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Consumer Protection in the Age of the 'Information Economy'

To date, there have been few theoretical inquiries into the relationship between the technological innovation and basic objectives of consumer protection laws. This book addresses this need by con...

Grounding Security

This book examines some of the mechanisms which are currently conceived as affording individual security. The idea of security includes emotional and financial components. These interconnect so th...

Images in Law

What does 'the law' look like? While numerous attempts have been made to examine law and legal action in terms of its language, little has yet been written that considers how visual images...

Law's Practical Wisdom

Dr Katerina Sideri

This book develops a sociological understanding of law making in the European Union. In particular, the book focuses on the social function of law in new governance structures promoting decentrali...

Insider Dealing and Money Laundering in the EU: Law and Regulation

Dr R C H Alexander

This work presents a comparative study of the provisions relating to insider dealing under the EC Insider Dealing Directive. The volume begins with a discussion of the rationale for regulating fin...

Hindu Women's Property Rights in Rural India

Reena Patel

Hindu women in India have independent right of ownership to property under the Law of Succession (The Hindu Succession Act, 1956). However, during the last five decades of its operation not many w...

International Migration and Global Justice

How should international law approach the critical issue of movement of peoples in the 21st century? This book presents a radical reappraisal of this controversial problem. Challenging presentday ...

Rights, Groups, and Self-Invention

Eric J Mitnick

Group-differentiated rights, or rights that attach on the basis of membership in a particular social or cultural group, are an increasingly common and controversial aspect of modern pluralistic le...

Constitutional Corporation

Corporate laws are based on the idea that the interests of shareholders should be the primary concern of company directors. However, some argue that the proper role for shareholders is to sit back...

This Ability

Dr Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter

This Ability is Cotter's third book in a series dealing with discrimination law. Having looked at the theme of 'gender discrimination' in Gender Injustice and 'race discrimination&...

From Positivism to Idealism

Illuminating the idea of legality by a consideration of its moral nature, this book explores the emergence and development of two rival traditions of legal thought (those of 'positivism' a...

Torts, Egalitarianism and Distributive Justice

Professor Tsachi Keren-Paz

This book argues, from a normative perspective, for the incorporation of an egalitarian sensitivity into tort law, and more generally, into private law. It shows how an egalitarian sensitivity can...

Adjudication in Action

Ashgate Research Companion to Political Violence

Aimed at scholars, students and lay persons interested in peace and conflict studies, The Ashgate Research Companion to Political Violence is a comprehensive resource to understand the principal d...

Legal Reform and Business Contracts in Developing Economies

Taking a new approach by examining the impact of the transferability of law on end-users and by focussing on how appropriate norms are applied in specific situations, the book documents how contra...

Objectivity in Law and Legal Reasoning

Transboundary Environmental Governance

Foucauldian Approach to International Law

Dr Leonard M Hammer

Natural Law Approach to Normativity

Ms Bebhinn Donnelly

Property in Work