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  • Choosing Not to Choose

    Understanding the Value of Choice

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    Our ability to make choices is fundamental to our sense of ourselves as human beings, and essential to the political values of freedom-protecting nations. Whom we love; where we work; how we spend our time; what we buy; such choices define us in the eyes of ourselves and others, and much blood and ink has been spilt to establish and protect our rights to make them freely. Choice can also be a ... Read more

    R305,66

  • Ativismo judicial em tempos de pandemia

    by Antônio Veloso Peleja Júnior, Alethea Assunção Santos, Ana Graziela Vaz de Campos Alves Corrêa, Anna Paula Gomes de Freitas, Carlos Eduardo de Moraes e Silva, Cláudia Beatriz Schmidt, Daiane Marilyn Vaz, Dante Rodrigo Aranha da Silva, Fabrício Sávio da Veiga Carlota, Gerardo Humberto Alves da Silva Junior, Giselda Regina Sobreira de Oliveira Andrade0, Hanae Yamamura de Oliveira1, Henriqueta Fernanda C. A. F. Lima2, Janaina Rebucci Dezanetti3, Luis Otávio Pereira Marques4, Maria Erotides Kneip5, Milene Aparecida Pereira Beltramini7, Paulo Márcio Soares de Carvalho8, Pedro Flory Diniz Nogueira9, Tatyana Lopes de Araújo Borges0, Valter Fabricio Simioni Silva1, Victor Lima Pinto Coelho2 ...
    Ativismo judicial é tema polêmico, compreendido às vezes sob viés negativo e outras vezes sob ótica favorável. Os posicionamentos permeiam entre a autocontenção e a expansividade. O caso concreto, as teorias adotadas e a boa compreensão possibilitam a adoção de crítica responsável e argumentativamente defensável. Em razão da pandemia Covid-19, em 2020, várias medidas do Executivo fizeram-se ... Read more

    R219,00

  • Opening Doors: Roe v Wade

    by Linda Robertson Bourgeois, Ph.D. ...
    The historical beginnings of abortion and the women involved leading up to the Supreme Court Decision. A comparison is presented of Dred Scot and how it relates to Roe v Wade. There is also an uneditd conversation with a staff member who was also a warrior for women's rights from the beginning. A timeline of events walk the reader through the national events up until 2007. Other events have ... Read more

    R49,69

  • Code de commerce

    Partie réglementaire - Livre II : Des sociétés commerciales et des groupements d'intérêt économique (droit français)

    by Various ...
    Découvrez le Code de commerce Partie réglementaire - Livre II : Des sociétés commerciales et des groupements d'intérêt économique, un ouvrage incontournable pour les professionnels du droit. Ce recueil exhaustif vous plonge au cœur des dispositions réglementaires essentielles qui régissent la création, l'organisation et le fonctionnement des sociétés commerciales et des groupements d'intérêt ... Read more

    R400,00

  • The Chinese Path of Rule of Law Construction

    Edited by He Tian, Yanbin Lv ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book provides law-based governance which is one of the basic policies that underpins our endeavors to uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. Law is the key to governing the country，and the rule of law is an important support for the national governance system and governance capacity. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC，China has implemented the four ... Read more

    R2 671,90

  • Sovereignty, Civic Participation, and Constitutional Law

    The People versus the Nation in Belgium

    Edited by Brecht Deseure, Raf Geenens, Stefan Sottiaux ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Constitutional Law
    This book brings recent insights about sovereignty and citizen participation in the Belgian Constitution to scholars in the fields of law, philosophy, history, and politics.Throughout the Western world, there are increasing calls for greater citizen participation. Referendums, citizen councils, and other forms of direct democracy are considered necessary antidotes to a growing hostility towards ... Read more

    R1 000,59

  • The Modernisation of State Aid for Economic and Social Development

    Edited by Bruno Nascimbene, Alessia Di Pascale ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book analyses the recent modernisation of EU State aid law from various perspectives, and considers both substantive and procedural aspects. It also discusses the reasons for, and the goals and future implications of the modernisation programme, including the evolution of the concept of State aid. The ambitious reform programme was launched in 2012 and has now been almost fully implemented by ... Read more

    R2 315,63

  • EU External Relations Law

    Text, Cases and Materials

    by Professor Ramses A Wessel, Dr Joris Larik ...
    The first edition of this seminal textbook made a significant impact on the teaching of EU external relations law. This new edition retains the hallmarks of that success, while providing a fully revised and updated account of this burgeoning field. It offers a dual perspective, looking at questions from both the EU constitutional law perspective (the principles underpinning EU external action, the ... Read more

