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Protecting vulnerable groups

the european human rights framework

The concept of vulnerability has not been unequivocally interpreted either in regional or in universal international legal instruments. This book analyses the work of the EU and the Council of Europe in ascertaining a clear framework or a set of criteria suitable to determine those ...

Fundamental rights in the EU

a matter for two courts

This collection joins the new and expanding scholarship on the protection of fundamental rights in Europe and reflects on the relationship between the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The book questions whether the changes ...

The tapestry of reason

an inquiry into the nature of coherence and its role in legal argument

In recent years coherence theories of law and adjudication have been extremely influential in legal scholarship. These theories significantly advance the case for coherentism in law. Nonetheless, there remain a number of problems in the coherence theory in law. This ambitious new work makes the ...

Remorse, penal theory and sentencing

This monograph addresses a contested but under-discussed question in the field of criminal sentencing: should an offender's remorse affect the sentence he or she receives? Answering this question involves tackling a series of others: is it possible to justify mitigation for remorse within a ...

Justice and authority in Immigration Law

This book provides a new and powerful account of the demands of justice on immigration law and policy. Drawing principally on the work of Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, and John Rawls, it argues that justice requires states to give priority of admission to the most ...

Parliamentary sovereignty in the UK Constitution

process, politics and democracy

The status of the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty in the contemporary UK Constitution is much contested. Changes in the architecture of the UK Constitution, diminishing academic reverence for the doctrine, and a more expansive vision of the judicial role, all present challenges to the relevance ...

How to prepare a business plan

your guide to creating an excellent strategy, forecasting your finances and producing a persuasive plan

An excellent business plan impresses financial backers, provides a clear blueprint for the future of your company and functions as a benchmark against which to measure future growth. How to Prepare a Business Plan explains the process of creating an excellent business plan in an ...

Starting a successful business

your guide to setting up your dream start-up, controlling its finances and mananging its operations

The first 18 months of your business is crucial. This is when the majority of new businesses fail and where a lack of proper preparation and forward planning can be your downfall. This eighth edition of Starting a Successful Business is your definitive guide to ...

Economic thought

a brief history

In this concise yet comprehensive history, Heinz D. Kurz traces the long arc of economic thought from its emergence in ancient Greece to its systematic presentation among the classical thinkers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to the influential work of scholars such ...

Independent diplomat

despatches from an unaccountable elite

Carne Ross was a diplomat on the front line of today's most pressing issues, from Israel/Palestine to Afghanistan and Iraq?, ?over which he resigned from the British Foreign Office. He? was trained to see the world through a prism of states and interests ...

Thomas Pikkety's Capital in the Twenty-First Century

an introduction

US Nobel Prize-winner Paul Krugman described Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century as "perhaps the most important book of the last decade." It has sparked major international debates, dominated bestseller lists and generated a level of enthusiasm-as well as intense criticism-in a way ...

Family reunification in the EU

the movement and residence rights of third country national family members of EU citizens

This monograph examines the intricate legislative and jurisprudential scenario of family reunification between EU citizens and third country nationals that has developed in the European Union over the last 50 years. Focusing on family residence rights granted to third country national family members of EU ...

EU liability and international economic Law

The book provides both a legal and economic assessment of an increasingly important issue for the EU: the question of whether individuals can hold the European Union liable for damages they suffer due to its infringement of international economic law. However, liability regimes vary depending ...

Chasing criminal money

challenges and perspectives on asset recovery in the EU

The fight against dirty money is not a new topic, nor a recent problem. It has existed within international and national agendas since the 1980s. Nonetheless, the evolving complexity of criminal skills and networks; the increasingly global dimension of crime; the financial crisis; and the ...

Insider trading

how mortuaries, medicine and money have built a global market in human cadaver parts

Except for organ transplantation little is known about the variety of stuff extracted from corpses and repurposed for medicine. A single body might be disassembled to provide hundreds of products for the millions of medical treatments performed each year. Cadaver skin can be used in ...

The virtual weapon and international order

The cyber revolution is the revolution of our time. The rapid expansion of cyberspace brings both promise and peril. It promotes new modes of political interaction, but it also disrupts interstate dealings and empowers non-state actors who may instigate diplomatic and military crises. Despite significant ...

Rival power

Russia's influence in Southeast Europe

Is Russia threatening to disrupt more than two decades' of E.U. and U.S. efforts to promote stability in post-communist Southeast Europe? Politicians and commentators in the West say, "yes." With rising global anxiety over Russia's political policies and objectives, Dimitar Bechev provides ...

Políticas del pasado en la España franquista (1939-1964)

historia, nacionalismo y dictadura

El presente libro analiza las políticas del pasado desplegadas por la dictadura y la configuración de una determinada identidad histórica nacional bajo el franquismo. Tras el hundimiento de 1939, los historiadores del Nuevo Estado se aprestaron a una (re)construcción del pasado de la nación ...

The federal judiciary

strengths and weaknesses

No sitting federal judge has ever written so trenchant a critique of the federal judiciary as Richard A. Posner does in this, his most confrontational book. He exposes the failures of the institution designed by the founders to check congressional and presidential power and resist ...

Capital in the twenty-first century

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find ...