An accessible, comprehensive analysis of the main principles and rules of banking regulation in the post-crisis regulatory reform era, this textbook looks at banking regulation from an inter-disciplinary perspective across law, economics, finance, management and policy studies. It provides detailed coverage of the most recent international, European and UK bank regulatory and policy developments, including Basel IV, structural regulation, bank resolution and Brexit, and considers the impact on bank governance, compliance, risk management and strategy.

Your gateway to criminal law: drawing on the exceptional clarity and authority of Smith and Hogan, with a wealth of unique supportive learning features and guidance on assessment. Smith, Hogan, & Ormerod's Essentials of Criminal Law takes students to the heart of this fascinating subject, providing focused, expert coverage alongside a wealth of student-friendly learning features to aid study. This is the perfect gateway into criminal law. - Combines the authority you would expect from a Smith, Hogan, and Ormerod title with numerous supportive learning features and an eye on developing analytical and assessment skills - The text offers a thorough, accessible, and unique introduction to criminal law for the student reader - Numerous learning features across the text highlight key cases, sources for extra reading, assessment advice, and flag common areas of confusion to avoid - Each chapter includes a section on reform including noted academic criticism of the law, furthering students' analytical understanding Digital formats and resources The fifth edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources. The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with self-test questions, videos, animated diagrams, audio introductions, and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks

This study provides a detailed description of the juridicial system of money transfer using the banking system within the Peoplea (TM)s Republic of China. A definitive analysis of the legal frame work of Chinese money transfer is given as well as a concise and succint overview of the development of banking in China and of payment transactions.

Henry Manne was one of the early proponents of the study of law and economics. He founded the Center for Law and Economics, now at George Mason University, and has directed scores of law and economics seminars attended by economists, judges, lawyers, educators and policy-makers. Mannes book "Wall Street in Transition" redefined the commonly held theory of the corporate firm and brought unprecedented criticism from the Securities and Exchange Commission, which later came to embrace some of his views. His book, "Insider Trading and the Stock Market" jolted the conventional wisdom of its day. His articles in "Barron's" and the "Wall Street Journal" sparked debate of government policy, and his remaining canon traces a true portrait in the quest for classical liberty. The approximate running time: 87 minutes.

This book is for the student in the introductory course on deviant be havior and in related courses. A wide range of ideas and facts is set forth in a way that should be comprehensible to the student without prior knowledge of this area of study. In Chapter 1, "The Nature of Deviance," various ways of defining deviance are explored and one is settled upon: Deviance is behavior that is unusual, not typical, in a society or group. Chapter 2 is devoted to a preliminary consideration of several main currents of social thought that seek to explain why deviance comes about and is perpetrated. These explanations fall into four broad theo retical categories. First, there are those theories that view the major sources of deviance as having to do with the extent to which individ uals are bound into or dissociated from the group; these are termed social integration theories. Second, there are the cultural support the ories, which specify that there are subcultures of deviance, that is, bod ies of customs and values that advocate a given form of deviance and are socially transmitted from one person to another through the learn ing process. Third, there are social disorganization and conflict theo ries, which focus on the ways in which a lack of group organization and the presence of broad social and cultural conflicts bring about de viance."

This study of the political and legal thought of the American Revolution and founding period explores the differences in the perceptions of judicial and jural power that characterized the conditions of law in late 18th century America, as compared to her British counterparts.

