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Book SynopsisClimate Change and the Law is the first scholarly effort to systematically address doctrinal issues related to climate law as an emergent legal discipline. It assembles some of the most recognized experts in the field to identify relevant trends and common themes from a variety of geographic and professional perspectives.In a remarkably short time span, climate change has become deeply embedded in important areas of the law. As a global challenge calling for collective action, climate change has elicited substantial rulemaking at the international plane, percolating through the broader legal system to the regional, national and local levels. More than other areas of law, the normative and practical framework dedicated to climate change has embraced new instruments and softened traditional boundaries between formal and informal, public and private, substantive and procedural; so ubiquitous is the reach of relevant rules nowadays that scholars routinely devote attention to the intersection of climate change and more established fields of legal study, such as international trade law.Climate Change and the Law explores the rich diversity of international, regional, national, sub-national and transnational legal responses to climate change. Is climate law emerging as a new legal discipline? If so, what shared objectives and concepts define it? How does climate law relate to other areas of law? Such questions lie at the heart of this new book, whose thirty chapters cover doctrinal questions as well as a range of thematic and regional case studies. As Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), states in her preface, these chapters collectively provide a “review of the emergence of a new discipline, its core principles and legal techniques, and its relationship and potential interaction with other disciplines.”Trade ReviewFrom the reviews:“This edited collection provides a unique contribution to the scholarship debate on climate change. … This volume is thus a solid collection of pieces which I would certainly recommend to anyone who wish to gain an improved understanding of the complex web of legal norms addressing climate change. … the book also represents an interesting reference tool for policy makers and practitioners involved in the ongoing discussions on climate change regulation and governance.” (Emanuela Orlando, Cambridge Law Journal, Vol. 72 (3), November, 2013)Table of ContentsTable of Contents.- Contributors.- Abbreviations.- 1. Introduction: Climate Change and the Law; Erkki J. Hollo, Kati Kulovesi and Michael Mehling.- Part I: Climate Law as an Emerging Discipline.- 2. Implementing Climate Law: Instrument Choice and Interaction; Michael Mehling.- 3. Exploring the Landscape of Climate Law and Scholarship: Two Emerging Trends; Kati Kulovesi.- 4. Climate Change and Justice: Perspectives of Legal Theory; Felix Ekardt.- Part II: International Climate Law.- Section I: Architecture and Institutions.- 5. Foundations of International Climate Law: Objectives, Principles and Methods; Rowena Maguire.- 6. Alternative Venues of Climate Cooperation: An Institutional Perspective; Camilla Bausch and Michael Mehling.- 7. Analyzing Soft Law and Hard Law in Climate Change; Antto Vihma.- 8. Compliance and Enforcement in the Climate Change Regime; Meinhard Doelle.- Section II: Cross-Cutting Issues.- 9. The New Framework for Climate Finance under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: A Breakthrough or an Empty Promise?; Yulia Yamineva and Kati Kulovesi.- 10. Climate Justice: The Clean Development Mechanism as a Case Study; Tomilola Eni-ibukun.- 11. Legal Aspects of Climate Change Adaptation; Jonathan Verschuuren.- 12. Climate Change and Human Rights; Timo Koivurova, Sébastien Duyck and Leena Heinämäki.- Section III: Sectoral Issues.- 13. Managing the Fragmentation of International Climate Law; Harro van Asselt.- 14. No Need to Reinvent the Wheel for a Human Rights-Based Approach to Tackling Climate Change: The Contribution of International Biodiversity Law; Elisa Morgera.- 15. The Role of REDD in the Harmonization of Overlapping International Obligations; Annalisa Savaresi.- 16. Climate Change and Trade: At the Intersection of Two International Legal Regimes; Kati Kulovesi.- 17. Climate Law and Geoengineering; Ralph Bodle.- Part III: Comparative Climate Law.- 18. Climate Law in the United States: Facing Structural and Procedural Barriers; Michael Mehling and David Frenkil.- 19. Canada and the Kyoto Protocol: An Aesop Fable; Jane Matthews Glenn and Jose Otero.- 20. Climate Law in the European Union: Accidental Success or Deliberate Leadership?; Michael Mehling and Kati Kulovesi.- 21. Climate Law in Germany; Felix Ekardt.- 22. Climate Law in the United Kingdom; Colin T. Reid.- 23. Climate Law and Policy in Russia: A Peasant Needs Thunder to Cross Himself and Wonder; Yulia Yamineva.- 24. Australia: From ‘No Regrets’ to A Clean Energy Future?; Sharon Mascher and David Hodgkinson.- 25. Climate Law and Policy in Japan; Hitomi Kimura.- 26. Sustainable Development and Climate Policy and Law in China; Christopher Tung.- 27. India’s Evolving Climate Change Strategy; Namrata Patodia Rastogi.- 28. Climate Change Responses in South Africa; Ed Couzens and Michael Kidd.- 29. Climate Change Policy and Legislation in Brazil; Haroldo Machado Filho.- 30. Climate Law in Latin American Countries; Soledad Aguilar and Eugenia Recio.

