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The anthropology of Law

Questions about the nature of law, its relationship with custom, and the form of legal rules, categories and claims, are placed at the centre of this challenging, yet accessible, introduction. Anthropology of law is presented as a distinctive subject within the broader field of legal ...

Entrepreneurship

a very short introduction

There has been an explosion of interest in entrepreneurs in the popular media, as well as in business, policy, and education. But what do entrepreneurs do? What is entrepreneurship and why is it important? What is distinctive about entrepreneurs? And where do they come from ...

No one's world

the west, the rising rest, and the coming global turn

The world is on the cusp of a global turn. Between 1500 and 1800, the West sprinted ahead of other centers of power in Asia and the Middle East. Europe and the United States have dominated the world since. But today the West's preeminence ...

Regulating the risk of unemployment

national adaptations to post-industrial labour markets in Europe

Regulating the Risk of Unemployment offers a systematic comparative analysis of the recent adaptation of European unemployment protection systems to increasingly post-industrial labour markets. These systems were mainly designed and institutionalized in predominantly industrial economies, characterized by relatively standardized employment relationships and stable career patterns ...

Law's relations

a relational theory of self, autonomy, and Law

Autonomy is one of the core concepts of legal and political thought, yet also one of the least understood. The prevailing theory of liberal individualism characterizes autonomy as independence, yet from a social perspective, this conception is glaringly inadequate. In this brilliantly innovative work, Jennifer ...

Legal-lay communication

textual travels in the Law

This volume responds to a growing interest in the language of legal settings by situating the study of language and law within contemporary theoretical debates in discourse studies, linguistic anthropology, and sociolinguistics. The chapters in the collection explore many of the common occasions when those ...

God's instruments

political conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell

The Puritan Revolution escaped the control of its creators. The parliamentarians who went to war with Charles I in 1642 did not want or expect the fundamental changes that would follow seven years later: the trial and execution of the king, the abolition of the ...

Framed

America's 51 constitutions and the crisis of governance

In his widely acclaimed volume Our Undemocratic Constitution, Sanford Levinson boldly argued that our Constitution should not be treated with "sanctimonious reverence," but as a badly flawed document deserving revision. Now Levinson takes us deeper, asking what were the original assumptions underlying our institutions, and ...

A contemporary concept of monetary sovereignty

Monetary sovereignty is a crucial legal concept dictating that states have sovereignty over their own monetary, financial, and fiscal affairs. However, it does not feature as part of any key instruments of international law, including the Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund. Rather ...

Causation

a very short introduction

Causation is the most fundamental connection in the universe. Without it, there would be no science or technology. There would be no moral responsibility either, as none of our thoughts would be connected with our actions and none of our actions with any consequences. Nor ...

Originalism and the good constitution

Originalism holds that the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted according to its meaning at the time it was enacted. In their innovative defense of originalism, John McGinnis and Michael Rappaport maintain that the text of the Constitution should be adhered to by the Supreme ...

Shadow nations

tribal sovereignty and the limits of legal pluralism

American Indian tribes have long been recognized as "domestic, dependent nations" within the United States, with powers of self-government that operate within the tribes' sovereign territories. Yet over the years, Congress and the Supreme Court have steadily eroded these tribal powers. In some respects, the ...

Principle of mutual recognition in EU Law

Examining the principle of mutual recognition in the EU legal order, this book takes a cross-policy approach to focus on the principle in the internal market and in the criminal justice area. It asks whether the principle of mutual recognition, as developed in relation to ...

Saving the city

The Great Financial Crisis of 1914

In London, the world's foremost financial centre, the week before the outbreak of the First World War saw the breakdown of the markets, culminating with the closure for the first time ever of the London Stock Exchange on Friday 31 July. Outside the Bank ...

Development economics

theory, empirical research, and policy analysis

Development Economics: Theory Empirical Research and Policy Analysis by Julie Schaffner offers a means to think about development and policy in a way that is disciplined by economic theory and informed by empirical research. The main goal of this text is to get readers to ...

Reading HLA Hart's

the concept of Law

More than 50 years after it was first published, The Concept of Law remains the most important work of legal philosophy in the English-speaking world. In this volume, written for both students and specialists, 13 leading scholars look afresh at Hart's great book. Unique ...

Pricing and hedging financial derivatives

a guide for practitioners

The only guide focusing entirely on practical approaches to pricing and hedging derivatives One valuable lesson of the financial crisis was that derivatives and risk practitioners don't really understand the products they're dealing with. Written by a practitioner for practitioners, this book delivers ...

Vulnerability

reflections on a new ethical foundation for Law and politics

Martha Albertson Fineman's earlier work developed a theory of inevitable and derivative dependencies as a way of problematizing the core assumptions underlying the 'autonomous' subject of liberal law and politics in the context of US equality discourse. Her 'vulnerability thesis' represents the evolution of ...

Revista Investigaciones regionales, Nº 27, año 2013

ÍNDICE (Resumen): Seijas, A., y Iglesias, G. Evolución de la productividad y asociación con la satisfacción en la atención hospitalaria y especializada de los sistemas sanitarios de las Comunidades Autónomas. Capello, M.; Figueras, A.; Freille, S., y Moncarz, P. The role of federal transfers in ...

Concepto y uso del monumento en la Hispania romana durante el Principado

¿Por qué se realiza una inscripción? ¿Cómo empleó la sociedad hispanorromana el medio epigráfico? Al igual que es importante la catalogación de inscripciones, cada vez se hace más necesario el análisis de la idea primigenia que motivó su disposición, ahondando en el sentido y uso ...