Philanthropy at scale has re-emerged as an influential global force within social policy design and programmes. This chapter describes the emerging interest in the academic
study of ‘Big Philanthropy’ and highlights the lack of dedicated analysis of philanthropy from a social policy lens, to which the present Handbook is a response. [...]
This volume identifies a coherent legal principle in order to establish a novel duty of care for corporate human rights violations and environmental damages. It examines whether
tort and civil law offer better accountability and remedies for victims of corporate human rights abuses, and carries out an in-depth and critical analysis of the [...]
As a highly prolific legal mechanism that both predated and subsequently found form amid the development of Anglo-American capitalist societies, the modern-day trust operates
across manifold private, commercial, domestic and international spheres. As a consequence of their complex legal, economic and political significance that informs, [...]
This article draws upon an original empirical research study in England and Wales that identifies how children at the centre of Hague parental child abduction proceedings exercise
their participatory rights under Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 (UNCRC). [...]
This book provides an insight into commercial relations between large economies and Small States, the benefits of regional integration, the role of Small States as financial
centres as well as B2B and State to State dispute resolution involving Small States. [...]
This chapter advances the claim that, notwithstanding the important instrumental element to the Nazi regime’s use of law, there is an a priori theoretical question to address
about the nature of the concept of instrumentalism and the concept of “law” when confronting Nazi law. [...]
In this book, Leah R. Clark examines collecting practices across the Italian Renaissance courts, exploring the circulation, exchange, collection, and display of objects. Rather
than focusing on patronage strategies or the political power of individual collectors, she uses the objects themselves to elucidate the dynamic relationships formed [...]
The prevailing theory of charity law holds that the charitable contribution deduction is justified because it solves market and government failures in charitable goods by compensating
for free riding on charitable contributions. This Article argues that many market and government failures in charitable goods are actually caused by transaction costs, [...]
The authors how to make, or rather to restate, the case for the protection of reports and information generated during internal investigations at public colleges and universities.
The results of an informal survey of university lawyers and Equal Protection Opportunity ("EEO") officers conducted by one of the authors prior to a presentation [...]
