Jurisprudence and general issues

This book argues that the international community has a moral duty to intervene on behalf of a population affected by a natural hazard when their government is either unable or unwilling to provide basic, life-saving assistance.

Dass die westliche Verfassungstradition und die Weimarer Reichsverfassung einen Einfluss auf die Entstehung der Grundrechte des Grundgesetzes hatten, ist ein Allgemeinplatz, der stets im Ungefähren blieb.

This book develops a more nuanced, and technically rigorous, account of persons and groups in the context of intentional action and responsibility.

Der Band präsentiert systematisch die theoretischen und dogmatischen Grundzüge des europäischen Verfassungsrechts, reflektiert den Stand der Forschung, verdeutlicht methodische Zugänge, klärt Wissenschaftsverständnisse und bezeichnet Forschungsdesiderata.

Controversies in Innocence Cases in America brings together leading experts on the investigation, litigation, and scholarly analysis of innocence cases in America, from legal, political and ethical perspectives.

Exploring the principles and values that should guide and limit the state's use of preventive techniques that involve coercion against the individual, this volume arises from a three-year study of Preventive Justice.

Remorse is a powerful, important and yet academically neglected emotion.

Das Buch betrachtet alle wichtigen Aspekte der modernen polnischen Strafrechtsgeschichte vor einem europaischen Hintergrund.

This book highlights the broad scope and span of resistance as a contentious practice in the early modern Iberian world.

Rejecting traditional alternatives, Leo Zaibert offers an original and refreshing approach to the age-old problem of the justification of punishment.

A study of the depictions of women's executions in Renaissance England A Weak Woman in a Strong Battle: Women and Public Execution in Early Modern England provides critical insights on representations of women on the scaffold, focusing on how female victims and those writing about them constructed meaning from the ritual.

Events: The Force of International Law presents an analysis of international law, centred upon those historical and recent events in which international law has exerted, or acquired, its force.

Stripping back the negative associations many lawyers have with the `S' word - selling - is a crucial step in redefining a lawyers approach to business development.

The principal objective of this book is simple: to provide a timely and effective means of navigating the current maze of case law on causation, in order that the solutions to causal problems might more easily be reached and the law relating to them more easily understood.

Adam Smith and the Philosophy of Law and Economics is a unique book.

The relationship between health and law in not new but the relation is multifaceted.

The "e;rule of law"e; stands at the heart of the American legal system.

This volume addresses the role of the judge and the parties in civil litigation in mainland China, Hong Kong and various European jurisdictions.

This book investigates how defendants are assessed by criminal justice decisionmakers, such as judges, lawyers, probation officers, parole board members and those involved in restorative justice.

Focussing on the key role of the English medieval parliament in hearing and determining the requests of the king's subjects, this ground-breaking new study examines the private petition and its place in the late medieval English parliament (c.

Acompletely updated and revised desk reference for paralegal professionals.

This book offers a detailed overview of the rules regarding criminal investigations into financial-economic criminality in the EU's main legal systems.

Economic Morality and Jewish Law compares the way in which welfare economics and Jewish law determine the propriety of an economic action, whether by a private citizen or the government.

How does justice for non-citizens look like?

This volume argues that legislation on abortion, adultery, and rape has been central to the formation of the modern citizen.

One of the most ambitious legacies of the 20th century was the universal commitment to ensure freedom from want as a human right.

Die Frage der Anforderungen an den Nachweis der deliktischen Herkunft von Vermögen ist eine der zentralen Streitfragen des Einziehungsrechts.

Reversing Field invites students, professionals, and enthusiasts of sport-whether law, management and marketing, or the game itself-to explore the legal issues and regulations surrounding collegiate and professional athletics in the United States.

This book takes a unique approach to mitigate the problem of massive online copyright infringement and justify fan activities.

Analyses the highly controversial problems of DNA forensic technologies, providing important insights into their ethical, legal and societal dimensions.

This work of applied moral philosophy develops a comprehensive account of how adults as moral agents ascribe moral status to beings.

Focused on the Australian punk and hardcore music scene, this book provides an innovative balance between the acknowledgement of harm and the celebration of pleasure in live music spaces.

Since publication of the first edition in 1976, The Building Regulations: Explained and Illustrated has provided a detailed, authoritative, highly illustrated and accessible guide to the regulations that must be adhered to when constructing, altering or extending a building in England and Wales.

This book analyses the impact that stabilization clauses have on the development of human rights and gender laws in resource rich nations.

Notwithstanding the widespread and persistent affirmation of the indivisibility and equal worth of all human rights, socio-economic rights continue to be treated as the "e;Cinderella"e; of the human rights corpus.

Since the economic reforms of the 1990s, India's economy has grown rapidly.

The chapters collected in this book explore the place and role of judge-made private law in an emerging European polity.

Taking the form of two companion volumes, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland represents the first major investigation into the administration, experience, impact and representation of summary justice in Scottish towns, c.

Tying the Autocrat''s Hands provides a comprehensive, empirical evaluation of legal reforms in contemporary China.