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Ciências Histórico-Jurídicas
Shipwrecks, Legal Landscapes and Mediterranean Paradigms de Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz
Now available in Open Access thanks to the support of the University of Helsinki. This book changes our understanding of the Roman conceptions about the sea by placing the focus on shipwrecks as events that act as bridges between the sea and the land. The study explores the different Roman legal definitions of these spaces, and how individuals of divergent legal statuses interacted within these areas. Its main purpose is to chart and analyse the Roman conception of the maritime landscape from the Late Republican until the Severan period. This book integrates maritime history and ethnography with the physical remains of past maritime systems, such as shipwrecks, ports, villages, fortifications, and documented legal rulings.
Cota: Ebook Open Access
ISBN: 978-90-04-51580-2
Data: 2022-05-16
Ciências Jurídico-Económicas
Understanding Mega Free Trade Agreements de Jean-Baptiste Velut (Editor); Louise Dalingwater (Editor); Vanessa Boullet (Editor); Valérie Peyronel (Editor); Valérie Peyronel (Editor)
The rise of cross-regional trade agreements is a defining trend of the current international trade system as shown by the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in 2015, the negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the USA and the EU as well as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) between countries in Asia and Oceania. These differ from previous agreements in their economic significance and large geographic scale, and the wide scope of trade-related issues. The current rise of nationalist and isolationist ideologies across Europe and the USA has raised questions on the future of cross-regional trade deals and made the need to understand their implications for economic and political governance ever more urgent. Two main forms of governance that are central to this volume are the democratic tensions over new generation trade deals on the one hand, and their geopolitical ramifications on the other, which have come into collision to herald the advent of a highly uncertain period of world politics. Many of the questions tackled in this volume, surrounding the democratic governance of trade agreements - whether long-held debates on the inclusion of workers' voices, controversies on intrusive "behind the border" provisions undermining national sovereignty and local autonomy or new questions on digital rights - are crucial to understand the ebbing popular support for far-reaching trade agreements. This book will be a useful learning tool for students and scholars in a wide range of fields, including Globalisation, Global Governance, International Political Economy, International Trade and Investment and International Law, and should also be of interest to EU trade negotiators, international policymakers and business associations.
Cota: Ebook
ISBN: 9781315200989
Data: 2017-08-23
Ciências Jurídico-Políticas
Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations de Martin Griffiths; M. Scott Solomon; Steven C Roach
Now in its second edition, Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations has been thoroughly updated with several new entries and a new preface to reflect the latest developments. There are new sections on Constructivism, International Political Theory, and English School, as well as a range of new thinkers. They include: Samuel Huntington Christine Sylvester Jürgen Habermas John Rawls Barry Buzan Fully cross-referenced throughout, this book has everything for students of politics and international relations or indeed anyone who wants to gain an understanding of how nations can work together successfully.
Cota: Ebook
ISBN: 9780203886878
Data: 2008-11-28
Handbook on European Union climate change policy and politics de Tim Rayner (Editor), Kacper Szulecki (Editor), Andrew J. Jordan (Editor) and Sebastian Oberthür (Editor)
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Through detailed and wide-ranging analysis, the Handbook on European Union Climate Change Policy and Politics provides a critical assessment of current and emerging challenges facing the EU in committing to and delivering increasingly ambitious climate policy objectives. Highlighting the importance of topics such as finance and investment, litigation, ‘hard to abate’ sectors and negative emissions, it offers an up-to-date exploration of the complexities of climate politics and policy making
Cota: Ebook Open Access
ISBN: 9781789906981
Data: 2023
Referendum Authorization Procedures in Europe de Anna Forgács
Exploring the referendum practices of eight European states, this book unpacks the intricacies of the institutional and procedural settings of referendum authorization to reach an equilibrium between the exercise of popular sovereignty and the protection of rule of law. The book also examines how, by authorizing certain issues and refusing others, state institutions can exercise considerable control over the whole referendum process. Outlining how the rise of populist political parties and governments in Europe has brought direct democracy to the fore, this future-oriented book highlights four procedural guarantees that are compatible with democratic referendum authorization procedures. These include the independence and impartiality of the decision-maker, the right to a reasoned decision, the right to be heard and the right to an effective remedy. Using comparative analysis and data collection, the book demonstrates why these guarantees are minimum requirements to ensure that the rights of the initiators and voters are represented in the procedure and therefore reduce the risk of arbitrary decision-making. This state-of-the-art title will be an invaluable resource for academics and students of constitutional and administrative law, politics and public policy. With its practical application, governmental policy-makers and practitioners will benefit widely from the book.