    R1 237,73

  • Politics and Administrative Justice

    Postliberalism, Street-Level Bureaucracy and the Reawakening of Democratic Citizenship

    by Nick O’Brien ...
    In recent years, failures in health and social care, mental health services, public housing and education have dominated headlines and been the subject of much public debate. The means for addressing such concerns remain notably legalistic and subject to a particular brand of liberal legalism that stifles the possibility of transformational intervention.This book argues that there is urgent need ... Read more

    R394,55

  • Praxishandbuch des Amts- und Staatshaftungsrechts

    by Christoph Stein, Peter Itzel, Karin Schwall ...
    Series series Humanities, Social Science (German Language)
    Bei dem Praxishandbuch des Amts- und Staatshaftungsrechts handelt es sich um eine umfassende und systematische Darstellung aller relevanten Anspruchsgrundlagen und Problemfelder bei schädigendem Verhalten der öffentlichen Hand (Bund, Länder und Gemeinden mit allen Untergliederungen). Das Buch behandelt Ansprüche sowohl aus Amts- und Staatshaftung wie auch aus Enteignung und Aufopferung; auch ... Read more

    R1 002,79

  • Socio-Economic Rights in Times of Crisis and Normality

    Article 4 Limitations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

    by Amanda Cahill-Ripley ...
    This groundbreaking book explores the under examined nature and scope of Article 4 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which governs permissible restrictions on these rights.Challenging the assumption that such limitations apply only during crises, it analyses their application in diverse contexts, from financial crises and public health emergencies, to ... Read more

    R352,46

  • The Universalism of Human Rights

    Edited by Rainer Arnold ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Is there universalism of human rights? If so, what are its scope and limits? This book is a doctrinal attempt to define universalism of human rights, as well as its scope and limits. The book presents tests of universalism on international, regional and national constitutional levels. It is maintained that universalism of human rights is both a ‘concept’ and a ‘normative reality’. The normative ... Read more

    R2 850,15

  • Intelligenza artificiale e democrazia

    Opportunità e rischi di disinformazione e discriminazione

    by Oreste Pollicino, Piero Dunn ...
    Il rapporto tra nuove tecnologie, in particolare intelligenza artificiale di natura generativa, e valori democratici rappresenta un osservatorio privilegiato per indagare le attuali condizioni dello stato di diritto, non solo nel contesto digitale. Soffermandosi su questo rapporto, il volume illustra una delle sfide più interessanti del costituzionalismo contemporaneo. Stati democratici e ... Read more

    R484,14

  • Human Rights in the UK and the Influence of Foreign Jurisprudence

    by Dr Hélène Tyrrell ...
    Series series Hart Studies in Comparative Public Law
    Longlisted for the 2022 Inner Temple Main Book PrizeHuman Rights in the UK and the Influence of Foreign Jurisprudence represents the first major empirical study of the use of foreign jurisprudence at the UK Supreme Court. This book focuses on the patterns of use and non use of rulings from foreign domestic courts in human rights cases before the UK Supreme Court. Results are drawn from ... Read more

    R756,11

  • Towards a European Public Law

    by Bernard Stirn ...
    A European public law is under construction, but how has this occurred and what is its character? Stirn proposes that this European public law is being constructed by the convergence of three circles: the law of the European Union, the law of the European Convention on Human Rights, and the different domestic legal orders. The mutually influential relationship of these constituents has allowed ... Read more

    R1 391,26

  • Regimento Interno da Câmara dos Deputados

    24ª edição

    by Câmara dos Deputados, Edições Câmara ...
    Series Book 2 - Legislação
    A 24ª edição da coletânea Regimento Interno da Câmara dos Deputados, revista e atualizada até 17/01/2023, inclui o Regimento Interno - aprovado pela Resolução nº 17 de 1989 e alterado até a Resolução nº 35 de 2022 - o Código de Ética e Decoro parlamentar, o Regimento comum do Congresso Nacional e outras legislações correlatas.A publicação é fundamental para parlamentares, candidatos, estudantes e ... Read more

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  • Comparative Constitutional Reform in Latin America

    Edited by Richard Albert ...
    Some constitutional amendments are not really amendments. They are transformative constitutional reforms that reject the essential characteristics of the constitution and destroy its foundations. These constitutional dismemberments demolish the basic structure of the constitution while at the same time building a new foundation rooted in principles contrary to the old. Latin America has been ... Read more

    R1 231,24

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  • Environmental Courts and Tribunals

