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This book presents case studies on the human rights performance of state-owned enterprises from four Latin American and three European countries. It examines whether companies implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and how their state owners regulate or incentivize their human rights compliance.

'Ground Improvement in Underground Constructions' is a valuable reference text for tunnelling specialists, owners, engineers, archaeologists, architects, artists and others involved in underground planning, design and building around the world, and for academics who are interested in underground constructions and geotechnics.

Constitutional Intolerance offers a deeper reflection on intolerance in politics and society today, explaining why minorities face the contestation of their public visibility, and how the law could protect them. Van der Tol refers to historical practices of toleration, distilling from it the category of 'the other' to the political community, whose presence, representation, and visibility is not self-evident and is often subject to regulation. The book considers 'the other' in the context of modern constitutions, with reference to (ethno)religious, ethnic, and sexual groups. Theoretical chapters engage questions about the time and temporality of otherness, and their ambivalent relationship with (public) space. It offers examples from across the liberal-illiberal divide: France, the Netherlands, Hungary, and Poland. It highlights that vulnerability towards intolerance is inscribed in the structures of the law, and is not merely inherent to either liberalism or illiberalism, as is often inferred.

Challenge your understanding of corporate, securities, and financial law and regulation with this ground-breaking book.Featuring incisive research from preeminent scholars in the field, this seminal work interrogates long-standing assumptions and beliefs that have remained unexamined for decades.Taking a novel approach, the book serves as both a conceptual "deconstruction" and a foundation for future research directions. Each chapter delves deep into the often-overlooked origins, mechanics, and implications of outdated or misleading concepts (termed "fallacies") that form the backbone of contemporary corporate and securities laws, financial regulations, and related domains.Beyond simply identifying these fallacies, the authors illustrate the profound implications of recalibrating our analytic perspectives. By expanding the spectrum of inquiry and moving along multiple continuums - such as public to private, micro to macro, transactional to structural, individual to systemic, and static to dynamic - this volume underscores the transformative potential of re-envisioning the fundamentals of these fields. An essential read, this book promises to be a catalyst for change and a must-have for anyone committed to staying at the forefront of law and policy.

Reconceiving Civil Society and Transitional Justice examines the role of civil society in transitional justice, exploring the forms of civil society that are enabled or disabled by transitional justice processes and the forms of transitional justice activity that are enabled and disabled by civil society actors.

In this book, four authors reflect on whether the US Constitution embodies certain "principles." They conclude that it does not, at least not directly, and that it's a good thing that it and other constitutions do not.

In a society of strangers, there develops what can be called crimes of mobility -- forms of criminality rare in traditional societies: bigamy, the confidence game, and blackmail, for example. What they have in common is a kind of fraudulent role-playing, which the new society makes possible.

This work addresses the shift from the monolithic influence of major world religions in the past towards religious pluralism coupled with the increased secularism of society. Contributors explore how the deployment of a nuanced understanding of human dignity can provide a way to maximise religious liberty for all within liberal democracies.

Examining how victimisation can occur across the online-offline continuum while emphasising the need for a holistic approach to understanding and addressing contemporary harms, this book covers various themes of victimisation in the digital age linked to the interconnectedness and blurred boundaries between online and offline experiences.

This handbook provides a comprehensive review of research in conflict and peace communication and offers readers a range of insights into foundational, ongoing, and emerging discussions in this field.

The motives, reasonings, and action of the Indians displayed in broad daylight, he felt, would be an inestimable advantage in the administration of justice.

This will be the first comprehensive guide to the law and practice of sexual offences in Scotland. Written by an experienced sexual offences prosecutor, it will provide a complete and up-to-date commentary on the main sexual offences in Scots law and on how such offences are investigated, prosecuted and tried in the Scottish courts. It will also provide an outline of the main principles and sources of evidence in sexual offences cases, including medical, scientific and other expert evidence. It will be an indispensable guide for all those involved in such cases at all levels of the Scottish legal system. The Law of Sexual Offences in Scotland will be the only book on the market to cover not just the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009, but also: - The Protection of Children and Prevention of Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2005 (the other main piece of legislation protecting children from sexual offences);- The Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Act 2016 and the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018;- Indecent images and pornography offences;- Historical sexual offences - still regularly prosecuted in the courts and forming a significantly part of the courts' workload;- The investigation, prosecution and trial of sexual offences, covering each stage of the process from an initial complaint to the police through to the trial;- Particular rules of evidence in sexual offences cases (for instance, the rape-shield provisions in sections 274 and 275 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995;- Expert forensic and medical evidence in sexual offences cases; and- Sentencing and ancillary orders in sexual offences cases. This will also be added to our online services - Scottish Law Service and the Criminal Law module of Scots Law Online.