Cota: Ebook Open Access
ISBN: 9781035311200
Data: 2023-09-19
The Legitimacy of European Constitutional Orders de Marco Dani (Editor); Marco Goldoni (Editor); Agustín J. Menéndez (Editor)
The Legitimacy of European Constitutional Orders is a systematic and comparative study of European constitutional orders, taking into consideration the national constitutional traditions of European countries, as well as the defining power of EU law. Drawing on a wealth of case studies, this book explores the trajectories followed by European national constitutional orders in their efforts to attain legitimacy. More in particular, the book investigates Bruce Ackerman's influential world constitutionalism project and engages with the three legitimacy pathways put forward therein; that is, the revolutionary, the establishment, and the elite pathways. Such ideal trajectories are revisited and found in need of being questioned so as to furnish the conceptual tools essential in the efforts of reconstructing and assessing the European constitutional orders. The book also considers the relevance of constitutional transformation and change in comparative constitutional law, and accounts for the manifold impacts of the European integration process on national constitutional trajectories. Offering an original perspective on the issue of constitutional legitimacy in the European context, this comprehensive book will be of interest to scholars and students of comparative law, constitutional law, European law, political science and constitutional theory as well as researchers and practitioners in these fields.
Cota: Ebook Open Access
ISBN: 9781803928883
Data: 2023-09-21
Ciências Jurídicas
Arbeitsrecht de Wilhelm Dütz, Gregor Thüsing
Zum Werk Das Arbeitsrecht ist Pflichtfach der juristischen Ausbildung, aber auch für Studierende der Wirtschaftswissenschaften, insbesondere des Wirtschaftsrechts, oder an Fachhochschulen von erheblicher Bedeutung. Diese Bedeutung in der Ausbildung korrespondiert mit dem Stellenwert der Materie in der Praxis: Gerade im kollektiven Arbeitsrecht zeigt sich die Bedeutung aufgrund einer Vielzahl auch medial vielbeachteter Arbeitskämpfe in den letzten Jahren. Gleiches gilt für das Individualarbeitsrecht, das vielfältigen politischen Einflüssen und Änderungen unterworfen ist und daher stets im Blick behalten werden muss. Der mittlerweile als Klassiker der Ausbildungsliteratur zu bezeichnende Grundriss behandelt alle diese Bereiche sowohl hinsichtlich der Grundlagen als auch bezüglich der Neuerungen ausführlich, sowie ergänzend die Grundzüge des Arbeitsgerichtsverfahrens. Anspruchsgrundlagen, Aufbauschemata und Tabellen erleichtern die Übersicht und die Fallbearbeitung vor allem bei Abweichungen vom im BGB geregelten Schuldrecht. Fälle und Beispiele veranschaulichen die Stoffvermittlung
Cota: Ebook
ISBN: 9783406786723
Data: 2022
Arbeitsrecht : Lernbuch nach Anspruchsgrundlagen de Hermann Reichold
Der Schwerpunkt dieses Lernbuchs liegt auf den klausurrelevanten Bereichen inklusive den prozessualen Problemen. Behandelt werden unter anderem die Grundstrukturen des Arbeitsrechts, die Zulässigkeit und Begründetheit der arbeitsgerichtlichen Klage sowie das Individual- und das Kollektivarbeitsrecht
Cota: Ebook
ISBN: 9783406771620
Data: 2022
Autonomy and Pregnancy de Sam Halliday
Technology has come to dominate the modern experience of pregnancy and childbirth, but instead of empowering pregnant women, technology has been used to identify the foetus as a second patient　characterised as a distinct entity with its own needs and interests.　 Often, foetal and the woman's interests will be aligned, though in legal and medical discourses the two 'patients' are frequently framed as antagonists with conflicting interests.　　　 This book focuses upon the permissibility of encroachment on the pregnant woman's autonomy in the interests of the foetus. Drawing on the law in England & Wales, the United States of America and Germany, Samantha Halliday focuses on the tension between a pregnant woman's autonomy and medical actions taken to protect the foetus, addressing circumstances in which courts have declared medical treatment lawful in the face of the pregnant woman's refusal of consent. As a work which calls into question the understanding of autonomy in prenatal medical care, this book will be of great use and interest to students, researchers and practitioners in medical law, comparative law, bioethics, and human rights.
