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  • Quadro comparativo do Código de Processo Civil

    Em vigor desde 18 de março de 2016, o novo Código de Processo Civil caracteriza-se pelos avanços relativos à celeridade processual, à supressão de recursos meramente protelatórios e à uniformização jurisprudencial. Em virtude das enormes mudanças trazidas por ele, optou-se por apresentá-lo em primeiro plano na formatação em linhas e colunas do quadro. Sem dúvida, o Quadro comparativo do Código de ... Read more

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  • Personal Autonomy in Plural Societies

    A Principle and its Paradoxes

    Series series Law and Anthropology
    This volume addresses the exercise of personal autonomy in contemporary situations of normative pluralism. In the Western liberal tradition, from a strictly legal and theoretical perspective the social individual has the right to exercise the autonomy of his or her will. In a context of legal plurality, however, personal autonomy becomes more complicated. Can and should personal autonomy be ... Read more

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  • Gender-Competent Legal Education

    Series series Springer Textbooks in Law
    Male-dominated law and legal knowledge essentially characterized the whole of pre-modern history in that the patriarchy represented the axis of social relations in both the private and public spheres. Indeed, modern and even contemporary law still have embedded elements of patriarchal heritage, even in the secular modern legal systems of Western developed countries, either within the content of ... Read more

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  • The International Handbook of Social Enterprise Law

    Benefit Corporations and Other Purpose-Driven Companies

    This open-access book brings together international experts who shed new light on the status of social enterprises, benefit corporations and other purpose-driven companies. The respective chapters take a multidisciplinary approach (combining law, philosophy, history, sociology and economics) and provide valuable insights on fostering social entrepreneurship and advancing the common good.In recent ... Read more

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  • Insurance Distribution Directive

    A Legal Analysis

    Series Book 3 - AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation
    This open access volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation offers the first comprehensive legal and regulatory analysis of the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD). The IDD came into force on 1 October 2018 and regulates the distribution of insurance products in the EU. The book examines the main changes accompanying the IDD and analyses its impact on insurance ... Read more

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  • Law and Social Policy in the Global South

    Brazil, China, India, South Africa

    Edited by Ulrike Davy, Albert H.Y. Chen ...
    The book is an in-depth study of the origins and the trajectories of the law governing social policies in Brazil, China, India, and South Africa, four middle-income countries in the global South with a history in social policy making that starts in the 1920s.The policies of these countries affect almost half of the world’s population. The book takes the legal framework of the policies as a ... Read more

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  • Powers of the Prosecutor in Criminal Investigation

    A Comparative Perspective

    This comparative analysis examines the scope of prosecutorial powers at different phases of criminal investigation in four countries: the United States, Italy, Poland, and Germany. Since in all four the number of criminal cases decided without trial is constantly increasing, criminal investigation has become central in the criminal process. The work asks: who should be in charge of this stage of ... Read more

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  • Conservation of Contemporary Art

    Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice

    Series Book 9 - Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market
    This open access book investigates whether and how theoretical findings and insights in contemporary art conservation can be translated into the daily work practices of conservators or, vice versa, whether and how the problems and dilemmas encountered in conservation practice can inform broader research questions and projects. For several decades now, the conservation of contemporary art has been ... Read more

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  • Protecting the Rights of People with Autism in the Fields of Education and Employment

    International, European and National Perspectives

    Fundamental rights for all people with disabilities, education and employment are key for the inclusion of people with autism. They play as facilitators for the social inclusion of persons with autism and as multipliers for their enjoyment of other fundamental rights. After outlining the international and European dimensions of the legal protection of the rights to education and employment of ... Read more

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  • Socialism and Legal History

    The Histories and Historians of Law in Socialist East Central Europe

    Series series Routledge Research in Legal History
    This book focuses on the way in which legal historians and legal scientists used the past to legitimize, challenge, explain and familiarize the socialist legal orders, which were backed by dictatorial governments.The volume studies legal historians and legal histories written in Eastern European countries during the socialist era after the Second World War. The book investigates whether there was ... Read more

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  • Same-Sex Families and Legal Recognition in Europe

    Edited by Marie Digoix ...
    Series Book 24 - European Studies of Population
    This open access book focuses on family diversity from a legal, demographical and sociological perspective. It investigates what is at stake in the life of homosexuals in the field of family formation, parenting and parenthood, what it brings to everyday life, the support of the law, and what its absence implies. The book shows the paths leading to the adoption of laws while demographic analyses ... Read more

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  • Subsidiaritätsgrundsatz und Tatsachenfeststellung unter der Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention

    Analyse der Rechtsprechung zu Art. 3 EMRK

    Series Book 283 - Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht
    Dieses Buch ist eine Open-Access-Publikation unter einer CC BY 4.0 Lizenz.Subsidiarität ist zu einem Schlüsselbegriff des Diskurses um die Europäische Menschenrechtskonvention (EMRK) geworden. Neben seiner vielbeachteten materiell-rechtlichen Funktion kommt dem Begriff auch eine verfahrensrechtliche Tragweite zu. Das vorliegende Buch widmet sich dieser prozessualen Dimension des ... Read more

