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  • 法律的悖论

    by 罗翔 ...
    内容简介《法律的悖论》是中国政法大学罗翔教授普法新作。思考生活中的法律问题,常常让我们觉得十分烧脑,一起案件可能推导出相互矛盾的立场,而且这两个立场居然还都非常合理?这都是因为法律中存在着似非而是的悖论。法律中充满着悖论,有些是真悖论,有些是假悖论。罗老师在书中通过14个经典案件,辨析了法律与案件中的盲区,帮助我们看清法治的核心。探讨和思考法律中的悖论,能够锻炼我们的思维,走出偏见与独断,接受多元与包容。 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Your Right To Know

    How to Use the Law to Get Government Secrets

    Series series Reference Series
    Governments and institutions hold secrets you are entitled by law to know. But how do you exercise your right? In this definitive guide, you will learn how to gain access to information and how to pry loose records governments and institutions would prefer not to release. This book walks you through the maze and over the obstacles that stand in the way of your right to know. In the process you ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Wesley Hohfeld A Century Later

    Edited Work, Select Personal Papers, and Original Commentaries

    Wesley Hohfeld is known the world over as the legal theorist who famously developed a taxonomy of legal concepts. His contributions to legal thinking have stood the test of time, remaining relevant nearly a century after they were first published. Yet, little systematic attention has been devoted to exploring the full significance of his work. Beginning with a lucid, annotated version of Hohfeld's ... Read more

    $127.99 USD

  • Vicarious Liability in Tort

    A Comparative Perspective

    by Paula Giliker ...
    Series Book 69 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    Vicarious liability is controversial: a principle of strict liability in an area dominated by fault-based liability. By making an innocent party pay compensation for the torts of another, it can also appear unjust. Yet it is a principle found in all Western legal systems, be they civil law or common law. Despite uncertainty as to its justifications, it is accepted as necessary. In our modern ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Veiled Power

    International Law and the Private Corporation 1886-1981

    by Doreen Lustig ...
    Series series Law and Global Governance
    Veiled Power conducts a thorough historical study of the relationship between international law and business corporations. It chronicles the emergence of the contemporary legal architecture for corporations in international law between 1886 and 1981. Doreen Lustig traces the relationship between two legal 'veils': the sovereign veil of the state and the corporate veil of the company. The interplay ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Vanishing Contract Law

    Common Law in the Age of Contracts

    Series series Law in Context
    English contract law provides the invisible framework that underpins and enables much contracting activity in society, yet the role of the law in policing many of our contracts now approaches vanishing point. The methods by which contracts come into existence, and notionally create binding obligations, have transformed over the past forty years. Consumers now enter into contracts through remote ... Read more

    $90.99 USD $32.99 USD

  • Useless Knowledge for Shysters

    Curious laws from around the world

    by Mia Mirillia ...
    Did you know that...... it is illegal in France to serve Valais spit roast with mashed potatoes?... it is illegal in Alabama to wear false teeth in order to deceive others?... in the city of Xapuri in Brazil, there is a penalty for waking other people by knocking on their windows?These and hundreds of other curious laws from all over the world await you in this book.Always be the know-it-all in ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Useless Knowledge about Laws

    Crazy laws and curious bans from around the world

    by Mia Mirillia ...
    Useless knowledge about lawsHidden deep in the dusty archives of law books and legal documents are some of the most bizarre, amazing and sometimes downright hilarious laws ever enacted. From the ban on collecting rainwater in parts of Australia to the bizarre rule that cabs in Victoria can carry a guide dog but not an ordinary dog, this book reveals the most outlandish laws from around the world ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unconscionability in European Private Financial Transactions

    Protecting the Vulnerable

    Given the unprecedented recent turmoil on financial markets we now face radically challenged, 'post-Lehmann' assumptions on protecting the vulnerable in financial transactions. This collection of essays explores conceptions of, and responses to, unconscionability and similar notions across Europe with specific reference to financial transactions. It presents a detailed analysis of concepts of ... Read more

    $95.99 USD

  • Un país al margen de la ley

    La anomia como componente del subdesarrollo argentino

    by Carlos Nino ...
    Series series Singular
    Decir que la Argentina es un país que vive "al margen de la ley" (que seguir las normas es optativo, que si las incumplimos "no pasa nada") es parte de un resignado sentido común. En gran medida, este libro pionero es responsable de haber señalado que nuestra "pronunciada tendencia a la ilegalidad" es, más que un dato "simpático" de la argentinidad, una verdadera cuestión estructural. Y que, por ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Uluslararası Yatırım Hukuku

    Uluslararası yatırım hukuku egemen devletler ve çok uluslu şirketler arasındaki uyuşmazlıkların artması ile birlikte giderek artan bir oranda önem kazanmıştır. Yabancı şirketler, ekonomik güçlerine dayanarak egemen devletler karşısında varlık göstermiş ve bilhassa bazı hukuki ilke ve kurallara dayanarak zarara uğramaktan kurtulmuş veya uğradığı zararları tazmin etmiştir. İşte bu ilkelerden en ... Read more