Cota: Ebook
ISBN: 9781843147206
Data: 2016-05-05
Blockchain Technology and the Law de Muharem Kianieff
Blockchain Technology and the Law: Opportunities and Risks is one of the first texts to offer a critical analysis of Blockchain and the legal and economic challenges faced by this new technology. This book will offer those who are unfamiliar with Blockchain an introduction as to how the technology works and will demonstrate how a legal framework that governs it can be used to ensure that it can be successfully deployed. Discussions included in this book: - an introduction to smart contracts, and their potential, from a commercial and consumer law perspective, to change the nature of transactions between parties; - the impact that Blockchain has already had on financial services, and the possible consumer risks and macro-economic issues that may arise in the future; - the challenges that are facing global securities regulators with the development of Initial Coin Offerings and the ongoing risks that they pose to the investing public; - the risk of significant privacy breaches due to the online public nature of Blockchain; and - the future of Blockchain technology. Of interest to academics, policy-makers, technology developers and legal practitioners, this book will provide a thorough examination of Blockchain technology in relation to the law from a comparative perspective with a focus on the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States.
Cota: Ebook
ISBN: 9781138488878
Data: 2019-04-11
Kollektives Arbeitsrecht de Reinhard Richardi und von Dr. Frank Bayreuther
Das Werk stellt das kollektive Arbeitsrecht umfassend und anschaulich dar. Es beginnt mit der Vorstellung des Koalitions-, des Tarif- und Arbeitskampfrechts und wendet sich sodann dem Betriebsverfassungs- und Mitbestimmungsrecht zu. Aktuelle Entwicklungen im Bereich der Rechtsprechung sind dabei ebenso berücksichtigt wie jüngere Entwicklungen auf europäischer Ebene
Cota: Ebook
ISBN: 9783800668939
Data: 2023
Filosofia do Direito
Thinking Critically about Law de A. R. Codling
So you've arrived at university, you've read the course handbook and you're ready to learn the law. But is knowing the law enough to get you the very best marks? And what do your lecturers mean when they say you need to develop critical and analytical skills? When is it right to put your own views forward? What are examiners looking for when they give feedback to say that your work is too descriptive? This book explores what it means to think critically and offers practical tips and advice for students to develop the process, skill and ability of thinking critically while studying law. The book investigates the big questions such as: What is law? and What is 'thinking critically'? How can I use critical thinking to get better grades in assessments? What is the role of critical thinking in the work place? These questions and more are explored in Thinking Critically About Law. Whether you have limited prior experience of critical thinking or are looking to improve your performance in assessments, this book is the ideal tool to help you enhance your capacity to question, challenge, reflect and problematize what you learn about the law throughout your studies and beyond.
