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“rachel e bowen”

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  • Democratic Institutions in Guatemala

    Theory and Practice

    by Omar Sanchez-Sibony, Michael E. Allison, Dinorah Azpuru, Regina Bateson, Rachel E. Bowen, Jonatán Lemus, Christopher A. Martínez, Annabella España-Nájera, Mar Martínez Rosón, Harald Waxenecker0 ...
    Democratic Institutions in Guatemala: Theory and Practice advances knowledge about Guatemala's democracy by embedding the country in recent conceptual and theoretical work in comparative politics. This volume sheds light upon the stubborn realities and challenges afflicting Guatemalan democracy during the post Peace Accords era. Each chapter delves into the main democratic institutions, informal ... Read more

    $117.49 USD

  • The Achilles Heel of Democracy

    Judicial Autonomy and the Rule of Law in Central America

    by Rachel E. Bowen ...
    Featuring the first in-depth comparison of the judicial politics of five under-studied Central American countries, The Achilles Heel of Democracy offers a novel typology of 'judicial regime types' based on the political independence and societal autonomy of the judiciary. This book highlights the under-theorized influences on the justice system - criminals, activists, and other societal actors - ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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  • Weak Courts, Strong Rights

    Judicial Review and Social Welfare Rights in Comparative Constitutional Law

    by Mark Tushnet ...
    Unlike many other countries, the United States has few constitutional guarantees of social welfare rights such as income, housing, or healthcare. In part this is because many Americans believe that the courts cannot possibly enforce such guarantees. However, recent innovations in constitutional design in other countries suggest that such rights can be judicially enforced--not by increasing the ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Ashes and Sparks

    Essays On Law and Justice

    by Stephen Sedley ...
    As a practising barrister, the Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Sedley wrote widely on legal and non-legal matters, and continued to do so after becoming a judge in 1992. This anthology contains classic articles, previously unpublished essays and lecture transcripts. To each, he has added reflections on what has transpired since or an explanation of the British legal and political context that originally ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Common Law of Obligations

    Divergence and Unity

    Edited by Professor Andrew Robertson, Professor Michael Tilbury ...
    The development of the law of obligations across the common law world has been, and continues to be, a story of unity and divergence. Its common origins continue to exert a powerful stabilising influence, carried forward by a methodology that places heavy weight on the historical foundations of legal principles. Divergence is, however, produced by numerous factors, including national and ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Two

    The Machine of Political Theology and the Place of Thought

    by Roberto Esposito ...
    Translated by Zakiya Hanafi ...
    Series series Commonalities
    The debate on “political theology” that ran throughout the twentieth century has reached its end, but the ultimate meaning of the notion continues to evade us. Despite all the attempts to resolve the issue, we still speak its language—we remain in its horizon.The reason for this, says Roberto Esposito, lies in the fact that political theology is neither a concept nor an event; rather, it is the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Contract Law Minimalism

    A Formalist Restatement of Commercial Contract Law

    by Jonathan Morgan ...
    Series series Law in Context
    Commercial contract law is in every sense optional given the choice between legal systems and law and arbitration. Its 'doctrines' are in fact virtually all default rules. Contract Law Minimalism advances the thesis that commercial parties prefer a minimalist law that sets out to enforce what they have decided - but does nothing else. The limited capacity of the legal process is the key to this ... Read more

    $118.89 USD

  • Gender Equality

    Dimensions of Women's Equal Citizenship

    Edited by Linda C. McClain, Joanna L. Grossman ...
    Citizenship is the common language for expressing aspirations to democratic and egalitarian ideals of inclusion, participation and civic membership. However, there continues to be a significant gap between formal commitments to gender equality and equal citizenship - in the laws and constitutions of many countries, as well as in international human rights documents - and the reality of women's ... Read more

    $60.69 USD

  • Unexpected Circumstances in European Contract Law

    Edited by Ewoud Hondius, Christoph Grigoleit ...
    Series series The Common Core of European Private Law
    The recent financial crisis has questioned whether existing contracts may be adapted, terminated or renegotiated as a result of unexpected circumstances. The question is not a new one. In medieval times the notion of clausula rebus sic stantibus was developed to cope with such situations, and Germany introduced the theory of Wegfall der Geschäftsgrundlage. In England, the Coronation cases provided ... Read more

    $57.39 USD

  • EU External Relations and Systems of Governance

    The CFSP, Euro-Mediterranean Partnership and Migration

    by Paul James Cardwell ...
    Series series Routledge Research in EU Law
    This book takes a fresh look at the external relations of the European Union (EU) and in particular the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). Rather than focusing exclusively on the competence aspects of the institutions and actors, the book makes the case that the CFSP can be understood as a system of governance, which produces effects beyond the traditional tools associated with foreign ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Consequential Courts

    Judicial Roles in Global Perspective

    Edited by Diana Kapiszewski, Gordon Silverstein, Robert A. Kagan ...
    Series series Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
    In the early twenty-first century, courts have become versatile actors in the governance of many constitutional democracies, and judges play a variety of roles in politics and policy making. Assembling papers penned by academic specialists on high courts around the world, and presented during a year-long Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar at the University of California, Berkeley, ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Human Rights Between Law and Politics

    The Margin of Appreciation in Post-National Contexts

    Edited by Petr Agha ...
    Series series Modern Studies in European Law
    This book analyses human rights in post-national contexts and demonstrates, through the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, that the Margin of Appreciation doctrine is an essential part of human rights adjudication.Current approaches have tended to stress the instrumental value of the Margin of Appreciation, or to give it a complementary role within the principle of proportionality, ... Read more

    $39.69 USD