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The wrong man: the final verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard murder case
Par James Neff. 2001
Investigative reporter assembles extensive evidence exonerating Cleveland physician Sam Sheppard of murdering his pregnant wife, Marilyn, on July 4, 1954.…
Describes botched police and forensic investigations, Sheppard's retrials and eventual acquittal in 1966, and his son's anti-death-penalty activism. Identifies probable actual killer and reconstructs possible murder scenario. Some violence and some strong language. 2001The company: a short history of a revolutionary idea (Modern Library Chronicles)
Par John Micklethwait. 2003
Economist editors examine the history of the limited-liability joint-stock corporation--"the most important organization in the world"--from 3000 B.C. to the…
twenty-first century. The authors argue that companies have given the West a great competitive advantage and have, on the whole, evolved toward a more socially responsible posture. 2003Make them go away: Clint Eastwood, Christopher Reeve & the case against disability rights
Par Mary Johnson. 2003
Journalist explores the backlash against the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act and society's focus on medical treatment rather than equal…
opportunities. Discusses Clint Eastwood's decision to fight a lawsuit for access violations, Christopher Reeve's goal to walk again, and the proposed ADA Notification Act. 2003America's splendid little wars: a short history of U.S. military engagements: 1975-2000
Par Peter A. Huchthausen. 2003
Retired naval officer and author of K-19: The Widowmaker (DB 55090) traces America's post-Vietnam armed conflicts from the 1975 rescue…
of the hijacked SS Mayaguez in the Gulf of Siam through the 1990s interventions in the Balkans. Includes U.S. failures in Lebanon, Iran, and Somalia and victories in Desert Storm, Grenada, and Panama. 2003Michelle Obama, first lady
Par Liza Mundy. 2009
"L'histoire de la nouvelle First lady est celle d'une battante, remportant toutes les victoires sur ses origines. Michelle Robinson est…
issue d'une famille afro-américaine modeste installée à Chicago à la suite de la Dépression des années 30. Fille d'un père employé municipal et d'une mère femme au foyer, elle a grandi dans un quartier en proie à la ségrégation raciale. Reçue à la prestigieuse université de Princeton, elle a ensuite fait des études de droit à Harvard. Devenue, à force de travail, une brillante avocate d'affaires, elle a toujours voulu mettre ses compétences au service du plus grand nombre. C'est dans le premier cabinet d'avocats où elle a travaillé qu'elle a rencontré Barack Obama, venu faire un stage d'été. Ils sont mariés depuis 1992. Femme moderne, mère de famille attentive pour leurs deux filles Malia et Sasha, conseillère précieuse et moteur de son mari, elle le stimule, l'accompagne, n'hésite pas à le critiquer et à exister à ses côtés [...]". -- 4e de couvEcology and Environmental Ethics: Green Wood in the Bundle of Sticks (Routledge Revivals)
Par Robert Jay Goldstein. 2004
Originally published in 2004. Examining the successes and failures of three decades of environmental law, this absorbing book reconsiders some…
of the policies devised to remedy centuries of abuse of the planet. It acknowledges the advances made using technological standards to effect pollution control as well as rudimentary systems that regulate use of land at the local level. However, as the author observes, these systems have limitations in solving vexing problems such as sprawl and non-point source pollution, as the cost of their use can easily outweigh the benefits. He suggests a system, termed 'Green Wood in the Bundle of Sticks', that provides the necessary theoretical and historical bases to bridge the gap between the potentials of each system. Using objective criteria based on science, this system is tied to a land ownership system that also takes into account societal concerns at a broader level.Private Law, Nudging and Behavioural Economic Analysis: The Mandated-Choice Model (Markets and the Law)
Par Antonios Karampatzos. 2020
Offering a fresh perspective on "nudging", this book uses legal paternalism to explore how legal systems may promote good policies…
without ignoring personal autonomy. It suggests that the dilemma between inefficient opt-in rules and autonomy restricting opt-out schemes fails to realistically capture the span of options available to the policy maker. There is a third path, namely the ‘mandated-choice model’. The book is mainly dedicated to presenting this model and exploring its great potential. Contract law, consumer protection, products safety and regulatory problems such as organ donation or excessive borrowing are the setting for the discussion. Familiarising the reader with a hot debate on paternalism, behavioural economics and private law, this book takes a further step and links this behavioural law and economics discussion with philosophical considerations to shed a light on modern challenges, such as organ donation or consumers protection, by adopting an openly interdisciplinary approach. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of contract law, legal systems, behavioural law and economics, and consumer law.Written by the nation's foremost authority on gunshot wounds and forensic techniques as they relate to firearm injuries, this third…
