This book provides background on intellectual property rights (IPR) and discusses the role of U.S. international trade policy in enhancing IPR prot...

This book provides background on intellectual property rights (IPR) and discusses the role of U.S. international trade policy in enhancing IPR prot...

With the number of airplane passengers using U.S. airports expected to grow to almost 1 billion by the year 2015, ground access to U.S. airports ha...

The United Kingdom's Intellectual Property Office commissioned two consultants to undertake an international comparison of approaches to online cop...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first global permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for 'the most s...

One month after the International Criminal Court (ICC) officially came into existence on July 1, 2002, the President signed the American Servicemem...

Malekian introduces two new terms into the system of international criminal law. These are the law of somebodiness and the law of nobodiness. From ...

This book addresses the international criminal law of children, which constitutes one of the major branches of public international criminal law. I...

International Law: Quo Vadis? defines ‘international financial law’, considers the nature of the rules that this subject comprises, and presents a ...

The region that once comprised the Soviet Union has been the scene of crises with serious implications for international law. Some of these, like t...

The region that once comprised the Soviet Union has been the scene of crises with serious implications for international law. Some of these, like t...

This volume deals with legal issues concerning Russia’s annexation of Crimea and intervention in the Donbas, so-called ‘frozen conflicts’ and ‘hybr...

This volume deals with legal issues concerning Russia’s annexation of Crimea and intervention in the Donbas, so-called ‘frozen conflicts’ and ‘hybr...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), conceived at the Bretton Woods conference in July 1944, is the multilateral organisation focused on the inte...

Why does the Global North appear to be having a crisis of political will when it comes to welcoming refugees and migrants into their countries? Is ...

U.S. trade obligations derive from international trade agreements, including the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the other World Tra...

This book presents a review of the federal criminal statutes implicated by conducting illegal gambling using the Internet. It also discusses some o...

This is a brief summary of the federal criminal status implicated by conducting illegal gambling using the Internet. It also discusses some of the ...

The Internet is often described as a "network of networks" because it is not a single physical entity, but hundreds of thousands of interconnected ...

This book addresses important issues at the intersection of copyright law and Internet policy. It is the result of a comprehensive, multi-year revi...

Samuel Pufendorf was a pivotal figure in the early German Enlightenment and, along with Grotius, the great renewer of natural law theory. His versi...

The financing of the federal government depends largely upon Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) ability to collect taxes, including providing taxpaye...

The Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) collection program largely uses automated processes to categorise and route unpaid tax or unfiled tax return c...

The Exempt Organizations (EO) unit within the Tax Exempt and Government Entities (TE/GE) division at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reviews org...

It is widely held that foreign affairs, and more particularly issues of war and peace, lie beyond the scope of judicial scrutiny. In the recent cas...

Local television stations play an important role in educating, entertaining, and informing the citizens they serve. FCC limits the number of televi...

In March 1967 South Australian AttorneyGeneral Don Dunstan appointed his state's most outstanding barrister as Chief Justice. In public, Bray's app...

On 16 March 2016, President Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit) ...

Judge Sonia Sotomayor was nominated by President Obama to the U.S. Supreme Court on May 26, 2009. This book explores and examines selected opinions...

In the realm of jurisprudence, the issue of jurisdiction can be quite complicated. The select analyses provided in this book examine some of the my...

The present survey aims to focus on the delimitation of some definitive findings. The simple choice of terminology is charged with consequences on ...

This book examines the decisions of retiring Justice John Paul Stevens with regard to: select federalism issues; the constitutionality of congressi...

The readings in Justice include the central philosophical statements about justice in society organized to illustrate both the political vision of ...