Chapters present key methodological approaches to investigate the structure of race and racism across both historical and contemporary America. Contributors trace the evolution of racial identity from the earliest moments of constitutional formation to current topical issues, such as indigenous rights, racioreligious professional identities, wage justice, the impact of race on drug control laws and profiling in immigration policing. The Research Handbook sheds light on the bureaucratization and management of race and racism in US law and legal practice, developing new frameworks for research and identifying new areas of study.

The Research Handbook on Law and Race in the US is a valuable resource for legal scholars and students seeking to understand the construction of racial identity. It is particularly relevant to those in the fields of criminal, immigration, labour and US law, as well as critical race studies.

Broadening the geographical and thematic coverage of the first edition, this Research Handbook introduces new chapters on social rights protection in Asia and for marginalised groups such as Indigenous peoples, women and migrants. Recontextualising the scope of the book in light of global developments including Russia's war on Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic, contributing authors examine the history, nature and current status of social rights at the universal and regional level. They also address the impact of emerging global challenges on social rights, covering algorithmic governance, AI and climate change and explore how social rights frameworks respond to instability, inequality and ecological limits.

This expansive Research Handbook is a valuable resource for students and academics specialising in social rights in international human rights law and other fields of public international law. It is also beneficial for lawyers, NGOs and state officials concerned with the enforcement and implementation of social rights.

This Advanced Introduction provides a succinct overview of the modern forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). Examining the variety of disputes in contemporary society, Carrie Menkel-Meadow argues that a fluid and adaptable resolution framework is necessary in order to fulfil the core principles of ADR: cheaper, faster and better solutions to legal disputes.

Key Features:

• Reviews the latest issues in multi-party, multi-issue international disputes
• Outlines adjudication, arbitration, mediation, negotiation and various hybridized processes
• Analyses critiques of alternative forms of dispute resolution as well as jurisprudential theories
• Explores innovations in online dispute resolution, including the challenges and opportunities which arise from the use of artificial intelligence
• Illustrates how innovative processes of facilitation and consensus building can be used for group decision making and deliberative democracy

The Advanced Introduction to Alternative Dispute Resolution is an essential resource for scholars and students of arbitration, business law and consumer law. Legislators and international relations professionals will likewise benefit from its insightful suggestions for modern dispute resolution.

The crisis of liberal democracy is clearly visible today, manifesting itself, inter alia, in the declining interest of citizens in participating in elections; the disappearance, or at least weakening, of the traditional axis of social conflict between labour and capital; the growing importance of populism; attacks on democratic institutions; and the efforts of leaders in many countries to centralize power. Across the globe, anti-establishment, anti-system, anti-elite and populist sentiments are on the rise, accompanied by the increasing prominence of anti-democratic parties. This volume aims to identify universal mechanisms of de-democratization using the example of Poland, by searching for reliable indicators of these processes. The authors examine and analyse the weakening of democratic institutions, the limitation of civil liberties, and the growth of authoritarian tendencies and political polarization, seeking out indicators of de-democratization phenomena in the legal-institutional, political-social and economic spheres, while also looking into actions that strengthen and protect de-democratization, which take place in the symbolic, social, political and economic domains.

The authors thus seek to expand the existing analyses of de-democratization processes in a volume which will be of great use to those researching and studying democracy, the rule of law, contemporary politics and de-democratization in Poland and beyond.

Mobility Revolution captures the sweeping transformation redefining how people and goods move. Drawing on decades of experience across Paris, Detroit, and Silicon Valley, Marc Amblard unpacks the forces driving this historic shift, namely the push for clean mobility, volatile regulations, ambitious startups, geopolitics, and the global power shift toward China. He dissects the central role played by technology as electrification, autonomous driving, artificial intelligence, the software defined vehicle, and new modes reshape the entire ecosystem.

Blending insightful technology perspectives with rigorous strategic analyses, this book explores the new products and services, innovative business models and collaborations, and complex supply chains, that will determine the next era in automotive and mobility. Organized around key domains - clean mobility, autonomy, digital transformation, and changing mobility paradigms - the book offers professionals and policymakers a panoramic yet practical view of where mobility is headed.

Mobility Revolution is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand and anticipate the future of transportation.

This book presents a captivating exploration of the often-overlooked experiences, challenges, and enduring triumphs of black farmers in America.

