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Like the never-ending war on terror, the drugs war is a multi-billion-dollar industry that won’t go down without a fight. Pills, Powder, and Smoke explains why.

The war on drugs has been official American policy since the 1970s, with the UK, Europe, and much of the world following suit. It is at best a failed policy, according to bestselling author Antony Loewenstein. Its direct results have included mass incarceration in the US, extreme violence in different parts of the world, the backing of dictatorships, and surging drug addiction globally. And now the Trump administration is unleashing diplomatic and military forces against any softening of the conflict.

Pills, Powder, and Smoke investigates the individuals, officials, activists, victims, DEA agents, and traffickers caught up in this deadly war. Travelling through the UK, the US, Australia, Honduras, the Philippines, and Guinea-Bissau, Loewenstein uncovers the secrets of the drug war, why it’s so hard to end, and who is really profiting from it.

In reporting on the frontlines across the globe — from the killing fields of Central America to major cocaine transit routes in West Africa — Loewenstein reveals how the war on drugs has become the most deadly war in modern times. Designed and inspired by Washington, its agenda has nothing to do with ending drug use or addiction, but is all about controlling markets, territories, and people. Instead, Loewenstein argues, the legalisation and regulation of all drugs would be a much more realistic and humane approach. The evidence presented in this book will persuade many readers that he's right.

Die 42. Lieferung der 4. Auflage des Großkommentars zum Aktiengesetz umfasst die Kommentierung des § 311 des Aktiengesetzes.

From the United Nations to the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, the principles of international organizations affect all of our lives. The principles these organizations live by represent, at least in part, the principles all of us live by. This book quantifies international organizations’ affiliation with particular principles in their constitutions, like cooperation, peace and equality.

Offering a sophisticated statistical and legal analysis of these principles, the authors reveal the values contained in international organizations’ constitutions and their relationship with one another. When these organizations are divided into groups, like regional versus universal organizations, many new, seemingly contradictory, interpretations of international organizations law emerge. Through elaborate network representations, radar charters, k-clusters analyses and scatter plots, this book offers an unprecedented insight into the principles and values of international organizations.

Der Bankrechtstag 2021 widmete sich den Themen „Aktuelle Fragen der Prospekthaftung", „Europäische Verbandsklagen zum Schutz kollektiver Verbraucherinteressen – Königs- oder Holzweg?", „Verbraucherschutz durchgesetzt durch Zivilgerichte, Bankenaufsicht und Kartellbehörden?", „Digitale Anlagen", „Green Finance – EU Gesetzgebung für Nachhaltigkeit in der Finanzierung" und „ESG Governance für Banken".

Master conversation techniques that unlock group wisdom and drive better organizational decisions. Over 100 proven methods for facilitating productive discussions, resolving conflicts, and accessing collective intelligence in workplace teams, community groups, and family meetings.

Why Most Group Conversations Fail:

Without structure, group discussions drift, dominant voices take over, and valuable insights remain unshared. These facilitation methods ensure every voice is heard while keeping conversations focused and productive.

What You'll Master:

• Structured conversation frameworks that guide groups to clear outcomes
• Question sequences that draw out insights from quiet participants
• Conflict navigation techniques that transform disagreement into creativity
  
• Decision-making processes that build consensus while maintaining momentum
• Virtual meeting adaptation for remote and hybrid team environments

Professional Impact:

Leaders using these methods report 50% more productive meetings, higher team engagement, and faster problem-solving with better buy-in from all participants.

Transform meetings from time-wasters to breakthrough sessions. Essential for managers, facilitators, and anyone who leads group conversations professionally.

This book is a manifesto for change that showcases new policy ideas for an incoming Labour government.

Organised by the Society of Labour Lawyers, the Labour Party’s legal think tank, the contributors inspire debate about Britain’s future, exploring a wide range of issues from access to justice to family law reform, housing, employment, EU and trade law, asylum and refugee law, immigration and citizenship, international law and constitutional reform.

This book is a must-have collection of new insights into how a Labour government can renew Britain.

Die 40. Lieferung der 4. Auflage des Großkommentars zum Aktiengesetz umfasst die Kommentierung der §§ 394 und 395 des Aktiengesetzes.

Überarbeitete und erweiterte Fassung eines Vortrages, gehalten vor der Juristischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin am 12. Januar 2005, zu der Frage nach dem Sinn einer Entwicklungsgeschichte des geltenden Verfassungs- und Verwaltungsrechts.

Dieses Lehrbuch zum Internetrecht behandelt die Kernbereiche dieser Querschnittsmaterie. Aufgenommen sind alle Themen, die für das juristische Studium und für die Qualifizierung als Fachanwalt in dem dynamischen Rechtsbereich relevant sind. Die Erfahrung des Autors aus der Lehre, der Beteiligung an der Fachanwaltsausbildung als Dozent und Prüfer sowie aus richterlicher Tätigkeit ist in dieses Lehrbuch eingeflossen.

Der Bankrechtstag 2017 widmete sich u.a. der "Ertragssituation und (den) -perspektiven der deutschen Kreditwirtschaft", der "Zulässigkeit von Bankenentgelten" sowie "Negativzinsen". Referenten aus Wissenschaft und Praxis diskutierten unter der Leitung von Univ.-Prof. Mathias Habersack, Universität München und Elisabeth Roegele, BaFin, Frankfurt a. M..

Die Textsammlung enthält den gesamten Europäischen Normenbestand in den privatrechtlichen Kernbereichen Vertragsrecht, Arbeitsrecht und Gesellschaftsrecht, ergänzt um die wichtigsten verfahrensrechtlichen Rechtsakte. Auch das Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht sowie Teile des Wettbewerbsrechts sind erfasst. Die Neuauflage wurde um wichtige Gesetze erweitert, z.B. um die neuen Regelungen zum Datenschutzrecht und zur Digitalisierung.

Die 4. Auflage des Standardwerks zum Internetrecht berücksichtigt die DSGVO, das Informationssicherheitsrecht, die neue EU-Richtlinie zum Urheberrecht sowie die neue Richtlinie für digitale Inhalte. Neu aufgenommen sind Kapitel zu den Themen Blockchain, LegalTech, künstliche Intelligenz und zum Internet der Dinge. Umfassend ergänzt ist auch die aktuelle Rechtsprechung zum Internetrecht.

Das Werk bietet praktische Hilfe auf dem Weg zu einer erfolgreichen juristischen Promotion. Was sind richtige Themen für juristische Doktorarbeiten und wie findet man sie? Welche Methoden gibt es und was können sie (nicht) leisten? Wie hängen Thema und Methode zusammen? Das Werk gibt hierzu die relevanten Antworten. Die 2. Auflage legt hierbei den Schwerpunkt auf die Themenfindung und Methodik.

