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Humanism

a very short introduction

Religion is currently gaining a much higher profile. The number of faith schools is increasingly, and religious points of view are being aired more frequently in the media. As religion's profile rises, those who reject religion, including humanists, often find themselves misunderstood, and occasionally ...

Late Antiquity

a very short introduction

Late antiquity: decline or transformation, conflict or interaction? Late antiquity is the period (c.300 - c.800) in which barbarian invasions ended Roman Empire in Western Europe by the fifth century and Arab invasions ended Roman rule over the eastern and southern Mediterranean coasts by ...

Terrorism

an investigator's handbook

This handbook introduces the reader to the field of terrorism investigation. Describing how terrorists operate and how they differ from other criminals, it provides an outline of how terrorism investigations should be conducted. By helping investigators to develop skills and knowledge, this guide helps them ...

Refusals to license intellectual property

testing the limits of Law and economics

Economic analysis rarely appears on the judicial horizon in intellectual property litigation. In competition cases, by contrast, economists are familiar figures in the courtroom and the language of economics is scattered throughout the judgments of even the highest courts. One might expect, therefore, that refusals ...

La derivación de responsabilidad tributaria

L'Italia

una società senza Stato?

In 150 anni l'Italia unita ha fatto molti progressi. Il numero dei suoi abitanti è quasi triplicato. Non è più Paese di emigrazione, anzi ha ora oltre 4 milioni di immigrati. La speranza di vita dei suoi abitanti è più che raddoppiata e la ...

Giustizia e diritto nella scienza giuridica contemporanea

L’appello alla morale e alla giustizia sta diventando nell’epoca ‘post-ideologica’ un motivo costante del discorso pubblico europeo. Non v’è legge, sentenza, atto amministrativo che non evochino qualche contenuto di giustizia, qualche fondamento ‘etico’ che ne giustifichi e rafforzi la normatività. Nel campo ...

Managing criminal justice organizations

an introduction to theory and practice

This book studies the formal and informal nature of the organizations involved in criminal justice, covering their organizational environments; the processes of leadership, management, and decision-making; organizational communications; staffing and training; planning and budgeting; and, organizational development and controlled change. It acquaints the readers with ...

Grenzüberschreitende Durchsetzung von Unterhaltsansprüchen in Europa

Eine Untersuchung der neuen EG-Unterhaltsverordnung

Die europäische Unterhaltsverordnung, seit Juni 2011 in Kraft, wurde vom europäischen Gesetzgeber geschaffen, um eine einfachere und schnellere Durchsetzung von Unterhaltsansprüchen bei Fällen mit grenzüberschreitendem Bezug zu gewährleisten. Erstmals gibt es damit auf europäischer Ebene ein eigenständiges Rechtsinstrument zur Realisierung von Unterhaltsansprüchen. Die Arbeit beleuchtet ...

Brussels I Regulation

The Brussels I Regulation is by far the most prominent cornerstone of the European law of international civil procedure. Every practitioner in the international field has to work with it - and its importance is still growing. The first edition of this full scale article-by-article commentary ...

Die Kontrolle des Managements in den großen börsennotierten Aktiengesellschaften

Eine rechtstatsächliche Untersuchung der DAX-Gesellschaften

Personelle Verflechtungen, Mehrfachmandate, mangelnde Unabhängigkeit - unter diesen Schlagworten wird deutschen Aufsichtsräten seit jeher die Wahrnehmung unternehmensfremder Interessen vorgeworfen. Der Autor untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen Mandatsrochaden, Interessenkonflikten und Kontrollversagen am Beispiel der im DAX-30 notierten Aktiengesellschaften. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die in Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat tätigen ...

Handbook of short selling

This comprehensive examination of short selling, which is a bet on stocks declining in value, explores the ways that this strategy drives financial markets. Its focus on short selling by region, its consideration of the history and regulations of short selling, and its mixture of ...

Global policing

Shifts in criminality enabled by the globalised world are creating significant challenges for security in nation states. As crime and terrorism cross borders, so too must criminal justice strategies. The necessity of developing a transnational approach to policing, and the major political implications that go ...

A history of management thought

For the past three thousand years people have been thinking about the problems of management. This book shows how thinking about management has evolved and changed. It shows how changing social, political and technological forces have challenged people to think about management in new ways ...

The Queen's Counsel Official Lawyers Handbook

The Queen's Counsel is a cartoon satire on law and lawyers appearing on Thursdays in the law pages of The Times. Collecting together the very best of the cartoon strip with the sagest of lawyerly advice The Queen's Counsel Official Lawyer's Handbook ...

European company Law

organization, finance and capital markets

Over the last decade, the time period that is also covered by the two editions of this book, European company law has been re-written completely. Virtually no EU measure remained unchanged and most of them have undergone fundamental reform. This is astonishing since almost half ...

Law and economics in the RIA world

improving the use of economic analysis in public policy and legislation

The use of economics in public policy, in the form of ex ante Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA), is strongly advocated by international organizations such as the OECD and the World Bank. In the US and the EU, hundreds of RIAs are produced every year to ...

The Law and economics of organ procurement

Organ procurement systems are similar to in-kind economies characterized by severe restrictions and transaction costs in the absence of money because currently they are based on altruism and gift-giving. A sale prohibition imposed by the government, amplified by an increasing demand for transplants leads to ...

Strategy mapping for learning organizations

building agility into your balanced scorecard

How can we ensure our strategy will succeed, especially in changing and uncertain times? The answer, as explained in "Strategy Mapping for Learning Organizations", is to become a more responsive organization - one that captures its strategy in strategy maps, learns from that strategy and can ...

Criminal evidence

Part of the John C. Klotter "Justice Administration Legal Series", this revision presents the latest developments in the law of evidence that are of interest to criminal justice personnel. Highlights include: chapter outlines, lists of key terms and concepts for each chapter, a glossary, and ...