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The Harm in Hate Speech

by Jeremy Waldron ...

Series Book 10 - The Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures, 2009.
For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Waldron rejects this view, and makes the case that hate speech should be regulated as part of a commitment to human dignity and to inclusion and respect for members of vulnerable minorities. ... Read more

$31.97 NZD

For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Waldron rejects this view, and makes the case that hate speech should be regulated as part of a commitment to human dignity and to inclusion and respect for members of vulnerable minorities.
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Geographical Indications for Food Products

International Legal and Regulatory Perspectives

by Marsha A. Echols ...

Since the first edition of this indispensable volume nearly a decade ago, great changes have taken place in the national and international legal and regulatory frameworks for geographical indications (GIs) systems for food products. Rather than limitation (designed to prevent the use of 'culture' for protectionist purposes), the preponderance now favours recognition of GIs, with enforcement ... Read more

$385.16 NZD

Since the first edition of this indispensable volume nearly a decade ago, great changes have taken place in the national and international legal and regulatory frameworks for geographical indications (GIs) systems for food products. Rather than limitation (designed to prevent the use of 'culture' for protectionist purposes), the preponderance now favours recognition of GIs, with enforcement
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Trusts and Patrimonies

Edited by Remus Valsan ...

Series series Edinburgh Studies in Law
$150.49 NZD
Corporate and Unitary Legal Entities in Russia

by Florian Heindler ...

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this practical analysis of the law of business formations in Russia provides quick and easy guidance on a variety of corporate and partnership considerations such as mergers, rights and duties of interested parties, stock exchange rules, labour laws, and takeovers. Lawyers who handle transnational business will appreciate ... Read more

$109.57 NZD

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this practical analysis of the law of business formations in Russia provides quick and easy guidance on a variety of corporate and partnership considerations such as mergers, rights and duties of interested parties, stock exchange rules, labour laws, and takeovers. Lawyers who handle transnational business will appreciate
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Europe-China Tax Treaties

Edited by Jianwen Liu ...

The book is the result of a joint research project on the tax treaties concluded between the People's Republic of China and European countries. Each chapter carefully analyses the extent to which Chinese tax treaties follow the OECD Model Tax Convention on Income and Capital and the UN Income and Capital Model Convention. The focus is on the different policy decisions underlying the various ... Read more

$295.47 NZD

The book is the result of a joint research project on the tax treaties concluded between the People's Republic of China and European countries. Each chapter carefully analyses the extent to which Chinese tax treaties follow the OECD Model Tax Convention on Income and Capital and the UN Income and Capital Model Convention. The focus is on the different policy decisions underlying the various
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Practical Considerations to Negotiate an Enforceable Joint Operating Agreement under Civil Law Jurisdictions

Edited by Damilola S.Olawuyi ...

Because agreements concerning oil and gas upstream activities have historically been developed in common law jurisdictions, a growing concern for the petroleum industry is that a some upstream investment might not be enforceable in a civil law jurisdiction to the extent the same standards/concepts are used without any adaptation. This is why it is essential to understand and analyse how to ... Read more

$233.50 NZD

Because agreements concerning oil and gas upstream activities have historically been developed in common law jurisdictions, a growing concern for the petroleum industry is that a some upstream investment might not be enforceable in a civil law jurisdiction to the extent the same standards/concepts are used without any adaptation. This is why it is essential to understand and analyse how to
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Contested Secessions

Rights, Self-determination, Democracy, and Kashmir

by Neera Chandhoke ...

This book approaches contested secession and the more Western concept of consensual secession from a political theory perspective. In particular, it focuses on the Kashmir issue as a form of contested secession and examines whether the Kashmiri people have a ‘right’ to secede. ... Read more

$84.45 NZD

This book approaches contested secession and the more Western concept of consensual secession from a political theory perspective. In particular, it focuses on the Kashmir issue as a form of contested secession and examines whether the Kashmiri people have a ‘right’ to secede.
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Copyright, Property and the Social Contract

The Reconceptualisation of Copyright

Edited by John Gilchrist, Brian Fitzgerald ...

