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  • The Evolution of International Arbitration

    Judicialization, Governance, Legitimacy

    by Alec Stone Sweet, Florian Grisel ...
    The development of international arbitration as an autonomous legal order comprises one of the most remarkable stories of institution building at the global level over the past century. Today, transnational firms and states settle their most important commercial and investment disputes not in courts, but in arbitral centres, a tightly networked set of organizations that compete with one another ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Proportionality Balancing and Constitutional Governance

    A Comparative and Global Approach

    by Alec Stone Sweet, Jud Mathews ...
    In this book, Alec Stone Sweet and Jud Mathews focus on the law and politics of rights protection in democracies, and in human rights regimes in Europe, the Americas, and Africa. After introducing the basic features of modern constitutions, with their emphasis on rights and judicial review, the authors present a theory of proportionality that explains why constitutional judges embraced it. ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Judicial Construction of Europe

    by Alec Stone Sweet ...
    The law and politics of European integration have been inseparable since the 1960s, when the European Court of Justice rendered a set of foundational decisions that gradually served to 'constitutionalize' the Treaty of Rome. In this book, Alec Stone Sweet, one of the world's foremost social scientists and legal scholars, blends deductive theory, quantitative analysis of aggregate data, and ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • The Law and Politics of International Human Rights Courts

    The Dilemma of Effectiveness

    by Alec Stone Sweet, Wayne Sandholtz ...
    Combining perspectives from law and the social sciences, this book provides an account of the origins and evolution of six regional human rights courts. In each of these cases, judges sought to overcome political forces and legal obstacles that threatened to render the regime stillborn. Alec Stone Sweet and Wayne Sandholtz focus on the struggle to raise standards of rights protection within multi ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • A Cosmopolitan Legal Order

    Kant, Constitutional Justice, and the European Convention on Human Rights

    by Alec Stone Sweet, Clare Ryan ...
    In this book, Alec Stone Sweet and Clare Ryan provide an accessible introduction to Kantian constitutional theory and the law and politics of European rights protection. Part I sets out Kant's blueprint for achieving Perpetual Peace and constitutional justice within and beyond the nation state. Part II applies these ideas to explain the gradual constitutionalization of a Cosmopolitan Legal Order: ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • The European Court and National Courts

    Doctrine & Jurisprudence: Legal Change in its Social Context

    Edited by Professor Anne Marie Slaughter, Professor Alec Stone Sweet, Joseph Weiler ...
    The essays comprising this volume are the outcome of a major and unique project which looks in detail at the application of EC law by national courts and the interaction of the demands of EC law with the constraints imposed by national legal orders and,especially, national constitutional orders. The volume comprises seven country studies which are shaped around a common research protocol. These ... Read more

    $210.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Delegation

    Edited by Alec Stone Sweet, Mark Thatcher ...
    There is a growing interest in delegation to non-majoritarian institutions in Europe, following both the spread of principal-agent theory in political science and law and increasing delegation in practice. During the 1980s and 1990s, governments and parliaments in West European nations have delegated powers and functions to non-majoritarian bodies - the EU, independent central banks, ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • European Integration and Supranational Governance

    Edited by Wayne Sandholtz, Alec Stone Sweet ...
    The European Union began in 1957 as a treaty among six nations but today constitutes a supranational polity - one that creates rules that are binding on its 15 member countries and their citizens. This majesterial study confronts some of the most enduring questions posed by the remarkable evolution of the EU: Why does policy-making sometimes migrate from the member states to the European Union? ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

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    Foundations and Challenges

    by Paul Craig ...
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    Paul Craig's analysis of UK, EU and global administrative law examines the challenges facing each system and reveals the commonalities in and differences between their foundational assumptions. The challenges which they face may be particular to that legal order, endemic to any legal system of administrative law or the result of interaction between the three systems. The inter-relationship between ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Democracy When the People Are Thinking

    Revitalizing Our Politics Through Public Deliberation

    by James S. Fishkin ...
    Democracy requires a connection to the 'will of the people'. What does that mean in a world of 'fake news', relentless advocacy, dialogue mostly among the like-minded, and massive spending to manipulate public opinion? What kind of opinion can the public have under such conditions? What would democracy be like if the people were really thinking in depth about the policies they must live with? If ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law

    Edited by Michel Rosenfeld, András Sajó ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The field of comparative constitutional law has grown immensely over the past couple of decades. Once a minor and obscure adjunct to the field of domestic constitutional law, comparative constitutional law has now moved front and centre. Driven by the global spread of democratic government and the expansion of international human rights law, the prominence and visibility of the field, among judges ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 3

    The Political Order of a Free People

    by Friedrich A. Hayek ...
    Series Book 3 - Law, Legislation and Liberty
    Incisive, straightforward, and eloquent, this third and concluding volume of F. A. Hayek's comprehensive assessment of the basic political principles which order and sustain free societies contains the clearest and most uncompromising exposition of the political philosophy of one of the world's foremost economists. ... Read more

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