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publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book develops a more nuanced, and technically rigorous, account of persons and groups in the context of intentional action and responsibility. Until now criminologists have taken groups as fairly straightforward associations and neglected the te...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book is dedicated to a fundamental conflict in modern states: those persons holding public office are no more than ordinary citizens. Therefore, their activities must – as a matter of principle – be subject to full judicial control. But at the s...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book develops a responsible and practical method for evaluating the success, failure, or “crisis” of American civil-military relations among its political and uniformed elite. The author’s premise is that currently there is no objectively fair w...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:The effort to win federal protection for dance in the United States was a racialized and gendered contest. Picart traces the evolution of choreographic works from being federally non-copyrightable to becoming a category potentially copyrightable unde...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book examines the effect of the adoption of the United Nations Committee on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency in five common law jurisdictions, namely Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book explores the objects, means and ends of international cultural heritage protection. It starts from a broad conception of cultural heritage that encompasses both tangible property, such as museum objects or buildings, and intangible heritage...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This book analyses how global transactions have been progressively conducted and negotiated in the last 25 years. Achieving a new understanding of sustainability transition in the Anthropocene requires a deeper analysis on culture. The development of...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:Culture, Politics, and Governing: The Contemporary Ascetics of Knowledge Production is a critical, interdisciplinary approach to how the practices that govern the production of knowledge and culture have material consequences for how we experience ev...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book addresses current practices in customary law. It includes contributions by scholars from various legal systems (the USA, France, Israel, Canada etc.), who examine the current impacts of customary law on various aspects of private law, const...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This compelling book explores how Egyptian bloggers used citizen journalism and cyberactivism to chip away at the state’s monopoly on information and recalibrate the power dynamics between an authoritarian regime and its citizens. When the Arab upris...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This timely book provides contributions on international, comparative crime phenomena: gangs, trafficking, fear of crime, and crime prevention. It highlights contributions originally prepared for the XVII World Congress of Criminology and for the 201...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:In diesem Forschungsbericht analysieren die Autoren das Geldwäschepotential der einzelnen Glücksspielformen in Abhängigkeit der Anbieter und lizensierenden Jurisdiktion. Dabei legen sie die 4. EU-Geldwäscherichtlinie zugrunde, die von den Mitgliedslä...