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Globalization

a very short introduction

'Globalization' has become one of the defining buzzwords of our time - a term that describes a variety of accelerating economic, political, cultural, ideological, and environmental processes that are rapidly altering our experience of the world. It is by its nature a dynamic topic. This Very ...

Digitales testament und digitaler nachlass

Dieses Buch untersucht, ob die bestehenden Vorschriften des deutschen Rechts wie die Regelungen des Erbrechts, des Datenschutzrechts und des Grundgesetzes auf den digitalen Nachlass anwendbar sind und ob sie einer Vererbbarkeit entgegenstehen. Der digitale Nachlass ist in den letzten Jahren immer mehr in den Fokus ...

Die operative fallanalyse im strafprozess

ein beitrag zur dogmatik der persönlichen beweismittel

Die operative Fallanalyse ist eine relativ neue Form des kriminaltechnischen Sachbeweises. Die Rechtsprechung der letzten Jahre zeigt ein wachsendes Bedürfnis an der gerichtlichen Verwertung ihrer Ergebnisse, gleichzeitig aber auch große Unsicherheiten bei ihrer prozessualen Einordnung. Dieses Buch erläutert das Vorgehen der polizeilichen Fallanalytiker und die ...

Governing Europe

how to make the EU more efficient and democratic

This book is a collection of the contributions to the Governing Europe project, which tackles the current situation and the future developments of the European mechanism of governance, putting forward a series of policy and institutional recommendations for the medium and long term, aimed at ...

The objectivity of judicial decisions

a comparative analysis of nine jurisdictions

This book discusses how judges qualify their activities as objective. The data for this project was retrieved from a large sample of cases using Langacker’s methodology. The sample included over a thousand decisions from Brazil, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Romania and the ...

Institutions of Hanseatic Trade

studies on the political economy of a medieval network organisation

The merchants of the medieval Hanse monopolised trade in the Baltic and North Sea areas. The authors describe the structure of their trade system in terms of network organisation and attempts to explain, on the grounds of institutional economics, the coordination of the merchants’ commercial ...

Qualification, selection and exclusion in EU procurement

This seventh volume of the European Procurement Law Series contains an in depth analysis of the qualification phase - exclusion, qualification, selection, and shortlisting. The topic is of crucial importance in EU tender procedures and has been considered in numerous disputes in the European Union. This ...

¿Por qué Damasco?

Tomás Alcoverro viaja a Siria para escribir la crónica de un conflicto que desangra el país. Allí se enfrenta al descorazonador panorama de que el lugar que conoce y ama, el llamado "corazón de los árabes", está perdiendo a pasos agigantados su carácter abierto y ...

Being a judge in the Modern World

The role of the judiciary is constantly evolving and is in many ways more important than ever. Indeed, many argue that the sovereignty of parliament is eroding and being replaced by the respective power of judges. The Jackson Reforms of 2010, for example, saw judges ...

Europe entrapped

Today Europe finds itself in a crisis that casts a dark shadow over an entire generation. The seriousness of the crisis stems from one core political contradiction at the heart of the European project: namely, that what urgently needs to be done is also extremely ...

The death of the nation and the future of the Arab Revolution

This fast-paced and timely book from Vijay Prashad is the best critical primer to the Middle East conflicts today, from Syria and Saudi Arabia to the chaos in Turkey. Mixing thrilling anecdotes from street-level reporting that give readers a sense of what is at stake ...

The Constitution Today

timeless lessons for the issues of our era

A leading legal scholar addresses the most important constitutional controversies of the past two decades and illuminates the Constitution's spirit and ongoing relevance America's Constitution, Chief Justice John Marshall famously observed in McCulloch v. Maryland, aspires “to endure for ages to come.” The ...

The politics of Law in late medieval and Renaissance Italy

The Politics of Law in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy features original contributions by international scholars on the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Lauro Martines' Lawyers and Statecraft in Renaissance Florence, which is recognized as a groundbreaking study challenging traditional approaches to both Florentine ...

The Council of Europe

Its Laws and Policies

The Council of Europe, of which all European States are members, plays a pivotal role in the promotion and protection of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law in Europe. Bringing together specialist scholars and practitioners, The Council of Europe: Its Laws and Policies ...

Quién qué qué

Quién Qué Qué es el tercer título de esta colección creada por Olivier Tallec. Un libro-juego para buscar y recordar, observar y fijarse en cada detalle. ¡La diversión está asegurada!

El ojo y el espíritu

El ojo y el espíritu es el último escrito de Maurice Merleau-Ponty. En él, el fenomenólogo de la percepción interroga a la vez la visión y la pintura, buscando nombrar lo que constituye el milagro del cuerpo humano, su animación inexplicable, tan pronto como se ...

United States Law and policy on transitional

justice principles, politics, and pragmatics

In United States Law and Policy on Transitional Justice: Principles, Politics, and Pragmatics, Zachary D. Kaufman explores the U.S. government's support for, or opposition to, certain transitional justice institutions. By first presenting an overview of possible responses to atrocities (such as war crimes ...

Legal ethics

Who would or should defend a potential murderer in court? How do professions regulate themselves? Is 'no win-no fee' an ethical system? Where is the line in a 'suitable' client-advocate relationship? Jonathan Herring provides a clear and engaging overview of legal ethics, highlighting that the ...

El olfato

De los cinco sentidos, el olfato es el más desconocido, pero también el primero, el más directo, el que más recuerdos evoca y el que más perdura en nuestra memoria. Está controlado por neuronas expuestas al exterior con un sistema de receptores proteicos donde se ...

The Road to Somewhere

the populist revolt and the future of politics

Several decades of greater economic and cultural openness in the West have not benefited all our citizens. Among those who have been left behind, a populist politics of culture and identity has successfully challenged the traditional politics of Left and Right, creating a new division ...