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This book examines various policies, including legal and commercial aspects of the Open Source phenomenon. Here, 'Open Source' is used as shorthand for a diverse set of users and communities, whose differences can be as great as their similarities.…

Fashion law covers a wide range of issues related to clothing or fashion accessories, from the moment the product is designed and followed through the distribution and marketing phases, until it reaches the end user. Contract law, intellectual…

Law essentially tends to think locally, not globally. This book has a broader scope in terms of country coverage and offers a brief journey through law schools on different continents and in different subjects. This includes education, research,…

This book discusses the role of law in the adaptive management of socio-ecological systems. Recent years have seen increased discussion regarding the relationship between adaptation and law, as if after decades of unfocus, legal scholars are finally…

This book analyzes the specifics of the lawmaking activities carried out by European constitutional courts. The main hypothesis is that currently the constitutional court is a positive legislator whose position in the state organ system needs to be…

Global systemically important banks (G-SIBs) are the largest, most complex and, in the event of their potential failure, most threatening banking institutions in the world. The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was a turning point for G-SIBs, many of…

This book introduces experiential knowledge of the intersectionality of disability, sexuality, and gender equality issues. Scholars and disabled persons’ organizations in different Asian countries such as China, Vietnam, Myanmar, Nepal, and Japan…

Drawing on the archives of the Black Panther Party and the National Black Women’s Health Project, Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present.

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book draws on the accounts of 170 individuals who had, or led, a wedding ceremony outside the legal framework. The authors examine what these ceremonies can tell us about how couples…

This book presents a new method for measuring the effectivity of national and international environmental law. It took four years of research and experimentation to develop a way to construct evidence-based legal indicators. The existing…