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Bath Publishing Ltd The Secret Family Court: Fact or Fiction?
Book SynopsisFor approaching two decades, family courts have been accused of making life changing decisions about children and who they live with made in secret, away from the scrutiny of the public gaze. Recognising the force of these accusations, senior family courts judges have, over that time, implemented a raft of rule changes, pilot projects and judicial guidance aimed at making the family justice more accountable and transparent. But has any progress been made? Are there still suspicions that family judges make irrevocable, unaccountable decisions in private hearings? And if so, are those suspicions justified and what can be done to dispel them? In this important and timely new book, Clifford Bellamy, a recently retired family judge who has been at the sharp end of family justice during all these changes, attempts to answer those questions and more. He has spoken to leading journalists, judges and academic researchers to find out what the obstacles to open reporting are – be they legal, economic or cultural - and interweaves their insights with informed analysis on how the laws regulating family court reporting operate. Along the way he provides a comprehensive review of the raft of initiatives he has seen come and go, summarises the position now and uses this experience to suggest how this fundamental aspect of our justice system could adapt in the face of this criticism. Every professional working in the family justice system – lawyers, social workers, court staff and judges - as well as those who job it is to report on legal affairs, should read this informative, nuanced exposition of what open justice means and why it matters so much to those whose lives are upended by the family justice system.
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Bath Publishing Ltd Sanctuary
Book SynopsisAlex Donovan, a young refugee lawyer, is in crisis. His boss has relegated him to humdrum corporate case work, not the cut and thrust of immigration appeals he loves. Helping desperate clients reach safety is what makes being a lawyer bearable. Meanwhile, the woman he adores, hotshot immigration barrister Amy, is increasingly distant. So Alex sets out on a quest, to regain the confidence of his boss, his old job and the affection of Amy. As life imitates art, will he succeed?
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Monash University Publishing System Failure: The Silencing of Rape Survivors
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Otago University Press A City Possessed: The Christchurch Civic Crèche
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Tyranny of Ordinary Meaning: Corbett v
Book SynopsisThis book offers an in-depth analysis of the case of Corbett v Corbett, a landmark in terms of law’s engagement with sexual identity, marriage, and transgender rights. The judgement was handed down in 1970, but the decision has shaped decades of debate about the law’s control and recognition of non-normative gender identities. The decision in this case – that the marriage between the Hon. Arthur Corbett and April Ashley was void on the grounds that April Ashley had been born male – has been profoundly influential across the common law world, and came as a dramatic and intolerant intervention in developing discussions about the relationships between medicine, law, questions of sex versus gender, and personal identity. The case raises fundamental questions concerning law in its historical and intellectual context, in particular relating to the centrality of ordinary language for legal interpretation, and this book will be of interest to students and scholars of language and law, legal history, gender and sexuality. Table of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Intellectual BackgroundChapter 3: Legal Sex and MarriageChapter 4: The Decision in Corbett v CorbettChapter 5: Ordinary Meaning Beyond the Law/Fact DistinctionChapter 6: ConclusionIndex
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Relational Vulnerability: Theory, Law and the
