Law

Focusing on moral, social and legal responsibilities as opposed to rights or obligations, this volume explores the concept of responsibility in family life, law and practice.

This book uses a critical political economy approach to develop an historically and politically grounded set of strategies for states to move toward a post-growth, decarbonised global economy.

A foundational resource for readers investigating religiously motivated environmentalism, this book provides both a global overview of the subject and a detailed discussion of key figures, concepts, organizations, events, and documents.

Human information and communication technology (ICT) implants have developed for many years in a medical context.

Christianity Today 2020 Book Award (Award of Merit, Theology/Ethics)Outreach 2020 Recommended Resource of the Year (Theology and Biblical Studies)The question of what makes life worth living is more vital now than ever.

Richter entscheiden Rechtsstreitigkeiten.

This book offers an original and insightful analysis of the human rights inadequacies that arise in the practice of UN territorial administration by analysing and assessing the practice of UNMIK.

Law firm practice group leadership is not for the faint hearted.

This book analyses the gendered nature of patent law and the knowledge governance system it supports.

Marking the 50-year anniversary of modern statutory competition law in Australia, this two-volume set brings together more than 40 leading experts to discuss the most important issues and developments arising under Australian competition law, economics, and policy.

This volume in the Osgoode Society's distinguished series on the history of Canadian law is a collection of the principal essays of Professor Emeritus R.

In 1877, the American Humane Society was formed as the national organization for animal and child protection.

This book is a practical and thoughtful guide for the forensic interview of children, presenting a synthesis of the empirical and theoretical knowledge necessary to understand the account of child victims of abuse or witnesses of crime.

This book explains, compares and assesses the legal implications of Dieselgate within a range of selected jurisdictions and at the EU, international and comparative law level.

This book is a research guide and bibliography of Parliamentary material, including the Old Scottish Parliament and the Old Irish Parliament, relating to patents and inventions from the early seventeenth century to 1976.

Scholars and lay persons alike routinely express concern about the capacity of democratic publics to respond rationally to emotionally charged issues such as crime, particularly when race and class biases are invoked.

This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the questions pertaining to the powers of the Security Council under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

This book discusses the proper use of legal language in business communication.

The EU antitrust enforcement system for several decades has been one of the most mature antitrust enforcement systems in the world.

Human capital is a key determinant of success for individuals and economies alike.

It has become almost accepted knowledge within international policy circles that efforts against drug trafficking and drug abuse violate human rights, and that the entire international drug control regime needs to be changed (or even discarded altogether) to adopt a more 'rights respecting' approach.

Eine funktionierende leitungsgebundene Energieversorgung ist Voraussetzung für die industrielle Entwicklung eines Landes.

international Encyclopedia of Crime and Conniption is made to serve the purpose of a sourcebook on the subject areas of direct and related interests pertaining to crime and corruption.

This work introduces and further develops the feminist strategy of 'norm transfer': the proposal that feminist informed standards created at the level of international criminal law make their way into domestic contexts.

The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability.

This unique work of reference traces the origins of the modern laws of warfare from the earliest times to the present day.

Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response is the first systematic attempt to understand how private decisions affect public vulnerability.

Inspired by comparative law scholar Patrick Glenn''s work, an international group of legal scholars explores the state of the discipline.

Desde el siglo XVI, momento en que dieron comienzo los viajes pesquero- comerciales de guipuzcoanos y vizcainos a las costas de Terranova para ocuparse en la pesca del bacalao y en la caza de la ballena, naturalistas, historiadores, economistas, linguistas y arqueologos, entre otros colectivos, se han ocupado de las navegaciones vascas al litoral atlantico canadiense.

This book provides a detailed analysis of mutual fund regulations and governance in the UK from the investor protection perspective.

International law holds a paradoxical position with territory.

The Art of Argument guides readers through the process of developing, defending and presenting a compelling argument.

Die Unionsbürgerschaft sollte Europäern eine Reihe von Rechten verleihen, die im Kern von der Freizügigkeit in einem Europa ohne Binnengrenzen abgeleitet sind und zu denen auch soziale Rechte gehören.

This book presents the outcomes of the trans- and interdisciplinary research project NEMo (Nachhaltige Erfullung von Mobilitatsbedurfnissen im landlichen Raum - Sustainable Fulfilment of Mobility Needs in Rural Areas).

This book follows the journeys of those fleeing war, poverty or political crises, risking their lives as they attempt to find sanctuary in Europe.

Horror comics were among the first comic books published--ghastly tales that soon developed an avid young readership, along with a bad reputation.

Law, Economics, and Morality examines the possibility of combining economic methodology and deontological morality through explicit and direct incorporation of moral constraints into economic models.

In Constitutional Revolutions Robert Justin Lipkin radically rethinks modern constitutional jurisprudence, challenging the traditional view of constitutional change as solely an extension or transformation of prior law.

This book examines legal, economic and environmental developments including recent state and international practice.

In Sanierungssituationen stoßen unterschiedliche Interessen, Chancen und Risiken der beteiligten Stakeholder aufeinander.