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  • Tortura y derecho penal. Respuestas en situaciones de emergencia

    by Kai Ambos ...
    Los dos trabajos publicados en este libro discuten temas actuales relacionados con actividades terroristas desde un punto de vista del derecho penal internacional así como del derecho penal material y procesal penal. El primer texto analiza, a partir de los casos polémicos de la bomba de tiempo (ticking bomb) y de un reciente caso de secuestro en Alemania (caso Daschner), si la prohibición ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • International Multiparty Mediation and Conflict Management

    Challenges of Cooperation and Coordination

    Series series Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management
    This volume aims to provide a detailed explanation of the effects of cooperation and coordination on international multiparty mediation in conflicts.Contemporary scholarship stresses that the crucial ingredients for a successful multiparty mediation are ‘consistency in interests’ and ‘cooperation and coordination’ between mediators. This book seeks to supplement that understanding by investigating ... Read more

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  • Summary of Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order

    by Ray Dalio - Why Nations Succeed and Fail - A Comprehensive Summary

    Summary of Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order - Why Nations Succeed and Fail - A Comprehensive SummaryA couple of years prior, amazing financial backer Ray Dalio noticed a conjunction of three powers that have never occurred in the course of his life however have happened commonly in history previously:Zero or close to zero loan fees that prompted gigantic debt creation and the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mexico's Cold War

    Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution

    by Renata Keller ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
    This book is a history of the Cold War in Mexico, and Mexico in the Cold War. Renata Keller draws on declassified Mexican and US intelligence sources and Cuban diplomatic records to challenge earlier interpretations that depicted Mexico as a peaceful haven and a weak neighbor forced to submit to US pressure. Mexico did in fact suffer from the political and social turbulence that characterized the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Holocaust, Genocide, and the Law

    A Quest for Justice in a Post-Holocaust World

    A great deal of contemporary law has a direct connection to the Holocaust. That connection, however, is seldom acknowledged in legal texts and has never been the subject of a full-length scholarly work. This book examines the background of the Holocaust and genocide through the prism of the law; the criminal and civil prosecution of the Nazis and their collaborators for Holocaust-era crimes; and ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • La OEA y el Derecho Internacional

    Series series Biblioteca Jurídica Porrúa
    Actualmente, el derecho internacional no se encarga exclusivamente de las relaciones entre Estados, es difícil imaginar alguna situación que afecte a los ciudadanos que no esté regulada tanto por normas internas como internacionales. El sistema interamericano formó un patrimonio normativo que ha convertido a nuestro continente en el más pacífico durante el siglo XX. La defensa de los derechos de ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Finding Fernanda

    Two Mothers, One Child, and a Cross-Border Search for Truth

    by Erin Siegal ...
    A compelling, dramatic narrative of how an American housewife discovered that the Guatemalan child she was about to adopt had been stolen from her birth mother, shedding light on the alarming and growing problem of international adoption fraud.Over the past five years, over 100,000 children were adopted into the United States, 20,000 of whom came from Guatemala. Finding Fernanda, a dramatic true ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Race, Law, and American Society

    1607-Present

    Series series Criminology and Justice Studies
    This second edition of Gloria Browne-Marshall’s seminal work , tracing the history of racial discrimination in American law from colonial times to the present, is now available with major revisions. Throughout, she advocates for freedom and equality at the center, moving from their struggle for physical freedom in the slavery era to more recent battles for equal rights and economic equality. From ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of War Crimes Trials

    From Charles I to Bush II

    This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the politics of war crimes trials. It provides a systematic and theoretically rigorous examination of whether these trials are used as tools for political consolidation or whether justice is their primary purpose. The consideration of cases begins with the trial of Charles I of England and goes through the presidency of George W. Bush, including the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Cunning of Freedom

    Saving the Self in an Age of False Idols

    This book has two currents. The first is an analysis of the three concepts of freedom that are called, respectively, negative, positive, and inner. Negative freedom is defined as an absence of coercion, positive freedom as an ability to rule oneself and others, inner freedom as being oneself; that is, being the author of one’s decisions. Each concept is analyzed both in terms of its development in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Twilight of Human Rights Law

    by Eric Posner ...
    Series series Inalienable Rights
    Countries solemnly intone their commitment to human rights, and they ratify endless international treaties and conventions designed to signal that commitment. At the same time, there has been no marked decrease in human rights violations, even as the language of human rights has become the dominant mode of international moral criticism. Well-known violators like Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan have ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Russia’s Role in the Contemporary International Agri-Food Trade System

