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Kant's arguments for the reality of human freedom and the normativity of the moral law continue to inspire work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this ground-breaking study, Owen Ware defends the controversial view that Kant's mature writings on ethics share a unified commitment to the primacy of the moral law.

This book argues that women are caught between sect and nation in Lebanon due to the division between religious and civil law. Consequently, a dual struggle is necessary, the first for women's equal political and civil rights and the second for women's equal legal rights in relation to personal status law.

This book is the autobiography of a lawyer, born in the Bronx of immigrant parents, who practiced law, served as dean of Fordham Law, participated in framing the Constitution's Twenty-Fifth Amendment, and served as President of the New York City Bar Association and chair of State Commissions on government integrity.

Overview of International Human Rights and War -- Concepts of War and International Human Rights -- Human Rights and the Just War Tradition -- Humanitarian Restraints in Early Modern Warfare: Law of Armed Conflict from Antiquity to the Great War -- Contemporary Humanitarian Intervention: Beyond Rules-Based International Order -- International Human Rights Law and States of Emergency.

Using several common law jurisdictions, including the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Europe, this book examines various rationales for freedom of speech and the extent to which the law protects it, the important similarities and differences in jurisprudence, and what these systems can learn from each other.

Data and information -- Ethics and law -- Theory -- Research -- Science -- Social science -- Humanities -- Peer review, publication, retraction -- Storage, access, provision -- Intellectual freedom and censorship -- Computer ethics and the internet -- Privacy, security, surveillance -- Law -- Academia and its discontents -- Business -- Medicine -- Architecture and engineering -- Expert systems, robotics, war -- Images, imaging and the imagination.

"... this book gives an overview of the grounds of inadmissibility to Canada under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, and notes key case law that interprets the governing sections. The second edition provides a thorough update of the law and practice advice pertaining to overcoming inadmissibility."--Provided by publisher

This book comprehensively explores and critiques how the current U.S. Supreme Court, under the leadership of Chief Justice John Roberts, has reshaped First Amendment law. It argues that this Court has consistently used First Amendment law to promote a limited view of freedom, while bolstering social and political stability.

Although coherence theories of law and adjudication have, recently, been extremely influential in legal scholarship and have significantly advanced the case for coherentism in law, a number of problems remain. This, the first concerted attempt to develop a coherence-based theory of legal reasoning, addresses, or at least mitigates these problems.

This work examines the criminalisation of abortion in South Africa during apartheid (1948-1990) and its impact on women of all 'races' determined to terminate unwanted pregnancies. It also traces the emergence of a movement for abortion law reform and the 1975 passage of South Africa's first statutory law on abortion

Key Cases is the essential series for anyone studying law, including A Level, LLB, ILEX and post-graduate conversion courses. Understanding and memorising leading cases fully is a vital part of the study of law - the clear format, style and explanations of Key Cases will ensure you achieve this.

This working paper analyzes the Law on Ethnic Minorities and its termination as well as the shortcomings connected with the existing legal vacuum that resulted in the lack of a current specific Law on national minorities and non-adoption of a new one for more than three years. (ECMI)

Analyzes how the WTO's restrictions on the use of trade measures for social goals affects the development of the law of the international community. This book examines international law on the use of trade measures to promote non-trade values including human health, environmental protection, and cultural diversity

This volume is the biography of H.L.A. Hart, the pre-eminent legal philosopher of the 20th century. As a scholar he re-invented the philosophy of law and revolutionised our understanding of law as a social institution. His writings had an enormous impact on informed public opinion in the 1960s

This book argues that the Mongol invasion of China in the thirteenth century precipitated a lasting transformation of marriage and property law that deprived women of their property rights and reduced their legal and economic autonomy. It re-evaluates the Mongol invasion and its influence on Chinese law and society