Der Bankrechtstag 2022 widmete sich den Themen: „Negativzinsen und Verwahrentgelte beim Girovertrag", „Aufklärungspflichten der Kreditinstitute über unwirksame AGB", „Reform der Verbraucherkreditrichtlinie", „Unabhängigkeit der nationalen und europäischen Aufsichtsbehörden de lege lata und de lege ferenda", „Eingriffsbefugnisse der BaFin aufgrund von § 4 FinDAG" und „Neue aufsichtsrechtliche Pflichten der Kreditinstitute".

Der Bankrechtstag 2023 behandelte die Themen: „Vom Bargeld zum digitalen Zentralbankgeld", „Anleger- und Funktionsschutz im Recht der Kryptowerte", „Rechte im Fall der Insolvenz von Kryptoverwahrern", „Greenwashing", „(In-)Konsistenz der Rechtsprechung des EuGH zum Kreditrecht", „Die Rechtsprechung des EuGH zum Kreditrecht im Licht der nationalen Rechtsdogmatik".

Das Werk vermittelt sowohl Studienanfängern als auch Examenskandidaten juristische Kompetenzen. Anstelle einer weiteren Methodenlehre oder Fallsammlung bietet dieses Buch eine schrittweise Heranführung an Gutachtenstil und Klausurtechnik. Orientiert an den häufigen methodischen Fehlern in Klausuren finden Nutzer eine Anleitung, wie diese künftig vermieden werden können. Falllösungstechnik als das Herzstück juristischer Prüfungen wird in vielen Übungsaufgaben trainiert, die Anwendung der Methoden wird in dem Werk aber auch in den Kontext von Studien- und Lernorganisation gestellt. Das Buch beruht auf einem seit mehreren Semestern an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg angebotenen Seminar; alle Übungen sind dort erprobt und greifen auf neue Erkenntnisse der juristischen Fachdidaktik zurück.

A scathing critique of the colonial legal system’s denial of children’s rights

One afternoon in 2016, law professor Robin Hansen receives a call. On the other end of the line is “Jacquie”—a pregnant Indigenous woman, nine weeks from her due date and terrified for the welfare of her unborn son. Jacquie has been sentenced to a custodial prison sentence and her son will be automatically separated from her immediately after his birth.

As Hansen works to help Jacquie with her appeal, she uncovers the legal system’s inherent discrimination against mothers in custody and the children born to them. Using Access to Information requests along with extensive research, Hansen examines the legal rights of these women—the majority of whom are Indigenous—and finds that Jacquie and her son are by no means alone: automatic mother-infant separation without due process remains the norm in most jurisdictions in Canada.
Prison Born calls attention to the colonial and gendered assumptions that continue to underpin the legal system—assumptions that so frequently lead to the violation of the rights and denial of personhood for children and their mothers.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland has functioned without interruption for over a century, yet its intermediate position can obscure the importance of its judgments.

This book demonstrates the Court of Appeal’s pivotal role in securing justice, both by correcting lower court decisions and by developing the common law. It examines, in particular, how the Court has applied and developed the rule of law in a post-conflict society.

Authored by experts in the law of Northern Ireland, this compelling text is based on archival research, statistical and qualitative case analyses, court observations, and exclusive interviews with senior judges.

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This text will examine U.S. Supreme Court cases which highlight, feature and illuminate some facets of natural law reasoning since the Court’s decree in Roe v. Wade. For most of our constitutional and legal history, there has been an exhilarating debate about whether natural law commands or encourages certain legal resolutions – even from the time of the Founders. Most would concur that the legal philosophy of Jefferson and other Founders favored a natural law basis for this republic and its corresponding rights. And while the proposed text accepts that the concept and understanding of natural law reasoning has both supporters and detractors in contemporary settings, earlier Supreme Court rulings on controversial subject matter used natural law language with regularity. Since the 1970s, the idea of a perennial, immutable and unassailable natural law has lost favor. And given the recent surge in controversial case law and conflicting decisions on highly charged topics, a return to first principles grounded in nature and natural law might be beneficial. Indeed, the proposed research hopes to gauge its current relevance, usage and reliance in more modern judicial cases.

International student migration makes a significant contribution to higher education in the United Kingdom, with Southern Africa, and Nigeria in particular, positioned joint sixth in the top ten of sending countries. Many of these student-migrants, in supplementing their finances to fund their studies in the United Kingdom, undertake employment. Temporary and/or part-time employment is integral to the student-migrant experience, despite the express purpose of their admission into the United Kingdom designated for study purposes and not work. This explicit object is reflected in restrictions affixed to international students’ employment rights whilst studying; they are generally restricted to a maximum of 20 hours of work per week during term time and proscribed from working full time or as independent contractors. Given the scant regard this topic has received in the existing literature, this study offers an examination of students’ lived employment experiences under these rules. Adopting a qualitative methodology through interviews and ethnographic observations with cohorts of international student workers from sub-Saharan Africa, the study presents a holistic picture of the lived experiences, through employment practices, of this group of student-migrant-workers. The study aims to offer contributions to the existing body of literature in two principal ways. First, it accounts for the employment experiences of student-migrants through the analytical framework of ‘precarity’ by examining the various manifestations of insecurity in the students’ lived realities, nuanced by structures of migration control and labour market temporalities. The study highlights that these students are forced to contend with intersecting forms of insecurities in their labour market encounters. This reifies their dependence on certain forms of employment and relationships, and renders them increasingly susceptible to unfavourable work conditions including low pay, exploitation, discrimination and abuse. This aspect of the study is concluded by advancing an argument that higher education institutions, as the primary sponsors of these students, must do more to forearm them with candid insights on what to expect of the temporary employment market and furnish them with a comprehensive knowledge of their accruable employment rights. 

For the second contribution, adopting the socio-legal schema of legal consciousness, the study considers the student-migrants’ relationship with the law by way of the legal restrictions on their employment and interrogates their agency in their efforts to derogate from these rules. These derogations are conceptualised as ‘semi-legality’, an analytical construct that marks an indeterminate halfway point between utter illegality and compliance, as it applies to labour. The study highlights that there are two discernible plots towards enabling semi-legal employment and evading detection thereof. The first involves the students undertaking work with different employers simultaneously; meanwhile, the second entails students contracting for work through the use of private limited companies as a trading structure. The study argues that the specifics of the student’s violation of visa rules has profound distinctive implications for their legal consciousness’ disposition and more so the manner in which they simultaneously resist and make recourse to the law and its institutions towards resolving workplace grievances. 

This book exposes how inequalities based on class and social background arise from employment practices in the digital age. It considers instances where social media is used in recruitment to infiltrate private lives and hide job advertisements based on locality; where algorithms assess socio-economic data to filter candidates; where human interviewers are replaced by artificial intelligence with design that disadvantages users of classed language; and where already vulnerable groups become victims of digitalisation and remote work.

The author examines whether these practices create risks of discrimination based on certain protected attributes, including ‘social origin’ in international labour law and laws in Australia and South Africa, ‘social condition’ and ‘family status’ in laws within Canada, and others. The book proposes essential law reform and improvements to workplace policy.

This thought-provoking collection brings together academics from a range of disciplines to examine modern slavery.

