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When You Come at the King

Inside DOJ's Pursuit of the President, From Nixon to Trump

by Elie Honig ...

"[A] deeply researched, keenly analytical, and frequently provocative chronicle of this singular judicial entity. . . . A senior legal analyst for CNN and former assistant U.S. attorney, Honig is well-suited to the task of providing a historical overview of the special counsel's function with the ever-evolving context of politics, partisanship and political skepticism." —Booklist (STARRED review) ... Read more

$18.99 CAD

"[A] deeply researched, keenly analytical, and frequently provocative chronicle of this singular judicial entity. . . . A senior legal analyst for CNN and former assistant U.S. attorney, Honig is well-suited to the task of providing a historical overview of the special counsel's function with the ever-evolving context of politics, partisanship and political skepticism." —Booklist (STARRED review)
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Dealing with Losers

The Political Economy of Policy Transitions

by Professor Michael J. Trebilcock ...

Whenever governments change policies--tax, expenditure, or regulatory policies, among others--there will typically be losers: people or groups who relied upon and invested in physical, financial, or human capital predicated on, or even deliberately induced by the pre-reform set of policies. The issue of whether and when to mitigate the costs associated with policy changes, either through explicit ... Read more

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Whenever governments change policies--tax, expenditure, or regulatory policies, among others--there will typically be losers: people or groups who relied upon and invested in physical, financial, or human capital predicated on, or even deliberately induced by the pre-reform set of policies. The issue of whether and when to mitigate the costs associated with policy changes, either through explicit
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The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy

Edited by Matthew D. Adler, Marc Fleurbaey ...

Series series Oxford Handbooks
What are the methodologies for assessing and improving governmental policy in light of well-being? The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary treatment of this topic. The contributors draw from welfare economics, moral philosophy, and psychology and are leading scholars in these fields. The Handbook includes thirty chapters divided into four ... Read more

$172.79 CAD

What are the methodologies for assessing and improving governmental policy in light of well-being? The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary treatment of this topic. The contributors draw from welfare economics, moral philosophy, and psychology and are leading scholars in these fields. The Handbook includes thirty chapters divided into four
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Underground Warfare

by Daphné Richemond-Barak ...

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

$44.63 CAD

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
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The Transition of Religion to Culture in Law and Public Discourse

by Lori Beaman ...

Series series ICLARS Series on Law and Religion
This book explores the recent trend toward the transformation of religious symbols and practices into culture in Western democracies. Analyses of three legal cases involving religion in the public sphere are used to illuminate this trend: a municipal council chamber; a town hall; and town board meetings. Each case involves a different national context—Canada, France and the United States—and each ... Read more

$77.61 CAD

This book explores the recent trend toward the transformation of religious symbols and practices into culture in Western democracies. Analyses of three legal cases involving religion in the public sphere are used to illuminate this trend: a municipal council chamber; a town hall; and town board meetings. Each case involves a different national context—Canada, France and the United States—and each
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Adjudication in Action

An Ethnomethodology of Law, Morality and Justice

by Baudouin Dupret ...

Series series Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
Adjudication in Action describes the moral dimension of judicial activities and the judicial approach to questions of morality, observing the contextualized deployment of various practices and the activities of diverse people who, in different capacities, find themselves involved with institutional judicial space. Exploring the manner in which the enactment of the law is morally accomplished, and ... Read more

$94.85 CAD

Adjudication in Action describes the moral dimension of judicial activities and the judicial approach to questions of morality, observing the contextualized deployment of various practices and the activities of diverse people who, in different capacities, find themselves involved with institutional judicial space. Exploring the manner in which the enactment of the law is morally accomplished, and
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Ley de Inversión Extranjera

DOF 15/06/2018

by Congreso de la Unión, Guillermo Solis Sansores ...

Ley que regula o restringe la posibilidad que empresas extranjeras puedan invertir en algunos rubros económicos de México****ACTUALIZACIONES PERIÓDICAS INCLUIDAS****** ... Read more

$1.13 CAD

Ley que regula o restringe la posibilidad que empresas extranjeras puedan invertir en algunos rubros económicos de México****ACTUALIZACIONES PERIÓDICAS INCLUIDAS******
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Einführung in das Internetrecht

Rechtsgrundlagen für Informatiker (Ausgabe Österreich)

by Michael Sonntag ...

Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen rund um Internet und InformatikDas vorliegende Buch behandelt Grundlagen des Rechts mit besonderem Bezug zum Internet bzw. der Informatik. Besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf Verständlichkeit für Nicht-Juristinnen und -Juristen sowie konkreten Praxisbeispielen, welche die Befassung mit diesem Thema erleichtern. Der inhaltliche Bogen der behandelten Gebiete spannt sich von ... Read more

$62.99 CAD

Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen rund um Internet und InformatikDas vorliegende Buch behandelt Grundlagen des Rechts mit besonderem Bezug zum Internet bzw. der Informatik. Besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf Verständlichkeit für Nicht-Juristinnen und -Juristen sowie konkreten Praxisbeispielen, welche die Befassung mit diesem Thema erleichtern. Der inhaltliche Bogen der behandelten Gebiete spannt sich von
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Constitutional Review in Western Europe

Judicial-Legislative Relations in Comparative Perspective

Edited by Kálmán Pócza ...

Recent confrontations between constitutional courts and parliamentary majorities in several European countries have attracted international interest in the relationship between the judiciary and the legislature.Some political actors have argued that courts have assumed too much power and politics has been extremely judicialized. Yet the extent to which this aggregation of power may have ... Read more

$51.50 CAD

Recent confrontations between constitutional courts and parliamentary majorities in several European countries have attracted international interest in the relationship between the judiciary and the legislature.Some political actors have argued that courts have assumed too much power and politics has been extremely judicialized. Yet the extent to which this aggregation of power may have
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Das Hochschulrecht in Baden-Württemberg

Systematische Darstellung

by Lutz Bölke, Claus Eiselstein, Sabine Faisst, Volker M. Haug, Klaus Herberger, Angela Kalous, Helmut Messer, Arne Pautsch, Georg Sandberger, Karin Schiller0, Uwe Umbach1 ...

Aufgrund des weitgehenden Bedeutungsverlustes des Bundeshochschulrechts hat sich ein heterogenes Hochschulrecht der Länder entwickelt. Mit der Abschaffung der gesamten Rahmengesetzgebungskompetenz des Bundes im Rahmen der Föderalismusreform 2006 entfiel auch die darin enthaltene Zuständigkeit für "die allgemeinen Grundsätze des Hochschulwesens". In vielen Ländern hat eine intensive ... Read more

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Aufgrund des weitgehenden Bedeutungsverlustes des Bundeshochschulrechts hat sich ein heterogenes Hochschulrecht der Länder entwickelt. Mit der Abschaffung der gesamten Rahmengesetzgebungskompetenz des Bundes im Rahmen der Föderalismusreform 2006 entfiel auch die darin enthaltene Zuständigkeit für "die allgemeinen Grundsätze des Hochschulwesens". In vielen Ländern hat eine intensive
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Intégration régionale « appropriée » en Afrique

Éléments juridiques d'effectivité

by Samuel-Jacques Priso Essawe ...

Series Book 28 - Business and Innovation
Le droit de l’intégration économique régionale en Afrique s’est considérablement densifié depuis la décennie 1990, car à ce moment la situation institutionnelle et juridique des organisations a radicalement changé. Pour autant, force est de constater que ces réformes n’ont pas nécessairement produit les effets escomptés, le bilan de l’intégration montrant un décalage entre l’« infrastructure ... Read more

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Le droit de l’intégration économique régionale en Afrique s’est considérablement densifié depuis la décennie 1990, car à ce moment la situation institutionnelle et juridique des organisations a radicalement changé. Pour autant, force est de constater que ces réformes n’ont pas nécessairement produit les effets escomptés, le bilan de l’intégration montrant un décalage entre l’« infrastructure
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Public Service Innovations in China

Edited by Yijia Jing, Stephen P. Osborne ...

Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
This edited volume presents case studies of the transformation of China’s public services over the past decade in China. As the country has experienced fundamental changes in its demographic, economic, social and environmental structures, demands on public services have been increasing tremendously, and have become unprecedentedly diverse. In response, innovations to provide new services, expand ... Read more

$104.48 CAD

This edited volume presents case studies of the transformation of China’s public services over the past decade in China. As the country has experienced fundamental changes in its demographic, economic, social and environmental structures, demands on public services have been increasing tremendously, and have become unprecedentedly diverse. In response, innovations to provide new services, expand
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Street-Level Sovereignty

The Intersection of Space and Law

by Nadirsyah Hosen, Margaret Mott, Aaron Lorenz, Andrea Pavoni, Andrés Fabián Henao Castro, Patrícia Branco, Allen Linken, Marilyn Brown, Jan M. Broekman, Richard Mohr, Sarah Marusek0, John Brigham2 ...

