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Intelligent control

developments in public order policing in Canada

Investigating the ways in which police practices have evolved in relation to labour strikes and protests, Intelligent Control examines the means by which police forces have developed more coercive and consent-based approaches to regulating social unrest.

Understanding public Law

Helps students to understand the key aspects of the UK's political and legal systems as well as to build an understanding of the relationship between the different branches of the state such as the executive, legislature and judiciary.

Ideas, institutions, and trade

the WTO and the curious role of EU farm policy in trade liberalization

Agriculture has a small, and declining, importance in employment and income generation within the EU, but a political importance well beyond its economic impact. The EU's common agricultural policy (CAP) has often been the source of conflict between the EU and its trade partners ...

Law and economics in european merger control

Law and Economics in European Merger Control provides a thorough introduction to the economic theory underlying the regulation of mergers. The central economic concepts of efficiency and welfare are introduced and their role in the foundations of competition law is explained. Market structures of perfect ...

The Law of criminal cartels

practice and procedure

The Law of Criminal Cartels provides comprehensive coverage of the cartel offence introduced into UK law by the Enterprise Act 2002, as well as of the related powers of the main regulators in the UK, EU, and overseas. The appearance of cartel conduct presents new ...

Conflicts of rights in the European Union

a theory of supranational adjudication

Underlying the protection of human rights in Europe is a complex network of overlapping legal systems - domestic, EU, and ECHR. This book focuses on the potential for conflict to emerge between the systems where rights overlap and interpretations in different courts begin to diverge. From ...

The constitutionalization of international Law

The book examines one of the most debated issues in current international law: to what extent the international legal system has constitutional features comparable to what we find in national law. This question has become increasingly relevant in a time of globalization, where new international ...

Satow's diplomatic practice

Ed. Sir Ivor Roberts. Satow's Diplomatic Practice is a classic work, first published 90 years ago and revised four times since. This is the first revised edition for thirty years, during which time the world and diplomacy have changed almost beyond recognition. The new ...

The New separation of powers

a theory for the modern State

The separation of powers is an important principle of liberal constitutionalism. However, the traditional rationale behind institutional separation can no longer govern the distribution of authority in the modern state. This book develops a new model of the separation of powers theory for the administrative ...

Inventing the job of president

leadership stule from George Washington to Andrew Jackson

From George Washington's decision to buy time for the new nation by signing the less-than-ideal Jay Treaty with Great Britain in 1795 to George W. Bush's order of a military intervention in Iraq in 2003, the matter of who is president of the ...

Emergency politics

paradox, Law, democracy

This book intervenes in contemporary debates about the threat posed to democratic life by political emergencies. Must emergency necessarily enhance and centralize top-down forms of sovereignty? Those who oppose executive branch enhancement often turn instead to law, insisting on the sovereignty of the rule of ...

When brute force fails

how to have less crime and less punishment

Since the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has multiplied fivefold, to one prisoner for every hundred adults - a rate unprecedented in American history and unmatched anywhere in the world. Even as the prisoner head count continues to rise ...

Republic.com 2.0

What happens to democracy and free speech if people use the Internet to listen and speak only to the like-minded? What is the benefit of the Internet's unlimited choices if citizens narrowly filter the information they receive? Cass Sunstein first asked these questions in ...

Patent failure

how judges, bureaucrats, and lawyers put innovators at risk

In recent years, business leaders, policymakers, and inventors have complained to the media and to Congress that today's patent system stifles innovation instead of fostering it. But like the infamous patent on the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, much of the cited evidence about ...

Arte

guía visual para entender el arte

Gran formato con ilustraciones. Una guía visual imprescindible que recoge las pinturas y esculturas más importantes de la Historia del Arte, desde la Prehistoria hasta la actualidad. Atractivo, ameno, y de fácil lectura, este completísimo volumen está concebido para acercar al lector las grandes obras ...

The European private international Law of obligations

Enables you to interpret and apply the Rome I and Rome II Regulations that come into force in 2009 Provides expert commentary on the scope, principles and application of the rules of private international law governing the construction of contracts Covers the new rules governing ...

Mirada a la sociología desde las ciencias sociales

La obra trata de abordar los aspectos más relevantes de la sociología con el objeto de mostrar a los que estudiantes, profesionales y quienes muestran interés por los aspectos sociales más significativos de la sociedad. El estudio de la sociedad es muy extenso y está ...

God and the founders

Madison, Washington, and Jefferson

Did the Founding Fathers intend to build a 'wall of separation' between church and state? Are public Ten Commandments displays or the phrase 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance consistent with the Founders' understandings of religious freedom? In God and the Founders, Dr Vincent ...

Investing in protection

the politics of preferential trade agreements between North and Sourth

Since the early 1990s the world has seen an explosion of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) between North and South. Mark Manger argues that current North-South PTAs are not primarily about liberalizing exports as is usually assumed. Rather, they are driven by the needs of foreign ...

The Italian Inquisition

The Italian Inquisition, or Holy Office, was established in 1542, stimulated partly by the earlier Spanish operation. Certainly Spain#s #black legend# affected opinions of the Inquisition in Italy, but as this pioneering book shows, there were significant differences between their operations, targets, and casualties ...