Rettsvitenskap

This book rigorously debates the notion of the person, a fundamental concept which underpins national private law orders worldwide.

Uncovers the facts behind the celebrated 1889 case of Riggs v. Palmer and shows how they transform our understanding of the decision.

First-of-its-kind study offering a model for understanding vice-presidential influence in the modern era.

Digital Internationalisation of Firms offers a comprehensive examination of the digital outward internationalisation of firms, focusing on both Internet-based and Internet-enabled businesses, including SMEs and large enterprises.

Alexander Hamilton: A Very Short Introduction provides a brief introduction to the life, work, and legacies of Alexander Hamilton. R. B. Bernstein explores Hamilton's role in revolution, politics, law, constitutionalism, economics, diplomacy, and war, as well as his views on honor and duelling. This elegant profile reveals that Hamilton was one of the key founding fathers of the United States.

From Manners to Rules traces the emergence of legalistic governance in South Korea and Japan. While these countries were previously known for governance characterized by bureaucratic discretion and vague laws, activists and lawyers are pushing for a more legalistic regulatory style. Legalism involves more formal, detailed, and enforceable rules and participatory policy processes. Previous studies have focused on top-down or structural explanations for legalism. From Manners to Rules instead documents the bottom-up change agents who are shaping legalistic governance in East Asia's main democracies. By comparing recent reforms in disability rights and tobacco control, the book uncovers the societal drivers behind legalism and the broader judicialization of politics. Drawing on 120 interviews and diverse sources, From Manners to Rules challenges the conventional wisdom that law and courts play marginal roles in Korean and Japanese politics and illuminates how legalistic governance is transforming citizens' options for political participation.

The Public's Law shows how bureaucracy can advance democracy. It develops a Progressive understanding of law and politics from American thinkers' transformation of German theories of the state, emphasizing that the state must provide the goods people need to participate in democratic politics. Using examples from the New Deal and the Civil Rights Era, the book develops a normative theory with implications for deliberative democratic theory, constitutional theory, and administrative law.

How and when should we end a war? What place should the pathways to a war's end have in war planning and decision-making? This volume treats the topic of ending war as part and parcel of how wars begin and how they are fought - a unique, complex problem, worthy of its own conversation. New essays by leading thinkers and practitioners in the fields of philosophical ethics, international relations, and military law reflect on the problem and show that it is imperative that we address not only the resolution of war, but how and if a war as waged can accommodate a future peace. The essays collectively solidify the topic and underline its centrality to the future of military ethics, strategy, and war.

Highlights the agency of local people in enabling transitional justice in post-conflict Sierra Leone. Moving past questions of institutional effectiveness, Laura S. Martin explores the diversity of post-conflict experiences and shows how individuals and communities enact justice on their own terms.

After examining more than 700 lawsuits decided by the supreme courts of former slave states, Giuliana Perrone asserts that slavery remained actionable in American law well after its ostensible demise. An important study for scholars of slavery and the US Civil War.