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This book offers a clear, accessible account of the American litigation over the restitution of works of art taken from Jewish families during the Holocaust. For the past two decades, the courts of the United States have been an arena of conflict over this issue that...
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Springer
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2017-11-04
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This book asserts that the Pacific Islands continue to struggle with the colonial legacy of plural legal systems, comprising laws and legal institutions from both the common law and the customary legal system. It also investigates the extent to which customary...
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Springer
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2017-11-04
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The World of Small States
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Constitutional democracy is more fragile and less 'natural' than autocracy. While this may sound surprising to complacent democrats, more and more people find autocracy attractive, because they were never forced to understand or imagine what despotism is. Generations...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-11-04
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Constitutional democracy is more fragile and less 'natural' than autocracy. While this may sound surprising to complacent democrats, more and more people find autocracy attractive, because they were never forced to understand or imagine what despotism is. Generations...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-11-04
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Corruption undermines nearly all key legal and developmental priorities today, including the effective functioning of democratic institutions and honest elections; environmental protection; human rights and human security; international development programs; and fair...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-11-02
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Justice, Mercy, and Caprice is a work of criminal justice history that speaks to the gradual emergence of a more humane Irish state. It is a close examination of the decision to grant clemency to men and women sentenced to death between the end of the civil war in 1923...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-11-02
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On April 22, 1823, a three-year-old boy named Fedor finished his lunch and went to play outside. Fedor never returned home from his walk. Several days later, a neighbor found his mutilated body drained of blood and repeatedly pierced. In small market towns, where houses...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-11-01
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Habeas Corpus in Wartime unearths and presents a comprehensive account of the legal and political history of habeas corpus in wartime in the Anglo-American legal tradition. The book begins by tracing the origins of the habeas privilege in English law, giving special...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-11-01
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As a result of the violence, segregation, and disfranchisement that occurred throughout the South in the decades after Reconstruction, it has generally been assumed that African Americans in the post-Reconstruction South litigated few civil cases and faced widespread...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-11-01
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This book is devoted to an idea of a second round of codification of certain new rules for treaty interpretation. Currently, treaty interpretation is guided by Articles 31 through 33 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT). The fundamental rule is that a...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-10-31
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Foods, Nutrients and Food Ingredients with Authorized EU Health Claims, Volume Three, provides an overview of how health claims are regulated in the European Union, along with detailed scientific and regulatory information about permitted health claims for foods and...
Editeur :
Woodhead Publishing
Parution :
2017-10-30
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This book analyses the various ways in which intellectual property (IP) operates in relation to innovation activity. It reflects on the "classical" issues of the IP system related to the necessity of protecting risky and often costly investments undertaken by firms and...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2017-10-30
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.With technology standards becoming increasingly common, particularly in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector, the complexities and contradictions at the interface of intellectual property law and...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-10-27
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The oceans cover more than seventy per cent of the surface of the planet and they provide many vital ecosystem services. However, the health of the world's oceans has been deteriorating over the past decades and the protection of the marine environment has emerged as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-10-27
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The oceans cover more than seventy per cent of the surface of the planet and they provide many vital ecosystem services. However, the health of the world's oceans has been deteriorating over the past decades and the protection of the marine environment has emerged as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-10-27
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Increasingly, international legal arrangements imagine future worlds or create space for experts to articulate how the future can be conceptualized and managed. With the increased specialization of international law, a series of functional regimes and sub-regimes has...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-10-27
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Das Werk etabliert für besondere gerichtliche Entscheidungen den Begriff der Leitentscheidung. Es zeigt, dass Leitentscheidungen erst in einem Entwicklungsprozess nach ihrer Verkündung zu solchen werden. Dabei spielen die verunsicherten Selbstverständnisse verschiedener...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-10-26
Collection :
Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht
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Werner Jarec untersucht, inwieweit das in Österreich derzeit bestehende Glücksspielmonopol dem Ziel der Bekämpfung der Wirtschaftskriminalität dient, ob dieses Ziel die Errichtung eines Monopoles rechtfertigen kann und welche verfassungs- und unionsrechtlichen Grenzen...
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Springer Gabler
Parution :
2017-10-26
Collection :
BestMasters
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The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) is the court of final appeal for jurisdictions including the British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and for those Commonwealth countries that have retained the appeal to Her Majesty in Council. This volume...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-10-26
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The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) is the court of final appeal for jurisdictions including the British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and for those Commonwealth countries that have retained the appeal to Her Majesty in Council. This volume...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-10-26
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