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  • The Governance of Insurance Undertakings

    Corporate Law and Insurance Regulation

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This open access volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation brings together contributions from authors with different legal cultures. It aims to identify the legal issues that arise from the intersection of two disciplines: insurance law and corporate/company law. These legal issues are examined mainly from the perspective of European Union (EU) law. However, there ... Read more

    Free

  • Hitler's American Model

    The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law

    How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi GermanyNazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece ... Read more

    24,48 €

  • Blockchain Regulation and Governance in Europe

    In Blockchain Regulation and Governance in Europe, Michèle Finck examines the relationship between blockchain technology and EU law and introduces the theme of blockchain governance. The book provides a general introduction to blockchains as both a regulatable and a regulatory technology and outlines the interaction between distributed ledger technology and specific areas of EU law, such as the ... Read more

    45,68 €

  • Foundations of Property Law

    Things as Objects of Property Rights

    Translated by Jason Grant Allen ...
    Foundations of Property Law: Things as Objects of Property Rights is an abridged translation of the first volume of Christian von Bar's Gemeineuropäisches Sachenrecht -a milestone in European private law theory, and in comparative property law more broadly. Radical in content and scope, the English version examines the dynamics of interaction between the objects, contents, and holders of property. ... Read more

    140,02 €

  • Insurance Distribution Directive

    A Legal Analysis

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This open access volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation offers the first comprehensive legal and regulatory analysis of the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD). The IDD came into force on 1 October 2018 and regulates the distribution of insurance products in the EU. The book examines the main changes accompanying the IDD and analyses its impact on insurance ... Read more

    Free

  • Two

    The Machine of Political Theology and the Place of Thought

    Translated by Zakiya Hanafi ...
    Series series Commonalities
    The debate on “political theology” that ran throughout the twentieth century has reached its end, but the ultimate meaning of the notion continues to evade us. Despite all the attempts to resolve the issue, we still speak its language—we remain in its horizon.The reason for this, says Roberto Esposito, lies in the fact that political theology is neither a concept nor an event; rather, it is the ... Read more

    30,52 €

  • Crafting Courts in New Democracies

    The Politics of Subnational Judicial Reform in Brazil and Mexico

    The role of Latin American courts in facilitating democracy and economic liberalization is considerable. But while national 'high courts' have been closely studied, the form, function, and empowerment of local courts are still not well understood. In Crafting Courts in New Democracies, Matthew C. Ingram fills this gap by examining the varying strength of local judicial institutions in Brazil and ... Read more

    40,59 €

  • Impact of Organized Crime on Murder of Law Enforcement Personnel at the U.S.-Mexican Border

    by Sara Schatz ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This brief fills a gap in the studies of organized crime in Mexico (Kan 2012, Ríos 2011, Dell 2011) by documenting and mapping the post-2008 assassination of Mexican border police chiefs. It traces out a “systematic” of law-enforcement assassination in Northern Tier Mexico, showing how the selective, often sequential, hits by cartels on chiefs in border towns and along key drug-trafficking ... Read more

    47,69 €

  • Financing Terrorism

    Edited by Mark Pieth ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    In declaring the war against terrorism President George W. Bush also declared war on the financing of terrorism. The call to arms has been complemented by a concerted effort world-wide to track down and freeze the assets of suspected terrorists and financial institutions have risen to these challenges over the last year contributing their expertise gathered mostly through techniques to combat ... Read more

    85,85 €

  • The Legal Doctrines of the Rule of Law and the Legal State (Rechtsstaat)

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book explores the development of both the civil law conception of the Legal State and the common law conception of the Rule of Law. It examines the philosophical and historical background of both concepts, as well as the problem of the interrelation between the two doctrines. The book brings together twenty-five leading scholars from around the world and provides both general and specific ... Read more

    133,55 €

  • Genetic Testing and the Governance of Risk in the Contemporary Economy

    Comparative Reflections in the Insurance and Employment Law Contexts

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book addresses emerging questions concerning who should bear responsibility for shouldering risk, as well as the viability of existing and experimental governance mechanisms in connection with new technologies. Scholars from 14 jurisdictions unite their efforts in this edited collection to provide a comparative analysis of how various legal systems are tackling the challenges produced by the ... Read more

    85,85 €

  • Paris Climate Agreement: A Deal for Better Compliance?

