Hart Publishing imprint: 910 books
EU Criminal Law after Lisbon
Rights, Trust and the Transformation of Justice in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This monograph is the first comprehensive analysis of the impact of the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon on EU criminal law. By focusing on key areas of criminal law and procedure, the book assesses the extent to which the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty has transformed European criminal...
by Francis Maupain
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
The International Labour Organization was created in 1919, as part of the Treaty of Versailles that ended the First World War, to reflect the belief that universal and lasting peace can be accomplished only if it is based on social justice. As the oldest organisation in the UN system, approaching...
The Integrity of Criminal Process
From Theory into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Criminal proceedings, it is often now said, ought to be conducted with integrity. But what, exactly, does it mean for criminal process to have, or to lack, 'integrity'? Is integrity in this sense merely an aspirational normative ideal, with possibly diffuse influence on conceptions of professional...
by Elizabeth Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2003
This book is an examination of the law of land registration in England and Wales, in the light of the Land Registration Act 2002, and in particular at the way land registration is influenced by, and in turn influences, the evolution of land law as a whole. It examines the legal problems that have...
EU Competition Law and the Information and Communication Technology Network Industries
Economic versus Legal Concepts in Pursuit of (Consumer) Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Competition policies have long been based on a scholarly tradition focused on static models and static analysis of industrial organisation. However, recent developments in industrial organisation literature have led to significant advances, moving beyond traditional static models and a preoccupation...
Strangers Next Door?
Indonesia and Australia in the Asian Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
There are no two neighbouring countries anywhere in the world that are more different than Indonesia and Australia. They differ hugely in religion, language, culture, history, geography, race, economics, worldview and population (Indonesia, 270 million, Australia less than 10 per cent of that). In...
Role of the Solicitor-General
Negotiating Law, Politics and the Public Interest
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Behind every government there is an impressive team of hard-working lawyers. In Australia, the Solicitor-General leads that team. A former Attorney-General once said, 'The Solicitor-General is next to the High Court and God.' And yet the role of government lawyers in Australia, and specifically the...
by Professor Robert Kolb
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
This work aims to fill a gap in the existing legal literature by presenting a compact, concise but nevertheless panoramic view of the law of the United Nations. Today the organisation is at the centre of all multilateral international relations and impossible to avoid. And of course the UN Charter...
by Professor Ilias Bantekas
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the major areas of international criminal law (ICL). It approaches its subject matter from both a criminal law and an international law perspective, analysing the various topics exhaustively but in an accessible manner. While looking at the jurisprudence...
The Interception of Vessels on the High Seas
Contemporary Challenges to the Legal Order of the Oceans
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
The principal aim of this book is to address the international legal questions arising from the 'right of visit on the high seas' in the twenty-first century. This right is considered the most significant exception to the fundamental principle of the freedom of the high seas (the freedom, in peacetime,...
by Professor Andrew Choo
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
The privilege against self-incrimination is often represented in the case law of England and Wales as a principle of fundamental importance in the law of criminal procedure and evidence. A logical implication of recognising a privilege against self-incrimination should be that a person is not compellable,...
by Professor J R Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This is the third edition of J R Spencer's now well established book which seeks to explain this area of law for the benefit of judges, criminal practitioners and academics teaching the law of evidence.
In the past, the rule excluding evidence of the defendant's general bad character and disposition...
Public Inquiries
Wrong Route on Bloody Sunday
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Throughout the twentieth century, administrations have wrestled with allaying public concern over national disasters and social scandals. This book seeks to describe historically the use of public inquiries, and demonstrates why their methods continued to deploy until 1998 the ingrained habits of...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2005
Socio-legal researchers increasingly recognise the need to employ a wide variety of methods in studying law and legal phenomena, and the need to be informed by an understanding of debates about theory and method in mainstream social science. The papers in this volume illustrate how a range of topics,...