Rettsvitenskap

Since the Intangible Heritage Convention was adopted by UNESCO in 2003, intangible cultural heritage has increasingly been an important subject of debate in international forums.

This book offers ground-breaking insights on how the dynamics of conditional inclusion and "good" citizenship play out today, with a focus on migrant and immigrant-origin minorities in Europe and the Americas. The book shows that conditional inclusion is a globally widespread tool for controlling and rank-ordering minorities.

This book examines the impact of legislation premised upon the principle of 'self-declaration' of legal gender status.

Teaching Legal Education in the Digital Age explores how legal pedagogy and curriculum design should be modernised to ensure that law students have a realistic view of the future of the legal profession.

This book indicates the shortcomings of the current international legal system and customary international norms that govern international aviation law to comply with contemporary air transport market realities. As the air transport market develops globally, the safety regime of civil aviation should also be governed and applied globally.

This two-volume set is a collection of articles that elucidate the theory, practice, legal innovations, and codification experience of the Law of Personality Rights in China.

This volume is a collection of articles on the codification experience of China's Law of Personality Rights, explaining the design of the Law as well as its innovations.

This book shows how the legal systems of European countries protect patient autonomy. It explains what criminal law protection of patient autonomy looks like on a European scale in legal and social dimensions. Despite EU integration processes, the work illustrates that legal orders of individual European countries are far from uniform in this area.

In the era of modern industrial regimes, the role of technology in tackling climate change is pivotal. International goals of climate change mitigation and sustainable development cannot be achieved without the contribution of new technologies.

This book provides rich insights into the pre and post care experiences of boys who were pupils in a residential school where the author worked over the course of the 1980s.

AI in combination with other innovative technologies promises to bring unprecedented opportunities to all aspects of life. These technologies, however, hold great dangers, especially for the manipulation of the human mind, which have given rise to serious ethical concerns.

The widespread understanding of auction structure considers auction as consisting of three contracts: contract between the seller and the auctioneer, contract between the auctioneer and the buyer and the sale contract between the seller and the buyer.

This book addresses the nature, social function, ethics and politics of the right to bequeath.

This book explores the ambiguous legal status of traditional - adat - communities in Indonesia and their informal, traditional rights to communal - ulayat - land.

This book explores how the European Court of Human Rights approaches evidence and how its judgments affect domestic law. It examines key defence rights such as the right to adduce evidence, the right to disclosure, the privilege against self-incrimination and access to a lawyer, entrapment, and the right to cross-examine prosecution witnesses.

This is the first book to critically assess how "supersession thesis," developed by legal and political philosopher Jeremy Waldron, might be reconstructed, challenged, or applied to empirical cases, with an eye toward larger questions surrounding the temporal orientation of justice. This book concludes with a reply by Jeremy Waldron.

Geopolitical Landscapes of Donald Trump examines the role of local actors in Mexico, Central America and the United States have played in shaping the Mexico-Guatemala transborder region.

This book offers an in-depth critical account of the state's responses to the biosecurity and the economic crises. It is thus the first study to address both crises ensuing from the pandemic, and to synthesise the responses to them in a comprehensive account of political power.

This book provides transnational insight into cultural property crimes and the cutting-edge work tackling issues ranging from currency crimes to innovative research methods.

This book considers the question of spatial justice after apartheid, from several disciplinary perspectives - jurisprudence, law, literature, architecture, photography and psychoanalysis are just some of the disciplines engaged here.

This interdisciplinary investigation presents in-depth linguistic and legal analysis of ambiguity found in the text of key provisions of EU Treaties and in the language of some of the CJEU's leading preliminary rulings in the area of fundamental rights, freedom of movement and EU citizenship.

This book critically challenges the usual territorial understanding of borders by examining the often messy internal, transborder, ambiguous, and in-between spaces that co-exist with traditional borders.

This book provides an overview and analysis of the term 'lawfare', as it has come to describe a range of conflicts in which legal instruments are used to pursue political goals.

This book examines the social and legal regulation of domestic violence within Kesarwani business community following the enactment of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005.

This book presents a study of politico-ideological mobilisation and violence by focusing on the life stories, trajectories and narratives of individuals who mobilised for causes and conflicts in the Arab World.

This book studies the history of intercultural human rights. It examines the foundational elements of human rights in the East and the West and provides a comparative analysis of the independent streams of thought originating from the two different geographic spaces.

This volume brings together a collection of original investigations of the current thinking on three broad themes: the assetization of land and buildings, the relationship of land rent to valuation and speculation in the markets for private and public properties, and the different ways in which land functions as a social relation.