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Book SynopsisKatarina Pijetlovic is the first author to address the issue of breakaway leagues in football and their treatment under EU law. In this book she guides the reader through EU sports law, the specificities of the sporting industry and the problems and power struggles in European football governance in the context of the breakaway threats by elite clubs. In order to analyse the legality of UEFA clauses that restrict the formation of such breakaway structures, the author first provides a progressive interpretation of the applicable EU sports law and an in-depth analytical review of EU sports cases decided under internal market and competition provisions, including a novel perspective on the UEFA home-grown rule and the Bosman case. Thereafter, she sets out an original theory of convergence between TFEU provisions on competition and the internal market in the light of sporting exceptions. Finally, in applying the legal principles thus outlined Katarina Pijetlovic explores the legality of the restrictive UEFA clauses and the case for the formation of alternative leagues in European football under EU sports law. A number of surprising outcomes emerge from this analytical process. Conversely, she also tests the largely neglected issue of the legality of forming a breakaway league by the European elite football clubs.The systematic way in which the reader is guided through EU sports law and the legal issues under consideration makes the book accessible for EU lawyers as well as non-EU sports lawyers, on both an academic and a practitioner’s level. Katarina Pijetlovic holds licentiate and doctoral degrees in EU sports law from the University of Helsinki. The book appears in the ASSER International Sports Law Series, under the editorship of Dr. David McArdle, Prof. Ben Van Rompuy and Marco van der Harst LL.M.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- The sporting industry.- Breakaway leagues and governance issues in European football.- EU internal market law and sport.- EU competition law and sport.- A quest for convergence in the application of EU internal market and competition law to sport.- Treatment of UEFA restrictions on breakaway leagues in football under EU law.

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses the dogmatic (that what is settled) and the dynamic (that what is changing) aspects of the relationship between blockchain and the law from a critical perspective. With contributions from legal and financial experts involved in both academy and business from Europe, Africa and North and South America, the book looks at the abstract complexities and practical challenges of regulating blockchain technology and its developments, such as crypto assets and smart contracts, from the perspectives of financial, tax, civil, and international law. Moreover, the book also delves into some exciting and cutting-edge related topics such as blockchain applications for litigation, CBDC and elections.The volume offers insightful considerations that will be helpful for legal practitioners involved in the crypto and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) phenomenon.Francisco Pereira Coutinho is Associate Professor at the Nova School of Law in Lisbon, Portugal.Martinho Lucas Pires is Teaching Assistant in the Department of Law of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Lisbon, Portugal.Bernardo Correia Barradas is a Lawyer and Senior Legal Advisor in payments in Washington DC, United States.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Foundations: An Essay on Blockchain and the Law.- Chapter 3. Blockchain and Elections: A Complicated Relationship.- Chapter 4. What are the Limits of Blockchain? Considerations of the Use of Blockchain in Transitional Justice Processes.- Chapter 5. Taxing Crypto-Assets – The Portuguese Perspective.- Chapter 6. Blockchain Execution of Judgements – A Possibility in South Africa?.- Chapter 7. DLT Pilot Regime and DeFi.- Chapter 8. Central Bank Digital Currency – A Focus on Anonymity.- Chapter 9. Smart Contracts and the Law.- Chapter 10. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations and their Role in Digital Society.

