David Bilchitz

Corporations can significantly affect the fundamental rights of individuals. This book investigates what legal obligations they have to respect, protect and realise these rights. In doing so, it addresses important conceptual issues surrounding fundamental rights…

Salvador Santino F. REGILME Jr.

Does foreign aid promote human rights? As the world’s largest aid donor, the United States has provided foreign assistance to more than 200 countries. Deploying global numerical data on US foreign aid and comparative historical analysis of America’s post–Cold War…

Edited by Arianna VEDASCHI and Kim Lane SCHEPPELE

Twenty years after the outbreak of the threat posed by international jihadist terrorism, which triggered the need for democracies to balance fundamental rights and security needs, 9/11 and the Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism Law offers an overview of counter-terrorism and…

Ali SHIRVANI

This book provides a hypothetical classification of constitutions through international law and human rights values used in any constitution, which draws connections between the inclusive standards of international law and human rights contained in the constitutions…

Oreste POLLICINO

This book explores how the Internet impacts on the protection of fundamental rights, particularly with regard to freedom of speech and privacy. In doing so, it seeks to bridge the gap between Internet Law and European and Constitutional Law.

Guillaume TUSSEAU

Contemporary constitutionalism grants judges a considerable role. Guarantors of compliance with the highest standard, they ensure the proper functioning of public authorities and the protection of fundamental rights. The most heated political antagonisms…

Tímea DRINÓCZI & Agnieszka BIEŃ-KACAŁA

This book theorizes illiberal constitutionalism by interrogation of the Rule of Law, democratic deterioration, and the misuse of the language and relativization of human rights protection, and its widespread emotional and value-oriented effect on the population…

Victoria MIYANDAZI

This book makes a significant contribution to the ongoing global conversations on the various understandings of equality. It illuminates the many ways in which diverse equality guarantees clash…

Edited by Li-ann THIO & Jaclyn L NEO

This book provides in-depth comparative analysis of how religious penal clauses have been developed and employed within Asian common law states, and the impact of such developments on constitutional rights…

Edited by Mariolina ELIANTONIO, Emilia KORKEA-AHO & Oana STEFAN

This volume analyses, for the first time in European studies, the impact that non-legally binding material (otherwise known as soft law) has on national courts and administration…

Edited by Ian LOVELAND

This book explores current human rights controversies arising in UK law, in the light of the way such matters have been dealt with in Canada…

Alexander HUDSON

Public participation is a vital part of constitution-making processes around the world, but we know very little about the extent to which participation affects constitutional texts. In this book, Alexander Hudson offers a systematic measurement of the impact of public participation in three much-cited cases…

Edited by Martin BELOV

What is the future of constitutionalism, state and law in the new technological age?

This edited collection explores the different aspects of the impact of information and technology revolution on state, constitutionalism and public law…

Edited by TT ARVIND, Richard KIRKHAM, Daithí Mac SÍTHIGH and Lindsay STIRTON

In this book, leading experts from across the common law world assess the impact of four seminal House of Lords judgments decided in the 1960s: Ridge v Baldwin, Padfeld v Minister of Agriculture, Conway v Rimmer, and Anisminic v Foreign Compensation Commission…

Edited by Kevin YL TAN and Ridwanul HOQU

This volume addresses the idea of origins, how things are formed, and how they relate to their present and future in terms of ‘constitution-making’ which is a continuous process in South Asian states. It examines the drafting…

John LAWS

In The Constitutional Balance, Sir John Laws has left a vivid and timely commentary on one of the most pressing issues in the legal world today.

The debate continues whether or not judges venture too far into issues of Government policy…

Andrew MCDONALD

This book presents the remarkable constitutional reforms undertaken by the Blair and Brown governments in the UK. The reforms are remarkable in that they had the potential to change the way Britons understood the national identity of the UK…

Harry HOBBS

Can the Australian state be restructured to empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and ensure that their distinct voices are heard in the processes of government? This book provides an answer to that question for Australia and provides guidance for all states that claim jurisdiction…

Edited by Tímea DRINÓCZI and Agnieszka BIEŃ-KACAŁA

This book challenges the idea that the Rule of Law is still a universal European value given its relatively rapid deterioration in Hungary and Poland, and the apparent inability of the European institutions to adequately address the illiberalization of these Member States.

This book (forthcoming, 14 February 2021) examines the risks to freedom of expression, particularly in relation to the internet, as a result of regulation introduced in response to terrorist threats.