    Series series Palgrave Advances in Bioeconomy: Economics and Policies
    This Open Access book analyses the emergence of Russia as a global food power and what it means for global food trade. Russia's strategy for food production and trade has changed significantly since the end of the Soviet period, and this is the first book to take account of Russia's rise as a food power and the global implications of that rise. It includes food trade policy and practice, and ... Read more

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  • How Human Rights Can Build Haiti

    Activists, Lawyers, and the Grassroots Campaign

    by Fran Quigley ...
    A cataclysmic earthquake, revolution, corruption, and neglect have all conspired to strangle the growth of a legitimate legal system in Haiti. But as How Human Rights Can Build Haiti demonstrates, the story of lawyers-activists on the ground should give us all hope. They organize demonstrations at the street level, argue court cases at the international level, and conduct social media and lobbying ... Read more

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  • The Right to Repair

    Reclaiming the Things We Own

    In recent decades, companies around the world have deployed an arsenal of tools - including IP law, hardware design, software restrictions, pricing strategies, and marketing messages - to prevent consumers from fixing the things they own. While this strategy has enriched companies almost beyond measure, it has taken billions of dollars out of the pockets of consumers and imposed massive ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Underground Warfare

    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

    $36.99 USD

  • Constitutional Law for a Changing America

    A Short Course

    "Excellent balance of case excerpts and author explanation, highly appropriate for undergraduate students."—Dr. Wendy Brame, Briar Cliff UniversityPolitical factors influence judicial decisions. Arguments and input from lawyers and interest groups, the ebb and flow of public opinion, and especially the ideological and behavioral inclinations of the justices all combine to shape the development of ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare

    The product of a three-year project by twenty renowned international law scholars and practitioners, the Tallinn Manual identifies the international law applicable to cyber warfare and sets out ninety-five 'black-letter rules' governing such conflicts. It addresses topics including sovereignty, State responsibility, the jus ad bellum, international humanitarian law, and the law of neutrality. An ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Why Cooperate?

    The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods

    by Scott Barrett ...
    Climate change, nuclear proliferation, and the threat of a global pandemic have the potential to impact each of our lives. Preventing these threats poses a serious global challenge, but ignoring them could have disastrous consequences. How do we engineer institutions to change incentives so that these global public goods are provided? Scott Barrett provides a thought provoking and accessible ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Impossibility of Religious Freedom

    New Edition

    The Constitution may guarantee it. But religious freedom in America is, in fact, impossible. So argues this timely and iconoclastic work by law and religion scholar Winnifred Sullivan. Sullivan uses as the backdrop for the book the trial of Warner vs. Boca Raton, a recent case concerning the laws that protect the free exercise of religion in America. The trial, for which the author served as an ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Access to Medicines and Vaccines

    Implementing Flexibilities Under Intellectual Property Law

    This open access book is the outcome of a Global Forum on Innovation, Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines held in December 2019 at the Max Plank Instititute in Munich, organised by the South Centre and the Max Plank Institute. The academics and experts from international organisations participating have contributed chapters to this book. The book is for policy makers (in Ministries of ... Read more

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  • Toxic Loopholes

    Failures and Future Prospects for Environmental Law

    by Craig Collins ...
    The EPA was established to enforce the environmental laws Congress enacted during the 1970s. Yet today lethal toxins still permeate our environment, causing widespread illness and even death. Toxic Loopholes investigates these laws, and the agency charged with their enforcement, to explain why they have failed to arrest the nation's rising environmental crime wave and clean up the country's land, ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Crossroads

    Comparative Immigration Regimes in a World of Demographic Change

    In this ambitious study, Anna K. Boucher and Justin Gest present a unique analysis of immigration governance across thirty countries. Relying on a database of immigration demographics in the world's most important destinations, they present a novel taxonomy and an analysis of what drives different approaches to immigration policy over space and time. In an era defined by inequality, populism, and ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Ethical Theory and Business

    For forty years, successive editions of Ethical Theory and Business have helped to define the field of business ethics. The 10th edition reflects the current, multidisciplinary nature of the field by explicitly embracing a variety of perspectives on business ethics, including philosophy, management, and legal studies. Chapters integrate theoretical readings, case studies, and summaries of key ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Reflexiones en torno a derechos humanos y grupos vulnerables

    Series Book 1 - Textos de Jurisprudencia
    Esta obra colectiva contiene reflexiones académicas, y no simples compilaciones normativas, que presentan diversos puntos de análisis sobre los retos para la protección de los derechos de las minorías y se plantean las problemáticas de varios de estos grupos. Así mismo, la reflexión propuesta en la introducción presenta argumentos que conectan las generalidades de estos grupos pese a los ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus