Jurisprudence and general issues

The revised edition of The Ontological Foundation of Ethics, Politics, and Law adds new concepts and discusses the views of additional thinkers.

What should be the primary goals of a judicial appointments system, and how much weight should be placed on diversity in particular?

An examination of important aspects of the company laws of seven European countries.

This book assesses the impact of post-9/11 domestic counterterrorism policy on US political life.

This book explores how neoliberal consumer capitalist ideals of meritocracy, competitive individualism, and responsibilisation have shaped trans people's subjectivity and lived experiences of harm.

This book indicates the shortcomings of the current international legal system and customary international norms that govern international aviation law to comply with contemporary air transport market realities.

Why mass incarceration endures in the face of reforms, and how to truly change America's vast criminal justice systemCritics on both the left and the right increasingly use the term "e;mass incarceration"e; to call attention to the unprecedented scale and inequities of the U.

Forensic anthropology has seen a recent expansion in depth and scope as well as increased attention from the media and the legal system.

Technologies of Insecurity examines how general social and political concerns about terrorism, crime, migration and globalization are translated into concrete practices of securitisation of everyday life.

Examines the impact fugitive slaves had on the Fugitive Slave Law and the coming of the American Civil War.

Few subjects provoke as much public fascination and political concern as crime, criminality, criminology, and criminal justice policy and practice.

This book adopts a novel approach to resolving the present difficulties experienced by the courts in imposing strict liability for the tort of another.

This is a book about food, philosophy, and intellectual property rights.

Althusser and Law is the first book specifically dedicated to the place of law in Louis Althusser's philosophy.

What role does law play in post-communist societies?

Friedrich Kratochwil''s book explores the key discourses and debates surrounding the role of law in the international arena.

This book explains how burden of proof and presumption work as powerful devices in argumentation, based on studying many clearly explained legal and non-legal examples.

Cuando el ser humano afronta el miedo, o simplemente vive la incertidumbre, se activan mecanismos de defensa que con frecuencia ni controla porque siquiera se da cuenta de ellos, alcanzando incluso afectaciones radicales de la percepcion de la realidad, o de otros aspectos fundamentales de la memoria.

A magisterial account of criminal law in early modern Russia in a wider European and Eurasian context.

Between the countless works of art in the world and numerous laws on their care, the task of deciphering correct procedure can seem daunting.

Leadership fundamentally involves productively generating and responding to change - nothing is more vital to today's law firms that are facing unprecedented complexity, heightened and varied competition for both clients and talent, industry consolidation and demands for transformation on nearly all fronts.

The second volume in this series explores the evolution of administrative laws in Europe to better understand the foundations of EU institutions, focusing on the period of 1890-1910.

Despite some significant advances in the creation and protection of rights affecting women's health, these do not always translate into actual health benefits for women.

In the first of the three volumes of his projected comprehensive narrative history of the role of law in America from the colonial years through the twentieth century, G.

Ethnic identity groups-defined broadly to include ethnic, religious, linguistic, or racial identities-have long played a role in the formulation and implementation of U.

This book addresses the discursive importance of the prosecution's opening statement before an international criminal tribunal.

This book focuses on Chinese cases on the CISG decided by Chinese courts of all levels, mainly from 2006 to 2010.

Analyses the relation of preventive and curative health policy and its evolution over time.

A l’exception de la note de synthèse, les épreuves écrites d’admissibilité au CRFPA sont des cas pratiques ou des consultations juridiques.

This book investigates the dynamic intertwinement of law and morality, with a focus on new and developing fields of law.

In the first comprehensive accounting of the US Supreme Court's race-related jurisprudence, a distinguished historian and renowned civil rights lawyer scrutinize a legacy too often blighted by racial injustice.

Durante los últimos 30 años han cambiado los ámbitos y circunstancias que hacen especialmente vulnerables algunos derechos fundamentales.

Rights: Concepts and Contexts contains the central works of recent scholarship on the nature of rights, with contributions by some of the most prominent contemporary theorists in moral, legal, and political philosophy, including Joseph Raz, Robert Alexy, Jeremy Waldron, Morton Horwitz, Stephen Darwall, Margaret Gilbert, David Lyons, and Aharon Barak.

Wie kann ein Kanton mit der heutigen religiösen Vielfalt konstruktiv umgehen?

Based on analysis of the Manchester city-region, this book offers a vision of a sustainable urban future, through integrated strategic management of the entire city-region.

Bringing together leading scholars in the fields of criminology, international law, philosophy and architectural history and theory, this book examines the interrelationships between architecture and justice, highlighting the provocative and curiously ambiguous juncture between the two.

La Ley Orgánica 5/2000, de 12 de enero, reguladora de la Responsabilidad Penal de los Menores desde su entrada en vigor, ha sido objeto de varias reformas, siendo la última la producida mediante Ley Orgánica 8/2006, que ha tenido como objeto político-criminal, endurecer la respuesta penal a los menores de edad entre 14 y 18 años.

This book provides an introduction to the Austrian state,legal system and laws.

Are pregnant women entitled to the same rights of self-determination and bodily integrity as other adults?

This volume represents key scholarship on the issue of parental rights and responsibilities, selected from a dense forest of literature.

'Restitution for wrongs', or 'restitutionary damages', is the judicial award which compels the wrongdoer to give up to the victim the benefit obtained through the perpetration of the wrong, independently of any loss suffered by the victim.