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Most academic literature focuses on the position of the child in relation to the parent or the state. In reality, the law is more concerned with the role and function of parents, and this new book addresses the key issues of parental rights and responsibilities.

This book provides comparative and detailed case studies of thirteen autonomies from around the world, in which noted experts outline the constitutional, legal and institutional frameworks as well as how these arrangements have worked in practice to protect minority rights and prevent secession of the territories in question.

This anthology contains a variety of Southern perspectives on human rights and contemporary issues relating to Islam, African custom, constitution making and abuses of the language of human rights.

The third edition of this text is designed to bring the reader up to date with developments in consumer law up to 1999. It includes material on utilities and financial services regulation.

This anthology contains a variety of Southern perspectives on human rights and contemporary issues relating to Islam, African custom, constitution making and abuses of the language of human rights.

Previous editions of this text have consistently been a favourite amongst common law lawyers. This up-to-date volume provides an advanced analysis of the law of contract for undergraduate courses covering the law of contract and the law of obligations.

In the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of family law in the European Union, McGlynn critically analyses existing EU law in relation to childhood, parenthood and partnerships, providing a robust challenge to the arguments in favour of the codification of European civil law, including family law.

This work brings together eight linked essays which make the case for a revival of general jurisprudence in response to the challenges of globalisation, and explores how far the heritage of Anglo-American jurisprudence and comparative law is adequate to meeting the challenges.

European Labour Law explores how individual European national legal systems, in symbiosis with the European Union, produce a distinctly European transnational labour law system. This extensively updated second edition examines the system's limitations and the challenges it faces as the European Union's influence on this area of social policy grows.

This 2007 book explores environmental law from a range of perspectives, emphasising the policy world behind environmental law. A range of regulatory techniques is explored, through a close examination of both pollution control and land use, including case studies on the regulation of both genetically modified organisms and renewable energy projects.

Examining the diversity of perspectives and approaches in family law scholarship and drawing upon this work, this book provides an analysis of recent trends in family law from a socio-legal and feminist perspective, and questions the nature of the 'nuclear' family.

This 2004 book takes a global view of the fundamental legal issues raised by the advent of the Internet as an international communications mechanism. Legal and other materials are integrated to support the discussion of how technological, economic and political factors are shaping the law governing the Internet. For both students and practitioners.