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Judges and their audiences

a perspective on judicial behaviour

What motivates judges as decision makers? Political scientist Lawrence Baum offers a new perspective on this crucial question, a perspective based on judges' interest in the approval of audiences important to them. The conventional scholarly wisdom holds that judges on higher courts seek only to ...

Globalization

the hidden agenda

In this exciting new book, Dennis Smith argues that we need to look afresh at globalization. So far, he argues, analysts have not properly explained religious extremism, the War on Terror, and the dynamics of fear, anger and resentment. Against this background, Dennis Smith says ...

Jurisprudence

theory and context

For clarity, fair-mindedness and engaging treatment of the diverse strands of contemporary legal theory, there is no better guide... This book covers more ground with more good sense than many other works do with many more pages. - Martha Minow, Professor of Law, Harvard Law SchoolProfessor ...

Are judges political?

an empirical analysis of the Federal Judiciary

Americans are engaged in an intense debate about their judicial branch of government. Some people worry about "activist" judges who are "legislating from the bench," making an end run around electoral democracy, while others feel that the judiciary is properly protecting fundamental rights. How do ...

Textbook on land Law

The eleventh edition ofTextbook on Land Law continues to guide students through the principles of contemporary land law from a practical perspective. It focuses on the modern law, confining discussion of historical developments to the minimum necessary to understand basic principles, and allowing students to ...

The EU and Romania

accession and beyond

Romania will soon be a member of the European Union. Yet few people are aware of how the country has evolved since the revolutionary events of December 1989 and under what circumstances membership has been achieved. Equally, what membership will mean for Romania and for ...

Austria, Hungary, and the Habsburgs

essays on Central Europe, c. 1683-1867

This book address a number of interrelated themes over two hundred years and more in the political, religious, cultural, and social history of a broad but often neglected swathe of the European continent. It seeks - against the grain of conventional presentations - to apprehend the era ...

The UN international criminal tribunals

the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone

This book is a guide to the law that applies in the three international criminal tribunals, for the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone, set up by the UN during the period 1993 to 2002 to deal with atrocities and human rights abuses committed during ...

Christian philosophy A-Z

This volume covers a broad historical sweep and takes into account those non-Christian philosophers that have had a great impact on the Christian tradition. However, it concentrates on the issues that perplex Christian philosophers as they seek to think through their faith in a philosophical ...

Theories of religion

a reader

The aim of this new book is to provide the student with an anthology of key texts on the broad range of social scientific theories of religion. The texts included come from a wide range of approaches to religion - unified both by the questions that ...

Das allgemeine Vervaltungsrecht als Ordnungsidee

Grundlagen und Aufgaben der verwaltungsrechtlichen Systembildung

Verwaltungsrecht soll dem Einzelnen Schutz gewähren und der Verwaltung zu wirkungsvoller und effizienter Erfüllung ihrer Aufgaben rechtlich den Weg ordnen. Dieser Doppelauftrag sieht sich vor zahlreichen neuen Herausforderungen: Was kann die Gesetzesgebundenheit der Verwaltung angesichts komplexer Risikolagen noch leisten? Welche Rolle kommt den Gerichten als ...

Poetics of the gnostic universe

narrative and cosmology in the Apocryphon of John

This volume is both an essay in Gnostic poetics and a study in the history of early Christian appropriation of ancient philosophy. The object of study is the cosmological model of the Apocryphon of John, a first-hand and fully narrated version of the Gnostic myth ...

Handbook of patristic exegesis

the Bible in Ancient Christianity

Through this Handbook of Patristic Exegesis, the reader will obtain a balanced and cohesive picture of the Early Church. It gives an overall view of the reception, transmission, and interpretation of the Bible in the life and thought of the Church during the first five ...

Sensible objects

colonialism, museums and material culture

Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers. This groundbreaking volume applies this idea to material culture and the social practices that endow objects with meanings in both colonial and postcolonial relationships. It challenges the privileged position of the ...

The French Revolution and the people

The French Revolution of 1789 was the central event of modern history. For the first time a major nation fell prey to political and then social revolution, with civil war and the Reign of Terror following the execution of Louis XVI in January 1793. Although ...

Napoleon's men

the soldiers of therRevolution and empire

Napoleon's soldiers marched across Europe from Lisbon to Moscow, and from Germany to Dalmatia. Many of the men, mostly conscripted by ballot, had never before been beyond their native village. What did they make of their extraordinary experiences, fighting battles thousands of miles form ...

Aristocracy and the modern world

This is the first comprehensive study of the traditional European ruling class during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Distilling the wealth of recent research for students and general readers, Wasson analyzes the role of aristocracy, focusing on the tensions that exist between modern egalitarian values ...

Music distribution and the internet

a legal guide for the music business

There is hardly an aspect of internet music promotion, sale and distribution which does not have a legal dimension. Since the stakeholders in the process includes artists, their managers, music publishers, record companies, distribution companies and the consumer, the law relating to internet music distribution ...

Self-defence in criminal Law

This book combines a careful philosophical discussion of the rationale justifying self-defence with a detailed discussion of the range of statutory self-defence requirements, as well as discussions of numerous other relevant issues (i.e. putative self-defense, excessive self- defense, earlier guilt and battered women). The ...

La lésion

La place réservée à la lésion en droit positif recèle un paradoxe. Rejetée expressément par les textes, elle inspire pourtant un contentieux abondant. Ce décalage entre la persistance du phénomène des contrats lésionnaires et l'insuffisance de leur traitement actuel justifie que le problème de ...