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Book SynopsisThree generations of a family of lawyers have run a firm founded in 1893 in the small city of Becskerek (today in Serbian Zrenjanin), first part of the Austro-Hungarian Habsburg monarchy, then Hungary, then Yugoslavia, then for a while under German occupation, then again part of Yugoslavia and finally Serbia. In the Banat district of the province of Vojvodina, the multiplicity of languages and religions and changes of place-names was a matter of course. What is practically unprecedented, all files, folders and documents of the law office have survived. They concern marriages, divorces, births and testaments, as well as expulsions, emigrations, incarcerations and releases of these largely rural and small-town dwellers. Mundane cases reflect times through war, peace, revolution and counter-revolution, through serfdom and freedom, through comfort and poverty. The files also show everyday lives shaped in spite of history. Tibor Várady transforms them into affecting and vivid vignettes, selecting and commenting without sentimentality but with empathy. The law office of the three generations of the Várady family demonstrates that the legal profession permits and in difficult times even requires its members to defend the ordinary men and women against the powers of state and society.Trade Review"Várady earlier published accounts of some of these case files, first in Hungarian in 2013, then in Serbian in 2015, and then in German in 2016. Anglophones are fortunate now to have access. For a social historian, interest lies in what the cases reveal about the life of a multi-ethnic community living through difficult times. A lawyer reading the book will wonder how s/he would have dealt with the situations that confronted the Várady law firm. An introduction by Professor Richard Buxbaum, former editor of the American Journal of Comparative Law, notes the book’s broader importance. It could well serve as a model for writers on law and social history, even those who do not have elders who practiced law through two world wars and one social revolution." -- John Quigley * Law and History Review *"The book reveals new sides of institutions and regimes, a pragmatic side to German officials’ legal decision-making that sometimes conflicted with their racial agendas and a complexity to communist revolutionary policies as lived experience. The result is a book in which we, as readers, feel as though we are accompanying the author to his attic, unpacking boxes, and making sense of the people whose lives comprised this tumultuous and devastating moment in the region’s history." https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2023.29 -- Emily Greble * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsFOREWORD by Richard Buxbaum What is This Book about? I. ON THE RELEVANCE OF HISTORY II. THREE BECSKEREK STORIES Featuring Local Jews and Germans in the Leading Roles An anacrusis 1. The Eckstein Case 2. Socks on the Chandelier, Lives by a Thread 3. The Freund/Baráth Document III. HUNGARIAN STORIES OF BANAT People and Formulae 1. An Early Attempt to Topple the Soviet Power in Hungary 2. The Case of István Bakai with Various Armies 3. Is There a Window to Shoot From? IV. A STORY FROM THE BORDER OF BANAT From Goose-down Business and Border Trespassing to Concentration Camp V. DIVORCES, NEAR DIVORCES, AND SHAM DIVORCES 1. A Near Divorce 2. Divorces and Sham Divorces in the Wake of World War Two 3. A Husband Who Very Seldom Visits Pubs and Only in the People's Interest VI. LEGENDS CHECKED IN LEGAL FILES 1. The Messinger 2. Dueling in Becskerek VII. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECONOMIC SITUATION Lawsuits in the Years of the First Five-Year Plan Some Perspective in Introduction 1. Corn or Corn Flour 2. Even if the Money is Made Available, I Cannot Transfer It 3. Cooperative Denial 4. A Calf-Killing Against the People’s Interests 5. Mafia-type Activity in the Years of the First Five-Year Plan VIII. EXPLOITING FASCISM AND ANTI-FASCISM IN DISPUTES BETWEEN NEIGHBORS AND CHURCHES 1. Fascism for Household Use in Becskerek 2. A Cynical Anti-People Smile (From Behind the Window)

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Book SynopsisThis book explains the theoretical and policy issues associated with the taxation of financial services and includes a jurisdictional overview that illustrates alternative policy choices and the legal consequences of those choices . The book addresses the question: how can financial services in an increasingly globalized market best be taxed through VAT while avoiding economic distortions? It supports the discussion of the key practical problems that have arisen from the particular complexity of the application of VAT to financial services, and allows for the evaluation of best practice by comparing the major current reform models now being implemented.Trade Review“In the complex world of VAT and GST and in the complex world of finance, this book is an indispensable guide.” (Charlene-A. Herbain, Intertax, Vol. 46 (5), 2018)​Table of ContentsPart I: Establishing the VAT and Financial Supplies Benchmarks.- Chapter 1. Theories of Consumption and the Consequences of Partial Taxation of Financial Services (Robert F. van Brederode).- Part II: Financial Loans and Intermediary Services.- Chapter 2. Taxing Loan Intermediary Services: Theory and Design Considerations (Robert F. van Brederode).- Chapter 3. Financial Loan Intermediary Services: Argentina (Guillermo Teijeiro).- Chapter 4. Financial Loan Intermediary Services: Australia (Richard Krever).- Chapter 5. Financial Loan Intermediary Services: Brazil (Flavio Rubinstein).- Chapter 6. Financial Loan Intermediation Services: Canada (Simon Thang).- Chapter 7. Financial Loan Intermediary Services: China (Na Li).- Chapter 8. Financial Loan Intermediary Services: China (Joachim Englisch).- Chapter 9. Financial Loan Intermediary Services: Israel (David Goldman).- Chapter 10. Financial Loan Intermediation Services: New Zealand (Marie Pallot).- Chapter 11. Financial Loan Intermediary Services: South Africa (Alwyn de Koker).- Part III: Financial Investments.- Chapter 12. VAT and Financial Investments (Richard Krever).- Chapter 13. VAT and Cost Sharing in the EU (Ine Lejeune).- Chapter 14. A VAT/GST Perspective on Crowdfunding (Sebastian Pfeiffer).- Chapter 15. Financial Investments: European Union (Joachim Englisch).- Chapter 16. Financial Investments: South Africa (Alwyn de Koker).- Part IV: Financial Pooling Services: Insurance and Gambling.- Chapter 17. GST and Insurance: Australia (Richard Krever).- Chapter 18. VAT and Insurance: The European Union (Marta Papis-Almansa).- Chapter 19. GST and Insurance: Singapore (Soo How Koh).- Chapter 20. VAT and Gambling (Fabiola Annacondia).

