Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US, combating terrorism has gained top priority in Dutch politics. This counter-terrorism policy primarily focuses on prevention and has led to extensive anti-t
There seems to be a pervasive trend towards public apologies, forms of national introspection, and appeals to grant forgiveness. Does 'forgiveness' enable a public or political use of the term? Is it
This book deals with regulatory competition in corporate and capital market law in Europe - i.e. the endeavor of national and supranational legislators to develop more attractive corporate legal forms
At its annual conference in November 2010, the Ius Commune Research School devoted its Liability and Insurance Workshop to "The Power of Punitive Damages." European legal scholars and policy makers -
Under the influence of globalization, many countries have been compelled to privatize the provision of a number of State and public services. This trend towards privatization has been met with skeptic
Why should criminal law be used to enforce environmental violations? Aren't administrative sanctions, particularly administrative fines, more efficient to use? From an economic perspective, this book
This engaging volume offers personal accounts of Irish missionary work in many parts of Africa from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, this volume. Most of the accounts take place in Kenya,
This comprehensive dictionary of Irish Saints provides biographical entries on hundreds of individuals as well as extensive reference information on historical sources, feast days, parishes, and place
Built in the early 17th century, the Portumna house in Galway County, Ireland was severely damaged in the great fire of 1826 and is now preserved as a national monument. In addition to the book's prim
Land surveyors played a disproportionately large role in the evolution of Dublin, Ireland, according to O Cionnaith (a practicing land surveyor with a doctorate in history from the National U. of Irel
Microbiologists, infectious disease specialists, pathologists, and other medical researchers draw on principles and techniques of systems biology to study Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes the
Specialists in biological, medical, and food sciences describe various bacterial pathogens that spread through water or food, their pathogenic properties, population genetics, virulence genes, epidemi
Two-component systems are the predominant signal transduction devices of Eubacteria, and their simple molecular architecture allows them to be employed in many different cellular processes. Microbiolo
For graduate students and academic researchers in microbiology, Ogilvie (biomedical and health science research, U. of Brighton, UK) and Hirsch, a researcher in microbial ecology in the UK, bring toge
This collection of ten articles on social structures in modern Japan examines issues of inequality and discrimination in Japanese culture and explores issues of social justice and class structure in s
Amano (president, Tokyo Kasei-Gakuin U., Japan) traces how the term "seikatsusha" has been understood and used in different social, political, and economic contexts in recent Japanese history and what
Poor slum dwellers are faced with manifold risks in India's cities. Based on a novel synthesis of sociological, cultural, and planning theories, this study approaches the communication of risks from a
Re-reading today Tony Hadland's book "The Spaceframe Moultons" brings back what a splendid job he did in researching and describing those exciting events which led up to the birth of the Spaceframe Mo
Article 82 EC, concerning the abuse of a dominant position, has probably never played a more prominent role in EU anti-trust policy than today. In 2009, there were high profile cases involving Microso
This book conceptualizes the accountability deficit of missions engaged in the international administration of territories. In so doing, a public law approach is adopted. The book explores to what ext
This book is, at least in a way, a preparatory study Spier (Advocate-General, Supreme Court of the Netherlands) prepared for a project intended to make laws for crisis situations of which he is projec
"This book contains the updated papers of the 3rd Annual MAA Peter Schlechtriem CISG Conference, which was held on 14 April 2011 in Vienna. The contributions cover a variety of topics. Subjects discus
In her November 2010 Europa Institute Lecture, in Utrecht, The Netherlands, de Vries (European law, Utrecht U.) asks whether the balance between protecting fundamental rights and Treaty freedoms has b
Law students at Pericles L.L.M. Institute in Moscow compare the institutions and objectives of the USSR, the EU, and the CIS to understand the differing origins and competing tendencies of the alterna
Shareholders have important rights, which they can exercise democratically at a company's general meeting, such as the power to control and supervise management of the company. The term 'shareholder d
The Honorable Society of the Middle Temple (commonly known as Middle Temple) is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers. This book is
Prohibitions against offensive conduct have existed for many years, but their extent and use was on the decline. Recently however, several jurisdictionsa??including England and Walesa??have moved to b
The notion of market power is central to antitrust law. Under EU law, antitrust rules refer to appreciable restrictions of competition (Article 101 (1) TFEU, ex Article 81(1) TEC), the elimination of
The United Nations is commemorating 25th anniversary of the 1986 Declaration on the Right to Development, which proclaimed the right to be: 'an inalienable human right by virtue of which every human p
A crisis looms; hence the "call to arms" issued by organizations such as the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Antibiotic resistance could subsume the glories of antibiotics and cause a global h
The 13 chapters in this volume were originally prepared for a 2002 International Forestry Research symposium held in Kyoto, Japan. The contributors (experts in forestry, agricultural science, and envi
After the collapse of Japan's bubble-economy in the late 1980s, a wide range of neo-liberal reforms were introduced which dramatically affected the nature of the labor market. These reforms expanded a
drawn from papers delivered at the twelfth Kyoto University International Symposium Transforming Racial Images: Analyses of Representations held in December 2008 and a subsequent joint research projec
The Japanese original was published in two volumes, the first on basic and theoretical issues regarding machine vision systems, end-effectors and arms, and traveling mechanisms of agricultural robots.
The country of Belize belies its geographical location in Central America. It is a sparsely populated, English-speaking enclave perched between Spanish-speaking Mexico and Guatemala. Belize's coloniza
This book relates spatial existence to the challenges arising from the critical times in which we are living and from the supposedly degrading moral nature of societies. It contains contributions from
Community and Collective Rights presents an argument for the existence of moral rights held by groups and a resulting account of how to reconcile group rights with individual rights and with the right
"This might be news: success as a twenty-first century solicitor is not dependent on your technical aptitude alone. Sorry. As well as the basic requirements of understanding and applying the law super
Taking as its point of departure the lapse of the Licensing Act 1662 in 1695, this book examines the lead up to the passage of the Statute of Anne 1709 and charts the movement of copyright law through
"Explores the distinction and relationship between two principal branches of international law regulating the use of force: jus ad bellum (international law regulating the resort to force) and jus in