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  • Business Data Ethics

    Emerging Models for Governing AI and Advanced Analytics

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Law
    This open access book explains how leading business organizations attempt to achieve the responsible and ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other advanced information technologies. These technologies can produce tremendous insights and benefits. But they can also invade privacy, perpetuate bias, and otherwise injure people and society. To use these technologies successfully, ... Read more

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  • Multi-dimensional Approaches Towards New Technology

    Insights on Innovation, Patents and Competition

    This open access edited book captures the complexities and conflicts arising at the interface of intellectual property rights (IPR) and competition law. To do so, it discusses four specific themes: (a) policies governing functioning of standard setting organizations (SSOs), transparency and incentivising future innovation; (b) issue of royalties for standard essential patents (SEPs) and related ... Read more

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  • Disability, Sexuality, and Gender in Asia

    Intersectionality, Human Rights, and the Law

    This book introduces experiential knowledge of the intersectionality of disability, sexuality, and gender equality issues. Scholars and disabled persons’ organizations in different Asian countries such as China, Vietnam, Myanmar, Nepal, and Japan have contributed to the book. It is a preliminary introduction of the frontline practice of Asian disability activism and the experience of women and ... Read more

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  • Datenschutz in sozialen Netzwerken in Europa, Deutschland und Chile

    Eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung zum europaeischen, deutschen und chilenischen Recht

    Series Book 5932 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften Recht
    Der Autor untersucht, ob geltendes Recht in Europa, Deutschland und Chile personenbezogene Daten in sozialen Netzwerken hinreichend vor Missbrauch schützt. Hierbei widmet er sich vertieft dem Vergleich deutscher und europäischer Regelungen mit der Rechtslage in Chile, zwei sehr unterschiedlichen Rechtsordnungen und technologisch komplizierten Sachverhalten. Der Fokus des Buches liegt auf der ... Read more

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  • The Governance of Insurance Undertakings

    Corporate Law and Insurance Regulation

    Series Book 6 - AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation
    This open access volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation brings together contributions from authors with different legal cultures. It aims to identify the legal issues that arise from the intersection of two disciplines: insurance law and corporate/company law. These legal issues are examined mainly from the perspective of European Union (EU) law. However, there ... Read more

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  • Do Exclusionary Rules Ensure a Fair Trial?

    A Comparative Perspective on Evidentiary Rules

    Edited by Sabine Gless, Thomas Richter ...
    Series Book 74 - Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
    This open access publication discusses exclusionary rules in different criminal justice systems. It is based on the findings of a research project in comparative law with a focus on the question of whether or not a fair trial can be secured through evidence exclusion.Part I explains the legal framework in which exclusionary rules function in six legal systems: Germany, Switzerland, People’s ... Read more

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  • Who Will Be the Next President?

    A Guide to the U.S. Presidential Election System

    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book addresses the peculiarities of the current presidential election system not yet addressed in other publications. It argues that any rules for electing a President that may have a chance to replace the current ones should provide an equal representation of states as equal members of the Union, and of the nation as a whole. This book ... Read more

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  • Accountability and the Law

    Rights, Authority and Transparency of Public Power

    Edited by Piotr Mikuli, Grzegorz Kuca ...
    This book discusses contemporary accountability and transparency mechanisms by presenting a selection of case studies.The authors deal with various problems connected to controlling public institutions and incumbents’ responsibility in state bodies. The work is divided into three parts. Part I: Law examines the institutional and objective approach. Part II: Fairness and Rights considers the ... Read more

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  • Judicial Law-Making in European Constitutional Courts

    Edited by Monika Florczak-Wątor ...
    This book analyses the specificity of the law-making activity of European constitutional courts. The main hypothesis is that currently constitutional courts are positive legislators whose position in the system of State organs needs to be redefined.The book covers the analysis of the law-making activity of four constitutional courts in Western countries: Germany, Italy, Spain, and France; and six ... Read more

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  • Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

    Private and Criminal Law Aspects

    This book examines the implications of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), its resulting standard of protection for persons with disabilities and the way it is understood and implemented in its diverse signatory states. Its overarching theme is to assess the impact of CRPD Article 12 on the private law concept of legal capacity and its limitations, ... Read more

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  • Pandemics, Public Health, and the Regulation of Borders

    Lessons from COVID-19

    This book examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has engendered a new and challenging environment in which borders drawn around people, places, and social structures have hardened and new ones have emerged.Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, borders closed or became unwelcoming at the international, national, sub-national, and local levels. Debate persists as to whether those countries and ... Read more

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  • Studies in Global Animal Law

    Edited by Anne Peters ...
    Series Book 290 - Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht
    This open access book contains 13 contributions on global animal law, preceded by an introduction which explains key concepts and methods. Global Animal Law refers to the sum of legal rules and principles (both state-made and non-state-made) governing the interaction between humans and other animals, on a domestic, local, regional, and international level. Global animal law is the response to the ... Read more

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