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Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 32.00Recognizing the need for a 'universal' set of procedures that would transcend national jurisdictional rules and facilitate the resolution of disputes arising from transnational commercial transactions, ALI and UNIDROIT launched Principles and Rules of Transnational Civil Procedure, creating a set of acceptable rules and principles that would be recognised... more...
Closing the Books
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 30.00An analysis of transitional justice - retribution and reparation after a change of political regime - from Athens in the fifth century BC to the present. The book describes the universe of cases, and proposes a framework for explaining the variations among them. more...
CMR
De Gruyter 2001; US$ 363.00Mit dem vorliegenden Werk wird die zweite Auflage der Kommentierung Johann Georg Helms vollendet, die er im Jahre 1986 mit dem Speditionsrecht der §§ 407 - 415 HGB begonnen und dem Band zum nationalen Frachtrecht mit den §§ 425 - 452 HGB im Jahre 1994 fortgesetzt hatte, beide als Lieferungen zum Großkommentar HGB und eigenständige Sonderausgaben erschienen.... more...
Massachusetts ? New Hampshire / Massachusetts - New Hampshire
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 293.00Contains constitutional documents from all over the world, written from 1776 to the end of the year 1849. This collection includes about 1,000 constitutions, human rights declarations, and draughts of constitutions that never came into force, from this period. more...
Rio Grande ? Texas
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 238.00The seven-volume edition contains about 500 constitutional texts, constitutional amendments, failed constitutions and draft constitutions from the United States, all in their original languages and alphabetically ordered. The texts, including some rare original versions, have been edited and annotated on the basis of the printed official state documents... more...
Addenda et Corrigenda
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 224.00This supplemental volume expands upon the seven-volume edition of Constitutional Documents of the United States of America 1776?1860, which was published from 2006 to 2009. It contains 14 constitutional documents from 8 different U.S. states which were recently made accessible for the first time in American libraries and archives. Among the documents... more...
Autonomy, Consent and the Law
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 55.95Autonomy is often said to be the dominant ethical principle in modern bioethics, and it is also important in law. Respect for autonomy is said to underpin the law of consent, which is theoretically designed to protect the right of patients to make decisions based on their own values and for their own reasons. The notion that consent underpins beneficent... more...
Regulating Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 135.00The successful achievement of pregnancies following pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) was first reported in April 1990. The technology is often used for patients who are at substantial risk of conceiving a pregnancy affected by a known genetic disorder, however from this technology other more controversial uses have arisen such as HLA typing... more...
Essays on the Doctrinal Study of Law
Springer 2011; US$ 109.99"Essays on the Doctrinal Study of Law" is a summary of the author's 40 years of research in the fields of civil law and the philosophy of law. The main focus is on the two main tasks in the doctrinal study of law: the interpretation and systematisation of legal norms. In this regard, Professor Aarnio deals with the theory of argumentation... more...









