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The Protection of Property Rights in Comparative Perspective
Europa Law Publishing 2013; US$ 110.00The book offers a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to the issue of property rights protection in Europe. more...
State Violence and the Execution of Law
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.99State Violence and the Execution of Law stages a provocative analysis of how the biopolitical divide between human and animal has played a fundamental role in enabling state violence, including torture, secret imprisonment and killing-at-a-distance via drones. Analyzing the complex ways in which the United States government deploys law in order to... more...
The Judiciary
Troubador Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 9.50It is the story of a system which is protected by self-regulation and the separation of powers and which has thrived because of the unwritten Code of Practice. more...
Historiography, Empire and the Rule of Law
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 125.00Historiography, Empire and the Rule of Law considers the intersection of these terms in the historical development of what has come to be known as the ?rule of law?. The separation of governmental powers, checks and balances, and judicial independence signified something entirely new in the way in which politics was imagined and practiced. This ?rule... more...
Getting to the Rule of Law
NYU Press 2011; US$ 55.00The rule of law has been celebrated as "an unqualified human good" and promoted around the world to secure economic development and political freedom. Yet there is considerable disagreement about just what the ideal of the rule of law requires. When people clamor for the preservation or extension of the rule of law, are they advocating a... more...
Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 1
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 27.50This volume represents the first section of F. A. Hayek's comprehensive three-part study of the relations between law and liberty. Rules and Order constructs the framework necessary for a critical analysis of prevailing theories of justice and of the conditions which a constitution securing personal liberty would have to satisfy. more...
Democracy and Dissent
Edward Elgar Publishing 2011; US$ 40.00Frank Vibert examines the fundamental issues involved in attempts to rethink international institutions and their rule making procedures. He analyses the basic problems with the existing system and the main approaches to its reform. The book repudiates the idea that there are any simple institutional 'fixes' for current problems, such as relying on... more...
The Rule of Law in Comparative Perspective
Springer 2010; US$ 129.99This new volume on The Rule of Law in Comparative Perspective compares the different conceptions of the rule of law that have developed in different legal cultures. Lawyers and legal scholars from various legal systems describe the social purposes and practical applications of the rule of law, and how it might be improved in the varied circumstances... more...









