Interpreting Hong Kong's Basic Law
By Hualing Fu, Lison Harris, Simon Young
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Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Number Of Pages:280
Publication Date:2007-12-26
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0230600417
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780230600416
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Product Description:
On July 1, 2007, Hong Kong celebrated its tenth anniversary as a special administrative region of China. It also marked the first decade of its unique constitutional order in which Hong Kong courts continue to apply and develop the common law but the power of final interpretation of the constitution lies with the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress. This book is a collection of chapters by leading constitutional law experts in Hong Kong who examine the interpretive issues and conflicts which have arisen since 1997. Intervention by China in constitutional interpretation has been restrained but each intervention has had significant political and jurisprudential impact. The authors give varied assessments of the struggle for interpretive coherence in the coming decade.
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Buy-Sell Agreement Handbook: Plan Ahead for Changes in the Ownership of Your Business
By Anthony Mancuso, Bethany K. Laurence
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Publisher:NOLO
Number Of Pages:256
Publication Date:2003-06
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0873379268
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780873379267
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Product Description:
If you're like many entrepreneurs, being in business means working with one or more co-owners. But what will happen to your company if a co-owner:
*wants out of the business?
*wants to retire?
*goes through personal bankruptcy?
*wants to sell his shares to someone else?
*goes through a divorce?
*passes away?
To make sure there's a smooth transition following someone's departure, it's essential that you create a sort of "premarital agreement" for your business with a buy-sell agreement. This legal document clarifies when co-owners can sell their interest, the circumstances when someone must sell, who can buy into the business and what price will be paid.
Buy-Sell Agreement Handbook walks you through creating your own buy-sell agreement, which is included on CD-ROM and as a tear-out. It provides all the tax and legal information you need at every step.
The 2nd edition, completely revised and updated, covers the latest estate-tax changes and how your agreement can affect your estate taxes.
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Genetic Secrets: Protecting Privacy and Confidentiality in the Genetic Era
By Mark A. Rothstein
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Publisher:Yale University Press
Number Of Pages:528
Publication Date:1999-11-10
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0300080638
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780300080636
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Product Description:
The dramatic explosion of Information brought about by recent advances in genetic research brings welcome scientific knowledge. Yet this new knowledge also raises complex and troubling issues concerning privacy and confidentiality. This thought-provoking book is the first comprehensive exploration of these ethical, legal, and social issues.
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Showdown in the Show-Me State: The Fight Over Conceal-and-Carry Gun Laws In Missouri
By William T. Horner
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Publisher:University of Missouri Press
Number Of Pages:309
Publication Date:2005-07-12
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0826215874
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780826215871
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Product Description:
When the Missouri state legislature overrode Governor Bob Holden's veto in 2003 to make conceal-and-carry the law of the land, the Show-Me State became one of the last in the country to adopt this type of law. In fact, it took years of concerted effort on the part of pro-gun advocates to make this a reality. In Showdown in the Show-Me State, William Horner chronicles this complex and fascinating fight in clear, chronological order beginning with the first bill introduced into the Missouri General Assembly in 1992 and ending with the state supreme court's decision in 2004 that Missouri's constitution permitted the legislature to grant Missourians the right to carry concealed weapons. There is, it is often argued, no state more typically "American" than Missouri. The state is closely divided along partisan lines, as is the nation as a whole, and in the previous century, Missouri voters have regularly chosen the winner in almost every presidential election. By offering an examination of guns and gun policy in Missouri, this book provides a glimpse into the hearts and minds of Missourians and, by extension, of mainstream America as well. Horner's in-depth case study details the give-and-take among legislators and examines the role that interest groups played in the evolution of this divisive issue. Horner's book - part policy analysis, part interest group study, and part history - will appeal to readers with an interest in the issue of gun control or in the political process, and it will provide a thorough resource for those who study policy making at the state level.