This book examines the historical roots, present-day realities, and future possibilities of Black farming in the United States through the lens of equity, land, and local food systems. Tracing Black agriculture from slavery and Reconstruction to contemporary struggles and innovations, it reveals how discriminatory policies, land dispossession, and structural racism have shaped persistent disparities in farming, food access, and economic opportunity. Centering the local food system as a site of both challenge and possibility, the book explores how community-supported agriculture, cooperative ownership models, urban farming, and land-based reparative efforts are creating pathways toward empowerment and food sovereignty. Through in-depth case studies in the Appalachian region, the Mississippi Delta, the U.S. South, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., the book highlights the resilience, creativity, and leadership of Black farmers navigating systemic barriers while building sustainable, community-rooted solutions. Combining historical analysis, policy review, qualitative narratives, and quantitative data, the book offers readers a comprehensive understanding of how race, land, and food systems intersect, providing both critical insight and practical strategies for advancing equity in agriculture. Ultimately, the book calls readers to action, offering a roadmap for collaboration, advocacy, and investment in a more just and resilient food system that centers Black farmers and growers.

Black Farmers in America is an essential read for anyone seeking to actively participate in transforming our food systems into an equitable and inclusive space for all.

Combining legal theory with case studies, contributing authors challenge the traditional state-centred approach of international human rights law by highlighting gaps in protection. They address accountability broadly and analyse legal responsibility and monitoring alongside less formal mechanisms. Concluding that human rights accountability cannot depend solely on formal statehood, the book proposes that wherever authorities hold power over people's lives, they must be assessed against human rights standards.

Insightful and thought-provoking, this book is a vital resource for scholars, policy makers and students of human rights law, public international law, international politics and public policy. It will benefit anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the implementation of human rights in non-universally recognised states and state-like entities.

This book showcases the experiences and perspectives of instructors and researchers who are pioneering sustainable finance research and education.

Sustainable finance broadly defined refers to the integration of sustainability issues within financial practices. Given the urgency of funding sustainable development, meeting new regulatory agendas, and navigating the increasing politicization of sustainable finance, demands for immediate sustainable finance expertise and training have grown. Yet, the pedagogical implications of increasing scholarly and practitioner interest in sustainable finance have been largely neglected. Filling this gap, Pathways to Teaching Sustainable Finance examines how curriculums can be redesigned to accommodate sustainable finance education. It discusses the specific skills, tools, and theoretical insights that constitute an emerging sustainable finance "corpus" and provides critical perspectives on the field. Each chapter engages with the different strategies, theoretical frameworks, pedagogical tools, and learning objectives informed by the authors' own teaching practice or by their research.

Chapters also include cases, suggestions for assignments, and other resources that can support the design of sustainable finance courses and syllabi. Collating insights from a broad range of experts in the field, this book therefore provides theoretical and critical reflections alongside practical insights for faculty and higher education institutions, as well as market, public, and non-profit actors who have been calling for better expertise in sustainable finance.

Experimental Research: Brief Essays on Timeless Concepts offers a unique exploration of the experimental process that transcends disciplinary boundaries and technological trends. Through a series of concise, thought-provoking essays, the book distills enduring principles of scientific inquiry. Addressing foundational topics from measurement and dimensional analysis to cognitive factors in research and technical communication, it cultivates a deep, reflective understanding of experimentation as both an intellectual craft and a scientific discipline.

Organized into seven thematic chapters, the essays delve into topics rarely addressed in conventional manuals, including the epistemology of experimentation, creative thinking in research, principles of device design and the thoughtful integration of modern tools into contemporary experimental work. Rather than focusing on discipline-specific techniques, the authors emphasize universal aspects of experimentation that cut across fields, blending conceptual insight with practical relevance and historical perspective. The result is a timeless perspective on experimental methods that balances accessibility with intellectual rigor.

This volume is an essential resource for young scholars learning to design, conduct and interpret experiments independently, such as graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and early-career faculty who, despite solid technical backgrounds, have received little formal guidance in the conceptual and cognitive aspects of experimentation. For educators and established researchers, it offers fresh perspectives on mentoring the next generation of experimentalists in an era of rapid technological change.

Presenting a comparative analysis of three key jurisdictions, the European Union, the United States and the United Kingdom, Finelli examines how each responds to circumvention. The author addresses the legality and effectiveness of different strategies, including the imposition of derivative designations, secondary sanctions, enhanced reporting duties and strengthened enforcement mechanisms. Ultimately, the book provides innovative and concrete recommendations for achieving a lawful response to sanctions evasion, ensuring that the pursuit of effectiveness does not erode the targeted nature of sanctions.

