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Comparative Judicial Review Edited by Erin F. Delaney and Rosalind Dixon Constitutional courts around the world play an increasingly central role in day-to-day democratic governance. Yet scholar s have only recently begun to develop the interdisciplinary analysis needed to understand this shift in the relationship of constitutional law to politics.  This edited volume brings together the leading scholars of constitutional law and politics to provide a comprehensive overview of judicial review, covering theories of its creation, mechanisms of its constraint, and its comparative applications, including theories of interpretation and doctrinal developments.  This book serves as a single point of entry for legal scholars and practitioners interested in understanding the field of comparative judicial review in its broader political and social context.   (Subjects: constitutional law; judicial review)

Legal Strategies for the Development and Protection of Communal Property Edited by Ting Xu and Alison Clarke Provides readers with an overview of communal property in different jurisdictions Offers a socio-legal interpretation of the nature and importance of communal property Explores the multi-faceted analysis of theoretical nature and current development of communal property (Subjects: municipal law; law of property)

Dominus Mundi Political Sublime and the World Order   By: Pier Giuseppe Monateri This monograph makes a seminal contribution to existing literature on the importance of Roman law in the development of political thought in Europe. In particular it examines the expression 'dominus mundi', following it through the texts of the medieval jurists – the Glossators and Post-Glossators – up to the political thought of Hobbes. Understanding the concept of dominus mundi sheds light on how medieval jurists understood ownership of individual things; it is more complex than it might seem; and this book investigates these complexities. The book also offers important new insights into Thomas Hobbes, especially with regard to the end of dominus mundi and the replacement by Leviathan. Finally, the book has important relevance for contemporary political theory. With fading of political diversity Monateri argues “that the actual setting of globalisation represents the reappearance of the Ghost of