Book SynopsisThis book breaks new theoretical ground by constructing a framework of ‘relational vulnerability’ through which it analyses the disadvantaged position of those who undertake unpaid caregiving, or ‘dependency-work’, in the context of the private family. Expanding on existing socio-legal scholarship on vulnerability and resilience, it charts how the state seeks to conceal the embodied and temporal reality of vulnerability and dependency within the private family, while promoting an artificial concept of autonomous personhood that exposes dependency-workers work to a range of harms. The book argues that the legal framework governing the married and unmarried family reinforces principles of individualism and rationality, while labelling dependency-work as a private, gendered, and sentimental endeavor, lacking value beyond the family. It also considers how the state can respond to relational vulnerability and foster resilience. It seeks to provide a more comprehensive understanding of resilience, theorising its normative goals and applying these to different hypothetical state responses. Trade Review“The book provides a clear and understandable account of complex theoretical literature, while retaining focus upon the application of these theoretical ideas … . this book provides an excellent distillation of the role that ‘relational vulnerability’ could play in the legal regulation of adult personal relationships, offering some interesting potential solutions for the future. … book is a strong addition to the literature on the legal understanding of adult personal relationships and on the relationship between law and vulnerability theory.” (Alan Brown, International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, December 11, 2021)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introducing Relational Vulnerability.Chapter 2: Embodiment, Temporality and the Private Family.Chapter 3: Relational Vulnerability: Economic, Psychological, Spatial.Chapter 4: Vulnerability, Law and the Married Family. Chapter 5: Vulnerability, Law and the Unmarried Family. Chapter 6: Theorising Resilience.Chapter 7: Imagining the Responsive State.Chapter: 8 Concluding Thoughts.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Rape, Gender and Class: Intersections in
Book SynopsisThis book provides a timely analysis of the use of cultural narratives and narratives of credibility in rape trials in England and Wales, drawing on court observation methods. It draws on data from rape and sexual assault trials in 2019 which is used to examine the current status of newly emerging issues such as the use of digital evidence and the impacts of increasing policy attention on rape trials. Drawing on the concept of master narratives, the book provides an examination of rape myths and broader cultural narratives focussing on the intersections of gender and class and it also touches on the intersections of age, (dis)ability and mental health. It emphasizes the importance of situating rape myth debates and sexual violence research within a broader cultural context and thus argues for widening the lens with which rape myths in the courtroom, as well as in the wider criminal justice system, are viewed in research and contemporary debates. The findings presented in this book will help further discussion at a critical time by enabling scholars, as well as practitioners and policymakers, to better understand the current mechanisms that serve to undermine and retraumatise victim-survivors in the courtroom. It seeks to inform further research as well as positive changes to policy and practice.Table of ContentsChapter 1:- Introduction.- Chapter 2:- Rape Myths in the Courtroom.- Chapter 3:- Respectability.- Chapter 4:- Honesty and excuses.- Chapter 5:- What needs to change?
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Springer International Publishing AG Frontiers – Law, Theory and Cases
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on current frontier-related issues such as humanitarian crises, economic crises, discrimination of migrants in certain countries, different typologies of borders such as land, maritime, air, space, and even cyberspace borders, and environmental protection of water resources at borders. It addresses legal and theoretical considerations and presents empirical cases showing the manifestations of the concept in the real world and its dynamics. Without claiming to exhaust the debate on frontiers, especially given the breadth of the subject and the large number of viewpoints from which the phenomenon can be examined, this book intends to be a helpful source of insights for academics, university students, and others who wish to explore the complex and multifaceted worlds that emerge, particularly in a globalized society, from the interaction between the various actors and scenarios that shape the reality of frontiers.Table of ContentsAs an Introduction: The Term ‘Frontier’ and Kindred ConceptsDimitri Endrizzi Part I. Theory, Law & Cases Chapter I. Frontier: Classical Conceptual ApproachesRodolfo Cano Blandón AbstractIntroduction1. General characterization of the concept1.1. Theoretical approaches1.2. Preliminary conclusions2. Frontier: An international comparison2.1. United States2.2. Europe2.3. Latin AmericaConclusions Chapter II. Maritime Territorialization and Governance: Geopolitical and Legal Issues Concerning Delimitation of Extended Continental Shelves in the Caribbean Sea and Arctic OceanEkaterina Antsygina & Bernardo Pérez-Salazar AbstractIntroduction1. A Brief Background: Sovereignty, Borders, and Maritime Territorialization2. International Politics and Legal Framework of the Law of the Sea3. The 1982 UNCLOS and the Role of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf4. Territorialization of the Caribbean Sea4.1. Geopolitical context in the Caribbean4.2. Issues concerning Delimitation of Extended Continental Shelves in the Caribbean5. Territorialization of the Arctic Ocean5.1. Geopolitical context in the Arctic5.2. Issues concerning Delimitation of Extended Continental Shelves in the ArcticConcluding remarks Chapter III. Borders in Airspace and Outer SpaceJairo Becerra, Paula Pérez & Laura Duarte AbstractIntroduction1. Airspace1.1. Inaccuracies in the Concept of Airspace2. Extra-Terrestrial or Space Law3. The Absence of Legal Delimitation of the Frontier between Air Space and Outer SpaceConclusions Chapter IV. Cyberspace: A New FrontierEduardo Andrés Perafán Del Campo, Sebastián Polo Alvis & Marco Emilio Sánchez Acevedo AbstractIntroduction1. Sovereignty, State, Technology, and Globalization: Marble is not Liquid1.1. State and Sovereignty1.2. Global Internet Governance: Limited Sovereignty?1.3. New Sovereignty: Surveillance and Control in Cyberspace1.4. Surveillance and Control over the Experience of the Cybernaut2. Colombian Cyberspace an Element to be protected to Guarantee National Security and Defense2.1. A Background on Cybersecurity in the European Community2.2. OAS Cyber Security: The Case of the Region2.3. Colombia's National Digital Security Policy - Critical Elements2.3.1. Structure and Development of the National Digital Security Policy2.3.2. Establishing an institutional framework for digital security consistent with a risk management approach2.3.3. Creating the conditions for multiple stakeholders to manage digital security risk in their socio-economic activities and generate confidence in the use of the digital environment2.3.4. Strengthening the security of individuals and the State in the digital environment, at a national and transnational level, with a risk management approach2.3.5. Strengthening national defense and sovereignty in the digital environment with a risk management approach2.3.6. Generating permanent and strategic mechanisms to promote cooperation, collaboration, and assistance in digital security, nationally and internationally2.4. Cyber DefenseConclusions Chapter V. International Watercourses: Between the Division and the Border UnitDayana Becerra AbstractIntroduction1. Approach to the notion of an international watercourse2. International Law on International Watercourses2.1. The protection and utilization of transboundary watercourses and international lakes 3. Non-Navigational Uses and the United Nations3.1. International Watercourses and Vital Human Needs3.2. The Coming into Force of the Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses3.3. Inter-party agreements and the Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses4. Approach to the Legal Protection of Specific International Watercourses4.1. The case of the Senegal River4.2. The Case of the Nile River4.3. The case of the Rio Grande-Río Grande4.4. The Case of the Mekong River4.5. The Case of the Syr Darya River5. The Issue of the Human Right to Water before International WatercoursesConclusions Part II. Cases, Theory & Law Chapter VI. Borders, Migration and Human Rights: Case of The United States and MexicoEnrique Uribe Arzate & Flor de María Ávila Hernández AbstractIntroduction1. Epistemological Basis of the Issue2. The State Today: Paradox and Course3. The Universal Citizenship and the Global Nationality of Human Rights4. The Vitality of Migration and the Porosity of BordersConclusions Chapter VII. Schengen Area: Reflections On the European Border CrisisGloria Nancy Zambrano Ramón AbstractIntroduction1. A safe space1.1. The Schengen Information System (SIS)1.2. The Visa Information System (VIS)2. Smart border2.1. The European Border and Coast Guard Agency (formerly, the Frontex agency with extended tasks)3. Joint operations of the european borders3.1. The joint triton operation3.2. The joint operation poseidon4. The immigration crisisConclusions Chapter VIII. Land Border Relationship between Colombia and Venezuela: Vulnerability of Human Rights and Geopolitical ContextFlor María Ávila Hernández, Jaime Cubides Cárdenas & Paula Andrea Barreto Cifuentes AbstractIntroduction1. Concept of the land border2. Border relationship between Colombia and Venezuela2.1. Location2.2. Historical evolution2.2.1. The Border Closure2.3. Characteristics and principal problems2.3.1. Human Rights situation in Colombian Venezuelan land border2.3.2. Smuggling and drug trafficking2.3.3. Vulnerability of rights in the border2.3.4. Effects of border closure3. International