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Handbook on Legal Cultures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1171

Handbook on Legal Cultures

  • Categories: Law

Cooperation across borders requires both knowledge of and understanding of different cultures. This is especially true when it comes to the law. This handbook is the first to comprehensively present selected legal cultures based on a very specific set of structural elements which can be found in all such cultures. Legal cultures are a product of and impacted by certain fundamental and commonly shared ideas on and expectations of the law. In all modern societies these ideas are to a certain degree institutionalized or at least embedded in institutionalized practices. These practices determine the way lawyers are educated and apply the law, how they engage with the ongoing internationalization of law and what kind of values they adhere to. Looking at these elements separately enables the reader to identify similarities and differences and to explain them contextually. Understanding these general features of legal cultures can help avoid misunderstandings or misinterpretations of foreign law and its application. Accordingly, this handbook is a necessary starting point for all kinds of legal comparative studies conducted by academics, students, judges and other legal practitioners.

A Theory of Punishable Participation in Universal Crimes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 756

A Theory of Punishable Participation in Universal Crimes

  • Categories: Law

This study is the second in the four-part series entitled “Rethinking the Essentials of International Criminal Law and Transitional Justice”. While the first volume, The Concept of Universal Crimes in International Law, explored the parameters and theories related to crimes under international law, this book examines the notion of punishable participation in such crimes. It presents a general theory of personal criminal liability and provides a comprehensive overview of all forms of criminal participation in international law. The authors examine numerous primary materials in international and transnational criminal law, both historical and current, relating to both international and dom...

Offshore Wind Licensing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 417

Offshore Wind Licensing

  • Categories: Law

This incisive book provides a timely and magisterial analysis of offshore wind licensing processes and their regulation from a global perspective. It not only explores the concept of licensing and the governance frameworks and backgrounds in which licensing rules are developed, but also looks at the crucial legal challenges facing the licensing of offshore wind farms that regulators, legislatures, operators, and legal practitioners are likely to encounter.

Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 839

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

  • Categories: Law

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, the significance of which carries over into the realm of penal law regulations. Its impact is analysed primarily from the legal point of view, but with due regard for its psychological and psychiatric ramifications. Recognising the importance of these disciplines is important when implementing CRPD Ar...

The Past, Present, and Future of Canadian Cities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

The Past, Present, and Future of Canadian Cities

  • Categories: Law

In 1861, just a few years before Confederation, 84 per cent of Canadians lived in rural areas; today, it’s less than 20 per cent. Our municipal governments are asked to do more for their citizens than ever before, yet they must confront myriad challenges – from the public health pandemic to the housing crisis – without the tools they need. They have no constitutional protection from jurisdictional overstepping by provincial governments and no assurance that they will be able to complete any effort they undertake. The Past, Present, and Future of Canadian Cities explores the historical functions of municipalities, their current ability to tackle major problems, and what the future holds...

Comparing Legal Cultures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 804

Comparing Legal Cultures

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-08-10
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  • Publisher: Unknown

In the present era of internationalisation of law, being able to analyse legal culture enables legal cooperation. However, legal culture is still more a theoretical concept than an analytical tool applied when approaching law. There are many kinds of legal cultures, concerning different groups of legal actors or covering different geographical areas, and they are at times overlapping. However, the national legal culture is still the one that has the largest influence on the everyday life of citizens and the day-to-day work of lawyers. In this book, the editors first theorize on and give practical guidance on how to identify, deconstruct and examine legal culture. Based on a common analytical framework, the editors and a large number of expert contributors explore central institutional and intellectual features of legal culture in 12 European countries next to USA, China and Australia allowing the reader to systematically compare legal cultures.This is the second and extended version of Comparing Legal Cultures, which is the first thorough and extensive book that analyses national legal cultures as an approach to comparative law.

The Byzantine City from Heraclius to the Fourth Crusade, 610–1204
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

The Byzantine City from Heraclius to the Fourth Crusade, 610–1204

This book explores the Byzantine city and the changes it went through from 610 to 1204. Throughout this period, cities were always the centers of political and social life for both secular and religious authorities, and, furthermore, the focus of the economic interests of local landowning elites. This book therefore examines the regional and subregional trajectories in the urban function, landscape, structure and fabric of Byzantium’s cities, synthesizing the most cutting-edge archaeological excavations, the results of analyses of material culture (including ceramics, coins, and seals) and a reassessment of the documentary and hagiographical sources. The transformation the Byzantine urban landscape underwent from the seventh to thirteenth centuries can afford us a better grasp of changes to the Byzantine central and provincial administrative apparatus; their fiscal machinery, military institutions, socio-economic structures and religious organization. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of the history, archaeology and architecture of Byzantium.

Judicial Review in Norway
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 326

Judicial Review in Norway

  • Categories: Law

Outside the United States, Norway's 1814 constitution is the oldest still in force. Constitutional judicial review has been a part of Norwegian court decision-making for most of these 200 years. Since the 1990s, Norway has also exercised review under the European Convention of Human Rights. Judicial review of legislation can be controversial: having unelected judges overruling popularly elected majorities seems undemocratic. Yet Norway remains one of the most democratic countries in the world. How does Norway manage the balance between democracy and judicial oversight? Author Anine Kierulf tells the story of Norwegian constitutionalism from 1814 until today through the lens of judicial review debates and cases. This study adds important insights into the social and political justifications for an active judicial review component in a constitutional democracy. Anine Kierulf argues that the Norwegian model of judicial review provides a useful perspective on the dichotomy of American and European constitutionalism.

Basiswissen deutsches Recht für Übersetzer
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 219

Basiswissen deutsches Recht für Übersetzer

Mit der Internationalisierung des Rechts hat sich der Bedarf an juristischen Übersetzungen deutlich erhöht und mit ihm auch die Ansprüche an Qualität und Rechtssicherheit. Diese können Übersetzerinnen und Übersetzer nur erfüllen, wenn Sachwissen, Terminologiekenntnisse und Vertrautsein mit den spezifischen kommunikativen und kognitiven Strategien die grund­legende Kompetenz für den Transfer zwischen Ausgangs- und Zielrechtsordnung bilden. Für die qualitativ sensible Schnittstelle zwischen Rechts- und Übersetzungswissenschaft ist dieses Buch eine seit Jahren bewährte Ausbildungsgrundlage: Konsequent vermittelt es das notwendige juristische Grund­lagenwissen und führt von dort zu den Möglichkeiten des Übersetzens in andere Sprachen und Rechtssysteme. Hierzu greift die didaktisch angelegte und gut verständliche Darstellung stets auf vielfältige Textsorten und für die Berufs­praxis repräsentative Texte als Übersetzungsübung zurück und bietet Verständnis­fragen zur Selbstprüfung. Die vorliegende Auflage wurde grundlegend überarbeitet und aktualisiert.

Pro Unity Game Development with C#
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

Pro Unity Game Development with C#

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-05-29
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  • Publisher: Apress

In Pro Unity Game Development with C#, Alan Thorn, author of Learn Unity for 2D Game Development and experienced game developer, takes you through the complete C# workflow for developing a cross-platform first person shooter in Unity. C# is the most popular programming language for experienced Unity developers, helping them get the most out of what Unity offers. If you're already using C# with Unity and you want to take the next step in becoming an experienced, professional-level game developer, this is the book you need. Whether you are a student, an indie developer, or a season game dev professional, you'll find helpful C# examples of how to build intelligent enemies, create event systems ...