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National Security Surveillance in Southern Africa: An Anti-Capitalist Perspective
£26.85Publication date 25 January 2024
By Bloomsbury Publishing PLC -
Regulation-Making in the United Kingdom and Australia: Democratic Legitimacy, Safeguards and Executive Aggrandisement
£83.40Publication date 25 January 2024
By Bloomsbury Publishing PLC -
Protecting National Security: A History of British Communications Investigation Regulation
£34.85This book explores the law relating to interception, investigatory powers, data retention and surveillance with primary reference to the UK, while also embracing the USA and EU. It reconceptualizes the relationship between data collection and data analysis. Learn MorePublication date 09 January 2023
By Taylor & Francis Ltd -
Constitutional Democracy in Indonesia
£82.00Constitutional Democracy in Indonesia discusses the ongoing debates over the meaning, implementation, and practice of constitutional democracy in Indonesia. Current legal issues are analysed in light of social, political, and economic reforms since the constitution's entering into force. Learn MorePublication date 25 November 2022
By Oxford University Press -
Privatising Border Control: Law at the Limits of the Sovereign State
£82.00Policing and punishment, once regarded as central to the state's power and its monopoly on violence, are increasingly outsourced to private providers. This collection of essays explores the growing use of the private sector and private actors in border control, and its implications for our understanding of state sovereignty and citizenship. Learn MorePublication date 22 November 2022
By Oxford University Press -
The World Bank's Lawyers: The Life of International Law as Institutional Practice
£82.00The World Bank's Lawyers gives an original socio-legal account of the evolving institutional life of international law. It tells the previously untold story of the World Bank's legal department. This is a story of people and the practices they cling to and how these practices gain traction, or fail to do so, in an international bureaucracy. Learn MorePublication date 07 October 2022
By Oxford University Press -
Procedural Requirements for Administrative Limits to Property Rights
£82.00Administrative law permeates all areas of law, and this series focuses on its role both regionally and globally. This volume addresses one of the most traditional sets of procedures, namely the exercise of public powers affecting property rights. It provides a synchronic comparison of legal systems across the EU, US, and regimes beyond the State. Learn MorePublication date 22 September 2022
By Oxford University Press -
Petroleum, Industry and Governments: A Study of the Involvement of Industry and Governments in Exploring for and Producing Petroleum
£202.70Publication date 13 May 2022
By Kluwer Law International -
The United Kingdom Constitution: An Introduction
£30.60Out of stock
This volume is an introduction to the United Kingdom's constitution that recognises its historical, political, and legal dimensions. It pays attention to the revival of the constituent territories of the UK. The constitution is shaped by constitutional principles, including state sovereignty, separation of powers, democracy, and subsidiarity. Learn MorePublication date 05 October 2021
By Oxford University Press -
The United Kingdom Constitution: An Introduction
£71.65This volume is an introduction to the United Kingdom's constitution that recognises its historical, political, and legal dimensions. It pays attention to the revival of the constituent territories of the UK. The constitution is shaped by constitutional principles, including state sovereignty, separation of powers, democracy, and subsidiarity. Learn MorePublication date 05 October 2021
By Oxford University Press -
Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space
£82.00This book shows that Russia has a distinct approach to the right to self-determination that sets it apart from Western States and from Soviet state practice. Drawing on analysis of seven secessionist conflicts and a detailed study of Russian sources, it traces how Russian engagement with self-determination has changed over the past three decades. Learn MorePublication date 17 June 2021
By Oxford University Press -
Choosing a Prime Minister: The Transfer of Power in Britain
£93.35Tackling the various ways politicians enter and exit Downing Street, Rodney Brazier gives context and analysis to this comprehensive account of what goes into becoming the leader of the United Kingdom. With historical examples and contemporary evidence, this book explains the rules which govern gaining and losing the British Prime Ministership. Learn MorePublication date 02 July 2020
By Oxford University Press -
MI5, the Cold War, and the Rule of Law
£101.35This book is a unique and innovative study of the status, powers, and activities of MI5 during the Cold War. It contends that MI5 was subject neither to effective political nor legal scrutiny, and examines the operations of the Security Service for civil liberties, and the contemporary relevance of Cold War practices. Learn MorePublication date 14 May 2020
By Oxford University Press -
Brexit and Financial Regulation
£66.95This book provides guidance on the complexity of Brexit as it applies to financial institutions. Through the eyes of leading lawyers it covers issues of market access, transposition of directly applicable regulation, the assumption of roles carried out by the ESA's, and the impact on cross-border contracts. Learn MorePublication date 05 February 2020
By Oxford University Press -
Legislating Morality in America: Debating the Morality of Controversial U.S. Laws and Policies
£76.90Publication date 07 January 2020
By Bloomsbury Publishing Plc