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Written for a wide range of readers in environmental science, philosophy, and policy-oriented programs, this volume is a landmark, comprehensive reference work in this interdisciplinary field. Not merely a review of theoretical approaches, the Companion focuses on specific environmental problems and other concrete issues.

This book provides an overview and analysis of the theoretical foundations of legal feminism from an Italian perspective.

This book provokes fresh ways of thinking about small developing States within the transnational legal order for combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism and proliferation (TAMLO).

The national lockdown to contain the Covid-19 pandemic in India resulted in the loss of work and displacement of thousands of urban migrant workers. This book records the arduous journey home for many of these workers and analyses the grave effects the pandemic has had on jobs, livelihoods, and the health of urban migrant workers.

This book focuses on border deaths at sea and unravels how the interplay of the law of the sea and rules on jurisdiction widen the opportunity for states to make and enforce rules outside their territory. It questions whether this is also accompanied with an obligation to respect the right to life under the ECHR when doing so.

This book is about older women's strength, freedom, tenacity, determination, resilience, independence, social and political involvement and, in particular, it is about re-imagining ageing.

This book, based on exploratory ethnographic research, analyses the experiences of African migrants in Thailand. Addressing an important gap in migration research, this book will be of interest to researchers across the fields of migration and mobility studies, African Studies, and Asian Studies.

This volume presents a comparative examination of the issue of Fault in Criminal Law. The collection focuses on fault liability for inculpation with contributions from leading specialists from different jurisdictions presenting alternative perspectives.

This book provides an analysis of the impact of the climate crisis on corporate law and theory in the coming decades as the world seeks to meet the target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. It will be of interest to students and researchers in the field of climate and environmental law, as well as corporate law and theory.

This book provides a detailed exploration of the responses of the criminal justice system to domestic abuse in Northern Ireland. The book's primary focus is on developments which have taken place since 2010, and in particular since the restoration of the Northern Ireland Assembly in January 2020.

Explains that the reason for the failure of recent initiatives to alleviate the poorest countries' debt-related issues is an inability to bring sovereign countries to the table to re-negotiate their debt agreements with private creditors, as they fear the credit rating agencies and the prospect of a downgrade: the 'Credit Ratings impasse'.

This book interrogates the extent to which regional civil society organisations have evolved as actors in West Africa.

Investigating the impact of digital technology on contemporary constitutionalism, this book offers an overview of the transformations that are currently occurring at constitutional level, highlighting their link with ongoing societal changes.

This book examines how the European Convention of Human Rights system and the Strasbourg Court interact with states and non-governmental actors to influence domestic change, focusing on European Court of Human Rights litigation and state implementation of judgments related to minority discrimination and asylum/migration.

This book is a biographical history of Rottnest Island, a small carceral island offshore from Western Australia. Rottnest is also known as Wadjemup, or 'the place across the water where the spirits are', by Noongar, the Indigenous people of south-western Australia.

Taliban's return to power in August of 2021 caused everyone to ask why the two decades of institution building in Afghanistan failed. This book investigates the root causes of failed reforms in an important area of reform: trade and credit institutions.

The Handbook on Inequalities in Sentencing and Corrections among Marginalized Populations offers state-of-the-art volumes on seminal and topical issues that span the fields of sentencing and corrections.

This book examines Malaysia's ambitious reform agenda and educational landscape, drawing upon the eleven key shifts in the Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013-2025. Its critical assessemnt of reform efforts will be of particular interest to educators, scholars, and policymakers on the latest trends and challenges in Malaysian education policy.

This interdisciplinary book offers a new analysis of the concepts, spaces and practices of activism that emerge under diverse authoritarian modes of governance in Asia.

This book addresses the impact of a range of destabilising issues on minority rights in Europe and North America.

This volume examines cases of accommodation and recognition of minority practices: cultural, religious, ethnic, linguistic or otherwise, under state law. Representing multiple disciplines and methodologies, the work analyses the pitfalls and successes of accommodative practices, presenting insights into how solutions could or could not be achieved.

This book advances a theory of a child's right to decisional privacy. It addresses a significant gap in understanding the interconnections between privacy, family law and children's rights, and contextualises the theory through judicial proceedings concerning medical treatment for children experiencing gender dysphoria.