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Crime, Police, and Penal Policy: European Experiences 1750-1940
By Clive Emsley
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Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages:304
Publication Date:2007-08-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0199202850
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780199202850
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Product Description:
How did ideas about crime and criminals change in Europe from around 1750 to 1940? How did European states respond to these changes with the development of police and penal institutions? Clive Emsley attempts to address these questions using recent research on the history of crime and criminal justice in Europe. Exploring the subject chronologically, he addresses the forms of offending, the changing interpretations and understandings of that offending at both elite and popular levels, and how the emerging nation states of the period responded to criminal activity by the development of police forces and the refinement of forms of punishment.
The book focuses on the comparative nature in which different states studied each other and their institutions, and the ways in which different reformers exchanged ideas and investigated policing and penal experiments in other countries. It also explores the theoretical issues underpinning recent research, emphasising that the changes in ideas on crime and criminals were neither linear nor circular, and demonstrating clearly that many ideas hailed as new by contemporary politicians and in current debate on crime and its 'solutions', have a very long and illustrious history.
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Child Custody, Visitation, and Support in Illinois, 2E (Legal Survival Guides)
By Linda Connel
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Publisher:Sphinx Publishing
Number Of Pages:224
Publication Date:2008-03-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN:157248683X
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781572486836
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Business Law-Contracts: The Teaching Company (Great Courses)
By Frank B. Cross
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Publisher:The Teaching Company
Number Of Pages:
Publication Date:
ISBN-10 / ASIN:1598032461
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781598032468
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Course Lecture Titles
1. Foundations of Contract 2. Offer and Acceptance 3. Consideration, Capacity, and Form 4. Geniuneness and Discharge5. Performances and Discharge 6. Remedies 7. Third-Party Rights 8. International Contracts
What is a contract? How can you make one binding? How can you avoid being prematurely bound by one? What can you do to get out of a contract? What remedies are available if someone breaches your contract? What special rules apply to international contracts?
These questions and the other important issues of legally enforceable promises are covered in the eight lectures of this course.
Contractual agreements are one of the principal mechanisms for ordering life in society. Whether a contract is written or oral, or even implicit, it carries with it all of the duties and obligations that society has endowed with the force of law.
This series of eight lectures lays a comprehensive foundation in the practical and intricate body of law that governs contracts.
Your guide to contracts is Professor Frank B. Cross, Professor of Business Regulation at The University of Texas at Austin and a former attorney with the law firm of Kirkland&Ellis in Washington, DC.
The Academy of Legal Studies in Business honored Professor Cross as the nation's outstanding professor. The Business Week guide to M.B.A. programs has also recognized him as one of the nation's outstanding teachers.
Professor Cross is the author of more than 30 articles in journals of law, science, policy, and management. He has published four textbooks for business law classes, as well as several other academic books. Professor Cross serves on the editorial boards of four journals, including the American Business Journal.
When Has a Contract Been Made?
Lecture 1 explores the boundaries of contracts in law. It discusses the four main requirements that any contract must satisfy, and it discusses the Uniform Commercial Code of the United States, which incorporated common law about commercial contracts into state statutes.
Lectures 2 and 3 give greater detail about the main components of a contract.
One party makes an offer and the other accepts, refuses, or makes a counteroffer, but there are many possible slips in between. Which offers are binding? Lecture 2 examines the preliminary issues of offer and acceptance, including the ability of parties to negotiate, the definiteness of a contract's terms, and terms of acceptance.
In Lecture 3, we look at three more elements of a binding contract:
What each party must give up for a contract to be made ("consideration") Whether and when those of a diminished capacity, such as children or the insane, can make contracts When a contract must be in writing. When Is a Contract not Binding?
Lectures 4 and 5 consider the possible reasons for declaring contracts void or breached.
When does a mistake by either party or fraud by one of them invalidate a contract? When can a party successfully claim that an agreement was reached under duress? In Lecture 4, you get answers to these questions.
Lecture 5 reviews problems with the performance of a contract, including how much of a performance is required to consider a contract discharged, and other legal reasons for discharge. What conditions will excuse performance?
What can you do when the other side doesn't meet its obligations?
If a contract has been breached, how do the courts decide how much you are owed? Remedies for breaches of contract, and different methods for assessing the fair compensation in such cases, are considered in Lecture 6.
