Fundamental Texts on European Private Law
Among the most significant legal developments of our time is the emergence of a European private law. The European Union has enacted regulations and directives which profoundly affect the practice, teaching and study of core areas of 'cla...
Immoral Contracts in Europe
Contracts are illegal not only when they contravene specific legal rules, but also when they are considered immoral or contrary to public policy. In this way rules of contract law also influence the exceptional and sometimes fragile relationship b...
The Principles of European Family Law Revisited
Based on national reports by family law experts from more than 20 European jurisdictions, The Principles of European Family Law Revisited provides an insight into recent developments in family law in Europe in the areas of divorce, maintenance bet...
EU Citizenship and Federalism
Kochenov's definitive collection examines the under-utilised potential of EU citizenship, proposing and defending its position as a systemic element of EU law endowed with foundational importance. Leading experts in EU constitutional law scrutinis...
The Future of Registered Partnerships
A book series dedicated to the harmonisation and unification of family and succession law in Europe. The series includes comparative legal studies and materials as well as studies on the effects of international and European law making within the ...
Property Law Perspectives
This book is the result of the second edition of the Young Property Lawyers Forum (YPLF), an informal network of young property law researchers. The YPLF aims to bring property law scholars together from around the world and enable them to discuss...
Private Law and the Internal Market
Private law and private law relationships in Member States of the European Union are increasingly influenced by EU law. Sometimes, this influence is predictable, for instance because EU law provides expressly that violation of a rule shall produce...
Protecting Liberty in an Age of Terror
Since September 11, 2001, much has been said about the difficult balancing act between freedom and security, but few have made specific proposals for how to strike that balance. As the scandals over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib and t...
Laws of the Postcolonial
Although postcolonialism is now the main mode in which the West's relation to the "other" is critically explored, and although law has been at the forefront of that very relation, a thorough engagement between law and po...
Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments
Now in a fully updated seventh edition, this book remains an established treatise in the field of civil jurisdiction and judgments. It aims to make a full and complete statement of English law on civil jurisdiction and the effect of foreign judgme...
Recovering Stolen Assets
Development efforts will remain frustrated so long as corrupt leaders continue to steal their countries wealth and dispose of these ill-gotten gains in foreign jurisdictions. The prevention of such looting, and the recovery of the stolen assets ar...
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
A classic of both philosophy and jurisprudence, this 1789 work articulates an important statement of the foundations of utilitarian philosophy. It also represents a pioneering study of crime and punishment. Bentham's reasoning remains ever relevan...
Rebooting Justice
America is a nation founded on justice and the rule of law. But our laws are too complex, and legal advice too expensive, for poor and even middle-class Americans to get help and vindicate their rights. Criminal defendants facing jail time may rec...
Sachenrecht
Das Sachenrecht ist ein zentraler Bereich der zivilrechtlichen Examensvorbereitung. Alle mit dem Recht der beweglichen Sachen sowie dem Grundstücksrecht in Verbindung stehenden Prinzipien werden auf der Grundlage historischer Entwicklung in einem ...
Unequal
It is no secret that since the 1980s, American workers have lost power vis-a-vis employers through the well-chronicled steep decline in private sector unionization. American workers have also lost power in other ways. Those alleging employment dis...
Totalförsvarets Författningshandbok 2025/26
Översvämmning, bränder och terrorangrepp - här har du ett samlat regelverk När en krissituation uppstår är det viktigt att alla vet vilka regler som gäller. I årets utgåva av Totalförsvarets författningshandbok finner du alla gällande regler för hur vi ska agera vid terrorangrepp, krig och svåra olyckor eller översvämmningar. Nytt i årets upplaga är att Natofördraget finns med både på svenska och engelska. Därutöver finns alla övergripande bestämmelser samlade. Dessutom finns instruktioner för hur specifika myndigheter ska agera, vad som gäller för det militära försvaret, hur krisberedskap och civilt försvar ska hanteras i olika situationer, vilka regler som gäller kring skydd vid olyckor och mycket annat. Det är viktigt att känna till vilka regler som gäller här och nu, i dessa oroliga tider.
Occupiers' Liability
Occupiers' liability is an area of tort law rich in statutory material and jurisprudence, having developed outside the framework of general negligence liability. It governs the duty of care which an occupier, landlord or builder owes to people who...
