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This book is basically a descriptive analysis of the very important factor in today's medical scenario i.e. "Consent" especially while commencing any special procedure or surgery on a patient who is no more a passive recipient of therapeutics and therapeutic misadventures but an active...

The United Arab Emirates is in an important economic position to attract investors and capital from all over the world to develop and open the door to investment. The United Arab Emirates has sought to adopt a new law replacing Civil Procedure Act No....

This book uses fairy tales, fables, and nursery rhymes that we all know and love as jumping-off points to talk about executors, wills, estates, family fights, inheritance, and so much more. Written by Lynne Butler, a lawyer with 30 years of experience in wills...

Come on a journey with veteran firearms officer, Stephen Smith as he goes behind the scenes of the Met's Specialist Firearms Unit, CO19.This book covers events from the controversial shooting of Azelle Rodney in 2005 and Mark Duggan in 2011, right up to the...

Are Your Concerns Regarding Divorce and Child Custody Stressing You Out?This book is filled with all the questions and concerns you'll have about custody. Divorce is one of the most stressful times of your life, so why not make it little easier with family...

Official English Edition of the Maxims of Divine Law.Author: UcadiaISBN-10: 1644190230ISBN-13: 9781644190234Publisher: Ucadia Books CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/21/2020Pages: 534Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.70lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 1.08d

Official English Edition of Lebor Clann Glas: Covenant of the Holly Diaspora Volume I: 10,830 BCE to 365 CE.Author: UcadiaISBN-10: 1644190095ISBN-13: 9781644190098Publisher: Ucadia Books CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/10/2020Pages: 486Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.84lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.98d

In recent decades, the issue of gender-based violence has become heavily politicized in India. Yet, Indian law enforcement personnel continue to be biased against women and overburdened. In Capable Women, Incapable States, Poulami Roychowdhury asks how women claim rights within these conditions. Through long...

This book investigates and discusses the respective issues arising in the current discourse on climate protection from different legal perspectives (including international law, European law and national public and civil law). In particular, it addresses the issue of "climate protection by courts". It gives...

Recently the alarm has been raised - basic freedoms are under attack in our universities. A generation of 'snowflake' students are shutting out ideas that challenge their views. Ideologically motivated academics are promoting propaganda at the expense of rigorous research and balanced teaching. Universities...

Since its first appearance in 1986, this magisterial work has won uniform praise from many of the world's leading comparatists. It has been acclaimed by senior judges and has been cited by the courts of many countries. This new, substantially rewritten and systematically updated...

This book explores the main challenges against multiculturalism. It aims to examine whether liberalism and multiculturalism are reconcilable, and what are the limits of liberal democratic interventions in illiberal affairs of minority cultures within democracy. In the process, this book addresses three questions: whether...

Visibility and Control: Cameras and Certainty in Governing addresses the ways in which camera-produced images are used to support governmental authority. The text begins by examining some of the basic levels at which the body interacts with media, and then expands the scope of...

In A Consequentialist Defense of Libertarianism, Richard Fumerton argues that empirical facts concerning consequences must always play a crucial role in a plausible defense of freedom. After making distinctions between morality and law, he defends the view that it is a fundamental mistake to...

The Enlightened Shareholder Value principle and Corporate Social Responsibility are areas of increasing academic and research interest. However, discussions on the ESV principle in relation to CSR are very limited. This book provides a critical analysis of the impact of the concept of ESV,...

A vital book by industry thought leader and global AI expert, Dr. Lance Eliot, and based on his popular AI Insider series and podcasts, this fascinating book provides pioneering advances for the field of AI and Law. Included are keen insights about the scholarly...

Native nation economies have long been dominated by public sector activities - government programs and services and tribal government-owned businesses - which do not generate the same long-term benefits for local communities that the private sector does. In this work, editors Robert Miller, Miriam...

States and the Interpretation of Treaties opens with a provocative reconsideration of a debate on the subject of comparative international legal obligations by the United Nations's International Law Commission. In this book, distinguished Tufts University legal scholar Dimitris Liakopoulos identifies and explores relevant considerations...

Over the years, there have been increasing intersections between religious claims and nationalism and their power to frame and govern world politics. When Politics Are Sacralized interdisciplinarily and comparatively examines the fusion between religious claims and nationalism and studies its political manifestations. State and...

Twenty to forty percent of the US prison population will spend time in restricted housing units--or solitary confinement. These separate units within prisons have enhanced security measures, and thousands of staff control and monitor the residents. Though commonly assumed to be punishment for only...

Online surveillance of our behavior by private companies is on the increase, particularly through the Internet of Things and the increasing use of algorithmic decision-making. This troubling trend undermines privacy and increasingly threatens our ability to control how information about us is shared and...

A good account of history is vital for preservation of facts and truths just as the making of good laws and its enforcement are essential for the maintenance of peace and order in any society. Mindful of the role that religion played in the...

The general objective of the study was to find out how the International Criminal Court has been targeting African leaders. The specific objectives were to establish how the ICC policies are targeting Africans unfairly, to examine the unfairness of international law on African leaders,...

