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Gun Digest Book Personal Protection & Home Defense
F+W Media 2011; US$ 24.99With this book, the gun owner - whether novice or experienced - will learn everything he or she needs to know to safely keep a firearm and, if the need arises, use it with confidence. The Gun Digest Book of Personal Protection & Home Defense provides authoritative information to both the novice and experienced gun owner about personal protection... more...
Philip Selznick
Stanford University Press 2012; US$ 65.00Philip Selznick's wide-ranging writings engaged with fundamental questions concerning society, politics, institutions, law, and morals. Never confined by a single discipline or approach, he proved himself a major figure across a range of fields including sociology, organizations and institutions, leadership, political science, sociology of law, political... more...
Internationaler Kulturgüterschutz nach der UNIDROIT-Konvention
De Gruyter 2005; US$ 168.00Due to their uniqueness cultural assets require a particular protection which must not only be implemented through financial and actual resources but also through the legal process. This work presents the possibility of legal protection of cultural assets using the UNIDROIT Convention on stolen or unlawfully executed cultural assets of 24.06.1995.... more...
Sportrecht und Sportrechtsprechung im In- und Ausland
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 84.00This work compiles and comments for the first time on a selection of the most important decisions of national and international sports tribunals. The book evaluates the most important cases of the last 30 years in the field of national sports associations as well as some fundamental judgments of foreign associations (among others, FIFA and UEFA). more...
Kunstmessen: Zulassungsbeschränkungen und Kartellrecht
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 168.00In the past decade the art market has grown steadily. Participation at art shows has become a matter of survival for the exhibiting art dealers. Whether they are in Germany or abroad, galleries and promoters are fighting over admission. The present study focuses on the legal effects of restrictions on admission and cartel law on art shows. The study... more...
Decolonisation of Legal Knowledge
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 120.00The premise of this book is that legal theory in general, and criticial legal theory in particular, do not facilitate the identification of choices being made in the different facets of law -- whether in the enacting, interpreting, administering or theorising of law. more...
International Law and the Protection of Cultural Heritage
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 42.95The world?s cultural heritage is under threat from war, illicit trafficking, social and economic upheaval, unregulated excavation and neglect. Over a period of almost fifty years, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation has adopted five international conventions that attempt to protect this cultural heritage. This book... more...
Linguistic Justice
OUP Oxford 2012; US$ 92.99Globalisation and migration are producing societies of increasing linguistic diversity. At the same time, English is achieving unprecedented global dominance, smaller languages are becoming 'extinct' at an alarming rate, and ethnic tensions in countries from Belgium to Tibet continue to centre on questions of language. Against this background,... more...
Law and Intersystemic Communication
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 124.95This volume provides an overview of current perspectives on socio-legal studies with particular attention focused on the concept of 'structural coupling'. The first part of the book presents a reconstruction of theoretical tendencies in the field of socio-legal studies, characterised by the emergence of a transnational model of legal systems... more...
Feminism and the Power of Law
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 57.95In this now established text the author presents her analysis of the power of law and argues for a feminist post-structuralist approach. She comments on pornography, as well as discussing recent research on rape trials and abortion legislation. more...