This book provides international perspectives on the law of copyright in relation to three core themes - copyright and developing countries; the government and copyright; and technology and the future of copyright. The third theme includes an examination of the extent to which technology will dictate the development of the law, and a re-examination of the role of copyright in fostering innovation ... Read more

$223.34 NZD

This book provides international perspectives on the law of copyright in relation to three core themes - copyright and developing countries; the government and copyright; and technology and the future of copyright. The third theme includes an examination of the extent to which technology will dictate the development of the law, and a re-examination of the role of copyright in fostering innovation
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Role of the Judiciary in Environmental Governance

Comparative Perspectives

Edited by Louis J Kotze ...

Series series Comparative Environmental Law and Policy Series
This important book investigates the environmental legal frameworks, court structures and relevant jurisprudence of nineteen countries, representing legal systems and legal cultures from a diverse array of countries situated across the globe. In doing so, it distils comparative trends, new developments, and best practices in adjudication endeavours, highlighting the benefits and shortcomings of ... Read more

$305.49 NZD

This important book investigates the environmental legal frameworks, court structures and relevant jurisprudence of nineteen countries, representing legal systems and legal cultures from a diverse array of countries situated across the globe. In doing so, it distils comparative trends, new developments, and best practices in adjudication endeavours, highlighting the benefits and shortcomings of
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Democracy and Executive Power

Policymaking Accountability in the US, the UK, Germany, and France

by Susan Rose-Ackerman ...

A defense of regulatory agencies’ efforts to combine public consultation with bureaucratic expertise to serve the interest of all citizensThe statutory delegation of rule-making authority to the executive has recently become a source of controversy. There are guiding models, but none, Susan Rose-Ackerman claims, is a good fit with the needs of regulating in the public interest. Using a cross ... Read more

$86.83 NZD

A defense of regulatory agencies’ efforts to combine public consultation with bureaucratic expertise to serve the interest of all citizensThe statutory delegation of rule-making authority to the executive has recently become a source of controversy. There are guiding models, but none, Susan Rose-Ackerman claims, is a good fit with the needs of regulating in the public interest. Using a cross
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The Legal Issues of the Emerging Rights

Edited by Jianzong Yao ...

This book systematically discusses the contents of the administrative right to know, the right to information, the right to gene, euthanasia and other emerging rights. The purpose of this book is to attract legal scholars to pay attention to these right changes in the process of China's social transformation, analyze the basic laws of right changes under the specific background of China's society ... Read more

$238.66 NZD

This book systematically discusses the contents of the administrative right to know, the right to information, the right to gene, euthanasia and other emerging rights. The purpose of this book is to attract legal scholars to pay attention to these right changes in the process of China's social transformation, analyze the basic laws of right changes under the specific background of China's society
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Minderheitenschutz in Ungarn und der Tuerkei

Eine vergleichende Studie zum Umgang mit Trianon-Trauma und Sèvres-Syndrom

by Arndt Künnecke ...

Dieses Buch vergleicht den Minderheitenschutz in Ungarn und der Türkei. Unter ihren immer autokratischer agierenden Herrschern Viktor Orbán und Recep Tayyip Erdoğan haben sich beide Länder in den vergangenen Jahren immer mehr vom Westen abgewandt und insbesondere Menschenrechte systematisch eingeschränkt. Eng mit der Garantie von Menschenrechten verknüpft ist der Schutz von Minderheiten. Dieser ... Read more

$170.97 NZD

Dieses Buch vergleicht den Minderheitenschutz in Ungarn und der Türkei. Unter ihren immer autokratischer agierenden Herrschern Viktor Orbán und Recep Tayyip Erdoğan haben sich beide Länder in den vergangenen Jahren immer mehr vom Westen abgewandt und insbesondere Menschenrechte systematisch eingeschränkt. Eng mit der Garantie von Menschenrechten verknüpft ist der Schutz von Minderheiten. Dieser
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Legal Discourses

by Marcus Galdia ...

