Constitutional considerations of protective laws for women were the analytical battlefield on which the legal community reworked the balance between private liberty and the
state's authority to regulate. Julie Novkov focuses on the importance of gender as an analytical category for the legal system. [...]
Cybercrimes are often viewed as technical offenses that require technical solutions, such as antivirus programs or automated intrusion detection tools. However, these crimes
are committed by individuals or networks of people which prey upon human victims and are detected and prosecuted by criminal justice personnel. [...]
After defining the alias career and outlining its legal basis, the article comments on its diffusion in the Italian and international university context. It then dwells on
the case of the University of Florence, discussing the evolution of the alias career from its institution to the adoption of a new model that privileges the principle [...]
This edited collection, based on comparative, multi-sited ethnographic research, explores the concept of riverine rights in relation to rivers in New Zealand, Columbia and
India that have been declared legal persons or subjects of rights: the Whanganui, the Atrato, the Ganges and the Yamuna. [...]
Among the geographical associations the Italian Centre for Historical and Geographical Studies (CISGE) was the one with which Massimo Quaini maintained a stronger relationship.
In addition to the sharing of the study fields, Quaini was also linked to CISGE by the close and inseparable link between geography and history, the combination of [...]
As recent events in Iraq demonstrate, countries that have suffered civil war or rule by military regime can face a long, difficult transition to peaceful democracy. Drawing
on the experiences of Bosnia, Haiti, Rwanda and Afghanistan, this outstanding volume demonstrates that newly emerging democracies need more than emergency economic [...]
An important part of the narrative of modern law and legal science has been the claim that legal unity possesses many advantages over the legal pluralism of earlier periods.
This collection includes articles from the conference “Legal Pluralism – Cui bono?” organised by the School of Law in the University of Tartu in 2015. [...]
"Bringing a unique perspective to the burgeoning ethical and legal issues surrounding the presence of artificial intelligence in our daily lives, the book uses theory and practice
on animal rights and the rights of nature to assess the status of robots. Through extensive philosophical and legal analyses, the book explores how rights can be [...]
Financing development requires access to financial resources. The AIIB Yearbook of International Law Volume 4 explores the role of international organizations in the development
of local capital markets, their legal status under public international law and selected domestic jurisdictions, as well as innovations in resource mobilization and [...]
This research/analysis focuses on an empirical analysis of the practical criminal law and the success of suspended sentence. The foundation of the research form data sets from
the Bundeszentralregister and the Erziehungsregister. About 120.000 German data sets of stayed prison sentences and stayed young offender sentences are analyzed under [...]