In this book, Joanna Rak explores sources of civil disorder in one of the pandemic-ridden regions of the European Union, the post-communist states. Supported by systematic empirical evidence of protest policing in the region, Rak delves into conditions of civil disorder in each state to test the hypotheses and offer an explanation.

This volume uses vulnerability theory to explore how the organisation of the teaching and research activities of universities impact the resilience of academics and also how these activities themselves are impacted by contemporary developments in universities and educational policy.

This book discusses the treatment of cultural products within international trade law, focusing on preferential trade agreements. It will be of interest to researchers in the fields of cultural products, trade agreements, digital technology, trade law, and cultural diversity.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. At once theoretically sophisticated and poignantly written, Constructed Movements centers stories from communities in Mexico profoundly affected by emigration to the United States to show how migration extracts resources along racial lines. Ragini Shah chronicles how three interrelated dynamics-the maldistribution of public resources, the exploitation of migrant labor, and the US immigration enforcement regime-entrench the necessity of migration as a strategy for survival in Mexico. She also highlights the alternative visions elaborated by migrant community organizations that seek to end the conditions that force migration. Recognizing that reform without recompense will never right an unjust migratory system, Shah concludes with a forceful call for the US and Mexican governments to make abolitionist investments and reparative compensation to directly counteract this legacy of extraction.

Wir leben in einer sich rasch verändernden Arbeitswelt. Die Digitalisierung ist dabei Freud und Leid zugleich. So können wir beispielsweise von überall aus im Videocall miteinander kommunizieren, sind aber gleichzeitig jederzeit erreichbar. Besonders der Wechsel zwischen Präsenzarbeit und Homeoffice - die Tätigkeit in hybriden Arbeitswelten - kann eine große Herausforderung für uns darstellen. Erfahren Sie, wie Sie anhand aktueller Erkenntnisse der psychologischen Forschung die Vorteile hybrider Arbeit nutzen und zugleich die dadurch auch entstehenden Belastungen reduzieren können. Die Psychologin Dr. Sandra Waeldin erläutert in ihrem Buch, was für einen gesunden Umgang mit Stress in jedem Arbeitskontext sowie speziell in der Präsenzarbeit und im Homeoffice gilt. Das Praxisbuch enthält für jeden Abschnitt sowohl nützliche Informationen, Übungen für den Alltag und Anleitungen für die Umsetzung und zur Selbstreflexion. So können Sie Schritt für Schritt gesunde und wohltuende Veränderungen für Ihre hybride Arbeitswelt schaffen.

Andrew Goodman's Effective Mediation Advocacy Student Edition established itself as the leading work for students in this specialist and increasingly important area. This second edition of the Student Edition has been updated to take in with the Churchill case, the Singapore Convention 2019, the impact of Brexit and the pandemic, updated rules for the major student mediation advocacy and negotiation competitions and other recent developments. It is essential reading for students seeking to develop skills in representing parties at mediation, and to improve their competition skills. With forewords by the Rt Hon Lord Dyson and Irena Vanenkova, former executive director of the International Mediation Institute, and with appendices covering the SCMA Mediation Advocacy Standards and Competencies, and the IMI's own practical tools for mediator selection and case management, this work is both an authoritative guide and a practical skills manual for students from many backgrounds."It provides the clearest possible grounding in the skills and practice of mediation, and the role of the advocate throughout the mediation process. It is compendious in scope and thoroughly practical in its advice. It should be seen to be the pre-eminent guide to practitioners who wish to develop and hone the specialist skills required of effective mediation advocates." Lord Dyson, ForewordAs the sector has developed, so this ground-breaking work has been expanded to cover recent authorities and new ideas and to take in the assistance practitioners can obtain from such organisations as SCMA, and IMI who have endorsed the work.

Drawing on our growing knowledge of animal cognition, this book provides a critical analysis of the use of animals in the legal regime and practice of toxicity testing.

