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Customs Unions in the WTO
How the WTO deals with regional trade agreements (RTAs) is conceptually and practically one of the most important questions in international trade law. This book clarifies that relationship focussing on one form of regional integration – customs unions – and one form of trade measures – anti-dumping measures. This book answers the question how anti-dumping measures and legislation change …
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- 978-3-030-86312-8
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- xvii, 305p.:ill
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- 341.7 Bic c
The Indian Yearbook of Comparative Law 2019
This book is a compilation of thematically arranged essays that critically analyze emerging developments, issues, and perspectives in the field of comparative law, especially in the field of comparative constitutional law. The book discusses limits and challenges of comparativism, comparative aspects of arbitral awards, cross-border consumer disputes, online hate speech, authoritarian constitu…
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- 978-981-16-2175-8
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- xi, 371p.:ill
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- -
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- 340.9 The
Biological Diversity and International Law
The book focuses on the interactions between international legal regimes related to biodiversity governance. It addresses the systemic challenges by analyzing the legal interactions between international biodiversity law and related international law applicable to economic activities, as well as issues related to the governance of biodiversity based on functional, normative, and geographic dime…
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- 978-3-030-72961-5
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- XV, 224p.:ill
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- -
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- 341.7 Bio
GDPR and Biobanking
This open access book focuses on the discrepancies in biobank research regulations that are among the most significant hurdles to effective research collaboration. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has established stringent requirements for the processing of health and genetic data, while simultaneously allowing considerable multi-level exceptions for the purposes of scientific rese…
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- 978-3-030-49388-2
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- vii, 434p.:ill
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- -
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- 340.04 Gdp
Building Community and Family Resilience
This interdisciplinary volume examines the relationship between community resilience and family resilience, identifying contributing factors on the micro-, meso-, and macro-level. Scholars and practitioners focus on how community-level policies and programs facilitate the distribution of resources, assets, and opportunities that provide valuable assistance to families who are struggling or in c…
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- 978-3-030-49799-6
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- xvi, 122p.:Ill
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- 346.01 Bui
Market Entry and Competition Law in Latin America
This book explores the relationship between market entry analysis in competition law and the study of the determinants of aggregate investment. Macroeconomic and social characteristics, such as widespread corruption, political instability, and low levels of education are associated with lower investment rates. Progress on these indicators on the other hand is also strongly associated with susta…
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- 978-3-662-62347-3
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- xvi, 234p.:ill
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- 340.9 Avi m
Regulating Deep Sea Mining
This book provides a comprehensive analysis and explanation of the legal regime with regard to deep sea mining. The wide array of activities which we refer to as deep sea mining are not governed by one universal framework. On the contrary, numerous legal instruments play a role, and it is important to maintain a clear overview. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) sets o…
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- 978-3-030-82834-9
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- v, 56p.:ill
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- 341.4 Wil r
Transnational Actors in International Investment Law
This book reviews for the first time some of the less frequently addressed actors in international investment law. Traditional studies concerning actors in international investment law have tended to focus on arbitrators, claimant investors and respondent states. This book explores transnational actors, such as UNCITRAL, the EU, international standardizing bodies, domestic and international cou…
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- 978-3-030-60679-4
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- ix, 192p.:ill
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- 341.7 Tra
Blockchain, Law and Governance
This volume explores from a legal perspective, how blockchain works. Perhaps more than ever before, this new technology requires us to take a multidisciplinary approach. The contributing authors, which include distinguished academics, public officials from important national authorities, and market operators, discuss and demonstrate how this technology can be a driver of innovation and yield po…
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- 978-3-030-52722-8
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- xiii, 304p.:ill
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- 341.7 Blo
Emerging Powers, Global Justice and International Economic Law
The book assesses emerging powers’ influence on international economic law and analyses whether their rhetoric of reforming this ‘unjust’ order translates into concrete reforms. The questions at the heart of the book surround the extent to which Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa individually and as a bloc (BRICS) provide alternative regulatory ideas to those of ‘Western’ …
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- 978-3-030-63639-5
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- xxii, 423p.:ill
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- 341.7 Bus e
