Law

This collection explores the theme of fragmentation within international economic law following the global financial crisis.

This volume explores an important, yet under-researched, area of sentencing law and practice: the use of mitigating and aggravating factors.

In this provocative and thought-provoking book, Professor of Ethics Thomas Sobirk Petersen explains why the World Anti-Doping Agency's doping rules are poorly justified and makes a case for a new third way in anti-doping policy that would allow athletes to use substances and methods currently on WADA's prohibited list.

Taken from a report for the Electric Power Research Institute, Joy Dunkerley's study aims to clarify the relationship between energy consumption and economic output in industrialised countries.

From a young age Albie Sachs played a prominent part in the struggle for justice in South Africa.

Der Erbfall hat nicht nur im Hinblick auf die Erbschaftsteuer steuerrechtliche Folgen.

This book explores law-making in international affairs and is compiled to celebrate the 50th birthday of Professor Jan Klabbers, a leading international law and international relations scholar who has made significant contributions to the understanding of the sources of international legal obligations and the idea of constitutionalism in international law.

Das Jahrbuch enthält folgende Themen:Wissenschaftliche Beiträge / Contributions scientifiquesANNE-CHRISTINE FAVRE : La participation populaire aux grands projets d'infrastructure lancés par les pouvoirs publicsFRANÇOIS PAYCHÈRE/STANISLAS ZUIN : Améliorer la surveillance de grands projets menés par des entités publiques : élements de réponse tirés de la pratique de la Cour des comptes du canton de GenèveETIENNE POLTIER : La commande publique portant sur des objets complexes : les solutions du droit actuel et du P-LMP, ainsi qu'un regard sur le droit de l'Union européennePETER REIMANN: Finanzrechtliche und finanzpolitische Aspekte bei der Realisierung von Grossprojekten der öffentlichen HandKARINE SIEGWART: Alternative Wege der Streitbeilegung bei Infrastrukturgrossprojekten der öffentlichen HandDANIEL KETTIGER: Die Haftung des Staates für seine GeodatenLUKAS SCHAUB: Die Vereinbarkeit von Art.

The principle of transferable groundwater rights is that by making water rights capable of being traded in the market, water resources can be used more sustainably and efficiently.

This book provides a transdisciplinary assessment of multiple countries' legal and policy frameworks vis-a-vis the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication, adopted in 2014 by the Committee on Fisheries of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Paradigms of International Human Rights Law explores the legal, ethical, and other policy consequences of three core structural features of international human rights law: the focus on individual rights instead of duties; the division of rights into substantive and nondiscrimination categories; and the use of positive and negative right paradigms.

Verkehrsrecht im FokusDer Schwerpunkt der anschaulichen Darstellung liegt auf verkehrsrechtlichen Bestimmungen, die für eine umfangreiche Begutachtung einspuriger und fahrerlaubnisfreier Kfz (Mofas, Leichtmofas, E-Bikes und geschwindigkeitsbeschränkte KKR) erforderlich sind.

In recent years the Chinese legal system has undergone many reforms and this book brings the literature up to date, offering a contemporary account of the law and administration in China.

An assessment of the transitional processes aimed at creating a stable and just society in South Africa.

How can children grow to realize their inherent rights and respect the rights of others?

The history of international criminal justice told through the revealing stories of some of its primary intellectual figures.

This book provides a comparative study of the role of international organizations in environmental governance.

The Coercion Thesis has been a subject of longstanding debate, but legal positivist scholarship over the last several decades has concluded that coercion is not necessary for law.

After more than seventy years of uninterrupted authoritarian government headed by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), Mexico formally began the transition to democracy in 2000.

Birth of a White Nation, Second Edition examines the social construction of race through the invention of white people.

Die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Tagungsbandes geben vielseitige Einblicke in das interdisziplinäre Themenfeld Mergers & Acquisitions, so dass mit 20 Beiträgen ein breit angelegter Überblick über den aktuellen Diskurs in Wissenschaft und Praxis vorliegt.

Until President Jimmy Carter launched an effort to diversify the lower federal courts, the U.

Adopting a global approach, Fitzmaurice analyses the laws that shaped modern European empires from medieval times to the twentieth century.

What affects the supply of oil?

Ten years after the Human Genome Project's completion the life sciences stand in a moment of uncertainty, transition, and contestation.

Evils, both large and small, are a constant feature of human life.

Constitutions are no longer exclusively national projects, but increasingly result from broader transnational processes that form a transnational legal order.

Published more than ten years ago, the first edition of Accident/Incident Prevention Techniques provided clear, comprehensive guidance on how to mitigate the cost, in personnel and to the bottom line, of accidents/incidents in the workplace.

Among the best-known and most esteemed people known from antiquity is the Babylonian king Hammurabi.

Today, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) has gained international recognition and is widely used to complement the conventional methods of resolving disputes through courts of law.

Presents the emerging principle of Common Concern of Humankind as legal response and to serious collective action crises.

Is it time to take a break from feminism?

The question of how Islamic law regulates the notions of just recourse to and just conduct in war has long been the topic of heated controversy, and is often subject to oversimplification in scholarship and journalism.

In this comparative study of the contemporary politics of deportation in Germany and the United States, Antje Ellermann examines the capacity of the liberal democratic state to coercively regulate individuals within its borders.

This book addresses the various strategies that are available to police management, such as consolidation, regionalization, and amalgamation of police agencies; new public management (NPM); enhanced performance management; civilianization; and organizational restructuring.

This book provides a holistic overview of the English and Welsh system of criminal justice, from the earliest stages of investigation and arrest through to the punishment and release of offenders.

This book focuses on the "e;algorithmic turn"e; in state surveillance and the development of new platforms that allow the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to shape human behavior in all areas of life through its widespread social credit system.

In dieser Anleitung finden Sie neben fachlich fundierten, zuverlässigen Erläuterungen zu den Vordrucken auch viele nützliche Hinweise für die Einkommensteuererklärung 2023.

The success of every construction project begins with reading and understanding the contract.

Since many legal disputes are battles over the meaning of a statute, contract, testimony, or the Constitution, judges must interpret language in order to decide why one proposed meaning overrides another.

Negotiations on trade facilitation were concluded at the WTO 9th Ministerial Conference in 2013, and the Agreements on Trade Facilitation (TFA), therefore, became the first fully multilateral agreement in WTO history.

Focusing on the Global Financial Crisis 2007-2010 and the new emerging Covid-19 crisis in 2020, this book examines the discourse on risk and uncertainty in the markets through the lens of financial crises.