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This book provides a thorough reconsideration of Joan of Arc’s 1431 trial, detailing the canon law of inquisitorial procedure and the ways in which the trial failed to follow the requirements. Kelly analyzes other trials of the time which did follow canon law:...
This book explores the resilience and longevity of President Yoweri Museveni’s regime in Uganda, tracing the evolution of the National Resistance Army (NRA) from a victorious insurgency into one of Africa’s most enduring regimes. It challenges the assumption...
The Arctic that emerged over the past forty years became one of the most innovative policy environments in the world.The region developed impressive systems for intra-regional cooperation, responded to the challenges of rapid environmental change, empowered and engaged...
Court decisions can neither be made nor drafted without references to other texts; citations are omnipresent in judicial rulings. Every decision takes relevant normative texts or precedents into account, primarily to ensure coherent case law. Through the act of...
This book critically examines the failures and contradictions of UK drug policy, exposing how current laws disproportionately target marginalised communities while overlooking the widespread harms of legal substances like alcohol. Drawing on the author’s unique...
The Revenge Porn Helpline was founded in 2015 following the criminalisation of the sharing of intimate images without consent and has received over 75,000 cases. This accessible book uses this significant empirical resource to not only study the nature and evolution of...
This book builds upon a successful first edition to provide a renewed account of climate justice and governance.This second edition book examines international climate change mitigation and adaptation regimes with the aim of proposing fair climate stability...
This book examines the main viewpoints and arguments on key issues that are currently under debate globally, on digital trade governance.This includes international trade and investment facilitation, cross-border data flow and storage, privacy protection, consumer...
This book delves into the testimonies of 22 pivotal individuals intricately connected to the Petrobras Operation Car Wash scandal, a significant event that exposed the involvement of influential government and business leaders in a complicated web of corruption,...
This open access book provides an overview of the credit distribution ecosystem in Europe, with a specific focus on the definitions, laws, and authorities related to the figures of credit intermediaries (credit agents and brokers). It explores the regulatory framework,...
This book assesses and critiques the legal right of access to government-held information in China with a special focus on legislative history, rationales, statutory language and efficacy of the Open Government Information (OGI) Regulations enacted in 2007 by the...
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of how changes in microprudential and macroprudential regulations—specifically, regulatory capital requirements—affect the lending behaviour of Canadian banks. Drawing on empirical data, the study explores three key...
This book examines the legal, political and theological functions of the British coronation. Coronations as understood in the traditional western European sense, are, in those countries which remain monarchies, increasingly rarely found, though they are far from...
The book provides a critical analysis of the nexus between climate change, security and politics, especially in relation to the role and impact of societal agencies such as states, corporations, military, financial institutions and community organizations in framing and...
In two volumes, this handbook covers in a comprehensive, internally balanced, systematic and detailed way the field of European Union (EU) banking law and regulation. The present Volume II builds on Volume I, which offered a brief introduction to the theory of banking...
The monograph presents scenarios of situations where foreign investments suffer damage. These model scenarios are based on thorough analysis of real cases, facts from the ground and recent arbitral practice (relating namely to arbitrations against Russia, Syria or...
This book reflects the outcome of the Single Resolution Board (SRB) Legal Conference, held in Brussels on 6 June 2024. The conference brought together prominent practitioners, globally-renowned academics and high-level judges to exchange views and experiences over...
This book investigates the role of Sir Robert Hart in China’s early engagement with Western international law, covering the period from Hart’s earliest days as Inspector General of the foreign-dominated Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs (CIMC) to his final...
This slim book addresses one of the most vexed questions about governance and politics in natural resources-rich, albeit poor, countries across the world. Why have most states in natural resources-rich developing countries failed to regulate their artisanal and...
This book discusses non-bank financial intermediation as an alternative or complement to formal banking. With a focus on emerging and developing economies, which face far greater consequences of high risk taking and withdrawal of credit from their financial systems, the...
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