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The Right to Personal Autonomy Regarding Sex, Gender and Sexual Orientation
The Case of Belgium
2022 || Hardcover || Pieter Cannoot || Eleven international publishing
In recent years, the fundamental rights of LGBTIQ+ persons have received increased legal attention at the international and national level. Considerable legal progress has been made in a short period of time, even though at the same time a divergent trend is occurring in several countries around the world.
The Right to Personal Autonomy Regarding Sex, Gender and Sexual Orientation investigates whether a legal framework based on (the recognition of a right to) personal autonomy regarding sex (...
Reflections on Democracy in the European Union
2020 || Hardcover || Afshin Ellian e.a. || Eleven international publishing
“This book is an enrichment for the standing debate about Europe and should be published and widely read and discussed.” – Boudewijn R.A. Bouckaert
Reflections on Democracy in de European Union, with a foreword by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, is a unique volume that offers an interdisciplinary approach on EU democracy, law and politics from economic, juridical and philosophical perspectives. It is divided in three parts and deals with EU’s contemporary challenges, its historical d...
The Open Society and Its Closed Communities
2021 || Hardcover || Afshin Ellian e.a. || Eleven international publishing
In the aftermath of the Second World War,
Karl Popper introduced his concept of the
“open society”. Poppers focussed primarily
on communism and fascism. Nowadays,
communism and fascism have faded
away as the primary challenges for open,
democratic states, but new challenges have
come to the fore. Closed communities pose
a significant challenge and sometimes a
threat to democratic values. What are those
closed communities? This book presents
a diagnosis of those closed communit...
Campaign Finance Law
A Comparative Constitutional Analysis Between the US, the UK and Greece
2021 || Hardcover || Orestis Omran || Eleven international publishing
This book provides a detailed analysis of the different principles that shape the constitutional background of campaign finance law. Through three indicative country specific examples, the author examines legislation and jurisprudence that reflect such principles and demonstrate the common and different approaches in this upcoming field of law as driven by different constitutional traditions.
This is the first time in legal scholarship that such an analytical effort is made to draw universal ...
South Asian Constitutional Systems
2020 || Hardcover || Domenico Amirante || Eleven international publishing
This book examines the South Asian constitutional systems (India 1950, Bangladesh 1972, Pakistan 1973, Sri Lanka 1978, Bhutan 2008, Nepal 2015), adopting a comparative law and ‘contextual’ approach. Social diversity is the main feature of this geographical region, vast in dimension, also according to its demographic profile. This is why studying this area from a legal and institutional perspective is not only a crucial need for comparative law, but also a major methodological and intellec...
Ministers of Justice in Comparative Perspective
2019 || Hardcover || Piotr Mikuli e.a. || Eleven international publishing
This book analyses the institution of Minister of Justice in the constitutional systems of several European countries: the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, and Poland. The research was based on the hypothesis that the Minister of Justice is, in fact, inessential, because the institution is to a large extent incompatible with the principles of the separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary. Certain competences currently assigned to this institution migh...
Comparative Constitutional Justice
2021 || Hardcover || Matteo Nicolini e.a. || Eleven international publishing
Comparative Constitutional Justice adopts an innovative approach to constitutional justice. From a methodological perspective, it assumes that it is impossible to apply an absolute criterion of classification, which depends on the purposes comparative scholars aim to achieve when delivering their own taxonomies. A broad definition of constitutional justice is adopted, which revolves around the following taxonomy: 1) the legality of norms, 2) the conformity of actors’ behaviours with the dis...