Law related to the border between Colombia and Venezuela3.1. Generalities of the Interamerican System of Human Rights3.1.1. Interamerican Commission of Human Rights3.1.2. Interamerican Court of Human Rights3.2. American Convention of Human Rights3.3. The acting of the Interamerican System of Human Rights in the intern law4. Border Integration Zones, a possible solution to the Colombian Venezuelan crisis4.1. Criteria for his identification and delimiting of the borders4.2. Their financing4.3. Advances in the establishment of the BIZ4.4. The borders and the strategic secession dominant problems4.4.1. Geographic ambit4.4.2. Economic ambit4.4.3. Conjunctural ambit4.4.4. Social ambit4.4.5. Cultural ambit4.4.6. Ecological ambit4.4.7. Military ambit5. Border relationship between Colombia and Venezuela in the Interamerican System of Human RightsConclusions Chapter IX. The Injury of Sovereignty in Ecuador in The Management of the Debt Crisis: The Role of IMFDimitri Endrizzi AbstractIntroduction1. On the concept of sovereignty2. The management of the debt crisis by the IMF: A reiterated injury of the Ecuadorian sovereignty2.1. The management of the debt crisis in Ecuador: Analysis of the evidenceConclusions ReferencesBibliographyNational legislationInternational legislationNational jurisprudenceInternational jurisprudenceNational normativeInternational normativeJournalistic notesTablesGraphics
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Springer International Publishing AG Criminal Legalities and Minorities in the Global South: Rights and Resistance in a Decolonial World
Book SynopsisThis book explores how the law and the institutions of the criminal justice system expose minorities to different types of violence, either directly, through discrimination and harassment, or indirectly, by creating the conditions that make them vulnerable to violence from other groups of society. It draws on empirical insights across a broad array of communities and locales including Afghanistan, Colombia, Pakistan, India, Malawi, Turkey, Brazil, Singapore, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. It examines the challenges of protecting those at the margins of power, especially those whom the law is often used to oppress. The chapters explore intersecting, marginal identities influenced by four factors: rebuilding after violent regimes, economic interest behind the violence, entrenched cultural biases, and criminalisation of diversity. It provides scholars from the Global North with important lessons when attempting to impose their own solutions onto nations with a different history and context, or when applying their own laws to migrants from the Global South nations explored in this book. It speaks to legal and social science scholars in the fields of law, sociology, criminology, and social work. Table of ContentsPart I. Rebuilding after violence. - Chapter 1. The Caradiru Prison Massacre and Ongoing Military Repression in Brazil (Emilio Meyer, Marta Machado). - Chapter 2. Politics before Law: The New Penal Code of 2017 and its Limited Protections for Ethnic Minorities in Post-Conflict Afghanistan (Bashir Mobasher, Nasiruddin Nezaami). - Chapter 3. “Between denial and memory” a socio-legal reading of securitisation narratives in Transitional Colombia (Gustavo Rojas Paez). - Part II. Economic interest and the state. - Chapter 4. Enforcing Exclusion through the Law: The National Register of Citizens in India (Suraj Gogoi). - Chapter 5. Colonial Legal Continuities in Post-Colonial Pakistan: A look at the construction of law, ownership and crime (Sabeen Kazmi). - Chapter 6. (Cr)Immigration and Merit-Based Migration in the Global South: Policing "Alcoholic Indians" and "Bangladeshi Terrorists" in Singapore (George Radics). - Chapter 7. Disciplining colonial subjects: Neoliberal Legalities, Disasters and the Criminalization of Protest in Puerto Rico (José Atiles Osoria). - Part III. Entrenched cultural biases. - Chapter 8. “Truth” and “Consent” in Sexual Violence Reporting in Criminal Justice and Legal Contexts in Singapore (Dr Joseph Greener, Stacy Ooi). - Chapter 9. Between Toys and Behind Bars: Mothers in Jail in the State of Ceará, Brazil (Lara Nascimento Meneses, João Araújo Monteiro Neto, Nestor Eduardo Araruna Santiago). - Chapter 10. The “War on Drugs” in Philippine Criminal Courts: Legal Professionals' Moral Discourse and Plea Bargaining in Drug-Related Cases (Pablo Ciocchini, Jayson Lamchek). - Part IV. Criminalisation of Diversity. - Chapter 11. Circuits of Law: Everyday Criminalisation of Transgender Embodiment in Istanbul (Ezgi Taşcıoğlu). - Chapter 12. Reaffirming Womanhood: Young transwomen and online sex work in Philippines (Veronica Gregorio). - Chapter 13. A queer chinkhoswe: Reimagining the customary in Malawi (Nigel Timothy Mpemba Patel).
