This book analyzes the evolution of the idea of human rights, the "e;universalization"e; of human rights as reflected in the spread of "e;constitutionalism"e; to almost all states.
This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to criminological theory for students taking courses in criminology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
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The US Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice (NIJ) asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of The National Academies to conduct a workshop that would examine the interface of the medicolegal death investigation system and the criminal justice system.
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Rulemaking refines, and in some instances defines, the mission of every government agency and affects the lives and activities of all citizens and often non-citizens.
Discusses governmental responsibilities and individual liberties, ethical problems of moral judgement, and legal considerations in defining and suppressing obscene material.
« L'Assemblée nationale, voulant établir la Constitution française sur les principes qu'elle vient de reconnaître et de déclarer, abolit irrévocablement les institutions qui blessaient la liberté et l'égalité des droits.
Dieses Themenheft befasst sich mit der Frage, wie Geschlecht vor Gericht hergestellt und verhandelt, aber auch strategisch eingesetzt wurde, um Ansprüche durchzusetzen oder sich gegen Vorwürfe zu verteidigen.
This book provides the European structure of liability for failed contract negotiations through a comparative lens, with wider lessons for an international context.
« Les recherches sur l'histoire de ces institutions et les efforts tentés pour en estimer la véritable valeur d'après les résultats de ces recherches, se trouvent sérieusement entravés par une foule d'idées et de croyances qui se sont répandues de nos jours au bénéfice d'une forme spéciale de gouvernement, cette forme extrême de gouvernement populaire que l'on nomme démocratie… »Henry Sumner Maine
This book investigates the unresolved issue of democratic legitimacy in contexts of pervasive disagreement and contributes to this debate by defending a relational version of political liberalism that rests on the ideal of co-authorship.
This book offers conceptual analyses, highlights issues, proposes solutions, and discusses practices regarding privacy and data protection in transitional times.
This book aims to explore the construction of Chinese law, with an evolution that has been strongly inspired by international law that has functioned as a "e;pioneer of legal civilization"e; in China.
LasSiete Partidas es un cuerpo normativo redactado en Castilla, durante el reinado de Alfonso X (1252-1284), también conocido como Alfonso el Sabio, con el objetivo de dar uniformidad jurídica al Reino.
Crime Scene Photography, Third Edition, covers the general principles and concepts of photography, while also delving into the more practical elements and advanced concepts of forensic photography.
This book contributes to current debates about "e;queer outsides"e; and "e;queer outsiders"e; that emerge from tensions in legal reforms aimed at improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer people in the United Kingdom.
The main aim of this book is to try and reconcile the apparently irreconcilable differences between the Biblical texts that allow divorce and those that prohibit divorce.
« Sûrs de nos intentions, forts de notre conscience, nous nous engageons, devant l'assemblée qui nous écoute, à être fidèles à cette Charte constitutionnelle, nous réservant d'en juger le maintien, avec une nouvelle solennité, devant les autels de celui qui pèse dans la même balance les rois et les nations.
« Je fais remarquer une fois pour toutes que j'entends par économie politique classique toute économie qui, à partir de William Petty, cherche à pénétrer l'ensemble réel et intime des rapports de production dans la société bourgeoise, par opposition à l'économie vulgaire qui se contente des apparences, rumine sans cesse pour son propre besoin et pour la vulgarisation des plus grossiers phénomènes les matériaux déjà élaborés par ses prédécesseurs, et se borne à ériger pédantesquement en système et à proclamer comme vérités éternelles les illusions dont le bourgeois aime à peupler son monde à lui, le meilleur des mondes possibles.
Das Buch untersucht das menschenrechtliche Verbot der Diskriminierung aufgrund der Rasse einschließlich der Schutzvorschriften gegen Hassrede und beleuchtet umfassend die relevanten Entscheidungen unterschiedlicher nationaler und internationaler Gerichte.
This book analyses the features and functionality of the relationship between the law, individual or collective values and medical-scientific evidence when they have to be interpreted by judges, courts and para-jurisdictional bodies.
This book presents a clear and precise account of the structure and content of Max Weber's sociology of law: situating its methodological and epistemological specificity in relation to other approaches to the sociology of law; as well as offering a critical evaluation of Weber's usefulness for contemporary socio-legal research.
This volume showcases emerging interdisciplinary scholarship that captures the complex ways in which biological knowledge is testing the nature and structure of legal personhood.
Why it's wrong to single out religious liberty for special legal protectionsThis provocative book addresses one of the most enduring puzzles in political philosophy and constitutional theory-why is religion singled out for preferential treatment in both law and public discourse?
Das Buch bietet eine Analyse der Ontologie des Rechts in Auseinandersetzung mit den wichtigsten realistischen, konstruktivistischen und phänomenologischen Konzeptionen.
In this book, the protection of personal data is compared for eight EU member states,namely France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Romania, Italy, Sweden andthe Netherlands.
This book builds on the success of the First International Conference on Facts and Evidence: A Dialogue between Law and Philosophy (Shanghai, China, May 2016), which was co-hosted by the Collaborative Innovation Center of Judicial Civilization (CICJC) and East China Normal University.
This book analyses essential concepts of competition law and industrial policy, and shows where the two areas clash with and complement each other, respectively.
Victim offender dialogues have been developed as a way to hold offenders accountable to the person they have harmed and to give victims a voice about how to put things right.