Research Handbook on Legal Evolution

Research Handbook on Legal Evolution
Author: Wojciech Zaluski
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 515
Release: 2024-03-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 180392182X

Adopting an evolutionary perspective, this Research Handbook presents novel and cutting-edge insights into the interdisciplinary field of legal evolution. Engaging with various scientific approaches, it provides a versatile analysis of legal evolution, examining the field as a whole as well as in the context of specific branches of law.

Research Handbook on Feminist Jurisprudence

Research Handbook on Feminist Jurisprudence
Author: Robin West
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 544
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 1786439697

The Research Handbook on Feminist Jurisprudence surveys feminist theoretical understandings of law, including liberal and radical feminism, as well as socialist, relational, intersectional, post-modern, and pro-sex and queer feminist legal theories.

Research Handbook on the Ombudsman

Research Handbook on the Ombudsman
Author: Marc Hertogh
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2018-11-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1786431254

The public sector ombudsman has become one of the most important administrative justice institutions in many countries around the world. This international and interdisciplinary Research Handbook brings together leading scholars and practitioners to discuss the state-of-the-art of ombudsman research. It uses new empirical studies and competing theoretical explanations to critically examine important aspects of the ombudsman’s work. This comprehensive Handbook is of value to academics designing future ombudsman studies and practitioners and policymakers in understanding the future challenges of the ombudsman.

Research Handbook on the History of Corporate and Company Law

Research Handbook on the History of Corporate and Company Law
Author: Harwell Wells
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 653
Release: 2018-02-23
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1784717665

Understanding the corporation means understanding its legal framework, but until recently the origins and evolution of corporate law have received relatively little attention. The topical chapters featured in this Research Handbook, contributed by leading scholars from around the world, examine the historical development of corporation and business organization law in the Americas, Europe, and Asia from the ancient world to modern times, providing an invaluable resource for both further historical research and scholars seeking the origins of present-day issues.

The Simple Guide to Legal Innovation

The Simple Guide to Legal Innovation
Author: Lucy Endel Bassli
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020
Genre: Practice of law
ISBN: 9781641055888

"Educational needs of practicing lawyers are explored with a practical guide provided. Details the legal ecosystem and how its complex, varied and often overlapping parts can and should be handled by practicing attorneys, alternative legal service providers and "non-legal" professionals"--

Research Handbook on the Law of Artificial Intelligence

Research Handbook on the Law of Artificial Intelligence
Author: Woodrow Barfield
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 736
Release: 2018-12-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1786439050

The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has made tremendous advances in the last two decades, but as smart as AI is now, it is getting smarter and becoming more autonomous. This raises a host of challenges to current legal doctrine, including whether AI/algorithms should count as ‘speech’, whether AI should be regulated under antitrust and criminal law statutes, and whether AI should be considered as an agent under agency law or be held responsible for injuries under tort law. This book contains chapters from US and international law scholars on the role of law in an age of increasingly smart AI, addressing these and other issues that are critical to the evolution of the field.

Research Handbook in Data Science and Law

Research Handbook in Data Science and Law
Author: Vanessa Mak
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-08-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781035316441

This thoroughly updated Research Handbook examines the recent exponential growth of data use in society and its implications for legal research and practice. It explores contemporary research in the field of data science, as well as the operationalization of data for use in healthcare, urban governance and smart household devices, among others. Considering the emergence of Data Science and Law as a new legal discipline, the editors analyze pressing legal questions accompanying the rise of data-driven technologies. Drawing on comparative perspectives, this revised edition examines the possibilities and limitations of the current legal framework, investigating whether new regulation is needed to respond to problems raised by data science, and detailing the potential ethical issues arising from the use of data. It also evaluates the evolution of the regulation of artificial intelligence, generative AI and large language models, and EU legislation concerning consumer contract law and data protection. The Research Handbook in Data Science and Law is an essential resource for students of information and media law, internet and technology law, and research methods in law, as well as legal scholars and practitioners in the field. Data scientists seeking to further understand the law surrounding the field will also find this Research Handbook invaluable.

Research Handbook on Representative Shareholder Litigation

Research Handbook on Representative Shareholder Litigation
Author: Sean Griffith
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2018-11-30
Genre: LAW
ISBN: 1786435349

Written by leading scholars and judges in the field, the Research Handbook on Representative Shareholder Litigation is a modern-day survey of the state of shareholder litigation. Its chapters cover securities class actions, merger litigation, derivative suits, and appraisal litigation, as well as other forms of shareholder litigation. Through in-depth analysis of these different forms of litigation, the book explores the agency costs inherent in representative litigation, the challenges of multijurisdictional litigation and disclosure-only settlements, and the rise of institutional investors. It explores how related issues are addressed across the globe, with examinations of shareholder litigation in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Israel, and China. This Research Handbook will be an invaluable resource on this important topic for scholars, practitioners, judges and legislators.

Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Investment Law

Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Investment Law
Author: Christophe Geiger
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2020-06-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1788977823

This innovative Research Handbook explores the complex and controversial interactions between intellectual property (IP) and investment law. In light of recent developments at national, European and international levels, the chapters critically examine the legitimacy of current practices with regard to the social function of IP rights and the regulatory autonomy of States to undertake measures in the public interest.

The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research

The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research
Author: Peter Cane
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 1112
Release: 2012-05-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 019163543X

The empirical study of law, legal systems and legal institutions is widely viewed as one of the most exciting and important intellectual developments in the modern history of legal research. Motivated by a conviction that legal phenomena can and should be understood not only in normative terms but also as social practices of political, economic and ethical significance, empirical legal researchers have used quantitative and qualitative methods to illuminate many aspects of law's meaning, operation and impact. In the 43 chapters of The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research leading scholars provide accessible and original discussions of the history, aims and methods of empirical research about law, as well as its achievements and potential. The Handbook has three parts. The first deals with the development and institutional context of empirical legal research. The second - and largest - part consists of critical accounts of empirical research on many aspects of the legal world - on criminal law, civil law, public law, regulatory law and international law; on lawyers, judicial institutions, legal procedures and evidence; and on legal pluralism and the public understanding of law. The third part introduces readers to the methods of empirical research, and its place in the law school curriculum.