The research focus of the paper is on the relation between general principles, fundamental rights and the rule of law in the EU. The role of the judiciary is evaluated through

the prism of the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) with a particular focus on the formula, introduced in the Associação Sindical dos Juízes [...]

This article examines the changes required to make the green transition more inclusive and sustainable from an international human rights perspective. Indigenous peoples have

been challenging the ways in which this transition is taking place, using the phrase “green colonialism.” Although, in many countries, it has become common to [...]

This paper examines an ongoing trade dispute initiated by the US in 2023 over Mexico’s nationwide prohibition on using GE corn for human consumption, focusing on the volume

of the legal arguments related to the indigenous exception clause under Article 32.5 USMCA that allows state parties to deviate from all other treaty obligations, [...]

The article provides a comprehensive exploration of the legal protection of traditional knowledge of Arctic Indigenous Peoples, emphasizing the vital role this knowledge plays

in their cultural and spiritual identity. It begins by highlighting the unique and symbiotic relationship between Arctic Indigenous Peoples and their environment, [...]

The concept of globalization has gradually permeated criminology, but more so as applied to transnational organized crime, international terrorism and policing than in addressing

processes of criminal justice reform. Based on a wide range of bibliographic and web resources, this article assesses the extent to which a combination of neo-liberal [...]

This book provides an introduction to the history of crime and crime control. It explains the historical background that is essential for an understanding of contemporary criminal

justice, and examines the historical context for contemporary criminological debates. [...]

[From the introduction]. Rosalind Crone’s chapter also considers popular crime and justice literature in the early and mid-nineteenth century, but concentrates on some different

types of publications: broadsides and mass-circulation newspapers, especially the Sunday papers. [...]

[About the book] There has been a widespread resurgence of rights talk in social and legal discourses pertaining to the regulation of family life, as well as an increase in

the use of rights in family law cases, in the UK, the US, Canada and Australia. Rights, Gender and Family Law addresses the implications of these developments – [...]

This book addresses the relevance of the state of exception for the analysis of law; whilst reflecting on the deeper symbolic and jurisprudential significance of the coalescence

between law and force. The concept of the state of exception has become a central topos in political and legal philosophy as well as in critical theory. [...]

This work discusses these issues in light of a recent decision protecting the Batmobile as a character in its own right, before evaluating the extent to which ‘character’

receives copyright protection. Indeed, this chapter argues that granting copyright protection to the Batmobile as a character is absurd—an absurdity that can be [...]