Civil justice in the Age of Human Rights

The end of the last century witnessed two major events in the field of civil justice: the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) came into force and the Human Rights Act (HRA) gave effect to the European Convention on Human Rights. This volume assesses the effect of ...

Studies on the hospitallers after 1306

Rhodes and the west

This is the fifth collection of studies on the "Hospitallers of Rhodes" by Anthony Luttrell to appear in the "Variorum Collected Studies Series". In these 24 studies, the emphasis is on the 14th century, on the central Convent facing the Turks, on the hinterland in ...

From the athenian tetradrachm to the Euro

studies in european monetary integration

With the introduction of the Euro much recent attention has been focused on the role of currencies and their national and international significance. Whilst much has been made of the Euro's achievements in harmonising Europe's financial dealings, it is often forgotten that it ...

Unconstitutional regimes and the validity of sovereign debt

a legal perspective

This volume provides a much-needed legal perspective on the topical subject of Developing World debt repayment. The author uses a single debtor country, Argentina, as an example to address global questions relating to this problem. The work assesses the range of complex issues involved in ...

Airline choices for the future

from alliances to Mergers

"Airline Choices for the Future: From Alliances to Mergers" offers an up-to-date assessment of the industry as it stands today, delivering a comprehensive insight into how the world of airline alliances is changing, and how the merger phenomenon is likely to fit into the new ...

Principles of strategic management

"Principles of Strategic Management" provides a comprehensive and accessible treatment of the key principles and practices of the strategic management process. It covers the whole of the strategic management process including strategic analysis, formulation, choice and implementation. Within this framework topics such as business environment ...

Bills of rights

This collection examines the justifications for using bills of rights to protect fundamental human rights and the mechanisms for enforcing provisions in those documents. Articles deal with different forms of judicial enforcement and with legislative enforcement, of rights protected by such documents. The collection includes ...

The limits of bodily integrity

abortion, adultery and rape legislation in comparative perspective

This volume argues that legislation on abortion, adultery, and rape has been central to the formation of the modern citizen. The author draws on rights literature, biopolitical scholarship, and a gender-studies perspective as a foundation for rethinking the sovereign relationship. In approaching the politicization of ...

Democracy and Human Rights in multicultural societies

Published in association with UNESCO, "Democracy and Human Rights in Multicultural Societies" examines the political governance of cultural diversity, specifically how public policy-making has dealt with the claims for cultural recognition that have increasingly been expressed by ethno-national movements, language groups, religious minorities, indigenous peoples ...

The impact of EU Law on the regulation of international air transportation

On 5 November 2002, the European Court of Justice delivered its 'open- skies' judgment, a landmark decision which may be the beginning of a new era in the regulation of international air law. The consequences of this judgment may not only affect the European Union ...

The privatisation of European telecommunications

This international volume presents a comprehensive, comparative study of the transformation of the European telecommunications industry from 1990 to the present. The book focuses on the old incumbent operators and their dramatic change from state agencies to listed companies. It analyzes the liberalization process, as ...

Gender, race and religion in the colonization of the Americas

With outstanding documentation of the importance of local conditions in defining historical outcomes and paying equal attention to North, South, and Central America, Nora Jaffary's compilation is a welcome contribution to the rapidly expanding field of "Trans-Atlantic" studies.Christine Hunefeldt, Professor of History, University ...

Sin

essays on the moral tradition in the western Middle Ages

Richard Newhauser examines here aspects of the moral tradition of medieval thought, specifically the construction of the seven deadly sins, their offspring, and related schematizations of immorality in the Latin West. The emphasis in these studies is on the malleability of moral categories, their relationship ...

The Bishop reformed

studies of episcopal power and culture in the Central Middle Ages

In the period following the collapse of the Carolingian Empire up to the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), the episcopate everywhere in Europe experienced substantial and important change, imposed by the pressures of ecclesiastical reform; the devolution and recovery of royal authority; the growth of papal ...

The State and terrorism

national security and the mobilization of power

An innovative approach to the ongoing debate over homeland security and state response to terrorism, Campos investigates the contextualizing of national security discourse and its management of terrorism. New ideas developed in this book reflect ways in which national security is mobilized through specific discourse ...

Distressed US industies in the era of Globalization

This book presents analyses of several distressed industries in the United States, including the steel, footwear, textile and apparel, paper and publishing, and automobile industries. It particularly focuses on the influence of the new era of globalization on these industries, as the authors argue that ...

The Seventh Crusade, 1244-1254

sources and documents

The Seventh Crusade, led by King Louis IX of France, was the last major expedition for the recovery of the Holy Land actually to reach the Near East. The failure of his invasion of Egypt (1249-50), followed by his four-year stay in Palestine in order ...

Distributive and procedural justice

research and social applications

This interdisciplinary and cross- national volume brings together theory and research by prominent scholars within the areas of distributive and procedural justice, not only featuring work within each area separately, as is commonly done, but also showing how combinations of the two justice orientations might ...

From positivism to idealism

a study of the moral dimensions of legality

Examining the emergence and development of legal positivism as a distinctive and particularly powerful tradition in legal thought, this book places particular emphasis on its relationship to traditional understandings of the common law and on forms of idealism. The focus throughout is on the consequences ...

The political economy of the Eurpean Constitution

The enlargement process, the creation of the Monetary Union and the need to promote further the political and economic integration of Europe have ignited an intense debate at the European level among researchers and policy-makers. This book reviews and provides new contributions on the political ...