Global in scope, the Research Handbook observes regional challenges, technological developments and key operational issues. Chapters evaluate strategic and operational management perspectives, conduct an in-depth analysis of vertical and horizontal integration strategies in the container shipping industry, and address sustainability and technology development in a shipping and port context, among others. They explore whether the study of maritime logistics is currently undergoing a Kuhnian paradigm shift and conclude by considering future directions for the discipline.

The Research Handbook on Maritime Logistics is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of logistics, supply chain management and operations. Its discussions on ongoing debates and key actors within the sector will also benefit practitioners in business and management and public policy.

Contributors analyse the characteristics and criticalities of adopting managerial control systems, governance mechanisms, financial accounting practices and professional managers. They argue that four vital aspects must be considered in their application: managerialization, professionalization, governance and financial accounting. Assessing the impacts of proper accounting practices on earnings potential, financial structures and overall performance, the book proposes actionable recommendations for implementing more efficient and prosperous business strategies in family firms.

The Handbook on Accounting and Control in Family Business is an essential resource for scholars and students of business, economics, finance and accounting. Consultants, managers and members of family businesses will likewise benefit from its practical guidance.

This book proposes a comprehensive legal framework for regulating Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), integrating insights from law, economics, and process management.

Adopting a structured, future-focused, and risk-based approach to address the unique challenges of AGI regulation, this book validates the "singularity scenario" as a legitimate field of scientific inquiry. It critically examines the limitations of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act in governing AGI, and introduces a foundational four-level analytical model rooted in transaction cost theory. Through a detailed exploration of the what, who, and how of regulation, the book maps the risks associated with AGI, discusses the potential role of electronic legal personhood, and develops a practical legal framework aimed at ensuring AGI's trustworthiness and alignment with human values. Ultimately, it argues for proactive, rather than reactive regulatory strategies in anticipation of the technological singularity.

The book will be of interest to researchers in the field of the law of emerging technologies, artificial intelligence and regulation.

This forward-thinking Research Agenda examines the wide-ranging impact of big data and considers what kind of regulatory framework is needed in response. Challenging the perception of big data as a driver of progress, leading scholars identify the legal debates that should guide the next phase of research.

Questioning dominant assumptions about scale, innovation and technological development, contributing authors assess how big data has reshaped domains including climate policy, children's online safety, digital health, transport and finance. They highlight that data-driven systems are not neutral or cost free, outlining their dependence on resource-intensive infrastructures. The Research Agenda explores how this dependence can allocate responsibilities unequally across many actors and move faster than the law, compounding inequality. It concludes that governance must move beyond narrow compliance models towards more coherent approaches grounded in accountability, transparency, sustainability and justice.

Combining conceptual and doctrinal analysis with practical insights, A Research Agenda for Big Data and the Law is an essential guide for scholars and students of technology law, data protection law, and intellectual property law. Policymakers and regulators in media law and financial regulation will also find its discussions on regulatory gaps, governance models and emerging legal challenges invaluable.

This innovative textbook edited by international experts in technology law and policy provides a comprehensive and accessible guide into the fast-evolving landscape of technology law and policy in the UK and the EU.

The recent wave of regulatory reforms adopted by UK and EU regulators increases the complexity of Internet law as it had developed in the past decades. Recognising the ever-growing importance of artificial intelligence in today's public discourse, the textbook extends beyond traditional legal sectoral frameworks, and explores the intersection of law, technology, and public policy to describe and critically reflect on current and emerging issues in the modern information society.

As well as providing accessible guides to how law and policy came to be made in relation to topics like platform liability, AI, copyright, and privacy and data protection, the book also homes in on key areas such as the EU AI Act, adtech regulation, social media, chatbots, the gig worker economy, cybersecurity and predictive policing."

The companion website provides multimedia resources to delve deeper into specific topics; introductory materials for readers that are unfamiliar with the EU legal system; and teaching resources.

Law, Policy, and the Internet is an essential resource for anyone seeking to navigate the complexities of internet regulation in an era of exponential technological change.

Despite promising comfort, legacy, or even a form of digital immortality, this book addresses the challenging questions AI technologies raise: Who has the right to create such simulations of the deceased? What happens if someone is recreated without consent? Can companies profit from grief? How do these systems affect families, memory, and trust? Harbinja promotes an understanding of AI systems that simulate the dead not only as data tools but as relationship-like systems requiring safeguards. She further outlines why existing laws around consumer protection, privacy, data protection, AI law and regulation and online safety are insufficient to address the challenges posed by AI developments. Moving beyond theory, the book proposes practical, rights-based legal frameworks to protect dignity, prevent exploitation, and ensure that remembrance remains obligated to consent and care.

