Jurisprudence category: 1225 books
by Annette Nordhausen, Geraint Howells
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
The Yearbook of Consumer Law provides a valuable outlet for high quality scholarly work which tracks developments in the consumer law field with a domestic, regional and international dimension. The 2009 volume presents a range of peer-reviewed scholarly articles, analytical in approach and focusing...
RAPEX als Instrument der marktueberwachungsbehoerdlichen Gefahrenabwehr
Eine systematische Analyse unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung nationaler Rechtsschutzmoeglichkeiten
Language: German
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Das Buch befasst sich mit dem EU-Schnellwarnsystem RAPEX. Dieses gewinnt zunehmende Bedeutung für den gesundheitlichen Verbraucherschutz und ist ein wesentliches Instrument der marktüberwachungsbehördlichen Gefahrenabwehr. Der Autor stellt die Entwicklung, die rechtlichen Grundlagen sowie einen...
«Question prioritaire de constitutionnalité»
Perspektiven konkreter Normenkontrolle in Frankreich
Language: German
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Dieses Buch erhielt 2015 den Osborne Clarke-Preis für Internationales Recht
Die Question prioritaire de constitutionnalité bezeichnet ein in Frankreich 2008 neu eingeführtes und 2010 in Kraft getretenes Verfahren der Normenkontrolle, das erstmalig die Feststellung der Verfassungswidrigkeit...
by Nina Gott
Language: German
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Die Arbeit befasst sich mit dem rechtlichen Fundament der postmortalen Organ- und Gewebespende. Untersucht werden die relevanten Rechtsquellen auf europäischer und nationaler Ebene, die Rechtsposition der Spender, der Spendenempfänger und die Organisationsstrukturen in der Transplantationsmedizin....
Europaeisches Strafrecht
Gegenwaertige Rechtslage und kuenftige Perspektiven
Language: German
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Obwohl europäische Vorgaben das nationale Strafrecht in vielfältiger Weise beeinflussen, gilt das Europäische Strafrecht immer noch als unbekanntes Rechtsgebiet. In dieser Studie werden nach der Darstellung der Entstehungsgeschichte die strafrechtlichen Zuständigkeiten der Union ausführlich analysiert....
by Muriel Lightbourne
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This volume advances the claim that the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) adopted in 2001 is the only existing international agreement with the potential to promote food security, conservation of biodiversity and equity. However, for germplasm-rich...
Global Food Governance
Implications of Food Safety and Quality Standards in International Trade Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
With increasingly globalised markets, changing consumer preferences and the steady development of technologies influencing food trade flows, safety and quality concerns have triggered the development of new forms of global (food) governance. Since its creation in 1995, the World Trade Organization...
Distributive and Procedural Justice
Research and Social Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
This interdisciplinary and cross-national volume brings together theory and research by prominent scholars within the areas of distributive and procedural justice, not only featuring work within each area separately, as is commonly done, but also showing how combinations of the two justice orientations...
by Franziska Neumann
Language: German
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: March 5, 2014
PIPE-Transaktionen beschreiben Beteiligungsmaßnahmen von Investoren am Eigenkapital börsennotierter Aktiengesellschaften. PIPE steht dabei für Private Investments in Public Equity. Anders als bei der öffentlichen Platzierung von Aktien wird der Beteiligungserwerb bei PIPE-Transaktionen zwischen...
by Ron Levy, Graeme Orr
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Laws have colonised most of the corners of political practice, and now substantially determine the process and even the product of democracy. Yet analysis of these laws of politics has been hobbled by a limited set of theories about politics. Largely absent is the perspective of deliberative democracy...
by Dr Benjamin Spagnolo
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
The Continuity of Legal Systems in Theory and Practice examines a persistent and fascinating question about the continuity of legal systems: when is a legal system existing at one time the same legal system that exists at another time?
The book's distinctive approach to this question is to...
by Aharon Barak
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
This book presents a comprehensive theory of legal interpretation, by a leading judge and legal theorist. Currently, legal philosophers and jurists apply different theories of interpretation to constitutions, statutes, rules, wills, and contracts. Aharon Barak argues that an alternative approach--purposive...
by Dr Sarah Nason
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book offers a new interpretation of judicial review in England and Wales as being concerned with the advancement of justice and good governance, as opposed to being concerned primarily with ultra vires or common law constitutionalism. It is developed both from examining the functions and values...
by Robert A. Katzmann
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
In an ideal world, the laws of Congress--known as federal statutes--would always be clearly worded and easily understood by the judges tasked with interpreting them. But many laws feature ambiguous or even contradictory wording. How, then, should judges divine their meaning? Should they stick only...