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In many regions around the world, the governance of migration increasingly involves local authorities and actors. This edited volume introduces theoretical contributions that, departing from the 'local turn' in migration studies, highlight the distinct role that legal processes, debates, and instruments play in driving this development. Drawing on historical and contemporary case studies, it demonstrates how paying closer analytical attention to legal questions reveals the inherent tensions and contradictions of migration governance. By investigating socio-legal phenomena such as sanctuary jurisdictions, it further explores how the law structures ongoing processes of (re)scaling in this domain. Beyond offering conceptual and empirical discussions of local migration governance, this volume also directly confronts the pressing normative questions that follow from the growing involvement of local authorities and actors. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core

This introduction to human dignity explores the history of the notion from antiquity to the nineteenth century, and the way in which dignity is conceptualised in non-Western contexts. Building on this, it addresses a range of systematic conceptualisations, considers the theoretical and legal conditions for human dignity as a useful notion and analyses a number of philosophical and conceptual approaches to dignity. Finally, the book introduces current debates, paying particular attention to the legal implementation, human rights, justice and conflicts, medicine and bioethics, and provides an explicit systematic framework for discussing human dignity. Adopting a wide range of perspectives and taking into account numerous cultures and contexts, this handbook is a valuable resource for students, scholars and professionals working in philosophy, law, history and theology

Introduction -- Energy in international law -- Foundational approach : international energy transactions -- Ad hoc approach : joint development of hydrocarbons -- Ad hoc approach : hydroelectricity, offshore wind, pipelines and electricity transmission lines -- Centralised approach : nuclear energy -- Centralised approach : producer/consumer, promotion and regional cooperation organisations -- International law and the energy transformation -- Conclusion.

What is the nature of the relationship between the fields of new technology and EU law? What challenges do new technologies pose for the internal market and the principles of the EU? These questions are explored with reference to specific fields of technology and policy areas in order to understand this relationship and its challenges

About the Book: The book covers Indian laws, which influence the marketing decision-making process in the business organizations. The provisions of the laws are explained and supported by the court judgments in the form of cases at the end of each chapter, keeping in view the requirements of DBM, PGDBA, MMS and MBA students specializing in marketing management. This book is designed to prepare the students of marketing to understand the legal implications of their day-to-day or strategic decisions in product or service marketing. He need not be a legal expert, but he should have enough knowledge about the laws of the land to avoid two things, one falling into the legal trap and two to face the consequences like imprisonment, penalty or defamation for himself and for the organization he is representing. The book starts with chapters on basics of law, various Indian Acts influencing marketing and consumer rights. The major Acts like Consumer Protection Act, Competition Acts, Sales of Goods Act, Hire Purchase Act, Contract Act and Negotiable Instruments Act are covered in details. A chapter on Intellectual Property Rights (i.e. patents, copyrights, trademarks, designs and geographical indications) covers various Indian Acts for protecting these rights in light of TRIPS provisions enforced through WTO (World Trade Organization) in the member countries. Separate chapters are devoted to each of the 4Ps of marketing (i.e. product, price, promotion and place) to cover the provisions of various Acts to curb the prevailing unfair and restrictive trade practices in marketing of goods and services. The book covers the e-Marketing legislation to curb the fraudulent practices in cyberspace. The book ends with a discussion on 'marketing abuses with some ethical question marks' in the last chapter. In nutshell the text presents a comprehensive treatment

1. From domestic to international rule of law : a long and unfinished journey / Veselin Popovski -- 2. "Unqualified human good" or a bit of "ruling class chatter"? : the rule of law at the national and international level / Simon Chesterman -- 3. "Thin theories" of the domestic and international rule of law / Charles Sampford -- 4. Reflections on the rule of law : its scope and significance for partners in development / John Barker -- 5. What is "international impartiality"? / Frederic Megret -- 6. Professions without borders : global ethics and the international rule of law / Charles Sampford -- 7. International civil service ethics, professionalism and the rule of law / Lorne Sossin and Vasuda Sinha -- 8. International rule of law? : ethics and impartiality of legal professionals in international criminal tribunals / Chandra Lekha Sriram -- 9. Judicial ethics at the international criminal tribunals / William Schabas -- 10. Conclusion / Vesselin Popovski.

Terror attacks on western civilian targets have stimulated interest in the dilemmas faced by liberal societies when combating threats to national security. Combining the perspectives of political science and law, this book addresses that discourse, asking how democracies seek to harmonize the protection of individual liberties with the defence of state interests. The book focuses on the experience of Israel, a country whose commitment to democratic values has continuously been challenged by multiple threats to national survival. It examines the legal, legislative and institutional methods emplo.

This Article presents a study of "Our Localism"-- of the legal powers of contemporary American local governments, the practical social and political ramifications of local legal power in a system characterized by wide divergences in local fiscal capabilities and needs and the ideological commitment to localism that sustains and legitimates local autonomy. It does so by pursuing a middle path, attempting neither a ground-level account of the law or politics of individual states or local governments nor a high theory examination of local autonomy as a matter of general political philosophy. Instead, it seeks, through a focus on a handful of selected legal issues, to provide a general treatment of the law of state-local relations with particular attention to the question of local power, and to make an argument concerning the proper scope of local autonomy within the specific setting of contemporary metropolitan America. The first half of Part II addresses city-suburb differences and examines the role of local government law in the rise of the suburb as a distinctive and increasingly dominant form of urban community. The second half of Part II takes a more normative approach.

Public procurement law, regulating public sector purchasing of certain contracts for goods, works and services, is an area of EU law which is closely intertwined with the UK's economy. It will almost inevitably be affected by the consequences of Brexit.At a time of significant uncertainty, this book explores policy directions which domestic procurement law could take in the future, including whether 'Buy National' policies might feasibly be introduced, or whether existing procurement procedures could be significantly reviewed.