Rettsvitenskap

World-renowned philosopher A. C. Grayling explores the messy politics of the 'culture wars'

This essential and highly acclaimed guide, now updated and revised in its ninth edition, explains the business of the British music industry.Drawing on her extensive experience as a media lawyer, Ann Harrison offers a unique, expert opinion on the deals, the contracts and the business as a whole. She examines in detail the changing face of the music industry and provides absorbing and up-to-date case studies.Whether you're a recording artist, songwriter, music business manager, industry executive, publisher, journalist, media student, accountant or lawyer, this practical and comprehensive guide is indispensable reading.Fully revised and updated, this edition focuses on the transformative effects artificial intelligence is already having on the industry as well as exciting future developments for creativity and copyright considerations.

Richard Primus challenges the prevailing view that Congress is constrained to exercise only those powers enumerated in the Constitution. Analyzing constitutional text and history, as well as the structure of US federalism, Primus shows that the primary function of enumeration is to rule the listed powers in, not to rule other powers out.

This edited international collection explores the nature and extent of wrongful convictions, as well as examining the systems in place that attempt to exonerate the wrongly convicted.

This collection of newly commissioned essays from an international cast of contributors provides an authoritative assessment of the continued economic, social and political relevance of labour unions and their potential to bring about progressive societal change.

O'Donnell's Drug Injury, Fifth Edition presents up-to-date information on adverse events caused by drugs via direct pharmacological action or indirectly through injury caused by impairment or an altered mental state. The impact of drug injury on legal cases is emphasized throughout the book.

This book investigates grassroots, community-led justice strategies - legal empowerment - being used to promote the human rights of people living in informal settlements. The book will interest researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, working in social and economic rights, access to justice, urban poverty and development.

This collective volume delves into the criminal responsibility of judges under authoritarian regimes, with case studies from Germany, Argentina, and Chile, examining their involvement in criminal human rights abuses and failures to protect victims from such crimes.

This book makes an argument for the legal role and responsibility of sovereign states in the trusteeship of the earth.

Hobbes envisions a chaotic world driven by self-interest, where survival is brutal. He argues peace requires the "Leviathan," balancing freedom and control to ensure societal stability and security.

"Using the theory of the encryption of power, this book explores whether it is possible to decrypt justice as it has been predominantly shaped by Western hegemony. Decrypting Justice argues that envisioning and creating a more just world, founded on new communalities, is not only possible but necessary"--

This book explores the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, focusing on the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and its implications for Australian constitutional law and politics.

Smith, Hogan & Ormerod's Essentials of Criminal Law takes students to the heart of this fascinating subject, providing focused, expert coverage alongside a wealth of student-friendly learning features to aid study.