Emergency crises have always tested our ability to organize and swiftly execute a coordinated response. Both natural and unnatural disasters pose new questions to which previous experience provides only limited answers. These challenges are arguably greater than ever, in a more globalized world confronted by a truly transnational hazard. This is the first volume that addresses the complexities …
Dictionary of International Human Rights Law (Elgar Original Reference)
‘This book will be useful to students and general readers who have questions about human rights.’- K.C. Fraser, Social Sciences’. . . A powerful technical dictionary suitable for any student of international law and social issues.’- The Midwest Book Review’Constance de la Vega’s Dictionary of International Human Rights Law is a marvellous new human rights resource. It provides …
Dictionary of Environmental and Climate Change Law (Elgar Original Reference)
This state-of-the-art Dictionary defines terms employed in international agreements, national legislation and scholarly legal studies related to comparative and international environmental law and the emerging law of climate change. In acknowledgement of China’s growing role in this arena, each term also includes its pinyin translation in order to facilitate access to the Mandarin variants.The international community is developing …
Legal Services Regulation at the Crossroads: Justitia’s Legions
‘Noel Semple’s outstanding book Legal Services Regulation at the Crossroads: Justitia’s Legions is an exceptional overview, critique, and reevaluation of lawyer regulation in the common law world. He clearly and concisely delineates the widening regulatory gulf between North American jurisdictions (which he calls ‘professionalist-independent’) and the rest of the common law world (the ‘competitive-consumerist’ approach). Semple compares these …
‘The list of 41 authors of this Handbook reads like a roll-call of the rising generation of scholars of labour law as well as a number of distinguished old hands. This is not a conventional textbook on transnational labour law but a series of short and stimulating essays on important current issues. It provides an invaluable guide for …
Concepts of Music and Copyright: How Music Perceives Itself and How Copyright Perceives Music
‘I’ve long known that musicians understand copyright law as little as copyright lawyers understand music, but this book shows brilliantly that such mutual ignorance is deeply rooted in historical, philosophical and practical arguments about music making. In persuading both musicologists and legal theorists to address issues of authorship, creativity, property and performance, Andreas Rahmatian has put together a …
Containing newly updated versions of existing entries and adding several important new entries, this second edition of the Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law takes stock of present-day comparative law scholarship. Written by leading authorities in their respective fields, the contributions in this accessible book cover and combine not only questions regarding the methodology of comparative law, but also …
Comic Art, Creativity and the Law (Elgar Law and Entrepreneurship series)
‘In comics, justice always prevails, but the business of comics is a lot trickier. Marc Greenberg combines the expertise of a legal scholar with the passion and insight of a long-time comics fan, untangling the morass of legal issues facing comics – and all creative enterprises – in the past, present and future. Comic Art, Creativity and the …
Smart Technologies and the End(s) of Law: Novel Entanglements of Law and Technology
‘Do conceptions of the Rule of Law reflect timeless truths, or are they in fact contingent on a particular information and communications infrastructure – one that we are fast leaving behind? Hildebrandt has engineered a provocative encounter between law and networked digital technologies that cuts to the heart of the dilemma confronting legal institutions in a networked world.’- …
This book compares water allocation policy in three rivers under pressure from demand, droughts and a changing climate: the Colorado, Columbia and Murray-Darling. Each river has undergone multiple decades of policy reform at the intersection of water markets and river basin governance – two prominent responses to the global water crisis often attempted and analyzed separately. Drawing on …