This multi-jurisdictional and systemic analysis is a crucial resource for scholars and students of international law, EU law, criminal law, comparative law, and the emerging field of "sanctions law". Legal practitioners will also benefit from the comprehensive analysis, while policymakers will find clear and practical guidance for designing lawful and proportionate anti-circumvention strategies.

Mazzi examines the nature of inventorship and evaluates the extent to which current legal regimes can recognise or respond to inventions created with limited or no human input. Scrutinising the concept of inventiveness and the continued relevance of the 'person skilled in the art', chapters question how patent law can ensure sufficient transparency when inventions arise from complex and opaque AI systems. Drawing on comparative methodologies and practical examples, the book concludes by reflecting on the broader justification of patent protection in light of non-human inventive activity and the compatibility between patent law and AI-driven innovation.

Presenting a multi-jurisdictional analysis, Patentability of AI-Generated Inventions is a crucial resource for scholars and students of intellectual property law and technologies. Patent lawyers and copyright policymakers will also benefit from its actionable recommendations for navigating the future of IP.

Grounded in frontline experience and global research, this work unpacks the complexities of defining behavioural health, the challenge of crisis cycling, and the evolving roles of law enforcement and community partners. Written from the unique perspective of a seasoned police officer embedded in the world of behavioural health crisis response, this work offers an insider's examination of the evolving landscape of public safety and mental health intervention.

Drawing on lived experiences, operational insights, and contemporary best practices, the author advocates that police are one component within a broader collaborative, systems-based approach to crisis. Beginning with a foundational understanding of what forms a behavioural health crisis, the book guides readers through a range of response models - from nonpolice crisis lines and paramedic teams to police co-responder models and police call diversion programs. It critically examines the limitations of police training, the harsh realities of non-clinical outcomes such as tactical disengagement and use-of-force, and broader systemic pressures that shape crisis intervention. Each section ends with a reflective commentary, blending academic insight into frontline pragmatism. The final chapters look ahead, proposing integrated frameworks and collaborative strategies to proactively manage crisis cycling and building more responsive, humane systems.

With a focus on real-world application, informed by both practice and research, this book is an essential resource for policing professionals, behavioural health professionals, policymakers, and students seeking a grounded yet progressive approach to behavioural health crisis intervention.

Contributors explore how legal education remains nationalised via local histories, politics and markets, despite borrowing models and language from modern, merit-based, or global approaches. Chapters assess the appearance of law schools as powerful sites where divisions of class, race, gender, empire and prestige are reproduced, contested and sometimes reimagined. The Research Handbook demonstrates how familiar patterns of hierarchies, inequalities and Western-centric ideals travel widely alongside diverse efforts in majority world contexts to resist, revisit and reimagine fairer institutions. Combining doctrinal analysis, institutional histories, archives, interviews and fieldwork, this Research Handbook advances research and promotes further study.

The Research Handbook is a crucial resource for legal education scholars and practitioners and also global scholars of the legal profession. It is prime reading for students and scholars of law and society and comparative institutions seeking more information on the factors shaping the legal landscape today.

Detailed international case studies outline novel approaches in geography education, such as GIS integration and formative assessment strategies, to trace a secure path ahead for the field. Contributing authors evaluate the impact of field experiences, spatial technologies, social labs, education networks, and teacher capacity on future improvements to global geography education. They highlight innovations in geography teaching and learning, combining theoretical and practical insights to provide key recommendations for forthcoming programs.

This book is a crucial resource for scholars and researchers in geography education, as well as geography educators seeking to advance their practical teaching methods. Educational policymakers will likewise benefit from its astute and timely strategies for development and curriculum planning.

Chapters systematically compare and contrast regional economic development schemes across Europe and North America, focusing on 'civic capital': the networks, collaborative organizations and entrepreneurial leaders that help regions identify their unique strengths and chart new economic paths. The book emphasizes how effective local governance, strong universities and place-based development policies enable cities and regions to adapt to disruption and build innovative economies. Wolfe highlights the importance of local collaboration and institution-building for inclusive economic development that can benefit all cities and regions.

Scholars and students of economic geography, regional development and innovation studies will benefit from this book's in-depth and expansive approach. It is also a crucial resource for academics and practitioners of governance theories and industrial policy.

Port cities of the world are critical nodes for international trade and socio-economic development. Yet they bear several costs, including congestion and pollution, which affect the local environment and population. In certain places, living near the port -together with related industrial and logistical activities -is a synonym of adverse health outcomes, resulting in several diseases and above-average unplanned hospital admissions and mortality. Decades of port-city physical separation have not eliminated such issues, since deep-water facilities, even outside urban cores, impact local populations and reach port and non-port cities through extensive trucking flows. Specific traffic, like cruise, keeps operating within dense urban environments.

