Jurisprudence and general issues

This book provides a comprehensive, introductory text for students taking courses in crime and criminal justice history.

A comparative and collaborative study of the foundational principles and concepts that underpin different domestic systems of criminal law.

The global financial and economic crisis which started in 2008 has had devastating effects around the globe.

Im Studium des neuzeitlichen Naturrechts wird Leibniz, gelernter Jurist und gelehrter Philosoph in einem, zu Unrecht vernachlässigt.

Conservative Criminology serves as an important counterpoint to virtually every other academic text on crime.

Offers a comprehensive exploration of transnational law and advances a framework for investigating transnational regulatory institutions.

It is widely acknowledged that insurance has a major impact on the operation of tort and contract law regimes in practice, yet there is little sustained analysis of their interaction.

Das Grundgesetz ist seit über 70 Jahren ein Garant für Freiheit, Demokratie und Rechtsstaatlichkeit.

This book addresses the issue of agency in relation to child marriage.

This book examines how child protection law has been shaped by the transition to late modernity and how it copes with the ever-changing concept of risk.

Although employers are required to pay compensation for employee inventions under the laws in many countries, existing legal literature has never critically examined whether such compensation actually gives employee inventors an incentive to invent as the legislature intends.

Despite the unprecedented growth of arbitration and other means of ADR in treaties and transnational contracts in recent years, there remains no clearly defined mechanism for control of the system.

Judicial decision-making may ideally be impartial, but in reality it is influenced by many different factors, including institutional context, ideological commitment, fellow justices on a panel, and personal preference.

Les collectivités territoriales généralistes, en particulier les communes, sont responsables, depuis longtemps, de la plupart des services publics qui nous sont indispensables.

The Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies provides a forum for the scrutiny of significant issues in European Union Law, the Law of the Council of Europe, and Comparative Law with a "e;European"e; dimension, and particularly those which have come to the fore during the year preceding publication.

What role do transitional justice processes play in determining the gender outcomes of transitions from conflict and authoritarianism?

In the wake of Watergate, Gerald Ford appointed eminent lawyer and scholar Edward H.

'Why do we vote in schools?

Professor Zhiping Liang offers a new understanding of Chinese legal tradition in this profoundly influential book.

This book explores the form, function and meaning of crime and execution broadsides printed in nineteenth-century Britain.

For decades, framing an issue as a 'human rights' issue carried certain power and effect in politics and international relations, one that has been challenged by the recent rise of populist political forces.

The Dala Law is known through only one remaining medieval manuscript, written c.

Sale of goods transactions are central to commercial life.

The management of religious and ideological diversity remains a key challenge of our time deeply entangled with debates about the nature of liberal democracy, equality, social cohesion, minorities and nationalism, security and foreign policy.

The first systematic examination of the expectations people had of the law in the middle ages.

The present volume compiles the German National Reports on Public Law that are to be presented at the XVIIth Congress of the Inter- tional Academy of Comparative Law, which will take place from 16 - 22 July 2006 in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

In the nearly four decades since the First International Symposium on Victimology convened in Jerusalem in 1973, some concepts and themes have continued to hold a prominent place in the literature, while new ones have also emerged.

An innovative recasting of US legal and economic history through the power of clothing for those who lacked power and status in American society.

Based on an interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Cambridge in May 2012, Legitimacy and Criminal Justice: An International Exploration brings together internationally renowned scholars from a range of disciplines including criminology, international relations, sociology and political science to examine the meaning of legitimacy and advance its theoretical understanding within the context of criminal justice.

This collection of essays explores the law of trusts as it is understood in civilian and mixed jurisdictions.

Thriving in a Multi-Generational Law Firm: How to Increase Communication and Collaboration Among Lawyers focuses on the question of whether four generations can co-exist and thrive in a law firm.

This introductory book offers a coherent history of twentieth century crime and the law in Britain, with chapters on topics ranging from homicide to racial hate crime, from incest to anarchism, from gangs to the death penalty.

In this book, the pervasive use of analogies in the reasoning of lawyers and judges is explained in clear, simple, untechnical prose.

Liberal defences of nationalism have become prevalent since the mid-1980's.

We live in an age where one person's judicial "e;activist"e; legislating from the bench is another's impartial arbiter fairly interpreting the law.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This is the authoritative textbook on family mediation.

The EU has been portrayed as a leader in international climate change negotiations.

Durante el transcurso del siglo XX y lo corrido del presente, el derechotributario internacional ha evolucionado de manera continua, debido a la trans-formación del derecho interno y a la profunda modificación de las caracterís-ticas del comercio internacional que de la exportación de materias primas (enlos años veinte), ha pasado a la exportación de productos y servicios con flujosde réditos de un país a otro (en los años ochenta), hasta llegar al proceso de"globalización" que caracteriza el comercio de los últimos veinte años.

Using in-depth field research and analysis of case studies, Mafia Violence: Political, Symbolic, and Economic Forms of Violence in Camorra Clans focuses attention on the phenomenon of violence performed by Italian organised crime groups, devoting specific attention to the Camorra, which has been responsible since the mid-1980s for almost half of all mafia homicides documented in Italy.