Ben Booth

ALT This comprehensive book examines the EU’s core legislation in sustainable finance since the inception of the Sustainable Finance Action Plan in 2018, covering the provisions of the Climate Benchmarks Regulation, the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, the Taxonomy Regulation, the Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/1253 introducing sustainability factors, risks, and preferences in the MiFID II regime, and the European Green Bond Standard. Contributors from academia, legal practice and public authorities analyse the developments and challenges in the implementation of these legal acts.

ALT In Rethinking the Global Trade Order, Rafael Leal-Arcas provides a timely examination of how international trade can be harnessed to address climate change, energy insecurity and sustainable development. By integrating international trade law and sustainability policy, he provides a coherent and interdisciplinary framework for understanding the role of international trade in the global energy transition.

ALT Highlighting how and why international investment contracts are central to foreign investment, this book explores their evolution and, in turn, their role in shaping global regimes. Leading scholars and practitioners shed light on how contracts between states and investors allocate risk, distribute regulatory authority, and respond to pressures concerning sustainability, human rights, and the environment.

ALT This incisive book investigates how China’s state-led system shapes the governance of coastal climate adaptation, examining the relationship between law, government, and local communities. Xiaoxuan Chen discusses the implications of a state-led system, in which participation and accountability are implemented through administrative structures, for coastal climate adaptation.

ALT This Practical Guide provides a foundational overview of the evolving application of EU competition law to sport, combining comprehensive analysis with practical guidance. 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.

ALT This comprehensive Research Handbook explores how the media has shaped, and been shaped by, the law of privacy and confidentiality. Leading experts from a range of jurisdictions investigate how the law and regulation in this area has evolved in response to changing media forms, functions and practices. The central theme that emerges from this collection is that privacy, confidentiality and data protection standards now exert stronger influence on media law than ever before. Analysing key topics such as physical and digital privacy, non-disclosure agreements and data protection claims against the media, the Research Handbook underscores the enduring importance of journalistic reporting and the foundational value of freedom of expression in democratic societies. At the same time, the contributors demonstrate that respect for confidentiality, privacy and data protection is also indispensable for human dignity, autonomy and the flourishing of modern information societies.

ALT This unique book provides valuable insight into the decision-making process of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) regarding questions of jurisdiction and competence in international sports disputes. Through systematic analysis of the case law and by identifying the key principles applied by CAS panels, sports lawyer Nilo Effori and sports consultant Botond Pintér set out how procedural rules, association regulations and general principles of law interact in practice. Key Features: ● Evaluates the doctrine of Kompetenz-Kompetenz in sports arbitration ● Conducts systematic, decision-by-decision analysis of CAS jurisprudence categorised by topic ● Presents dedicated indexes of CAS awards and lists of arbitrators’ cases ● Explains the circumstances in which the CAS has jurisdiction to hear a case and how arbitration agreements are interpreted ● Gives guidance on how disputes involving FIFA, clubs, players, agents and other sports governing bodies are allocated between dif

ALT This Advanced Introduction provides an overview of election law, and how this fulfills its commitment to democratic self-rule. Identifying differences in conceptions of democracy worldwide, James A. Gardner surveys the major approaches to a variety of problems routinely encountered by democratic states, including distribution of the franchise, political representation, conditions for removal from office, and the function and regulation of political parties.

ALT This comprehensive Research Handbook explores the concepts, methods and empirical work that shape the field of legal geography. Bringing together interdisciplinary scholars, it examines how legal norms and institutions shape, and are shaped by, the organization of economic and social life. Contributors address the discipline’s foundational principles of property, territory and sovereignty while engaging with contemporary issues such as urban governance, environmental regulation and transnational legal regimes. Referencing global case studies, chapters illustrate how various infrastructures influence spatial justice and configure landscapes of inclusion and exclusion to highlight how legal categories and procedures are unevenly enacted across space. Advocating for a dialogue between legal and economic geography, contributors sketch the grounds for sustained shared projects whereby law and geography are approached as mutually constitutive.