Mapping Legal Innovation
The legal sector is being hit by profound economic and technological changes (digitalization, open data, blockchain, artificial intelligence ...) forcing law firms and legal departments to become ever more creative in order to demonstrate their added value. To help lawyers meet this challenge, this book draws on the perspectives of lawyers and creative specialists to analyze the concept and …
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- 978-3-030-47447-8
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- xxv, 413p.:ill
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- 340.9 Map
Doing Justice In Wartime
This book discusses the impact of war on the complex interactions between various actors involved in justice: individuals and social groups on the one hand and ‘the justice system’ (police, judiciary and professionals working in the prison service) on the other. It also highlights the emergence of new expectations of justice among these actors as a result of war. Furthermore, the book addre…
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- 978-3-030-72050-6
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- XVIII, 186p.:ill
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- 340.1 Doi
The Law of Carriage of Goods by Sea
This book, written in three parts, covers the basics of the international trade, financing and the legal framework related to the law of carriage of goods by sea, elaborates on bills of lading in depth and sea waybills and ship’s delivery orders in brief and charterparties in depth. While the book is based on the English law, cases and materials from other jurisdictions, particularly Singapor…
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- 978-981-33-6793-7
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- LXXXIII, 580p.:ill
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- 341.4 Kas t
Foreign Investor Misconduct in International Investment Law
This book examines the issue of foreign investor misconduct in modern international investment law, focusing on the approach that international investment law as it currently operates has developed towards foreign investor misconduct. The term ‘misconduct’ is not a legal notion, but is used to describe a certain phenomenon, namely, a group/class of actions. This term is convenient since it …
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- 978-3-030-54855-1
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- XVII, 266p.:ill
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- 341.7 Koz f
Researching Cybercrimes
This edited book promotes and facilitates cybercrime research by providing a cutting-edge collection of perspectives on the critical usage of online data across platforms, as well as the implementation of both traditional and innovative analysis methods. The accessibility, variety and wealth of data available online presents substantial opportunities for researchers from different disciplines t…
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- 978-3-030-74837-1
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- XXIX, 539p.:ill
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- 345 Res
Transparency in Insurance Regulation and Supervisory Law
This volume focuses on transparency as the guiding principle for insurance regulation and supervisory law. All chapters were written by experts in their respective fields, who address transparency in a wide range of European and non-European jurisdictions. Each chapter reviews the transparency principles applicable in the jurisdiction discussed. While the European jurisdictions reflect differen…
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- 978-3-030-63621-0
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- XVI, 617p.:ill
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- -
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- 340.9 Tra
Turkish Social Law
The book provides a comprehensive overview on the legal aspects of the social security system in Turkey. It is written specifically for lawyers and graduate law students as comparative law researchers all over the world who have a need to deal with Turkish law generally but are seeking to become specialists in social law. In addition, it has been prepared with a view to provide basic informatio…
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- 978-3-030-64704-9
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- XXIX, 346p.:ill
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- -
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- 340.9 Cen t
Remedies against Immunity?
The open access book examines the consequences of the Italian Constitutional Court’s Judgment 238/2014 which denied the German Republic’s immunity from civil jurisdiction over claims to reparations for Nazi crimes committed during World War II. This landmark decision created a range of currently unresolved legal problems and controversies which continue to burden the political and diplomati…
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- 978-3-662-62304-6
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- XXVI, 425p.:ill
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- 340.9 Rem
CETA's Investment Chapter
This book provides a comprehensive account of the CETA Investment Chapter’s ability to overcome the legitimacy crisis facing investment arbitration. To do so, it first examines the root causes behind the legitimacy crisis, ultimately arguing that it reflects a fundamental rule of law crisis within investment arbitration. In particular, it asserts that the normative standpoints of the legitima…
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- 978-3-030-66992-8
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- XX, 180p.:ill
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- 341.7 Dio c
Politically Motivated Justice
The book addresses authoritarian legacies of politically motivated justice and its unwritten practices that have re-emerged in the recent trials related to both political and ordinary criminal charges against prominent opposition leaders in many former Soviet republics. Taking into account that in any country all trials are more or less related to politics, the author differentiates between tri…
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- 978-94-6265-459-4
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- XXII, 208p.:ill
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- 340.9 Com
Blurring Intelligence Crime
