This is the first book of its kind on Sudan, and arguably one of the first in North Africa. We are part of an emerging, more cosmopolitan approach that calls for a reassessment of ideas about not only the concept of identities, but also about migration and technology, especially social media. Our essayists engage in redefinitions, the broadening of our key variables, the linking and intersecting of concepts, and the investigations of methods and ethics, and opt for an approach that is, at ...

Statistisch gesehen hat jeder Achte eine persönliche Verbindung zu einem geistig behinderten Menschen in seiner Nachbarschaft, am Arbeitsplatz, in der Familie oder im Freundes- und Bekanntenkreis. Vor allem dieses Umfeld, aber auch eine breite Öffentlichkeit möchte das Buch erreichen, denn falsche Vorstellungen und Abwehrhaltungen gegenüber dem Alltag von Familien mit behinderten Kindern sind gang und gäbe. Die Autorinnen betreiben keine Schönfärberei, das würde nicht ihrer Lebenserfahrung...

The world's legal professions have undergone dramatic changes in the 30 years since publication of the landmark three-volume Lawyers in Society, which launched comparative sociological studies of lawyers. This is the first of two volumes in which scholars from a wide range of disciplines, countries and cultures document and analyse those changes.The present volume presents reports on 46 countries, with broad coverage of North America, Western Europe, Latin America, Asia, Australia,...

This book presents an invaluable collection of essays by eminent scholars from a wide variety of disciplines on the main issues currently confronting legal professions across the world.It does this through a comparative analysis of the data provided by the reports on 46 countries in its companion volume: Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies: Vol. 1: National Reports (Hart 2020). Together these volumes build on the seminal collection Lawyers in Society (Abel and Lewis...

This comprehensive open access book gives an overview of the core issues in digital public health, with a strong emphasis on prevention, population health, and health systems. It covers a broad spectrum of topics, ranging from theoretical frameworks to legal and ethical issues related to digital public health applications and interventions. With chapters on user-centered technology development, evaluation, participatory approaches in digital public health, and global digital public perspec...

In the past fifteen years there has been a marked increase in the international scholarship relating to women in law. The lives and careers of women in legal practice and the judiciary have been extensively documented and critiqued, but the central conundrum remains: Does the presence of women make a difference?What has been largely overlooked in the literature is the position of women in the legal academy, although central to the changing culture. To remedy the oversight, an inter...

Does gender make a difference to the way the judiciary works and should work? Or is gender-blindness a built-in prerequisite of judicial objectivity? If gender does make a difference, how might this be defined? These are the key questions posed in this collection of essays, by some 30 authors from the following countries; Argentina, Cambodia, Canada, England, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Kenya, the Netherlands, the Philippines, South Africa, Switzerland, Syria...

Do women have equal chances in the judiciary? Although women have made their way into law faculties, in many countries of the world they still face drawbacks in judicial careers. This book delves into the different aspects of women at work in the judicial environment, focusing on judicial appointments, promotions, the glass ceiling and representation in high positions of the judiciary across international settings such as Nigeria, South Africa, Philippines, Turkey, Spain, and Northern Irel...

Judicial Education has greatly expanded in common law countries in the past 25 years. More recently it has become a core component in judicial reform programs in developing countries with gender attentiveness as an element required by donor agencies. In civil law jurisdictions judges´ schools have long played a role in the formation of the career judiciary with a focus on entry to the judicial profession, in some countries judges get an intensive in-service education at judicial academies....

Im Norden lauert der Tod: Der Sammelband »Mord in Schweden« mit Krimis von Thomas Kanger, Anna Jansson und Lars Bill Lundholm als eBook bei dotbooks. Drei erschütternde Verbrechen, dreimal Top-Spannung aus Schweden! Es sollte ein harmloses Picknick werden – kurze Zeit später findet man das junge Paar ermordet auf. Zeigt die verwackelte Detailaufnahme auf der Videokamera der Toten den Täter? Und warum mischt sich der Geheimdienst in die Ermittlungen ein? Kommissarin Elina Wiik beginnt zu ah...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference on Information Systems and Organizations, IS&O 2018, held in San Francisco, CA, USA, in December 2018.The 11 revised full papers presented together with one short paper and 2 keynote papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: setting the stage; social implications of algorithmic phenomena; hybrid agency and the perfor...

Wer bringt die wilden Moto-Cross-Fahrer von den "Pinkies" davon ab, in der stillgelegten Kiesgrube mit ihren schweren Motorrädern zu "trainieren"? Und warum setzt sich Monikas Tante Bettina so energisch dafür ein, dass dieses Gelände zum "Landschaftsschutzgebiet" erklärt wird? KIM ist an dieser Aktion erfolgreich beteiligt.