Special Cases: Third-Party and International Contracts The series concludes with discussions of two unique issues in contract law: third-party rights in contracts and international contracts.
Lecture 7 explains the categories of persons who are legally permitted to enforce agreements to which they are not original contracting parties. These might include beneficiaries of the contract or an assignee of a certain part of a contract. The key questions are these:
When can rights under a contract be assigned to someone else? When can a contract that benefits you be enforced by you? Lecture 8 discusses international contracts and the practical and legal complications arising from them. Simple translation is only the first problem, and there are hundreds of variations on rules among countries. We focus on issues raised by international agreements, letters of credit, and other commercial practices. A discussion of the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods in contrast with U.S. law is included.
Please note:
This course is not intended to provide financial or investment advice. All investments involve risk: Past performance does not guarantee future success. You acknowledge that any reliance on any information from the materials contained in this course shall be at your own risk.
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Patent, Copyright&Trademark (Patent, Copyright and Trademark)
By Stephen Elias, Richard Stim
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Publisher:Nolo.com
Number Of Pages:496
Publication Date:2001-02
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0873376013
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780873376013
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Product Description:
Whether you're an Edison, Faulkner or Gates, you need Patent, Copyright & Trademark.
Intellectual property law has rapidly produced its own language. But don't count on understanding it right off the bat -- the language baffles lawyers and lay folk alike.
Whether you're an inventor, designer, writer or programmer, you need to understand the language of intellectual property law to intelligently deal with such issues as:
* who owns creative works or valuable information
* how these owners can protect and enforce their ownership rights
* how disputes between intellectual-property owners can be resolved
* how ownership rights can best be transferred to others * and many more
Patent, Copyright & Trademark gives you clear, plain-English definitions of intellectual property terminology. Whether you're completely new to the topic and want a basic overview, are about to enter into an agreement and want to understand all the terms before you sign, or need the answer to a specific question, this book is for you.
With this essential guide you will:
* get clear and concise overviews of patent copyright, trademark and trade secret law
* understand the different kinds of protection offered by patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets -- and which apply to your work
* get a plain-English definition of every term you're likely to come across
* find cutting-edge definitions of new intellectual property terms spawned by the Internet
* find the information you need, quickly and easily -- all entries are organized by topic and extensively cross-referenced
The updated 4th edition of Patent, Copyright & Trademark provides new information on licensing, expanded definitions and a comprehensive discussion of Interenet issues.
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Challenges for Human Rights (Nijhoff Law Specials)
By Falcany Tella
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Publisher:BRILL
Number Of Pages:138
Publication Date:2007-07-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN:9004160221
ISBN-13 / EAN:9789004160224
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Product Description:
Nowadays we are fortunate enough to be experiencing a boom in human rights - an enormous increase of their importance in the international sphere at all levels (political, economic, social, legal and moral). For the first time the condition of the individual as "citizen," and not just as "subject," has gained importance. Individuals, and not only states, have now become the subjects of international law, as a result of the boom in humanitarian law and international criminal law. However, although there have been many battles won and goals met concerning human rights, the war against injustice continues and the fight has not ended. It is necessary to stay alert and to avoid a potentially paralyzing self-complacency. This collection focusses on topics that are particularly relevant for the present era. It examines issues such as multiculturalism, globalization, international criminal justice (specifically third and fourth generation rights) and, within this thematic framework, the problems that have come about as a result of the expanding reach of the Internet and of new biomedical advances. In addition, it explores the increasingly urgent challenge of how to respond to international terrorism, in view of worldwide events since September 11, 2001, and its resulting aftermath. Originally published in Spanish, this thought-provoking collection will be of interest to human rights scholars and practitioners alike.
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Your Rights in the Workplace
By Barbara Kate Repa
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Publisher:Nolo.com
Number Of Pages:560
Publication Date:2000-12
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0873375971
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780873375979
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Product Description:
The most complete guide available to workplace laws, Your Rights in the Workplace is essential for every worker.
In plain English, the handbook covers your rights on the job, from hiring and getting paid through privacy and firing. Whether you have a question about a workplace problem, feel you're being treated unfairly or are trying to solve a workplace dispute, this book will tell you what your rights are and how to enforce them.
