Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Law Handbooks

The connection between organized labor and democracy in contemporary global politics is not well understood. This handbook fills that gap by exploring the role of labor in constructing democratic regimes; deepening democracy by expanding social and economic citizenship rights; and defending democracy against authoritarian challenges.

The most comprehensive and systematic study of the impact of AI on private law, this volume uses an interdisciplinary and comparative approaches. It is timely, as various organizations and nations are drafting regulations, guidelines, and principles to address the use of AI in a wide range of areas.

Covering expert reports of nineteen jurisdictions across four continents, this Handbook re-examines the positions of shareholders in a comparative, global, and empirical setting. Useful for researchers, policymakers, and corporate professionals, it shows how shareholders use their voting rights to finance the activities of their companies.

"Despite a long and venerable tradition, the material constitution almost disappeared from constitutional scholarship after the Second World War. Its marginalisation saw the rise of a normative and legalistic style in constitutional law that neglected the role of social reality and political economy. This collection not only retrieves the history and development of the concept of the material constitution, but it tests its theoretical and practical relevance in the contemporary world. With essays from a diverse range of contributors, the collection demonstrates that the material constitution speaks to several pressing issues, from the significance of economic development in constitutional orders to questions of constitutional identity. Offering original analyses supported by international case studies, this book develops a new model of constitutional reality, one that informs our understanding of the world in profound ways"--

Despite the global endorsement of the Sustainable Development Goals, environmental justice struggles are growing all over the world. These struggles are not isolated injustices, but symptoms of interlocking forms of oppression that privilege the few while inflicting misery on the many and threatening ecological collapse. This handbook offers critical perspectives on the multi-dimensional, intersectional nature of environmental injustice and the cross-cutting forms of oppression that unite and divide these struggles, including gender, race, poverty, and indigeneity. The work sheds new light on the often-neglected social dimension of sustainability and its relationship to human rights and environmental justice. Using a variety of legal frameworks and case studies from around the world, this volume illustrates the importance of overcoming the fragmentation of these legal frameworks and social movements in order to develop holistic solutions that promote justice and protect the planet's ecosystems at a time of intensifying economic and ecological crisis.

Combining conceptual insights with empirical data, this handbook explains what compliance is, what mechanisms and interventions shape it, how it is studied, and how it functions in practice across different sectors. It is for academics studying compliance and regulation and professionals managing compliance systems or forms of regulatory oversight.

Compliance, or the behavioral response to legal rules, has become an important topic for academics and practitioners. A large body of work exists that describes different influences on business compliance, but a fundamental challenge remains: how to measure compliance or noncompliance behavior itself? Without proper measurement, it's impossible to evaluate existing management and regulatory enforcement practices. Measuring Compliance provides the first comprehensive overview of different approaches that are or could be used to measure compliance by business organizations. The book addresses the strengths and weaknesses of various methods and offers both academics and practitioners guidance on which measures are best for different purposes. In addition to understanding the importance of measuring compliance and its potential negative effects in a variety of contexts, readers will learn how to collect data to answer different questions in the compliance domain, and how to offer suggestions for improving compliance measurement.

Debates on the human-rights implications of new and emerging technologies have been hampered by the lack of a comprehensive theoretical framework for the complex issues involved. This volume provides that framework, bringing a multidisciplinary and international perspective to the evolution of human rights in the digital and biotechnological era. It delves into the latest frontiers of technological innovation in the life sciences and information technology sectors, such as neurotechnology, robotics, genetic engineering, and artificial intelligence. Leading experts from the technological, medical, and social sciences as well as law, philosophy, and business share their extensive knowledge about the transformation of the rights framework in response to technological innovation. In addition to providing a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and international state-of-the art descriptive analysis, the volume also offers policy recommendations to protect and promote human rights in the context of emerging socio-technological trends.

A reference work on the theoretical foundations of sanctioning that reviews the practice of nineteen countries, this handbook will be used by law and business academics, students, practicing lawyers, and enforcers from all over the world who are interested in competition law and policy, and in sanctioning policies in general.

This book is for scholars and practitioners across all disciplines who are interested in understanding and rethinking the management and governance of many kinds of shared resources, including natural resources, digital resources, knowledge and intellectual resources, and housing and other urban infrastructure, among others.

What makes some goods and services fundamentally public and why? Sometimes public entities are superior because of the quality of their decisions or the fairness of their decision-making procedures. At other times, they have intrinsic value. This volume explores the justifications for public provision and the justifications for state's authority.

This volume assesses and analyzes legal aspects of technical standards and standardization, focusing on key areas including administrative, trade, copyright, trademark, and certification law. It will serve as an indispensable tool for scholars, practitioners, judges, and policymakers everywhere.

This book gives legal practitioners, academics, and law students a comprehensive look at the main impacts of artificial intelligence use in legal practice. Contributors identify the main challenges surrounding a legally compliant and ethical development of AI and craft a framework for analyzing the costs and benefits of new technology.

Promoting entrepreneurial action is a fundamental goal of the U.S. legal system. Assembling legal experts from diverse fields, this volume examines how law facilitates or impedes entrepreneurial action. The book is a definitive source for students, academics, policy makers, and practitioners.

Exploring the often-neglected social dimension of sustainability and its relationship to human rights and environmental justice, this book is a resource for scholars, students and practitioners. It examines intersecting forms of oppression that produce environmental injustice, including subordination based on gender, race, poverty, and indigeneity.

Combining conceptual insights with empirical data, this handbook explains what compliance is, what mechanisms and interventions shape it, how it is studied, and how it functions in practice across different sectors. It is for academics studying compliance and regulation and professionals managing compliance systems or forms of regulatory oversight.

In this timely work, leading labor scholars analyze the decline in unions and offer a variety of innovative law reforms to reverse that trend. It will appeal to academics and students in law, economics, public policy, and industrial relations, as well as policymakers and practitioners interested in labor questions.

This collaboration between scholars, legal practitioners, and technology experts analyzes the ongoing evolution of smart contracts, based upon blockchain technology, from the perspective of existing legal frameworks. It will interest anyone interested in the disruptive effect of new technologies on the law generally, and contract law in particular.

This volume provides a comprehensive collection of essays on police and policing, written by leading experts in political theory, sociology, criminology, economics, law, public health, and critical theory. This accessible, interdisciplinary work will be valuable for anyone interested in understanding the present and future of policing in the US.

This volume offers a novel look at intellectual property issues through the lens of the post-socialist and transitional experience in Central and Eastern European countries as well as a thought-provoking critique of current approaches, and builds a compelling case for cogent policymaking.

This groundbreaking volume, edited by Jorge L. Contreras, assesses and analyzes the legal aspects of technical standards and standardization, shedding new light on how they shape the global technology marketplace and serving as an indispensable tool for scholars, practitioners, judges, and policymakers everywhere.

This volume provides a comprehensive collection of essays on police and policing, written by leading experts in political theory, sociology, criminology, economics, law, public health, and critical theory. This accessible, interdisciplinary work will be valuable for anyone interested in understanding the present and future of policing in the US.

In this timely work, leading labor scholars analyze the decline in unions and offer a variety of innovative law reforms to reverse that trend. It will appeal to academics and students in law, economics, public policy, and industrial relations, as well as policymakers and practitioners interested in labor questions.