edition of a bestseller provides critical updates to information on gunshot wounds and the weapons and ammunition used to inflict them. The book describes practical aspects of ballistics, wound ballistics, and the classification of various wounds caused by handguns, rifles, and shotguns. It also explains autopsy techniques and procedures and laboratory analyses relating to weapons and gunshot evidence. A much-needed update after nearly 20 years, the third edition of Gunshot Wounds provides the latest and most thorough information on firearms and best practices for examining firearm-related wounds.This book explores the role of trade remedies in liberalising environmental trade and discouraging environmentally harmful trade. As trade remedies…
can pose a significant obstacle to environmental trade, this book outlines how trade negotiators can implement restrictions on the application of trade remedies on environmental goods. It also assesses whether and how investigating authorities can account for differences in environmental protection standards in trade remedy investigations and considers what a possible 'trade remedy' for environmental harm might look like. Although the book concludes that trade remedies will remain a trade instrument primarily driven by economic and competitiveness concerns, it demonstrates how environmental considerations can guide trade remedy policy, how investigating authorities can properly account for the environmental costs of production, and how the limited policy space available in the WTO Agreements on Trade Remedies can be used to pursue green policy goals.This book offers a comprehensive introduction to French contract law with a focus on the role of consent and the…
evolution of consensualism, considering its immediate historical sources. The book provides a clear, in-depth, and analytical discussion of the contingency of consensualism and how the development of consensual ideas across time and transnational geographical settings has specifically underpinned modern French contract law, which has inspired other legal systems and continues to do so. It also challenges the macro-narratives of European legal history and redefines consensualism so that it may be properly understood, addressing its manifest contemporary misinterpretations. Thorough, engaging, well-structured and inventive, there is no other English-language scholarly work that offers a similar analysis.“This monograph makes an evident contribution to the field by offering an original interpretation of several provisions in the Code Civil which relate to the law of contract. The author demonstrates an impressive grasp of Latin, French and English sources as well as knowledge of Roman law, legal history, and contemporary French law. It is well-referenced and offers an extensive bibliography”. – Dr Stephen Bogle, Senior Lecturer in Private Law, University of Glasgow, UK“The author brings a critical perspective to bear throughout the monograph and develops a clear and quite sophisticated position on the interaction between consensualism and formalism in Roman and French law and the intervening European ius commune”. – Prof Hector MacQueen, Emeritus Professor of Private Law, University of Edinburgh, UKCorporate Liability and International Criminal Law
Par Alessandra De Tommaso. 2024
This book investigates whether corporate criminal liability should be incorporated within the scope of international criminal law. The work provides…
unique insight into the evolution of the debate on the international criminal liability of corporations to facilitate future discussion on the possibility of including corporations within the scope of international criminal law. It combines a detailed examination of Nuremberg and Rome with the examination of previously overlooked initiatives such as the Draft Code of Offences against Peace and Security of Mankind and the 1951 and 1953 Committees on International Criminal Jurisdiction. This analysis is also complemented by a review of significant post-1998 international and domestic developments around corporate criminal liability. In addition, it offers suggestions for the development of an amendment to hold corporations accountable under the Statute of the International Criminal Court. This book contributes to the existing literature on the topic of corporate liability which attracts significant attention from scholars in the fields of Law, Business, and Political Science. It will be useful to professionals in the academic and diplomatic fields, researchers, legal advisors, and business leaders. It will also be of interest to anyone who wants to understand the debate on holding businesses accountable under international criminal law.World Criminal Justice Systems: A Comparative Survey
Par Richard J. Terrill. 2023
The revised tenth edition of this core textbook provides an understanding of major world criminal justice systems by discussing and…
