This Element introduces the standards of proof and considers what justifies them, discusses whether we should use different standards in different cases, asks whether trials should end only in binary outcomes or use more precise verdicts, considers whether proof is simply about probability, and examines who should be trusted with deciding trials. Meer
How can the law be employed pragmatically to facilitate development and underpin illiberal principles? The case of contemporary China shows that the law plays an increasingly important role in the country's illiberal approach to both domestic and China-related global affairs, which has posed intellectual challenges in understanding it with reference to conventional, Western legal concepts and theories. Meer
Many governments, large institutions, and collective actors rely on the principle of solidarity to embed social policies on firm normative and legal grounds. Meer
This book offers an accessible and interdisciplinary account of the pressures and constraints judges face in our polarized world. It highlights the importance of character and judgment, and is valuable to academics, students, lawyers, judges, and anyone interested in courts. Meer
This engaging study examines the duality of state responsibility for violations of international law and provides the first in-depth, extensive history of this modern doctrine. Meer
Offering the first comprehensive account of the history and function of the common law's most legendary character, the book argues that the reasonable person is best understood as a legal device inviting those who apply it to take the perspective of an imaginary other. Meer
Modern states criminalise many actions that intuitively do not seem morally wrong, particularly in the context of regulating complex industries or activities. Meer
This Element is titled subsidiarity, which is popular in scholarship about international law due to its role in the European Union (EU). It concerns on how to establish, allocate, or use authority within a social or legal order, stating a rebuttable presumption for the local. Meer
In a time of disenchantment with democracy, massive social protests and the 'erosion' of the system of checks and balances, this book proposes to reflect upon the main problems of our constitutional democracies from a particular regulative ideal: that of the conversation among equals. Meer
The Ireland-Northern Ireland Protocol, part of the Withdrawal Agreement concluded between the European Union and the United Kingdom, is intended to address the difficult and complex impact of Brexit on the island of Ireland, North and South, and between Ireland and Great Britain. Meer
The Dispute Settlement Reports are the WTO authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practicing and academic trade lawyers and a valued resource for students worldwide taking courses in international economic or trade law. Meer
This book is the first to consider comprehensively and systematically the law and practice of advance directives across Asia. It will thus be important not only as a reference volume that documents how advance directives are regulated and used throughout Asia, but also as an exploration of the concept of the advance directive itself, in context. Meer
There has been a rapid growth of interest in due diligence, especially in the fields of environmental law and the law of the sea. Yet, confusion seems to surround this notion. Meer
An integrated approach to provide information about all aspects of cancer biology, diagnosis and therapy.
Covers both conventional and emerging tools/ techniques applicable in cancer screening and diagnosis. Meer
Provides a comprehensive list of the reference material that needs to be considered for more than 15 jurisdictions within this geographical region.
Each jurisdiction chapter is written by a well-known practitioner experienced in the application of FIDIC contracts in the specific jurisdiction. Meer