[PDF] Advanced Introduction To Privacy Law eBook

Author : Megan Richardson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 21,55 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
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ISBN : 9781788970969

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Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. Presenting a concise, yet wide-ranging and contemporary overview of the field, this Advanced Introduction to Privacy Law focuses on how we arrived at our privacy laws, and how the law can deal with new and emerging challenges from digital technologies, social networks and public health crises. This illuminating and interdisciplinary book demonstrates how the history of privacy law has been one of constant adaptation to emerging challenges, illustrating the primacy of the right to privacy amidst a changing social and cultural landscape. Key features include: - Incisive analysis of the meaning and value of privacy and the ways in which legal, social and economic institutions respond to our understanding of privacy in contemporary society - A uniquely concise, contextual approach to privacy law, examining privacy as a constantly evolving social phenomenon and the legal implications of its mutability - Historical and comparative insights into privacy and data protection laws across the common law world. This richly detailed book is an informative and thought-provoking resource for students, academics and practitioners of privacy and data protection law. Its interdisciplinary insights will also appeal to those working in legal history, media and cultural studies, economics and political science.

Author : Megan Richardson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 31,89 MB
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 1788970950

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Presenting a concise, yet wide-ranging and contemporary overview of the field, this Advanced Introduction to Privacy Law focuses on how we arrived at our privacy laws, and how the law can deal with new and emerging challenges from digital technologies, social networks and public health crises. This illuminating and interdisciplinary book demonstrates how the history of privacy law has been one of constant adaptation to emerging challenges, illustrating the primacy of the right to privacy amidst a changing social and cultural landscape.

Author : Ari E. Waldman
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,10 MB
Release : 2023-10-28
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ISBN : 9781800881457

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This timely Advanced Introduction traces the evolution of consumer data privacy laws in the US through a historical lens, and then sets out the current state of play. Waldman describes how privacy laws benefit corporate interests, and highlights the deficiencies of the present approach to the surveillance economy.

Author : Mariana M. Prado
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 25,88 MB
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1788970896

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In this thoroughly revised and updated second edition, Mariana Mota Prado and Michael J. Trebilcock offer a succinct and readable introduction to the main concepts and debates in the field of law and development. They examine the role of legal systems and institutions, investigate perceptions around what laws and legal arrangements encourage and facilitate development, and probe the issues arising in both private law and public law as well as in international economic relations. Written with the insight of two top experts in the field, this Advanced Introduction covers the most recent trends in law and development research and highlights areas that remain underexplored.

Author : Michael J. Trebilcock
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 2020-01-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 1788971434

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Written by two leading scholars with 60 years of collective experience in the area, this insightful updated second edition provides a clear and concise introduction to the fundamental components of international trade law, presenting the basic structure and principles of this complex area of law, alongside elucidation of specific GATT and WTO legal rules and institutions. Key updates include references to the most recent cases, decisions and treaty negotiation developments, analysis of populist critiques of international trade law and analysis of new areas including digital trade and security exceptions.

Author : Sabino Cassese
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 29,24 MB
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 1789904226

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Sabino Cassese presents an incisive introduction to the essential principles of global law, exploring the central theories of globalization through an analysis of the main developments in this area. The Advanced Introduction concludes that despite the ongoing dialectic between national governments and international institutions, globalization and states are progressing in parallel, while civil societies are increasingly involved in the machinery of globalization.

Author : Ari E. Waldman
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 36,37 MB
Release : 2023-10-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 1800881444

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This timely Advanced Introduction traces the evolution of consumer data privacy laws in the US through a historical lens, and then sets out the current state of play. Waldman describes how privacy laws benefit corporate interests, and highlights the deficiencies of the present approach to the surveillance economy.

Author : Tyler, Tom R.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,26 MB
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 1839109734

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Leading scholar Tom R. Tyler provides a timely and engaging introduction to the field of law and psychology. This Advanced Introduction outlines the main areas of research, their relevance to law and the way that psychological findings have shaped – or failed to shape – the corresponding areas of law. Key features include focus on the relevance of psychological theories to topics in law, emphasis on the institutional realities within which law functions and discussion of the problems of bringing research findings into the legal system.

Author : Mark Tushnet
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 11,7 MB
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 1786437198

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Mark Tushnet excels in updating the Advanced Introduction to Comparative Constitutional Law. In this second edition Tushnet includes new material based on developments in practice and scholarship since the original edition’s publication back in 2014. Topics which are given substantial additional attention include abusive constitutionalism, the idea of the constituent power, eternity clauses and unconstitutional amendments, recent developments in weak- and strong-form constitutional review, and expanded consideration of third generation rights. This title will appeal to those who fell in love with the first edition and those who are interested in learning more about Comparative Constitutional Law.

Author : August Reinisch
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 16,9 MB
Release : 2020-06-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 1783474521

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August Reinisch gives a broad overview of the entire field of international investment law that has emerged as an important subfield of international economic law over the last decades. As a result of the boom of investment arbitration since the late 1990s, core questions of the substantive treatment of foreign investors are analysed. Combining an academic and a practical perspective, this book has been written to provide an introduction to investment law for lawyers, political scientists, economists as well as those interested in international relations.