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The Constitution of Mexico: A Contextual Analysis - Paperback

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by Jos? Mar?a Serna de la Garza (Author), Andrew Harding (Editor), Benjamin L. Berger (Editor)This book provides an overview of Mexico's political evolution since it became independent from Spain in 1821, and its current constitutional arrangements, principles and structures. The aim is to explain this evolution as the result of struggles between the interests and ideologies of different groups within Mexican society, each with a different political vision of how the State should be organised...

The Legend of St Yves: Law, Justice and Mediation (Colour Edition) - Paperback

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by Bryan Gibson (Author), Marcel Berlins (Foreword by)The Legend of Saint Yves is not widely known in Britain, even though he is the patron saint of lawyers (among other things). In this informative account, Bryan Gibson places St Yves - born Erwan Helouri - on a par with Robin Hood, Jessie James and Ned Kelly in terms of their appeal to various national psyches - and up there alongside Joan of Arc and Bernadette of Lourdes as regards his native France. But whilst conventional outlaws used bo...

Handbook of Trace Evidence Analysis - Hardcover

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by Vincent J. Desiderio (Editor), Chris E. Taylor (Editor), Niamh Nic Da?id (Editor)Covers new trace evidence techniques and expanding areas of analysis, along with key theory and applications Developed around the need for updated information in the disciplines of trace evidence the Handbook of Trace Evidence Analysis focuses on the increasing awareness and need for validation, modern methods for addressing and controlling contamination, the shift towards incorporating statistical analyses in...

Protection of Prisoners of War: The Third Geneva Convention and Prospective Issues - Paperback

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by U. C. Jha (Author), Sanghamitra Chowdhury (Author)Apart from wounds and sickness, a prisoner of war, who is at the mercy of the detaining belligerent, may face humiliation and be subjected to many deprivations and hardships. Separated from their families and in the power of hostile authorities, prisoners of war often live in extremely difficult circumstances, exposed to uncertainty, anxiety, tension and maltreatment. This book explores the legal protections available to prisoners of war in...

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by Mindy Chen-Wishart (Author)Written by a leading contract lawyer with extensive teaching experience, Contract Law takes a unique approach to a complex subject. Chen-Wishart combines academic rigour with an innovative visual approach, presenting the law with diagrams, flowcharts and tables to provide students with a stimulating account of key principles and an engaging analysis of the complexities of contract law. Thought-provoking analytical features, such as the 'Pause for reflection' and ...

The Domestication of Human Trafficking: Law, Policing, and Prosecution in Canada - Paperback

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by Katrin Roots (Author)Human trafficking has emerged as one of the top international and domestic policy concerns, and is well covered and often sensationalized by the media. The nature of the topic combined with various international pressures has resulted in an array of government-led mandates to combat the issue. The Domestication of Human Trafficking examines Canada's criminal justice approaches to human trafficking, with a particular focus on the ways in which the intersecting factors o...

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The Independence of the Prosecutor: Controversy in the Creation of the International Criminal Court - Hardcover

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by Laszlo Sarkany (Author)Explores the inception of the International Criminal Court. The establishment of the International Criminal Court was a singular, even revolutionary, achievement. Uniquely within the realm of international criminal justice, the ICC prosecutor can initiate investigations independently of any state's wishes. Why would sovereign states agree to such sweeping powers? The Independence of the Prosecutor draws on interviews with key participants to answer that question. C...

Outcome-Based Cooperation: In Communities, Business, Regulation, and Dispute Resolution - Paperback

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by Christopher Hodges (Author), Christopher Hodges (Editor)How do we cooperate - in social, local, business, and state communities? This book proposes an Outcome-Based Cooperative Model, in which all stakeholders work together on the basis of trust and respect to achieve shared aims and outcomes. The Outcome-Based Cooperative Model is built up from an extensive analysis of behavioural and social psychology, genetic anthropology, research into behaviour and culture in societies, organisations,...

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by Richard Gardiner (Author)Treaties comprise the whole range of international agreements that are governed by international law. In this volume in the Elements of International Law series, Richard Gardiner describes the essential role of treaties in international law. Beginning with an explanation of what treaties are, the book explores how they are made, how they are interpreted, and how they are implemented both internationally and within national legal systems. In doing this, Gardiner pro...

Fairness in International Taxation - Hardcover

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by Ira K. Lindsay (Editor), Benita Mathew (Editor)This book explores the thorny normative issues raised by the changing landscape of international tax policy.Proposals for taxation of the digital economy and the OECD/G20 BEPS framework promise fundamental changes in the international tax system. The book features perspectives from legal scholars, political theorists, and political philosophers on international corporate and individual taxation. Contributors advance new theories of internation...

Overriding Mandatory Rules in International Commercial Disputes: Korean and Comparative Law - Hardcover

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by Min Kyung Kim (Author)This open access book analyses how to identify and treat overriding mandatory rules in international commercial litigation and arbitration from a Korean and comparative law perspective.In addition to providing a deeper understanding of the concept of overriding mandatory rules and setting out standards and factors to identify such rules, the book provides a solution to the problems that third-country mandatory provisions pose in international commercial disputes.The b...

