Publications
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Russian Oil Companies in an Evolving World: The Challenge of Change
(2020)
This book examines Russia’s capacity to respond to a changing world through the lens of the country’s oil industry. Against a backdrop of social, political and climatic change, Indra Overland and Nina Poussenkova present ...
The State, Business and Education: Public-Private Partnerships Revisited
(2018)
Businesses, philanthropies and non-profit entities are increasingly successful in capturing public funds to support private provision of schooling in developed and developing countries. Coupled with market-based reforms ...
Standing up for a Sustainable World: Voices of Change
(2020)
The world has witnessed extraordinary economic growth, poverty reduction and increased life expectancy and population since the end of WWII, but it has occurred at the expense of undermining life support systems on Earth ...
Start-up Law
(2020)
This comprehensive Practical Guide provides direction on the wide array of legal questions and challenges that start-ups face. The Guide features analysis from five jurisdictions that represent a variety of legal traditions ...
Skilled Labor Mobility and Migration
(2019)
One of the primary objectives of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), established in 2015, was to boost skilled labor mobility within the region. This insightful book takes stock of the existing trends and patterns of skilled ...
Social Services Disrupted: Changes, Challenges and Policy Implications for Europe in Times of Austerity
(2017)
Public social services are a key component of the welfare state in most of Europe, although their development trajectories, coverage and legal status still vary considerably among countries. How such services are provided, ...
The Tools of Policy Formulation: Actors, Capacities, Venues and Effects
(2015)
Policy analysts are accustomed to thinking in terms of tools and instruments. Yet an authoritative examination of the tools which have been developed to formulate new policies is missing. This book is the first of its kind ...
Towards Convergence in Europe: Institutions, Labour and Industrial Relations
(2019)
This book aims to answer a number of important questions. To what extent have European countries converged or diverged with EU-wide economic and social indicators over the past 20 years? What have been the drivers of ...
Actor-network theory and the empirical critique of environmental law: unpacking the bioprospecting debates
(2017)
In recent years, actor-network theory (ANT), and the work of Bruno Latour in particular, have gained significant interest amongst legal scholars. This approach, derived from Science and Technology Studies (STS) and bearing ...
Professor Tim Congdon CBE
(2020)
In a series of in-depth interviews with leading economists and policy-makers from different schools including Austrian, Monetarist, New-Keynesian, Post-Keynesian, Modern Monetary Theory, Marxist and Institutionalist, this ...
Pursuing global socio-economic, colonial and environmental justice through economic redistribution: the potential significance of human rights treaty obligations
(2020)
This comprehensive Research Handbook offers a comparative overview of the history, nature and current status of social rights at the universal and regional level. Tracing their evolution from rather modest beginnings, to ...
Behaviour change: extralegal, apolitical, scientistic?
(2019)
Behavioural change has become a core issue of public policy. Behavioural instruments such as ‘nudging’ apply insights from behavioural economics and behavioural sciences, psychology and neurosciences across a broad range ...
The European Semester: understanding an innovative governance model
(2020)
This chapter gives an overview of the European Semester (hereafter Semester). On the one hand, it maps out the history, elements and functioning of the Semester. On the other hand, it indicates how the Semester can be ...
Ever-changing Big Science and Research Infrastructures: Evolving European Union policy
(2020)
This thought-provoking book expands on the notion that Big Science is not the only term to describe and investigate particularly large research projects, scientific collaborations and facilities. It investigates the ...
LGBT rights in Africa
(2020)
This innovative and thought-provoking Research Handbook explores not only current debates in the area of gender, sexuality and the law but also points the way for future socio-legal research and scholarship. It presents ...
What can intellectual property law learn from happiness research?
(2013)
As the description of the 2012 ATRIP congress’s theme highlights, traditionally, scholars have used historical, doctrinal or comparative analyses, law and economics, political economy or philosophy, to discuss intellectual ...
Computational stylometry: predicting the authorship of investment arbitration awards
(2020)
Featuring contributions from a diverse set of experts, this thought-provoking book offers a visionary introduction to the computational turn in law and the resulting emergence of the computational legal studies field. It ...
Exploring legitimization strategies for contested uses of citizen-generated data for policy
(2020)
In this article, we investigate how citizens use data they gather as a rhetorical resource for demanding environmental policy interventions and advancing environmental justice claims. While producing citizen-generated data ...
Exploring transnational legal orders: using transnational environmental law to strengthen the global regulation of black carbon for the benefit of the Arctic region
(2020)
This illuminating Research Handbook offers a detailed overview and critical discussion of the key themes and perspectives that characterize the burgeoning research area of transnational environmental law. Varied perspectives ...
Resilience of US metropolitan areas to the 2008 financial crisis
(2018)
This chapter seeks to explain why only a minority of US metropolitan areas enjoyed quicker recovery and higher levels of economic growth following the 2008 banking crisis and recession of 2007‒2009. An uneven pattern of ...