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Text, Cases and Materials on Criminal Law offers a
thought-provoking, engaging and comprehensive account of criminal
law and its underpinning principles and policies. It includes a
range of carefully selected extracts to help you get used to
reading court judgments, legislation, official reports and academic
writings. Dedicated questions also help you to analyse each extract
and develop your critical thinking skills. A range of features,
specifically designed to help make your reading as interesting and
active as possible, are also available within each chapter
including: * Chapter objectives at the start of each chapter, and
checklists at the end, so that you know exactly what you need to
achieve and are able to assess your progress; * Practical
activities, so you can develop your legal skills by practising
applying what you have learnt to scenario-based problems; *
Self-test questions, which consolidate your understanding by
providing an opportunity to apply the material you have studied; *
Further reading lists, to enable you to explore key issues in
greater depth. This new edition has been fully updated with all
major legal developments in the area, including R v Jogee [2016]
UKSC 8 and R v Johnson [2016] EWCA Crim 1613 on joint enterprise
and the Law Commission's scoping report on non-fatal offences
against the person. Stuart Macdonald is Professor of Law at Swansea
University. He has taught criminal law for over 15 years and has
published widely on criminal justice issues, particularly the
regulation of anti-social behaviour and counterterrorism
legislation and policy.
This accessible and innovative textbook adopts a practical,
transactions-centered approach to contract law by using contract
clauses to explain doctrinal concepts. While reading this book,
students will gain a working knowledge of important contract
provisions and learn how to use contracts to prevent problems,
reduce risks, and add value to transactions. This textbook contains
unique features including reflection prompts, case highlights, and
''applying what you learned'' exercises to reinforce learning and
help students gain essential transactional skills. Law professor
and contracts expert Nancy Kim focuses on litigation prevention
with a problem-solving approach. She offers helpful tips to avoid
potential pitfalls in drafting contracts and provides explanations
for common contract clauses and their meanings. Access to a digital
teacher's manual is available upon purchase of the book. The
Fundamentals of Contract Law and Clauses will be an invaluable
resource for both law and business students, specifically in
contracts, commercial law, business law and other
transactions-oriented classes. Contents: PART I INTRODUCTION PART
II A ROADMAP TO A CONTRACT 1. The Purpose of a Contract and
Contract Clauses 2. The Anatomy of a Contract 3. A Very Brief
Overview of Contract Law PART III CONTRACT CLAUSES AND CONTRACT
DOCTRINE 4. Common Contract Clauses Involving Contract Formation 5.
Contract Clauses and Contract Enforceability 6. Contract Clauses
and Issues Related to Performance and Breach 7. Contract Clauses
and Parties Other Than the Original Parties to the Contract 8.
Contract Clauses Addressing Remedies Index
This discerning book examines the challenges, opportunities and
solutions for courts adjudicating on environmental cases. It offers
a critical analysis of the practice and judgments of courts from
various representative and influential jurisdictions. Through the
analysis and comparison of court practices and case law across
global domestic courts as varied as the National Green Tribunal in
India, the Land and Environment Court in Australia, and the
District Court of The Hague in the Netherlands, the expert
contributors bring together a wealth of knowledge in order to
enhance mutual learning and understanding towards an environmental
rule of law. In doing so, they illustrate that courts play a vital
role in the formation and crystallization of rulings and decisions
to protect and conserve the environment. Ultimately, they prove
that there are many lessons to be learnt from other legal systems
in seeking to maintain and enhance the environmental rule of law.
Contemporary and global in scope, Courts and the Environment is
essential reading for scholars and students of environmental law,
as well as judges, legal practitioners and policymakers interested
in understanding the legal challenges to and the legal basis for
protecting environmental values in courts. Contributors: A.
Bengtsson, L. Butterly, O. Chornous, T. Daya-Winterbottom, Y.K.
Dewi, G.E.K. Dzah, H.S. Ferreira, R. Guidone, D. Hodas, A. Jayadi,
S. Jolly, H. Jonas, A. Kennedy, N. Kichigin, E. Lamprea, M.A. Leon
Moreta, B Liu, Z. Makuch, P. Martin, R.L.M. Mendes, N.H.T. Nam,
A.M. Paez, R. Pepper, B. Preston, N. Robinson, D.A. Serraglio, O.
Spijkers, C. Voigt, Z. Zhang
Policing Sex in the Sunflower State: The Story of the Kansas State
Industrial Farm for Women is the history of how, over a span of two
decades, the state of Kansas detained over 5,000 women for no other
crime than having a venereal disease. In 1917, the Kansas
legislature passed Chapter 205, a law that gave the state Board of
Health broad powers to quarantine people for disease. State
authorities quickly began enforcing Chapter 205 to control the
spread of venereal disease among soldiers preparing to fight in
World War I. Though Chapter 205 was officially gender-neutral, it
was primarily enforced against women; this gendered enforcement
became even more dramatic as Chapter 205 transitioned from a
wartime emergency measure to a peacetime public health strategy.