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Book SynopsisHow do you describe cyberspace comprehensively?This book examines the relationship between cyberspace and sovereignty as understood by jurists and economists. The author transforms and abstracts cyberspace from the perspective of science and technology into the subject, object, platform, and activity in the field of philosophy. From the three dimensions of 'ontology' (cognition of cyberspace and information), 'epistemology' (sovereignty evolution), and 'methodology' (theoretical refinement), he uses international law, philosophy of science and technology, political philosophy, cyber security, and information entropy to conduct cross-disciplinary research on cyberspace and sovereignty to find a scientific and accurate methodology. Cyberspace sovereignty is the extension of modern state sovereignty. Only by firmly establishing the rule of law of cyberspace sovereignty can we reduce cyber conflicts and cybercrimes, oppose cyber hegemony, and prevent cyber war. The purpose of investigating cyberspace and sovereignty is to plan good laws and good governance. This book argues that cyberspace has sovereignty, sovereignty governs cyberspace, and cyberspace governance depends on comprehensive planning. This is a new theory of political philosophy and sovereignty law.Table of ContentsNoumenon: Thing-in-Itself: Ontology of Cyberspace; Cyberspace Evolution; Cyberspace Security; Cyberspace Sovereignty; Epistemology: The Consideration of Cyberspace Order; The History of Cyberspace Legislation; The Rule of Law in Cyberspace Sovereignty; Methodology: Cyberspace and Order Coordination; Cyberspace and Overall Planning Entropy; The Overall Planning of Cyberspace Justice;