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Springer International Publishing AG Placing Property: A Legal Geography of Property
Book SynopsisThis open access book presents a legal geography of property rights in land through the lenses of landscape and critical spatial justice. It seeks to reassert the importance of landscape and place in property as an alternative to abstract concepts of property which dominate contemporary thinking. It investigates property’s origins and uptake in the common law through the lenses of landscape and spatial justice, providing a genealogy of property, from its early origins in pre-feudal Scandinavia to its development as a cornerstone concept in English common law. It offers a new perspective and analytical tools to reconsider many accepted approaches to land in the law today. This book also contributes both to the decolonization of property law and critiques of property’s unsustainability, as well as the examination of the role of law itself in facilitating large scale land changes that destroy place, and the ramifications of this process. As such, it should be of interest to inter-disciplinary scholars working in the socio-legal, environmental and property law fieldsTable of Contents1. Introduction: A Legal Geography of Property Rights in Land.- 2. Placing Property in the Landscape.- 3. Locke and the Homogenisation of the Landscape.- 4. Blackstone and the Externalisation of Landscape.- 5. Marx and the Dephysicalisation of the Landscape.- 6. Extinguishing Landscape, Creating Property: Property and Spatial Injustice.- 7. Progressive Property: A Spatially Just Approach to Property?.- 8. Conclusion: Property’s Placelessness.
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Palgrave Macmillan Justice in the Age of Agnosis
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De Gruyter Kunstraub für den Sozialismus: Zur rechtlichen
Book SynopsisWhat should be done about cultural property confiscated in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR? This legal appraisal commissioned by the Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste (German Lost Art Foundation) enables public institutions and their funding providers to assess the legal position of collection items seized in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR, and identifies legal options for action. Thomas Finkenauer and Jan Thiessen present a compendium classifying 13 case groups along with the historical circumstances of their confiscation and the legal consequences. The report also serves provenance research through this overview, which has not been available in such a form before. First legal compendium on the confiscation of cultural property in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR Legal analysis and regulatory options for action Reference work for provenance research
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Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. K Staat und Loyalität
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Duncker & Humblot Das Scheininstitut Der Unmittelbaren
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Emanzipation Und Recht: Zur Geschichte Der
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Lit Verlag Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law: 66
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Springer Sociology of law
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Springer VS Sackgasse mit Ausweg
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Harwood-Academic Publishers Jewish Law Annual (Vol 6)
Book SynopsisFirst Published in 1987. This is Volume six of the annual published under the auspices of the Institute of Jewish Law of the Boston University School of Law. The symposium on the Philosophy of Jewish Law, which forms the main content of both this and the next issue, represents a major contribution to an area of investigation which has attracted increasing interest in recent years.Table of ContentsJewish Law Annual (Vol 6)
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Transcript Verlag Global Contestations of Gender Rights