It illustrates how different disciplinary positions, methodologies and perspectives form and clash together through a kaleidoscopic view to contribute a unique insight into critical modern slavery studies. Providing a platform to critique the legal, ideological and political responses to the issue, experts interrogate the construct of modern slavery and the anti-trafficking discourse which have dominated contemporary responses to and understandings of exploitation.

Drawing on a range of global real-world examples, this is a vital contribution to the study of modern slavery.

In March 2022, following the invasion of Ukraine, Russia was expelled from the Council of Europe after 26 years as a member.

This timely and in-depth analysis explores Russia's tumultuous relationship with the Council of Europe and European Court of Human Rights. It examines Russia’s membership record and the profound impacts of its expulsion for Europe’s human rights system. The authors provide valuable insights for future policy to safeguard the integrity of international human rights institutions.

The book fills an important gap in legal scholarship by exploring the legality and legitimacy of Russia’s membership and expulsion, and represents a key reference in understanding the challenge of protecting human rights in the face of rising authoritarianism.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

This book presents the first ethnographic study into a new consent-based rape law in Sweden and shows how the implementation of this legislation challenges outdated legal frameworks and requires a shift in legal practice.

Focusing on the Swedish context, it provides insights that are globally applicable, offering lessons for other countries where consent-based rape laws are in place. By examining the limitations of the conventional legal enactment of autonomy, rationality and objectivity, the authors argue for an evolved approach to ensure fairness and effectiveness. Integrating feminist legal theory with the sociology of emotions, the book reveals how emotional and contextual factors shape legal reasoning.

Aiming to make legal processes for sexual violence more transparent, predictable and democratic worldwide, this is an urgent call for enhanced professional training in emotional reflexivity and empathy.

MASTER THE LAW OF JURY SELECTION IN ILLINOIS
“...AND THE ART OF JUROR DESELECTION”
In a perfect world, jurors would leave their bias at the door, evaluating each case based solely on the facts. Unfortunately, in the real world, every juror approaches a case with prejudice, sometimes even reaching a verdict before taking a seat! As a trial lawyer, you need to understand how to properly deselect prospective jurors and get the right jury to win your case.
In Kurt D. Lloyd On: Jury Selection, author and accomplished attorney Kurt Lloyd presents the first and only book for trial lawyers that comprehensively covers jury selection in Illinois, including: •statutory procedure for selecting jurors •law and rules for voir dire questioning of jurors •evidentiary standards for challenging for cause biased jurors •social media and juror discovery •juror misconduct and juror removal or mistrial
Whether you’re preparing for an upcoming trial or actually in the courtroom, this book offers all of the diffuse laws and procedures you’ll need in one place.

Vulnerability theory offers an alternative to social-contract and rights-based paradigms. Beginning with the corporeal body, the theory argues we are inevitably and constantly dependent on social institutions that are generated (and ideally monitored) through law. Accordingly, vulnerability theory argues for a state attentive to the needs of the universally 'vulnerable subject'.

Based on lectures at Trinity College Dublin that focused on four foundational concepts, this book highlights how vulnerability theory differs from individualistic liberal frameworks.

Calling for a reorientation of law toward a collective responsibility-based approach, it is essential reading for anyone interested in political theory, social justice, and sociolegal scholarship.

If you are in the small business world, you have heard of or experienced the weight a lawsuit can drop on an entrepreneur or small business owner. Rich Sierra has watched this happen hundreds of times, often hearing a version of I wish I’d hired legal help before this happened, in between. A culmination of 18 years of experience, Business SOS! holds the keys to eight common legal challenges small business owners are likely to face. From navigating lawsuits to ‘preventive’ care when signing contracts, to entering in partnerships, Rich walks you through dos and don’ts that will keep your company afloat.

KNOW YOUR EMPLOYEE RIGHTS!

The twenty-first century poses new challenges for employees, and if you want to protect your rights in the evolving workplace, this guide will help you do so. Designed as an overview of employment law in Maryland, it offers practical information to help you safeguard your job—both in your present workplace and throughout your working career.

When problems arise in the workplace, the first step in tackling them is knowing your rights and options. This guide explains the basics of both: What rights do you have in at-will and contractual employment relationships? How do you document and file a grievance, unemployment, or workers’ compensation claim? What should you do if you believe you’re being discriminated against? What types of workplace issues can you deal with yourself, and when do you need an attorney?

This guide answers these and other fundamental employment questions and provides step-by step instructions that will enable you not only to survive, but to thrive, in the contemporary workplace.

Insider Strategies to Plan for Medicaid, Veterans Benefits and Long-term Care and How to Help Your Loved One to Live With Peace and Dignity

The Caregiver’s Legal Guide to Caring for a Loved One with Chronic Illness was written by a Certified Elder Law Attorney to help seniors, veterans and their families navigate the long-term care legal maze. Inside you will find tips, tricks, and legal strategies to help protect the quality of life and resources for a loved one who is suffering from a chronic illness, such as Alzheimer’s, Dementia, Parkinson’s, Multiple Sclerosis, Huntington’s Disease, or even the frailties of aging. Aid & Attendance Veterans Benefit. You will have peace of mind to know that when your loved one needs care, he or she will have the best quality of life possible and be able to afford the best level of care.

What are the legal risks of my activities? Is liability insurance enough?
How do I stay out of court? What laws are unique to me as a Georgian? These are likely all questions that have crossed your mind—detailed questions that delve into a legal system that may seem daunting to an unfamiliar eye. But there’s good news: You can protect your assets. You can stay out of court. You can learn the suggestions and techniques for you as a Georgian.
Here’s how: In Asset-Protection Planning for Business Owners, Real Estate Operators, Professionals, and Investors in Georgia, Harold Hudson provides general information to you—a Georgia business owner or resident—on how to structure your affairs to help protect your assets by covering: •Georgia Comprehensive Asset Protection Planning; •how to avoid fraudulent transfers; •the importance of choosing a lawyer who understands specific laws in Georgia; •how certain contract provisions can keep you out of court and minimize your liability to others; •the decision to reduce or eliminate liability and/or malpractice insurance; •and more . . .
Don’t let lack of planning and preparedness prevent your future success. Protect your assets, understand the rules you operate under, and take action!

WE’VE CRACKED THE CODE ON LONG-TERM CARE PLANNING
Don’t miss this indispensable resource from a dream team of leading elder law attorneys. Their collective wisdom, broken down in layman’s terms, gives readers the essential tools and knowledge for effective long-term care planning. Protect your family and your hard-earned assets before it’s too late.

TAKE THE fear and loathing OUT OF FIRING EMPLOYEES–FOR YOUR GOOD AND THE good of your company
Employees—you respect, value, and care about them, which makes terminating them one of the hardest things you have to do in business. Faced with this heart-wrenching problem in his high-growth law firm, Isaac Hammer developed a system to alleviate much of the turmoil associated with the actual act. You cannot control your employees’ emotions, but you can control yours. Inside, learn how to confidently: • Manage the environment and the final conversation • Take precautions to safeguard sensitive materials • Ease the company through the sensitive days after a termination
No one likes to terminate employees, but with the proven techniques in We’re Going to Have to Let You Go, you can decisively navigate the process and keep your company focused and growing.

