Comparative Law A Very Short Introduction
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Author | : Vaughan Lowe |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2015-11-26 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0191576204 |
Interest in international law has increased greatly over the past decade, largely because of its central place in discussions such as the Iraq War and Guantanamo, the World Trade Organisation, the anti-capitalist movement, the Kyoto Convention on climate change, and the apparent failure of the international system to deal with the situations in Palestine and Darfur, and the plights of refugees and illegal immigrants around the world. This Very Short Introduction explains what international law is, what its role in international society is, and how it operates. Vaughan Lowe examines what international law can and cannot do and what it is and what it isn't doing to make the world a better place. Focussing on the problems the world faces, Lowe uses terrorism, environmental change, poverty, and international violence to demonstrate the theories and practice of international law, and how the principles can be used for international co-operation.
Author | : SABRINA. SMORTO RAGONE (GUIDO.) |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2024-01-11 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0192893394 |
Sabrina Ragone and Guido Smorto provide a concise introduction to the field of comparative law, explaining how it is used by legislators, judges, international organizations and scholars, and demonstrating that legal comparison challenges conventional beliefs and unquestioned assumptions about law and society.
Author | : Jaakko Husa |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2015-05-28 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1849469512 |
This thought-provoking introduction to the study of comparative law provides in-depth analyses of all major comparative methodologies and theories and serves as a common sense guide to the study of foreign legal systems. It is written in a lively and accessible style and will prove indispensable reading to students of the subject. It also contains much that will be of interest to comparative law scholars, offering novel insights into commonplace methodological and theoretical questions and making a significant contribution to the field.
Author | : Raymond Wacks |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2008-03-27 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780199214969 |
Law touches every aspect of our daily lives, and yet the main concepts, terms, and processes of the legal system remain obscure to many. This Very Short Introduction provides a clear, jargon-free account of modern legal systems, explaining how the law works both in the Western tradition and around the world.
Author | : Raymond Wacks |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2014-02 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0199687005 |
Raymond Wacks reveals the intriguing and challenging nature of legal philosophy, exploring the notion of law and its role in our lives. He refers to key thinkers from Aristotle to Rawls, from Bentham to Derrida and looks at the central questions behind legal theory, and law's relation to justice, morality, and democracy.
Author | : Andrew Clapham |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0198706162 |
Focusing on highly topical issues such as torture, arbitrary detention, privacy, and discrimination, this book will help readers to understand for themselves the controversies and complexities behind human rights.
Author | : Sabrina Ragone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Comparative law |
ISBN | : 9780191914638 |
Sabrina Ragone and Guido Smorto provide a concise introduction to the field of comparative law, explaining how it is used by legislators, judges, international organizations and scholars, and demonstrating that legal comparison challenges conventional beliefs and unquestioned assumptions about law and society.
Author | : Elizabeth Fisher |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2017-10-19 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0192512625 |
Environmental law is the law concerned with environmental problems. It is a vast area of law that operates from the local to the global, involving a range of different legal and regulatory techniques. In theory, environmental protection is a no brainer. Few people would actively argue for pollution or environmental destruction. Ensuring a clean environment is ethically desirable, and also sensible from a purely self-interested perspective. Yet, in practice, environmental law is a messy and complex business fraught with conflict. Whilst environmental law is often characterized in overly simplistic terms, with a law being seen as be a magic wand that solves an environmental problem, the reality is that creating and maintaining a body of laws to address and avoid problems is not easy, and involves legislators, courts, regulators and communities. This Very Short Introduction provides an overview of the main features of environmental law, and discusses how environmental law deals with multiple interests, socio-political conflicts, and the limits of knowledge about the environment. Showing how interdependent societies across the world have developed robust and legitimate bodies of law to address environmental problems, Elizabeth Fisher discusses some of the major issues involved in environmental law's: nation statehood, power, the reframing role of law, the need to ensure real environmental improvements, and environmental justice. As Fisher explains, environmental law is, and will always be, necessary but inherently controversial. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author | : Charles Foster |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2013-02-28 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0199660441 |
The author surveys the principles governing medical law.
Author | : Konrad Zweigert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1992 |
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