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When You Come at the King

Inside DOJ's Pursuit of the President, From Nixon to Trump

by Elie Honig ...

"[A] deeply researched, keenly analytical, and frequently provocative chronicle of this singular judicial entity. . . . A senior legal analyst for CNN and former assistant U.S. attorney, Honig is well-suited to the task of providing a historical overview of the special counsel's function with the ever-evolving context of politics, partisanship and political skepticism." —Booklist (STARRED review) ... Read more

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"[A] deeply researched, keenly analytical, and frequently provocative chronicle of this singular judicial entity. . . . A senior legal analyst for CNN and former assistant U.S. attorney, Honig is well-suited to the task of providing a historical overview of the special counsel's function with the ever-evolving context of politics, partisanship and political skepticism." —Booklist (STARRED review)
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Over Ruled

The Human Toll of Too Much Law

by Neil Gorsuch, Janie Nitze ...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAmerica has always been a nation of laws. But today our laws have grown so vast and reach so deeply into our lives that it’s worth asking: In our reverence for law, have we gone too far?Over just the last few decades, laws in this nation have exploded in number; they are increasingly complex; and the punishments they carry are increasingly severe. Some of these laws come ... Read more

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAmerica has always been a nation of laws. But today our laws have grown so vast and reach so deeply into our lives that it’s worth asking: In our reverence for law, have we gone too far?Over just the last few decades, laws in this nation have exploded in number; they are increasingly complex; and the punishments they carry are increasingly severe. Some of these laws come
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom

by T.E. Lawrence ...

Seven Pillars of Wisdom is a memoir of the soldier known as 'Lawrence of Arabia.' Lawrence is a fascinating and controversial figure and his talent as a vivid and imaginative writer shines through on every page of his masterpiece. 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' written between 1919 and 1926, is an extraordinary tale of action, politics and adventure. The story describes heroism through instances of war ... Read more

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Seven Pillars of Wisdom is a memoir of the soldier known as 'Lawrence of Arabia.' Lawrence is a fascinating and controversial figure and his talent as a vivid and imaginative writer shines through on every page of his masterpiece. 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' written between 1919 and 1926, is an extraordinary tale of action, politics and adventure. The story describes heroism through instances of war
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Dealing with Losers

The Political Economy of Policy Transitions

by Professor Michael J. Trebilcock ...

Whenever governments change policies--tax, expenditure, or regulatory policies, among others--there will typically be losers: people or groups who relied upon and invested in physical, financial, or human capital predicated on, or even deliberately induced by the pre-reform set of policies. The issue of whether and when to mitigate the costs associated with policy changes, either through explicit ... Read more

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Whenever governments change policies--tax, expenditure, or regulatory policies, among others--there will typically be losers: people or groups who relied upon and invested in physical, financial, or human capital predicated on, or even deliberately induced by the pre-reform set of policies. The issue of whether and when to mitigate the costs associated with policy changes, either through explicit
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Leni Riefenstahl, la cinéaste d'Hitler

by Jérôme Bimbenet ...

Danseuse, actrice fétiche des films de montagne, cinéaste révolutionnaire, photographe remarquable, plongeuse hors pair, Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) est, aux yeux du monde, la cinéaste qui s’est fourvoyée en se mettant au service du nazisme. En 1932, sa rencontre avec Adolf Hitler change son destin. C’est un coup de foudre réciproque. Dès son accession au pouvoir, elle accepte la direction ... Read more

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Danseuse, actrice fétiche des films de montagne, cinéaste révolutionnaire, photographe remarquable, plongeuse hors pair, Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) est, aux yeux du monde, la cinéaste qui s’est fourvoyée en se mettant au service du nazisme. En 1932, sa rencontre avec Adolf Hitler change son destin. C’est un coup de foudre réciproque. Dès son accession au pouvoir, elle accepte la direction
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Advanced Introduction to International Human Rights Law

by Dinah L. Shelton ...

Series series Elgar Advanced Introductions series
Now in its second edition, Dinah Shelton's pioneering book provides a uniquely accessible introduction to the history and the latest developments in international human rights law. Exploring the origins, customs and institutions that have emerged globally and regionally in the last two centuries, this incisive book guides readers through the major treaties and declarations that form the ... Read more

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Now in its second edition, Dinah Shelton's pioneering book provides a uniquely accessible introduction to the history and the latest developments in international human rights law. Exploring the origins, customs and institutions that have emerged globally and regionally in the last two centuries, this incisive book guides readers through the major treaties and declarations that form the
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Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution

Edited by Emmett Macfarlane ...

Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution aims to further our understanding of judicial policy impact and the role of the courts in shaping policy change. Bringing together a group of political scientists and legal scholars, this volume delves into a diverse set of policy areas, including health care issues, the regulation of elections, criminal justice policy, minority language ... Read more

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Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution aims to further our understanding of judicial policy impact and the role of the courts in shaping policy change. Bringing together a group of political scientists and legal scholars, this volume delves into a diverse set of policy areas, including health care issues, the regulation of elections, criminal justice policy, minority language
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Gun Control: Do We Need to Ban Guns? Should We Allow Guns? The Gun Debate and What We Can Do

by James Persinger ...

GUN CONTROL, DO WE NEED IT OR NOT?If there's one thing that alot of people around the world know about the USA it's that the people love guns. Depending on who you are this might be a source of pride; knowing that your country provides you with the ultimate freedom to preserve life and liberty. For others it's a source of shame that even while being the richest nation in the world, it doesn't come ... Read more

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GUN CONTROL, DO WE NEED IT OR NOT?If there's one thing that alot of people around the world know about the USA it's that the people love guns. Depending on who you are this might be a source of pride; knowing that your country provides you with the ultimate freedom to preserve life and liberty. For others it's a source of shame that even while being the richest nation in the world, it doesn't come
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Justinien

Le rêve d'un empire chrétien universel

by Pierre Maraval ...

Justinien devient empereur romain d’Orient en 527. Pendant près de quarante ans, le souverain de Constantinople poursuit un seul but : réformer, agrandir, unir son empire dans la même foi chrétienne et en faire la plus grande puissance du monde méditerranéen. Empereur « qui ne dort jamais », Justinien a unifié le droit avec le Code justinien et de nombreuses lois (les Novelles) ; il a été le ... Read more

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Justinien devient empereur romain d’Orient en 527. Pendant près de quarante ans, le souverain de Constantinople poursuit un seul but : réformer, agrandir, unir son empire dans la même foi chrétienne et en faire la plus grande puissance du monde méditerranéen. Empereur « qui ne dort jamais », Justinien a unifié le droit avec le Code justinien et de nombreuses lois (les Novelles) ; il a été le
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Decoding the Court: Legal Data Insights from the Supreme Court of Canada

Edited by Carissima Mathen, Wolfgang Alschner, Vanessa MacDonnell ...

This edited collection combines state-of-the-art legal data analytics with in-depth doctrinal analysis to study the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC), Canada’s top court. A data analytics perspective adds new dimensions to the study of courts and their case law. It renders legal analysis scalable, making it possible to investigate thousands of judicial decisions, adding new breadth and depth. It also ... Read more

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This edited collection combines state-of-the-art legal data analytics with in-depth doctrinal analysis to study the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC), Canada’s top court. A data analytics perspective adds new dimensions to the study of courts and their case law. It renders legal analysis scalable, making it possible to investigate thousands of judicial decisions, adding new breadth and depth. It also
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Underground Warfare

by Daphné Richemond-Barak ...

Underground warfare, a tactic of yesteryear, has re-emerged as a global and rapidly diffusing threat. This book is the first of its kind to examine tunnel warfare in a systematic and comprehensive way, addressing the legal issues while keeping in mind operational and strategic challenges. Like many other aspects of contemporary warfare, the renewed use of the subterranean in armed conflict ... Read more

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Underground warfare, a tactic of yesteryear, has re-emerged as a global and rapidly diffusing threat. This book is the first of its kind to examine tunnel warfare in a systematic and comprehensive way, addressing the legal issues while keeping in mind operational and strategic challenges. Like many other aspects of contemporary warfare, the renewed use of the subterranean in armed conflict
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Children, Human Rights and Temporary Labour Migration

Protecting the Child-Parent Relationship

by Rasika Jayasuriya ...

Series series Routledge Research in Asylum, Migration and Refugee Law
This book focuses on the neglected yet critical issue of how the global migration of millions of parents as low-waged migrant workers impacts the rights of their children under international human rights law.The work provides a systematic analysis and critique of how the restrictive features of policies governing temporary labour migration interfere with provisions of the Convention on the Rights ... Read more

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This book focuses on the neglected yet critical issue of how the global migration of millions of parents as low-waged migrant workers impacts the rights of their children under international human rights law.The work provides a systematic analysis and critique of how the restrictive features of policies governing temporary labour migration interfere with provisions of the Convention on the Rights
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A Global Law of Diversity

Evolving Models and Concepts

by Nicolò Paolo Alessi ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Minority Studies
This book provides a global perspective on the accommodation of diversity within constitutional traditions, considering the most innovative approaches and legal instruments of the Global North and Global South. This field of study, traditionally dominated by a Global North approach based on majority-minority and rights-based discourse, is undergoing significant development. The work thus assesses ... Read more

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This book provides a global perspective on the accommodation of diversity within constitutional traditions, considering the most innovative approaches and legal instruments of the Global North and Global South. This field of study, traditionally dominated by a Global North approach based on majority-minority and rights-based discourse, is undergoing significant development. The work thus assesses
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Global Health Law & Policy

Ensuring Justice for a Healthier World

Edited by Lawrence O. Gostin, Benjamin Mason Meier ...