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Book SynopsisArtificial intelligence and related technologies are changing both the law and the legal profession. In particular, technological advances in fields ranging from machine learning to more advanced robots, including sensors, virtual realities, algorithms, bots, drones, self-driving cars, and more sophisticated “human-like” robots are creating new and previously unimagined challenges for regulators. These advances also give rise to new opportunities for legal professionals to make efficiency gains in the delivery of legal services. With the exponential growth of such technologies, radical disruption seems likely to accelerate in the near future.This collection brings together a series of contributions by leading scholars in the newly emerging field of artificial intelligence, robotics, and the law. The aim of the book is to enrich legal debates on the social meaning and impact of this type of technology. The distinctive feature of the contributions presented in this edition is that they address the impact of these technological developments in a number of different fields of law and from the perspective of diverse jurisdictions. Moreover, the authors utilize insights from multiple related disciplines, in particular social theory and philosophy, in order to better understand and address the legal challenges created by AI. Therefore, the book will contribute to interdisciplinary debates on disruptive new AI technologies and the law.Trade Review“Scholars interested in legal-philosophical aspects of emerging technologies or researching privacy regulations likely would find relevant material in this book. This book is recommended for academic collections, especially those with a European law and/or robotics focus.” (Sara Bensley, Law Library Journal, Vol. 112 (1), 2020)Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis book presents thirteen chapters which probe the “tales less told” and “pathways less traveled” in refugee camp living. Rohingya camps in Bangladesh since August 2017 supply these “tales” and “pathways”. They dwell upon/reflect camp violence, sexual/gender discrimination, intersectionality, justice, the sudden COVID camp entry, human security, children education, innovation, and relocation plans. Built largely upon field trips, these narratives interestingly interweave with both theoretical threads (hypotheses) and tapestries (net-effects), feeding into the security-driven pulls of political realism, or disseminating from humanitarian-driven socioeconomic pushes, but mostly combining them. Post-ethnic cleansing and post-exodus windows open up a murky future for Rohingya and global refugees. We learn of positive offshoots (of camp innovations exposing civil society relevance) and negative (like human and sex trafficking beyond Bangladeshi and Myanmar borders), as of navigating (a) local–global linkages of every dynamic and (b) fast-moving current circumstances against stoic historical leftovers. Table of Contents1. Introduction: Forget-me-nots From Rohingya Camps: Dark Experiences & Tales not Told.- 2. Ethnicity, Identity, & Rohingya Security: At the ‘Olive-tree’-‘Lexus’ Crossroads.- 3. Rohingya Conundrum: Cutting the Gordian Knot.- 4. The Political Economy of Religion & Security: Tracing Rohingya Camp Violence.- 5. From Disorganized Hypocrisy to Political Neo-medievalism? Rohingya Crises in Bangladesh.- 6. Identity ‘Intersectionality’ & Cox’s Bazaar Refugees: Remaking Rohingyas.- 7. Sexual/Gender Camp Violence & Institutional Response Limits: Rohingyas in Bangladesh.- 8. Return, Citizenship, & Justice in the Eye of Rohingya Women: Imagined Terrain?.- 9. Vulnerability & Humanitarian Emergencies: Fate of Rohingya Women amid COVID—19.- 10. Rohingya Refugees & Human Security: Foreign Policy Reform Needs.- 11. Rohingya Refugee-camp Innovations: Reinvigorating Humanitarianism.- 12. Rohingya Refugee & Classroom Children: Cultivating A Lost Generation.- 13. Rohingya Refugee Future: History, Memory, & Relocation.- 14. Conclusion: Squaring the Circle.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the law in relation to how it has responded to sexual and gender issues in the context of Hong Kong, and addresses the implications of those responses for the global context. It aims to develop a localized theory of justice which enables the analysis of multiple socio-legal issues arising in Hong Kong, a predominantly Han-Chinese society in Greater China, while also offering formulations for corresponding solutions. Unlike other books on Hong Kong jurisprudence and socio-legal studies, this book not only compares and contrasts different theories of justice, but also attempts to generate a philosophical perspective which can synchronize and re-organize a range of theoretical components via the lens of localization. The author investigates theories of justice developed, respectively, by Rawls, Deleuze, Lacan, Žižek and from the perspective of Mahāyāna Buddhism, as well as (Orthodox) Han-Chinese Confucianism and Daoism. The book applies these theoretical perspectives in analyzing different socio-legal issues in post-97 Hong Kong, including transgender rights to marriage, domestic violence, sexual assault, child sexual abuse and race. The book concludes by proposing singular possible strategies, which include Degenderization, Desexualization, De-ageing, by which justice(s) can hopefully be re-manufactured and challenged. This book is relevant to researchers and students of law, philosophy, sociology, gender studies and cultural studies. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Beyond Colonialism: Osmotic Restruction of Gender / Sexual Justice in Hong Kong.- Chapter 2: De / Sexing Fa / Law: Development of an Indigenous Legal Theory of Sexual Justice in Hong Kong.- Chapter 3: Beyond Globalization and Localization: Articulating a Theory of Justice in Han-Chinese Culture.- Part 2: Becoming Justice, Desiring Transformation.- Chapter 4: Simularizing Vijnana and Desire, Repeating Yi / Justice: Transplanting Deleuzean Becoming into the Machine of Hong Kong Anti-Domestic Violence Law.- Chapter 5: Desiring Justce, Acting Jnana: Transforming the Legal Transsexual Fantasy from the Perspectives of Žižekian and Mahayana Buddhist Theory.- Chapter 6: De-aging Family Law: Re-engineering the Children-Adult / Parents Machine.- Part 3. Desexualizing Law, De-aging Subjects.- Chapter 7: Confession of Law? A Critical Perspective on the Production of the Child Subject in Hong Kong Law in Control of Child Sexual Abuse.- Chapter 8: Deterritorializing Sexuality, Act(less)ing Justice: Žižekian / Deleuzean / Lao Zi’s Perspectives on Hong Kong’s Rape Law Reform.- Part 4. Undesiring Control, Respecting Multiplicities.- Chapter 9: Un/Controlling Desire, Becoming Others: Negotiating Justice in the Hong Kong Milieu of Mainland Pregnant Women Influx.- Chapter 10. Un/Desiring Data: Deinformatizing Human Subjects:Decontrolling the Individual in the Age of Internet.- Prologue.

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Book SynopsisThis is one in a series of introductory books providing readers with an overview of the most frequently encountered legal principles. This book presents an introduction to contract principles that apply in Hong Kong. The new edition has been updated to reflect the current state of the law and to include newer cases, both local and overseas. The organizational structure has been revised for easier comprehension while keeping to the sequence in which a legally binding agreement is usually encountered. Contract Law in Hong Kong is an easy-to-understand reference book for students, practitioners, non-law professionals, and the general public.

