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L'anthropocène contraint l'humanité à prendre conscience que, sauf à s'autodétruire, elle n'a de destin que commun.

In Tax, Inequality, and Human Rights, experts in human rights law and in tax law debate the linkages between the two fields and highlight how each can help to tackle rapidly growing inequality in the economic, social, and political realms.

Offers an algorithmic solution to the problem of legal fictions: enter a fiction and find the answer.

This book examines the role of home states to investment disputes and questions whether it represents a return to diplomatic protection.

While the Arab Uprisings presented new opportunities for the empowerment of women, the sidelining of women remains a constant risk in the post-revolutionist MENA countries.

The author examines the basic principles of the extent of state penal power as well as the causes and legal facets of criminal jurisdictional conflicts.

This book investigates the role of Islam and religious freedom in the constitutional transitions of six North African and Middle Eastern countries, namely Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, and Palestine.

Scientific research is fundamental to addressing issues of great importance to the development of human knowledge.

Recognizing that the quality of governance is a crucial factor in the overall development of a country, experts on government ethics and law enforcement examine the principles that need to be applied to create more effective and efficient governments.

Modern Administrative Law in Australia provides an authoritative overview of administrative law in Australia.

Flächenverbrauch sowie Störungen und Zerschneidungen in der Landschaft führen für viele Tier- und Pflanzenarten zu einschneidenden Konsequenzen.

Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations, Eleventh Edition, meets the needs of students and instructors for engaging, evidence-based, impartial coverage of interventions that can reduce or prevent deviance.

Criminality has accompanied social life from the outset.

Die Konzeption: Der Band veranschaulicht dem Studierenden die Technik der Fallbearbeitung in sozialrechtlichen Fallkonstellationen, begleitet und fördert das vertiefte Studium des Sozialrechts im Rahmen der Schwerpunktbereichsausbildung und ist so die ideale Ergänzung zum Schwerpunkte-Lehrbuch "Sozialrecht" von Waltermann.

This book is Volume I of a two-volume set on antitrust policy, analyzing the economic efficiency and moral desirability of various tests for antitrust legality, including those promulgated by US and EU antitrust law.

This Handbook provides a cutting edge study of the fast developing field of international law on the protection of cultural heritage by taking stock of the recent developments and of the core concepts and current challenges.

At one level of generality, multijuralism is the coexistence of two or more legal systems or sub-systems within a broader normative legal order to which they adhere, such as the existence of civil and common law systems within the EU.

The year 2009 will be pivotal for Earth's climate.

From John Douglasthe legendary FBI criminal profiler, #1New York Timesbestselling author, and inspiration for the Netflix showMindhuntercomes a chilling journey inside the mind and crimes of Larry Gene Bell, one of the most dangerous serial killers Douglas confronted, and the desperate effort to identify andcatch him.

This book explores the resilience of constitutional government in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, connecting and comparing perspectives from ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa to global trends.

This book maps the changes in court advocacy in England and Wales over the last three centuries.

Although the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States share many legal, social, and political values, they also represent different traditions in terms of how each understands the idea of universal human rights.

Attacks on humanitarian aid operations are both a symptom and a weapon of modern warfare, and as armed groups increasingly target aid workers for violence, relief operations are curtailed in places where civilians are most in need.

Conveys all the core topics emphasising the interplay between medical law and medical ethics in a unique chapter structure.

Presents theories, practices and critiques alongside each other to engage students, scholars and professionals from multiple fields.

Constructive trusts significantly interfere with the rights of an apparent legal owner of property.

The book examines how and according to which principles the enactment of European criminal legislation is legitimate.

This book presents a geopolitical analysis of the upcoming human exploration of celestial bodies in the inner solar system by the major space powers.

This book seeks to understand how women judges are situated as legal knowers on the High Court of Australia by asking whether a near-equal gender balance on the High Court has disrupted the Court's historically masculinist gender regime.

Provides students with an introduction to legal philosophy, using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to reflect on human rights.

This book provides a detailed and comprehensive look at the primary players, acts, motivations, and methods of the Army of God in their quest to make abortion illegal in the United States.

This new edition provides a distinctively broad-based approach to EU Employment Law, covering related social policy and anti-discrimination measures, as well as a detailed overview of how policy and law are made.

Everything estate owners need to establish a successful living trust When properly designed, a revocable living trust can provide all of the estate tax-saving benefits available under a decedent s Last Will, eliminate a lifetime court-supervised financial guardianship of a person s financial affairs in the event of physical or mental incapacity, and, upon the trustor s death, facilitate estate administration without the necessity of a court-supervised process, or probate.

Anti-competitive business cartels, engaging in practices such as price fixing, market sharing, bid rigging and restrictions on output, are now subject to strong official censure and rigorous legal control in a large number of jurisdictions across the world.

The essays and articles selected for this volume analyze what is generally understood by freedom of religion and belief in today's world.

There is growing enthusiasm for the use of mediation to seek to resolve cases arising under the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (the Convention).