comparing the systems of six of the world’s countries—each representative of a different type of legal system. England, France, Japan, South Africa, Russia, and China are all covered in detail, and an additional chapter on Islamic law uses three example nations to illustrate the range of practice within Sharia. Political, historical, organizational, procedural, and critical issues confronting the justice systems are explained and analyzed. Neatly organized with a parallel structure throughout the text, each chapter contains material on government, police, judiciary, law, corrections, juvenile justice, and other critical issues. A new feature of this text focuses on the nature of the political world order and the significant clash between some democratic and authoritarian governments. Of particular concern are those authoritarian governments that have seen the rise of what has been popularly referred to as the strongman leader. The countries covered in this text have seen the emergence of four such strongmen. While the rise of each occurred in different contexts, they were each facilitated in significant ways by the manner in which they asserted their control over the country’s criminal justice system. This book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students in criminal justice, prelaw, and similar programs. Supplementary materials for instructors include test bank and lecture slides.Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Administrative Science (Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research #776)
Par Abdul Rahman, Septiana Dwiputrianti, Muhamad Nur Afandi. 2024
This is an open access book.Central Themes:“Administrative Reform Toward Collaborative and Digital Governance Era”.The main objective of the international conference…
is to identify and understand the opportunities and challenge of the sustainable development goals in the new normal era.Formulating the knowledge and experiences in regard to the sustainable development goals in the new normal era.Understanding the effect in multiple perspectives such us social, politics, political economy, governance, paradigm shift, economy, business, environmental, security, human resources management etc.Creating innovation in public policy and administration which is adaptive and sensitive to the multiplier effect of decision making and process made by the public sector governance in the pandemic era.Developing networking and partnership with international academicians, expertise and professionals in arrange of filed in business, public policy, administration, political economy, development etc.Controlling digitaler Behördenkommunikation: Wie öffentliche Institutionen ihre digitale Kommunikation steuern und ihre Kommunikationsleistung messen können
Par Bernhard Hirsch, Birgit Grain. 2023
Das Buch zeigt, wie Behörden ihre digitalen Kommunikationsprozesse mit Unterstützung eines umfassenden Kommunikationscontrollings steuern und die Kommunikationsleistung messen können. Digitale…
Behördenkommunikation gilt als zukunftsweisendes Thema, weil sie große Potenziale für die Bürgerzufriedenheit und die Effektivität und Effizienz von Verwaltungsprozessen birgt. Theoretisch fundiert und mit Praxisbeispielen erläutern die Autoren die Grundlagen des Kommunikationscontrollings, die Zielsetzung digitaler Kommunikationsmaßnahmen öffentlicher Institutionen sowie die besonderen Herausforderungen bei der Leistungsmessung digitaler Kommunikationsprozesse. Sie zeigen Lösungsansätze auf, wie Behörden belastbare Leistungskennzahlen für das Controlling ihrer digitalen Kommunikationsmaßnahmen ableiten können. Zudem geben sie Handlungsempfehlungen, um die digitale Transformation voranzutreiben und eine effektive Messung und Steuerung der Kommunikationsleistung weiter zu optimieren – ergänzt um praxisnahe Tipps, wie die Einführung eines Kommunikationscontrollings in Behörden gelingt. Langjährig erfahrene Kommunikationsprofis aus Bundes- und Landesbehörden bereichern dieses Werk zudem mit ihren Erfahrungen aus dem Kommunikationsalltag.Dieses Buch zeigt, wie der Weg der Verwaltungsdigitalisierung durch optimierte Prozesse erfolgreich beschritten werden kann. In einer Zeit, in der…
die Komplexität der Aufgaben, der Druck zur Digitalisierung und der Personalmangel stetig steigen, müssen Kommunalverwaltungen ihre Prozesse kritisch hinterfragen, Schwachstellen darin beseitigen und so die Arbeitslast der Beschäftigten verringern. Zu Beginn erfahren Sie, welche Vorteile Kommunen von der Digitalisierung ihrer Prozesse erwarten können und welche Abläufe sich dafür eignen. Es folgen Empfehlungen für die Etablierung eines Teams für das Prozessmanagement, das als unabhängiger Vermittler und zentrales Kompetenzzentrum rund um die Prozessmodernisierung dienen kann. Ein eigenes Kapitel bietet Grundlagen zur Prozessdigitalisierung sowie einen ausführlichen Leitfaden zur Prozessanalyse. Es folgen Vorschläge und Tipps für die Durchführung von Workshops, in denen die Prozessbeteiligten gemeinsam praxistaugliche Verbesserungen entwickeln. Konkrete Tipps zum Umgang mit internen Widerständen helfen dabei, die Akzeptanz für Veränderung zu steigern. Das bisher entwickelte Verständnis der jeweiligen Prozesseigenheiten und die Anleitungen zur Anforderungsformulierung helfen den Entscheider:innen, die bestmögliche Software für die Digitalisierung der Prozesse zu finden. Doch Software alleine löst keine Probleme: nur durch die kritische Analyse der Ist-Prozesse und die aktive Mitgestaltung der Beschäftigten kann die Verwaltungsmodernisierung zielgerichtet und flächendeckend erfolgen. Dieses Buch zeigt anhand von Erfahrungswerten, Best Practices und Leitfäden, wie dies gelingen kann. Aus dem Inhalt Digitalisierung: Problem oder Lösung? Prozessdigitalisierung in der Verwaltung: Voraussetzungen und Potenziale Verantwortung statt Zuständigkeit: ein Prozessteam etablieren und Prozesse abbilden Grundlegende Tipps zur Prozessoptimierung Prozessanalyse von A bis Z – wer macht wann was, und warum? Optimierung und Digitalisierung: Prozessworkshops und Software-Suche „Das haben wir schon immer so gemacht“ – Widerständen begegnenThis is an account of women's attempts to become practicing lawyers, gain entrance to law schools, and to obtain the…
