Same-sex relationships

from "odious crime" to "gay marriage"

Based on the 2005 Oxford Clarendon Lectures in Law, this book deals with the remarkable change in society's attitude to homosexuality over the last half century. Until 1967 homosexual acts were punished by the criminal law and as recently as 1988 Parliament forbade teachers ...

Anglicanism

a very short introduction

What is Anglicanism? How is it different from other forms of Christianity, and how did it come to have so many different versions throughout the world? Although originally united by location and a common belief, Anglicanism has gradually lost its pre-eminence as the English state ...

Globalization and organization

world society and organizational change

All around the world, societies are experiencing an explosion of organizations and organizing: community clubs, religious groups, social movements, as well as schools, hospitals, businesses and government agencies, increasingly take the form of complex and formal organization. Why? Why is global society recast in this ...

Negotiating nationalism

nation-building, federalism, and secession in the multinational State

There are at least three times as many nations as states in the world today. This book addresses some of the special challenges that arise when two or more national communities share the same (multinational) state. As a work in normative political philosophy, its principal ...

Knowing persons

a study in Plato

"Knowing Persons" is an original study of Plato's account of personhood. For Plato, embodied persons are images of a disembodied ideal. The ideal person is a knower. Hence, the lives of embodied persons need to be understood according to Plato's metaphysics of imagery ...

Living with Nietzsche

what the great "immoralist" has to teach us

Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most popular and controversial philosophers of the last 150 years. Narcissistic, idiosyncratic, hyperbolic, irreverent - never has a philosopher been appropriated, deconstructed, and scrutinized by such a disparate array of groups, movements, and schools of thought. Adored by many for ...

Worldwide financial reporting

the development and future of accounting standards

International accounting standards tend to converge, as do auditing, enforcement, and corporate governance, whereas trading of equity shares remains essentially national. The book provides a thorough analysis of what information investors really need, how financial accounting systems developed and their current requirements in major commercial ...

The Law of trusts and equitable obligations

SUMARY: 1. Historical Introduction.2. Equitable Remedies in Modern English Law.3. Equity and the Law of Property.4. Equitable Obligations: Trusts and Powers.5. Equity and the Management of Property.6. Substantive and Formal Requirements for the Creation of Express Trusts.7. Secret Trusts ...

The proprietary church in the medieval west

Examines the medieval view of churches as the property of landlords Broad coverage of time and place Detailed study with numerous examples Although there have been many regional studies of the proprietary church or particular aspects of it, this is the first extensive study of ...

The general principles of the EC Law

The European Court of Justice has profoundly influenced the development of the legal order of the European Community through the elaboration of unwritten general principles of law. The general principles derive from the fundamental values underlying the national legal systems. This fully revised and updated ...

Approaching late antiquity

the transformation from early to late empire

What factors already present in the society of the High Roman Empire developed and expanded into the world of Late Antiquity? What was distinct in this period from what went before? The answers to these complex and fascinating questions embrace the fields of cultural history ...

Venturing beyond

law and morality in kabbalistic mysticism

Are mysticism and morality compatible or at odds with one another? If mystical experience embraces a form of non-dual consciousness, then in such a state of mind, the regulative dichotomy so basic to ethical discretion would seemingly be transcended and the very foundation for ethical ...

Principles of European Law

The Study Group on a European Civil Code has taken upon itself the task of drafting common European principles for the most important aspects of the law of obligations and for certain parts of the law of property in movables which are especially relevant for ...

Employment Law

an introduction

This is a textbook on UK employment law which is both introductory and comprehensive. It is aimed primarily at people who have not studied law previously, but who are studying for qualifications at either undergraduate or postgraduate level that include employment law modules. The book ...

The new public contracting

regulation, responsiveness, relationality

This book charts the significant increase in Britain over the last 25 years in the deployment of contract as a regulatory mechanism across a broad spectrum of social relationships. Since Labour came to power in 1997, the trend has accelerated, the use of contract spreading ...

Gatekeepers

the professions and corporate governance

In the wake of a series of corporate governance disasters in the US and Europe, which have gained almost mythic status - Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphia, HealthSouth, Parmalat - one question has not yet been addressed. A number of 'gatekeeping' professions - auditors, attorneys, securities analysts, credit-rating agencies ...

Transmitting knowledge

Words, images and instruments in Early Modern Europe.

Based on new research, a distinguished international team studies the forms in which scientific knowledge was transmitted in the late medieval and early modern period, the ways they interacted, and the people to whom the knowledge was directed. Among the famous authors whose work is ...

Clement of Alexandria and the beginnings of Christian Apophaticism

Can humans know God? Can created beings approach the Uncreated? The concept of God and questions about our ability to know him are central to this book. Eastern Orthodox theology distinguishes between knowing God as he is (his divine essence) and as he presents himself ...

From to Trent to Vatican.Vol.II: Historical and theological investigations

The second Vatican Council was convened by Pope John XXIII between 1962 and 1965. It marked a fundamental shift toward the modern Church and its far-reaching innovations replaced or radically changed many of the practices, rules, and attitudes that had dominated Catholic life and culture ...

The exceptional manager

making the difference

Most businesses face the choice of either competing on the 'low road' of cost, or the 'high road' of innovation and value. Much the same goes for national economies and the UK is no exception. But how do businesses - and the people who manage them ...

Law of marine insurance

The law of marine insurance constitutes a major branch of the law of international trade and shipping law which is of considerable international importance. This new edition gives a clear, updated account of English marine insurance law, combining detailed analysis of modern statute and case ...

Commercial agency, franchise, and distribution contracts

(PEL CAFDC)

The Study Group on a European Civil Code has taken upon itself the task of drafting common European principles for the most important aspects of the law of obligations and for certain parts of the law of property in movables which are especially relevant for ...