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Free Download Emma Jones, "Wellbeing and Transitions in Law: Legal Education and the Legal Profession"
English | ISBN: 3031276531 | 2023 | 291 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book examines transitions from law school to the legal profession, and their impact on wellbeing. There is a significant body of evidence that suggests law student wellbeing is particularly problematic, partially due to the distinctive nature of law as a discipline. Similarly, there is a growing body of international evidence demonstrating poor levels of wellbeing within the legal profession, with lawyers suffering higher levels of stress, anxiety and depression than the general population. To date there has been no detailed consideration of the impact of these transitions on wellbeing, or discussion of the best ways to ameliorate any negative effects. This edited collection will explore a range of transitions, from entry into law school through to progression to managerial roles within the legal profession. Rather than focusing on discrete areas or chunks of time, this book focuses on the process of transitioning holistically.

Free Download Theories of Legal Obligation
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031540662 | 173 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 1.5 MB
This volume collects six original essays by internationally respected researchers who have devoted themselves to the study of legal obligation. It brings together works that innovatively address key dimensions of the current debates concerning legal obligation from different and, in some cases, even opposing theoretical perspectives. As a result, the collection offers a comprehensive discussion of legal obligation that promises to significantly advance our understanding of the obligatory dimension of law. What specifically connects the contributions gathered here is one common thread: coming to terms with a notion – legal obligation – that is of both practical and theoretical importance. On the one hand, it is widely regarded as a fundamental legal concept by legal practitioners and laypeople alike, as not only judges, prosecutors, lawyers, and juries but also ordinary citizens make extensive use of obligation-related terms and discourses. On the other hand, the notion of legal obligation is of paramount significance for the theory of law. Indeed, even legal theorists who, quite understandably, refuse to reduce the law to a mere obligation-imposing device and opt instead for a view in which the normative dimension of the law also encompasses powers, rights, permissions, privileges and immunities, duly acknowledge the centrality of legal obligation for the understanding and conceptualisation of law. Hence the importance of the treatments presented in this volume.

Free Download The International Legal Order in the XXIst Century: Essays in Honour of Professor Marcelo Gustavo Kohen
by Jorge E Viñuales, Andrew Clapham
English, Français, Español | 2023 | ISBN: 9004509410 | 1098 Pages | True PDF | 13.7 MB

Free Download Roger E. Reynolds, "Studies on Medieval Liturgical and Legal Manuscripts from Spain and Southern Italy "
English | ISBN: 1138375357 | 2018 | 332 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Though it may not be immediately obvious why articles on topics from such distantly removed areas of western Europe – the Iberian peninsula and southern Italy – should appear in the same volume (the fourth collection by Roger Reynolds), the materials covered illustrate that they are indeed closely related, both in their differences and their similarities. Both peninsulas had their own indigenous liturgies and music (Old Spanish and Beneventan), distinctive written scripts (Visigothic and Beneventan), and legal and theological traditions, and repeatedly these worked their influence on other areas of western Europe. Although there were frequent attempts by the papacy and secular rulers from the 9th to the 13th century to suppress these distinctive traditions in both areas, elements of these nonetheless survived well into the 16th century and beyond. Despite the differences in these traditions, the articles in this volume also demonstrate through manuscript evidence the continued exchange of the distinctive customs between the Iberian peninsula and southern Italian cultures from the very early Middle Ages through the 12th century.

Free Download Wojciech Załuski, "Research Handbook on Legal Evolution "
English | ISBN: 1803921811 | 2024 | 514 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Adopting an evolutionary perspective, this Research Handbook presents novel and cutting-edge insights into the interdisciplinary field of legal evolution. Engaging with various scientific approaches, it provides a versatile analysis of legal evolution, examining the field as a whole as well as in the context of specific branches of law.

Free Download Vesselin Popovski, "Reimagining the International Legal Order "
English | ISBN: 1032469331 | 2023 | 484 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1216 KB + 5 MB
International law is usually conservative, with lawyers and judges emphasizing consistency, stability and predictability as the major advantages of the law. Legal scholars often prefer not to challenge the status quo, to suggest amendments, or to reform institutions, advocating simply to focus on the implementation of the laws that already exist. This collection stands different. It shares the authors’ discomfort with the present legal order and some of its institutions and courts, and dives into either a corrective or a profound reimagination of these, so that they can better address rising global challenges. Leading experts in their areas present their new and cutting-edge perspectives. Divided into six parts, the volume paints a vast yet solid thematic landscape of unique and critical approaches. The book invites and allows for a deep engagement with a wide range of opinions from across the world. It enables a free and courageous reimagining of the international legal order, detached from the endless feasibility skepticism. The work will be fascinating reading for students, academics and researchers working in the areas of International Law and International Relations.

Free Download Alessandra Jerolleman, "People or Property: Legal Contradictions, Climate Resettlement, and the View from Shifting Ground "
English | ISBN: 3031368746 | 2024 | 268 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This open access book explores the intersection of property law, relocation, and resettlement processes in the United States and among communities that grapple with migration as an adaptation strategy. As communities face the prospect of relocating because of rising seas, policy makers, disaster specialists, and community leaders are scrambling to understand what adaptation pathways are legally possible. While in its ideal application, law functions blindly and without variation, the authors find that legal contradictions come to bear on resettlement processes and place certain communities further in harm’s way. This book will unearth these contradictions in order to understand why successful community-based resettlement has presented such a challenge to communities that are experiencing increasing land deterioration as a result of climate change.

Free Download David Pollard, "Pensions, Contracts and Trusts: Legal Issues on Decision Making"
English | ISBN: 1526511835 | 2020 | 640 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This is a topical area for the courts, which have moved to imply various limitations or tests on decision makers powers and when they can be challenged. This is made more difficult for lay users and lawyers alike in that implied restrictions are (by definition) not apparent from the words of the relevant contract itself.

Free Download David Pollard, "Pensions, Contracts and Trusts: Legal Issues on Decision Making"
English | ISBN: 1526511835 | 2020 | 640 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This is a topical area for the courts, which have moved to imply various limitations or tests on decision makers powers and when they can be challenged. This is made more difficult for lay users and lawyers alike in that implied restrictions are (by definition) not apparent from the words of the relevant contract itself.

Free Download Shahid Rahman, "New Developments in Legal Reasoning and Logic: From Ancient Law to Modern Legal Systems "
English | ISBN: 3030700836 | 2022 | 447 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book intends to unite studies in different fields related to the development of the relations between logic, law and legal reasoning. Combining historical and philosophical studies on legal reasoning in Civil and Common Law, and on the often neglected Arabic and Talmudic traditions of jurisprudence, this project unites these areas with recent technical developments in computer science.