The Law Is Designed To Protect Families--When Judges Don't Follow It.

In Kids Caught in the Middle, Liisa Speaker offers key insights into the issues that routinely occur in the trial courts. As an appellate attorney who spends a vast amount of her time appealing decisions of family law judges, she has represented families and children in each of the custody, parenting, and other family law areas covered in the book and has a keen understanding of what it takes to achieve successful outcomes in family court.

Filled with myriad real-life case examples, Kids Caught in the Middle offers an in-depth look at where trial judges are going wrong and how bad decisions are impacting families and children. It is a must-read for family law attorneys, judges, parents, and anyone looking to understand the legal issues affecting families and how to avoid the mistakes that happen all too often when judges don't follow the law.

Ziel der vorliegenden Abhandlung ist es, Reinachs Hauptwerk einem breiteren Publikum vorzustellen und damit einen – nach hier vertretener Ansicht überfälligen – Beitrag zu seiner Wiederentdeckung zu leisten. Dazu führt die Abhandlung zunächst in Reinachs Rechtsphänomenologie ein und weist Wege zu einer Reinach-Rezeption, die von phänomenologischen Denkvoraussetzungen weitgehend unabhängig sind.

Die nachfolgenden Kapitel entfalten drei zentrale Grundbegriffe, auf denen das Gebäude von Reinachs Rechtstheorie aufruht: Versprechen als Grundbegriff des Schuldrechts, Gehören als Grundlage des Sachenrechts sowie Bestimmen als Ausgangspunkt der gesamten positiven Rechtsordnung. Das abschließende Kapitel ordnet diese Erkenntnis in den Kontext alternativer rechtstheoretischer Entwürfe ein und fragt nach der Fruchtbarkeit einer heutigen Beschäftigung mit Reinachs Theorie.

Das Ziel der Abhandlung ist erreicht, wenn es gelingt, die Brauchbarkeit von Reinachs sprachphänomenologischem Ansatz im Zusammenhang aktueller Privatrechtsdebatten zu erweisen. Das Thema der vorliegenden Abhandlung könnte daher kurz zusammengefasst auch lauten: Versprechen, Gehören, Bestimmen – Privatrecht erklärt durch drei performative Verben.

Proposes groundbreaking, fundamental reform for the adversarial legal system to keep innocent people from going to prison

We rely on the adversarial legal system to hold offenders accountable, ensure everyone is playing by the same rules, and keep our streets safe. Unfortunately, a grave condition lingers under the surface: at all times the imprisonment of possibly tens of thousands of innocent people.

The Plea of Innocence offers a fundamental reform of the adversarial system: plausibly innocent people may now plead innocent and require the government to search for exonerating facts; in return, they will be required to waive their right to remain silent, speak to government agents, and participate in a search for truth.

While almost all the participants within the system hope that only guilty people will be convicted, the unfortunate reality is that innocent people are convicted and imprisoned at an alarming rate. With the privatization of defense institutions, accused innocent people are themselves responsible for finding the facts that could exonerate them. Though the poor are represented by public defenders—in fact, almost no one who is charged with a crime has enough money to pay for a complete defense—it is still accused people, not public officials, who bear the entire burden of proving their innocence.

Tim Bakken believes that reform of the three-hundred-year-old adversarial system is long overdue, and that the government should be responsible for searching for truth—exonerating facts for innocent people—rather than being satisfied with due process. While it is improbable that all the facts in any case will ever be known, the essential point is that the acquisition of facts will almost always benefit an innocent person who has been accused of a crime. Featuring compelling evidence and concrete steps for reform, The Plea of Innocence is at once sensible and revolutionary, a must-read for anyone invested in restoring truth to the justice system.

Outlines the successes and failures of the movement to support survivors of violence

The Victims’ Rights Movement (VRM) has been one of the most meaningful criminal justice reforms in the United States. Every state and the federal government has adopted major VRM laws to enact protections for victims and increase criminal sanctions, and the movement has received support from politicians of all backgrounds. Despite recognition of its excesses, the movement remains an important force in the criminal justice arena.

The Victims' Rights Movement offers a measured overview of the successes and the failures of the VRM. Among its widely acknowledged accomplishments are expanded resources to help victims deal with trauma, greater sensitivity to sexual assault victims in many jurisdictions, and increased chances of victims receiving restitution from perpetrators of harm. Conversely, the movement has led to excessive punishment for many defendants and destruction of defendants’ families. It has exacerbated racial inequality in the imposition of the death penalty and criminal sentencing generally, and falsely promises “closure” to crime victims and their families.

Michael Vitiello considers whether the VRM serves those injured by crime well by focusing on “victimhood.” He urges a reframing of the movement to fight for universal health care and limits on access to weapons—two policies that would reduce the number of victims and help those who do become victims of crime.

How legal regulation of the body is practiced and justified


Regulating the Body examines the practice of legal regulation of the body and how it has been justified. The essays in this anthology trace the ideological, moral, and religious arguments for increasing the reach of regulation and authorizing punishment for infractions.

Bringing together leading scholars in the law and humanities, this volume examines the practices and discourses used to regulate the body, concentrating on scenarios where ethical and legal inconsistencies abound. The regulations examined herein range from the sale of gametes, parental rights over children’s genetic information, debates about masking, discourse regarding vaccines and abortion, anti-transgender legislation, and the control of inmates’ bodies on death row. These are situated within a cultural and political environment that values regulation and punishment over our long-standing constitutional protections. At a time where rhetoric around regulation of the body is becoming increasingly incendiary, Regulating the Body reveals worsening legal hypocrisies and unmasks the threats to both personal autonomy and the claims of law itself.

Die Einführung in das Verfassungsrecht ist als Studienbuch für Leserinnen und Leser ohne Vorkenntnisse konzipiert. Nach der Einleitung werden die Verfassungsprinzipien Republik, Demokratie, Bundesstaat, Sozialstaat und Rechtsstaat vorgestellt. Anschließend werden die einzelnen Grundrechte mit dem Schwerpunkt der allgemeinen Grundrechtslehren behandelt. Die 8. Auflage berücksichtigt die aktuellen Entwicklungen.

Hansgeorg Bräutigam, seinerzeit Vorsitzender einer Schwurgerichtskammer am Landgericht Berlin, schildert in diesem Band seine persönlichen Erinnerungen an die mühsame strafrechtliche Aufarbeitung des SED-Unrechts nach der Wiedervereinigung.

What would it look like to place race at the center of international legal scholarship?

From its inception in the 70s and 80s, critical race theory's target was the field of law, revealing it to be a repository for racial power. This particular critique of law was explosive because of law's putatively apolitical status, making it a unique site for an intellectual sit-in that has forever changed the way that race and racism are understood in American society.