Biosocial criminology--and biosocial criminologists--focuses on both the environmental and biological factors that contribute to antisocial behavior. Importantly, these two domains are not separate parts of an equation but pieces of the same puzzle that fit together for a complete picture of the causes of...

Processes of post-war reconstruction, peacebuilding and reconciliation are partly about fostering stability and adaptive capacity across different social systems. Nevertheless, these processes have seldom been expressly discussed within a resilience framework. Similarly, although the goals of transitional justice - among them (re)establishing the rule...

The book "" The Book of Art for Young People, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and...

The book aims to introduce the Homeric oeuvre into the law and literature canon. It argues for a reading of Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey as primordial narratives on the significance of the rule of law. The book delineates moments of correspondence between...

Foster on EU Law offers an incisive account of the institutions and procedures of the EU alongside focused analysis of core substantive areas. This clear two-part structure provides students with a solid foundation in the mechanisms and applications of EU law, making it an...

This book is about a white Naval Officer who, figuratively speaking, placed his foot on the neck of a black sailor until that sailor screamed for help. But for Ernie Davis Jr., no help ever came. Even though the primary wrongdoer swore under oath...

Reading Ricoeur through Law, edited by Marc de Leeuw, George H. Taylor, and Eileen Brennan, is the first collection of essays solely focused on Ricoeur's thinking about law, bringing together both established and emerging scholars to offer a systematic and critical examination of Ricoeur's...

Research Methods for Social and Legal Studies that seeks to harness insights from both social and legal methods to promote interdisciplinary research. This is important because of the increasingly close relationship between social and legal issues in contemporary times. Chapters include: "Research Design," "A...

"The Events of January 6: What Impact the Second Amendment Movement?" pulls back the curtain on the Department of Justice "shock and awe" campaign as to defendants tagged as "Oath Keepers," dissects the Congressional hearings that followed, and lays out the agenda to activate...

Author: Alexander a. BoveISBN-10: 0316103748ISBN-13: 9780316103749Publisher: Little Brown and CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/1996Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d

"This short but provocative volume... is a fitting testimony to the author's extraordinary, though tragically brief, career as a constitutional scholar, lawyer and teacher. In just a hundred and a half literate pages, we are treated to vintage Bickel insight into every major political...

What do traditional Indigenous institutions of governance offer to our understanding of the contemporary challenges faced by the Navajo Nation today and tomorrow? Guided by the Mountains looks at the tensions between Indigenous political philosophy and the challenges faced by Indigenous nations in building...

American Juvenile Justice is a definitive volume for courses on the criminology and policy analysis of adolescence. The focus is on the principles and policy of a separate and distinct system of juvenile justice. The book opens with an introduction of the creation of...

The alleged assassin of Martin Luther King gives his side of the story. He claims that he is innocent. Rev. Jesse Jackson, in the foreword, agrees that James Earl Ray did not assassinate Martin Luther King and that the U.S. government was involved in...

Since 1979, China has been building new legal institutions made necessary by economic reforms that have reduced the role of state planning, and by the decline of Maoist totalitarianism. This book analyzes the principal legal institutions that have emerged and assesses the prospects for...

This grand tour of First Amendment law underlines the intimate connection between free expression and democratic values as it leads us through the most treacherous and emotionally charged cases in American jurisprudence. "Intellectually venturesome. . . ."--The New York Times Book ReviewAuthor: Rodney A....

If legal scholar Richard Epstein is right, then the New Deal is wrong, if not unconstitutional. Epstein reaches this sweeping conclusion after making a detailed analysis of the eminent domain, or takings, clause of the Constitution, which states that private property shall not be...

This book will become the bible of regulatory reform. No broad, authoritative treatment of the subject has been available for many years except for Alfred Kahn's Economics of Regulation (1970). And Stephen Breyer's book is not merely a utilitarian analysis or a legal discussion...

TRIAL SECRETS OF THE MASTERS With more than fifteen million civil lawsuits filed in the US each year, the odds are high that you will one day find yourself in court-particularly if you are in the business world. If it does happen to you,...

Gary Pittman and his co-workers were systematically exposed to toxic substances while working for Occidental Chemical Corporation's north Florida phosphoric acid plants and mines. "Phosphate - Fluorides - Toxic Torts" is a personal narrative by Pittman describing his seven-year battle with Occidental while suffering...

The Poverty Law Canon takes readers into the lives of the clients and lawyers who brought critical poverty law cases in the United States. These cases involved attempts to establish the right to basic necessities, as well as efforts to ensure dignified treatment of...

Praise for Sarbanes-Oxley Guide for Finance and Information Technology Professionals "Effective SOX programs enlist the entire organization to build and monitor a compliant control environment. However, even the best SOX programs are inefficient at best, ineffective at worst, if there is a lack of...

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John...

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John...

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John...

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the immediate and likely longer-term consequences of Brexit for the UK's competition law regime and includes the competition and subsidy control provisions of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement. It has been written to be of...

Everyday Justice clearly demonstrates the value of revitalizing the category of justice in ethnographic work by revealing how both justice and injustice are woven into everyday life in manifold and widely differing ways. The contributors account for this complexity across multiple particular social relations,...