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Administrative law permeates all areas of law, and this series focuses on its role both regionally and globally. This volume explores the importance of general principles and sector-specific rules in European administrative law.

This edited collection asks what texts are key to our understanding of the shared values of constitutional democracy and human rights from a comparative law perspective. The volume explores this idea of 'canonical' texts as part of a broader conversation about the field and the future of comparative constitutionalism.

The history of Central Europe's print markets between Napoleon and the era of unification doubles as a political tale. It sheds important new light on political communication and how publishers exposed German-language readers to the Age of Democratic Revolution.

Poya is fascinated by all the different colours the sky can be and dreams of being able to reach it. His grandfather, Opi, has an idea: the kite he made with his own grandpa . . .When Poya loses his footing and his dreams are blown away with the kite, Opi knows just what to do.

A rigorous solution to the mystery of quantum entanglement is provided. The key to this seemingly impossible feat is to avoid causal explanations, and instead resolve the mystery of quantum entanglement using Einstein's own relativity principle.

Iris Murdoch and the Political presents a lively discussion of Iris Murdoch and her political thought, taking in the nature of socialist thought, the New Left and liberalism in the UK in the latter part of the twentieth century.

The Oxford Handbook of the Malawi Economy is an essential reference material with new research contributions and insights across the different areas of economic development to shape the country's future growth and development trajectory.

Patrick and Flippa are best friends . . . so why does he always have that empty bear feeling? Is it because Flippa's always in charge?

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind presents cutting-edge work in the philosophy of mind, combining invited articles and articles selected from submissions.

The Elements of Law (1640) presents a complete but succinct version of Hobbes's political theory and of his more general philosophy. Johann P. Sommerville's edition establishes a more accurate text based on all the eleven known manuscripts, drawing extensively on modern scholarship on Hobbes and his contexts.

Tabish Khair makes the provocative argument that literature is an agnostic mode of thinking about language, reality, and their relationship to each other that can be an antidote to fundamentalism. The book concludes with an impassioned 'call to literature' as a means of remedying the current crisis in the humanities.

Beyond the Law's Reach? argues that fundamental assumptions in contemporary political philosophy need to be rethought in the face of pervasive political violence.

Explores the central role of earthquake for disparate modes of critical engagement across a range of literary, philosophical, historical, and journalistic works from the seventeenth century through the late nineteenth, from the U.S., the wider Americas, and Europe.

This volume provides a valuable companion for all those working, not only with adults, but also with children and young people in the criminal courts, to help them deal with all the issues arising in the specialist Youth Court and in the Crown Court jurisdiction.

This book provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the law relating to corruption and misuse of public office, including specialist issues such as whistleblowing. This new edition covers major developments in the area since the publication of the first edition, and includes full coverage of the Bribery Act 2010.

Pocket-sized, portable and practical, this book is an indispensable, complete guide for the busy court advocate. Its unique format, clear layout, and concise style allows practitioners to find essential information instantly when under pressure in court. Includes extensive coverage of offences, sentencing, procedure, and evidence.

A considered balance of depth, detail, context, and critique, Public Law Directions offers the most student-friendly guide to the subject; empowering students to evaluate the law, understand its practical application, and approach assessments with confidence.

Kerr aruges that electoral commissions provide valuable information that helps politicians and citizens resolve uncertainties about electoral fraud and administrative irregularities.

Checklists, flow-charts, and illustrative examples provide excellent guidance on how the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 applies to everyday scenarios facing police officers, whilst the full text of the Act and its Codes of Practice offer quick and easy reference.

Secession and European Union Law draws on a pluralist reading of the relationship between EU law and national law, to support the conclusion that EU law should respect domestic constitutional orders in the context of secession.

This book makes the case that natural selection can do the exact opposite, favouring traits that directly harm an organism's ability to survive and reproduce, by synthesizing evidence from evolution, ecology and genetics to explain how maladaptations are possible, with drastic consequences for our understanding of the design of living things.

This edited volume studies how in European literary culture the codified verbal system of rhetoric shifted towards persuasion in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This study provides an account of the historical novel during the middle of the twentieth century, which has gone largely unremarked in accounts of the period and of the genre, and which connects it to the concerns of late modernism and socialist culture.

This book explores Côte d'Ivoire's 'ID war' as a paradigmatic case of a citizenship crisis, centered on the access to national identity cards and certificates.

By assessing compliance among e-commerce traders with consumer protection laws, this book advocates for a more evidence-driven approach within European Consumer Law to enhance the effectiveness of its rules.

In these essays Bentham lays down the theoretical principles from which he develops his proposals for reform of the English poor laws in response to the perceived crisis in poor relief in the mid-1790s. These ideas had a significant influence on the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834.