Access to Justice in Rural Communities: Global Perspectives - Paperback

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by Daniel Newman (Editor), Faith Gordon (Editor)This book offers insight on access to justice from rural areas in internationally comparable contexts to highlight the diversity of experiences within, and across rural areas globally.It looks at the fundamental questions for people's lives raised by the issue of access to justice as well as the rule of law. It highlights a range of social, geographic and cultural issues which impact the way rural communities experience the justice system throug...

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Democratic Consolidation and Constitutional Endurance in Asia and Africa: Comparing Uneven Pathways - Hardcover

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by Tom Gerald Daly (Editor), Dinesha Samararatne (Editor)What factors drive constitutional change and sustain positive transformation? How are democratic values recognised, restored, and preserved through constitutional change? Democratic Consolidation and Constitutional Endurance in Asia and Africa is a well-articulated response to the growing scholarly conversation on democratic backsliding and resilience. Bringing together leading and emerging voices in constitutional law, this groundbreak...

Dual Justice: America's Divergent Approaches to Street and Corporate Crime - Hardcover

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by Anthony Grasso (Author)A far-reaching examination of how America came to treat street and corporate crime so differently. While America incarcerates its most marginalized citizens at an unparalleled rate, the nation has never developed the capacity to consistently prosecute corporate wrongdoing. Dual Justice unearths the intertwined histories of these two phenomena and reveals that they constitute more than just modern hypocrisy. By examining the carceral and regulatory states' evolutions...

Twenty-First Century Perspectives on the Scholarship of AV Dicey: The Enduring Legacy of a Victorian Constitutionalist - Hardcover

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by Catherine Marshall (Editor), C?line Roynier (Editor)This book reassesses AV Dicey's legacy in political and legal thought through the reflections of leading scholars who consider his importance not only in today's British constitutional and legal culture but also in other foreign constitutional cultures.Every student in law and in politics, every law faculty and most legal practitioners in the world are aware of who Albert Venn Dicey (1835-1922) was and what he wrote. Yet, this fame does n...

Occupational Stress Injuries: Operational and Organizational Stressors Among Public Safety Personnel - Paperback

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by Rosemary Ricciardelli (Editor), Joy C. Macdermid (Editor), Lorna Ferguson (Editor)This book explores the stress faced by public safety professionals across an array of occupational fields, such as police, correctional officers, paramedics, and firefighters.Bringing together leading scholars from around the world, it showcases cutting-edge quantitative and qualitative research from across three continents and multiple regions within six countries, introduces key concepts related to occupati...

Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made - Paperback

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by Jim Newton (Author)Author BiographyJim Newton has written hundreds of newspaper and magazine stories and is the recipient of numerous awards. He shared in the Pulitzer prizes awarded to the Los Angeles Times for coverage of the 1992 riots and the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Number of Pages: 640 Dimensions: 1.38 x 9.2 x 6.16 IN Publication Date: October 02, 2007

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Business, Human Rights and Sustainable Development - Hardcover

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by MD Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan (Volume Editor), M. Rafiqul Islam (Volume Editor)Corporate businesses are expanding nationally and globally. Given this proliferation, this edited book investigates and finds the inseparable nexus between businesses, human rights, and sustainable development. It comprehensively accommodates chapters on separate but interrelated aspects of this interface, providing collective cutting-edge information and critical analyses by outstanding scholars. Their intellectual ...

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Somaesthetics of Discomfort: Addressing Identity, Normativity, and Alienation - Hardcover

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by M. D. Tschaepe (Author)This book is about bodies and discomfort. Specifically, it is about how to recognize discomfort as a motivating source for critical reflection. This book is about how people project their discomfort onto others in harmful ways that alienate, and it is also about how those who are alienated may use their discomfort to fight against those harms. Based in work from pragmatist, feminist, antiracist, queer, and disability studies, and informed by lessons from personal nar...

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Going Along to Get Along: Diplomatic Pressure and Interstate Socialization at the United Nations - Hardcover

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by Naif Al-Mulla (Author)Going Along to Get Along: Diplomatic Pressure and Interstate Socialization by Naif Al-Mulla explores how diplomatic pressure shapes global governance at the United Nations. Through rigorous analysis and empirical examples, the book demonstrates how diplomatic pressure influences foreign policy positions and, by extension, global, multilateral outcomes. The work challenges assumptions and provides fresh insight, showcasing the cumulative effect of proactive diplomacy. ...

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Business and Human Rights: Emerging Challenges, Issues, and Trends - Hardcover

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by Andreas R. Ziegler (Editor), Damiano Canapa (Editor), Maria Izabel Cardozo (Editor)The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. This book explores the interface of Business and Human Rights with other practice areas, such as antitrust, arbitration, artificial intelligence, investment law, finance, private international law, professional ethics, labor law, sports law, venture capital, among others. It presents contri...

The Effectiveness of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: The Case of Indigenous Territorial Rights - Hardcover

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by Gabriela Cb Navarro (Author)The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has the most developed jurisprudence on indigenous rights, yet this case law is understudied. This book addresses this gap by exploring the Court and its cases from both the perspective of international law and the legal protection of indigenous territories. Setting out the network of actors and institutions involved in such litigation, it examines the motivations and constraints in domestic politics affecting internation...