Book SynopsisAcross the globe, a growing number of social movements, such as demonstrations in support of equal civil status or reproductive freedom and against sexualized violence, show that women's and gender rights are highly contested. Against the backdrop of a long history of unequal rights implementation, the contributors to this volume deal with the questions of why and in which ways gender equality has become contested in various political contexts. Local case studies examine the relevant structural, institutional, and socio-cultural causes of the global challenges to equality. This book follows an interdisciplinary approach and unites scholars from law, linguistics, cultural studies, history, social sciences, and gender studies in diverse contexts.Table of ContentsGlobal Contestations of Gender Rights; Analytical Framing; Gendering Global Entanglements; Global Contestations of Gender Equality and Queer Rights; Gender Equality Policy in Practice in the Era of Global Contestation; Worldwide Anti-Gender Mobilization; Gendered Normativities: The Role and Rule of Law; Decolonizing Universalism?; Self, Relation and Gender Rights; Legal Equality without Justice; Family Law Exceptionalism and Contestations over Women's Rights in Mali's Family Code Reform; The Legal Contestation of Abortion Rights; Reproductive Rights as Battlefield in the New Cold War; Post-Conflict Gender Inequalities in Nigeria; Liberalism and the Construction of Gender (Non-)Normative Bodies and Queer Identities; Politicizations of Religion in Morocco and Germany; Mera Jism Meri Marzi; Global Contestations over Gender Equality in Islam; Authors.
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V&R Unipress Ehe Imperial
Book SynopsisEheschließung, Scheidung, Zugang zu Vermögen während und nach der Ehe: All dies war über die Jahrhunderte durch kirchliche und zivile Ordnungen strukturiert. Das Recht nahm damit sehr direkt Einfluss auf die persönliche Lebenspraxis. Obwohl das 19. Jahrhundert von zunehmender Rechtsvereinheitlichung gekennzeichnet war, bestanden vor allem in größeren territorialen Zusammenhängen partikulare Rechte weiter fort. Dies konnte Handlungsoptionen eröffnen in zahlreichen Fällen führte jedoch nur ein Wechsel in einen anderen Rechtsraum zum erwünschten Ziel, zum Beispiel einer Scheidung oder einer Wiederverheiratung. Differente Zugehörigkeiten konnten umgekehrt heiratswillige Paare vor große Herausforderungen stellen. An den Schnittstellen zwischen verschiedenen Rechtslogiken fragen die Beiträge nach Handlungsräumen von Männern und Frauen und nach den damit verbundenen Geschlechternormen.Aus dem Inhalt: Familienrecht(e) in der Habsburgermonarchie als Herausforderung des Empire / State, Church and Divorce from the Ottoman Empire to the Early Modern Greek State / French Basque Women's Adaptation to Legal Systems across Spaces, Times and Places / Eine Rechts- und Gesellschaftsgeschichte deutsch-russischer Eheschließungen von 18751926 / Schariagerichtsakten aus dem habsburgischen Bosnien-Herzegowina (18781918) / Verwandtschaftshandeln in einer ökonomisch auseinanderdriftenden Gesellschaft: Eine Hochzeit in Benin. Marriage, divorce, access to property during and after marriage, all this was structured over the centuries by ecclesiastical and civil provisions. Law thus had a very direct influence on personal life. The nineteenth century in particular was characterized by increasing legal unification, but particular rights continued to exist in larger territorial contexts. This legal heterogeneity as well as migration between different jurisdictional spaces could open up new possibilities to act. Conversely, different affiliations in regard to confession or ethnicity could pose great challenges for couples willing to marry. The aim of this issue is to ask at the interfaces between different legal logics about the spheres of action of men and women and the associated gender norms.
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Demokratischer Konstitutionalismus: Dieter Grimms
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Methodology of Criminal Law Theory: Art, Politics
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft The Cradle of Laws: Drafting and Negotiating
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Liberal Legitimacy: The Justification of
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Innovative Teaching in European Legal Education:
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Vitasta Publishing Patiala House
Book SynopsisPatiala House: Palace to Seat of Justice is a treasure trove for historians, culture enthusiasts, students, litigants, lawyers and judges alike.