Der Band 2 der Schriftenreihe "Frankfurter betriebswirtschaftliches Forum" enthalt weitere Vortrage zum neuen Bilanzrecht, die an der Universitat Frankfurt a. M. gehal- ten wurden. Gegenstand der Vortrage ist das Verhaltnis von Handels-und Steuerbi- lanz; insofern wird die Thematik des Band 1 "Einzelabschlul3 und Konzernabschlul3" fortgefiihrt und abgerundet. Das Interesse an den Veranstaltungen war wiederum sehr breit, was Wunder, sprachen doch Heinrich Beisse, Herbert Biener, Hermann Clemm, Manfred Grah, Rudolf J. Niehus, Hans Reintges, Arndt Raupach, Viktor Sarrazin, Manfred Sarx, Adalbert Uelner, Lothar Woerner. Finanzielle Zuwendungen der Wilhelm-Merton-Stiftung haben die Fortfiihrung der Veranstaltungsreihe ermoglicht. Hierfiir danken wir ebenso wie fi.ir die prafessionelle Arbeit des Betriebswirtschaftlichen Verlages Dr. Th. Gabler GmbH. WINFRIED MELLWIG ADOLF MOXTER DIETER ORDELHEIDE 5 Inhaltsverzeichnis Die Generalnorm des neuen Bilanzrechts und ihre steuerrechtliche Bedeutung Von Prof. Dr. h. c. Heinrich Beisse Vorsitzender Richter am Bundesfinanzhof I. Einleitung ......................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 . . . . . . . II. GoB-Generalnorm und "true and fair view" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 . . . . . . 1. Konzeption des Gesetzgebers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 . . . . . . . . . 2. "True and fair view" - eine bilanzrechtliche Generalklausel? . . . . . . 17 3. Folgen einer solchen bilanzrechtlichen Generalklausel . . . . . . . . . . 18 . . III. Die Generalnorm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. Pramissen.................................................. 19 2. Auslegung des 264 Abs. 2 HGB ............................. 21 3. Reduktion des "true and fair view" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 . . . . . . . IV. Richtlinienkonformitat ......................................... 23 1. Fortwirkende Bedeutung der EG-Bilanzrichtlinie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 . . . 2. Die Generalklausel der Richtlinie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 . . . . . . . . 3. Korrekte Umsetzung der Richtlinie ............................ 26 V. Steuerrechtliche Bedeutung der Generalnorm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 . . . . . 1. Kontinuitat, Einheitlichkeit und Rechtssicherheit ................ 27 2. Weichenstellung: MaBgeblichkeitsgrundsatz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 . . . . . 3. Steuerneutralitat des Bilanzrichtlinien-Gesetzes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 . . . .

Wounded soldiers, injured workers, handicapped adults, and physically impaired children have all been affected by legislation that reduces their opportunities to live a functional life. In Disability as a Social Construct, Claire Liachowitz contends that disability is not merely a result of a handicap but can be imposed by society through devaluation and segregation of people who deviate from physical norms. She analyzes pertinent American legislation, primarily from 1770 to 1920, to provide a new perspective on the mechanisms that translate physical defects into social and civil inferiority.

A study of the impact of business on legal practice exploring the attitudes and aspirations of lawyers and linking the findings to questions of the effective management of legal services. Included is a comparative analysis of trends in the UK and Australia.

ADMINISTRATION OF WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ESTATES, 5th edition walks the reader through wills, trusts and estates using the most up-to-date material and an engaging writing style. Whether it's celebrity wills, marginal key term definitions, extensive review materials, or visual illustrations, ADMINISTRATION OF WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ESTATES, 5th edition has what readers need to succeed. Plus, the Fifth Edition is national in scope while going in-depth on a state-by-state basis as well. And with an abundance of case studies included in the text, readers can see how legal issues are applied in real world settings.

Changing Borders in Europe focuses on the territorial dimension of the European Union. It examines the transformation of state sovereignty within the EU, the emergence of varied self-determination claims, and the existence of a tailor-made architecture of functional borders, established by multiple agreements. This book helps to understand how self-determination pressures within the EU are creating growing concerns about member states' identity, redefining multi-level government in the European space. It addresses several questions regarding two transformative processes - blurring of EU borders and state sovereignty shifts - and their interrelations from different disciplinary perspectives such as political science, law, political economy and sociology. In addition, it explores how the variable geographies of European borders may affect the issue of national self-determination in Europe, opening spaces for potential accommodations that could be compatible with existing states and legal frameworks. This book will be of key interest for scholars, students and practitioners of EU politics, public administration, political theory, federalism and more broadly of European studies, international law, ethnic studies, political economy and the wider social sciences.

