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Cambridge University Press Who Nominates
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Cambridge University Press European Human Rights Grey Zones
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Cambridge University Press Colonialism and the EU Legal Order
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Cambridge University Press Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Law and
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Cambridge University Press Land Rights Now
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Cambridge University Press Courts and the Body Politic
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Cambridge University Press Torts and Retribution
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Cambridge University Press Legal Knowledge in Organizations
Book SynopsisThis work offers a step-by-step guide on how to utilize the law as a source of value in organizations. Robert C. Bird demonstrates how legal knowledge can be a valuable asset for firms, providing them with a sustainable competitive advantage that is difficult for rivals to imitate. Bird presents a five-part framework that outlines how firms can use legal knowledge in competitive markets and how they can avoid misusing it. Chapters also highlight how firms can cultivate legal knowledge and apply novel risk tools to overcome unexpected legal threats. The book emphasizes the importance of ethical values in business decisions and shows how managers and lawyers can build an ethical practice of legal knowledge that benefits both business and society. With the help of numerous visuals, this book makes it easy for readers to leverage legal knowledge and apply it to specific business contexts.
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Cambridge University Press Labour Law
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Cambridge University Press Data Access and AI Explainability
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Cambridge University Press AI versus IP
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Cambridge University Press AI versus IP
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Cambridge University Press International Environmental Law
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Cambridge University Press The WTO Agreements
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LIGHTNING SOURCE UK LTD Life and Death in Rebel Prisons
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LEGARE STREET PR War and the Breed the Relation of war to the
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LEGARE STREET PR Observations On Trance Or Human Hybernation
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Legare Street Press System des Heutigen Romischen Rechts erster Band
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LEGARE STREET PR The Federal and State Constitutions Colonial
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LEGARE STREET PR The Federal and State Constitutions Colonial
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LEGARE STREET PR The Federal and State Constitutions Colonial
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LEGARE STREET PR The Federal and State Constitutions Colonial
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Legare Street Press A Treatise on the law of Fraud and Mistake
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LEGARE STREET PR The Federal and State Constitutions Colonial
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LEGARE STREET PR The Federal and State Constitutions Colonial
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Rationale of Judicial Evidence Specially Applied
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Letter On The Penitentiary System Of Pennsylvania
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LEGARE STREET PR Cases On The Law Of Bankruptcy Including The Law
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Bank Insolvency Law in Developing Economies
Book SynopsisThe subject of bank stability has been under a great amount of political and legislative scrutiny since the mid-2007 to late-2009 global financial crisis. However, these efforts have centred on developed economies. Little coverage is given to strategies adopted by many developing economies. While there is a global discourse on the subject of insolvency generally, there is ample scope to contribute to the growing body of work on the narrow subject of bank insolvencies. This book provides a unique perspective on an emerging theme in at least two respects. First is the focus on selected developing economies and selected developed economies in the EMEA region alongside cross-border developments, with the objective of deciphering the regulatory approach to bank insolvencies. The second is the analytical consideration of methods that may be implemented to preclude or resolve bank insolvencies in developing economies. This book explores the nexus between developing economies and their bankTable of Contents♦ Foreword Andrew Campbell ♦ Acknowledgement ♦ Dedication Part IBank Insolvencies in Developing Economies1. Prologue - The Management of Distressed Banks in Developing Economies Kayode Akintola & Folashade Adeyemo2. Distressed Banks and Asset Management Companies: Evaluating ‘AMCON’ as a Bank Resolution Tool for Managing Non-Performing Loans in Nigeria Anthony Idigbe3. Unravelling the Mystery behind Bank Insolvencies in the East African Community (EAC) – The case for Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania Hamiisi Nsubuga4. Towards Early Intervention in the Resolution of Banks’ Financial Distress in in Ghana Kenneth Ghartey5. Deposit Protection Schemes in Effective Bank Resolution Regimes: Kenya’s Experience Joy MalalaPart IIBank Insolvency Law: Selected Cross-Border Paradigms 6. Institutional Development of the Dubai International Financial Centre and the Qatar Financial Centre: The Insolvency Law Framework Horace Yeung & Saleh Al-Brashidi7. Cyprus after the 2013 Banking Crisis: The Journey towards Recovery Sofia Ellina8. Bank Insolvencies and the UNCITRAL Model Law Clara Souza & Pedro FerreirinhaPostscript♦ (Re-)Balancing the Priorities of Bank Insolvency Law in Developing Economies Kayode Akintola
