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The Oxford Handbook of International Relations

The Oxford Handbook of International Relations offers the most authoritative and comprehensive overview to date of the field of International Relations. Arguably the most impressive collection of International Relations scholars ever brought together within one volume, the Handbook debates the nature of the field itself ...

The Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics

The study of law and politics is one of the foundation stones of the discipline of political science, and it has been one of the productive areas of cross-fertilization between the various subfields of political science and between political science and other cognate disciplines. This ...

Witness identification in criminal cases

psychology and practice

Witness Identification provides an up-to-date review on identifying crime perpetrators based on psychological theory and research. Applying psychology to the area of criminal identification, the authors make reference to relevant legislation such as the PACE Codes of Practice as they explore the psychology involved in ...

Abuse of process and judicial stays of criminal proceedings

The criminal courts have a power to stop a prosecution from proceeding altogether where it would be inappropriate for it to continue. This power to stay proceedings which constitute an abuse of the process of the court has assumed great practical significance and is potentially ...

The New Oxford Companion to Law

For any reader needing a concise yet expert explanation of a subject in law The New Oxford Companion to Law is the ideal reference work. Providing greater depth than can be found in legal dictionaries but always accessible to the non-specialist, entries in the Companion ...

Legal Rights

How can there be rights in law? We learn from moral philosophy that rights protect persons in a special way because they have peremptory force. But how can this aspect of practical reason be captured by the law? For many leading legal philosophers the legal ...

Environmental liability and ecological damage in European Law

Providing a comprehensive analysis of environmental liability law in Europe, this book offers a general introduction to the status of environmental liability in Europe. It describes the relevant international treaties and the EC-Environmental Liability Directive and discusses the conflict of laws issues regarding transfrontier environmental ...

Is Democracy possible here?

principles for a new political debate

Politics in America are polarized and trivialized, perhaps as never before. In Congress, the media, and academic debate, opponents from right and left, the Red and the Blue, struggle against one another as if politics were contact sports played to the shouts of cheerleaders. The ...

Conflicts of interest

CONTENTS: Table of Cases Table of Statutes Table of Statutory Instruments Ch. 1 Conflicts of Interest: the Principles Ch. 2 Existing Client Conflicts: the fiduciary obligation Ch. 3 The Double Employment rule Ch. 4 Managing Conflicts by Contract Ch. 5 Perception of impropriety as a ...

Criminal Evidence in context

"Criminal Evidence in Context" explains the key concepts of evidence law in England and Wales clearly and concisely, set against the backdrop of the broader political and theoretical contexts. It informs students of the major debates within the field, providing an explanation as to how ...

Judging Russia

Constitutional Court in Russian Politics, 1990-2006

This book is the first in-depth study of the actual role that the Russian Constitutional Court played in protecting fundamental rights and resolving legislative-executive struggles and federalism disputes in both Yeltsin's and Putin's Russia. Trochev argues that judicial empowerment is a non-linear process ...

Comparative Labour Law and industrial relations in industrialized market economies

Comparativism is no longer a purely academic exercise but has increasingly become an urgent necessity for industrial relations and legal practitioners due to the growth of multinational enterprises and the impact of international and regional organizations aspiring to harmonize rules. The growing need for comprehensive ...

Counterterrorism

democracy´s challenge

Terrorist violence is no novelty in human history and, while government reactions to it have varied over time, some lessons can be learnt from the past. Indeed, the debate on when and how a state should use emergency powers that limit individual freedoms is nearly ...

El espejismo nuclear

por qué la energía nuclear no es la solución sino parte del problema

The tension between group rights and human rights

a multidisciplinary approach

The discussion of group rights, while always a part of the human rights discourse, has been gaining importance in the past decade. This discussion, which remains fundamental to a full realisation by the international community of its international human rights goals, requires careful analysis and ...

El hidrógeno como vector energético

Riesgo positivo

cómo convertir las grandes amenazas en oportunidades

En la actualidad, la suerte puede cambiar de la noche a la mañana. Por consiguiente, el nuevo imperativo estratégico para toda empresa es hacer que el momento de máximo riesgo se torne en el momento de máxima oportunidad. En este libro, no solamente encontrará ideas ...

El papel de la alianza atlántica en la reconstrucción de la antigua Yugoslavia

un análisis de las claves políticas, jurídicas y militares del proceso de paz en los Balcanes

La revolución en la reciente historia de las operaciones militares avaladas por la comunidad internacional, nos vino dada en la década de los noventa por las #operaciones de paz#. Sobre toda tras el respaldo que supuso el que las unidas encargadas de ponerlas en práctica ...

La economía argentina

desde sus orígenes hasta principios del siglo XXI

Amnesty, Human Rights and political transitions

bridging the peace and justice divide

Amnesty laws are political tools used since ancient times by states wishing to quell dissent, introduce reforms, or achieve peaceful relationships with their enemies. In recent years, they have become contentious due to a perception that they violate international law, particularly the rights of victims ...