Eleven International Publishing imprint: 51 books
by Helen Gubby
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
For centuries, courts of law have been faced with the problem of determining what type of innovation is an appropriate subject matter for a patent. With each technical advance, the question of what is, and what is not, patentable must once again be determined by the courts. This book traces the development...
After the Spring
probation, justice reform and democratization from the Baltics to Beirut
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The protests that have sparked a generational revolution in Tunisia and Egypt have spread far and wide and renewed past efforts to replace authoritarian regimes with democratic institutions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This book argues a central aspect of democratization includes reforming...
by Marietta Benko, Engelbert Plescher
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
This book deals with the `definition/delimitation question with special regard to the passage of spacecraft through foreign airspace for reaching the orbit and returning to Earth. This is particularly important for space transportation systems like the US Space Shuttle or the Soviet BURAN, which were...
Centralizing forces?
comparative perspectives on contemporary police reform in Northern and Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Police organizations in several Northern and Western European countries have recently witnessed fundamental reforms to their structures as well as to their relationships with governments. Many (but not all) of these macro-level reforms can be understood as forms of centralization. New or strengthened...
State of Play
the 3rd annual maa schlechtriem cisg conference
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
This book contains the updated papers of the 3rd Annual MAA Peter Schlechtriem CISG Conference, which was held on 14 April 2011 in Vienna. The contributions cover a variety of topics. Subjects discussed include the trends in the relative importance of physical and non-physical attributes of goods...
Warnings and product liability
lessons learned from cognitive psychology and ergonomics
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
European Union citizens are injured each year whilst using products. Product liability law can contribute to preventing such damage by the way in which liability requirements in the context of warnings are framed and applied.Underlying these warning issues is a number of legal presumptions about how...
Between hobbes leviathan and Smith's invisible hand
empirical and interdisciplinary legal research on formal and informal institutions in trust relations
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
This is the inaugural address delivered on the acceptance of the Chair of Empirical Legal Studies at the Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Shaping the law for global crises
thoughts about the role the law could play to come to grips with the major challenges of our time
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
In the course of the last one hundred years, quite a lot has been achieved especially in the 'Western' world. Life standards have risen considerably. All kind of serious diseases belong to the past. People get older than ever before; the progress of technology has proven beneficial to mankind. Primarily...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
This book contains the papers of the ILA panel on Islamic Finance and the Influence of Religion on the Law. First, the concept of Islamic finance is introduced, with the aim to foster a better understanding of Shar'ia compliant financial products and service providers. The second contribution discusses...
Globalization versus regionalization
4th annual maa schlechtriem cisg conference
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
This book contains the updated papers of the 4th Annual MAA Peter Schlechtriem CISG Conference, which was held on 18 March 2012 in Hong Kong. The contributions cover an overview of the current issues facing the global trade law community such as the expected accession of Brazil to the CISG, the issues...
European human rights law a manual
an introduction to the Strasbourg court and its jurisprudence
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
European human rights law is a body of law which has emerged from the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights. Besides the Convention, its sources also encompass the soft-law of the Council of Europe and recently the ever growing practice of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of...
by William E. Butler
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
The Russian Legal Practitioner concentrates primarily on the advokat, who is the Russian lawyer with a right of audience in court, but also deals with the jurisconsult -- the lawyer who works for commercial law firms or in the civil service. The book uses the Federal Law on the Advokatura as its central...
Judicial decision making in civil law
determinants, dynamics and delusions
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
One of the central values of a civil society is that its legal system makes fair and accurate de-cisions concerning fault and innocence. The legal decision-maker will bring a lawsuit to a conclusion by formulating the verdict. Jurists - and judges in particular - are consequently in the business of decision-making....
Towards uniformity
the 2nd annual maa schlechtriem cisg conference
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
This book contains the updated papers of the 2nd Annual MAA Peter Schlechtriem CISG Conference which was held in March 2010. The contributions cover a variety of topics, ranging from empirical research relating to the UN Convention on the Sales of Goods (CISG) to issues of uniformity. Subjects discussed...