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

$123.11 CAD

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
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Article 8 ECHR, Family Reunification and the UK’s Supreme Court

Family Matters?

by Dr Helena Wray ...

Series series Human Rights Law in Perspective
How do courts reconcile protecting family life with immigration control in human rights cases? This book addresses that question through an analysis of 11 UK Supreme Court decisions on immigration and family life, mostly focusing on Article 8 ECHR, the right to respect for family life, and starting with Huang v SSHD in 2007. The analysis is set against a national context that includes the Human ... Read more

$57.05 CAD

How do courts reconcile protecting family life with immigration control in human rights cases? This book addresses that question through an analysis of 11 UK Supreme Court decisions on immigration and family life, mostly focusing on Article 8 ECHR, the right to respect for family life, and starting with Huang v SSHD in 2007. The analysis is set against a national context that includes the Human
... Read more
Education, Law and Diversity

Schooling for One and All?

by Neville Harris ...

This new edition of Education, Law and Diversity provides extensive updated analysis, from a legal perspective, of how the education system responds to social diversity and how the relevant social and cultural rights of individuals and groups are affected. It spans wide-ranging areas of school provision, including: types of school (including faith schools), the school curriculum, choice of school, ... Read more

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This new edition of Education, Law and Diversity provides extensive updated analysis, from a legal perspective, of how the education system responds to social diversity and how the relevant social and cultural rights of individuals and groups are affected. It spans wide-ranging areas of school provision, including: types of school (including faith schools), the school curriculum, choice of school,
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Germany’s Dual Constitution

Parliamentary Democracy in the Federal Republic

by Florian Meinel ...

Series series Parliamentary Democracy in Europe
This book offers a compelling and persuasive framework for understanding the German constitutional system. It argues that it can only be fully understood as a dual structure combining two layers with little in common. The first layer is the basic administrative institutional structure, comprised of federal institutions. The second layer is that of parliamentary democracy. It is the interplay ... Read more

$46.34 CAD

This book offers a compelling and persuasive framework for understanding the German constitutional system. It argues that it can only be fully understood as a dual structure combining two layers with little in common. The first layer is the basic administrative institutional structure, comprised of federal institutions. The second layer is that of parliamentary democracy. It is the interplay
... Read more
The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in the Member States

Edited by Michal Bobek, Professor Jeremias Adams-Prassl ...

Series series EU Law in the Member States
Ten years after the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union became part of binding primary law, and twenty years since its adoption, this volume assess the application of the EU Charter in the Member States. How often, and in particular by which actors, is the EU Charter invoked at the national level? In what type of situations is it used? Has the approach of national courts in general ... Read more

$94.94 CAD

Ten years after the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union became part of binding primary law, and twenty years since its adoption, this volume assess the application of the EU Charter in the Member States. How often, and in particular by which actors, is the EU Charter invoked at the national level? In what type of situations is it used? Has the approach of national courts in general
... Read more
The Responsibility to Protect and the Failures of the United Nations Security Council

by P M Butchard ...

Series series Studies in International Law
What can be done if the United Nations Security Council fails to protect people from mass atrocities? At a time of inaction and political paralysis at the United Nations, this book explains the legality of alternative action beyond the Security Council.This book takes a fresh look at the responsibility to protect and offers new and compelling insights into the powers and limits of the UN Security ... Read more

$56.06 CAD

What can be done if the United Nations Security Council fails to protect people from mass atrocities? At a time of inaction and political paralysis at the United Nations, this book explains the legality of alternative action beyond the Security Council.This book takes a fresh look at the responsibility to protect and offers new and compelling insights into the powers and limits of the UN Security
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Jus ad Bellum

The Law on Inter-State Use of Force

by Stuart Casey-Maslen ...

This work expounds, for those in practice and beyond, the rules of international law governing the inter-state use of force. Jus ad bellum determines when a state - or group of states - may lawfully use force against, or on the territory of, another state, and when such action violates international law. The bedrock of the law is found in the Charter of the United Nations, but the interpretation ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

This work expounds, for those in practice and beyond, the rules of international law governing the inter-state use of force. Jus ad bellum determines when a state - or group of states - may lawfully use force against, or on the territory of, another state, and when such action violates international law. The bedrock of the law is found in the Charter of the United Nations, but the interpretation
... Read more
Equality Before the Law

Equal Dignity, Wrongful Discrimination, and the Rule of Law

by Michael P Foran ...