Unleashed Fury
The question of whether dogs should be allowed off the leash in public places has become a major political issue in cities and suburbs across the United States. In the last two decades, 'leash-law disputes' have burst upon the political scene and ...
Translating Food Sovereignty
In its current state, the global food system is socially and ecologically unsustainable: nearly two billion people are food insecure, and food systems are the number one contributor to climate change. While agro-industrial production is promoted a...
World Class Actions
Class action and other group litigation procedures are increasingly being adopted in jurisdictions throughout the world, as more countries deal with the realities of increased globalization and access to information. As a result, attorneys and the...
Civil Law Tradition
Designed for the general reader and students of law, this is a concise history and analysis of the civil law tradition, which is dominant in most of Europe, all of Latin America, and many parts of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The fourth edit...
The Law Market
When individuals, businesses, or corporations are dissatisfied with an existing law, there are typically two ways it can be fixed: by rewriting the law via political mechanisms or simply physically relocating to a more favorable jurisdiction. Both...
Dritte im Zivilrecht
Der vorliegende Band versammelt JURA-Beiträge, in denen alle prüfungsrelevanten Regelungen und Rechtsinstitute, die den Dritten im Zivilrecht voraussetzen, behandelt werden. Gleichwohl ist es mehr als eine beliebige Aufsatzsammlung, weil alle Absc...
Paths to Justice
This book presents the results of the largest survey of public attitudes towards the civil justice system ever conducted by either an independent party or government agency. This survey explored the behaviour of the public in dealing with potentia...
Comparing Tort and Crime
The fields of tort and crime have much in common in practice, particularly in how they both try to respond to wrongs and regulate future behaviour. Despite this commonality in fact, fascinating difficulties have hitherto not been resolved about ho...
China's Changing Legal System
While much international attention has been focused on China's developing economy, dramatic changes are also taking place in its legal system. This book is a groundbreaking, comprehensive introduction to China's legal system, covering the major ar...
Civil Society in China
This is the definitive book on the legal and fiscal framework for civil society organizations (CSOs) in China from earliest times to the present day. Civil Society in China traces the ways in which laws and regulations have shaped civil society ov...
Changing Concepts of Contract
Changing Concepts of Contract is a prestigious collection of essays that re-examines the remarkable contributions of Ian Macneil to the study of contract law and contracting behaviour.¿ Ian Macneil, who taught at Cornell University, the University...
Ruling before the Law
How do legal systems actually operate outside of Western European or North American liberal democracies? To understand law and legal institutions globally, we must go beyond asking if countries comply with idealized, yet under-theorized, rule of l...
Freedom of Contract and Paternalism
A¿theoretical discussion and internal critique of mainstream law and economics scholarship, especially as it approaches the issue of paternalism. Cserne discusses how, and to what extent, economic analysis can explain and/or justify the limitation...
History of Law in Europe
'The rule of law and property rights were the ''secret weapons'' that made Western Europe and its offshoots in North America and Oceania democratic and prosperous. How did this European legal system come to be? To answer this question, Bart Wauter...
History of Law in Europe
'The rule of law and property rights were the ''secret weapons'' that made Western Europe and its offshoots in North America and Oceania democratic and prosperous. How did this European legal system come to be? To answer this question, Bart Wauter...
Jag, En, E-bok
Tänk dig att varje morgon vakna upp i en ny kropp, i ett nytt liv. Vara en person för en dag, och sedan någon annan. Så ser livet ut för En. Hen vet inte varför, bara att det alltid varit så. Och En anpassar sig, ända tills hen möter Rhiannon och blir förälskad. Den morgonen har En vaknat upp som Justin, Rhiannons pojkvän, men vad händer imorgon, när En är någon helt annan? Samma person, med samma känslor, i en främmande människas kropp. Kan kärleken verkligen övervinna allt?”Levithan är en av mina favoritförfattare. Inte heller denna gång gör han mig besviken. Jag älskar att han gett En liv. Kan inte annat än att känna med En. Mycket. Läs och känn du också.”– Ystads Allehanda”En unik och fin historia.” – Jönköpingsposten”Det finns författare som man förväntansfullt ser fram emot att läsa, eftersom man vet att de kommer att överraska en. David Levithan är en sådan författare, en som tar risker för att bryta nya vägar i berättandet.”– Vi läser