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The Last Duelby Eric Jager
Broadway Books 2004; US$ 11.99As the huge crowd seethed with pent-up excitement, the two deadly enemies studied each other intently, their breath hot behind their visors. Each sought the other’s death as fire and water seek each other’s annihilation. The walled field, at first a prison, now became a crucible where one man would be destroyed and the other purged in the name of justice. They would fight not only without quarter, but also without rules. And a horrible fate awaited the lady if her husband should lose . . . The gripping, atmospheric true story of the “duel to end all duels” in medieval France: a trial by combat pitting a knight against a squire accused of violating the knight’s beautiful young wife In 1386, a few days after... more...
French Criminal Justiceby Jacqueline Hodgson
Hart 2005; US$ 84.00Based on the empirical study of the French pre-trial process, this monograph provides an understanding of the ways in which an inquisitorially rooted criminal process operates in practice, and the factors that influence and constrain its development and functioning. It is useful for those working in the area of criminal justice. more...
The Public Law/Private Law Divideby Mark Freedland; Jean-Bernard Auby
Hart 2006; US$ 108.00Features contributions, which are derived from joint seminars, held by scholars between colleagues from the University of Oxford and the University of Paris II. Their starting point is the original divergence between the two jurisdictions, with the initial rejection of the public-private divide in English Law. more...
French Criminal Lawby Catherine Elliott
Willan Publishing 2001; US$ 84.95This book provides a clear and accessible account and analysis of French criminal law in English, the first to have been written. French criminal law has been highly influential in the development of criminal law in civil law countries around the world, and a knowledge of French criminal law has become increasingly important in view of the internationalisation and Europeanisation of criminal law. The book provides a historical introduction to the development of French criminal law, and a chapter on French criminal procedure to provide the context for an understanding of substantive criminal law. Subsequent chapters cover the general principles of French criminal law, analysing actus reus, mens rea, parties to crime, inchoate offences and general... more...
Juries and the Transformation of Criminal Justice in France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuriesby James M. Donovan
The University of North Carolina Press 2010; US$ 65.00Donovan takes a comprehensive approach to the history of the jury in modern France by investigating the legal, political, sociocultural, and intellectual aspects of jury trial from the Revolution through the 20th century. Challenging the contention of modern historians that the generally bourgeois jurors of 19th-century France usually rendered verdicts in keeping with class justice, Donovan demonstrates that these juries, through their decisions, helped shape reform of the nation's criminal justice system. more...
Der Verkauf von Patenten als Finanzierungsinstrumentby Christine Beyer
Diplomica Verlag 2008; US$ 35.39Ausschlaggebend für die angespannte Lage auf dem Finanzierungsmarkt ist nicht nur die oftmals schwache Eigenkapitalausstattung, sondern auch die Tatsache, dass die Rating-Anforderungen in Hinblick auf die Einführung von Basel II erhöht und streng reglementiert wurden. Oftmals wird das Potenzial eines Patents bzw. Patentportfolios unterschätzt, was dazu führt, dass KMUs den Wert dieser nicht erkennen oder aber nicht optimal nutzen. Neben den klassischen Formen der Unternehmensfinanzierung, wie beispielsweise dem echten und unechten Factoring, wächst insbesondere die Bedeutung alternativer Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten. Eine solche Alternative ist z.B. der An- und Verkauf von Patenten. Das Buch beschreibt und analysiert alle wichtigen Aspekte eines... more...
The Generosity of the Deadby Graciela Nowenstein
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 99.95The Generosity of the Dead draws on the French experience to examine the on-going international debate surrounding systems of organ procurement. It will be a valuable resource for researchers, academics, policy-makers and practitioners with an interest in this complex and topical subject. more...
Politics and the Parlement of Paris under Louis XV, 17541774by Julian Swann
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 40.00An analysis of the causes and consequences of the political crises between King and Parlement in eighteenth-century France. more...
Autour de l' enfantby Anne Lefebvre-Teillard
BRILL 2008; US$ 191.00The present 'revolution' in biological technology is leading lawyers to fundamentally reconsider the laws of human reproduction. What is at stake is not only the transmission of life but also the transmission of a certain order of the things on which society is based. This is the reason why the law has always sought to regulate the transmission of life. Covering themes from Canon and medieval Roman Law to the 1804 'Code civil', this work includes twenty-three articles on the history of law about a number of modern-day questions. They deal with the close connections long maintained between marriage and procreation; with natural and legal 'filiation' especially regarding the very delicate problems of evidence; and, with... more...
Subventionen im Steuer- und Wirtschaftsstrafrechtby Paul Braeuer
Erich Schmidt Verlag 2011; US$ 31.95Hauptbeschreibung Staatliche Wirtschaftslenkung ist aus dem deutschen Wirtschaftssystem nicht mehr wegzudenken. Gerade die aktuelle Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise hat noch einmal zu einem drastischen Anstieg entsprechender staatlicher Leistungen geführt. Zentrales Mittel der staatlichen Wirtschaftslenkung ist die Subvention, entweder in Form der aktiven Finanzhilfe oder der Steuervergünstigung. Beide Varianten haben gemeinsam, dass das mit ihnen verfolgte Ziel nur erreicht werden kann, wenn die bestimmungsgemäße Verwendung sichergestellt ist. Ein Verstoß gegen die regelmäßig mit der Subvention verknüpften Verwendungsbeschränkungen wird im deutschen Strafrecht auf zweierlei Weise sanktioniert: - im Bereich der aktiven Finanzhilfen durch §... more...