Cota: Ebook
ISBN: 9781315647562
Data: 2018-01-31
Metodologia de investigação científica
Our Knowledge of the External World de Bertrand Russell
Our Knowledge of the External World is a compilation of lectures Bertrand Russell delivered in the US in which he questions the very relevance and legitimacy of philosophy. In it he investigates the relationship between 'individual' and 'scientific' knowledge and questions the means in which we have come to understand our physical world. This is an explosive and controversial work that illustrates instances where the claims of philosophers have been excessive, and examines why their achievements have not been greater.
Cota: Ebook
ISBN: 9780203875360
Data: 2009-03-04
Shipwrecks, Legal Landscapes and Mediterranean Paradigms de
Now available in Open Access thanks to the support of the University of Helsinki. This book changes our understanding of the Roman conceptions about the sea by placing the focus on shipwrecks as events that act as bridges between the sea and the land. The study explores the different Roman legal definitions of these spaces, and how individuals of divergent legal statuses interacted within these areas. Its main purpose is to chart and analyse the Roman conception of the maritime landscape from the Late Republican until the Severan period. This book integrates maritime history and ethnography with the physical remains of past maritime systems, such as shipwrecks, ports, villages, fortifications, and documented legal rulings.
Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations de
Now in its second edition, Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations has been thoroughly updated with several new entries and a new preface to reflect the latest developments. There are new sections on Constructivism, International Political Theory, and English School, as well as a range of new thinkers. They include: Samuel Huntington Christine Sylvester Jürgen Habermas John Rawls Barry Buzan Fully cross-referenced throughout, this book has everything for students of politics and international relations or indeed anyone who wants to gain an understanding of how nations can work together successfully.
Handbook on European Union climate change policy and politics de
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Through detailed and wide-ranging analysis, the Handbook on European Union Climate Change Policy and Politics provides a critical assessment of current and emerging challenges facing the EU in committing to and delivering increasingly ambitious climate policy objectives. Highlighting the importance of topics such as finance and investment, litigation, ‘hard to abate’ sectors and negative emissions, it offers an up-to-date exploration of the complexities of climate politics and policy making
Referendum Authorization Procedures in Europe de
Exploring the referendum practices of eight European states, this book unpacks the intricacies of the institutional and procedural settings of referendum authorization to reach an equilibrium between the exercise of popular sovereignty and the protection of rule of law. The book also examines how, by authorizing certain issues and refusing others, state institutions can exercise considerable control over the whole referendum process. Outlining how the rise of populist political parties and governments in Europe has brought direct democracy to the fore, this future-oriented book highlights four procedural guarantees that are compatible with democratic referendum authorization procedures. These include the independence and impartiality of the decision-maker, the right to a reasoned decision, the right to be heard and the right to an effective remedy. Using comparative analysis and data collection, the book demonstrates why these guarantees are minimum requirements to ensure that the rights of the initiators and voters are represented in the procedure and therefore reduce the risk of arbitrary decision-making. This state-of-the-art title will be an invaluable resource for academics and students of constitutional and administrative law, politics and public policy. With its practical application, governmental policy-makers and practitioners will benefit widely from the book.
The Legitimacy of European Constitutional Orders de
The Legitimacy of European Constitutional Orders is a systematic and comparative study of European constitutional orders, taking into consideration the national constitutional traditions of European countries, as well as the defining power of EU law. Drawing on a wealth of case studies, this book explores the trajectories followed by European national constitutional orders in their efforts to attain legitimacy. More in particular, the book investigates Bruce Ackerman's influential world constitutionalism project and engages with the three legitimacy pathways put forward therein; that is, the revolutionary, the establishment, and the elite pathways. Such ideal trajectories are revisited and found in need of being questioned so as to furnish the conceptual tools essential in the efforts of reconstructing and assessing the European constitutional orders. The book also considers the relevance of constitutional transformation and change in comparative constitutional law, and accounts for the manifold impacts of the European integration process on national constitutional trajectories. Offering an original perspective on the issue of constitutional legitimacy in the European context, this comprehensive book will be of interest to scholars and students of comparative law, constitutional law, European law, political science and constitutional theory as well as researchers and practitioners in these fields.