Several decades later, as indicators of populism and white nationalism spread across North America and Europe, critical race theory remains markedly absent from discourses in global affairs and international law. This volume opens the door for CRT to enter the international sphere. Featuring contributions from 30 of today's leading scholars from around the world, Race, Racism, and International Law explains how the concept of racial difference sits at the foundation of the legal, political, and social structures of hierarchy that shape the contemporary global order. Helmed by four pioneering experts, two in CRT and two in international law, the volume's approach targets regimes of power and violence that implicate racism, capitalism, and colonialism. This volume lays the groundwork for urgent and provocative new modes of critique and analysis.

How dignity transforms, and resolves, some of the country's most pressing social problems.

Dignity represents the inherent and equal worth of each one of us. It is how we think about the value of our lives. It is how we think about justice, and about the injustices that cause people to struggle and suffer. In Dignity in America, Erin Daly explores how we can resolve the social conflicts that divide us as a nation by transforming them under the lens of human dignity.

It may apply differently in different cultural settings, but the core meaning of dignity is both intuitive and universal. It stands for a set of interlocking ideas that focus on each person's need to freely develop their full personality and identity. Using the language of dignity that has already taken root in international law and courts all around the world, Daly shows us how to think about controversies, ranging from affirmative action to abortion to climate justice to democracy, with a view toward enhancing our ability to live with dignity.

Daly presents dignity as a universal value that transcends partisan debates and, in many cases, presents a clear path to the most just solutions to the conflicts that divide us as a nation. She introduces the American voting public to the idea of dignity by posing and wrestling with a series of questions: How can we insist on a politics that really protects human dignity? How can we use the idea of dignity to guide us toward solutions that allow more people to live each day with more of it?

If we pay attention to the core needs of people in society, we can make political choices that better protect us all, allowing us to flourish as individuals while living in communities based on justice for all.

Daniel Thym verbindet politische Grundsatzfragen mit rechtstechnischen Einzelheiten, um auf einer mittleren Abstraktionsebene die zentralen Konstruktionsschwächen des deutschen, europäischen und internationalen Flüchtlingsrechts aufzuzeigen. Anhand aktueller Streitfragen zur Flüchtlingsdefinition, der Reiseroute sowie der internationalen Zusammenarbeit analysiert der Text mögliche Lösungen für eines der umstrittensten Themenfelder der Gegenwart.

Die zweite Auflage des eingeführten Kompendiums nimmt die Herausforderungen in den Blick, vor denen das Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsrecht gegenwärtig steht. Schwerpunkte bilden etwa die Neuregelung der W-Besoldung in den Ländern nach der Entscheidung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts aus dem Jahre 2012 oder der rechtssichere Umgang mit Plagiaten in der Wissenschaft.

Als Klassiker unter den Lehrbüchern zum Schuldrecht vereint das Werk den Allgemeinen und Besonderen Teil des Schuldrechts in einem Band, um die übergreifenden Zusammenhänge zu verdeutlichen. Die Nachauflage enthält aktuelle Rechtsänderungen wie das neue Kaufrecht für digitale Produkte, das Gesetz zur Umsetzung der Zweiten Zahlungsdienste-Richtlinie, das Gesetz zur Änderung reiserechtlicher Vorschriften sowie das Mietrechtsanpassungsgesetz.

Dieses Lehrbuch, verfasst von universitären Mitarbeiter:innen,

Dozent:innen und Referendar:innen aus ganz Deutschland, beinhaltet

das gesamte Grundlagenwissen des Staatsorganisationsrechts und eignet

sich sowohl für die Zwischenprüfung, als auch zur Vorbereitung auf das

Examen.

Dabei wird der prüfungsrelevante Stoff nachvollziehbar und durch

zahlreiche Beispiele anschaulich aufbereitet. Ergänzt werden die

Ausführungen durch Exkurse zu einzelnen Themen, soweit diese dem

Verständnis dienen. Weiterhin berücksichtigt das Lehrbuch den internationalen Kontext mit Darstellungen zu europa- und völkerrechtlichen

Verpflichtungen sowie aktuelle Entwicklungen.

Aufgrund der zahlreichen Hinweise, Fallbeispiele und dem weiterführenden Wissen dient das Lehrbuch auch Examenskandidat:innen zur effizienten Vorbereitung. Alle Kapitel lassen sich zudem auf einer digitalen

Plattform kommentieren.

Im Zentrum des Immaterialgüterrechts steht die Verwertung durch Lizenzierung. Der Zugang zum Lizenzvertragsrecht als komplexer Materie mit zahlreichen Bezügen auch zum Insolvenz-, Steuer- und Kartellrecht ist herausfordernd. Das Lehrbuch bietet eine kompakte Darstellung dieser Querschnittsmaterie für Praxis und Studium. Die Neuauflage berücksichtigt die aktuelle Rechtsprechung und die Umsetzung der Know-how-Schutz-Richtlinie durch das GeschGehG.

Der Band befasst sich mit dem Arbeitskampfrecht des Bundesarbeitsgerichts im Wandel der Zeit. Dafür werden die rechtlichen und tatsächlichen Rahmenbedingungen dargestellt und gefragt: Ist das Arbeitskampfrecht noch zeitgemäß oder bedarf es einer Neuausrichtung? Muss dafür der Gesetzgeber eingreifen oder genügt eine Rückbesinnung auf hergebrachte Grundsätze? Der Beitrag plädiert für die Schaffung eines Gesetzes zur Schlichtung von Tarifkonflikten.

In May 2019, Narendra Modi won the world’s largest election. Defying expectations, he led his Bharatiya Janata Party to a resounding victory, with the highest vote share for any party in thirty years, and was re-elected as India’s Prime Minister.

What accounts for the scale of Modi’s win? Why, despite economic hardship and social strife, did Indians vote so overwhelmingly for him and the BJP? This book explains the economic, social and cultural processes that shaped political passions in India during the spring and summer of 2019. It takes an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together a stellar team of economists, political scientists, sociologists, historians and geographers to explain Modi’s win. Together, the contributors compel us to take seriously the ‘structures of feeling’ in politics.

Love him or hate him, Modi secured for himself a decisive re-election as India’s Prime Minister. Passionate politics is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how that happened.

Online marketplace and digital platform founders and leaders invest enormous time and effort into setting their businesses up for success, focusing on what it takes to launch and scale their innovative and disruptive ventures. But most give little if any thought to setting up their platforms for avoiding unnecessary risk, liability and exposure that could lead to failure.

In his book, Bulletproof Your Marketplace: Strategies for Protecting Your Digital Platform, Jeremy Gottschalk, attorney and founder of the global resource platform Marketplace Risk, turns the how to succeed in business genre on its head. Rather than offering the usual platitudes on growing a business, he shows marketplace and digital platform leaders how to eliminate the kinds of unnecessary risk, liability and exposure that can destroy even the most successful digital businesses. Bulletproof Your Marketplace offers platform stakeholders useful and actionable ways to avoid to identify, predict, prevent, and respond to the risks that come with launching, operating and scaling marketplaces and digital platforms.