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Cappelen Damm Akademisk Law & Economics: Essays in Honour of Erling Eide
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European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) EU Law-making in Principle and Practice
Book SynopsisThis book is about how European Union (EU) law is made. It is about the ways in which legally binding rules in the form of EU Regulations, Directives and Decisions are produced through interaction between the EU institutions: the independent European Commission; the Council, bringing together the Member States; and the European Parliament, directly elected by EU citizens. It has a particular approach which distinguishes it from the many other books which are published on EU law, institutions, politics and policies. The aim is to make it possible for people not only to see the ‘big picture’ of EU law-making, and to understand the main principles which underlie this system, but also to find a lot of the practical details. It therefore offers a concise overview of EU law-making which highlights the main principles and structures involved, and it places the different steps in context around a ‘policy cycle’. This cycle is illustrated not only by examples and mini-cases at all stages, but also by a more detailed case study which looks at the EU Timber Regulation around the whole cycle. In addition, the book supplies details about the procedures and practices of law-making which are often sought after by EU policy ‘practitioners’, as well as students of EU decision-making, and which so far have not been easily, if at all, to be found in published literature. While the book should be of use and interest to all those interested in how the EU works, it is written with a certain emphasis on what it all means for public actors. Almost all public officials in Europe are affected in one way or another by decisions taken in the EU, and an increasing number of officials are directly involved in shaping or implementing these decisions. Yet, as the EU has grown in size, scope and complexity, it has become increasingly difficult for people to have a clear idea of what the EU actually does, and how it really works. It is not always obvious, even to officials who are personally involved, how individual actions in the EU setting fit into the overall policy process. This book aims to answer that question.Table of ContentsPart 1 Preface and acknowledgements. List of illustrations. Part 2 1. Introduction: EU Law-Making and the Policy Cycle 2. Policy Initiation: the European Commission 3. Legislative Decision-Making: the Parliament and the Council 4. Delegated and Implementing Acts 5. Case Study: the EU Timber Regulation 6. Conclusions: EU Law-Making and EU Governance Part 3: Annexes Annex 1. EU legally binding acts (2010-2012) Annex 2. Special legislative procedures: indicative overview Annex 3. Non-legislative procedures for the adoption of legally binding acts directly based on treaty articles
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HarperCollins India Liberty After Freedom: A History of Article 21,
Book SynopsisLiberty After Freedom explores the origins of what is today considered the most important fundamental right in the Indian Constitution - the right to life and personal liberty guaranteed by Article 21. This is the article which in recent years made the right to privacy as well as the decriminalization of homosexuality possible. Without a doubt, Article 21 has had the most outsized influence on the progressive development of rights in India. But the story of how this important right was birthed is deeply controversial and its passage in the Constituent Assembly divided opinion like no other feature of the Constitution. Liberty After Freedom explores the intellectual beginnings of this paramount fundamental right in an attempt to decode and unravel the controversies which raged at the time the Constitution was being crafted.Written in lucid prose and drawing extensively on the Constituent Assembly debates as well as a wide array of scholarly literature, it questions long-held beliefs and sheds new and important light on the fraught history of due process and Article 21. It is an indispensable book for the legal community and for everyone interested in the genesis of the Constitution.
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HarperCollins India Unsealed Covers: A Decade of the Constitution,
Book SynopsisUnsealed Covers provides a unique terrain where the actions of the judiciary and its relationship with the government are examined in terms of evolution and chronology. It also comments on some of the most important judgments of the past decade.