Series series Hart Studies in Constitutional Theory
This book presents a defence of the value of equality within law which is neither purely formal nor an entirely speculative theory of justice. It does this by combining a theoretical with a doctrinal project.At the theoretical level, it argues that there is a distinct and meaningful conception of equality before the law which can be separated from concerns of distributive justice. It therefore ... Read more

$56.06 CAD

This book presents a defence of the value of equality within law which is neither purely formal nor an entirely speculative theory of justice. It does this by combining a theoretical with a doctrinal project.At the theoretical level, it argues that there is a distinct and meaningful conception of equality before the law which can be separated from concerns of distributive justice. It therefore
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Ordoliberalism, Law and the Rule of Economics

Edited by Josef Hien, Professor Christian Joerges ...

Ordoliberalism is a theoretical and cultural tradition of significant societal and political impact in post-war Germany. For a long time the theory was only known outside Germany by a handful of experts, but ordoliberalism has now moved centre stage after the advent of the financial crisis, and has become widely perceived as the ideational source of Germany's crisis politics.In this collection, ... Read more

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Ordoliberalism is a theoretical and cultural tradition of significant societal and political impact in post-war Germany. For a long time the theory was only known outside Germany by a handful of experts, but ordoliberalism has now moved centre stage after the advent of the financial crisis, and has become widely perceived as the ideational source of Germany's crisis politics.In this collection,
... Read more
Evolution of Sexual Assaults in Spain: Trends, Impact and Projections to 2050.

Research published in English, #3

by Juan Carlos Gómez Méndez ...

Series Book 3 - Research published in English
This study analyzes the evolution of sexual assaults in Spain following the enactment of Organic Law 10/2022, which unified all non-consensual acts under the concept of sexual assault. Between 2022 and 2025, cases increased from 31 to 130 (a rise of 319%). Male participation is practically absolute, while cases committed by women are marginal (0–2 cases).The methodology applied was quantitative, ... Read more

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This study analyzes the evolution of sexual assaults in Spain following the enactment of Organic Law 10/2022, which unified all non-consensual acts under the concept of sexual assault. Between 2022 and 2025, cases increased from 31 to 130 (a rise of 319%). Male participation is practically absolute, while cases committed by women are marginal (0–2 cases).The methodology applied was quantitative,
... Read more
La costituzione per tutti

Gli articoli, i principi e la storia italiana raccontati in modo semplice

by Angelo Greco ...

Angelo Greco, da anni impegnato a portare la legge – e soprattutto la sua corretta interpretazione – in ogni casa, racconta in questo libro la nostra Costituzione. Ogni articolo è letto e spiegato attraverso la doppia lente di cui l'autore dispone: quella dell'avvocato e quella del divulgatore capace di parlare a tutti grazie a un linguaggio sempre chiaro e comprensibile, lontano dal famigerato ... Read more

$14.99 CAD

Angelo Greco, da anni impegnato a portare la legge – e soprattutto la sua corretta interpretazione – in ogni casa, racconta in questo libro la nostra Costituzione. Ogni articolo è letto e spiegato attraverso la doppia lente di cui l'autore dispone: quella dell'avvocato e quella del divulgatore capace di parlare a tutti grazie a un linguaggio sempre chiaro e comprensibile, lontano dal famigerato
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Le contrôle juridictionnel de la passation des marchés publics au Sénégal

by Ismaïla Madior Fall, Moustapha Ngaide, Papa Makha Diao ...

L’importante Directive n° 05/2005/CM/UEMOA portant contrôle et régulation des marchés publics et des délégations de service public dans l’UEMOA a fondamentalement transformé le contentieux des contrats administratifs. Sa transposition a permis, entre autres, la modiﬁcation du Code des Obligations de l’Administration en 2006, avec la création d’une Autorité de Régulation des Marchés publics (ARMP), ... Read more

$42.33 CAD

L’importante Directive n° 05/2005/CM/UEMOA portant contrôle et régulation des marchés publics et des délégations de service public dans l’UEMOA a fondamentalement transformé le contentieux des contrats administratifs. Sa transposition a permis, entre autres, la modiﬁcation du Code des Obligations de l’Administration en 2006, avec la création d’une Autorité de Régulation des Marchés publics (ARMP),
... Read more

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