Arbeitsrecht de
Zum Werk Das Arbeitsrecht ist Pflichtfach der juristischen Ausbildung, aber auch für Studierende der Wirtschaftswissenschaften, insbesondere des Wirtschaftsrechts, oder an Fachhochschulen von erheblicher Bedeutung. Diese Bedeutung in der Ausbildung korrespondiert mit dem Stellenwert der Materie in der Praxis: Gerade im kollektiven Arbeitsrecht zeigt sich die Bedeutung aufgrund einer Vielzahl auch medial vielbeachteter Arbeitskämpfe in den letzten Jahren. Gleiches gilt für das Individualarbeitsrecht, das vielfältigen politischen Einflüssen und Änderungen unterworfen ist und daher stets im Blick behalten werden muss. Der mittlerweile als Klassiker der Ausbildungsliteratur zu bezeichnende Grundriss behandelt alle diese Bereiche sowohl hinsichtlich der Grundlagen als auch bezüglich der Neuerungen ausführlich, sowie ergänzend die Grundzüge des Arbeitsgerichtsverfahrens. Anspruchsgrundlagen, Aufbauschemata und Tabellen erleichtern die Übersicht und die Fallbearbeitung vor allem bei Abweichungen vom im BGB geregelten Schuldrecht. Fälle und Beispiele veranschaulichen die Stoffvermittlung
Arbeitsrecht : Lernbuch nach Anspruchsgrundlagen de
Der Schwerpunkt dieses Lernbuchs liegt auf den klausurrelevanten Bereichen inklusive den prozessualen Problemen. Behandelt werden unter anderem die Grundstrukturen des Arbeitsrechts, die Zulässigkeit und Begründetheit der arbeitsgerichtlichen Klage sowie das Individual- und das Kollektivarbeitsrecht
Blockchain Technology and the Law de
Blockchain Technology and the Law: Opportunities and Risks is one of the first texts to offer a critical analysis of Blockchain and the legal and economic challenges faced by this new technology. This book will offer those who are unfamiliar with Blockchain an introduction as to how the technology works and will demonstrate how a legal framework that governs it can be used to ensure that it can be successfully deployed. Discussions included in this book: - an introduction to smart contracts, and their potential, from a commercial and consumer law perspective, to change the nature of transactions between parties; - the impact that Blockchain has already had on financial services, and the possible consumer risks and macro-economic issues that may arise in the future; - the challenges that are facing global securities regulators with the development of Initial Coin Offerings and the ongoing risks that they pose to the investing public; - the risk of significant privacy breaches due to the online public nature of Blockchain; and - the future of Blockchain technology. Of interest to academics, policy-makers, technology developers and legal practitioners, this book will provide a thorough examination of Blockchain technology in relation to the law from a comparative perspective with a focus on the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States.
Kollektives Arbeitsrecht de
Das Werk stellt das kollektive Arbeitsrecht umfassend und anschaulich dar. Es beginnt mit der Vorstellung des Koalitions-, des Tarif- und Arbeitskampfrechts und wendet sich sodann dem Betriebsverfassungs- und Mitbestimmungsrecht zu. Aktuelle Entwicklungen im Bereich der Rechtsprechung sind dabei ebenso berücksichtigt wie jüngere Entwicklungen auf europäischer Ebene
Our Knowledge of the External World de
Our Knowledge of the External World is a compilation of lectures Bertrand Russell delivered in the US in which he questions the very relevance and legitimacy of philosophy. In it he investigates the relationship between 'individual' and 'scientific' knowledge and questions the means in which we have come to understand our physical world. This is an explosive and controversial work that illustrates instances where the claims of philosophers have been excessive, and examines why their achievements have not been greater.