Subject(s): Medical jurisprudence | Forensic Medicine -- Great Britain
Contents:Legal systems : a world view / W.T.M. Ransom -- Scottish legal system / C. George M. Fernie -- The police in the United Kingdom / Crispian Strachan -- The practitioner's obligations / Michael A. Knight ; with contributions by Michael Wilks and C. George M.
Subject(s): Milligan, Lambdin P | Sovereignty | War and emergency legislation | Rule of law | Constitutional law | Democracy
Summary: "It is widely recognized that times of national emergency put legality to its greatest test. In such times we rely on sovereign power to rescue us, to hold the danger at bay. Yet that power can and often does
Subject(s): Police power | Precautionary principle | Risk
Summary: "A topical overview of the legal definition of the precautionary principle, notably in relation both to European Community law and to international law, with special reference in the latter to the WTO regime and international environmental law. The author then goes on to off
Subject(s): Kelsen, Hans, 1881-1973 | International law -- History
Contents:Introduction -- Method and construction of international law in nineteenth century German scholarship -- Kelsenian formalism as critical methodology in international law -- An "objective" architecture of international law : Kelsen, Kunz, and Verdross -- The
Subject(s): Patent laws and legislation | Globalization
Contents:Patent offices and the global governance of knowledge -- Labyrinths and catacombs : patent office procedure -- The rise of patent offices-- The sun and its planets : the European Patent Office and National Offices-- The USPTO and JPO -- The age of trilaterals and the spirit o
Subject(s): Human rights
Contents:Why international law? : the development of the international human rights regime in the twentieth century -- Theories of commitment -- Theories of compliance -- Civil rights -- Equality for women : education, work and reproductive rights -- Humane treatment : the prevalence and prevention of torture -- T
Subject(s): Constitutional history -- Latin America | Constitutional history -- United States | Equality before the law -- Latin America | Equality before the law -- United States
Contents:Introduction -- Radicalism : honoring the general will -- Conservativism : the moral cement of society -- Liberalism : between tyranny and anarchy -- Th