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Global Pandemic Technology and Business
Book SynopsisThis book presents an exploration of a wide range of issues in law, regulation and legal rights in the sectors of information protection, the creative economy and business activities following COVID-19. The debilitative effect of the global pandemic on information protection and creative and business activities is powerful, widespread and deeply influential, bringing a range of uncertainties to these sectors. The effects of the crisis challenge the fundamentals of the legal systems of most countries in their attempt to govern them. Written by international academics from a diversified background of law disciplines and legal systems, this book offers a global vision in exploring the wide range of legal issues caused by the COVID-19 crisis in these fields. The book is organised into three clear thematic parts: Part I looks at information protection and intellectual property rights and strategies; Part II examines contracts, cooperation and mediation in the post-COVID-19 market Table of Contents The Pandemic Crisis and its Global Legal Impact on Information Protection, Creative Economy, and Business Activities Part I Information Protection and Intellectual Property Rights and Strategies Mapping the Legal Landscape of Information Law in Times of Crisis Fashion After COVID-19: Virtually the Same but Different Broken Copyright in the Pandemic Crisis – Rethinking Public Interest in China Part II Contracts and Mediation in the Post-COVID-19 Market Arena The Global Impact (Both Challenges and Opportunities) of COVID-19 on Rights and Justice Mediation as a Key Conflict Resolution System to Address the Increase in Litigation as a Result of COVID-19 Part III Corporate Governance and Employment Rights Increased Employees’ Engagement Power at the Time of Crisis Dangerous Circumstances, Discipline and Dismissal: Some Employment Law Impacts of COVID-19 Labour Force, Suspended Rights and Entrepreneurs’ Disruption of Activities Part IV Conclusion Reflections on COVID-19
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Taylor & Francis The Business of Television
Book SynopsisIn this expanded and updated second edition, esteemed television executive and Harvard lecturer Ken Basin offers a comprehensive and readable overview of the business, financial, and legal structure of the U.S. television industry, as well as its deal-making norms.The Business of Television explores the basic structure and recent history of the television and streaming business, rights and talent negotiations, intellectual property, backend deals, licensing, international production, and much more. This expanded and updated second edition also features an in-depth exploration of the evolution of the streaming business, offers valuable new insights about negotiation, reflects the historic impacts of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic and 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, addresses the intersection of artificial intelligence technology and intellectual property law, and provides a greater breadth and depth of technical material about a wide variety of common television deals. The
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Taylor & Francis Constitutional Reform and Brexit
Book SynopsisThis book examines the extent to which Brexit has impacted upon the operation of the British Constitution, prompting in turn consideration of how some of the factors which contributed to the outcome of the 2016 referendum, as well as the event of Brexit itself, might inform debates surrounding constitutional reform moving forward. The work seeks to make sense of the constitutional implications of Brexit and to revisit some of the key debates that have taken place in respect of particular constitutional reform proposals in order to assess the extent to which recent Brexit-related developments inform the perspectives which are taken upon their merits and prospects. The book is divided into two parts. The first provides some context for the substantive treatment of the potential impact of Brexit on constitutional reform debates which forms the focus of Part II. Part II centres on various specific constitutional reform themes or issues, which are explored further within the context of Brexit. For each such issue, the main parameters of the debates which have taken place are sketched out before moving on to consider how it has informed, or may come to be informed, by the phenomenon of Brexit. By so doing, it looks to some future directions for constitutional reform which take account of the factors driving the discourses which gave rise to the referendum outcome and subsequent developments, as well as offering meaningful responses to these. The book will be of interest to academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the areas of constitutional law, constitutional politics, philosophy and history.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Governance and Leadership in Health and Safety
