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Carl Gottlieb Svarez und das Verhältnis von Herrschaft und Recht im aufgeklärten Absolutismus
Vittorio Klostermann 2012; US$ 79.80Hauptbeschreibung Das Spannungsverhältnis, das dem Begriff des aufgeklärten Absolutismus inhärent ist, setzt sich zu einem gewissen Grad in einer Dichotomie von Herrschaft und Recht fort. Das Buch analysiert das Verhältnis dieser beiden Größen aus der Perspektive von Carl Gottlieb Svarez (1746-1798), der die Gesetzgebung der preußischen Staaten... more...
Eigentumsrecht und Enteignungsunrecht.
Duncker & Humblot 2012; US$ 75.48Hauptbeschreibung Rechtsstaatliche Vergangenheitsbewältigung verlangt mehr als die - notwendigen - Anstrengungen einer staatlichen Erinnerungskultur. Zur Wiedergutmachung des Vertreibungs- und Enteignungsunrechts nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg muss auch etwas getan werden. Wo staatliches Unrecht wütete, kann und darf der Rechtsstaat die Opfer und ihre... more...
Eigentumsrecht und Enteignungsunrecht.
Duncker & Humblot 2009; US$ 88.43Hauptbeschreibung Auf der europäischen Eigentumsordnung lasten nach wie vor die Unrechtsakte der im Zuge von Vertreibungen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg geschehenen Enteignungen und Konfiskationen. Die Aufgabe der Wiedergutmachung ist zumal in den Staaten des ehemaligen Warschauer Paktes noch nicht zur Gänze bewältigt. Doch der politische und juridische... more...
Conceptualising Home
Hart Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 149.40It is difficult to overstate the everyday importance of home in law. Home provides the backdrop for our lives, and is often the scene or the subject of legal disputes. In addition, in recent decades there has been growing academic interest in the meaning of home, which has prompted empirical studies and theoretical exploration in a wide range of disciplines.... more...
Negotiating Claims
Routledge 2006; US$ 85.00Why do governments choose to negotiate indigenous land claims rather than resolve claims through some other means? Addressing this question, this book argues that negotiation policies emerge when indigenous people marginalize politically prior to significant judicial determinations on land rights, and not after judicial change alone. more...
The Idea of Home in Law
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 124.95This book explores an important set of legal and policy issues surrounding the concepts of home and homelessness, taking this growing area of legal scholarship into the new arena of human rights and international law. The contributors, experts from across the fields of law, policy, and housing rights, examine the circumstances in which displacement... more...
Research Handbook on the Economics of Property Law
Edward Elgar Publishing 2011; US$ 40.00Leading scholars in the field of law and economics contribute their original theoretical and empirical research to this major Handbook. Each chapter analyzes the basic architecture and important features of the institutions of property law from an economic point of view, while also providing an introduction to the issues and literature. Property rights... more...
Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights under International Law
BRILL 2007; US$ 180.00This book analyses whether the international legal regime provides indigenous peoples with the collective right to live on their traditional territories. more...
Community, Home, and Identity
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 124.95This volume brings together some of the leading thinkers about the connections between community, home and identity. Several chapters address how the law and lawyers contribute (or detract) from the creation and maintenance of community and, in some cases, the conscious destruction of communities. Others examine the protection of individual and group... more...
Feminist Perspectives on Land Law
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 67.95The first book to examine the critical area of land law from a feminist perspective, it provides an original and critical analysis of the gendered intersection between law and land; ranging land use and ownership in England and Wales to Botswana, Papua New Guinea and the Muslim world. The authors draw upon the diverse disciplinary fields of law,... more...









