Analyses and critiques the key regulatory and commercial dimensions of the oil and gas industryIn recent years, a great deal has changed in the oil and gas industry, from legal and regulatory change t
The written text was a pervasive feature of cultural practices in the medieval Middle East. At the heart of book circulation stood libraries that experienced a rapid expansion from the twelfth century
A fundamental challenge to the foundations of the discipline of international law. This book offers an internal critique of the discipline of international law whilst showing the necessary place for p
The first institutional history of Scotland's 18th-century civil court and its legal communityThis study investigates the important role of Scotland's College of Justice members in the cultural and ec
An up-to-date, theoretical and critical focus on Scots Criminal Law for students and practitionersNow in its second edition, Scots Criminal Law: A Critical Analysis provides a clear statement of the c
The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature offers a major reinterpretation, re-evaluation and repositioning of the scope, nature and importance of Scottish literature, arguably Scotland's most impor
Drawing on actual research projects, Research Methods for Law discusses how legal research as process impacts on research as product. The author team has a broad range of teaching and research experie
Leading experts addresses the effectiveness of policy delivery in energy and the environmentInternational experts from a range of disciplines, including the sciences, law, politics, economics and engi
Topical information on ecology, conservation and management for Scottish native woodlandsThis authoritative textbook provides a convenient single source of up-to-date information about the fascinating
Focuses on the most important aspects of the substantive law relating to ScotlandThis pathfinding textbook concentrates the regulation of pollution in Scotland, including the common law controls. It i
Analyses the influence of eight classic Chinese thinkers on the development of Chinese law: Confucius, Laozi, Mozi, Zhuangzi, Mencius, Xunzi, Shang Yang and Han Fei. These thinkers helped found the Co
In this book a hundred and eighty-four churches still used for worship are illustrated with line drawings and photographs, with pithy texts drawing out where they fit into the fabric of Scotland and
The first textbook on Scottish legal history from the genesis of Scots law to the Union, written from a legal perspectiveFrom the roots of a law that applied to all subjects of the Scottish King to th