Book SynopsisThis book is a leadership guide to the effective implementation of the ISO 45001:2018 standard. It takes the high-level leadership and top management principles put forward in ISO 45001 and develops them into a comprehensive discourse on how, at the very top of any organization, large or small, leaders can drive the occupational health and safety (OH&S) agenda and ensure the effective implementation of the OH&S management systems. While the standard sets out expectations for top management, this book provides a clear explanation of the OH&S roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities between those who direct the organization and drive it towards achieving its strategic aims and those who lead the day-to-day operations. It puts forward a purposeful, easy-to-follow, and effective system for the implementation of ISO 45001 whilst also, and more importantly, maximizing the value proposition of such a global standard, regardless of industry. The book is written for tTable of Contents1. Effective health and safety governance and leadership 2. Value creation through high reliability 3. The model for effective health and safety governance and ;eadership: The health and safety role of the board 4. Health and safety in strategic and business planning 5. Policy setting: setting the "Tone from the Top" 6. Setting the plan, targets, and ensuring integration with the business plans and creating ingredients for success 7. Stewardship for implementation of the health and safety plan 8. Ensuring effectiveness, performance oversight, and continual improvement 9. Training and implementation 10. Epilogue
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Essential Guide to the Dubai Real Estate
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to fully present, analyse and interpret the Dubai real estate market. Dubai is fast becoming one of the world's most attractive places to invest in real estate and this book examines the market from three interlinked sectors that drive its performance: occupiers, investors and developers. It examines the market's historical growth and lays the foundations to examine future trends. The book provides a synopsis of Dubai's market practices, economic trends and social change that impacts the value of real estate. Chapters also debate issues such as property investment, house price performance, local valuation practices, spatial planning, the economics of the city, market practices and regulation, property-led economic growth and future trends such as sustainability and digitalization. This book offers a comprehensive, in-depth and up-to-date account of the Dubai property market and presents a full assessment of the investment potential of Dubai real estate. It is a mTable of ContentsPrefacePart A: Contextualising the Dubai real estate marketChapter 1: How did Dubai become a leading global real estate market?Chapter 2: Property market activityPart B: Analysing the Dubai property marketsChapter 3: ResidentialChapter 4: Building a global residential portfolio with Dubai real estateChapter 5: CommercialPart C: Professional practicesChapter 6: Sale, purchase and leasing practices in DubaiChapter 7: Managing a global commercial real estate portfolio in DubaiChapter 8: Property dataChapter 9: Property valuation, methods and techniquesChapter 10: Real estate development processes in DubaiPart D: Future directionsChapter 11: SustainabilityChapter 12: The future of Dubai as a Smart City
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Routledge Changing Orders in International Economic Law
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Taylor & Francis Leading Works in Criminal Law
Book SynopsisThis book analyses a selection of leading works in the criminal law to ask questions about how the modern discipline of criminal law has developed, how it has been deployed in colonial and postcolonial contexts, and how criminal law scholarship has engaged with traditionally marginalised perspectives such as feminism, queer theory, and anti-carceral and abolitionist movements. The works analysed range from Macaulayâs Indian Penal Code (1837) to more recent textbooks and monographs on criminal law, and their jurisdictional reach extends to India, Canada, Australia, Malawi, the UK and the USA. The contributing authors include scholars, activists and legal practitioners, each of whom explores the intellectual development and geographical reach of Anglocriminal law via the work they analyse. Across the collection, the editors and contributors address the question of what it means to be a leading work in criminal law. The book will be a valuable resource for students, academics and researchers working in the area of criminal law.
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Taylor & Francis Witness Protection and Criminal Justice in Africa
Book SynopsisThis book examines the concept of witness protection which is still at an early developmental stage in several African countries including Nigeria, from a legal and institutional perspective. Recent developments in Nigeria highlight the need to clarify legal and conceptual issues within the existing legal framework for protecting witnesses. Using the Nigerian case study, the book illustrates some obscurities inherent in the concept of witness protection. These are highlighted around five critical areas: the definition of witness protection; the scope of beneficiaries requiring protection; the nature of crimes necessitating protection; the nature of protective measures; and the administrative control of witness protection. Specifically, this book draws from the existing literature and practices of witness protection and adopts two distinct perspectives: the criminal justice perspectives and human rights perspectives as heuristic tools for analysing the concept and to separate the disparate influences