    Lessons Learned from the Compliance Mechanisms of the Kyoto and Montreal Protocols

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book discusses options for an improved compliance system under the Paris Climate Agreement by addressing current weaknesses. The research is based on two cases, the Compliance Mechanisms of the Montreal and Kyoto Protocols and their outcomes in practice. This book analysed the different meanings of tthe compliance concept of Compliance Mechanisms (CMs) and Multilateral Environmental ... Read more

    47,69 €

  • Constitutional Law and Regionalism

    A Comparative Analysis of Regionalist Negotiations

    by Vito Breda ...
    Series series Elgar Monographs in Constitutional and Administrative Law
    Constitutions and their systems are increasingly under pressure from identity groups such as regional and national minorities. Presenting the first comparative analysis of the negotiation of constitutional demands by these groups, Vito Breda uses an innovative methodology to create a richer understanding of the pluralistic nature of modern states.Combining both political and constitutional ... Read more

    26,70 €

  • The Rule of Law in the EU

    Challenges, Actors and Strategies

    Edited by Luisa Antoniolli, Carlo Ruzza ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book reflects on the nature of the rule of law in the European Union and the present and future consequences of the attacks that are undermining it. Presenting various case studies, it analyses violations of the rule of law and their impact on the quality of European democracy and on the workings of civil and political society. Written from an interdisciplinary perspective, the book connects ... Read more

    171,71 €

  • Patents, Human Rights, and Access to Medicines

    Patent rights on pharmaceutical products are one of the factors responsible for the lack of access to affordable medicines in developing countries. In this work, Emmanuel Kolawole Oke provides a systematic analysis of the tension between patent rights and human rights law, contending that, in order to preserve their patent policy space and secure access to affordable medicines for their citizens, ... Read more

    41,65 €

  • Las Demandas más Ridìculas del Mundo

    MicroLearning

    Series series MicroLearning
    Pasa un momento divertido con estas increìbles historias. Las demandas màs increìbles y ridìculas de todos los tiempos en el mundo. La lista definitiva. ... Read more

    5,99 €

  • The Nexus Between Legal Pluralism and Inclusive Finance

    Insights from Ethiopia and South Africa

    This open access book provides detailed information on informal credit markets in Africa and how various legal systems affect these markets. Laws that impose strict formalism exclude many people from the financial system. The lessons learned from the informal credit markets in Ethiopia and South Africa indicate that pluralism offers better opportunities for people to access affordable and ... Read more

    Free

  • Territorial Governance in Southeast Asia

    Series series Constitutionalism in Asia
    This book assesses territorial governance (that is, all forms of subnational governance) as a constitutional artefact in five Southeast Asian countries - Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand.Starting with the linked ideas of localism and subsidiarity, the argument is that these states have used various forms of subsidiarity for dealing with ethnic and religious pluralism and ... Read more

    51,19 €

  • Dispute Resolution Mechanism for the Belt and Road Initiative

    This book examines resolution of the disputes between both sides of Belt and Road economic cooperation. To address the problems surrounding legal guarantee and dispute resolution, the International Academy of the Belt and Road has gathered almost 50 experts from over 30 Belt and Road countries and regions to utilize current advances in the dispute resolution mechanism, taking into account the ... Read more

    114,47 €

  • Code de la santé publique

    Partie législative - Deuxième partie : Santé sexuelle et reproductive, droits de la femme et protection de la santé de l'enfant, de l'adolescent et du jeune adulte. - Livre III : Etablissements, services et organismes (droit français)

    by Various ...
    Découvrez le Code de la santé publique, Partie législative, qui se consacre à la santé sexuelle et reproductive, aux droits de la femme, ainsi qu'à la protection de la santé de l'enfant, de l'adolescent et du jeune adulte. Ce volume essentiel, Livre III, offre une analyse approfondie des établissements, services et organismes dédiés à ces enjeux cruciaux. Conçu pour les professionnels du droit, ... Read more

    19,99 €

  • Comparative Study on Patent Claim Interpretation: The United States and China

    by Zhe Peng ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book focuses on a comparative study of claim interpretation in the United States and China and addresses the question of whether the law of claim interpretation functions similarly or differently in the two countries. By an in-depth analysis of claim interpretation, this book provides researchers and legal professionals with a perspective to understand the practice of protecting patents in ... Read more

    95,39 €

  • International Legal Communication

    A Paradigmatic Approach

    This book proposes a new analytical framework for cross-jurisdictional legal communication and analyzes how legal meaning is constructed, negotiated, stabilized, and contested across different institutional and discursive contexts.The text conducts a systematic examination of the communicative structures that underpin legislation, judicial reasoning, legal drafting, advocacy, and transnational ... Read more

    Free

  • International Legal Aspects of Aerial Terrorism

    Methods of Law Enforcement in Aviation

    Series Book 22 - Ius, Lex et Res Publica
    The monograph discusses the problem of aerial terrorism, one of the biggest challenges humanity faces in the 21st century. Its main goal is to answer the question of whether international legal regulations serve as an effective tool in the fight against terrorists who target civil aviation.The book itself is divided into three chapters: the first one focuses on the theoretical aspect by describing ... Read more

    49,07 €