Learn everything you need to know about:
* illegal firings and layoffs
* challenging a job loss
* wages and hours, including overtime&leave
* privacy on your e-mail and voice mail
* family and medical leave
* on the job safety and health
* health insurance and retirement plans
* workplace testing
* sexual harassment
* sex, race and age discrimination
* discrimination against workers with disabilities
* unemployment, disability and workers' compensation insurance
The fifth edition of Your Rights in the Workplace has been completely updated to include the latest changes in state and federal law.
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The Essential Law Dictionary (Sphinx Dictionaries)
By Amy Blackwell
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Publisher:Sphinx Publishing
Number Of Pages:560
Publication Date:2008-06-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN:1572486503
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781572486508
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Product Description:
The Essential Law Dictionary is an essential up-to-date legal reference, containing over 3,000 entries explaining legal language that can often be hard to understand, even for lawyers.
This book focuses on defining the terms that people today are most likely to encounter when dealing with the law. The definitions are clear, concise, and easy-to-understand. Whether you are a lawyer, a law student, or a layperson, this handy reference will help you understand the precise meaning of any legal term.
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The Buy to Let Manual: How to Invest for Profit in Residential Property and Manage the Letting Yourself
By Tony Booth
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Publisher:How to Books Ltd
Number Of Pages:144
Publication Date:2008-05-15
ISBN-10 / ASIN:1845282523
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781845282523
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Product Description:
This highly-praised book provides the reader with everything that needs to be known about buying, preparing and letting a suitable investment property. In short this book is a comprehensive, but clear and concise guide for the world-be, go-it-alone landlord who wishes to avoid agency fees by creating and managing his own tenancy.
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Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty (Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics
by Hugo Grotius (Author)
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Paperback: 660 pages
Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc.,U.S.; New edition edition (1 Jan 2006)
Language： English
ISBN-10: 0865974756
ISBN-13: 978-0865974753
Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 4.4 cm
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Product Description:
The history of "Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty" is complex. When Grotius's personal papers were auctioned in The Hague in 1864, Dutch scholars discovered that his famous "Mare Liberum" was just one chapter in a manuscript of 163 folios, written in justification of Jacob van Heemskerck's capture of the Santa Catarina, a Portuguese merchantman, in the Straits of Singapore in February 1603. A prominent Dutch historian of the nineteenth century, Robert Fruin, persuaded the classical scholar H. G. Hamaker to transcribe and publish it, and the Latin text was issued in 1868. This Liberty Fund edition is based on the one prepared by Gwladys L. Williams and Walter H. Zeydel for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. It combines a revised text and new material, making it a highly attractive edition of a work that is difficult to obtain.
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Human Rights and Statistics: Getting the Record Straight (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
By Thomas B. Jabine
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Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Number Of Pages:458
Publication Date:1991-11
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0812231082
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780812231083
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Product Description:
Effective human rights advocacy and research require the use of statistics, carefully collected and objectively analyzed, using the best techniques available. The contributors to this book, including experts in political science, public health, law, forensic pathology and statistics, illustrate good statistical practice in the field of human rights and show the importance of collaboration between statisticians and other professionals. The treatment is largely non-mathematical, and the examples provide broad coverage of all features of the collection and use of statistical data on human rights violations. For readers who would like to do their own analyses, an extensive guide to human rights data sources is included.
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Nursing Practice and the Law: Avoiding Malpractice and Other Legal Risks
By Mary E. O'Keefe
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Publisher:F. A. Davis Company
Number Of Pages:608
Publication Date:2000-09
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0803606028
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780803606029
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Product Description:
Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX. Text, for nurses and students, provides insight on the relationship between law and health care. Specific laws associated with ethical considerations are presented. Chapters include points to consider, summaries, objectives, and key terms. Softcover.