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Book SynopsisThis volume showcases the most recent research on the future of the legal and judicial landscape in East Asia and its renewed respect for the rule of law in the 21st century. The book features research on emerging judicial stratifications in the legal profession; war crimes and their legacies in the post-colonial era; citizens' participation in the justice system; gender, law, legal culture and profession as well as environmental justice.Trade ReviewThis collection of articles provides an impressive one-stop shop for readers who want a landscape portrait of law in East Asia in the early twenty-first century. The breadth of coverage makes the task of a reviewer difficult, as each contribution stands on its own as a piece of scholarship about a particular topic in a particular place. Nevertheless, read together, the articles do achieve a sense of unity as a compendium of themes and trends in the region’s legal systems. Dan Rosen, Asian Journal of Law and Society 3,2 (2016)Table of ContentsForeword: Asia’s Changing Legal and Judicial Landscape Tom Ginsburg List of Contributors List of Figures and Tables Introduction Setsuo Miyazawa, Weidong Ji, Hiroshi Fukurai, Kay-Wah Chan and Matthias Vanhullebusch part 1 Emerging Judicial Stratifications in Legal Profession The Development and Prospect of Legal Aid in China’s Criminal Trial Weimin Zuo Stratification or Diversification? 2011 Survey of Young Lawyers in Japan Setsuo Miyazawa, Atsushi Bushimata, Keiichi Ageishi, Akira Fujimoto, Rikiya Kuboyama and Kyoko Ishida part 2 War Crimes and Their Legacies in the Post-Colonial Era Justice Delayed: Post-Colonial Hauntings in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal Hybrid Court System Yvonne Y. Kwan “Post-Colonial” Legal Interpretation in Macau, China: Between European and Chinese Influences Denis de Castro Halis The Right to Truth and the Legacies of World War II: A Way Forward for China? Matthias Vanhullebusch part 3 Citizens’ Participation in the Justice System China’s Lay Participation in the Justice System: Surveys and Interviews of Contemporary Lay Judges in Chinese Courts Zhuoyu Wang and Hiroshi Fukurai What’s Happening in the Jury Room? Analyzing Shadow Jury Deliberation in Korea Jae-Hyup Lee, Jisuk Woo, June Woong Rhee, Jeong Min Choi and Hyunki Shin Outlook and Contents of the “Civil Tribunal System” as Proposed by the Japan Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA) Harumi Takebe part 4 Gender and Law Changes in Gender Composition and the Future of Gender Balance in the Legal Professions in Korea Haesook Kim Gender, Law and Legal Professions in China Xiaonan Liu part 5 Environmental Justice and Legal Culture China’s Past, Present and Future Approach to Climate Change Patricia Blazey and Xiangbai He Thailand’s Climate Policy and Law in the Making: Can the Tradition of Thai Civil Law Cope with Climate Governance? Kridtiyaporn Wongsa Legal Instrumentalism in China: The Case of Hukou Legislation in Beijing and Shenzhen Qiqi Fu and Paola Pasquali Invisible People, Pollution, and Places: Nuclear Contamination on the Tibetan Plateau, Himalayan Rivers, and Water Users Abigail Brown Bibliography Author Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisThe Case That Shook India by Prashant Bhushan recounts the landmark Indira Gandhi v. Raj Narain case that led to the imposition of Emergency in India. It exposes the misuse of power to save the PM's election, highlighting threats, bribes, and deceit. The book serves as a crucial legal and historical document with contemporary relevance.

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Book SynopsisKarachi is one of the fastest growing cities in the world. It is Pakistan''s only port and the major contributor to the country''s economy. In addition, it is also a diverse city with its population politically divided along ethnic lines. These three factors make the urban land and that on the citys fringe a highly contested commodity: federal, provincial, and local land-owning agencies, corporate sector interests, formal and informal developers, international capital, and military cantonments compete for control and for extracting maximum value from it. The victims of this battle for turf and profits are the city''s social and physical environment and its low and lower middle-income groups. This book deals with the history, evolution, and present day realities around who owns land, its legal and illegal acquisition, land-use conversions and development, the actors involved and their relationship with each other and with the public at large, the often violent conflicts that take place

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Book SynopsisDesigned in an exam format with 80 questions to be answered in two hours, this Mock Examination challenges your knowledge of all areas of the 2022 NIE syllabus, drawn from the Blackstone's Police Investigators' Manual 2022.

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Book SynopsisThe eighth edition of Wills, Probate and Estates has been written to provide trainee solicitors with a clear and thorough understanding of current best practice in the area of wills, trusts, probate, and the administration of estates. The manual takes into account all recent changes in legislation.The book outlines the basic elements of a will, familiarising trainees with the common law and statutory background, and enabling them to draft wills and simple trusts in accordance with statute and their clients'' informed instructions. It then outlines how to obtain the necessary grant of representation on the death of a client, either with or without a will, and how to administer such an estate, taking into account the various obligations on the personal representative.Wills, Probate and Estates provides succinct and practical advice, provided by solicitors for solicitors, tackling questions of practice and procedure that are of central importance not only for students on the Professional Practice Course, but also to practitioners who deal with any area of wills, trusts, probate, or the administration of estates.