This book explores the conundrum that political fortune is dependent both on social order and big, constitutive crime. An act of outrageous harm depends on rules and protocols of crime scene discovery and forensic recovery, but political authorities review events for a social agenda, so that crime is designated according to the relative absence or presence of politics. In investigating this pro…
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- 978-981-16-0352-5
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- XII, 227p.:ill
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- 345 Lin b
Global Perspectives on Legal Challenges Posed by Ridesharing Companies
This book examines how regulators and policymakers from nine different countries have dealt with Uber, and initiates a legal dialogue between different jurisdictions that could potentially pave the way to a harmonized approach in regulating Uber. The case studies, conducted in Brazil, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Spain, South Africa, Turkey, the UK and the US reveal the case law and regulatory respo…
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- xiv, 285p.:ill
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- XIV, 285p.:ill
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- 346.06 Glo
Competition Law Analysis of Price and Non-price Discrimination & Abusive IP B…
This book gathers national and international reports from around the globe on key issues in the field of antitrust and intellectual property. Its first part discusses to what extent competition law should be concerned with differences in prices, terms and conditions, or quality that suppliers offer different purchasers. A detailed international report explores the major trends and challenges in…
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- 978-3-030-55765-2
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- Springer Cham
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- xvii, 499p.:ill
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- 340.9 Com
Semiotics, Law & Art
This book presents an interdisciplinary study of the relation between semiotics, law & art. Focusing on Greimasian semiotics, it examines specific works of art (from Giotto to Banksy) that deal with the theme of justice, promoting a more sensitive and humanized perception of the values that surround law. The book offers readers a comprehensive review of the semiotics of law, critically examinin…
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- 978-3-030-58880-9
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- xiv, 216p.:ill
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- 340.1 Bit s
Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2019
This volume of the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law (NYIL) is the fiftieth in the Series, which means that the NYIL has now been with us for half a century. The editors decided not to let this moment go by unnoticed, but to devote this year’s edition to an analysis of the phenomenon of yearbooks in international law. Once the decision was made that this would be the subject of t…
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- 978-94-6265-403-7
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- IX, 403p.:ill
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- -
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- 340.9 Net
Axiological Pluralism
This book analyses the features and functionality of the relationship between the law, individual or collective values and medical-scientific evidence when they have to be interpreted by judges, courts and para-jurisdictional bodies. The various degrees to which scientific data and moral values have been integrated into the legal discourse reveal the need for a systematic review of the options …
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- 978-3-030-78475-1
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- VI, 252p.:ill
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- 344.04 Axi
Understanding Sexual Offending
Addressing common myths and misconceptions about sexual offending, this book highlights the current state of scientific knowledge about the origins and the development of sexual offending. It offers a critical overview of current criminal justice policies and close to 100 years of research on how to best improve these policies through theoretically-grounded and methodologically-rigorous researc…
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- 978-3-030-53301-4
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- xiv, 401p.:ill
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- 345 Lus a
Alcohol and Remembering Rape
This book examines how alcohol intoxication impacts upon the memory of rape victims and provides recommendations for how best to investigate and prosecute such rape complaints. An estimated 75% of victims are under the influence of alcohol during a sexual assault and yet there is surprisingly little guidance on conducting interviews with complainants who were alcohol-intoxicated during the atta…
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- 978-3-030-67867-8
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- XXI, 108p.:ill
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- 345 Alc
The Quest for Core Values in the Application of Legal Norms
Relations between societal values and legal doctrine are inevitably complex given the time lag between law and social reality, and the sociological space between legal communities involved in the development and application of the law and non-legal communities affected by it. It falls on open-ended concepts, such as proportionality, human rights, dignity, freedom, and truth, and on legal framew…
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- 978-3-030-78953-4
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- xii, 340p.:ill
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- -
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- 340.1 The
The Persecution of Children as a Crime Against Humanity
This book addresses age-based persecution of children as a crime against humanity in connection with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes (persecution - with some variation in the elements of the crime - is an existing offence under the Rome Statute of the permanent International Criminal Court, the statutes of various international criminal tribunals i.e. International Criminal Tri…
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- 978-3-030-75002-2
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- xiii, 210p.:ill.
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- -
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- 340.9 Gro t
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