Chiara Giorgetti & Guglielmo Verdirame 
Whither the West? [PDF ebook] 
International Law in Europe and the United States

At the beginning of the twenty-first century the term ”privacy” gained new prominence around the world, but in the legal arena it is still a concept in ”disarray”. Enclosing it within legal frame …

Westphalian constitutionalism has shaped our understanding of politics, socio-political institutions and personal and political freedom for centuries. It is historically based in the foundations of W …

This book seeks to interrogate the classical fiqh formulation on gender and homicide with a view to exploring further the debate on whether the so-called gender injustice in Islamic law is a human cr …

Permanent States of Emergency and the Rule of Law explores the impact that oxymoronic ”permanent” states of emergency have on the validity and effectiveness of constitutional norms and, ultimately, …

This book analyses the Nordic constitutional systems of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden in a comparative context. It has two main aims: first to fill a gap in the literature by providing …

This exploration of penal censure is inspired by the 40th anniversary of the publication of Andreas von Hirsch”s Doing Justice, which opened up a fresh set of issues in theorisation about punishment …

William Blackstone”s Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-69) is perhaps the most elegant and influential legal text in the history of the common law. By one estimate, Blackstone has been cited …

Founding moments are landmark events that break ties with the ancien régime and lay the foundation for the establishment of a new constitutional order. They are often radically disruptive episodes in …