same legal rights as men, such as the right to hold property, etc. This book begins with the American Revolutionary war when women had few legal rights at all and extends to the appointment of the first women to the Supreme Court bench.Mastering Legal Analysis and Drafting (Mastering Series)
Par George W. Kuney, Donna C. Looper. 2009
This book seeks to emphasize the fundamental structure and methods of legal drafting, which, the authors contend, are grounded in…
a surprisingly few, elemental rules and techniques of legal analysis and deployment of legal authorities amid relevant facts. It is designed to help the novice legal drafter identify those elemental rules and techniques and show how they are used to prepare effective legal writing in different formats, most of which share common elements and structures. The book begins with a discussion of legal analysis, followed by a discussion of general drafting principles and rules, and then proceeds to apply these concepts in the following chapters to specific forms of legal writing including client letters, demand letters, research memoranda, motions and supporting documents, appellate briefs, contracts and instruments, and legislation. It closes with a chapter on "writing to build a record" that reprises the other chapters and highlights the key concepts.Dieser Band enthält Beiträge führender Steuer-, Verfassungs- und Europarechtswissenschaftler zu aktuellen Fragen des Europäischen Steuerverfassungsrechts. Die Aufsätze beruhen auf Vorträgen,…
die am 20. Mai 2022 anlässlich eines Festsymposions zur Verabschiedung von Professor Dr. h.c. Rudolf Mellinghoff als Präsident des Bundesfinanzhofs vorgestellt wurden. Das Themenspektrum reicht dabei von den Kompetenzen des Europäischen Steuergesetzgebers und dem Grundrechtsschutz im Bereich des europäischen Steuerrechts bis hin zu Vorschlägen für eine stärkere demokratische Rückanbindung im Fall der Einführung europäischer Steuern sowie zu Ausführungen zum Verhältnis von Persönlichkeitsrechten und öffentlichem Informationsinteresse bei der Offenlegung von Steuerdaten. Die Beiträge nehmen neben dem geltenden Recht stets auch die Zukunft und die Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten des Europäischen Steuerverfassungsrechts in den Blick.Producing enough food is a basic human priority and a critical challenge in the face of a growing population and…
the deteriorating ecological health of the planet. Modern agricultural practices promise to maximise the productive efficiency of available land but are one of the main drivers of agro- and biodiversity loss. Agroecology, which places ecological sustainability and diversity at the heart of agriculture, is one response to these challenges. It presents agriculture not only as the process through which food is produced, but as a dynamic socioecological phenomenon that exists through networks comprising natural and human stakeholders at global, national and subnational levels. Drawing on a combination of agroecological and legal literature, this book explores where there is space in international law to pursue agroecology. Using a range of case studies, it demonstrates how concepts, mechanisms and regulatory approaches in the law advance, and can be reformed to further advance, an agroecological legal framework that allows humanity to meet its agricultural needs in a way that protects the natural and cultural diversity that is fundamental to the ecological integrity of the planet.Shipping Performance Management (Lloyd's Practical Shipping Guides)
Par Photis M. Panayides. 2024
In the dynamic and volatile shipping industry, effective performance management is essential to an organization’s success. This book is a…
practical guide to developing a holistic and comprehensive performance measurement and management system at managerial level in shipping organisations. Companies in the shipping industry must perform well across many facets of the organization to satisfy an array of demands and obligations arising from a complex environment of customers, partners, competitors and regulators. This book shows how companies can develop systems to effectively gauge and monitor organizational performance, including among others strategic, economic, environmental, social and operational performance. Topics covered include: tools and approaches for measuring performance; strategy and the use of the Balanced Scorecard; the mapping of shipping business strategy; the development of KPIs; cascation; and implementation. This guide to performance measurement and management is an important resource for managers in the shipping and maritime transport industry, as well as those aspiring to hone their skills in the art of performance management and decision-making.