    $3.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trânsito E A Política

    by Rene Dias ...
    A cada período bienal temos um pleito eleitoral no Brasil (eleições locais e gerais), nos quais, há uma grande e feroz disputa realizada entre os candidatos que pretendem ocupar determinados cargos de ordem pública. É espantosa a quantidade de pré-candidatos que pleiteiam vagas nas Casas Legislativas e nos Palácios dos Poderes Executivos. Mas, será que todos eles estão preparados para assumir uma ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Truth, Denial and Transition

    Northern Ireland and the Contested Past

    Truth, Denial and Transition: Northern Ireland and the Contested Past makes a unique and timely contribution to the transitional justice field. In contrast to the focus on truth and those societies where truth recovery has been central to dealing with the aftermath of human rights violations, comparatively little scholarly attention has been paid to those jurisdictions whose transition from ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Trusts and Modern Wealth Management

    Trust law has grown and developed over recent years through the continued ingenuity of practitioners and the provision of innovative new trust laws by offshore jurisdictions. The wealth managed through the medium of trust law has also changed in recent years, as increasingly it has come from the newly rich of Asia. This brings distinctive issues to the fore: the role of settlors, family members ... Read more

    $182.99 USD

  • Tributação Da Antiguidade À Era Digital

    TRIBUTAÇÃO DA ANTIGUIDADE ERA DIGITAL é uma obra que busca provocar reflexões comparativas entre a velocidade com que as novas tecnologias são implementadas e a morosidade com que o setor público, mais notadamente as administrações tributárias reagem diante dessas mudanças. Nessa mesma esteira de reflexões, vemos que nossos parlamentos, embora imbuídos das melhores boas intenções, acabam por ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Treatment of Foreign Law in Asia

    Edited by Dr Kazuaki Nishioka ...
    Series series Studies in Private International Law - Asia
    How do Asian courts ascertain, interpret, and apply a foreign law as the law governing the merits of the case? What should judges do if parties do not raise or disagree on the content of foreign law? This thematic volume in the Studies in Private International Law – Asia series analyses the treatment of foreign law before judicial authorities, that is, how the courts of Asian states deal with the ... Read more

    $141.99 USD

  • Transnational Crime

    Law, Theory and Practice at the Crossroads

    Philip Jessup coined the term "transnational law" in his Storrs Lecture on Jurisprudence delivered in 1956 to describe law that regulates activities or actions that transcend national borders. The term redefined the development and practice of the law, and became a distinct field of study. In 2001, Neil Boister applied Jessup’s concept to the field of criminal law and identified the emergence of ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Transnational Commercial Law

    International Instruments and Commentary

    Transnational commercial law represents the outcome of work undertaken to harmonize national laws affecting domestic and cross-border transactions and is upheld by a diverse spectrum of instruments. Now in its second edition, this authoritative work brings together the major instruments in this field, dividing them into thirteen groups: Treaty Law, Contracts, Electronic Commerce, International ... Read more

    $449.99 USD

  • Transitional Justice, Judicial Accountability and the Rule of Law

    Transitional Justice, Judicial Accountability and the Rule of Law addresses the importance of judicial accountability in transitional justice processes. Despite a general consensus that the judiciary plays an important role in contemporary governance, accountability for the judicial role in formerly authoritarian societies remains largely elided and under-researched. Hakeem O. Yusuf argues that ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Transición a la paz y responsabilidades de un pasado violento

    Series series Derecho
    Cuando la sociedad en su conjunto ha sufrido conflictos violentos, es preciso que las comunidades políticas asuman ciertas responsabilidades, a fin de lograr una transición política que logre una paz duradera y, en especial, una paz justa. De ahí que este libro, Transición a la paz y responsabilidades de un pasado violento, fundamentado en concepciones filosóficas, jurídicas y políticas propias de ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Torts in UK Foreign Relations

    Series series Oxford Private International Law Series
    Can English courts hear tortious claims for wrongs allegedly committed by British armed forces and security services during their overseas operations? Should English courts hear such claims? What law governs issues raised by such claims? Can foreign judgments given on such claims be recognised and enforced in the UK? Many questions such as these have arisen in relation to cases dealing with the ... Read more

    $175.99 USD

  • The Use of Economics in International Trade and Investment Disputes

    Twenty-first-century trade agreements increasingly are a source of international law on investment and competition. With chapters contributed by leading practitioners and academics, this volume draws upon investor-state arbitration and competition/antitrust disputes to focus on the application of economics to international trade law and specifically WTO law. Written in an accessible language ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Transformation of European Private Law

    Harmonisation, Consolidation, Codification or Chaos?

    Edited by James Devenney, Mel Kenny ...
    This book emanates from a duo-colloquium which explored the Europeanisation of private law in the context of efforts to consolidate the consumer acquis, the Draft Common Frame of Reference, the appointment of an Expert Group on a Common Frame of Reference in the area of European contract law, the passage of the Consumer Rights Directive and the proposed Common European Sales Law. This book, with ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • The Street-Law Handbook

    Surviving Sex, Drugs, and Petty Crime

    Can you be arrested for wearing a thong if you're ugly? Unknowingly renting a house to drug dealers? Becoming too familiar with your Halloween pumpkin?The Street Law Handbook answers these questions and more, as lawyer Neeraja Viswanathan cracks the tough nut of small-time law enforcement and lays the rules bare. Exactly how much pot do you need to have in your possession to warrant a felony ... Read more

    $9.99 USD