Globalization has unleashed the spread of communicable and non-communicable diseases, connected societies through vulnerability to common threats, and revealed the limitations of domestic legislation in addressing economic, social, and political determinants of health. Yet if globalization has presented challenges to disease prevention and health promotion, with the COVID-19 pandemic making clear ... Read more

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Globalization has unleashed the spread of communicable and non-communicable diseases, connected societies through vulnerability to common threats, and revealed the limitations of domestic legislation in addressing economic, social, and political determinants of health. Yet if globalization has presented challenges to disease prevention and health promotion, with the COVID-19 pandemic making clear
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Le Québec, la Charte, l'Autre Et après?

by Leïla Benhadjoudja, Ryoa Chung, Ellen Corin, Yara El-Ghadban, Marie-Claude Haince, Deirdre Meintel, Cécile Rousseau, Marie-Blanche Tahon ...

Huit femmes, universitaires et intellectuelles, ont engagé la réflexion autour de la Charte, de l’avenir de la société et du vivre-ensemble. Elles inventorient attitudes, postures, dérives et discours identitaires. Elles dénoncent l’exclusion, l’arrogance et la discrimination, en questionnant les privilèges juridiques et administratifs que revendiquerait un groupe social au détriment des autres. ... Read more

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Huit femmes, universitaires et intellectuelles, ont engagé la réflexion autour de la Charte, de l’avenir de la société et du vivre-ensemble. Elles inventorient attitudes, postures, dérives et discours identitaires. Elles dénoncent l’exclusion, l’arrogance et la discrimination, en questionnant les privilèges juridiques et administratifs que revendiquerait un groupe social au détriment des autres.
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Juger les multinationales

Droits humains bafoués, ressources naturelles pillées, impunité organisée

by Eric David, Gabrielle Lefèvre, Jean Ziegler ...

La dénonciation des pratiques des multinationales dans le cadre du débat sur le Traité transatlantique.Coca-Cola, Monsanto, Shell, Nestlé, Bayer, Texaco… : certaines marques sont associées à des scandales retentissants. Hydropiraterie en Inde, pesticides aux effets dévastateurs, exploitation pétrolière transformant le delta du Niger en désert écologique, drame du Rana Plaza au Bangladesh, enfants ... Read more

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La dénonciation des pratiques des multinationales dans le cadre du débat sur le Traité transatlantique.Coca-Cola, Monsanto, Shell, Nestlé, Bayer, Texaco… : certaines marques sont associées à des scandales retentissants. Hydropiraterie en Inde, pesticides aux effets dévastateurs, exploitation pétrolière transformant le delta du Niger en désert écologique, drame du Rana Plaza au Bangladesh, enfants
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The Ashgate Research Companion to Feminist Legal Theory

by Vanessa E. Munro ...

As a distinct scholarly contribution to law, feminist legal theory is now well over three decades old. Those three decades have seen consolidation and renewal of its central concerns as well as remarkable growth, dynamism and change. This Companion celebrates the strength of feminist legal thought, which is manifested in this dynamic combination of stability and change, as well as in the diversity ... Read more

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As a distinct scholarly contribution to law, feminist legal theory is now well over three decades old. Those three decades have seen consolidation and renewal of its central concerns as well as remarkable growth, dynamism and change. This Companion celebrates the strength of feminist legal thought, which is manifested in this dynamic combination of stability and change, as well as in the diversity
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The Transition of Religion to Culture in Law and Public Discourse

by Lori Beaman ...

Series series ICLARS Series on Law and Religion
This book explores the recent trend toward the transformation of religious symbols and practices into culture in Western democracies. Analyses of three legal cases involving religion in the public sphere are used to illuminate this trend: a municipal council chamber; a town hall; and town board meetings. Each case involves a different national context—Canada, France and the United States—and each ... Read more

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This book explores the recent trend toward the transformation of religious symbols and practices into culture in Western democracies. Analyses of three legal cases involving religion in the public sphere are used to illuminate this trend: a municipal council chamber; a town hall; and town board meetings. Each case involves a different national context—Canada, France and the United States—and each
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Les finances publiques au Canada

by Geneviève Tellier, Marc Leroy ...

