Category Archives: Non-US Legal Systems

Law’s Cosmos: Juridical Discourse in Athenian Forensic Oratory

Posted on February 26, 2010 by singleton

Recent literary-critical work in legal studies reads law as a genre of literature, noting that Western law originated as a branch of rhetoric in classical Greece and lamenting the fact that the law has lost its connection to poetic language, … Continue reading →

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The Spirit of Hindu Law

Posted on February 26, 2010 by singleton

Law is too often perceived solely as state-based rules and institutions that provide a rational alternative to religious rites and ancestral customs. The Spirit of Hindu Law uses the Hindu legal tradition as a heuristic tool to question this view … Continue reading →

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Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making

Posted on February 26, 2010 by singleton

Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making presents a decision making approach to foreign policy analysis. This approach focuses on the decision process, dynamics, and outcome. In addition to coverage of the rational model of decision making, levels of analysis of foreign … Continue reading →

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What’s Wrong with the British Constitution?

Posted on February 26, 2010 by singleton

In this provocative new study, Iain McLean argues that the traditional story of the British constitution does not make sense. It purports to be both positive and normative: that is, to describe both how people actually behave and how they … Continue reading →

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Democratic Drift: Majoritarian Modification and Democratic Anomie in the United Kingdom

Posted on February 25, 2010 by singleton

Although there is no doubt that the constitution has been significantly reformed since the election of New Labour in 1997 the degree to which these reforms have altered the nature of democracy in the United Kingdom remains highly contested. A … Continue reading →

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Extreme Politics: Nationalism, Violence, and the End of Eastern Europe

Posted on February 25, 2010 by singleton

Why do some violent conflicts endure across the centuries, while others become dimly remembered ancient struggles among forgotten peoples? Is nationalism really the powerful force that it appeared to be in the 1990s? This wide-ranging work examines the conceptual intersection … Continue reading →

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PROPOSED ROADS TO FREEDOM: SOCIALISM, ANARCHISM AND SYNDICALISM

Posted on February 26, 2009 by singleton

Bertrand Arthur William Russell (b.1872 – d.1970) was a British philosopher, logician, essayist, and social critic, best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. His most influential contributions include his defense of logicism (the view that mathematics … Continue reading →

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Remaking Global Order: The Evolution of Europe-China Relations and its Implications for East Asia and the United States

Posted on February 26, 2009 by singleton

Relations between the European Union and China have grown at a sustained pace across the board in recent times, transforming the relationship from one of previous neglect into a matter of global strategic significance. This book offers an examination of … Continue reading →

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Topological Strings and Quantum Curves

Posted on February 26, 2009 by singleton
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The British Constitution

Posted on February 26, 2009 by singleton

In the latter part of the nineteenth century Walter Bagehot wrote a classic account of the British constitution as it had developed during Queen Victoria’s reign. He argued that the late Victorian constitution was not at all what people thought … Continue reading →

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