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  • Making Public Places Safer

    Surveillance and Crime Prevention

    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    The United Kingdom has more than 4.2 million public closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras-one for every fourteen citizens. Across the United States, hundreds of video surveillance systems are being installed in town centers, public transportation facilities, and schools at a cost exceeding $100 million annually. And now other Western countries have begun to experiment with CCTV to prevent crime ... Read more

    PHP2,882.29

  • Constitutional Law and Precedent

    International Perspectives on Case-Based Reasoning

    Edited by Monika Florczak-Wątor ...
    This collection examines case-based reasoning in constitutional adjudication; that is, how courts decide on constitutional cases by referring to their own prior case law and the case law of other national, foreign, and international courts. Argumentation based on judicial authority is now fundamental to the resolution of constitutional disputes. At the same time, it is the most common form of ... Read more

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  • Contested Territories and International Law

    A Comparative Study of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict and the Aland Islands Precedent

    This book considers the possibilities for resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict in the context of comparative international law. The armed conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the territory of the Nagorno-Karabakh has been on the peace and security agenda since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. This volume draws parallels with a similar situation between Sweden and Finland over ... Read more

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  • Ley de la Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos

    DOF 20/05/2021

    Ordenamiento de tipo orgánico para darle vida jurídica a la CNDH ... Read more

    PHP62.21

  • Street-Level Sovereignty

    The Intersection of Space and Law

    Street-Level Sovereignty: The Intersection of Space and Law is a collection of scholarship that considers the experience of law that is subject to social interpretation for its meaning and importance within the constitutive legal framework of race, deviance, property, and the communal investiture in health and happiness. This book examines the intersection of spatiality and law, through the ... Read more

    PHP6,224.49

  • Defensoria Pública

    acesso à justiça, princípios e atribuições

    Series series Manuais Profissionais
    A Defensoria Pública constitui hoje ferramenta indispensável à democracia brasileira. No Estado de São Paulo, o órgão é marcado pela abertura ao diálogo com a sociedade e com as instituições com as quais se relaciona, em razão sobretudo de sua Lei Orgânica. Referida lei, aliás, se mostrou absolutamente relevante na conformação de todas as demais Defensorias brasileiras, figurando como uma das ... Read more

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  • The Oceans: Key Issues in Marine Affairs

    Edited by Hance D. Smith ...
    Series Book 78 - GeoJournal Library
    HANCE D. SMITH 1. Introduction The millennium has been widely regarded as a time to take stock among other things, of the planet and its relationships with the people who inhabit it. Why this should be so is not always clear, apart from an apparent fixation with counting years. Further, the fact that the counting itself is based on the origins of the Christian religion is, for many, not of primary ... Read more

    PHP9,041.89

  • Autogestão e Estado

    empresas recuperadas e as Políticas Públicas Argentinas

    Os autores José Victor Medeiros e Claudia Soares somam suas diferentes perspectivas de formação jurídica e econômica, respectivamente, para tratar de um tema extremamente atual e relevante, principalmente em tempos de crises financeiras: a relação entre a autogestão e o Estado por meio das empresas recuperadas por trabalhadores, assunto pouco discutido no Brasil e que nessa obra difere-se ainda ... Read more

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  • Ensaios sobre Direito Público contemporâneo

    Temas sobre Direito Penal e Direito Processual Penal

    Series series Ensaios sobre Direito Público contemporâneo
    No ano em que se comemora os 30 (trinta) anos da Constituição Federal brasileira de 1988, os 70 (setenta) anos da Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos e os 50 (cinquenta) anos do curso de Direito da Universidade Regional de Blumenau (FURB), esta obra, contando com a participação de diversos colaboradores, é o segundo dos três volumes que formam a coleção 'Ensaios sobre Direito Público', cuja ... Read more

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  • Disability, Sexuality, and Gender in Asia

    Intersectionality, Human Rights, and the Law

    This book introduces experiential knowledge of the intersectionality of disability, sexuality, and gender equality issues. Scholars and disabled persons’ organizations in different Asian countries such as China, Vietnam, Myanmar, Nepal, and Japan have contributed to the book. It is a preliminary introduction of the frontline practice of Asian disability activism and the experience of women and ... Read more

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  • The Role of Law in Social Work Practice and Administration

    The strong nexus between law and social work is beyond dispute: the law informs day-to-day social work practice and administration, and social workers are employed by the courts. Moreover, they work collaboratively with attorneys in legal aid offices, public defenders'offices, and other law enforcement settings, interviewing clients, preparing reports for use in court, interpreting social science ... Read more

    PHP5,820.49

  • Our Enemy The Government 2nd Edition

    by Ramesh Thakur ...
    In this updated and expanded edition, Ramesh Thakur exposes how the COVID-19 pandemic enabled unprecedented expansions of state power, with a new focus on Australia's experience.Panicked governments turned the world upside down. From coercive lockdowns in Melbourne to federal overreach in border closures, the boundary between liberal democracy and authoritarianism proved virus thin. Tools of ... Read more

    PHP1,111.29

  • Servizi Segreti: Struttura ed Organizzazione del Sistema di Informazione per la Sicurezza della Repubblica Italiana