Series series Finances publiques – Public finance
L’état des finances publiques devrait tous nous interpeller. Les décisions prises quant à l’utilisation et la répartition des ressources financières de l’État ont des répercussions importantes, non seulement lorsque l’on considère notre propre bien-être, mais aussi sur celui de nos concitoyens et pour l’ensemble de la société. Mais pour bien comprendre ces divers enjeux, il faut d’abord connaître ... Read more

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L’état des finances publiques devrait tous nous interpeller. Les décisions prises quant à l’utilisation et la répartition des ressources financières de l’État ont des répercussions importantes, non seulement lorsque l’on considère notre propre bien-être, mais aussi sur celui de nos concitoyens et pour l’ensemble de la société. Mais pour bien comprendre ces divers enjeux, il faut d’abord connaître
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From Chasing Violations to Managing Risks

Origins, Challenges and Evolutions in Regulatory Inspections

by Florentin Blanc ...

Series series Elgar Studies in Law and Regulation
Government rules and inspectors can be an important tool to ensure trust in markets, and to protect citizens against hazards. There is, however, a perception that businesses and individuals only comply with rules because of the threat of punishment. From Chasing Violations to Managing Risks examines what actually makes people change their behaviour and how to effectively achieve the objectives of ... Read more

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Government rules and inspectors can be an important tool to ensure trust in markets, and to protect citizens against hazards. There is, however, a perception that businesses and individuals only comply with rules because of the threat of punishment. From Chasing Violations to Managing Risks examines what actually makes people change their behaviour and how to effectively achieve the objectives of
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Фінансово-правовий зв’язок фізичної особи з державою

Монографія

by Маринчак Євген Степанович ...

Проблематика зв’язку особи з державою завжди посідала провідне місце серед науковців не лише правових наук. З часів появи першого політико-правового зв’язку особи з державою – громадянства, минуло вже понад двохсот років, але принципових змін в ньому не відбулося: ті ж права, та ті самі обов’язки. Наслідком соціально-економічної інтеграції суспільства у ХХ столітті, відбулося виокремлення нового ... Read more

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Проблематика зв’язку особи з державою завжди посідала провідне місце серед науковців не лише правових наук. З часів появи першого політико-правового зв’язку особи з державою – громадянства, минуло вже понад двохсот років, але принципових змін в ньому не відбулося: ті ж права, та ті самі обов’язки. Наслідком соціально-економічної інтеграції суспільства у ХХ столітті, відбулося виокремлення нового
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Sister Wives, Surrogates and Sex Workers

Outlaws by Choice?

by Angela Campbell ...

Series series Gender in Law, Culture, and Society
Did she choose that?’ Or, more normatively, ’Why would she choose that?’ This book critiques and offers an alternative to these questions, which have traditionally framed law and policy discussions circulating around controversial genderized practices. It examines the simplicity and incompleteness of choice-based rhetoric and of presumptions that women’s conduct is shaped, in an absolute way, ... Read more

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Did she choose that?’ Or, more normatively, ’Why would she choose that?’ This book critiques and offers an alternative to these questions, which have traditionally framed law and policy discussions circulating around controversial genderized practices. It examines the simplicity and incompleteness of choice-based rhetoric and of presumptions that women’s conduct is shaped, in an absolute way,
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Business and Human Rights

From Principles to Practice

by Dorothée Baumann-Pauly, Justine Nolan ...

In a global economy, multinational companies often operate in jurisdictions where governments are either unable or unwilling to uphold even the basic human rights of their citizens. The expectation that companies respect human rights in their own operations and in their business relationships is now a business reality that corporations need to respond to. Business and Human Rights: From Principles ... Read more

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In a global economy, multinational companies often operate in jurisdictions where governments are either unable or unwilling to uphold even the basic human rights of their citizens. The expectation that companies respect human rights in their own operations and in their business relationships is now a business reality that corporations need to respond to. Business and Human Rights: From Principles
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The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy

Edited by Matthew D. Adler, Marc Fleurbaey ...

Series series Oxford Handbooks
What are the methodologies for assessing and improving governmental policy in light of well-being? The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary treatment of this topic. The contributors draw from welfare economics, moral philosophy, and psychology and are leading scholars in these fields. The Handbook includes thirty chapters divided into four ... Read more

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What are the methodologies for assessing and improving governmental policy in light of well-being? The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary treatment of this topic. The contributors draw from welfare economics, moral philosophy, and psychology and are leading scholars in these fields. The Handbook includes thirty chapters divided into four
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