that shape how it is construed. These distinctions are utilised throughout the book as an integrated way of conceptualising the concept of witness protection. By discussing the practice of witness protection within the Nigerian context, the book contributes to African conversations on the topic of witness protection. The clarifications made in this book are utilised in making normative proposals for developing a legal framework for witness protection in Nigeria. They are also useful for other African countries interested in developing a witness protection framework as part of criminal justice reform. This book will serve as a reference point for legal scholars, researchers, academics, (postgraduate) students and policy makers interested in the concept of witness protection. It would also be useful for courses âconcerned with comparative criminology where there is an interest in developments in the Global South.â
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The League of Nations and the Development of
Book SynopsisThis volume examines the contributions to International Law of individual members of the Advisory Committee of Jurists in the League of Nations, and the broader national and discursive legal traditions of which they were representative. It adopts a biographical approach that complements existing legal narratives. Pre-1914 visions of a liberal international order influenced the post-1919 world based on the rule of law in civilised nations. This volume focuses on leading legal personalities of this era. It discusses the scholarly work of the ACJ wise men, their biographical notes, and narrates their contribution as legal scholars and founding fathers of the sources of international law that culminated in their drafting of the statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice, the forerunner of the International Court of Justice. The book examines visions of world law in a liberal international order through social theory and constructivism, historical examination of key developmTable of ContentsIntroduction: the ‘wise men’ of the Advisory Committee of Jurists (ACJ) and contemporary legal biography1. The legal conscience of a universal man: Rafael Altamira y Crevea (1866–1951)2. National political ideologies and international legal practices: Raul Fernandes (1877–1968)3. A civilizational pluralist and inegalitarian: Mineichiro Adachi (1869–1934)4. George Francis Hagerup (1853–1921): a Norwegian legal internationalist5. Elihu Root (1845–1937): architect and advocate of the Permanent Court of International Justice6. Forgetting Albert Geouffre de Lapradelle (1871–1955) and ignorance as remembering7. Edouard Descamps (1847–1933): from ‘negative neutrality’ to ‘positive pacigerate’8. The judicial-churchman for peace: Walter George Frank Phillimore (1845–1929)9. ‘Where is your tribunal?’ Bernard Loder (1849–1935) and the quest for international justice10. The Italian jurist and diplomat at the Advisory Committee of Jurists: Arturo Ricci Busatti (1868–1923)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd German Radioactive Waste
Book SynopsisThis book presents the universal issue of radioactive waste management from the perspective of the German legal system, analysing how lawmakers have responded to the problem of nuclear waste over the course of the last seventy years. In this book, Robert Rybski unwraps and explains the perplexing legal and social issues related to radioactive waste. He takes readers through the entire life-cycle': from the moment that radioactive material is classified as radioactive waste, through to the period of interim storage, and right up to its final disposal. However, this last step in radioactive waste management (that of final disposal) has not yet been achieved in Germany, or anywhere in the world, and has been the subject of hefty public debate for dozens of years. As a result, the book analyses the most recent regulations in place to enable final disposal. This book will be of interest to energy policy experts, academics and professionals who work in the area of nuclear enTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: The nuclear energy sector and its by-products Chapter 2: Storage and disposal of radioactive waste Chapter 3: Selection of a proper site for final disposal of radioactive waste Concluding remarks
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dignity and International Human Rights Law
Book SynopsisThe Punta del Este Declaration, and this book dedicated to elaborating upon it, is devoted to exploring the ways that human dignity for everyone everywhere can be a useful tool in helping to address the challenges and strains facing human rights in the world today.In 2018, an initiative was instigated to revitalize the human rights project by way of engaging the notion of human dignity. This resulted in the Punta Del Este Declaration on Human Dignity for Everyone Everywhere (Punta Del Este Declaration), a declaration co-authored by over 30 human rights experts from all over the world. The Punta Del Este Declaration simplifies and brings coherence to the concept of human dignity in 10 brief statements that capture the many dimensions and aspects of human dignity and the practical ways that human dignity is useful in the promotion of human rights. This book provides an overview of how the notion of human dignity has been used to strengthen human rights. It discusses how human dTable of ContentsForeword by Ján FigeľChapter One: Seventy Years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Towards Strengthening the Protection of Human RightsChapter Two: An Introduction to the Punta del Este Declaration and Its Preamble Chapter Three: Article One: Foundation, Objective, and Criterion Chapter Four: Article Two: Generating Agreement and Building Common Understanding Chapter Five: Article Three: Defining and Specifying Human Rights Chapter Six: Article Four: Duties and Responsibilities Chapter Seven: Article Five: Education Chapter Eight: Article Six: Seeking Common GroundChapter Nine: Article Seven: Implementing and Realizing Human Rights in LegislationChapter Ten: Article Eight: Reconciliation and AdjudicationChapter Eleven: Article Nine: Potential Difficulties Involving Competing Human Rights ClaimsChapter Twelve: Article Ten: Most Egregious and Most FeasibleChapter Thirteen: Conclusions and The Way Forward Appendix A. The Punta del Este Declaration on Human Dignity for Everyone EverywhereAppendix B. African Perspectives on Human Dignity for Everyone Everywhere
