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Problem solving, decision making, and professional judgment

a guide for lawyers and policymakers

Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment: A Guide for Lawyers and Policymakers will prepare students and professionals for their roles as creative problem solvers. Paul Brest and Linda Hamilton Krieger discuss essential qualities of practical wisdom that are important across disciplines and essential to ...

Outrageous invasions

celebrities' private lives, media, and the Law

In Outrageous Invasions: Celebrities' Private Lives, Media, and the Law, Professor Robin D. Barnes examines the role and nature of privacy in Western democracies. Celebrities are routinely subjected to stalking, harassment, invasion of privacy, and defamation. These occurrences are often violations of their constitutional rights ...

U.S. antitrust Law and enforcement

a practice introduction

U.S. Antitrust Law and Enforcement provides readers with a unique and accessible introduction to United States Antitrust law. This book aims to deliver a one-stop introduction to the entire field, allowing law firm and in-house practitioners who do not specialize in antitrust, foreign attorneys ...

Arbitration under international investment agreements

a guide to the key issues

Investor-state arbitration is a relatively new dispute settlement mechanism that allows foreign investors the opportunity to seek redress for damages arising out of breaches of investment-related treaty obligations by the governments of host countries. Claims are submitted to independent, international arbitration tribunals, which are called ...

The living Constitution

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once remarked that the theory of an evolving, "living" Constitution effectively "rendered the Constitution useless." He wanted a "dead Constitution," he joked, arguing it must be interpreted as the framers originally understood it. In The Living Constitution, leading constitutional scholar ...

Justinian's digest

character and compilation

This book is a study of the character and compilation of Justinian's Digest, the main volume of Justinian's Corpus Iuris Civilis (528-534 AD). This is often considered as one of the most influential works in the history of Western culture. It remains significant ...

The regulatory enterprise

government, regulation, and legitimacy

Tony Prosser examines a range of different British regulatory bodies, including the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, the Food Standards Agency, the Environment Agency, the Health and Safety Executive, the regulators for health and social care, and the utility regulators covering communications, energy, rail, and ...

Criminal justice

What does it mean to be 'under arrest'? Who can limit police powers, and why do miscarriages of justice occur? The fourth edition of Criminal Justice provides a comprehensive overview of the criminal justice system in England and Wales, as well as thought-provoking insights into ...

Cross and Tapper on evidence

The most authoritative and respected textbook in the field, Cross & Tapper on Evidence has, over successive editions, acquired a justly deserved reputation as a classic of legal literature. The twelfth edition reflects recent changes and developments in an extremely fast- moving and important subject. It ...

English legal system in context

English Legal System in Context provides a critical overview of the legal system, and establishes a sound theoretical framework within which to analyse the system. It discusses the intricacies of the legal system, showing the blurred distinction between the legal and the non-legal, and the ...

Derecho procesal del trabajo

La 16ª edición del Derecho Procesal del Trabajo, manteniendo la estructura de la obra, añade las novedades legislativas posteriores a julio de 2008, fecha de cierre de la anterior. La novedad fundamental consiste en la incorporación de la Ley 13/2009, de 3 de noviembre ...

Decrecimientos

sobre lo que hay que cambiar en la vida cotidiana

Dir. Carlos Taibo. Hoy en día disponemos de una teoría general sobre el decrecimiento que ha ido adquiriendo cada vez más fuerza. Para completar este proyecto, sin embargo, urge trasladar los conceptos teóricos generales a ámbitos más concretos. Esto es precisamente lo que proponen los ...

Del campo a la fábrica

vida y trabajo en una colonia industrial

El autor analiza en esta obra la transformación del campesino en obrero fabril y el papel que desempeñó el llamado paternalismo industrial en dicho proceso. Para ello, y tras una introducción contextual acerca de las precarias condiciones de vida y trabajo del campesinado alcarreño a ...

An introduction to the legal system of the United States

Ed. Steve Sheppard. In the updated, fourth edition of this classic text which has been translated into over a dozen languages, constitutional scholar and Columbia Law School professor E. Allan Farnsworth provides a clear explanation of the structure and function of the U.S. legal ...

European Union Law

The Core Text Series takes the reader straight to the heart of the subject, providing a reliable and invaluable guide for students of law at all levels. Written by leading academics and renowned for their clarity, these concise texts explain the intellectual challenges of each ...

Valuation for M&A

building value in private companies

Discover the tools necessary to determine what your company's value is, what drives its value, and how to enhance that value during an M&A transaction. The only book to focus on valuation specifically for merger and acquisitions, Valuation For M&A: Building Value in Private Companies, Second Edition lays out the steps for measuring and managing value creation in privately held businesses. * Recognizes a company as an investment and explains how to manage that value to maximize shareholder returns, focusing on returns, risks, and capital invested * Explains investment or strategic value versus fair market value and provides a document request checklist; sample interview questions; and formats for adjusting financial statements, developing discount rates, the computation of net cash flow; and a ...

Public land in the Roman Republic

a social and economic history of Ager Publicus in Italy, 396-89 BC

In the first volume in this new series on Roman society and law, Saskia T. Roselaar traces the social and economic history of the ager publicus, or public land. As the Romans conquered Italy during the fourth to first centuries BC, they usually took land ...

A dictionary of ecology

This is the fourth edition of the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of ecology available. Written in a clear, accessible style, it contains over 6,000 entries on all aspects of ecology and related environmental scientific disciplines such as biogeography, genetics, soil science, geomorphology, atmospheric ...

The Oxford handbook of the Welfare State

Eds. Francis G. Castels...[et.al]. The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state. In a volume consisting of nearly fifty newly-written chapters, a broad range of the world>'s leading scholars offer a comprehensive ...

Transformations of the Welfare State

small states, big lessons

Auts. Herbert Obinger...[et.al]. Transformations of the Welfare State gives a new twist to the longstanding debate on the impact of economic globalization on the welfare state. The authors focus on several small, advanced OECD economies in order to assess whether (and how) the ...