Violence in Late Antiquity

perceptions and practices

'Violence' is virtually synonymous in the popular imagination with the period of the Later Roman Empire - a time when waves of barbarian invaders combined with urban mobs and religious zealots to bring an end to centuries of peace and serenity. All of these images come ...

The spanish match

prince Charles's journey to Madrid, 1623

In the spring of 1623 Charles, Prince of Wales, the young heir to the English and Scottish thrones donned a false wig and beard and slipped out of England under the assumed name of John Smith in order to journey to Madrid and secure for ...

The EU-NATO relationship

a legal and political perspective

The EU-NATO relationship continues to develop at a time of significant change for both organizations. Post 9/11, NATO embarked on a fundamental transformation, recasting itself as an organization with global strategic reach and interest, focused less on Europe than ever before. At the same ...

Assessing the extent of China's marketization

China is indisputably one of the most dynamic economic regions in the world; however the character, nature and extent of its market economy status remains in question. This book provides an empirical analysis of many aspects of the developing market economy including: government reform, the ...

Modeling and forecasting primary commodity prices

The publication of this book at this time is particularly important. Recent economic growth in China and other Asian countries has led to increased commodity demand which has caused price rises and accompanying price fluctuations not only for crude oil but also for the many ...

Approaching the EUropean federation?

The European project has within only 52 years achieved a surprising momentum, and the European Union (EU) is now approaching full statehood. The Convention on the Future of Europe has finished its work and handed over a proposal for a constitutional treaty to the Heads ...

Law's practical wisdom

the theory and practice of Law making in new governance structures in European Union

Focusing on new governance structures which promote deliberation, proceduralization, and dialogue, this book presents a theory of law making in the European Union. The empirical substantiation of the book is premised on case studies from the EU, including the Information Society Directive, domain name dispute ...

Courts and judges

Representing the Royal Navy

british sea power: 1750-1815

The church of Mary Tudor

CONTENTS: Introduction: The personal religion of Mary I, David Loades. Part I The Process: The Marian Episcopate, David Loades; The English universities, 1553#58, Claire Cross; Westminster Abbey restored, Charles Knighton; The clergy, the church courts and the Marian restoration in Norwich, Ralph Houlbrooke. Part ...

The counter-Reformation

Catholic Europe and the non-Christian world

Modern scholarship has effectively demonstrated that, far from being a knee-jerk reaction to the challenges of Protestantism, the Catholic Reformation of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was fuelled primarily by a desire within the Church to reform its medieval legacy and to re-enthuse its institutions ...

The Jesuits and the Monarchy

Catholic Reform and political authority in France (1590-1615)

The first three decades of Bourbon rule in France coincided with a period of violent fragmentation followed by rapid renewal within the French Catholic community. In the early 1590s, when Henri IV # Protestant head of the Bourbon house # acceded to the throne, French Catholics were ...

The low countries in the sixteenth century

Erasmus, religion and politics, trade and finance

Xenotransplantation

law and ethics

One of the leading causes of death is organ failure, that is, when one or other of the organs that run the machine we call the body gives out. However, whereas with a machine spare parts can usually replace faulty parts, in the case of ...

The death penalty

influences and outcomes

Unsurprisingly, much of the social science research agenda on the death penalty is centered in the United States, a country that permits federal government and state governments to use death as a punishment for homicide. Scholars designed the agenda to speak on issues thought to ...

Quantitative methods in criminology

This informative reference volume features the key papers in the growing field of quantitative criminology. The papers provide examples of the importation of statistical methods from other fields to criminology, the adaptation of such methods to special criminological problems through introspection, and the development of ...

A tale of two global cities

comparing the territorialities of telecommunications developments in Paris and London

Since the mid-1980s, telecommunications and information technologies (IT) have become more intensely bound up than ever before in the social, economic, political and cultural processes and transformations which are increasingly concentrated in and between key strategic urban places across the globe. By analysing telecommunications developments ...

Hard lessons

reflections on governance and crime control in late modernity

The essays in this book catalogue a wide and varied range of instances "where things go wrong" in the practices of criminal justice. The contributions document instances where laws, policies and practices have produced unintended consequences of the most deleterious kind, drawing attention to the ...

The logic of consent

the diversity and deceptiveness of consent as a defense to criminal conduct

The Logic of Consent analyzes the varied nature of consent arguments in criminal law and examines the confusions that commonly arise from the failure of legislatures, courts and commentators to understand them. Peter Westen skillfully argues that the conceptual aspect accounts for a significant number ...

Deliberation and decision

economics, Constitutional Theory and deliberative democracy

"Deliberation and Decision" explores ways of bridging the gap between two rival approaches to theorizing about democratic institutions: constitutional economics on the one hand and deliberative democracy on the other. The two approaches offer very different accounts of the functioning and legitimacy of democratic institutions ...

Right and prejudice

prolegomena to a Hermeneutical philosophy of Law

Most current works in the field of legal interpretation approach problems from the point of view of analytical philosophy. In this book, however, Jarkko Tontti adopts the somewhat neglected viewpoint of continental hermeneutical philosophy, as developed by thinkers such as Gadamer, Ricoeur, Vattimo and Heidegger ...

The mother of all crimes

Human Rights, criminalization and the child born alive

This book considers the appropriate response of the criminal law with regard to women whose acts or omissions in pregnancy cause the death or injury of the child born alive. It compares recent developments in English law in the light of the Human Rights Act ...