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive and accessible overview of the law regarding medical negligence in India under the Consumer Protection Act, the law of torts, as well as the Penal Code. It analyses all major cases to date, and also discusses medicine and ethics, the duties of doctors, defences available to doctors, potential areas of litigation, and the significance of 'consent' of patients, as well as ways of preventing litigation.Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Cause and Effect of Doctor Patient Conflict 3: Rights and Responsibilities of Patient 4: Medical Negligence and Civil laws 5: Doctor Patient Relationship and Informed Consent 6: Compensation Based on Law of Torts 7: Consumer Protection Act and Medical Profession: Selected Provisions of the Act 8: Procedure Adopted by Consumer Forum for Medical Negligence Case: Rules and Regulations 9: Defence of the Doctor 10: Liability of Medical Professionals under Criminal law 11: Prevention of Malpractice Litigation 12: Malpractice Litigation in Obstetrics and Gynaecology 13: Litigation in Surgery 14: Litigation in Anaesthesia 15: Medical negligence in Medicine 16: Litigation in Miscellaneous Disciplines of Medical Science Appendix: Statistics and Studies on Medical Services and Malpractice Suits

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Book SynopsisRoger Brownsword provides a thoughtful overview of the principal themes of the law of contract. He explores the context of the recent development of contract law, and considers the many changes the law has undergone given the ever-evolving nature of English law.Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. The Nature of Contract ; 3. Freedom of Contract ; 4. Inequality of Bargaining Power ; 5. Reasonableness ; 6. Good Faith ; 7. The Tendency of the Modern Law ; 8. The Globalization of Contract Law ; 9. The Interfaces of Contract Law ; 10. The Rationality of Contract Law ; 11. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisChapters on drinking water supply, environmental dimensions of water conservation, water infrastructure for irrigation and flood control, groundwater regulation, and institutions catering to water have been thoroughly updated for a complete coverage of water law.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments; 1: Water Law and Policy in India: Background and Overview; 2: International Law and Policy; 3: Basic Concepts and Principles Related to Water at the National Level; 4: Regulation of Water: General Instruments and Issues; 5: Inter-State River Basins, Water Transfers, and Dams; 6: Drinking Water Supply; 7: Environmental Dimensions: Protection, Conservation, and Sustainable Use of Water; 8: Irrigation, Embankments, and Flood; 9: Regulation, Protection, and Conservation of Groundwater; 10: Water Institutions and Management; 11: Other Legal Instruments Incorporating a Water Dimension; Annexures; Index; About the Authors

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Book SynopsisIn 1881 The Factory Act was passed producing the first official definition of 'factories' in modern Indian history, as workplaces using steam power and regularly employing over 100 workers. In 1891, the Factory Act was amended: factories were redefined as workplaces employing over 50 workers and women mill-workers were brought within its ambit.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction PART I THE BIRTH OF FACTORY REGULATION 1. Imperial Entanglements 2. The Emergence of Factory Law: Bombay, 1874-81 PART II THE LIFE OF A LAW 3. The Work of Law: Factory Inspection in Bombay, 1881-7 4. Law, Age, and the Factory Child PART III FACTORY LAW AND INDUSTRIAL POLITICS 5. The Antinomies of Industrial Relations, 1884-95 6. Snapping the Tie: Chronicles of the Plague Years, 1896-8 Conclusion Select Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisMarilyn Easton has been an author and editor for over 10 years. Marilyn currently lives in Los Angeles, CA with her spouse, two dogs, and one cat.

