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by Philipp Rosenauer
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Law, grade: 1, University of Linz, course: Bachelorseminar, language: English, abstract: According to Black's Law dictionary, competition is the struggle for commercial advantage. The efforts taken of companies to achieve the respective...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law explores the Jewish conception of law as an essential component of the divine-human relationship from biblical to modern times, as well as resistance to this conceptualization. It also traces the political, social, intellectual, and cultural circumstances...
Lawyering Europe
European Law as a Transnational Social Field
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
While scholarly writing has dealt with the role of law in the process of European integration, so far it has shed little light on the lawyers and communities of lawyers involved in that process. Law has been one of the most thoroughly investigated aspects of the European integration process, and EU...
Secured Transactions Law Reform
Principles, Policies and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Secured transactions law has been subjected to a close scrutiny over the last two decades. One of the main reasons for this is the importance of availability of credit and the consequent need to reform collateral laws in order to improve access to finance. The ability to give security effectively...
Judges, Law and War
The Judicial Development of International Humanitarian Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
International courts and judicial bodies play a formative role in the development of international humanitarian law. Judges, Law and War examines how judicial bodies have influenced the substantive rules and principles of the law of armed conflict, and studies the creation, application and enforcement...
Young Offenders and the Law
How the Law Responds to Youth Offending
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
How does the law deal with young offenders, and to what extent does the law protect and promote the rights of young people in conflict with the law? These are the central issues addressed by Young Offenders and the Law in its examination of the legal response to the phenomenon of youth offending,...
Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law
The Legacy of Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law -The Legacy of Modernism addresses the legacy of contemporary critiques of language for the concept of the rule of law. Between those who care about the rule of law and those who are interested in contemporary legal theory, there has been a dialogue of the deaf,...
Beyond Elder Law
New Directions in Law and Aging
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
All over the world, there is a growing interest in the relationship between law and aging: How does the law influence the lives of older people? Can rights, advocacy and representation advance the social position of the aged and combat ageism? What are the new and cutting-edge frontiers in the field...
Shades of Grey - Domestic and Sexual Violence Against Women
Law Reform and Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Arguing that law must be looked at holistically, this book investigates the ‘hidden gender’ of the so-called neutral or objective legal principles that structure the law addressing violence against women. Adopting an explicitly feminist perspective, it investigates how legal responses to violence...
by Paolo Panico
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
International Trust Laws is a wide-ranging comparative guide to the law of trusts across a number of important jurisdictions, with analysis of issues surrounding the creation of trusts, the powers and duties of trustees, mechanisms of control, and the special uses of trusts. The book combines academic...
Reading Modern Law
Critical Methodologies and Sovereign Formations
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Reading Modern Law identifies and elaborates upon key critical methodologies for reading and writing about law in modernity. The force of law rests on determinate and localizable authorizations, as well as an expansive capacity to encompass what has not been pre-figured by an order of rules. The key...
Gender in Refugee Law
From the Margins to the Centre
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Questions of gender have strongly influenced the development of international refugee law over the last few decades. This volume assesses the progress toward appropriate recognition of gender-related persecution in refugee law. It documents the advances made following intense advocacy around the world...
Thinking About Law
Perspectives on the history, philosophy and sociology of law
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1995
There is more to law than rules, robes and precedents. Rather, law is an integral part of social practices and policies, as diverse and complex as society itself.
Thinking About Law offers a comprehensive introduction to the ways in which law has been presented and represented. It explores...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This book is exceptional in the sense that it provides an introduction to law in general rather than the law of one specific jurisdiction, and it presents a unique way of looking at legal education. It is crucial for lawyers to be aware of the different ways in which societal problems can be solved...