Negotiation can make the difference between success and failure, a win or a loss, a 'no' or a 'yes'. But what if you are coming up against a brick wall due to implicit prejudice or outright discrimination? Be Who You Are to Get What You Want is for anyone who deals with bias in the everyday negotiations that are part of their professional and personal lives. Celebrated conflict resolution expert and lawyer Damali Peterman leads a complete course in excellent and effective negotiation. Crucially, she relates how to identify your opposite negotiator as a Connector, Operator, Protector or Explorer (C.O.P.E.), leading to different strategies and pathways to successful negotiation. She will teach you how to overcome and prepare for being triggered and how to validate others' experiences in order to empower yourself. She explains how to persist even when it's hard and how to tap into the 'five senses of negotiation' in order to identify not what someone is saying but why someone is saying it. Part I, 'Show Them Who You Are', reveals how to gain self-awareness to both unlock important skills and to prepare for every situation. Part II, 'Peek Inside Your Bag', explores how to better understand others to get what you need and to stay in control of the dynamic. Part III, 'Trust Your Instincts', is an actionable toolkit that pulls everything together with clear and actionable techniques.Be Who You Are to Get What You Want is a masterclass in effective, sympathetic, and successful negotiation while retaining your identity.

Das akademische Potenzial des Rechtsgüterbegriffs, der sich seit dem Aufkommen der Risikogesellschaft in einer Krise befindet, mag im digitalen Zeitalter gänzlich verloren gegangen sein. Doch die angloamerikanische politische Freiheitsphilosophie hat sich als unerwarteter Verbündeter zur Unterstützung seiner These erwiesen. So wie die personale Rechtsgutslehre in den 1990er Jahren als Reaktion auf Joel Feinbergs Neuinterpretation des Schadensprinzips, einer getreuen Wiederherstellung des klassischen Liberalismus von John Stuart Mill, wieder an Bedeutung gewann, könnte die frische Definition der negativen Freiheit, die aus dem neo-römischen Republikanismus von Philip Pettit stammt, einen Durchbruch für die heutige Krise der Rechtsgutslehre bedeuten. So wie das Konzept der negativen Freiheit ein ewiges Licht in der politischen Philosophie ist, so ist der Wert des liberalen Strafrechts, auch wenn es sich nicht auf die utilitaristische Tradition stützt, hinter dem Schutzschild des personalen Rechtsgutsbegriffs immer für eine neue Debatte bereit.

In Deutschland fließen jährlich Milliarden in wohltätige Zwecke. Trotz wachsender Transparenz im Spendenmarkt kommt es gelegentlich zu Spendenmissbrauch, der breite mediale Aufmerksamkeit erlangt. Dieses Werk analysiert tiefgründig Phänomene rund um Spenden, Sammlungen und das daraus resultierende Sammelvermögen. Mit Bezug auf § 1914 BGB beleuchtet es die rechtliche Natur des Sammelvermögens sowie die komplexen, oft wenig geklärten Rechtsbeziehungen zwischen Spendern, Sammlern und Begünstigten. Die gründliche Untersuchung der gesetzlichen und privaten Kontroll- und Schutzmöglichkeiten zeigt, dass diese oftmals unzureichend sind. Auf dieser Basis präsentiert die Autorin konkrete, praxisrelevante Lösungsansätze für eine verbesserte Regulierung.

The story of the commercialization of biology by a pioneer in biotechnology patentingShortly after the emergence of genetic engineering in the 1970s, academic biologists were courted by venture capitalists and multinational companies. Researchers who understood the new biology of the time went from being merely curious about how the natural world functioned to realizing that they could profit from their newfound recognition. As they were inventing all sorts of newfangled organisms, biologists became acquainted with intellectual property.Patenting Life provides insights into legal fights over patented microbes, virus-resistant crops, ownership of body parts, and the patents they engendered. Covering the early days of recombinant DNA science to the present, Goldstein shares cases from his own career and those of others involving blockbuster biological drugs, aseptic mosquitoes, genetically engineered cows, and CRISPR, the modern gene-editing technology that promises to vanquish congenital diseases such as sickle cell anemia. He also addresses the perceived downsides of the patent system: the high prices of drugs, international access to COVID-19 vaccines and other medicines, and the ascent of genetically modified crops.Patenting Life will appeal to readers interested in science and technology and also those interested in laws promoting innovation.