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The Legal Challenges of Social Media
Edited by David Mangan, Lorna E. Gillies
Social media enables instant access to individual self-expression and the sharing of information. Social media issues are boundless, permeating distinct legal disciplines. The law has struggled to adapt and for good reason: how does the ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Multi-criteria Analysis in Legal Reasoning
Bengt Lindell
Providing an accessible introduction to the application of multi-criteria analysis in law, this book illustrates how simple additive weighing, a well known method in decision theory, can be used in problem structuring, analysis and decis...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Eutopia
Philip Allott
There is a vacuum of philosophy to make sense of a world dominated by a disorderly global economy, by science and engineering, by ideologies, and by popular culture. There is a vacuum of law to bring order to relations between states tha...eBook:Find out more£19.96
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The Timing of Lawmaking
Edited by Frank Fagan, Saul Levmore
Legal reasoning, pronouncements of judgment, the design and implementation of statutes, and even constitution-making and discourse all depend on timing. This compelling study examines the diverse interactions between law and time, and pr...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Elder Law
Edited by Ann Numhauser-Henning
The ageing population poses a huge challenge to law and society, carrying important structural and institutional implications. This book portrays elder law as an emerging research discipline in the European setting in terms of both conce...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Privacy and Legal Issues in Cloud Computing
Edited by Anne S.Y. Cheung, Rolf H. Weber
Adopting a multi-disciplinary and comparative approach, this book focuses on emerging and innovative attempts to tackle privacy and legal issues in cloud computing, such as personal data privacy, security and intellectual property protec...eBook:Find out more£34.36
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Criminal Reconciliation in Contemporary China
Jue Jiang
Criminal reconciliation, a special procedure stipulated in PRC’s 2013 Criminal Procedure Law, allows the alleged perpetrators and victims of certain crimes to resolve criminal cases through reconciliation or mediation. Based on empirical...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Comparing the Democratic Governance of Police Intelligence
Edited by Thierry Delpeuch, Jacqueline E. Ross
"Intelligence-led policing" is an emerging movement of efforts to develop a more democratic approach to the governance of intelligence by expanding the types of expertise and the range of participants who collaborate in the networked gov...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Coroners' Recommendations and the Promise of Saved Lives
Jennifer Moore
This is the first empirical law book to investigate coroners’ recommendations, and the extent of their impact and implementation. Based on an extensive study, the book analyses over 2000 New Zealand Coroners’ recommendations and includes...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Class Actions in Context
Edited by Deborah R. Hensler, Christopher Hodges, Ianika Tzankova
In recent years collective litigation procedures have spread across the globe, accompanied by hot controversy and normative debate. Yet virtually nothing is known about how these procedures operate in practice. Based on extensive documen...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Judges as Guardians of Constitutionalism and Human Rights
Edited by Martin Scheinin, Helle Krunke, Marina Aksenova
This book considers the many challenges that national and supranational judges have to face when fulfilling their roles as guardians of constitutionalism and human rights. The contributors, both academics and judges, discuss key examples...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Labour Law, Vulnerability and the Regulation of Precarious Work
Lisa Rodgers
The shifting nature of employment practice towards the use of more precarious work forms has caused a crisis in classical labour law and engendered a new wave of regulation. This timely book deftly uses this crisis as an opportunity to e...eBook:Find out more£25.00