Law

This book examines the work of the World Trade Organization (WTO), with a focus on the capacity of its judiciary to strike a reasoned balance between free trade in biotechnology and biosafety as to promote the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals.

Die Corona-Pandemie trifft unsere Gesellschaft mit voller Wucht.

Challenging traditional accounts of the development of American private law, Peter Karsten offers an important new perspective on the making of the rules of common law and equity in nineteenth-century courts.

The number of African migrants attempting to enter Europe has increased.

Komprimiert und auf die wesentlichen Aspekte ausgerichtet, behandelt dieses Lehrbuch das Ordnungswidrigkeitenrecht, wie es in den Studiengängen für den Polizeivollzugsdienst und für den Verwaltungsdienst gelehrt wird.

A pressing question at the forefront of current global political debates is: how can we salvage the democratic project in the context of 'globalization'?

This book examines international criminal law from a normative perspective and lays out how responsible agents, individuals and the collectives they comprise, ought to be held accountable to the world for the commission of atrocity.

The essays selected for this volume, written by some of the worlds most respected experts on human rights, encompass the development of human rights law from its philosophical underpinnings and address many of its current controversies.

Following the rise of the zemiological movement, the concept of social harm has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention.

As the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded, stark social inequalities have increasingly been revealed and, in many cases, exacerbated by the global health crisis.

Dieser Praxisleitfaden ist für Menschen geschrieben, die in Deutschland eine (kreditfinanzierte) Immobilie kaufen oder selbst bauen wollen.

This book sheds new light on the ongoing fight to end prostitution through a historical study of its emotional communities.

Seventeenth-century England was a country obsessed with property rights.

The patent system is based on "e;one-patent-per-product"e; presumption and therefore fails to sustain complex follow-on innovations that contain a number of patents.

Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, Eleventh Edition, offers a broad perspective on criminological theory.

At a time when human rights are coming under increasing pressure, in-depth knowledge and understanding of their foundations, conceptual underpinnings and current practice remain crucial.

Anarchism & Sexuality aims to bring the rich and diverse traditions of anarchist thought and practice into contact with contemporary questions about the politics and lived experience of sexuality.

This book explores how the European Union responds to the ongoing challenges to the liberal international order.

Lawmaking is crucial to American democracy because it completely defines and regulates the public life of the nation.

The response of states to demands for free exercise of religion or belief varies greatly across the world.

Today it is widely recognised that the 'long 1970s' was a decisive international transition period during which traditional, collective-oriented socio-economic interest and welfare policies were increasingly replaced by the more individually and neo-liberally oriented value policies of the post-industrial epoch.

This book offers a multidisciplinary treatment of targeting.

Das Buch behandelt in alphabetischer Reihenfolge 22 zentrale Begriffe des Wehrrechts wie- Amtshaftung,- Bundeswehrverwaltung,- Einsatz im Ausland und im Innern,- Militärischer Abschirmdienst,- parlamentarische Kontrolle,- Soldatenrecht,- Truppenstationierungsrecht,- Wehrbeschwerderecht,- Wehrdisziplinarrecht,- Wehrstrafrecht u.

An original reinterpretation of the legal aspects of feudalism, and the important distinction between citizens and non-citizens.

The first modern title to cover the varied and complex world of ship management in the 21st century.

Das Werk enthält folgende Texte:- Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz (LkSG)- Die Allgemeine Erklärung der Menschenrechte- Internat.

Der erste Teil dieses Lehrbuches vermittelt die Grundlagen des Polizei- und Sicherheitsrechts und geht auf die einzelnen Standardmaßnahmen sowie auf die so genannten Generalklauseln ein.

In this objective, practical and authoritative introductory text the author reveals how the fundamental principles of the human-animal relationship drive the development of animal law.

Constitutional law provides the legal framework for the Australian political and legal systems, and thus touches almost every aspect of Australian life.

In the early 1990s the then European Community imposed for the first time a set of economic restrictions against a specific entity: the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola.

The Ecological Constitution integrates the insights of environmental constitutionalism and ecological law in a concise, engaging and accessible manner.

This book is devoted to illustrating the significance of perpetrator-victim relationship, including its status and state, in understanding intimate partner homicide (IPH) in the context of China today after comparing with the findings in the previous studies.

This book deals with adoption laws and practices in small island developing states in the Pacific.

The field of law and religion studies has undergone a profound transformation over the last thirty years, looking beyond traditional relationships between State and religious communities to include rights of religious liberty and the role of religion in the public space.

The yearning for historical justice - that is, for the redress of past wrongs - has become one of the defining features of our age.

This powerful book on racism in the United States argues that a threatening narrative originating in slavery continues to link Black people to inferiority, dangerousness, and crime, causing them to be presumed guilty by society and U.

The problem of prosecuting individuals complicit in the Nazi regime's "e;Final Solution"e; is almost insurmountably complex and has produced ever less satisfying results as time has passed.

Human rights have traditionally been understood as protecting individual freedom against intrusion by the State.

Bringing together a team of globally renowned academics and expert practitioners in the field, this new work presents the first comprehensive analysis of the Geneva and Hague Securities Conventions and related initiatives including those of UNCITRAL and regulatory authorities.

Emmanuelle Jouannet explores the concept of international law from the European Enlightenment to the post-Cold War world.

Winner of the second SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2010.