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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...
Contested States
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 36.95Contested States examines how hegemony is created and facilitated through law as well as how people use legal arenas to resist oppression. The essays, written by anthropologists and historians, offer rich historical and ethnographic detail as they engage these themes in such contexts as: colonial and post-colonial courts in Kenya, India, Uganda... more...
Observing Law through Systems Theory
Hart Publishing Limited 2012; US$ 75.60This book uses Niklas Luhmann's systems theory to explore how the legal system operates as one of modern society's subsystems. 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...
Sovereignty and its Discontents
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 63.95This book argues for the centrality of conflict in any notion of the political. In contrast to many of the attempts to re-think the political in the wake of the collapse of traditional leftist projects, it also argues for the logical and/or ontological primacy of violence over 'peace'. The notion of the political expounded here is explicitly 'realist'... more...
Risk, Uncertainty and Government
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 71.95Both risk and uncertainty are neo-liberal concepts, which can be viewed as complementary techniques for governing diverse aspects of life, rather than natural states of things. This new book examines the way these constructs govern the production of wealth through 'uncertain' speculation and 'calculable' investment formulae. The way in which risk... 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...
Doping im Breitensportbereich: Am Beispiel einer Internetanalyse eines Kraftsportforums
Diplomica Verlag 2012; US$ 37.73Hauptbeschreibung Doping erfährt seit über hundert Jahren im Humansport steigende Aufmerksamkeit, nachdem es wohl bereits in der Antike und auch im Pferdesport schon länger ähnliche Betrugshandlungen gab. Wer hat nicht schon von den Dopingsündern unter den Spitzensportlern und deren Netzwerken, den Ärzten aus Spanien oder Freiburg, den Laboren in... more...
Begriff und Rechtfertigung abdingbaren Rechts
Mohr Siebeck 2012; US$ 101.37Hauptbeschreibung Abdingbares Recht tritt in großer Vielfalt und den unterschiedlichsten Formen auf. Das haben die bisherigen Modelle nur ungenügend berücksichtigt. Lorenz Kähler zeigt in seiner Untersuchung, dass sich abdingbares Recht stattdessen als Menge von Normen begreifen lässt, bei denen der jeweilige Adressat die Anwendbarkeit trotz konstanter... more...
Akzente des Sportrechts.
Duncker & Humblot 2012; US$ 94.90Hauptbeschreibung Mittlerweile sind die Interuniversitären Tagungen Sportrecht zu einer in der Fachwelt beachteten Tradition geworden. Der Band enthält die für die Veröffentlichung durchgesehenen und teilweise ergänzten Vorträge der Tagungen, die am 19./20. Juni 2009 in Paderborn sowie am 13./14. August 2010 in Oberhaching stattfanden. Referenten... more...









