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  • The Reality of Precaution

    Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe

    The 'Precautionary Principle' has sparked the central controversy over European and U.S. risk regulation. The Reality of Precaution is the most comprehensive study to go beyond precaution as an abstract principle and test its reality in practice. This groundbreaking resource combines detailed case studies of a wide array of risks to health, safety, environment and security; a broad quantitative ... Leer más

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  • International Relations in Political Thought

    Texts from the Ancient Greeks to the First World War

    This unique collection presents texts in international relations from Ancient Greece to the First World War. Major writers such as Thucydides, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Grotius, Kant and John Stuart Mill are represented by extracts of their key works; less well-known international theorists including John of Paris, Cornelius van Bynkershoek and Friedrich List are also included. Fifty ... Leer más

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  • Beyond Right and Wrong

    The Power of Effective Decision Making for Attorneys and Clients

    de Randall Kiser ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Let us endeavor to see things as they are, and then enquire whether we ought to complain. Whether to see life as it is, will give us much consolation, I know not; but the consolation which is drawn from truth if any there be, is solid and durable: that which may be derived from errour, must be, like its original, fallacious and fugitive. Samuel Johnson, Letter to Bennet Langton (1758) Attorneys ... Leer más

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  • What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said

    The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Landmark Civil Rights Decision

    Edición de Jack M. Balkin ...
    Legal experts rewrite the landmark court decisionBrown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 decision ordering the desegregation of America's public schools, is perhaps the most famous case in American constitutional law. Criticized and even openly defied when first handed down, in half a century Brown has become a venerated symbol of equality and civil rights.Its meaning, ... Leer más

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  • Judges Against Justice

    On Judges When the Rule of Law is Under Attack

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book explores concrete situations in which judges are faced with a legislature and an executive that consciously and systematically discard the ideals of the rule of law. It revolves around three basic questions: What happen when states become oppressive and the judiciary contributes to the oppression? How can we, from a legal point of view, evaluate the actions of judges who contribute to ... Leer más

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  • Causation in the Law

    An updated and extended second edition supporting the findings of its well-known predecessor which claimed that courts employ common-sense notions of causation in determining legal responsibility. ... Leer más

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  • Emergencies and the Limits of Legality

    Edición de Victor V. Ramraj ...
    Most modern states turn swiftly to law in an emergency. The global response to the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States was no exception, and the wave of legislative responses is well documented. Yet there is an ever-present danger, borne out by historical and contemporary events, that even the most well-meaning executive, armed with extraordinary powers, will abuse them. This inevitably ... Leer más

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  • The Sense of Justice

    Empathy in Law and Punishment

    Series Libro 71 - Critical America
    In The Sense of Justice, distinguished legal author Markus Dirk Dubber undertakes a critical analysis of the “sense of justice”: an overused, yet curiously understudied, concept in modern legal and political discourse. Courts cite it, scholars measure it, presidential candidates prize it, eulogists praise it, criminals lack it, and commentators bemoan its loss in times of war. But what is it? ... Leer más

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  • Empirical Legal Analysis

    Assessing the performance of legal institutions

    Edición de Yun-chien Chang ...
    Series series The Economics of Legal Relationships
    This innovative volume explores empirical legal issues around the world. While legal studies have traditionally been worked on and of letters and with a normative bent, in recent years quantitative methods have gained traction by offering a brand new perspective of understanding law. That is, legal scholars have started to crunch numbers, not letters, to tease out the effects of law on the ... Leer más

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  • Spheres of Global Justice

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    Edición de Jean-Christophe Merle ...
    Spheres of Global Justice analyzes six of the most important and controversial spheres of global justice, each concerning a specific global social good. These spheres are democratic participation, migrations, cultural minorities, economic justice, social justice, and intergenerational justice. Together they constitute two constellations dealt with, in this collection of essays by leading scholars, ... Leer más

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  • Mantle Plumes and Their Effects

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents a brief synopsis of the current academic understanding of the plume hypothesis, its surface manifestations and its shortcomings. It also describes methods for estimating the uplift history of a region due to plume activity. It discusses different models for the elastic properties of the lithosphere and their estimation as a background for plume emplacement, and introduces the ... Leer más

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  • Monitoring and Mitigation of Volcano Hazards

    By the year 2000, the population worldwide at risk from volcanic hazards is likely to increase to about half a billion. Since 1980, significant advances have been made in volcano monitoring, data from which provide the sole scientific basis for eruption prediction. In this book, internationally renowned specialists provide 25 comprehensive articles covering a wide range of related topics: ... Leer más

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