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Rationale-based defences in Criminal Law

PRAISE FOR THE BOOK "Despite the existing scholarly literature on criminal defences, many issues remain contested or unresolved. Dr Dsouza offers a thorough and scholarly treatment of a complex topic which can be expected to become a point of reference for future work in the ...

Virtual competition

the promise and perils of the algorithm-driven economy

Shoppers with a bargain-hunting impulse and internet access can find a universe of products at their fingertips. But is there a dark side to internet commerce? This thought-provoking exposé invites us to explore how sophisticated algorithms and data-crunching are changing the nature of market competition ...

Pollution, politics, and power

the struggle for sustainable electricity

The electric power industry has been transformed over the past forty years, becoming more reliable and resilient while meeting environmental goals. A big question now is how to prevent backsliding. Pollution, Politics, and Power tells the story of the remarkable transformation of the electric power ...

The case for community wealth building

Guinan and O'Neill argue that traditional economic strategies waste billions and the transformational effects of community wealth building would be preferable.

Why austerity persists

The ongoing appeal of austerity to the right-wing and centre-right governments across the globe in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis is considered in relation to austerity's evident ineffectiveness and tyranny.

Should animals have political rights?

"All states must make decisions about how to regulate the treatment of animals. In this book, Alasdair Cochrane argues that this must go further. In order to ensure that their interests are taken seriously, it is imperative that we represent them throughout the political process ...

Is self-determination a dangerous illusion?

Claims to self-determination are rife in world politics today. They range from Scottish and Catalonian campaigns for independence to calls for the devolution of power to regions and cities. But is self-determination meaningful or desirable in the 21st century, or merely a dangerous illusion? In ...

The nordic civil sphere

The civil sphere is a distinctively democratic field in modern societies, one that sustains universalising cultural aspirations and organisational structures and that has tense and uncertain boundaries with other spheres of social life, like the economy, religion, family, and state. Unlike the latter, which are ...

The debt delusion

living within our means and other fallacies

The basic public understanding of how a government should handle its debt is debunked as misinformed in this primer for people looking to cut through the rhetoric and misinformation.

Ancient Greece and american conservatism

classical influence on the modern right

US conservatives have repeatedly turned to classical Greece for inspiration and rhetorical power. In the 1950s they used Plato to defend moral absolutism; in the 1960s it was Aristotle as a means to develop a uniquely conservative social science; and then Thucydides helped to justify ...

From Sodomy Laws to same-sex marriage

international perspectives since 1789

Inspired by recent adoptions of same-sex marriage, From Sodomy Laws to Same-Sex Marriage provides international perspectives on the legal and social history of same-sex relationships from the early 19th century to the present. Its emphasis is on areas where the impetus for change has been ...

Democracies and authoritarian regimes

Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes provides a broad, accessible overview of the key institutions and political dynamics in democracies and dictatorships, enabling students to assess the benefits and risks associated with democracy, and the growing challenges to it. Comprehensive coverage of the full spectrum of political ...

Judicial power in a globalized world

Liber Amicorum Vincent De Gaetano

This book explores fundamental topics concerning the functioning of the judiciary. The authors - class scholars, international judges and jurists from a diverse range of countries - address general theoretical issues in connection with judicial power, the role and functioning of international courts, international standards concerning the ...

The normative force of the factual

legal philosophy between is and ought

This book explores the interrelation of facts and norms. How does law originate in the first place? What lies at the roots of this phenomenon? How is it preserved? And how does it come to an end? Questions like these led Georg Jellinek to speak ...

A Copyright Gambit

on the need for exclusive rights in digitised versions of public domain textual materials in Europe

European memory institutions are repositories of a wealth of rare documents that record public domain content. These documents are often stored in 'dark-archives' to which members of the public are granted limited access, resulting in the public domain content recorded therein being relegated to a ...

Estrategias para abordar el pago de impuestos. Paso a Paso

Todas las opciones para aliviar las carencias de tesorería ante la AEAT

Los problemas de tesorería para afrontar el pago de impuestos son un asunto de enorme impacto en el día a día de todas las empresas. Los impagos generan deudas con la Administración Tributaria. Esas deudas pueden incrementarse con recargos y sanciones que las hacen más ...

Violencia en el trabajo

el acoso sexula

Puntos críticos en el tratamiento jurisprudencial e inspector de la descentralización empresarial, la contratación laboral y las empresas multiservicios

El trabajo de cuidados en el sistema de la dependencia

La presente obra aborda el trabajo de cuidados a las personas en situación de dependencia desde una perspectiva teórica, histórica, legislativa y social. Para la comprensión del trabajo de cuidados es preciso partir de una serie de elementos nucleares como: la desigualdad de género, la ...

Métodos y técnicas de investigación para estudios de urbanismo y territorio

Desde finales del siglo XIX, con la creación del primer departamento de sociología en la Universidad de Chicago, dio comienzo una larga tradición de trabajos empíricos que todavía continua en nuestros días. La ciudad, como ámbito científico, ha conformado un cuerpo analítico lo suficientemente amplio ...