Law

How do trade agreements interact with agreements on human rights or the environment? In case of conflict, which agreement should prevail? Pauwelyn considers these questions here, providing a framework for how the different rules of international law interact, and procedural guidelines in the event of conflict between them. more...

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The law is a symbolic construction and therefore rests on a variety of undertakings. What gives law its meaning is,for some, ideology, for others, the welfare of the majority. However, what is manifest is a conception of the law as a material structure that carries symbols of everyday life. The analyses that are made in the law and semiotics movements show that the laws symbolism cannot be understood by reference only to itself, a strictly legal meaning. It is a symbol that conveys life, a symbol that in itself is contaminated with life, politics, morality and so on. Law and Semiotics is an obvious meeting point between traditions, because it is the place where all the discussions about the law can find a common language. This is a collection of different papers where the institution of the law is investigated, in combination with, and as part of, a multiplicity of sign systems. Firstly, law can be understood as part of a global system of meaning (Part I) ; and, secondly, that despite the homogenising threat of globalisation, the play of legal meaning retains a socio-historical specificity (Part II). The global issues of human migration, human rights, colonisation and transnational power are played out in local spaces, in the public discourses through which they are given localised representation, in moments of activism, and as a tool of subversion. The law is a rhetorical device which at once constitutes these global and local truths but which is also constituted by them. more...

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Design of Electrical Services for Buildings aims to provide a basic grounding for students and graduates in the field. more...

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When I first read Abrahamson’s “Engineering Law and the ICE Contracts” I noted, in passing, the points he made concerning drafting and the books which he recommended on legal drafting, but I must admit that I didn’t read those books until I came to write this book. I found that the books were difficult to obtain and no engineers of my acquaintance appeared to have read them. more...

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This book is part of the Cavendish Essential series. The books in the series are designed to provide useful revision aids for the hard-pressed student. They are not, of course, intended to be substitutes for more detailed treatises. Other textbooks in the Cavendish portfolio must supply these gaps. Each book in the series follows a uniform format of a checklist of the areas covered in each chapter, followed by expanded treatment of ‘Essential’ issues looking at examination topics in depth. The team of authors bring a wealth of lecturing and examining experience to the task in hand. Many of us can even recall what it was like to face law examinations! more...

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