This book examines legal language as a language for special purposes, evaluating the functions and characteristics of legal language and the terminology of law.
Arguing that there has never been a consensus on which rights all people are entitled, Beyond Illiberalism: Rights, Rhetoric, and Reality in a Pluralistic World traces how the concept of human rights is tied to a global project rooted in colonialism and grounded in nineteenth-century liberalism and post-World War II social democratic principles.
Arguing that there has never been a consensus on which rights all people are entitled, Beyond Illiberalism: Rights, Rhetoric, and Reality in a Pluralistic World traces how the concept of human rights is tied to a global project rooted in colonialism and grounded in nineteenth-century liberalism and post-World War II social democratic principles.
This book provides a critical psychosocial analysis of legal practice, documenting a mental health crisis among lawyers and judges and linking this crisis to a dysfunctional legal system they continue to control.
Methoden an Staatsgrenzen, die die Einreise von Migranten verhindern sollen, können von Pushbacks auf Hoher See, gewaltsamen Zurückweisungen an Landesgrenzen bis hin zu kompletten Grenzschließungen reichen.
The Decline of Neutrality (1971) examines the impartial, disinterested neutrality as it was codified in the Hague Convention in 1907 and the changes the concept underwent from the beginning of World War I in 1914 up to Pearl Habor, December 1941.
When this book was originally published in 1974 it was the most comprehensive account yet published of British foreign policy from the end of World War II until the entry of Britian into the European Economic Community in 1973.
Als eine der herausragenden, aber weithin unbekannten Gestalten der Reformation prägte Ambrosius Blarer von Giersberg den religiösen Wandel Südwestdeutschlands wie kaum ein anderer seiner Zeit.
This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive institutional analysis of online dispute resolution (ODR), with a focus on the developments in China as well as their doctrinal and practical implications globally.
This book adopts a sociolegal and interdisciplinary approach to examine how the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has been understood within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
We have entered a recent zeitgeist, the era of the "e;new space age"e;, driven by billionaires, technological advancements, and a few dominating state powers.
We have entered a recent zeitgeist, the era of the "e;new space age"e;, driven by billionaires, technological advancements, and a few dominating state powers.
Das Buch befasst sich mit der Europaisierung des Gerichtsverfassungsrechts in Zivil- und Handelssachen: Aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven gehen die Autorinnen und Autoren der Frage nach, inwieweit das primare und sekundare EU-Recht sowie die Rechtsprechung des EuGH und des EGMR nicht nur die nationalen Zivilprozessrechte, sondern in zunehmendem Mae auch die nationalen Gerichtssysteme beeinflusst.
This book provides a comprehensive guide to the classification requirements for offshore mooring chains, essential for ensuring the safety and integrity of offshore assets.
This book is a collection of comprehensive background essays coupled with carefully edited Supreme Court case excerpts designed to explore constitutional law and the role of the Supreme Court in its development and interpretation.
This important book introduces the basics of prenatal psychology and works through the current scientific findings in the psychology and psychosomatics of pregnancy and birth.
Climate change is one of the great problems facing humanity; this book introduces readers to major rulings from around the world that centre on climate change as a core focus.
