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This book explores gender justice, power relations, and social transformation in India by providing an ethnographic, socio-legal view of Nari Adalats (women's courts) and the family disputes that take place before them, in rural northern Karnataka, South India.

The book offers an ethnography of the everyday workings of Nari Adalats based on qualitative interviews, document analysis, and participant observation in a variety of settings where family law and gender justice are negotiated. The book argues that it is essential to examine societal legal forums and the social dynamics within the family (and its social environment) to better understand how changes in gender and power relations can occur. Chapters analyse five cases of Hindu, Muslim and tribal women pursuing claims, and seven further cases of lower caste Hindu women who became judges of the Nari Adalat (one of them a jury member); taken together, they provide rich insights into how successful legal outcomes are achieved, and the structural conditions inherent in the space. Ultimately, the book highlights how Nari Adalats are fundamentally women-centred spaces that challenge gender hierarchies, feminize the public sphere, and reconceptualise gender and ethnic relations in rural India.

Providing an exploration of caste, class, and religion in the wider context of gender justice, the volume will appeal to scholars and postgraduates in the fields of socio-legal studies, in particular gender and justice issues, gender studies, South Asian studies, and legal anthropology.

Key Features:

• Enables readers to locate and extract core passages from the ECtHR's procedural case-law
• Presents case-law pertaining to cross-cutting matters emerging from the Court's case-law that have implications across the Convention system
• Traces the lines of jurisprudence and the evolution of Strasbourg case-law from its inception in 1961 to the present
• Systematically analyses specific provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights from the perspective of the Court's case-law, cutting through peripheral detail to consolidate the most critical legal information

The European Convention on Human Rights: Volume II, Procedure is an essential resource for legal practitioners and scholars needing to understand the Court's position on procedure, and forms an ideal companion to The European Convention on Human Rights: Volume I, Substantive Rights.

The Research Handbook considers how branded content is governed in different jurisdictions, providing comparative and transferrable insights which demonstrate how familiar legal tools can be stretched when influence is built cumulatively through design, targeting and delivery. Contributors analyse the interplay between the rules aimed at limiting harm in high-risk or sensitive contexts, the intellectual property boundaries that advertising routinely presses against, and the platform- and data-driven machinery of contemporary promotion. While recognising that there is no single, all-purpose solution, they take a future-facing rather than futurist approach. Expert authors engage with contemporary advertising challenges such as the meta-verse and propose practical ways of thinking about reform.

Providing a map of current doctrine and emerging pressure points, this Research Handbook is an invaluable resource for advertising, consumer, and media law scholars and students. Advertising regulators, policy officials and practitioners in the field will also benefit from its practical insights.

This enlightening Research Agenda explores international refugee law through marginalised topics and perspectives. A diverse array of leading experts propose new research avenues for centring forgotten voices at a time of increasingly complex and rampant government-fuelled xenophobia.

Chapters assess how states have shrewdly adapted to changes in migration patterns and causation, resulting in difficulties in ensuring the humane treatment of migrants. Contributors decentre Eurocentric frameworks to legitimise and prioritise the lived experiences of displaced persons, allowing them to interrogate the impact of colonialism in refugee scholarship and practices. The Research Agenda moves beyond the limitations of asylum law regimes to focus more broadly on mobility, decolonialism and feminist approaches. It encourages scholars to partner with displaced persons, reframing refugee law to reflect the realities of those it is designed to protect.

A Research Agenda for Refugee Law is a vital resource for scholars and students of refugee law, international law and politics and public policy. Human rights lawyers and asylum workers will similarly benefit from its radical lens and reconceptualisation of the field.

Colonial Intellectual Property: The Case of the Congo examines the implementation of the Belgian system of intellectual property in the Congo. For the colonized people, some realms of colonial intellectual property such as patents remained closed for a long time, and other domains opened possibilities for participation, such as copyrights. Based on research in unpublished archives in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Belgium, this book is the first to trace the history of intellectual property in the Congo, following a chronological and thematic structure.

The first chapter focuses on the implementation of the patent system in colonial Congo and examines the activity of international entrepreneurs who considered patent-taking as an investment in a coercive colonial regime. Chapter two turns to trademarks, and examines both the sociology of entrepreneurs, and the use of stereotypes in brand images. Chapter three further examines the issue of geographical indications of origins, as well as design registration and the place of the commons. Copyrights are the main theme of chapter four. During the postwar era, a group of Congolese musicians exercised their rights in the management of their intellectual property dues. They worked in partnership with the Kinshasa branch of a Belgian collective management society, until they founded in 1959 the SACO, Societe des Auteurs congolais. Chapter 5 then turns to the decolonization, during which the Democratic Republic of the Congo became an independent voice in the international associations for intellectual property.

