Coercion and the State

Eds. David A. Reidy, Walter J. Riker. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A signal feature of legal and political institutions is that they exercise coercive power. The essays in this volume examine institutional coercion with the aim of trying to understand its nature, justification and limits. Included are essays that ...

Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht

Hrsg. S. Bachmann...[et al]. Die 6. Auflage des Lehrbuchs enthält den aktuellen Stand vom 1. August 2006 zu folgenden Bereichen des Verwaltungsrechts: Sicherheitspolizei-, Vereins-, Versammlungs-, Fremden-, Melde-, Staatsbürgerschafts-, Gewerbe-, Wasser-, Forst-, Straßen-, und Abfallwirtschaftsrecht, Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung, Denkmalschutz-, Straßenpolizei- und Kraftfahrrecht, Vergabe-, Raumordnungs-, Bau-, Grundverkehrs-, Naturschutz- ...

Deutsche Verfassungsgeschichte

Vom Alten Reich bis Weimar (1495 bis 1934)

Das Buch gibt einen Überblick über die zentralen Bereiche der neuzeitlichen deutschen Verfassungsgeschichte. Es richtet sich sowohl an Studierende der Rechts-, Geschichts- und Politikwissenschaften als auch sonstige interessierte Leser. Das Werk eignet sich auch für "Einsteiger" in die genannten Disziplinen, für die ausreichende Kenntnisse des ...

Einführung in die moderne Strafrechtsgeschichte

Moderne Strafrechtsgeschichte als Teil der juristischen Zeitgeschichte befasst sich mit der Rechtsentwicklung in unserer Rechtsepoche. Diese umfasst, wie im Einleitungskapitel dargelegt wird, das 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Unter Berücksichtigung der allgemeinen geschichtlichen Entwicklung einerseits, der Bezüge zur Gegenwart andererseits bietet das Buch eine anschauliche Darstellung ...

Estimates of cost of crime

history, methodologies, and implications

The enormous burden that crime imposes on societies, while intuitively obvious, for a long time eluded measurement. With the emergence and development of quantitative methods in economics and statistics, the exercise of calculating costs of crime became possible, although remains controversial. This book presents the ...

European ombudsman-institutions

Ed. Gabriele Kucsko-Stadlmayer. This book aims to comprehensively demonstrate the legal basis of parliamentary ombudsman institutions throughout Europe, analysing them in a comparative way and thereby revealing their organisational and functional diversity. It comprises the results of a research project carried out at the University ...

Intellectual Property in the global trading system

EU-China perspective

Having explored multifaceted issues of IPR enforcement, this book argues that IPR enforcement problem is not an actual outcome of Confucian philosophy and "to steal a book" is not an "elegant offence." This book demonstrates that counterfeiting and piracy are common inevitable consequences of inadequate ...

International handbook of juvenile justice

Eds. Josine Junger-Tas, Scott H. Decker. This comprehensive reference work presents an in-depth analysis on the juvenile justice systems of 19 different countries, both in EU-member states (old and new) and in the United States and Canada. The book is the result of research conducted ...

Key aspects of german business Law

a practical manual

Eds. Michael Wendler, Bernd Tremml, Bernard Buecker. This book is the fourth edition of the well received "Key Aspects of German Business Law". It is a particularly important and useful tool for those entering the German and European Union market. The book presents a clear ...

On Law and reason

Preface by Jaap C. Hage. a This is an outline of a coherence theory of law. Its basic ideas are: reasonable support and weighing of reasons. All the rest is commentary.a (TM) These words at the beginning of the preface of this book perfectly ...

Procedures in international Law

Containing a synopsis of national bases of jurisdication (one of the first of its kind), international law is presented here through litigation. Legal procedures determine what the law is. The great variety of procedures which determine international law including diplomatic means are comprehensively examined. This ...

The quest for the description of the Law

The book suggests that it is reasonable to ask why we should try to give a general description of law. It analyses the theories of Jeremy Bentham, John Austin, H.L.A. Hart, Joseph Raz and Ronald Dworkin. It then attempts to turn our attention ...

Rights before Courts

a study of Constitutional Courts in postcommunist States of Central and Eastern Europe

Challenging the conventional wisdom that constitutional courts are the best device that democratic systems have for the protection of individual rights, Wojciech Sadurski examines carefully the most recent wave of activist constitutional courts: those that have emerged after the fall of communism in Central and ...

UN Law on international sales

the UN Convention on the international sale of goods

This book describes and analyses the rules and provisions of the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods of 1980 - CISG. Since its coming into force in 1988, thousands of cases have been decided in more than 70 states that have enacted the ...

How labor migrants fare

In the globalized economy, labor migration has become of central importance. A key issue in the analysis of immigration is how the migrants fare in the economy in which they migrate, and how they assimilate towards the behavior of the natives. Using data from the ...

Business intelligence techniques

a perspective from accounting and finance

Modern businesses generate huge volumes of accounting data on a daily basis. The recent advancements in information technology have given organizations the ability to capture and store these data in an efficient and effective manner. However, there is a widening gap between this data storage ...

Cognitive economics

an interdisplicinary approach

The social sciences study knowing subjects and their interactions. A "cognitive turn", based on cognitive science, has the potential to enrich these sciences considerably. Cognitive economics belongs within this movement of the social sciences. It aims to take into account the cognitive processes of individuals ...

Understanding competitive advantage

the importance of strategic congruence and integrated control

This book is about competitive advantage and how it is created at the company level. Our theoretical starting point is that the alignment of strategies and control systems affects the firm's chances of successfully positioning itself in its chosen area of competition. The firm ...

Pure economics loss

Today, pure economic loss is probably one of the main problems in expanding tort law. In some countries, it is associated with uncontrollable and unforeseeable floods of claims to which there may be no end. In this book, leading authors shed light on the subject ...

The internationalisation of young high-tehc firms

an empirical analysis in Germany and the United Kindom

The huge economic and social impact of high-tech industries on the fortunes of nation states has been widely recognised in recent years. Therefore, government policies encouraging the creation of new technology-based firms have become a priority in virtually all advanced economies. One factor underpinning the ...