    Legge 3 agosto 2007, n. 124

    Il presente libro è stato composto con il fine di riunire in un unico semplice testo tutta la normativa aggiornata, comprese le modifiche apportate dalla legge 7 agosto 2012, n.133, inerente al Sistema di informazione per la sicurezza della repubblica italiana con la possibilità di avere tutta la legislazione collegata a cui la legge in oggetto fa riferimento. Visto la particolare precisione e ... Read more

    PHP615.37

  • Política Pública Formal e Política Pública Real

    análise crítica da participação no projeto Agente Ambiental Comunitário do Amapá

    O livro apresenta a dissertação defendida pelo autor no curso de Mestrado em Direito Ambiental e Políticas Públicas na Universidade Federal do Amapá, contendo uma análise dos processos participativos na criação, execução e avaliação do Projeto Agente Ambiental Comunitário do Amapá. Discute-se tal política pública como uma apresentação de um Projeto Formal, a ser confrontado pela abordagem crítica ... Read more

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  • Access to Justice for Persons with Psychosocial Disabilities

    A Comparative Analysis of Participation in the Kenyan Criminal Justice System

    Series series Routledge Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice and Procedure
    Taking Kenya as a case study, this book examines the application of criminal procedure in the context of persons with psychosocial disabilities. It discusses how the right to participation of persons with psychosocial disabilities who have been declared unfit can be best protected during and after the criminal process in Africa and at the international level. In doing so, it hypothesises that the ... Read more

    PHP4,003.28

  • Law and the Christian Tradition in Modern Russia

    Edited by Paul Valliere, Randall Poole ...
    Series series Law and Religion
    This book, authored by an international group of scholars, focuses on a vibrant central current within the history of Russian legal thought: how Christianity, and theistic belief generally, has inspired the aspiration to the rule of law in Russia, informed Russian philosophies of law, and shaped legal practices.Following a substantial introduction to the phenomenon of Russian legal consciousness, ... Read more

    PHP3,880.08

  • Military Courts, Civil-Military Relations, and the Legal Battle for Democracy

    The Politics of Military Justice

    The interaction between military and civilian courts, the political power that legal prerogatives can provide to the armed forces, and the difficult process civilian politicians face in reforming military justice remain glaringly under-examined, despite their implications for the quality and survival of democracy. This book breaks new ground by providing a theoretically rich, global examination of ... Read more

    PHP3,880.08

  • Religious Minorities, Islam and the Law

    International Human Rights and Islamic Law in Indonesia

    by Al Khanif ...
    Series series ICLARS Series on Law and Religion
    This book examines the legal conundrum of reconciling international human rights law in a Muslim majority country and identifies a trajectory for negotiating the protection of religious minorities within Islam.The work explores the history of religious minorities within Islam in Indonesia, which contains the world’s largest Muslim population, as well as the present-day ways by which the government ... Read more

    PHP3,880.08

  • Quasi-Constitutionality and Constitutional Statutes

    Forms, Functions, Applications

    Series series Comparative Constitutional Change
    This book examines the interstices among statutory enactment, constitutional convention and formal constitution in which quasi-constitutionality exists. It provides a focal resource that can serve as a point of reference for scholars interested in quasi-constitutionality as a whole, from national and transnational perspectives, expanding on its many forms, functions, and applications with recourse ... Read more

    PHP4,064.87

  • Transforming the Politics of International Law

    The Advisory Committee of Jurists and the Formation of the World Court in the League of Nations

    Edited by P. Sean Morris ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Legal History
    This volume examines the role of League of Nations committees, particularly the Advisory Committee of Jurists (ACJ) in shaping the statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ). The authors explore the contributions of individual jurists and unofficial members in shaping the League’s international legal machinery. It is a companion book to The League of Nations and the Development ... Read more

    PHP3,880.08

  • Judging in the Islamic, Jewish and Zoroastrian Legal Traditions

    A Comparison of Theory and Practice

    by Janos Jany ...
    Series series Cultural Diversity and Law
    This book presents a comparative analysis of the judiciary in the Islamic, Jewish and Zoroastrian legal systems. It compares postulations of legal theory to legal practice in order to show that social practice can diverge significantly from religious and legal principles. It thus provides a greater understanding of the real functions of religion in these legal systems, regardless of the dogmatic ... Read more

    PHP4,742.45

  • Fiduciary Duty and the Atmospheric Trust

    This book explores the application of concepts of fiduciary duty or public trust in responding to the policy and governance challenges posed by policy problems that extend over multiple terms of government or even, as in the case of climate change, human generations. The volume brings together a range of perspectives including leading international thinkers on questions of fiduciary duty and ... Read more

    PHP4,742.45

  • Domestic Judicial Treatment of European Court of Human Rights Case Law

    Beyond Compliance

    Series series Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
    The European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) suffers from the burgeoning caseload and challenges to its authority. This two-pronged crisis undermines the ECtHR’s legitimacy and consequently the functioning of the whole European human rights regime. Domestic courts can serve as welcome allies of the Strasbourg Court. They have a potential to diffuse Convention norms domestically, and therefore ... Read more

    PHP3,880.08

  • Collective Punishment and Human Rights Law

    Addressing Gaps in International Law

    Series series Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
    This book analyses collective punishment in the context of human rights law. Collective punishment is a concept deriving from the law of armed conflict. It describes the punishment of a group for an act allegedly committed by one of its members and is prohibited in times of armed conflict. Although the imposition of collective punishment has been witnessed in situations outside armed conflict as ... Read more

    PHP3,880.08