Apart from individual rights claims have long been made for collective minority rights. Now a third generation of rights is appearing the rights of peoples exemplified by the African Charter of Human and Peoples Rights of 1981. This volume discusses the new gener... Lees meer.

Fifty years on from its original publication HLA Hart s The Concept of Law is widely recognized as the most important work of legal philosophy published in the twentieth century and remains the starting point for most students coming to the subject for the first time.... Lees meer.

Based upon observation of murder squads at work interviews with detectives and detailed analysis of police case files this is an account of the practices and processes involved in the investigation of serious violent crimes as well as some of the problems that are of... Lees meer.

This is a study of the effects of cross-cultural contact and confrontation on frontier societies particularly those between England and Scotland Wales and Ireland Castille and Granada and on the Elbe. to copywriter. Always list contributors This first study of t... Lees meer.

A challenging yet highly accessible introduction to discrimination law which highlights the major issues and asks how the right to equality can be made more effective. This edition includes expanded material on how jurisdictions formulate grounds of discrimination wit... Lees meer.

A young girl is reborn as an angel-like creature called a haibane with no memory of who she once was.... Lees meer.

This book deals with God s covenant with Israel which the author believes is a theme central to the understanding of the Old Testament. He argues that the debate during the last century has revealed how crucial the covenant idea was in the development of what is distinc... Lees meer.

This book provides an account of the emergence of norms. Put very crudely the main thesis of this book is that certain types of norms are possible solutions to problems posed by certain types of social interaction situations. The problems are such that they inhere in t... Lees meer.

Surveys the history of a great Mediterranean federation whose homelands were Catalonia and Aragon. It incorporates the results of recent research into the archives of Catalonia Aragon Valencia Majorca and other Mediterranean lands. This book is the first in Engli... Lees meer.

First published in 1980 Natural Law and Natural Rights is widely heralded as a seminal contribution to the philosophy of law and an authoritative restatement of natural law doctrine. It has offered generations of students and other readers a thorough grounding in the... Lees meer.

This volume contains a translation into clear modern English of an unjustly neglected work by Sextus Empiricus together with introduction and extensive commentary. Sextus is our main source for the doctrines and arguments of ancient Scepticism in Against the Ethicists... Lees meer.

One noticeable feature of modern legal systems is the extent to which power is conferred upon government officials and agencies to be exercized at their discretion according to policy considerations rather than according to precise legal standards. This book is a legal... Lees meer.

In recent years a growing number of commentators have declared that we are at the beginning of a technical revolution that will see profound changes in the way we live and work. Yet what constitutes a technological revolution and what logic supports how successive tec... Lees meer.

This is the first general account of Dutch hegemony in trade shipping and finance between 1585 and 1740. Professor Israel the leading historian in this field uses a wide range of sources to explain why despite its small size and population the Dutch Republic funct... Lees meer.

This leading Arabic dictionary lists English words and phrases with their Arabic equivalents. Clearly distinguishes between different shades of meaning in English expressions. Includes coverage of regional variations of the Arabic Comprehensive coverage This lea... Lees meer.