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Intellectual Property in Asian Emerging Economies

Mr Assafa Endeshaw

This book critically reviews the recurrent debate on Intellectual Property law and policy in developing countries carried out in the last decade. It identifies the still unresolved policy issues a...

Biotechnological Inventions

Dr Oliver Mills

Advances in modern biotechnology have produced profound and far-reaching implications for the relationship between humans, animals and the environment. As a result, a debate has arisen surrounding...

Pregnant Pause

Dr Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter

Maternity Discrimination is an ever increasingly important area of the law around the world, affecting both women and men as they juggle parenthood and the workplace.Pregnant Pause provides reader...

Democracy, Law and Governance

Democracy, Law and Governance details the transformation of the modes of governance of contemporary developed democracies and aims to define the conditions required for promoting public interest i...

Reappraisals in the Law of Property

Some of the most basic doctrines of property law are very old, many dating to the medieval era. How can legal rules that were born so long ago remain viable today? In Reappraisals in the Law of Pr...

Supreme Court and Benign Elite Democracy in Japan

Professor Hiroshi Itoh

The Constitution of Japan has served the country for more than half a century, creating and maintaining a stable and functional democratic system. This book innovatively interprets Japanese politi...

Property Rights and Neoliberalism

Property rights and efforts to curb state appropriation of private properties for public purposes have always held high status on the political agenda of the US and many other nations that feature...

Persistent Advocate and the Use of Force

This book provides a comprehensive, dispassionate empirical analysis and assessment of the discernible impact that the US has had upon the jus ad bellum in the post-Cold War era. The work focuses ...

Medical Negligence: Non-Patient and Third Party Claims

Rachael Mulheron

Healthcare professionals face an increasing threat of litigation from parties whom they have never met in their daily medical practice and who look nothing like the traditional patient. The so-cal...

Shari'a Law in Commercial and Banking Arbitration

Dr Abdulrahman Yahya Baamir

This book provides an analysis of how commercial and banking disputes can be settled under the Islamic regime for arbitration. The work focuses on the Saudi legal system as representative of Shari...

Central and Eastern Europe After Transition

How have national identities changed, developed and reacted in the wake of transition from communism to democracy in Central and Eastern Europe? Central and Eastern Europe After Transition defines...

Muslim Marriage in Western Courts

This book describes and analyses the notion of Mahr, the Muslim custom whereby the groom has to give a gift to the bride in consideration of the marriage. It explores how Western courts, specifica...

Generosity of the Dead

There has been a general assumption in the international debate surrounding organ procurement that Presumed Consent (opting-out) systems produce better results than Express Consent (opting-in) sys...

Political Parties and Elections

Political Parties and Elections presents a comparative analysis of the ways in which advanced industrial democracies seek to regulate the activities of political parties in electoral contests. Act...

Many Constitutions of Europe

This volume makes a contribution to the ongoing lively discussion on European constitutionalism by offering a new perspective and a new interpretation of European constitutional plurality. The boo...

Clinical Ethics Consultation

This volume brings together researchers from different European countries and disciplines who are involved in Clinical Ethics Consultation (CEC). The work provides an analysis of the theories and ...

Remorse

Dr Steven Tudor

Remorse is a powerful, important and yet academically neglected emotion. This book, one of the very few extended examinations of remorse, draws on psychology, law and philosophy to present a uniqu...

Institutional Failures

The authors of this new collection argue that the many features of the now-infamous Duke University mens lacrosse controversy are best understood in the context of the three major socio-legal inst...

Idea of Home in Law

The Idea of Home in Law: Displacement and Dispossession explores an important set of legal and policy issues surrounding the concepts of home and homelessness, taking a growing area of legal schol...

Taking Responsibility, Law and the Changing Family

This volume considers the impact that changing family norms have had on the responsibilities that the law allocates to people in family relationships. Contributions are drawn from a wide variety o...