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  • The Indian Parliament

    A Democracy at Work

    by B.L. Shankar, Valerian Rodrigues ...
    The Parliament is the visible face of democracy in India. It is the epicentre of political life, public institutions of great verve, and a regime of Rights. In a first-of-its-kind study, this book delves into the lived experience of the Indian Parliament by focusing on three distinct phases—the 1950s, the 1970s, and the 1990s and beyond. The authors argue against the widely held notion of its ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Lawyering for the Rule of Law

    Government Lawyers and the Rise of Judicial Power in Israel

    by Yoav Dotan ...
    Series Book 9 - Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
    Lawyering for the Rule of Law introduces a new model of government lawyering in which government lawyers function as an ancillary mechanism that enables the court to expand its influence on policy-making within the political branches by forming out-of-court settlements. It discusses the centrality of government lawyers with regard to judicial mobilization and the enforcement of social reforms ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Constitutional State

    by N.W. Barber ...
    Series series Oxford Constitutional Theory
    The Constitutional State provides an original analytical account of the state and its associated constitutional phenomena. It presents the state as a form of social group, consisting of people, territory and institutions bound together by rules. The institutions of the state make a distinctive and characteristic claim over the people of the state, who, in turn, have a distinctive and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Proportionality and the Rule of Law

    Rights, Justification, Reasoning

    Edited by Grant Huscroft, Bradley W. Miller, Grégoire Webber ...
    To speak of human rights in the twenty-first century is to speak of proportionality. Proportionality has been received into the constitutional doctrine of courts in continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Israel, South Africa, and the United States, as well as the jurisprudence of treaty-based legal systems such as the European Convention on Human Rights. Proportionality ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Cultural Defense of Nations

    A Liberal Theory of Majority Rights

    by Liav Orgad ...
    Series series Oxford Constitutional Theory
    The Cultural Defense of Nations presents a timely, thought-provoking thesis on some of the most pressing issues of our time-global immigration, majority groups, and national identity. Never in human history has so much attention been paid to human movement. Global migration yields demographic shifts of historical significance, profoundly shaking up world politics-as has been seen in the refugee ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Philosophical Foundations of Constitutional Law

    Edited by David Dyzenhaus, Malcolm Thorburn ...
    Series series Philosophical Foundations of Law
    Constitutional law has been and remains an area of intense philosophical interest, and yet the debate has taken place in a variety of different fields with very little to connect them. In a collection of essays bringing together scholars from several constitutional systems and disciplines, Philosophical Foundations of Constitutional Law unites the debate in a study of the philosophical issues at ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Law and the Limits of Reason

    by Adrian Vermeule ...
    Human reason is limited. Given the scarcity of reason, how should the power to make constitutional law be allocated among legislatures, courts and the executive, and how should legal institutions be designed? In Law and the Limits of Reason, Adrian Vermeule denies the widespread view, stemming from Burke and Hayek, that the limits of reason counsel in favor of judges making "living" constitutional ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Constitution of Risk

    by Adrian Vermeule ...
    The Constitution of Risk is the first book to combine constitutional theory with the theory of risk regulation. It argues that constitutional rulemaking is best understood as a means of managing political risks. Constitutional law structures and regulates the risks that arise in and from political life, such as an executive coup or military putsch, political abuse of ideological or ethnic ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Human Dignity and Law

    Legal and Philosophical Investigations

    by Stephen Riley ...
    This book argues that human dignity and law stand in a privileged relationship with one another. Law must be understood as limited by the demands made by human dignity. Conversely, human dignity cannot be properly understood without clarifying its interaction with legal institutions and legal practices. This is not, then, a survey of the uses of human dignity in law; it is a rethinking of human ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Exploring Law's Empire

    The Jurisprudence of Ronald Dworkin

    Edited by Scott Hershovitz ...
    Exploring Law's Empire is a collection of essays examining the work of Ronald Dworkin in the philosophy of law and constitutionalism. A group of leading legal theorists develop, defend and critique the major areas of Dworkin's work, including his criticism of legal positivism, his theory of law as integrity, and his work on constitutional theory. The volume concludes with a lengthy response to the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Scottish Independence Referendum

    Constitutional and Political Implications

    Edited by Aileen McHarg, Tom Mullen, Alan Page, Neil Walker ...
    The September 2014 Scottish independence referendum was an event of profound constitutional and political significance, not only for Scotland, but for the UK as a whole. Although Scottish voters chose to remain in the UK, the experience of the referendum and the subsequent political reaction to the 'No' vote that triggered significant reforms to the devolution settlement have fundamentally altered ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The European Union as Guardian of Internet Privacy

    The Story of Art 16 TFEU

    by Hielke Hijmans ...
    Series Book 31 - Law, Governance and Technology Series
    This book examines the role of the EU in ensuring privacy and data protection on the internet. It describes and demonstrates the importance of privacy and data protection for our democracies and how the enjoyment of these rights is challenged by, particularly, big data and mass surveillance.The book takes the perspective of the EU mandate under Article 16 TFEU. It analyses the contributions of the ... Read more

    $170.99 USD