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HarperCollins India Privacy 3.0
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Sociology of Law: A Study of Cultural Contextualism
Book SynopsisThis book, based on extensive ethnographic material, analyzes the complex relationships between the law and various social controls, helping to answer the question of how social order is formed. Formal law exists in a web of complex structures and meanings. Accordingly, legal study must take into account multiple types of order, allowing us to understand in depth the strengths and weaknesses, reasonable and absurdity, and successes and failures of the law. In addition, the interactions of numerous actors shape the structure and context of the law. Exploring these aspects—while also highlighting diverse informal/non-state norms that influence day-to-day social practices, and which have never been replaced by modern laws—the book offers an insightful resource for all readers who are interested in the practice of Chinese law or in the connections between culture, society, and the law.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Observing Law and Order.- Action, Culture and Order.- Law Pluralism, Social Control and Order.- Conclusion: Constructing a Legal Theory Centered on Chinese Issue.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Changing Law and Contractual Relations under
Book SynopsisCOVID-19 has changed not only human lives since the beginning of the year 2020, but systems of human society as well. Legal measures have been employed in every country to mandate the state’s control of human behavior in order to stop the pandemic. But the mode of legal control has differed by country, showing different results in terms of constraining the spread of infection. While the behavioral restrictions continue, the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic have been causing another catastrophe, particularly in the most vulnerable sectors of each society. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are typical representatives of such vulnerable groups, compelled to assume the economic burdens of the pandemic that have been shifted from the larger economic actors that hold the advantage in contractual negotiations. Statistical data on infection status have revealed a great gap between countries, such as European nations reaching the level of several thousand deaths per one hundred thousand population, while most Asian countries have maintained a level of one or two digits. Even though COVID-19 affects the whole world, the redistribution of risks in the pandemic is a goal to be pursued in the socio-cultural context of each society. This book explores the law and social changes in Asian countries under the impact of COVID-19, with a particular focus on the social relations surrounding the SMEs. These form the center of contractual relations between various socio-economic actors and at the same time, are a direct counterpart of the governmental SME policies, peculiar to Asian interventionist governments. A comparative approach is taken, using the results of interview surveys based on structured questions conducted via research collaboration between the contributors from Japan as well as other Asian countries. A comparative analysis of the risk redistribution in the pandemic between countries that share similar preconditions is still possible and meaningful. The authors of this book hold the view that Asian countries have sufficient bases for international comparison, particularly on the risk reallocation in the SME sector, given the relatively well-controlled level of infection, presumably due to the similarity of cooperative social culture. Another basis for comparison is the similarity of the laws surrounding the business operation of SMEs since normal times, which makes it feasible to compare the difference in the pandemic. What risks should be reallocated between whom, and how?Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Law and Social Changes in a Pandemic: Results of Survey of COVID-19-affected SMEs in Kobe, Japan (Yuka Kaneko) 2. Disaster Management and COVID-19 Financial Support for SMEs in Korea (Young-Geun, Kim & Minjung, Jung) 3. Public Health or Economic Recovery: Regulatory Choice in the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia (Rudy & Chaidir Ali) 4. Autonomous Adaptation and Governmental Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Resilience of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in the Philippines (Kristoffer B. Berse, Kirsten Lianne Mae C. Dedase & Lianne Angelico C. Depante) 5. Balancing Medical Needs and Economic Policy in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review of the Vietnamese Government Response (Duong Anh Son & Vu Kim Hanh Dung) 6. Legal Changes in the COVID-19 Pandemic in Myanmar (Mi Khin Saw Aung) 7. Asian Perspectives on the State and Market Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic (Yuka Kaneko)
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ISEAS Pluralism, Transnationalism and Culture in Asian
Book SynopsisTo honour this great scholar, this book gathers essays from admirers and friends who add their own contributions on legal pluralism, transnationalism and culture in Asia. The book opens with an account of M.B. Hooker colourful and prolific career. The authors then approach legal pluralism through legal theory, legal anthropology, comparative law, law and religion, constitutional law, even Islamic art, thus reflecting the broad approaches of Professor Hooker's scholarship. While most of the book focuses mainly on Southeast Asia, it also reaches out to all of Asia up to Israel, and even includes a chapter comparing Indonesia and Egypt.
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Midsea Books Ltd,Malta Breaking the Law in 19th-century Malta: An
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