This book is one of the first dedicated volumes on such matters, with contributions from scholars on several continents (Europe, Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Oceania). It is highly interdisciplinary, covering geography, history, economics, management sciences, regional science, sociology, public and comparative law, physics, energy and industrial engineering, urban and spatial planning, epidemiology, architecture, biology, and environmental sciences. This volume offers an overview of current environmental and health issues in port cities. It starts by presenting the mitigation and perception of port pollution. Next, it examines the health impacts of ports from a historical perspective and reviews and synthesizes the variety of existing approaches to measure the health impacts of ports and shipping. Finally, it proposes a reflection on multilevel governance and policies.

This book is a comprehensive resource for a wide readership, including academics and upper-level students interested in maritime transport, port management, and sustainability, as well as those in public management, planning, and governance.

In this fascinating volume, Meg Harris Williams explores Wilfred Bion's autobiographical works, analysing their theoretical importance and continued relevance to the personal experience of others.

Williams shows how these works are less about Bion's life and more about his way of thinking, in which episodes from his own experience are used to illustrate the mind in action. His model of the mind is vividly evoked through his own presentation of himself and his manner of noting and observing internal conflicts. His example constitutes a unique resource in the process of self-analysis, something which is illustrated here by the experiential responses of four contributing psychoanalysts: Vera Montagna, Vivienne Pasieka, Anne Lise Scappaticci and Alison Vaspe.

This book is a fundamentally enriching tool for the practising psychoanalyst, and an invaluable resource for students of psychoanalysis and psychology, as well as those interested in autobiographical literature.

In response, the authors reconceptualize DEI management for the SME context and introduce a framework and a set of best practices grounded in the lived realities of SMEs and insights from international surveys, interviews, workshops, and real-world cases from Europe. The book offers teaching cases along with online teaching notes and managerial reflections to equip current and future entrepreneurs and SME managers with the competencies needed to leverage social sustainability, in particular DEI, for a firm's growth, strategy implementation, regulatory compliance, and conflict resolution. The book deepens understanding of intersectionality in SMEs and demonstrates how DEI contributes to advancing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Small and Medium Enterprises is a vital resource for scholars and students of business and management, entrepreneurship, and sustainability. Business educators and SME managers will also benefit from its actionable recommendations for effectively incorporating DEI best practices.

Estelle Ivanova and Ian Blackshaw explain how EU competition law shapes sports governance, examining its principles, scope, extraterritorial reach, enforcement and judicial dialogue, and its interaction with fundamental freedoms, human rights and international sports arbitration.

Key Features:

• Analyses the dual role of sports governing bodies as regulators and economic operators in organising and commercialising competitions
• Examines the application of Articles 101 and 102 TFEU and EU merger control to sporting rules and commercial arrangements, including restrictive practices and abuse of dominance
• Analyses the application of EU law by CAS panels and the judicial review of CAS awards, including issues of Swiss public policy and ECtHR scrutiny
• Dissects leading disputes, including the Ticombo v IOC complaint, Royal Antwerp, RFC Seraing v FIFA and recent multiple club ownership disputes

This Practical Guide is designed for sports lawyers and competition practitioners handling sports-related disputes. It also serves as a valuable resource for sports administrators, sports marketers, academics, researchers and students of EU competition and sports law.

A subsequent analysis of EU law and case law on data protection and AI governance reveals that the 'right to explanation' has gradually been strengthened. However, the ongoing discussion about XAI tools is still largely ignored. Legislation is therefore far from satisfactory and leaves citizens seeking explanations empty-handed. This book analyses the debates in the machine learning community and how they could inform legislation and regulation. It thereby bridges computer science and law and helps reduce the disconnect between the two communities.

AI Transparency & Explainability is a pivotal resource for scholars and students of the connections between technology law and machine learning. AI regulators and government policymakers will similarly benefit from its interdisciplinary scope.

Chapters explore current and future sustainable and inclusive well-being, using the Sustainable Human Development paradigm and integral ecology perspective to identify the pillars, driving actors and triggering factors for sustainable transitions. Critiquing the traditional overreliance on GDP as a policy metric, they propose holistic measurement frameworks that capture a comprehensive view of well-being. By exploring frameworks, evidence and policies across Europe and the Global South, the book expands sustainability beyond Eurocentrism and helps foster a consensus across theoretical, technical, policy and public domains to promote sustainable and inclusive well-being at all levels.

