In search of structural power

EU Aid policy as a global political instrument

Offering a clear and logical analysis of the panoply of European Union aid policies and a theoretically informed evaluation of their operation, Patrick Holden contends that the major thrust of EU aid policy is an effort to augment the EU's structural power through targeted ...

Beyond Law in context

This intriguing collection of articles examines the relationship between law, society and social theory and the various ideas social theorists have had about the actual and ideal 'fit' between law and its social context. They also ask how far it is possible to get beyond ...

Defining civil and political rights

the jurisprudence of the United Nations Human Rights Committee

This book provides a comprehensive analysis and commentary on the decisions - technically known as views - of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, for use by human rights lawyers throughout the world. Each of the substantive rights and freedoms set out in the International Covenant on ...

Law and agonistic politics

Ed. Andrew Schaap. In contemporary social and political theory, the concept of the agon has been appropriated from the Ancient Greeks to articulate a conflict theory of politics in contrast to prevailing liberal-republican consensus theories. Crucially, while the Ancients could presuppose that the agon would ...

Product liability Law in transition

a central european perspective

This volume examines the evolution of Central European product liability regimes, with particular reference to the effect of the implementation of the Product Liability Directive in the context of the recent enlargement of the EU. Using Product Liability Law, the study offers a valuable insight ...

Speaking for the dead

the human body in biology and medicine

"Speaking for the Dead" is an incisive examination of the highly topical and often controversial issues surrounding the use of human cadavers in scientific research. This new edition has been fully revised and updated to take account of recent developments in this area. These include ...

Environmental skepticism

ecology, power and public life

Concentrated power in world politics is made up of ideas and supporting material resources and institutions. The material resources all come from nature, yet ecology is usually underappreciated in international relations as a source of power. Powerful countries control resources, economic elites command value in ...

The nexus Law and biology

new ethical challenges

Ed. Barbara Ann Hocking. While the relations between law and science span many centuries, there are emerging complex interactions between the informational aspects of law and biology in a host of contemporary legal applications. As a result, biological expert evidence features in a wide range ...

Stock market efficiency, insider dealing and market abuse

The recent turbulence in the stock market has brought into question the way, and prices at which, shares are traded, and how the market effectively values companies. It has also raised public concern as to the way by which dealers and investors take advantage of ...

The Ottoman economy and its institutions

The Ottoman Empire stood at a crossroads of intercontinental trade, stretching from the Balkans and the Black Sea region through the present day Middle East and most of the North African coast for six centuries up to World War I. The articles in this volume ...

Religion and politics

Islam and muslim civilization

Muslim societies are struggling under the need for modernization and the drift towards Islamic fundamentalism. The balance between these two forces is struck differently in the various Muslim societies depending upon the constellation of groups as historical legacies. However, the tension is real. In this ...

The religious patronage of the Duke of Lerma, 1598-1621

Introducing fresh archival evidence, author Lisa Banner here demonstrates how Francisco Gómez de Sandoval y Rojas, first Duke of Lerma, served as a vital link in Habsburg architectural patronage. She traces Lerma's trajectory as, beginning with the ancient royal city of Valladolid, he embarked ...

The integrity of the judge

a philosophical inquiry

There is no consensus among legal scholars on the meaning of judicial integrity, nor has legal scholarship yet seen a well-articulated discussion about the normative concept of judicial integrity. This book fills this gap by developing a theory of judicial integrity that can be applied ...

Terrorism, war and international Law

the legality of the use of force against Afghanistan in 2001

"Terrorism, War and International Law" analyses the legality of the use of force by the US, the UK and their NATO allies against Afghanistan in 2001. Challenging the main ground for resorting to force, namely self- defence under Article 51 of the United Nations' Charter ...

Spatializing Law

an anthropological geography of Law in society

Eds. Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, Anne Griffiths. "Spatializing Law: An Anthropological Geography of Law in Society" focuses on law and its location, exploring how spaces are constructed on the terrestrial and marine surface of the earth with legal means in a rich variety ...

Jury psychology

social aspects of trial processes: psychology in the Courtroom, Volume I

Eds. Joel D. Lieberman, Daniel A. Krauss. This is the first volume of an important new two-volume work on the Psychology of the Courtroom. Taken together, the two volumes offer a definitive account of the problems created by or influencing courtroom procedure and trial outcome ...

Psychological expertise in Court

psychology in the Courtroom, Volume II

Eds. Daniel A. Krauss, Joel D. Lieberman. Expertise in Court: Perspectives on Testimony" is the second of a two- volume set on the "Psychology of the Courtroom". The authors, a renowned group of psychology and legal scholars, offer definitive coverage of the use of psychological ...

Outsourcing it - the legal aspects

planning, contracting, managing and the Law

Outsourcing has increased and developed immensely in scope, sophistication and ambition over the last twenty years - and continues to evolve. Information technology outsourcing is potentially highly complex and risk-laden, especially for the fast growing areas of business process and transformational outsourcing, and where whole departments ...

EU labour migration since enlargement

trends, impacts and policies

Eds. Béla Galgóczi, Janine Leschke, Andrew Watt. Focusing on labour movements in Latvia, Hungary, Poland, Austria, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom, this book examines the experiences and characteristics of these countries in the run up to, and particularly since, EU accession in May 2004 ...

Trasatlantic environment and energy politics

Eds. Miranda A. Schreurs, Henrik Selin, Stacy D. VanDeever. Environmental and energy policies have become increasingly significant in European and North American politics. This fascinating book uses a wide range of case studies that embrace climate change, product standards, chemical regulations, renewable energy policies, food ...