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Taylor & Francis Efficiency and Bureaucratisation of Criminal
Book SynopsisThis book tackles the growing issues concerning the managerialism and bureacratisation of criminal justice systems across a number of jurisdictions. Here, managerialism means the move towards more standardised, bureaucratic and efficiency-driven systems, influenced by a desire to ensure predictability, control risks and, ultimately, economic savings via a more efficient process. The volume explores the phenomenon of managerialism in selected national criminal legal systems, covering all stages of criminal case processing from arrest to the imposition of sanction. The selected countries represent diverse socio-economic, political, cultural and legal traditions including common law, civil law, mixed common and civil law and post-Soviet tradition. The book engages with a variety of relevant theoretical concepts, such as fairness, rationality, efficiency and legitimacy. The authors critically examine whether and to what extent the trend towards managerialism is indeed discernible, and what are its likely effects in the given national criminal legal systems. The book will be of interest to students, researchers and practitioners working in the areas of comparative criminal justice and procedure.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Law and Theory
Book SynopsisThis handbook sets out an innovative approach to the theory of law, reconceptualising it in a material, embodied, socially contextualised and politically radical way. The book consists of original contributions authored by prominent academics, all of whom provide a valuable overview of legal theory as a discipline.The book contains five sections: Spatiotemporal Sense Body Text MatterThrough this structure, the handbook brings the law into active discussion with other disciplines, as well as supra-disciplinary debates on the areas of spatiality, temporality, materiality, corporeality and sensorial studies, capturing the most exciting developments in current legal theory, and anticipating future research in the area.The handbook is essential reading for scholars and students of jurisprudence, sociologTable of ContentsRESEARCH HANDBOOK ON LAW AND THEORYAndreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (ed.)TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTIONAndreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos The and of Law and TheoryPART ONE: SPATIOTEMPORAL1. Luis Eslava Dense Struggle: On Ghosts, Law, and the Global Order 2. Chris Butler Spatial abstraction, legal violence and the promise of appropriation3. Sarah Keenan A prison around your ankle and a border in every street: Theorising law, space and the subject4. Emily Grabham Praxiographies' of Time: Law, Temporalities, and Material Worlds5. Lucy Finchett-Maddock Continua of (In)Justice6. Olivia Barr Movement An Homage to Legal Drips, Wobbles & Perpetual MotionPART TWO: SENSE7. Andrea Pavoni Disenchanting senses: Law and the taste of the real8. Nicola Masciandario Synaesthesia: The Mystical Sense of Law9. Dragan Milovanovich Touching You, Touching Me In Law and Justice: Toward a Quantum Holographic Process-Informational Understanding10. Illan rua Wall Turbulent legality: Sovereignty, Security and the PolicePART THREE: BODY11. Elena Loizidou Sequences on Law and the Body12. Laurent de Sutter On Resisting Bodies13. Renisa Mawani Insect Wars: Bees, Bedbugs, and Biopolitics14. Anna Grear Anthropocene "Time"? A reflection on temporalities in the ‘New Age of the Human’15. Yoriko Otomo Making Lawful AnimalsPART FOUR: TEXT16. Honni van Rijswijk Law’s Aggressive Realism and Feminist Genres of Violence and Harm17. Maria Aristodemou From Decaffeinated Democracy to Democracy in the Real in Ten (Lacanian) Sessions18. Christopher Tomlins Why Law’s Objects Do Not Disappear: On History as Remainder19. James Martel Must the law be a liar? Walter Benjamin on the possibility of an anarchist form of law20. Alain Pottage Literary MaterialityPART FIVE: MATTER21. Emilie Cloatre and David Cowan Legalities and Materialities22. Hyo Yoon Kang Law’s Materiality: Between Concrete Matters and Abstract Forms, or how Matter Becomes Material23. Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos To Have to Do with the Law: An Essay24. Anne Bottomley and Nathan Moore On new model jurisprudence: the scholar/critic as (cosmic) artisan.INDEX
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Unlocking EU Law
