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Einführung in die moderne Strafrechtsgeschichte

Moderne Strafrechtsgeschichte als Teil der juristischen Zeitgeschichte befasst sich mit der Rechtsentwicklung in unserer Rechtsepoche. Diese umfasst, wie im Einleitungskapitel dargelegt wird, das 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Unter Berücksichtigung der allgemeinen geschichtlichen Entwicklung einerseits, der Bezüge zur Gegenwart andererseits bietet das Buch eine anschauliche Darstellung ...

Estimates of cost of crime

history, methodologies, and implications

The enormous burden that crime imposes on societies, while intuitively obvious, for a long time eluded measurement. With the emergence and development of quantitative methods in economics and statistics, the exercise of calculating costs of crime became possible, although remains controversial. This book presents the ...

European ombudsman-institutions

Ed. Gabriele Kucsko-Stadlmayer. This book aims to comprehensively demonstrate the legal basis of parliamentary ombudsman institutions throughout Europe, analysing them in a comparative way and thereby revealing their organisational and functional diversity. It comprises the results of a research project carried out at the University ...

Intellectual Property in the global trading system

EU-China perspective

Having explored multifaceted issues of IPR enforcement, this book argues that IPR enforcement problem is not an actual outcome of Confucian philosophy and "to steal a book" is not an "elegant offence." This book demonstrates that counterfeiting and piracy are common inevitable consequences of inadequate ...

International handbook of juvenile justice

Eds. Josine Junger-Tas, Scott H. Decker. This comprehensive reference work presents an in-depth analysis on the juvenile justice systems of 19 different countries, both in EU-member states (old and new) and in the United States and Canada. The book is the result of research conducted ...

Key aspects of german business Law

a practical manual

Eds. Michael Wendler, Bernd Tremml, Bernard Buecker. This book is the fourth edition of the well received "Key Aspects of German Business Law". It is a particularly important and useful tool for those entering the German and European Union market. The book presents a clear ...

On Law and reason

Preface by Jaap C. Hage. a This is an outline of a coherence theory of law. Its basic ideas are: reasonable support and weighing of reasons. All the rest is commentary.a (TM) These words at the beginning of the preface of this book perfectly ...

Procedures in international Law

Containing a synopsis of national bases of jurisdication (one of the first of its kind), international law is presented here through litigation. Legal procedures determine what the law is. The great variety of procedures which determine international law including diplomatic means are comprehensively examined. This ...

The quest for the description of the Law

The book suggests that it is reasonable to ask why we should try to give a general description of law. It analyses the theories of Jeremy Bentham, John Austin, H.L.A. Hart, Joseph Raz and Ronald Dworkin. It then attempts to turn our attention ...

In search of the obvious

the antidote for today´s marketing mess

Economist on Wall Street

notes on the sanctity of gold, the value of money, the security of investments, and other delusions

Peter Bernstein's Economist on Wall Street is a collection of writings from 1955 to 1970. The book is especially interesting because so many of Bernstein's observations reflect the most important issues of the present#the outlook for inflation and its control, the intricacies ...

Corporate rescue Law

an anglo-american perspective

This book offers an unprecedented and detailed comparative critique of Anglo-American corporate bankruptcy law. It challenges the standard characterisation that US law in the sphere of corporate bankruptcy is 'pro-debtor' and UK law is 'pro-creditor', and suggests that the traditional thesis is, at best, a ...

Scales of Justice

reimagining political space in a globalizing world

Until recently, struggles for justice proceeded against the background of a taken-for-granted frame: the bounded territorial state. With that 'Westphalian' picture of political space assumed by default, the scope of justice was rarely subject to explicit dispute. Today, the scope of justice is hotly contested ...

Representation

What is representation? What does it mean when a politician represents citizens in government? How can citizens be represented beyond the boundaries of the nation-state? These are just some of the questions which will be answered by David Runciman and Monica Brito Vieira as they ...

Interpreting and implementing the TRIPS agreement

is it fair?

Eds. Justin Malbon, Charles Lawson. This book considers whether the WTO agreement on 'Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights' (TRIPS) will become a vehicle for promoting greater international equity and engagement with the world economy or a tool for wealthy nations to extract excessive rents ...

La sociedad de control

privacidad, propiedad intelectual y el futuro de la libertad

En los próximos años se tomarán decisiones que determinarán el rumbo de l afutura sociedad digital. Si queremos que ésta sea una sociedad libre, tendremos que estar alerta y actuar para evitar la instauración de una sociedad de control. La sociedad digital e Interner han ...

The role of committees in the policy-process of the European Union

legislation, implementation and deliberation

Eds. Thomas Christiansen, Torbjörn Larsson. This book provides a comprehensive account of the role of the advisory, legislative and implementation committees involved in the policy-making process of the European Union. This is an aspect of EU politics that is often overlooked and remains under-researched, even ...

The privacy advocates

resisting the spread of surveillance

Today, personal information is captured, processed, and disseminated in a bewildering variety of ways, and through increasingly sophisticated, miniaturized, and distributed technologies: identity cards, biometrics, video surveillance, the use of cookies and spyware by Web sites, data mining and profiling, and many others. In "The ...

Democracy as problem solving

civic capacity in communities across the globe

Complexity, division, mistrust, and "process paralysis" can thwart leaders and others when they tackle local challenges. In "Democracy as Problem Solving", Xavier de Souza Briggs shows how civic capacity - the capacity to create and sustain smart collective action - can be developed and used. In an ...

Rethinking juvenile justice

What should we do with teenagers who commit crimes? Are they children whose offenses are the result of immaturity and circumstances, or are they in fact criminals?"Adult time for adult crime" has been the justice system's mantra for the last twenty years. But ...