Navigating Transitions to Sustainable Human Development is a key resource for students and scholars of development studies, sociology, environmental governance and political economy. Policymakers and NGO practitioners will benefit from its actionable recommendations for more integral development.

Exploring Racial Code-Switching in Education is an informative and comprehensive guide to the social dynamics and consequences of racial code-switching and explores paths for understanding and dismantling racist practices embedded within education and society. Beginning with an exploration of the historical roots and theoretical definitions of code-switching, the book goes on to explore code-switching in the contexts of PK-12 education and higher education, before considering next steps towards more equitable and inclusive futures. Combining academic chapters, personal narratives, and actionable recommendations, this textbook is a powerful tool for empowerment, awareness, and societal change. Contributed chapters also include objectives, end-of-chapter questions, and call-out boxes to support learning. Combining theory with practical recommendations, this timely textbook will be an invaluable resource for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in courses related to Social Justice Education, Multicultural Education, Educational Policy, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. It will also be beneficial for education professionals who are committed to fostering a more inclusive and equitable society.

This handbook provides a foundational, comprehensive, and systemic overview of the current research on learning and instruction in university education.

Offering a synthesis of current essential empirical research on university education, this volume provides a starting point for an intentional transformation of university education anchored firmly in empirical evidence. The chapters are authored by leading international scholars in the field, culminating in a wealth of expertise offering multiple expert stances on learning and instruction in university education. The chapters are based on systematic literature reviews. This book analyses the broad macro-level factors and structures influencing university education and its development, as well as micro-level issues related to learning and instruction, from both students' and university teachers' perspectives. It provides a thorough state-of-the-evidence and paves the way for future directions in research on university learning and instruction and the research-informed development of university education.

This handbook is a foundational resource for higher education researchers and key stakeholders, alongside university teachers and students, as well as educational policymakers and higher education developers wanting to draw on their work.

Combining both empirical and theoretical analyses, this insightful book presents a clear, research-informed model for running classroom discussions that are both intellectually rigorous and genuinely inclusive.

Building on feminist analyses of how gendered norms shape who speaks, who is heard, and what counts as "good" reasoning, the book shows why conventional formats often privilege assertive, adversarial styles and marginalise other valuable repertoires of thinking and communicating. Introducing a novel pedagogical tool, Critical Collaborative Dialogue (CCD), it offers a practical framework that specifies a democratic setup, problem-posing questions that matter, open questioning, personal engagement, and teacher facilitation that shares epistemic authority. This model is adaptable across subjects and year levels, and is grounded in dialogic traditions such as exploratory dialogue and philosophy for and with children (P4wC). Readers see how these design choices redistribute talk, deepen reasoning, and lift students' sense of meaning and belonging, with evidence from student interviews and focus groups.

Written for scholars, researchers, and teacher educators interested in oracy, dialogic pedagogy, and gender equity, it offers ready-to-use structures, language moves, and routines that help build classrooms where diverse voices contribute to high-quality thinking and where all students experience discussion as a place to learn, belong, and lead.

This book highlights the necessary support and collaboration needed to help multilingual learners succeed and how to address opportunity gaps in schools and beyond.

School counselors need to have a working knowledge about the diverse needs of all students to effectively support the academic, career, and social development of those students. Chapters offer recommendations across multiple aspects of school counseling, including integration of multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) concepts and American School Counselor Association (ASCA) National Model domains. Practical hands-on activity suggestions, case studies, and vignettes are integrated throughout the text that allow readers to envision these concepts in real-world practice.

Focused on humanizing approaches in school counseling for multilingual learners, this book is an essential read for pre-service school counselors and current practitioners in their work to picture the integration of the concepts discussed into their current or future practice.

This book's central thesis is that notions of monstrosity and geographic marginality were central to the formation of an English identity in the Middle Ages. Medieval Christian theologians believed that geography was divinely ordered, so their perception of Britain as being in the monstrous periphery of the world caused anxiety among its inhabitants that we can see expressed across media and genres.

Medieval cartography, for centuries scorned as crude, is now the subject of numerous careful studies; monsters, likewise long ignored in scholarship, are now of great interest. This book sits at the crossroads of these two discourses (critical cartography and monster studies), treated separately in most scholarship. Nearly twenty years after its initial publication, Maps and Monsters in Medieval England remains the only extended study of the role of monsters on medieval maps and of the ways that ideas about geography shaped the role of monsters in other contexts, where they were marshaled as part of an ongoing effort to define what it meant to be human, English, and Christian.

This volume is intended for professional scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates. Translations are provided for all Latin and Old English texts to render the volume accessible to a wider range of readers.