This book will appeal to all those interested in the history of colonialism in Africa.

Adopting an innovative approach that integrates legal analysis, case-law review, adjudicator interviews and multi-stakeholder focus groups, chapters examine how adjudicators navigate between standardised guidance and individual discretion. Parziale draws on qualitative research from five European legal systems to demonstrate the cognitive processes of decision-makers as well as the design flaws in key guidelines. Making a normative contribution to the field, the book proposes that well-designed standardisation can, under certain conditions, promote both equal treatment and personalisation in NPD awards more effectively than discretionary approaches.

Breaking the Damages Lottery is an essential resource for scholars of tort law, comparative law and EU private law. National and EU-level policymakers and legislative advisers, as well as legal practitioners in personal injury law, will equally benefit from its comparative discussions and practical insights.

Tuori investigates the role of the Commission in assisting with constitution-making in post-socialist countries, before assessing diplomacy and rule-of-law regression constitutional auditing following the break-up of Yugoslavia. Chapters examine the Commission's activities and doctrine through a political lens, illustrated by timely case studies focusing on Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland, Tuerkiye and Ukraine. The book dissects the relationship between the Commission's success and its inclusion in CoE and EU conditionality and monitoring, blurring the boundary between soft and hard law.

The Venice Commission is a crucial resource for students and scholars of constitutional and administrative law and human rights. The insights are also invaluable to legal practitioners, especially those with an interest in consulting and rule-of-law monitoring.

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This book examines the justification for restitutionary awards for a failure of condition and considers when, given this justification, such awards should be made.

It argues that such awards give effect to, but do not enforce, an agreement between the parties. In recent years, this question has been the focus of more scrutiny and scepticism on the part of private law scholars. Adding to this scepticism, this study promotes a new 'agreement theory' of failure of condition, which offers a much less controversial way of understanding the role of restitution in such failures.

Innovative and thought-provoking, this is a significant new way of considering awards for failure of condition.

What does it look like for host communities in international health research to be treated fairly?

Multinational pharmaceutical companies and research funding institutions from high-income countries frequently sponsor clinical trials in low- and middle-income countries, where underdeveloped health and welfare systems raise significant ethical concerns. The power asymmetry between well-resourced foreign sponsors and local communities with limited bargaining power further amplifies concerns of unjust treatment and fears of exploitation.

By drawing upon arguments from health research ethics; political philosophy, particularly global distributive justice; and the literature on the principle of fair play, this book addresses a significant gap in the current discourse: the lack of a solid conceptual foundation for the claim that host communities are entitled to fair benefits. Felicitas Holzer discusses concerns related to structural injustice and proposes alternative mechanisms to secure fair benefits for host communities. Ultimately, Holzer argues that obligations of fair benefit-sharing arise from the requirements of fair cooperation between distinct stakeholders.

This book examines how domestic laws project influence beyond national borders, analyzing why certain regulations and enforcement agencies achieve disproportionate global reach, reshaping foreign legal frameworks and compelling international corporate compliance.

Departing from traditional international law's focus on abstract jurisdictional principles, this book examines extraterritoriality through concrete regulatory regimes, particularly the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). These regimes exemplify transnational business regulation as a hybrid legal framework, combining administrative and criminal law tools to transcend national boundaries. The text also brings a Global South perspective, grounded in Brazil's firsthand experience with the extraterritorial application of U.S. and European laws. Through comparative case studies of high-profile enforcement actions in Brazil, the book reveals how powerful jurisdictions can reshape legal orders in the Global South, and how the ideal of equitable sovereignty and multilateral solutions under international law has been increasingly challenged by extraterritorial regulatory practices.

This book will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of business law, international law, transnational law, and the sociology of law.

"[The] written style is admirably clear, conversational and free from jargon ... It will be of immense interest to anybody with a general interest in UK law, politics and history." Times Higher Education

This engaging, authoritative text has, since its very first edition, maintained its position as the market-leading introduction to the constitution of the United Kingdom. Adopting a thematic approach, it discusses questions of history, sources and conventions, the role of the Crown, Parliament and the electoral system, government and the executive, the judiciary, and the territorial distribution of power. In addition, it offers analysis of the evolution of the UK's historic non-codified constitution, its strengths and perceived weaknesses, and of reform initiatives. The new edition systematically examines the impact of the recent developments, including how COVID changed how government operated, the revolving door of Prime Ministers, the election of the Labour government, and the accession of King Charles III.

Though introductory in approach, it does not shy away from the complexity of the constitutional landscape in the United Kingdom. It provides a contextual overview of the principles, doctrines and institutions that underpin the elusive constitution, allowing students of law and politics, both from the UK and abroad, to develop an informed view of how it actually works.