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Racial Issues in Criminal Justice: The Case of African Americans (Criminal Justice, Delinquency, and Corrections)
By Marvin D. Free
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Publisher:Praeger Publishers
Number Of Pages:288
Publication Date:2003-09-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0275975622
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780275975623
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Product Description:
Almost a third of all African American men in their twenties in the United States are in jail or prison, or on probation or parole. African Americans, who comprise approximately 13% of the general population, make up about half of the prison population. Between 1980 and 2000, 38 states added more African American men to their prison systems than were added to their respective systems of higher education. However, these statistics fail to tell the entire story. To understand how the dynamics of disproportionate minority confinement came to exist, one must examine the historical and cultural antecedents that affected (and continue to affect) this group. Examining proposed solutions and providing alternative perspectives, this volume addresses the overrepresentation of African Americans in the criminal justice system by critically examining the significance of race in American society and criminal justice responses to crime and African Americans.
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Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination: The Accommodation of Conflicting Rights (Procedural Aspects of International Law)
By Hurst Hannum
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Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Number Of Pages:514
Publication Date:1990-01-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN:081228206X
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780812282061
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Product Description:
Demands for "autonomy" or minority rights have given rise to conflicts, often violent, in every region of the world and under every political system. Through an analysis of contemporary international legal norms and an examination of several specific case studies--including Hong Kong, India, the transnational problems of the Kurds and Saamis, Nicaragua, Northern Ireland, Spain, Sri Lanka, and the Sudan--this book identifies a framework in which ethnic, religious, and regional conflicts can be addressed.
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Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary : 1682-1709
By Craig W. Horle
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Publisher:Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
Number Of Pages:816
Publication Date:1991-10
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0812230671
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780812230673
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Summary: I am greatly impressed!
Rating: 5
This is a comprehensive biographical dictionary of early Pa. legislators. I'm descended from Thomas Lloyd, Dep. Gov. of Pa. in late 1600's. I learned information from this book that I've never seen elsewhere - and I've looked, believe me!
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Comprehensive Legal and Judicial Development: Toward an Agenda for a Just and Equitable Society in the 21st Century
By Rudolf V. Van Puymbroeck
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Publisher:World Bank Publications
Number Of Pages:254
Publication Date:2001-06
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0821348884
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780821348888
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Product Description:
"Without the protection of human and property rights, and a comprehensive framework of laws, no equitable development is possible. A government must ensure that it has an effective system of property, contracts, labor, bankruptcy, commercial codes, personal rights law and other elements of a comprehensive legal system that is effectively, impartially, and cleanly administered by a well-functioning, impartial and honest judicial and legal system." -- James D. Wolfensohn, World Bank President
This book presents a selection of papers discussed at a global conference on comprehensive legal and judicial development sponsored by the World Bank in June 2000, in partnership with the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the United Nations Development Programme.
This was the first truly global symposium of its kind, uniting practitioners and experts in legal and judicial development in the broadest cross-disciplinary sense--including over 600 judges, government officials, academics, managers of economic assistance agencies, and representatives of nongovernmental organizations from all over the world.
The questions they addressed are of universal concern, and the papers collected here show the diversity of possible answers according to the needs and circumstances of individual countries.
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Human Rights in Crisis: The International System for Protecting Rights During States of Emergency (Procedural Aspects of International Law)
By Joan M. Fitzpatrick
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Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Number Of Pages:352
Publication Date:1994-01-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0812232380
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780812232387
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Product Description:
Recent events in South America, central Europe, Africa, and Russia have again brought to the world's attention the complex interrelationship between states of emergency and the preservation of fundamental human rights. In Human Rights in Crisis, Joan Fitzpatrick offers the first systematic and comprehensive effort to examine the multifaceted system for monitoring human rights abuses under "states of exception." Unlike previous studies, this book does not focus on substantive norms governing crises, but rather on how those norms might best be implemented.
Building upon her six-year study for the International Law Association, the author confronts the difficulties in defining a coherent concept of emergency, particularly the various forms of de facto emergencies that have been relatively neglected by international monitors. She also profiles and carefully critiques the numerous international bodies that have monitored human rights abuses during states of exception. These bodies include not only the treaty organs of the United Nations, the Council of Europe, and the Organization of American States but also the political organs of the United Nations (especially the Commission on Human Rights), the International Labor Organization, and the emerging structures of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.
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