The book approaches law from the legal-linguistic perspective. Its aim is to clarify the processes in which the meaning of law emerges in legal discourses. In order to enable the understanding of law as a discursive practice, professional and non-professional discourses are analyzed. With this aim in mind, the author focuses on the epistemological consequences of the discursiveness of law. Other ... Read more

$207.51 NZD

The book approaches law from the legal-linguistic perspective. Its aim is to clarify the processes in which the meaning of law emerges in legal discourses. In order to enable the understanding of law as a discursive practice, professional and non-professional discourses are analyzed. With this aim in mind, the author focuses on the epistemological consequences of the discursiveness of law. Other
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A Diplomat’s Handbook of International Law and Practice

by Biswanath Sen ...

Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
It gives me great pleasure to write a foreword to :\1r. Sen's excellent book, and for two reasons in particular. In the first place, in producing it, Mr. Sen has done something vvhich I have long felt needed to be done, and which I at one time had am bitions to do myself. \Vhen, over thirty years ago, and after some years of practice at the Bar, I first entered the legal side of the British ... Read more

$158.55 NZD

It gives me great pleasure to write a foreword to :\1r. Sen's excellent book, and for two reasons in particular. In the first place, in producing it, Mr. Sen has done something vvhich I have long felt needed to be done, and which I at one time had am bitions to do myself. \Vhen, over thirty years ago, and after some years of practice at the Bar, I first entered the legal side of the British
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Cases, Materials and Text on Contract Law

by Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson, Jacobien Rutgers, Professor Hugh Beale, Professor Stefan Vogenauer ...

Series series Ius Commune Casebooks for the Common Law of Europe
This is the third edition of the widely acclaimed and successful casebook on contract in the IusCommune series, developed to be used throughout Europe and beyond by anyone who teaches, learns or practises law with a comparative or European perspective. The book contains leading cases, legislation and other materials from English, French and German law as the main representatives of the legal ... Read more

$123.26 NZD

This is the third edition of the widely acclaimed and successful casebook on contract in the IusCommune series, developed to be used throughout Europe and beyond by anyone who teaches, learns or practises law with a comparative or European perspective. The book contains leading cases, legislation and other materials from English, French and German law as the main representatives of the legal
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The Origin of the Trust

A Comparative Linguistics and Law Perspective

by Irina Gvelesiani ...

Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
This book offers an interdisciplinary approach that covers linguistics and jurisprudence, shows the interconnectedness of law and language, singles out major theories related to the emergence of the concept of trust and discusses them from the perspective of legal linguistics. Contemporary globalizing processes change the contours of different spheres of life. Against the backdrop of ongoing ... Read more

$257.19 NZD

This book offers an interdisciplinary approach that covers linguistics and jurisprudence, shows the interconnectedness of law and language, singles out major theories related to the emergence of the concept of trust and discusses them from the perspective of legal linguistics. Contemporary globalizing processes change the contours of different spheres of life. Against the backdrop of ongoing
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Life Imprisonment

A Global Human Rights Analysis

by Dirk Van Zyl Smit, Catherine Appleton ...

Life imprisonment has replaced capital punishment as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. As a consequence, it has become the leading issue in international criminal justice reform. In the first global survey of prisoners serving life terms, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Catherine Appleton argue for a human rights–based reappraisal of this exceptionally harsh punishment. The ... Read more

$101.63 NZD

Life imprisonment has replaced capital punishment as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. As a consequence, it has become the leading issue in international criminal justice reform. In the first global survey of prisoners serving life terms, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Catherine Appleton argue for a human rights–based reappraisal of this exceptionally harsh punishment. The
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On Contemporary Chinese Legal System

by Xiaobo Dong, Yafang Zhang ...

Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
This book delivers a comprehensive, insightful, and updated analytic description of contemporary Chinese legal system. From a macro perspective, it presents, both theoretically and empirically, the evolution of Chinese law, describing its distinctive features, comparing it with other experiences across the world, and exploring the influence of economic, social, cultural, and technological factors ... Read more

$257.19 NZD

This book delivers a comprehensive, insightful, and updated analytic description of contemporary Chinese legal system. From a macro perspective, it presents, both theoretically and empirically, the evolution of Chinese law, describing its distinctive features, comparing it with other experiences across the world, and exploring the influence of economic, social, cultural, and technological factors
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Evidence Jurisprudence in China

by Hua Guo ...

Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
This book absorbs the experience and wisdom of the application of evidence in judicial practice, explains the principles of evidence law with the help of Chinese and foreign classic evidence cases, and interprets the evidence system and rules of interpretation of evidence. In the arrangement of style, this book adopts the heuristic paradigm of linking cases and questions, which can improve ... Read more

$312.35 NZD

This book absorbs the experience and wisdom of the application of evidence in judicial practice, explains the principles of evidence law with the help of Chinese and foreign classic evidence cases, and interprets the evidence system and rules of interpretation of evidence. In the arrangement of style, this book adopts the heuristic paradigm of linking cases and questions, which can improve
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Deconstructing the Interdisciplinary Study of International Law and International Relations

by Roberto Vilchez Yamato ...

Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
This book proposes a decolonial deconstruction of the interdisciplinary study of International Law (IL) and International Relations (IR). In so doing, it aims to satisfy some specific needs. First, it aims to provide an original, authorial book on the interdisciplinary study of IL and IR, and on the politics of international law, which is critical, politico-philosophical, and (meta)theoretically ... Read more

$238.87 NZD

This book proposes a decolonial deconstruction of the interdisciplinary study of International Law (IL) and International Relations (IR). In so doing, it aims to satisfy some specific needs. First, it aims to provide an original, authorial book on the interdisciplinary study of IL and IR, and on the politics of international law, which is critical, politico-philosophical, and (meta)theoretically
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Legal Issues for Implementing the Clean Development Mechanism in China

by Xiaoyi Jiang ...

Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
Today, climate change is among the most hotly-debated topics. The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), one of the three financial mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol open to developing and developed countries, was devised to assist in mitigation of global warming. This book discusses what China should do to make full use of the CDM to promote sustainable development and to meet the challenge of ... Read more

$165.38 NZD

Today, climate change is among the most hotly-debated topics. The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), one of the three financial mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol open to developing and developed countries, was devised to assist in mitigation of global warming. This book discusses what China should do to make full use of the CDM to promote sustainable development and to meet the challenge of
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Yearbook of International Sports Arbitration 2015

Edited by Antoine Duval, Antonio Rigozzi ...

Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
The Yearbook of International Sports Arbitration is the first academic publication aiming to offer comprehensive coverage, on a yearly basis, of the most recent and salient developments regarding international sports arbitration, through a combination of general articles and case notes. The present volume covers decisions rendered by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and national courts in ... Read more

$165.38 NZD

The Yearbook of International Sports Arbitration is the first academic publication aiming to offer comprehensive coverage, on a yearly basis, of the most recent and salient developments regarding international sports arbitration, through a combination of general articles and case notes. The present volume covers decisions rendered by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and national courts in
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The Politics of Trade and Tobacco Control

by H. Jarman ...

This book uses the concept of political conflict to examine the effects of globalization on tobacco control policies. Analyzing a range of challenges to policies enacted by Australia, Canada, the United States, the European Union and Uruguay, the book examines how the global trading system has narrowed the scope of conflicts over tobacco control. ... Read more

$91.90 NZD

This book uses the concept of political conflict to examine the effects of globalization on tobacco control policies. Analyzing a range of challenges to policies enacted by Australia, Canada, the United States, the European Union and Uruguay, the book examines how the global trading system has narrowed the scope of conflicts over tobacco control.
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Contract Law

A Comparative Introduction

by Jan M. Smits ...

Reflecting the most recent changes in the law, the third edition of this popular textbook provides a fully updated, comparative introduction to the law of contract. Accessible and clear, it is perfectly pitched for international students and courses with a global outlook.Jan Smits’ unique approach treats contract law as a discipline that can be studied on the basis of common principles and methods ... Read more

$69.54 NZD

Reflecting the most recent changes in the law, the third edition of this popular textbook provides a fully updated, comparative introduction to the law of contract. Accessible and clear, it is perfectly pitched for international students and courses with a global outlook.Jan Smits’ unique approach treats contract law as a discipline that can be studied on the basis of common principles and methods
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