In the course of exempting religious, educational, and charitable organizations from federal income tax, section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code requires them to refrain from campaign speech and much speech to influence legislation. These speech restrictions have seemed merely technical adjustments, which prevent the political use of a tax subsidy. But the cultural and legal realities are more disturbing. Tracing the history of American liberalism, including theological liberalism and its expression in nativism, Hamburger shows the centrality of turbulent popular anxieties about the Catholic Church and other potentially orthodox institutions. He argues persuasively that such theopolitical fears about the political speech of churches and related organizations underlay the adoption, in 1934 and 1954, of section 501(c)(3)'s speech limits. He thereby shows that the speech restrictions have been part of a broad majority assault on minority rights and that they are grossly unconstitutional. Along the way, Hamburger explores the role of the Ku Klux Klan and other nativist organizations, the development of American theology, and the cultural foundations of liberal "democratic" political theory. He also traces important legal developments such as the specialization of speech rights and the use of law to homogenize beliefs. Ultimately, he examines a wide range of contemporary speech restrictions and the growing shallowness of public life in America. His account is an unflinching look at the complex history of American liberalism and at the implications for speech, the diversity of belief, and the nation's future.

[The Gesamtgrundpfandrecht (Blanket Mortgage) in Insolvency. With Special Consideration to its Creation] How does a blanket mortgage work in the mortgagee's insolvency proceedings? This question led the author to the present investigation. The thesis moves between the laws regarding safeguarding of creditors and insolvency. After penetrating the doctrine behind its creation, the blanket mortgage is woven into the instruments regulating insolvency law. The creation and defeasibility of the blanket mortgage is analyzed after investigating the structure and organization of this overarching right in rem by examining its counterpart in lien law. One of the piece's linchpins is the teleology of Sections 1132 and 1222 German Civil Code. This leads back to the basic Roman legal principle of the entirety of the pledge liability - indivisa pignoris causa -. By using this principle and the structural principles and guidelines of property law, conclusions necessary for the legal creation of a blanket mortgage are drawn and then entered into the system of restraint on alienation and acquisition pursuant to Sections 81, 91 German Insolvency Statute (Insolvenzordnung) as well as those for contesting insolvency pursuant to Sections 129 ff German Insolvency Statute.

In the last few years there has been a great revival of interest in culture-bound psychiatric syndromes. A spate of new papers has been published on well known and less familiar syndromes, and there have been a number of attempts to put some order into the field of inquiry. In a review of the literature on culture-bound syndromes up to 1969 Yap made certain suggestions for organizing thinking about them which for the most part have not received general acceptance (see Carr, this volume, p. 199). Through the seventies new descriptive and conceptual work was scarce, but in the last few years books and papers discussing the field were authored or edited by Tseng and McDermott (1981), AI-Issa (1982), Friedman and Faguet (1982) and Murphy (1982). In 1983 Favazza summarized his understanding of the state of current thinking for the fourth edition of the Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, and a symposium on culture-bound syndromes was organized by Kenny for the Eighth International Congress of Anthropology and Ethnology. The strong est impression to emerge from all this recent work is that there is no substantive consensus, and that the very concept, "culture-bound syndrome" could well use some serious reconsideration. As the role of culture-specific beliefs and prac tices in all affliction has come to be increasingly recognized it has become less and less clear what sets the culture-bound syndromes apart."

This edited collection offers a critical overview of the major debates in legal education set in the context of the Lord Upjohn Lectures, the annual event that draws together legal educators and professionals in the United Kingdom to consider the major debates and changes in the field. Presented in a unique format that reproduces classic lectures alongside contemporary responses from legal education experts, this book offers both an historical overview of how these debates have developed and an up-to-date critical commentary on the state of legal education today. As the full impact of the introduction of university fees, the Legal Education and Training Review and the regulators' responses are felt in law departments across England and Wales, this collection offers a timely reflection on legal education's legacy, as well as critical debate on how it will develop in the future.

Are all of the commonly accepted aims of the use of law justifiable? Which kinds of behavior are justifiably prohibited, which kinds justifiably required? What uses of law are not defensible? How can the legitimacy or the ille gitimacy of various uses of law be explained or accounted for? These are questions the answering of which involves one in many issues of moral principle, for the answers require that one adopt positions - even if only implicitly - on further questions of what kinds of actions or policies are morally or ethically acceptable. The present work, aimed at questions of these kinds, is thus a study in the ethical evaluation of major uses of legal coercion. It is an attempt to provide a framework within which many questions about the proper uses of law may be fruitfully discussed. The framework, if successful, can be used by anyone asking questions about the defensibility of particular or general uses of law, whether from the perspective of someone considering whether to bring about some new legal provision, from the perspective of someone concerned to evaluate an eXisting provision, or from that of someone concerned more abstractly with questions about the appropriate substance of an ideal legal system. In addressing these and associated issues, I shall be exploring the extent to which an ethics based on respect for persons and their autonomy can handle satisfactorily the problems arising here."