A prescient and thought-provoking account, Governing Digital Immortality is a vital resource for scholars of technology law, AI law and regulation, data protection, and human rights law. Given its practical implementation and enforcement blueprint, policymakers and regulators in AI governance, online safety, and consumer protection will find this book equally beneficial.

Dabei ist es vor dem Hintergrund eines verfassungskonformen Ausgleichs von Freiheit und Sicherheit bedeutsam, Eingriffe in digitale Sphaeren durch normenklare Befugnisse und verfahrensrechtliche Begrenzungen zu regulieren. Dies betrifft namentlich die Ueberwachung (auch) des Surfverhaltens im Rahmen klassischer TKUe-Massnahmen sowie die Infiltration informationstechnischer Systeme, um Verschluesselungstechnologien zu umgehen. Dem Antagonismus von technischen Moeglichkeiten und rechtlichen Beduerfnissen begegnet die Untersuchung mit grundlegendem Reformbedarf und einer dogmatischen Weiterentwicklung des allgemeinen Persoenlichkeitsrechts: einem ≫Recht auf Vertraulichkeit intrapersoneller Internetkommunikation≪.

This book explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping the foundations of contract formation under English contract law.

As AI systems take on critical roles in forming agreements, traditional legal principles rooted in human decision-making are being challenged. The book introduces the concept of the "meeting of the algorithms" as a modern alternative to the conventional "meeting of the minds," emphasising how AI-driven contracts differ from human-based ones.

Focusing on algorithmic contracting where both parties operate AI systems-particularly those based on machine learning-the book challenges the adequacy of traditional legal doctrines and terminology. It provides a structured analysis of the legal, conceptual, and doctrinal challenges raised by contracts formed without human intervention at the point of agreement.

The book proposes a new legal framework that accommodates algorithmic systems as communication and decision-making tools. It redefines consent, examines the attribution of knowledge and intention, and identifies the legal moment of formation in automated contracting environments. It shows how AI-driven contracting is forcing contract law to evolve without relying on fictional agency constructs or debates around legal personhood.

Artificial Intelligence in Contract Formation will appeal to researchers of contract law, technology law, and private law theory, as well as legal practitioners interested in AI governance and legal innovation. It contributes to ongoing debates on AI and law, and offers a roadmap for integrating algorithmic transactions into the mainstream of contract doctrine.

This open access book explores how courts and judges from common and civil law jurisdictions should address the following challenges that affect all of humanity - the ever-rapid development of AI and big data, the dangers of disinformation and misinformation, and the irreversible harmful effects of climate change.

The book is divided into 4 parts. Part I examines the impact of AI on judiciaries, in areas such as machine-generated evidence, access to justice and the ethical implications of AI. It features contributions from judges who have served in the Chinese, Indian and Singapore judiciaries. Part II delves into the topic of data protection and privacy in the era of big data and AI, focusing on the legal and regulatory issues relating to the processing of data. Part III addresses truth decay and the courts' role in ascertaining facts in an uncertain world. Part IV explores climate change litigation in various domestic courts around the world and the approaches and techniques that have been taken to address this dynamic and challenging area of the law.

This book is primarily for judges: how should they approach these topics when raised in their courts? What capacity-building is necessary for judges to stay current? Should judiciaries play a role, or is it solely or primarily the government's responsibility to formulate the relevant policies and laws? To what extent can and should impartial judges be proactive on these issues?

The book is, however, also addressed to legal academics, law students, and laypersons interested in the implications of these significant challenges on the integrity of our justice systems: how should our civil justice systems respond?

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Scarciglia emphasises the evolution of the field over time, cataloguing this complex history of events and processes while acknowledging the impossibility of describing thousands of years of history as one homogenous whole. Chapters incorporate frequently neglected African, Asian and Latin American perspectives to outline the history of comparative law across the ancient world, the middle ages, the renaissance, and from the 17th to early-20th centuries. Cataloguing legal history from Roman law and early decolonial movements to the implications of integrated artificial intelligence, the book contextualises the past and speculates on the future of this rapidly evolving discipline.

A Short History of Comparative Law is a crucial resource for scholars and students of comparative law, legal history, legal theory and research methodology. It will also serve as an invaluable reference for international legal scholars and historians seeking to familiarise themselves with the complex historical context of contemporary legal systems.

The book's analysis is centred around four interconnected concepts; adaptation, resilience, participation, and accountability. Chapters introduce the concept of guided resilience, addressing how governments shape collaboration. Bringing together legal analysis and a range of case studies, Chen reflects on the impact on a community's ability to shape long-term decisions. The book also engages with national policy to provide broader context of how key objectives and definitions of resilience emerge. Chen highlights the strengths and limitations of governmental approaches, exploring how domestic implementation and direct action connect in practice.

