This new volume analyses in considerable detail the antitrust issues arising from vertical restraints and presents a comprehensive map and critical assessment of current enforcement practice in the EU. Meer
This book analyses the complex regulations and standards governing aviation safety on a global scale. Combining theoretical analysis with practical insights, it offers a comprehensive exploration of the normative foundations and real-world applications of international aviation law in ensuring air… Meer
This book examines the judicial review systems in the four areas of Greater China – China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau – and uncovers judicial review activities of the apex courts of each region. It provides a comparative assessment of judicial activism and deference… Meer
This book examines the principle and practice of the core but under-scrutinised pillar of guarantees of non-recurrence in transitional justice. Transitional justice’s grand ambition is embodied in the slogan: ‘Never again’ – never again should societies endure the atrocities of war and mass… Meer
This volume places scarcity as a defining aspect of minorities’ experience and as a tool to comprehend ongoing and unresolved societal friction and global environmental challenges, strategies for survival and reproduction of the status quo, and aspirational desires for social mobility… Meer
The book applies values and concepts from Global Administrative Law (GAL) to international patent law, demonstrating how limiting technocratic and overly economic language can be. Highlighting the administrative foundations of patent law, the book argues that, in its international form, it can be… Meer
This book proposes using a ‘jury-centric approach’ for improving laws, practices, and procedures in jury trials. Courts assume that jurors in a criminal trial understand and apply the judge’s directions about the law… Meer
The Social Contract Rediscovered conducts a critical analysis of the historical evolution of legitimacy, tracing its development from natural law to positive law and finally to post-modern critiques. It fills a scholarly gap by addressing the overlooked aspect of the consent process… Meer
This book explores a range of topics relating to the prosecution and trial of organised crime and the punishment, especially imprisonment, of members of organised criminal groups. Organised crime poses particular challenges to the criminal justice system… Meer
This book discusses the practice of free speech and its limitations – defamation and hate speech – in the context of Indonesia. Focusing on several legislations, mainly in the Indonesian Criminal Code (KUHP) and the Information and Electronic Transaction Law (The ITE Law), the analysis centers on… Meer
Most countries on the African continent have ratified or acceded to several human rights treaties, including the Torture Convention and the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights. This book assesses the progress African countries have made in institutionalizing human rights laws prohibiting… Meer
The field of children’s rights studies is well established and largely dominated by a top-down approach that considers these rights as objective standards requiring implementation in practice or policy… Meer
The Illegality Defence posits that a cause of action cannot arise from a wrongful act. Barring a claim through the application of this defence contradicts considerations of corrective justice, as the defendant is released from liability even though the claimant would otherwise have been entitled to… Meer
This book investigates ways ‘the Other’ can be both a cause of and an answer to religious and cultural fears. The multi-layered question of cultural and religious diversity has received some attention recently both in academic and policy circles… Meer
This book assesses the related rights of press publishers in the context of access to information and media pluralism. Discussing Art. 15 of the Directive (EU) 2019/790 of 17 April 2019, the book looks to create balance between publishers’ rights and both the protection of freedom of expression and… Meer
In this groundbreaking work, the authors explore the intricate interplay between commercial surrogacy and the global healthcare system, challenging conventional views with fresh insights into ethical, legal, and medical dimensions… Meer
Applying two-level game theory and rational decision-making analysis, this book explores how China navigates domestic constraints and international pressures to achieve optimal outcomes in its foreign trade policy… Meer