Addressing some of a platform’s most common vulnerabilities one by one, Gottschalk lays out in plain and simple terms how founders and leaders can proactively and simultaneously protect their businesses and their communities.

All is not well with the law on rape. It is rarely reported and even when it is, it is rarely prosecuted. Victims are deterred for a range of reasons, but these include a fear that it will never be possible to prove the rape has occurred and that the trial will be traumatic. Even when the case proceeds to trial, victims perceive that it is they, rather than the perpetrator, who is the one on trial. The past sexual behaviour of the victim,; the clothes she was wearing,; the people she socialised with and the places she visited are all used as tools to claim that in fact the victim consented to the rape. Reforms are needed.
In this book, we explore how changing the definition of rape will help tackle some of these problems. We argue there needs to be a shift in the focus of the rape trial: away from asking whether the victim consented, to focus on whether the defendant. Rather than focusing on the way the victim dresses, behaviour in response to the rape, the focus will be on what the defendant believed justified him engaging in a sexual behaviour.
At the heart of our proposal is the claim that having sex comes with responsibilities. In particular, a responsibility to ensure you have reasonable grounds to believe the other consents. Without that consent, a very serious wrong is being done. The central legal focus should therefore be on whether the defendant had sufficiently good reasons to proceed with having sex.

Artificial Intelligence’s Impact on Legal Journals provides an overview of the opportunities and challenges presented by the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on legal journals, including the Ottawa Law Review (OLR).

Throughout the publication lifecycle of a given piece, AI tools may play a pivotal role in enhancing the editorial and publishing processes. Similarly, authors submitting to legal journals may also leverage AI tools for purposes that range from improving readability to generating content.

While the potential benefits are significant, the use of such tools raises various issues pertaining to the accuracy and quality of publications, as well as broader ethical and legal issues.

Journals have responded to these opportunities and challenges at different speeds and in different ways. Some journals in non-legal disciplines have developed extensive AI policies, while the majority of legal journals appear to be falling behind in this regard.

This book contains several recommendations that will empower the OLR to embrace the transformative potential of AI responsibly while maintaining its commitment to safeguarding privacy, intellectual property, and scholarly rigour.

Central to this endeavour is the adoption of three AI policies: one covering the use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in submissions, another addressing AI usage in the peer review process, and a final one relating to the editorial team.

This book ultimately aspires to ensure the OLR upholds its reputation as a reliable contributor to legal scholarship by guiding the organization through this new technological revolution.

The acclaimed guide to formulating and asking penetrating, paradigm-shifting mediation questions to successfully resolve conflict, now completely revised and updated.

Knowing how to formulate and ask incisive questions is essential for effective mediation and conflict resolution. The Mediator's Toolkit, Second Edition, is the proven, practical guide to formulating and posing powerful questions that get to the core of an issue, challenge entrenched thinking, and shift perspectives.

This fully revised edition delivers advanced techniques while leveraging the latest neuroscientific research and psychological concepts to help mediation practitioners and participants gain increased insight.

Readers will benefit from a comprehensive analysis of the newly updated "S Questions Model," a process-driven conceptual framework which takes a deep dive into the four key dimensions of building impactful and robust mediation questions: subject matter, structure, seeking information and shifting-thinking. The resulting toolkit includes:

• The scientific theories and concepts underpinning each aspect of the model
• Safe and productive approaches for effectively managing blame, addressing toxic language, navigating highly charged emotions, encouraging effective listening, getting to underlying interests, and creating empowerment
• Detailed background, use cases, examples, hazard warnings and key learnings for numerous categories of neutral, exploratory questions including those based on neurolinguistic programming, cognitive elements, journeys of inference, distinction and difference and many more.

This indispensable reference will radically sharpen, focus, and improve the dispute-resolution strategies and communication skills of qualified mediators and facilitators, students, lecturers, trainers, and anyone using questions to challenge assumptions, foster connectedness, and effect change in any context.

Die Befassung mit Immaterialgüterrechten ist ohne Auseinandersetzung mit der Verwertung dieser Wirtschaftsgüter durch Lizenzierung unvollständig. Der Einstieg in das Lizenzvertragsrecht wird dadurch erschwert, dass es kein einheitliches Rechtsgebiet ist, sondern eine komplexe Materie mit Bezügen auch zum Insolvenz- und Kartellrecht. Das Lehrbuch bietet eine kompakte Darstellung dieser Querschnittsmaterie für Praxis und Studium.

Der Band befasst sich mit der „Halsgerichtsordnung" Kaiser Karls V. aus dem Jahre 1532. Dieses erste deutsche reichseinheitliche Strafgesetz wirkt über viele Jahrhunderte und viele Reformbewegungen hinweg noch immer in unsere heutige Strafrechtsordnung hinein. Es ist bekannt auch unter dem Namen „Carolina" und steht in markanter Weise für die Rezeption, also die Übernahme von Vorschriften und Ideen aus fremden Rechtsordnungen und dem Versuch, die Anwendung der Folter an frühe rechtsstaatliche Grenzen zu binden.

Am 29. April 2003 hatte der Baseler Ausschuss für Bankenaufsicht sein drittes Konsultationspapier über die Neue Baseler Eigenkapitalvereinbarung zur Kommentierung durch Verbände und Wissenschaft vorgelegt ("Basel II"). Kurz vor dem Bankrechtstag, am 1. Juli 2003, veröffentlichte auch die Europäische Kommission ihr drittes Konsultationspapier zu den neuen Eigenkapitalvorschriften. Vor diesem Hintergrund bot der Bankrechtstag eine hervorragende Gelegenheit, einen Überblick über die Regelungen des neuen Baseler Akkords in der Fassung des dritten Konsultationspapiers zu erhalten.

Die Diskussion über Bankgeheimnis und Geldwäsche erhielt durch die terroristischen Anschläge in den USA vom 11. September 2001 erhöhte Brisanz. Danach wurden die gesetzlichen Regelungen zur Bekämpfung von Geldwäsche und Terrorismus auf breiter Front und weitreichend verschärft. So wurde zum Ende der 14. Legislaturperiode des Deutschen Bundestages eine Vielzahl von Gesetzesvorschriften erlassen, mit deren Hilfe insbesondere die Erlangung von Informationen über die finanziellen Verhältnisse der Kunden von Kreditinstituten erleichtert werden sollte.

Every Supreme Court transition presents an opportunity for a shift in the balance of the third branch of American government, but the replacement of Thurgood Marshall with Clarence Thomas in 1991 proved particularly momentous. Not only did it shift the ideological balance on the Court; it was inextricably entangled with the persistent American dilemma of race. In The Transition, this most significant transition is explored through the lives and writings of the first two African American justices on Court, touching on the lasting consequences for understandings of American citizenship as well as the central currents of Black political thought over the past century.

