“…Fully up to date, the book provides extensive coverage of crucial recent developments in this field; these include: the key cases of Ashworth and Punch in the area of contempt; the ground-breaking privacy decisions in Von Hannover v Germany and Campbell v MGN; full consideration of theoretical approaches to explicit speech and blasphemy, including a detailed critique of Strasbourg case-law in the area; detailed discussion of the new offence of incitement to religious hatred; the new scheme for content regulation of broadcasting under the Communications Act 2003 in the light of Prolife Alliance; a full survey of recent domestic and Strasbourg caselaw in the areas of copyright and political defamation, and analysis of the early impact of the Freedom of Information Act.The authors - both leading academics in the field - have drawn on significant comparative decisions to formulate a coherent and provocative critique of the relationship between media law and freedom of expression, and suggested principles which make a significant contribution to the legal discourse surrounding media freedom in the Human Rights Act era. …”

“…This book examines these recent developments and appraises the current law, as well as the foreseeable trajectory of the law, within a theoretical setting that addresses the socio-economic and legal-theoretical concerns associated with choices of the governing law of companies. …”

“…The chapters consider such topics as the use of information technology in refugee status determination; ethical and legal issues surrounding biometric technologies; information technology within organizational hierarchies; the use of technology by refugees; access issues in refugee camps; the scalability and sustainability of information technology innovations in humanitarian work; geographic information systems and spatial thinking; and the use of “big data” analytic techniques. …”

“…También se explica la importancia de variables culturales, políticas, legales e institucionales en el crecimiento económico, y se estudian con detenimiento otras áreas de gran importancia en el desarrollo de este país asiático como las relaciones empresa-Estado, el sistema financiero, la política industrial, la estructura empresarial y el entorno geopolítico en Asia oriental…”

“…Hundreds of thousands of children are forced or legally recruited combatants in no fewer than 70 warring parties across the world. …”

“…Challenging our fiercely held notions about what motivates us politically, this book explores how self-interest divides the public on a host of hot-button issues, from abortion and the legalization of marijuana to same-sex marriage, immigration, affirmative action, and income redistribution.Expanding the notion of interests beyond simple economics, Jason Weeden and Robert Kurzban look at how people's interests clash when it comes to their sex lives, social status, family, and friends. …”

“…Greene delves into the archives of Malta's pirate court - which theoretically offered redress to these Christian victims - to paint a considerably more complex picture and to show that pirates, far from being outside the law, were vital actors in the continuous negotiations of legality and illegality in the Mediterranean Sea. "Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants" brings the Mediterranean and Catholic piracy into the broader context of early modern history, and sheds new light on commerce and the struggle for power in this volatile age…”

“…The statistics on absent fathers: more than one-third of America's children live in fatherless homes; more than half of non-residential fathers do not fulfill their child support obligations; nearly half of all children living apart from their fathers have not seen them in the previous year; more than one in four children is born to an unmarried woman, and in three-out-of-four of these cases, the father is never legally identified; nearly 30,000 children a year are the product of donated sperm. …”

“…She reveals the wide array of issues that have emerged from recent research, including brain imaging, free will and personal responsibility, disease diagnosis and prediction, brain enhancement, and the potential social, political, and legal ramifications of new discoveries. Translating these complex arguments into an engrossing account of neuroethics, she offers a rare view of science - and ethics - in the making…”
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“…It does so in order to reveal that the pervasiveness of prevention in twenty-first century criminal law not only represents the consequence of new and unprecedented features of contemporary politics and society, but also embeds long-established features of the liberal legal and political tradition.-- OUP…”

“…En teoría, no podía haber relaciones legales entre la Cristiandad y el Islam, un requisito que la piadosa Monarquía Hispana habría aplicado con celo. …”

“…Five are historical studies: of the change in worldview from the medieval to the present, of the medieval Franciscan roots of markets, of the empirical impact that Christian democratic parties and labor unions have had on European society, and of the legal and moral analysis of "the unjust contract." …”

“…¿Qué futuro les espera a los niños en una secta? ¿Hay posibilidades legales para defenderse de ellas? ¿Dónde se puede obtener ayuda? …”

“…Far from the exclusivity established by the metropolis in the relations with its respective colonies, what actually existed was a global trading network within which money, precious metals, merchandise and flows of information circulated, legally at times and tolerated on other occasions and, always, with the mechanisms established to enforce the law proving insufficient to put an end to the transactions conducted outside the law. …”

“…De este modo, se analizan los siguientes aspectos: orígenes de la televisión digital y la formación de los operadores; las disposiciones legales relacionadas con este sector; la distribución del capital de las sociedades que comercializan y gestionan las plantaformas; las diferentes modalidades de pago; el precio de las ofertas; los contenidos que ofrecen las plataformas; la promoción en la televisión digital; la producción audiovisual; análisis económico de los operadores; los abonados (perfil sociológico, forma de consumo, etc.); y las expectativas que se abren para este sector…”

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