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Fair trials

the european criminal procedural tradition and the european court of Human Rights

The right to a fair trial has become an issue of increasing public concern, following a series of high profile cases such as the Bulger case, Khan (Sultan) and R. v D.P.P. ex p. Kebilene. In determining the scope of the right, we ...

The Blackwell companion to globalization

This Companion features 35 original essays on the complexity of globalization and its diverse and sometimes conflicting effects. Written by top scholars in the field, it offers a nuanced and detailed examination of globalization that includes both positive and critical evaluations. The essays focus on ...

Law, war and crime

war crimes trials and the reinvention of international Law

From events at Nuremberg and Tokyo after World War II, to the recent trials of Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein, war crimes trials are an increasingly pervasive feature of the aftermath of conflict. In his new book, "Law, War and Crime", Gerry Simpson explores the ...

Regulating jurisdictional relations between national and international Courts

This book seeks to investigate the growing jurisdictional interaction between national and international courts ie: their parallel involvement in the same or related disputes in the light of competing theoretical, ideological and methodological discourses on the nature of the relationship and the means to regulate ...

Innovation, industrial dynamics and structural trnsformation

schumpeterian legacies

This book provides an account of work in the Schumpeterian and evolutionary tradition of industrial dynamics and the evolution of industries. It is shown that over time, industries evolve and change their structure. In this dynamic process, change is affected and sometimes constraint by many ...

Economic evolution and equilibrium

bridging the Gap

This work uses various model frameworks to study the evolution of equilibria in an open loop evolving economy in which the model characteristics evolve without any directional restrictions except for continuity. Applying mathematical methods, it is shown that equilibria can always be adapted in a ...

Value at risk and bank capital management

risk adjusted performances, capital management and capital allocation decision making

While the highly technical measurement techniques and methodologies of Value at Risk have attracted huge interest, much less attention has been focused on how Value at Risk and the risk-adjusted performance measures such as RAROC or economic profit/EVA can be effectively used to improve ...

New financial instruments and institutions

opportunitoes and policy challenges

Japan's financial institutions and instruments are closely related to the United States model. In both countries, new financial instruments, such as structured financial products and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and new financial institutions - which include hedge funds and private equity funds - present opportunities as well ...

The medical malpractice myth

American health care is in crisis because of exploding medical malpractice litigation. Insurance premiums for doctors and malpractice lawsuits are skyrocketing, rendering doctors both afraid and unable to afford to practice medicine. Undeserving victims sue at the drop of a hat, egged on by greedy ...

The Microsoft case

antitrust, high technology, and consumer welfare

Microsoft was the defining antitrust case of our era, and will be the focus of scholarly discussion about the proper role of antitrust for years to come. This book tells the story of the litigation and shows how law, ideology, evidence, and economic theory influenced ...

Innovation and the State

political choice and strategies for growth in Israel, Taiwan, and Ireland

This book is about choice. Its main argument is that, contrary to popular belief, intensified globalization gives emerging economies a larger number of economic development alternatives than they have had since World War II. This is especially true in the case of rapid innovation-based industries ...

Peoples and international Law

how nationalism and self-determination shape a contemporary Law of nation

Peoples and International Law is the most comprehensive current account of the right of self-determination in international law. The book examines the law of self-determination as the product of the interaction between nationalism and international law. This broad and interdisciplinary work charts this interaction through ...

The market for corporate control in Japan

M&AS, hostile takeovers and regulatory framework

This book analyzes the modern trend in the Japanese M and A market and reveals from different angles the process of convergence to a new monitoring model of the corporation: "the market for corporate control". A prima facie verification is based on the examination of ...

Tradition and change in administrative Law

an Anglo-German comparison

Administrative legal systems are based on national constitutional legal traditions and cultural values. English judges have for centuries applied the common law. In Germany, judges have developed Administrative legal principles for the protection of the individual against state action. However, over the last few decades ...

Microeconomics using Excel

integrating economic theory, policy analysis and spreadsheet modelling

Using Microsoft Excel, the market leading spreadsheet package, this book combines theory with modelling aspects and spreadsheet analysis. "Microeconomics Using Excel" provides students with the tools with which to better understand microeconomic analysis. A new textbook, it focuses on solving microeconomic problems by integrating economic ...

Environment and politics

"Environment and Politics" is a concise introduction to the study of environmental politics, explaining the key concepts, conflicts, political systems and the practices of policy-making. The authors examine a diverse range of environmental problems and policy solutions within different nations and cultures. This third edition ...

From Al-Andalus to Khurasan

documents from the Medieval Muslim World

Free movement, social security and gender in the EU

This work examines the system of co-ordination of national social security laws in the European Union from a gender perspective. The central question that it raises concerns the level of social security protection enjoyed by women moving throughout the Union in cases of work interruption ...

What sticks

why most advertising fails and how to guarantee yours succeeds

The magnitude of waste in advertising is staggering: $85 billion each year. This book will demonstrate how to spend advertising dollars effectively, offering practical, hands-on solutions based on the authors' $4 million dollars' worth of recent landmark research-- extensive, "proprietary" research--to measure the effectiveness of ...

La responsabilità da reato degli enti

sanzioni e loro natura