In their lives, Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas experienced the challenge of living and learning in a world that had enslaved their relatives and that continued to subjugate members of their racial group. On the Court, their judicial writings—often in concurrences or dissents—richly illustrate the ways in which these two individuals embodied these crucial American (and African American) debates—on the balance between state and federal authority, on the government's responsibility to protect its citizens against discrimination, and on the best strategies for pursuing justice. The gap between Justices Marshall and Thomas on these questions cannot be overstated, and it reveals an extraordinary range of thought that has yet to be fully appreciated.

The 1991 transition from Justice Marshall to Justice Thomas has had consequences that are still unfolding at the Court and in society. Arguing that the importance of this transition has been obscured by the relegation of these Justices to the sidelines of Supreme Court history, Daniel Kiel shows that it is their unique perspective as Black justices – the lives they have lived as African Americans and the rooting of their judicial philosophies in the relationship of government to African Americans – that makes this succession echo across generations.

Das Werk vermittelt das notwendige Basiswissen, das für die mündliche Prüfung sowohl im 1. Staatsexamen als auch im 2. Staatsexamen beherrscht werden sollte. Die Darstellung bezieht sich auf alle Rechtsgebiete. In der 13. Auflage sind alle Kapitel aktualisiert und neue Prüfungsthemen aufgenommen.

The past few decades have been witness to a number of important developments with respect to the global intellectual property (IP) system, including shifts in focus between multilateralism and bilateralism/regionalism; growing recognition of the various ways in which IP intersects with and impacts areas including human rights, development, trade, and social justice; broad acknowledgement of the economic value of many IP rights; and important theoretical interventions that have challenged the values underlying the global IP system.

These developments have occurred alongside several other events, changes, and crises that have altered the landscape of our global communities. Chief among them are climate change; armed conflicts; the COVID-19 pandemic; economic changes to work; technological shifts including those relating to the internet and artificial intelligence, and their role in society; and growing recognition of the inequities that exist within and between societies as well as the ways in which these inequities are reinforced and maintained through systemic discrimination and ongoing colonialism.

Given these developments, changes, and crises, what is the future of IP law and policy? Featuring contributions from scholars from across Canada and around the world, this collection offers insights into eighteen possible futures for the global IP system.

Collectively, these chapters re-envision international agreements; rethink Canadian IP law; argue for the creation of space for Indigenous legal traditions; highlight the promises and perils of technology as it relates to IP; expose inequities and injustices, and provide possible pathways to correct them.

This textbook is designed to introduce the reader to important and emerging issues in contemporary environmental law, policy, economics, and science. It explains the roles and interactions of Congress, federal agencies, state governments, and the courts in protecting the environment and public health from pollution. Topics include common law; administrative law; the role of environmental impact assessments and endangered species protection; and the principal legislation and court decisions dealing with greenhouse gas emissions, conventional and toxic air pollution, water pollution, the control of toxic chemicals and hazardous waste, pollution prevention and primary accident prevention, and community right-to-know. The text also explores various alternatives to regulation and concludes with a brief treatise on sustainability.
The evolving role of science and economics in legislative, regulatory, and judicial decision making is explored. The text analyzes pollution as an economic problem and a failure of markets, discusses the role of technological innovation and the concept of “dynamic” economic equilibrium, and evaluates economic incentives as an alternative or supplement to regulation. The book also provides an introduction to basic legal skills: how to read and understand judicial opinions, regulations, and statutes; how to discover the current state of the law in a specific area; and how to take action toward resolution of environmental problems. Throughout, the role of national and local politics in shaping and implementing environmental policy is acknowledged and evaluated.

Cybersecurity is often examined through the lens of national security and organizational risks, focusing on data breaches and the technical and legal measures to prevent, address, and mitigate them. However, another critical dimension is the impact on individual security and dignity.

This edited collection explores the legal and technical aspects of self-security, addressing issues such as technology-facilitated abuse, social media, the sharing culture, and reputational harm.

With a distinct Canadian focus, it examines how the country’s policies, laws, and practices shape cybersecurity and individual protection. By providing insights into safeguarding personal security in a rapidly evolving digital landscape, this collection serves as a valuable resource for researchers, policymakers, and individuals alike.

This profound book by leading socio-legal scholar Joshua Castellino offers a fresh perspective on the lingering legacies of colonization.

While decolonization liberated territories, it left the root causes of historical injustice unaddressed. Governance change did not address past wrongs and transferred injustice through political and financial architectures.

Castellino presents a five-point plan aimed at system redress through reparations that addresses the colonially induced climate crisis through equitable and sustainable means.

In highlighting the structural legacy of colonial crimes, Castellino provides insights into the complexities of contemporary societies, showing how legal frameworks could foster a fairer, more just world.

The production, sale and possession of some drugs is criminalized – but why? And why, despite vast resources and budgets, have international efforts to control them so consistently failed?

Julia Buxton looks at how our current drug control regime came about from the first US-driven international meeting on drug control in the early 20th century and the ideologies behind it. She also charts the evolution of today's drugs market, looking at where drugs are produced and consumed, giving voice to those who get caught up in this world.

Ultimately she asks: if the current strategy isn't working, what should replace it?

With 98 per cent of UK households online and over 4.9 billion social media users globally, the potential for individuals to spread defamatory content has surged. This compelling book considers the effects of the digital era on English defamation law.

Exploring the challenges posed by affordable technology, viral sharing and technological advancements such as AI, the book highlights the complexities claimants face in the current environment. Offering invaluable guidance for navigating this rapidly evolving legal landscape, the book explores the way defamation relates to, and intertwines with, data protection law and particularly with the UK GDPR’s right to be forgotten.

Highlighting experiences and voices historically overlooked, misunderstood, or forgotten, this book answers the urgent need for a more diverse and inclusive curriculum in family law in England and Wales.

The book helps readers diversify their understanding of the law and its often-unequal impact on citizens, equipping students with the vital skills and knowledge they need to be lawyers in the real world. Sectioned into three parts, the book covers key areas of family law including marriage, divorce, and parenthood, dispute resolution in family law, and domestic abuse. Each chapter takes a critical legal approach to the development and application of the law, enriched by underlining key issues from a range of perspectives to demonstrate the need to recognise diverse voices.

Written by a diverse team of expert contributors, the book also includes:

• further reading lists;

• helpful chapter summaries;

• end-of-chapter questions to spark discussion and reflection.

This study on cross cultural perspectives in child advocacy deals with various topics, including support for children's issues, the factors that influence reporting of suspected child abuse and child advocacy's application to education professionals. The study looks at issues from around the world.

Federalism has played a central role in charting educational progress in many countries. With an evolving balance between centralization and decentralization, federalism is designed to promote accountability standards without tempering regional and local preferences. Federalism facilitates negotiations both vertically between the central authority and local entities as well as horizontally among diverse interests. Innovative educational practices are often validated by a few local entities prior to scaling up to the national level. Because of the division of revenue sources between central authority and decentralized entities, federalism encourages a certain degree of fiscal competition at the local and regional level. The balance of centralization and decentralization also varies across institutional and policy domains, such as the legislative framework for education, drafting of curricula, benchmarking for accountability, accreditation, teacher training, and administrative responsibilities at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels.

