphasises flexibility in the labour market and in employment relations. These changes have led to the erosion ...

Juvenile Law violators, Human Rights, and the development of new juvenile justice systems

This volume brings together scholars and practitioners specialising in juvenile justice from the US and Europe alongside scholars from Africa and Asia who are working on human rights issues in developing countries or countries in transition. The book presents two types of papers: descriptive and ...

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 ...

Healing the wounds

essays on the reconstruction of societies after war

In recent decades the world has experienced the rise of so-called #low intensity conflicts#. Unlike conventional wars these very bloody armed conflicts are no longer the affair of state governments and their armies. In their place appear police-like armed units, security services and secret services ...

Imaginary Boundaries of Justice

social justice across disciplines

It has become increasingly difficult to speak or even think social or legal justice in an age when words have left their moorings. Perhaps images are more stable than words; maybe images and imagery possess a certain viscosity,even a sensory quality, which prevents them ...

Women in the World's legal professions

Women lawyers,less than a century ago still almost a contradiction in terms, have come to stay. Who are they? Where are they? What impact have they had on the profession that had for so long been a bastion of male domination? These are key ...