Figures of invention

a history of modern patent Law

Taking the invention as its object of study, this book develops a radical new perspective on the making of modern patent law. It develops an extended historical and conceptual exploration of the invention in modern patent law. Focussing primarily on the figures that make inventions ...

The evolution of European Convention of Human Rights

from its inception to the creation of a Permanent Court of Human Rights

The European Convention on Human Rights underwent a spectacular evolution over the first fifty years of its life. In recent times the European Court of Human Rights has been compared to a quasi- constitutional court for Europe in the field of human rights, and for ...

Judicial creativity at the international criminal tribunals

Eds. Shane Darcy, Joseph Powderly. As the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda enter the final phase of their work, it is an appropriate time to reflect on the significant contribution that these unique institutions have made to the development of international ...

God, justice, and society

aspects of Law and legality in the Bible

What is the real meaning of 'an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth'? Where did the idea for the 'Jubilee 2000' and 'Drop the Debt' campaigns come from? And what, really, are the 'Ten Commandments'? In God, Justice, and Society, Jonathan ...

Canon Law

a comparative study with anglo-american legal theory

Canon Law: A Comparative Study with Anglo-American Legal Theory, by the Reverend John J. Coughlin, explores the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church from a comparative perspective. The Introduction to the book presents historical examples of antinomian and legalistic approaches to canon law (antinomianism ...

Legal interpretation

perspectives from other disciplines and private texts

Comparative Legal Interpretation focuses on textual interpretation of the law. All law needs to be interpreted, and there are many ways to do it. Greenawalt covers the dominant methods of legal interpretation, explaining their underlying structure and efficacy. But there are other issues involved. Which ...

The constitutional State

The Constitutional State provides an original analytical account of the state and its associated constitutional phenomena. It presents the state as a form of social group, consisting of people, territory and institutions bound together by rules. The institutions of the state make a distinctive and ...

Tribal constitutionalism

States, tribes, and the governance of membership

Recognised tribes are increasingly prominent players in settler state governance, but in the wide-ranging debates about tribal self- governance, little has been said about tribal self-constitution. Who are the members of tribes, and how are they chosen? Tribes in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the ...

Cooperation, comity, and competition policy

Ed. Andrew T. Guzman. Cooperation, Comity, and Competition Policy, edited by Andrew T. Guzman, illustrates how domestic competition law policies intersect with the realities of international business. It offers a discussion of what might be done to improve the way in which cross-border business is ...

The American Revolution

a concise history

Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States--the American Revolution. Between 1760 and 1800, the American people cast off British rule to create a new nation and a radically new form of ...

Approaching an Auschwitz survivor

holocaust testimony and its transformations

Eds. Jürgen Matthäus. Among sources on the Holocaust, survivor testimonies are the least replaceable and most complex, reflecting both the personality of the narrator and the conditions and perceptions prevailing at the time of narration. Scholars, despite their aim to challenge memory and fill its ...

Saint Francis and the Sultan

the curious history of a christian-muslim encounter

In September, 1219, as the armies of the Fifth Crusade besieged the Egyptian city of Damietta, Francis of Assisi went to Egypt to preach to Sultan al-Malik al-Kamil. Although we in fact know very little about this event, this has not prevented artists and writers ...

A dictionary of Hinduism

Covering all the major Hindu practices, festivals, beliefs, gods, sacred sites, languages, and religious texts, this is the most comprehensive Hinduism dictionary of its kind. It contains 2,800 entries on everything from Tantra to temples, from bhakti to Divali, as well as biographical entries ...

Fashion

a very short introduction

Fashion is a dynamic global industry that plays an important role in the economic, political, cultural, and social lives of an international audience. It spans high art and popular culture, and plays a significant role in material and visual culture. This book introduces fashion's ...

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Edmund Burke was the dominant political thinker of the last quarter of the eighteenth century in England. His reputation depends less on his role as a practising politician than on his ability to set contemporary problems within a wider context of political theory. Above all ...

Foundations of modern macroeconomics

Highlights of this new edition: * Chapters substantially revised to reflect current thinking in macroeconomics * Includes 31 boxed case studies that are easily cross-referenced * New material added and empirical data updated to better reflect labour market developments during the last three decades * Streamlined mathematical appendix Advanced ...

Jacob Wackernagel, lectures on syntax

with special reference to greek, latin, and germanic

This book is an English version of two series of highly acclaimed introductory lectures given by the great Swiss linguist and classical philologist Jacob Wackernagel (1853-1938) at the University of Basle in 1918-19 on aspects of Greek, Latin, and German as languages. Out of print ...

Thomas Aquinas

a very short introduction

Thomas Aquinas, an Italian Catholic priest in the early thirteeth century, is considered to be one of the great Christian thinkers who had, and who still has, a profound influence on Western thought. He was a controversial figure who was exposed and engaged in conflict ...

Carbon energy taxation

lessons from Europe

Eds. Mikael Skou Andersen, Paul Ekins.When taxes are introduced on carbon and energy, and the revenue is used to reduce other taxes, will a positive effect be achieved both for the environment and for the economy? In 1990 Finland was the first country to ...

Greed, lust and gender

a history of economic ideas

When does the pursuit of self-interest go too far, lapsing into morally unacceptable behaviour? Until the unprecedented events of the recent global financial crisis economists often seemed unconcerned with this question, even suggesting that "greed is good." A closer look, however, suggests that greed and ...

How to read a film

movies, media, and beyond: art, technology, language, history, theory

With diagrams by David Lindroth. Richard Gilman referred to How to Read a Film as simply the best single work of its kind. And Janet Maslin in The New York Times Book Review marveled at James Monaco's ability to collect an enormous amount of ...

Judicial control in the European Union

reforming jurisdiction in the intergovernmental pillars

The EU's activity under its intergovernmental pillars - The Common Foreign and Security Policy and Justice and Home Affairs - has traditionally been beyond the scope of judicial control offered by the central EC legal system. The increasing importance of this activity, and its growing intrusion ...