Given these critical issues in federalism and education, this volume examines ongoing challenges and policy strategies in ten countries, namely Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States. These chapters and the introductory overview aim to examine how countries with federal systems of government design, govern, finance, and assure quality in their educational systems spanning from early childhood to secondary school graduation. Particular attention is given to functional division between governmental layers of the federal system as well as mechanisms of intergovernmental cooperation both vertically and horizontally.

The chapters aim to draw out comparative lessons and experiences in an area of great importance to not only federal countries but also countries that are emerging toward a federal system.

In recent years, failures in health and social care, mental health services, public housing and education have dominated headlines and been the subject of much public debate. The means for addressing such concerns remain notably legalistic and subject to a particular brand of liberal legalism that stifles the possibility of transformational intervention.

This book argues that there is urgent need for a radical reassessment of the way the law mediates between citizens and the state. Drawing on historical and comparative research, literary, pictorial and cinematic treatments, and the insights of the disability rights movement, Nick O’Brien examines how the everyday regulation of street-level bureaucracy can play an integral part in reimagining postliberal politics and the role of the law.

Die erste Auflage dieses Lehrbuchs hat ein neues Format erprobt: Fälle und Übungen wurden mit systematischen Erläuterungen zum UWG kombiniert. Für den Studierenden mit dem Schwerpunkt Wettbewerbsrecht, aber auch den Praktiker in diesem Bereich bot dies die Möglichkeit, Probleme des Fachs im jeweiligen systematischen Zusammenhang verankert zu sehen. Die Systematik des UWG ist nach wie vor unklar. Das Gesetz ist zuletzt im Dezember 2015 geändert und stärker auf die Vorgaben des Unionsrechts, insbesondere der Richtlinie über unlautere Geschäftspraktiken ausgerichtet worden. Inhaltlich hat sich dabei nicht viel geändert, doch haben sich viele Vorschriften verschoben. Das Lehrbuch bringt den Stoff auf den aktuellen Stand des Gesetzes und seiner Auslegung. Alle Fälle wurden gesichtet, manche Sachverhalte modernisiert, neue Fälle sind hinzugekommen. Das Konzept bleibt: Das UWG lernt man am besten an Fällen. Die Fälle werden mit Erläuterungen aufgearbeitet, so dass der gesamte Stoff des Rechtsgebiets vermittelt wird.

Today antitrust law shapes the policy of almost every large company, no matter where headquartered. But this wasn't always the case. Before World War II, the laws of most industrial countries tolerated and even encouraged cartels, whereas American statutes banned them. In the wake of World War II, the United States devoted considerable resources to building a liberal economic order, which Washington believed was necessary to preserving not only prosperity but also peace after the war. Antitrust was a cornerstone of that policy. This fascinating book shows how the United States sought to impose—and with what results—its antitrust policy on other nations, especially in Europe and Japan.

Wyatt Wells chronicles how the attack on cartels and monopoly abroad affected everything from energy policy and trade negotiations to the occupation of Germany and Japan. He shows how a small group of zealots led by Thurman Arnold, who became head of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division in 1938, targeted cartels and large companies throughout the world: IG Farben of Germany, Mitsui and Mitsubishi of Japan, Imperial Chemical Industries of Britain, Philips of the Netherlands, DuPont and General Electric of the United States, and more. Wells brilliantly shows how subsequently, the architects of the postwar economy—notably Lucius Clay, John McCloy, William Clayton, Jean Monnet, and Ludwig Erhard—uncoupled political ideology from antitrust policy, transforming Arnold's effort into a means to promote business efficiency and encourage competition.

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

This book provides an in-depth sociolegal examination of adult social care law and policy during the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the tensions between legislation, policy, and practice in what was already an under-resourced and overstretched sector.

The authors interrogate the vision and utility of the Care Act 2014 and explore the impact of emergency legislation and operational changes implemented during the pandemic. Detailing what happened to social care provision during this time of intense stress and turbulence – for people who draw on services, for informal carers, and for those who work in the sector – the book highlights fault lines in the system.

This is an invaluable resource offering timely lessons for adult social care reform and future pandemic preparedness planning.

This pioneering volume shows that contrary to previous scholarly understanding, the courts in Qing (1644-1911) and Republican (1911-1949) China dealt extensively with civil matters such as land rights, debt, marriage, and inheritance; and, moreover, did so in a consistent and predictable way. Drawing on records of hundreds of cases from local archives in several parts of China, it considers such questions as the relation between codified law and legal practice, the role of legal and paralegal personnel, and the continuity in civil law between Qing and Republican China.

Emord traces the intellectual origins of Authoritarianism to its Hegelian roots in Germany. He shows how legions of academics, trained to hate the American system of government, became predominant in the major universities of America, entered government as top advisors, and successfully orchestrated an overthrow of the Constitution’s limits on power which put the rights of individuals in jeopardy from the Progressive Era through the New Deal to today. In The Authoritarians, readers learn how Authoritarians endorsed forced sterilization of 60,000 American citizens whom they deemed “undesirable” and “unfit”. Readers also learn how Authoritarians selectively created monopolies and overcame the constitutional limits on government power the Founding Fathers put in the Constitution to prevent tyranny, thus ushering in the foundation for a socialist state.

In The Authoritarians, Emord reveals the lies told by advocates of the Black Lives Matter organization, Antifa, and the 1619 Project. He presents the startling fact that the first slaves in the Jamestown Colony in 1619 were not blacks, but whites and that in the antebellum South slave owners were not only white, but black. Readers also learn the inherent failings of socialism; the tremendous cost it imposes on human lives; and the grave threat to the survival and success of liberty and justice in America posed by Authoritarians such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Ed Markey, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris. The Authoritarians unveils a detailed strategy for restoring constitutional protection for individual rights and fending off the horrors of a socialist tidal wave now drenching America.

Administrative Law: The Informal Process provides an in-depth exploration of the evolution and functions of administrative agencies within the American legal and governmental systems. Addressing the critical role of agencies in rule-making and adjudication, this work examines the constitutional challenges and democratic implications posed by the rise of what has often been referred to as the "fourth branch of government." While traditional separation of powers was intended to keep legislative, executive, and judicial functions distinct, administrative agencies have blurred these boundaries by combining rule-making and adjudicative functions within a single institution. This book investigates how the adjudicative processes of these agencies, particularly in the form of informal adjudication, significantly influence the lives of individuals and the development of public policy.

Focusing on the adjudicative functions of agencies like the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Administrative Law provides a critical analysis of the procedural dynamics that give shape to administrative rulings. It emphasizes the pragmatic need for expertise, speed, and public policy adherence, which often lead to informal adjudicative practices over formal proceedings. By examining specific agencies in detail, this work constructs a nuanced portrait of the administrative process, offering insights into the legal standards and adversarial contexts that define administrative adjudication today. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars interested in understanding the mechanisms through which administrative agencies shape both law and daily life in modern governance.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.