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The author's poetry collection attempts to probe the realm of the unsaid and the ripples that move between words, between people, between bodies. Sometimes the verses trace and explore details that have brought the poet to, in her own words, "arrested instants of loss or witness that break open the surface of the world".

Imagine that your father is one of New York City's top gangsters, and that you want nothing to do with him or his criminal empire. Now imagine he's been murdered . . . and the only person who gives a damn is you. Meet Mat Lawrence, a stand-up guy-think Gary Cooper-who's got one thing on his mind: revenge. The last place Mat wants to go is back to New York, but that's where the killers are, and he won't stop until they're dead . . . or he is. And there's only one man who can help him track them down: his father's criminal attorney-the Mouthpiece. But there's more than a desire for revenge at play in this deadly game. When Mat's old man went down, a million dollars went missing. Put it all together-a cold-blooded murder and a cool million gone-and it's a pretty good bet that the one thing Mat is sure to find is some serious heat. Mouthpiece was originally published in the September, 1934, edition of Thrilling Detective. That same year, as the youngest writer ever to serve as president of the New York Chapter of the American Fiction Guild, L. Ron Hubbard sought to promote greater accuracy in the writing of detective and mystery stories. To that end he invited the coroner to speak to the Guild members over lunch. He later recounted that "they would go away from the luncheon the weirdest shade of green." But, we can assume, they also went away better informed. Years later, expanding his studies in the area, Hubbard became a special officer with the Los Angeles Police Department. Also includes the tales of mystery, Flame City, the story of one man's harrowing attempt to save his father and the city from a serial arsonist; Calling Squad Cars!, in which a police dispatcher goes to extraordinary lengths to bring down a gang of bank robbers after he is accused of working with them; and Grease Spot, the story of a former racecar driver, now the owner of a wrecking company, who plays fast and loose with the police . . . and may have to pay for it. * A Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award Winner

Kulturguter bedurfen auf Grund ihrer Einmaligkeit eines besonderen Schutzes, der nicht allein mit finanziellen und tatsachlichen Mitteln, sondern auch auf rechtlicher Ebene durchgesetzt werden muss. Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt die Moeglichkeiten des rechtlichen Schutzes von Kulturgutern anhand der UNIDROIT-Konvention uber gestohlene oder rechtswidrig ausgefuhrte Kulturguter vom 24. 06. 1995 dar, deren Verabschiedung einen Meilenstein auf dem Weg zur Loesung des Problems des illegalen Handels mit Kulturgutern bildet. Die Arbeit gliedert sich in drei Hauptteile: Zunachst erfolgt eine Gesamtschau des rechtlichen Rahmens des Kulturguterschutzes aus voelkerrechtlichen Vertragen und europaischen Rechtsakten. Es folgt die Einzelanalyse der Regelungen der UNIDROIT-Konvention. Daran schliesst sich eine Gegenuberstellung der Konvention und nationaler gesetzlicher Bestimmungen in ausgewahlten europaischen Landern und freiwilliger Verhaltenskodizes an, wobei ein Schwerpunkt auf dem Kulturguterschutz in Deutschland liegt. So zeigt die vorliegende Arbeit auf, dass ein wirksamer Kulturguterschutz die Zusammenarbeit der Staaten und der kulturellen Einrichtungen, welche durch voelkerrechtliche Regelungen und nationale Gesetzgebung abgestutzt werden muss, erfordert. Die Ratifizierung der UNIDROIT-Konvention erweist sich demnach als ausserst wunschenswert, wobei aber auch Revisionsmoeglichkeiten des Konventionstextes hinsichtlich der Einrichtung eines internationalen Registers gestohlener Kulturguter und einer allgemeinen Meldepflicht fur Diebstahle bedeutender Kulturguter eroertert werden.