Book SynopsisEuropean Union Law is a core element of every law degree in England and Wales. Unlocking EU Law will ensure you grasp the main concepts with ease. Containing accessible explanations in clear and precise terms that are easy to understand, it provides an excellent foundation for learning and revising EU Law.The information is clearly presented in a logical structure and the following features support learning, helping you to advance with confidence: Clear learning outcomes at the beginning of each chapter set out the skills and knowledge you will need to get to grips with the subject Key Facts boxes throughout each chapter allow you to progressively build and consolidate your understanding End-of-chapter summaries provide a useful check-list for each topic Cases and judgments are highlighted to help you find them and add them to your notes quickly Frequent activities and self-test questions and sample essay questions are include
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Taylor & Francis The Role of the Media in Criminal Justice Policy
Book SynopsisThis book provides a socio-legal examination of the mediaâs influence on the development and implementation of criminal justice policy.This impact is often assumed. And, especially in the wake of high-profile crimes, the press is routinely observed calling for sentences to be harsher, and for governments to be tougher on crime. But how do we know that there is a connection? To answer this question, the book draws on a case study of the media reporting of the rape and murder of Jill Meagher in Melbourne, Australia; as well as other well-known cases, including those of James Bulger, Sarah Payne, Stephen Lawrence and Michael Brown, among others. Deploying a socio-legal framework to examine how the mediaâs often powerful and emotive narratives play a crucial role in the development and implementation of law, the book provides a deep and critical reflection on its influence. The book concludes with a number of suggestions for media reform: both to moderate the mediaâs influence, a
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Taylor & Francis Preventing Terrorist Attacks at Sea
Book SynopsisOver recent decades, it has been widely recognised that terrorist attacks at sea could result in major casualties and cause significant disruptions to the free flow of international shipping. After discussing the overlaps and distinctions between piracy and maritime terrorism, this book considers how the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code, and other vessel identification and tracking measures in the 1974 International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, would be likely to reduce the risk of terrorist attacks at sea. It explains how the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea is less than clear on the powers of states to protect offshore installations, submarine cables and pipelines from interference by terrorists. In light of these uncertainties, it considers how the 2005 Protocol to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against Maritime Navigation, the doctrine of necessity and statesâ inherent self-defence rights might apply
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Taylor & Francis Routledge Handbook of Mental Health Law
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Taylor & Francis African Witchcraft and Global AsylumSeeking
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes how over the last two decades, immigration regimes in three primary refugee-receiving states in the Global North â Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom â have engaged with allegations about witchcraft-driven violence made by asylum seekers coming from Anglophone countries across the African continent.The work intervenes at the nexus of anthropological, historical, legal, developmental, and human rights literatures to offer fresh insights into extrajudicial violence and global migration. Taking witchcraft-based asylum cases as its focal point, it argues that the recent dramatic expansion in claims to refugee protection under the âparticular social groupâ category of the 1951 UN Refugee Convention reflects immigration authoritiesâ increasing willingness to consider how legally recognizable persecution can derive from cultural practices and beliefs. Reflecting critically on such cases, it advances understandings of how witchcraft beliefs and practices have persisted as significant engines of violence in the contemporary world. It sheds light both on the limits of legal pluralism and cultural relativism in asylum adjudication and on how social scientific expertise contributes not simply to the flow of ideas, but also to the channelling of people across national, cultural, and epistemological boundaries.The book will be essential reading for students and researchers in legal anthropology, African studies, human rights, transnational history, migration and refugee law and policy, and the history and anthropology of witchcraft.
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Taylor & Francis Purely Formal Legal Theory
Book SynopsisThis book elaborates on deontic logic and network theory to present a reductionist theory of the law, disclosing a simple understanding of legal norms based on minimum necessary and sufficient notions. The analysis explores the concept of a ânormâ as a claim-obligation relation that regulates conduct, that is, action and inaction, among subjects, in space and time. Based on these five minimum notions, the study illustrates legal systems as networks of substantive right-duty relations that are procedurally organised according to time. The research relies on basic Kripke-style semantics as social matrixes to explain fundamental normative concepts and further on network science, social network theory and graph-theoretic notation, based on ties and nodes, to elaborate a formal representation of minimum necessary notions and of legal systems as deontic networks. The book will be of interest to academics, researchers and practitioners working in the areas of legal philosophy, legal theory and international law.
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