    Powers, Integrity and the Search for Legitimacy

    by Professor Ceri Warnock ...
    The global phenomenon of the establishment of specialist courts is one of the most important recent developments in environmental law. Although they are generally seen as a much needed innovation, they do pose challenges, particularly around questions of legitimacy. This important book tackles these questions directly, looking specifically at the courts in the common law world. It argues that to ... Read more

    R728,63

  • Das Annahmeverfahren fuer Verfassungsbeschwerden

    Zugleich eine vergleichende Betrachtung der Annahmeverfahren des Bundesverfassungsgerichts und des US Supreme Court

    by Jinhan Kim ...
    Series Book 13 - Erlanger Schriften zum Oeffentlichen Recht
    Die Ausgestaltung des Annahmeverfahrens für Verfassungsbeschwerden muss die Gewährung effektiven Grundrechtsschutzes einerseits und die begrenzten Entscheidungskapazitäten des Verfassungsgerichts andererseits in Einklang bringen. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird aufgezeigt, welche materiellen und prozessualen Regelungen beim Bundesverfassungsgericht und beim US Supreme Court den Zugang zur ... Read more

    R947,24

  • Legal and Axiological Determinants of Innovative Democratic Mechanisms in Local Communities of Central, Eastern and Southern European Countries

    Edited by Kazimierz Bandarzewski, Magdalena Małecka-Łyszczek, Marek Mączyński, Katarzyna Eliasz ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This publication offers a comprehensive legal, sociological, and cultural analysis of traditional and contemporary forms of social participation in selected Central and Eastern European countries. It examines the axiological foundations of participatory attitudes and their impact on civic engagement, while also presenting practical examples of their implementation and influence on local ... Read more

    R3 028,28

  • Verpflichtet

    Gesellschaftsjahr, Wehrpflicht und Demokratie

    by Grzegorz Nocko, Christian Richter, Rabea Haß, Carina Roos, Côme Lécossais, Johannes Mühle, Marcel Berni, Fabian Kleinschmidt, Ferdinand Weber, Marika Ericson0 ...
    Was bedeutet Dienst an der Gemeinschaft im 21. Jahrhundert? Seit dem russischen Angriffskrieg auf die Ukraine wird in Deutschland leidenschaftlich über die Pflicht von jungen Menschen zum Dienst an der Gemeinschaft diskutiert - sei es Gesellschaftsjahr oder Wehrpflicht. Doch hinter den politischen Forderungen fehlt es an konkreten Konzepten. Dieser interdisziplinäre Sammelband versachlicht die ... Read more

    R519,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Controlling the Administrative State

    Essays in Honour of Matthew Groves

    Edited by Mark Aronson, Greg Weeks ...
    This book discusses some of the most important issues facing administrative law and related doctrines.Leading public law scholars from across the common law world have contributed chapters to recognise the exceptional scholarship and career of Matthew Groves, Distinguished Professor at Deakin University, Australia.Over the last century, the power of the administrative state has grown immensely and ... Read more

    R1 857,81

  • Menschenwürde und die liberalen Grundwerte

    9/11, 20 Jahre später: eine verfassungsrechtliche Spurensuche, #5

    by Verfassungsbooks, Marlene Straub ...
    Series Book 5 - 9/11, 20 Jahre später: eine verfassungsrechtliche Spurensuche
    Die Menschenwürde derjenigen, die die Menschenwürde Anderer elementar verletzen, ist ebenso unverletzlich wie die ihrer Opfer. Doch im öffentlichen Diskurs, in Gesetzgebung und Praxis wird sich nicht an diese Maxime gehalten. Es stellt sich die Frage, wie ein Staat sich von seiner Abkehr von liberalen Grundwerten rehabilitieren kann. Gibt es Wege aus dem zur Norm gewordenen Notzustand? ... Read more

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  • Der öffentliche Diskurs

    9/11, 20 Jahre später: eine verfassungsrechtliche Spurensuche, #4

    by Verfassungsbooks, Marlene Straub ...
    Series Book 4 - 9/11, 20 Jahre später: eine verfassungsrechtliche Spurensuche
    Die Anschläge vom 11. September waren nicht nur selbst ein Medienereignis, sondern haben auch die Leitplanken des öffentlichen und medialen Diskurses verschoben. Diese Verschiebungen sind vielfältig und haben ihre Spuren in der Presse-, Informations- und Meinungsfreiheit hinterlassen. Aber lässt sich diese Geschichte wirklich nur als Abwärtsspirale erzählen? ... Read more

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