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Tendenzschutz im europäischen Arbeitsrecht.
Duncker & Humblot 2011; US$ 94.90Hauptbeschreibung Betriebe und Unternehmen mit einer bestimmten geistig-ideellen Zielsetzung genießen im deutschen Arbeitsrecht seit jeher einen besonderen Schutz. Die wachsende Europäisierung des deutschen Arbeitsrechts stellt diesen so genannten Tendenzschutz in einen neuen Kontext und wirft die Frage nach seiner europäischen Perspektive auf. Ihr... 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...
A Theory of Precedent
Hart Publishing Limited 2000; US$ 135.00Analytical jurisprudence has mostly avoided the role of precedent in legal adjudication. In this study, six types of judicial precedent ideology are identified and then tested against judical experience around the world. more...
Comparative Law in the Courtroom and Classroom
Hart Publishing Limited 2003; US$ 45.00This book presents an original, deliberately controversial and, at times, disturbing appraisal of the state of comparative law at the beginning of the 21st century: its weaknesses, its strengths, and its protagonists (most of whom were personally known to the author) during the preceding thirty-five years. It is also a reminder of the unique opportunities... more...
Rethinking the Masters of Comparative Law
Hart Publishing Limited 2001; US$ 115.20Comparative Law is experiencing something of a renaissance,as legal scholars and practitioners traditionally outside the discipline find it newly relevant in projects such as constitution and code drafting, the harmonization of laws, court decisions, or as a tool for understanding the globalization of legal institutions. On the other hand, comparativists... more...
Just Silences
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 31.95Is the Miranda warning, which lets an accused know of the right to remain silent, more about procedural fairness or about the conventions of speech acts and silences? Do U.S. laws about Native Americans violate the preferred or traditional "silence" of the peoples whose religions and languages they aim to "protect" and "preserve"? In Just Silences... more...
Stakeholders in the Law School
Hart Publishing Limited 2010; US$ 59.40This collection brings together a distinguished group of researchers to examine the power relations which are played out in university law schools as a result of the different pressures exerted upon them by a range of different 'stakeholders'. From students to governments, from lawyers to universities, a host of institutions and actors believe... more...
Rules Are Not Enough
Profile 2010; US$ 23.98Governance is receiving a lot of attention at the moment. In every recession and after every corporate collapse there's a determination to learn the lesson this time, so it's not surprising that corporate governance is again in the spotlight, and the usual questions are being asked. What is the role of the director? Should there be more, less... 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...