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Book SynopsisOffers a stimulating assessment of the issues surrounding current debates on the filibusterTrade ReviewRegardless of whether you agree with [the authors'] conclusions, the book will be a must read for anyone who wants to be a part of the debate about how to improve the function of the Senate. (Reviewing a previous edition) * Roll Call *Legislative battles over healthcare and the federal budget have spurred demands to reform or abolish the filibuster in the US Senate. The authors argue that the filibuster is fundamental to the very character of the Senate, and that it protects the rights of the minority in American politics. * Survival *Arenberg and Dove successfully explain why, despite its flaws, the filibuster is worth preserving or reforming rather than eliminating. (Reviewing a previous edition) * ForeWord Reviews *Clearly written and amply supported, Defending the Filibuster is a must-read for all Americans, especially during these highly contentious times. * joannalouisejohnson.com *An impassioned and cogent defense of the Senate's most controversial practice. * Kirkus Reviews *Rich in historical anecdotes about instances when the strange antics to delay Senate decisions actually led to better policy making, this book will become the 'go to' authority on the filibuster. This volume should be valuable to general readers, students, and research faculty. . . . Highly recommended. (Reviewing a previous edition.) * Choice *Table of ContentsForewordPrefaceChapter One Soul of the SenateChapter Two Filibuster, Cloture, and Unfettered Amendment Chapter Three History of the FilibusterChapter Four Polarized Politics and the Use and Abuse of the FilibusterChapter Five Criticisms of the FilibusterChapter Six The Dangers of Overzealous ReformChapter Seven Related Tactics: HoldsChapter Eight Related Tactics: Filling the Amendment TreeChapter Nine Circumventing the Filibuster: Reconciliation Chapter Ten Reforming the Filibuster: The Constitutional OptionChapter Eleven Reforming the Filibuster: The Nuclear OptionChapter Twelve Bring In the CotsChapter Thirteen Defending the FilibusterEpilogueAppendix Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWhy, when we have been largely socialized into good behavior, are there more laws that govern our behavior than ever before?Levels of violent crime have been in a steady decline for centuries--for millennia, even. Over the past five hundred years, homicide rates have decreased a hundred-fold. We live in a time that is more orderly and peaceful than ever before in human history. Why, then, does fear of crime dominate modern politics? Why, when we have been largely socialized into good behavior, are there more laws that govern our behavior than ever before? In Command and Persuade, Peter Baldwin examines the evolution of the state's role in crime and punishment over three thousand years.Baldwin explains that the involvement of the state in law enforcement and crime prevention is relatively recent. In ancient Greece, those struck by lightning were assumed to have been punished by Zeus. In the Hebrew Bible, God was judge, jury, and prosecutor when Cain killed

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Book SynopsisA law school casebook that maps the progression of the law of torts through the language and example of public judicial decisions in a range of cases.A tort is a wrong that a court is prepared to recognize, usually in the form of ordering the transfer of money (“damages”) from the wrongdoer to the wronged. The tort system offers recourse for people aggrieved and harmed by the actions of others. By filing a lawsuit, private citizens can demand the attention of alleged wrongdoers to account for what they’ve done—and of a judge and jury to weigh the claims and set terms of compensation. This book, which can be used as a primary text for a first-year law school torts course, maps the progression of the law of torts through the language and example of public judicial decisions in a range of cases. Taken together, these cases show differing approaches to the problems of defining legal harm and applying those definitions to a messy world. Th

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Book SynopsisAdds valuable context to the body of work by legal scholars and historians on the seminal Hirabayashi caseTrade Review"Hirbayashi's . . . struggle and case have been analyzed every which way—but one. It has not been, until A Principled Stand, The Story of Hirabayashi v. United States, that readers have had access to Hirabayashi's reflections at the time of his resistance." -- Peter Monaghan * The Chronicle of Higher Education *"A long-awaited and richly satisfying memoir that emerges from a dark place in Northwest history. . . . The book puts you there, as a good novel does." -- Mike Dillon * City Living *"A fascinating look into the inner workings of how one man, with the support of his Christian supporters, took on the U.S. government and ultimately won." -- Martha Nakagawa * Rafu Shimpo *"The book successfully reminds us of the struggles needed to secure our freedoms today." * Publishers Weekly *"A Principled Stand proves that boxes of paper hauled from home to home and stored in closets and garages can eventually become the meat of history. . . . A valuable book, highly recommended." -- Paula Becker * HistoryLink.org *"[T]he authors succeed in one of their main goals: letting people get to know Gordon the person, not merely Gordon the plaintiff in a noted legal case. . . .A Principled Stand should be added to the growing number of quality, firsthand accounts of that era." -- Troy Reeves * Oral History Review *"What a treat it is to spend a few hours with three of the finest minds that have ever addressed Japanese American history....[in this] memoir constructed out of the World War II diaries of Gordon Hirabayashi and other documents." -- Paul Spickard * Oregon Historical Quarterly *"A Principled Stand is more than the story of an important wartime incarceration case; it is also the story of a remarkable person…a must read not only for scholars of Asian American history but also for those interested in the relationship between faith and social justice. The book has lessons for us all." -- Stephanie Bangarth * Pacific Historical Review *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Acronyms Part I. An Issei-Nisei Family 1. Hotaka to Seattle 2. Growing Up in America 3. "You're Going to College" Part II. Challenges and Incarceration 4. World War II 5. Arraignment Summons 6. King County Jail 7. King County Jail Mates 8. Jail Visitations 9. World War II Interracial Marriage 10. Prison Meditations 1 11. Pretrial 12. Seattle Federal District Court 13. U.S. Supreme Court 14. Out on Bail 15. Thumbing to Jail 16. Catalina Federal Honor Camp 17. Federal Prison Again Part III. The Postwar Years and Vindication 18. Early Postwar Experiences 19. Coram Nobis Appendix 1. Major Publications Appendix 2. Professional Positions, Honors, and Awards Glossary of Names Further Reading About the Coauthors Index

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