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The Legacy of the Wimbledon Case: Centenary of the First Judgment of the Permanent Court of International Justice - Hardcover

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by Roman Kwiecień (Volume Editor), Malgosia Fitzmaurice (Volume Editor)The book addresses the impact of the first judgment of the 'World Court' on the development of international law and its continuing relevance. The contributions to this book discuss the legal issues decided by the PCIJ in the Wimbledon case. In the Wimbledon judgment, the Court referred to the problems that are still important both for procedural and substantive international law, and which attract the attention of states,...

Someone Said Parental Alienation: About Divorcing Families Whose Children Avoided One Parent - Paperback

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by Jean Mercer (Author)This book introduces readers to the concept of parental alienation (PA), a belief system that is used with increasing frequency in judicial child custody and parenting plan decisions.PA is essentially a legal concept without validated psychological definition, assuming that children who resist contact with one divorced parent have in many cases been "brainwashed" or persuaded to do so by the machinations of the preferred parent. PA proponents assert that courts should t...

Music Licensing: A Practical Guide (For Broadcasters and Other Music Licensees) - Paperback

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by Janet McHugh (Author)The world of music licensing can be complex and confusing. Whether youproduce TV programs, own a radio station, stream content over the internetor own a bar, you probably use music. That music was composed andrecorded by a music creator who has rights under the U.S. copyright lawsand likely needs to be paid music royalties.This Guide takes you step-by-step through the process of music licensingfrom the perspective of a music user - whether broadcaster, producer, venueo...

Australian Insolvency Law: A Practical Guide to Navigating Insolvency Law in Australia - Paperback

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by Jarrod Sierocki (Author)This book provides a comprehensive exploration of Australian insolvency law, covering both corporate and personal insolvency frameworks. It begins by explaining key concepts such as voluntary administration, liquidation, and the newly introduced Small Business Restructure (SBR), examining how these mechanisms help businesses manage financial distress. It also delves into personal insolvency options like bankruptcy, Personal Insolvency Agreements (PIAs), and Debt Agr...

Successful and Sustainable Data Policies: A Guide for Enabling Data Governance at Scale - Paperback

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by Malcolm Chisholm (Author)Apply data policies to make data governance work for the long term.Data policies are the most powerful instrument a Data Governance unit has for achieving good data management practices across an entire enterprise. Yet, all too often, Data Governance units encounter difficulties as they embark on policy work. Simply drafting a data policy is only a small part of what is required. Policies have to be governed and managed across an entire lifecycle consisting of many...

Selected Documents Relating to Law Reform in North Carolina During the Nineteenth Century: With Numerous Documents from Surrounding Centuries to Provi - Paperback

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by Thomas P. Davis (Author), James Barrett Fish (Author)This compilation offers excerpts from 174 documents that tell the story of law reform in North Carolina during the nineteenth century. The work opens with a few dozen documents of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which raise recurring themes in law reform in the state, such as the distrust of attorneys per se and of judges in the exercise of their discretion, as well as the commitment to the writtenness of laws. The heart of the ...

The Cambridge Handbook of EU Sustainable Finance - Hardcover

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by Kern Alexander (Editor), Matteo Gargantini (Editor), Michele Siri (Editor) Number of Pages: 808 Dimensions: 1.69 x 10 x 7 IN Publication Date: February 06, 2025

LSAT Prep 2024-2025: 2 Practice Exams and Study Book for the Law School Admission Test [3rd Edition] - Paperback

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by B. Hettinger (Author)Introducing our LSAT Prep 2025-2026: 2 Practice Exams and Study Book for the Law School Admission Test [3rd Edition]!Trivium Test Prep's LSAT Prep 2025-2026 includes everything you need to pass the LSAT exam the first time.Trivium Test Prep's LSAT Prep 2025-2026 is aligned with the official LSAT exam framework. Topics covered include: All actual LSAT(R) content reproduced within this work is used with the permission of Law School Admission Council, Inc., (LSAC(R)) Box ...

Silopi: A True Story of Love and Resilience - Paperback

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by Bradford J. Beyer (Author)In this heartwarming and inspiring memoir, Bradford Beyer takes readers on an unlikely journey from reluctant Army recruit to seasoned FBI agent, with an unexpected feline companion guiding him along the way. When young Brad joins the Army to avoid college, he never imagines he'll end up rescuing a tiny kitten while deployed in Turkey. But Silopi, named after the town where they meet, becomes Brad's unexpected anchor as he navigates military life, a long-distance ...

Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari`a - Paperback

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by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im (Author)What should be the place of Shari'a--Islamic religious law--in predominantly Muslim societies of the world? In this ambitious and topical book, a Muslim scholar and human rights activist envisions a positive and sustainable role for Shari'a, based on a profound rethinking of the relationship between religion and the secular state in all societies. An-Na'im argues that the coercive enforcement of Shari'a by the state betrays the Qur'an's insistence on volunt...