This book examines addresses a social problem that cuts across legal systems: abuse of authority in decision making. Whether within familial, political, or business relations, all individuals are vulnerable to another's abuse of authority to make decisions for them. Meer
Corporations and states are creatures of law that claim rights, trade roles, and avoid responsibility based on legal concepts in international and domestic law. Meer
Employs a new idea of 'making', covering artefaction, crafting, fiction, and fabrication, to make sense of controversies in law, politics, and media, from transgender identity to cancel culture. Meer
Written by environmental health experts with experience in policy and public health, the third edition of the book comprises two volumes, addressing key physical hazards in the environment impacting public health. Meer
The Covid 19 pandemic has revealed the need to verify the existing principles of functioning of public authorities, in relation to various decision-making processes, both at the conceptual level and at law implementation. Meer
This is the first book to focus on the law and practice relating to offshore oil and gas floating production. It deals with all legal and commercial risk management issues from initial concept through design, construction, modification, installation, acceptance, production and offloading, including ancillary legal topics; JV/consortiums, financing, insurance, decommissioning and intellectual property. Meer
First Published in 1939, The Dilemma of Penal Reform presents Hermann Mannheim’s discussion on the impact of economic, social, and legal factors on methods of punishment. Meer
Essential Land Law for SQE1 explains the key principles of Land law in a clear, easy-to-follow style. Principles are introduced and illustrated with reference to practical examples. Meer
As a social process that places great stock in its stability and predictability, law does not deal easily or well with change. In a modern world that is in a constant and rapid state of flux, law is being placed under considerable stress in its efforts to fulfill its task as a primary regulator of social and economic behaviour. Meer
Written by environmental health experts with experience in policy and public health, the third edition of this book comprises two volumes. This second volume discusses emerging health hazards and mitigation including environment- related infectious diseases, COVID-pandemic, social justice, and drugs and public health. Meer
This is the first comprehensive review of the extent of remedies and impact of contractual agreements on restitution claims for void, unenforceable, and discharged contracts. Meer
Through a set of unique case studies written by an international group of practicing forensic anthropologists, Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology: Bonified Skeletons prepares students and professionals for the diverse range of cases and challenges they will encounter in the field. Meer
This book brings together contributions from leading scholars in law and technology, analyzing the privacy issues raised by new data-driven technologies. Meer
Currency fluctuation, currency wars and even potential currency collapse (the Euro, the Bitcoin) are all risks that commercial parties must consider and guard against. Meer
Written by an author team with over sixty years of combined teaching experience, the new edition of The Modern Law of Contract is the complete textbook for students of contract law, providing not only clear and authoritative commentary but also a selection of learning features to enable students to engage actively with the law. Meer
Essential Constitutional and Administrative Law for SQE1 explains key principles of the UK Constitution, the organs of the state, Judicial Review, as well as retained EU Law/ Assimilated Law, in a clear, concise and easy-to-understand style. Meer
Essential Constitutional and Administrative Law for SQE1 explains key principles of the UK Constitution, the organs of the state, Judicial Review, as well as retained EU Law/ Assimilated Law, in a clear, concise and easy-to-understand style. Meer
This book tracks the development of the emerging international legal principle of a responsibility to protect over the past two decades. It contrasts the influential version of the principle introduced by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty in 2001 with subsequent interpretations of the responsibility to protect advocated by the United Nations through its human protection agenda, and reviews the dangers and inconsistencies inherent in both perspectives. Meer
There is increasing regulatory interdependence amongst Central, East and South East Asian, European and North American financial markets, and these markets account for over one-third of the world’s population and global financial markets. Meer
This book grapples with the challenges inherent in an uncertain period for global human rights and explores the future of international human rights law and practice. Meer