State-led Climate Adaptation and Guided Resilience is an essential reference for students and scholars of environmental and climate law interested in the legal dimensions of participation and accountability. Practitioners in constitutional and administrative law and sustainable development academics will also benefit from the insights into how law structures relations between the state and local communities.

More than three decades after the fall of state socialism, certain legal institutions forged during the socialist period continue to shape private law across Central and Eastern Europe. This volume identifies and analyses case studies of 'legal survivals' - legal forms which, though created under state socialism, endured the political, socio-economic, and cultural upheaval of the 1989 transformation and remain operative within contemporary capitalist legal orders.

Building on the insights of Oliver Wendell Holmes and Karl Renner into the persistence of legal forms beyond the conditions that produced them, the book develops and applies a theory of 'nomostasis' - a term coined from the Greek nomos (law) and stasis (persistence) - to denote the endurance of old legal forms after revolution, transition, or other profound societal change. Although legal survivals are familiar in legal cultures founded on long traditions, such as the common law or Roman-law-based civil law, the vestiges of twentieth-century state socialism have received only scattered scholarly attention. Bringing together sociologists of law, legal historians, and comparative lawyers, the volume reveals remarkable continuities in institutions of property, family, and contract law across the region, and raises fresh questions about the wider relationship between law, society, and the economy.

This book will appeal to sociologists of law, comparative lawyers, and legal theorists, as well as to political scientists and area studies specialists working on Central and Eastern Europe.

This book is the first in-depth analysis of classism and the law.

Why doesn't the law protect class? Why do people often ignore classism as a form of discrimination? Why does legal scholarship sideline class and classism?

Arguing that class and classism have been ignored in much legal analysis, this book presents a new framework for approaching classism as a form of discrimination. Its examination of a much-overlooked topic combines theoretical argument with detailed analysis of the law. While accepting the dangers of using the law to protect against classism, this book suggests that reform in this area is long overdue.

This is a thoughtful, nuanced and important work on a crucial question.

This volume presents a wide range of examples using Hegel's 'objective dialectic' as an interpretive key for understanding his philosophical work. It explores the potential of a strictly dialectical approach to central themes in Hegel's logic, philosophy of nature, and philosophy of spirit.

The volume argues for taking contradiction seriously in Hegel's philosophy, understanding it in strictly theoretical terms that defy traditional conceptions of logic and ontology. The contributors demonstrate how Hegel's distinctive logical-metaphysical method, particularly his concept of 'dialectic' and the role of logical contradiction within it, can be applied to logical, epistemological, natural- and social-ontological, psychological, ethical, and political matters. Moving beyond both non-metaphysical readings and earlier ontological interpretations, the volume shows how Hegel's understanding of 'real contradiction' offers a renewed approach to his thematically rich oeuvre and addresses complex post-Kantian philosophical issues.

Reviving Hegel's Dialectic will be of interest to researchers and graduate students specializing in Hegel, German Idealism, post-Kantian philosophy, and the history of logic.

"[The] written style is admirably clear, conversational and free from jargon ... It will be of immense interest to anybody with a general interest in UK law, politics and history." Times Higher Education

This engaging, authoritative text has, since its very first edition, maintained its position as the market-leading introduction to the constitution of the United Kingdom. Adopting a thematic approach, it discusses questions of history, sources and conventions, the role of the Crown, Parliament and the electoral system, government and the executive, the judiciary, and the territorial distribution of power. In addition, it offers analysis of the evolution of the UK's historic non-codified constitution, its strengths and perceived weaknesses, and of reform initiatives. The new edition systematically examines the impact of the recent developments, including how COVID changed how government operated, the revolving door of Prime Ministers, the election of the Labour government, and the accession of King Charles III.

Though introductory in approach, it does not shy away from the complexity of the constitutional landscape in the United Kingdom. It provides a contextual overview of the principles, doctrines and institutions that underpin the elusive constitution, allowing students of law and politics, both from the UK and abroad, to develop an informed view of how it actually works.

Tuori investigates the role of the Commission in assisting with constitution-making in post-socialist countries, before assessing diplomacy and rule-of-law regression constitutional auditing following the break-up of Yugoslavia. Chapters examine the Commission's activities and doctrine through a political lens, illustrated by timely case studies focusing on Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland, Tuerkiye and Ukraine. The book dissects the relationship between the Commission's success and its inclusion in CoE and EU conditionality and monitoring, blurring the boundary between soft and hard law.

The Venice Commission is a crucial resource for students and scholars of constitutional and administrative law and human rights. The insights are also invaluable to legal practitioners, especially those with an interest in consulting and rule-of-law monitoring.