Chinese Law

context and transformation

This book examines the historical and politico-economic context in which Chinese law has developed and transformed, focusing on the underlying factors and justifications for changes. It attempts to sketch the main trends in legal modernisation in China.

Instructions for the Netherworld

the Orphic Gold Tablets

Orphic gold tables are key documents for the knowledge of rites and beliefs of Orphics, an atypical group that configured a highly original creed and that influenced powerfully over other Greek writers and thinkers. The recent discovery of some tablets has forced a noteworthy modification ...

The principle of complementarity in international criminal Law

origin, development and practice

CONTENTS: Table of Cases Ch. I Development of the Law on Complementarity between 1919 and 1937 1 Peace Treaties during the 20th Century: The Treaty of Versailles 2 Other Peace Treaties: St Germain-En-Laye, Trianon, Neuilly-Sur-Seine, and Sevres 3 The 1920 Advisory Committee of Jurists 4 ...

The rise and fall of the EU's Constitutional treaty

Ed. Finn Laursen

WTO-Technical barriers and SPS meansures

This volume gives a detailed account of the parameters for technical standards and measure seeking to protect health and environment. Included are commentaries on those provisions of GATT 1994 which are equally relevant in this context, namely Articles III, IX and XX. The article by ...

Peoples and international Law

how nationalism and self-determination shape a contemporary Law of nation

Peoples and International Law is the most comprehensive current account of the right of self-determination in international law. The book examines the law of self-determination as the product of the interaction between nationalism and international law. This broad and interdisciplinary work charts this interaction through ...

From Al-Andalus to Khurasan

documents from the Medieval Muslim World

Chance and determinism in Avicenna and Averroes

In a revision of her 2004 doctoral dissertation for Oxford University, Belo (philosophy, America U. Cairo) explores whether Avicenna, Ibn Sina, (d.428/1037) and Averroes, Ibn Rushd, (d.595/1198) are determinists and if so, in what way. She begins by looking at the ...

Virtue ethics in the Middle Ages

commentaries on Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics, 1200-1500

Ever since its rediscovery in the thirteenth century, Aristotle#s Nicomachean Ethics has figured as a prime model of philosophical ethics in Western moral thought. This collection of articles for the first time surveys the medieval tradition of commentaries on the work from its origins ...

Spain in Italy

politics, society, and religion 1500-1700

This volume integrates the theme of Spain in Italy into a broad synthesis of late Renaissance and early modern Italy by restoring the contingency of events, local and imperial decision-making, and the distinct voices of individual Spaniards and Italians.

Shaping the stuart world 1603-1714

the atlantic connection

During the past few years it has become fashionable to speak of the "British Atlantic" and examine the Anglophone communities that came to populate it shores. This collection of essays undertakes something quite different. It examines the wide-ranging European interaction inherent in British expansion and ...

Ancient Egyptian chronology

This volume deals with the chronology of Ancient Egypt from the fourth millennium until the Hellenistic Period. An initial section reviews the foundations of Egyptian chronology, both ancient and modern, from annals and kinglists to C14 analyses of archaeological data. Specialists discuss sources, compile lists ...

The Brill dictionary of religion

Edition of Metzler Lexikon Religion

The new and impressively comprehensive Brill Dictionary of Religion addresses religion as an element of daily life and public discourse. Richly illustrated and with more than 500 entries, the dictionary is a multi-media reference source on the many and various forms of religious commitment. It ...

The formation of clerical and confessional identities in early modern Europe

The 24 essays in this volume explore the formation of clerical and confessional identities in early modern Europe from three angles. The first part of the book focuses on education and theological training, the second on the interpretation of Scripture and preaching, and the third ...

Muslim military architecture in greater Syria

from the coming of Islam to the Ottoman Period

Crusader castles have been the subject of academic study for well over a century but the castles constructed by Muslim powers in greater Syria have been comparatively neglected. This series of studies looks at key developments and monuments in the history of Muslim military architecture ...

Solon of Athens

new historical and philological approaches

This volume offers a range of innovative approaches to Solon of Athens, legendary law-giver, statesman, and poet of the early sixth century B.C. In the first part, Solon#s poetry is reconsidered against the background of oral poetics and other early Greek poetry. The ...

Virgil, Aeneid 3

A commentary

This is the first detailed commentary on Aeneid 3, being some three times the size of that by R.D.Williams(1962), and aimed at the scholarly public. It treats fully the thorny problem of book 3's place in the growth of the poem ...

The governor and his subjects in the later roman empire

INDICE: The position of the governor in administration, A.D. Governors : their position, titles and ranks. The governor's office.The governor's role in jurisdiction and taxation. Governors and higher authorities. The governor as judge : competence versus corruption. Governors' competence in law. Provincials' expectations ...

WTO

institutions and dispute settlement

In a practical and authoritative article-by-article account, this volume covers the legislative history, interpretation and practical application of the Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization.

The trial proceedings of the International Criminal Court

ICTY and ICTR precedents

This is the first publication on the trial proceedings of the International Criminal Court, the ICTY and the ICTR collected in one volume. It covers the essential procedural and evidentiary aspects of trials before the ICC from the beginning of an investigation until the sentence ...