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The legal position of convicted offenders is complex, as are the social consequences that can result from a criminal conviction.

This edited collection provides a forum for rigorous analysis of the necessity for both legal and social change with regard to regulation of same-sex relationships and rainbow families, the status of civil partnership as a concept and the lived reality of equality for LGBTQ+ persons.

Die Rechtssetzungsdynamik im europäischen Verbrauchervertragsrecht bleibt ungebrochen.

This new edition of the casebook includes extensive excerpts from 25 major decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States in media law or related to media law.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

"e;Death Scene Investigation: Procedural Guide is the answer to a long recognized dilemma: how to have every death investigated by an experienced death investigator.

This book examines responsibility in grave humanitarian crises, focusing on the international community's collective responsibility to take action in such cases as genocide or ethnic cleansing.

Increasing knowledge of the biological is fundamentally transforming what life itself means and where its boundaries lie.

The fate of the climate change regime hangs in the balance as the UN-led negotiations try to forge a new international strategy for the post-2020 period.

This book examines how human rights came to define the bounds of universal morality during the political crises and conflicts of the twentieth century.

The range at which a weapon has been fired is an important measurement for the reconstruction of firearms offenses (murder, suicide, accident).

La presente obra, que consta de seis capítulos, revisa las respuestas del derecho punitivo del Estado frente a la protesta social.

Following the 9/11 attacks by Al-Qa'ida, President Bush declared war on terror.

Liberal democracies are predicated on popular sovereignty - the ideal of government for and by the People.

Deliberation and Decision explores ways of bridging the gap between two rival approaches to theorizing about democratic institutions: constitutional economics on the one hand and deliberative democracy on the other.

Particularly valuable for both academics and practitioners, Human Rights and the Private Sphere: A Comparative Study analyzes the interaction between constitutional rights, freedoms and private law.

Walter Ullmann's contribution to the study of medieval political and legal thought needs no emphasis.

In The End of Negotiable Instruments: Bringing Payment Systems Law Out of the Past, author James Rogers challenges the basic assumptions of the law of checks and notes and its history, and provides a well-reasoned account of how the law could be changed to better suit the evolution of new payment technologies.

The interaction of faith and the community is a fundamental of modern society.

The first book to engage in a comprehensive examination of the human right to water in theory and in practice.

Policing in an Age of Austerity uniquely examines the effects on one key public service: the state police of England and Wales.

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The book focuses, through multiple levels of international reality, on the pervasive and widespread effect of the Syrian civil war on the unravelling of established norms---both global or national--- which have determined international relations during the last seven decades.

Directors are key decision-makers in any organisation, whether it is in the public sector, a family business or a transnational company.

First published in 1998, this volume seeks to examine a range of policing techniques which are new, if not in their conception, then at least in their importance to the form of police enquiries in the late 20th century.

First published in 1999, Making Foreign People Pay deals with the recovery of monetary claims in cross-border legal relations and contains the results of a comparative empirical research of debt recovery procedures of three countries with different socio-legal environments, Germany, England and Turkey.

This book explores the intricate and multi-dimensional conception of clarity and obscurity in the law.

The fifth volume of the Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law (BYEIL) discusses diverse and actual legal topics of international and comparative dimensions and angles.

Provides an in-depth study of the ideological and organisational features of China''s legal system, as it is embedded in the Party-state.

Die indische Wirtschaft boomt und wird in den kommenden Jahren zu einem der weltweit wichtigsten M&A-Ziele avancieren.

Die Arbeit entwirft eine neuartige beteiligungsbezogene Publizität, um für die börsennotierte AG die mit der Proportionalität von Stimmrechtsmacht und Risikotragung verbundenen verbandsrechtlichen Funktionen der Verhaltenssteuerung und Richtigkeitsgewähr der Willensbildung zu kompensieren.

A Hands-On Introduction to Forensic Science, Second Edition continues in the tradition of the first edition taking a wholly unique approach to teaching forensic science.

Environmental and Pollution Science, Second Edition, provides the latest information on the environmental influence of a significant number of subjects, and discusses their impact on a new generation of students.

By integrating different research angles and methods of philosophy of law, sociology of law, applied linguistics, and legal translation, this book presents a groundbreaking approach to the non-standardization phenomenon in Chinese legislative language, unveils the underlying causes and adverse effects thereof, and provides potential principles, strategies, and methods to be followed in the standardization of Chinese legislative language.

Giving a clear, concise introduction to land law, this book looks at the way in which the law regulates our relationship with the land on which we walk, work, and live.

Volume 20 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains seven papers that deal with important aspects of employment relationships in a variety of industries, countries and research contexts.

Mit dieser Festschrift wird ein Rechtswissenschaftler besonderen Ranges geehrt.

In New Orleans, the widow of an attorney who died of lung cancer vowed to avenge his death by suing the tobacco companies.

This book makes an original contribution to Russia-EU literature by analyzing constructions and trans-formations of the Russian 'Self' in relation to the European "e;Other"e;.

This book identifies the definition of a child within the law, the rights of children, and discusses the extent to which primarily English law gives adequate recognition to and protection of these rights.