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Math on Trial
Basic Books 2013; US$ 26.99In the wrong hands, math can be deadly. Even the simplest numbers can become powerful forces when manipulated by journalists, politicians or other public figures, but in the case of the law your liberty?and your life?can depend on the right calculation. Math on Trial tells the story of ten trials in which mathematical arguments were used?and disastrously... more...
The Path of the Law
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 3.99The Path of the Law is a short essay by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., an American jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. A cornerstone of his jurisprudential philosophy was the prediction theory of law, believing the law should be defined specifically as a prediction of how the courts work. In The Path of the Law... more...
Indirect Responsibility for Terrorist Acts
BRILL 2009; US$ 244.00The roots of organized crime penetrate deep into the normal operations of society, its economic and financial patterns, sometimes also its bureaucracy and ideological apparatuses. Drug trafficking, traffic in persons or terrorist networks could not exist if they did not engage large groups of people and routine patterns of social and economic behaviour.... more...
Der Sühnebegriff in der Rechtsprechung.
Duncker & Humblot 2011; US$ 67.94Hauptbeschreibung Die Verhängung von Strafen stellt den massivsten Eingriff des Staates in die Rechte des Einzelnen überhaupt dar. Dennoch fristet die Strafzumessung in der Strafrechtswissenschaft eher ein Schattendasein. Während es unzählige Aufsätze zu den diversen Tatbestandsproblemen, die in Urteilen entschieden werden, gibt, existieren kaum... more...
Financial Crisis Containment and Government Guarantees
Edward Elgar Publishing 2013; US$ 40.00Financial Crisis Containment and Government Guarantees analyses the international community's commitment to forging enhanced, well thought-out, mechanisms for containing systemic risks in the context of a highly interconnected global financial framework which incorporates ongoing financial innovation. While use of government guarantees is a central... more...
The Protection of Property Rights in Comparative Perspective
Europa Law Publishing 2013; US$ 110.00The book offers a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to the issue of property rights protection in Europe. more...
The Regulation of Organised Civil Society
Hart Publishing Limited 2009; US$ 95.40Although much has been written on organised civil society - the loose collective of organisations that operate outside the public sector, the private market and the family unit - over the past 30 years, there has been little jurisprudential analysis. This is in spite of the fact that a number of jurisdictions, including England, New Zealand, Northern... more...
La technologie médicale hors-limite
Presses de l''niversite du Quebec 2001; US$ 12.00Doublement ambitieux, l'ouvrage relie un commentaire du travail du plus important juriste francophone moderne, Pierre Legendre, et un problème tragique: celui de pallier par des organes de porc la pénurie des organes humains à greffer. Cette approche inédite tend à faire apparaître le caractère idéologique... more...
Das gemeinschaftliche Testament
Diplomica Verlag 2008; US$ 40.98Hauptbeschreibung "Media vita in morte sumus" - oder zu Deutsch: "Mitten im Leben sind wir vom Tod umfangen." Ist es in diesem Kontext nicht nur allzu menschlich und erklärlich, dass Menschen sich schon zu Lebzeiten - teils sogar umfangreiche - Gedanken darüber machen, wer "eines (schönen) Tages", wie viel von ihrem Vermögen erben soll? Gerade in... more...
The Presumption of Innocence
Hart Publishing Limited 2010; US$ 97.20The presumption of innocence is universally recognized as a fundamental human right and a core principle in the administration of criminal justice. Nonetheless, statutes creating criminal offences regularly depart from the presumption of innocence by requiring defendants to prove specific matters in order to avoid conviction. Legislatures and courts... more...