Women were quarantined alongside regular female prisoners at the
Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women (the Farm). Women detained
under Chapter 205 constituted 71 percent of the total inmate
population between 1918 and 1942. Their confinement at the Farm was
indefinite, with doctors and superintendents deciding when they
were physically and morally cured enough to reenter society; in
practice, women detained under Chapter 205 spent an average of four
months at the Farm. While at the Farm, inmates received treatment
for their diseases and were subjected to a plan of moral reform
that focused on the value of hard work and the inculcation of
middle-class norms for proper feminine behavior. Nicole Perry's
research reveals fresh insights into histories of women, sexuality,
and programs of public health and social control. Underlying each
of these are the prevailing ideas and practices of respectability,
in some cases culturally encoded, in others legislated, enforced,
and institutionalized. Perry recovers the voices of the different
groups of women involved with the Farm: the activist women who
lobbied to create the Farm, the professional women who worked
there, and the incarcerated women whose bodies came under the
control of the state. Policing Sex in the Sunflower State offers an
incisive and timely critique of a failed public health policy that
was based on perceptions of gender, race, class, and respectability
rather than a reasoned response to the social problem at hand.
Title 26 presents regulations, procedures, and practices that
govern income tax, estate and gift taxes, employment taxes, and
miscellaneous excise taxes as set forth by the Internal Revenue
Service. Additions and revisions to this section of the code are
posted annually by April. Publication follows within six months.
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Timely and incisive, this book offers a critical insight into the
legal structure of EU development cooperation policy, exploring the
innate complexities that give rise to legal challenges in this
crucial area of EU external action. Investigating the interaction
between the key tenets of coherence and conferral, Dr. Tina Van den
Sanden assesses how the Union's legal framework affects the
attainment of its development cooperation objectives. Demonstrating
the inherent tension between the central principle of conferral,
which restricts the Union's legal competences to the boundaries
established within its Treaties, and the need for coherence, this
ambitious book provides an insightful analysis of EU development
cooperation policy. Chapters further scrutinise the legal scope of
such policy and its delimitation with closely linked policy areas
of environment, the common commercial policy (CCP), and the common
foreign and security policy (CFSP); establish the division of
competences and cooperation between the Union and its Member
States; and evaluate the management of the institutional division
of competences between different EU actors. The book concludes with
an assessment of whether the Union's legal, constitutional, and
institutional structures are equipped to meet and support its own
development cooperation aims. Both legal scholars and practitioners
interested in EU external relations law will benefit from this
book's comprehensive analysis of the underlying legal frameworks
that form and influence EU development cooperation policy.
This introductory-level textbook provides a clear and concise
overview of commercial law for undergraduate law students. Covering
all the key areas of law that may be included in a commercial law
module, including agency, sale of goods, bailments, carriage of
goods, commercial financing, and conflict of laws, it also
introduces relevant elements of related fields such as banking and
insolvency law and touches on emerging issues such as
cryptocurrencies. Key Features: Accessible and conversational prose
A tight focus on core knowledge with manageable levels of detail
Important concepts, cases and legislation are highlighted for ease
of reference Student-friendly layout with key lessons and learning
objectives clearly identified Principles of Commercial Law is
perfectly suited to law students studying undergraduate commercial
law modules in their second or third years. It will also be
beneficial as an accessible introductory text on higher level
courses for students who are newer to the topic.
Title 24 presents regulations governing housing and urban
development as set forth by the Department of Housing and Urban
Development and the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. Topics
covered include: fair housing; mortgage and loan insurance
programs; and slum clearance and urban renewal. Additions and
revisions to this section of the code are posted annually by April.
Publication follows within six months.
Title 40 presents regulations governing care of the environment
from the 14 subchapters of Chapter I and from the provisions
regarding the Council on Environmental Quality found in Chapter V.
Programs addressing air, water, pesticides, radiation protection,
and noise abatement are included. Practices for waste and toxic
materials disposal and clean-up are also prescribed. Additions and
revisions to this section of the code are posted annually by July.
Publication follows within six months.
In the minds of some, complying with the U.S. Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act and related laws is easy: 'you just don't bribe.' The
reality, as sophisticated professionals should know, is not so
simple. This book is for professionals across various disciplines
who can assist in risk management and want to learn strategies for
minimizing risk under aggressively enforced bribery laws. Written
by a leading expert with real-world practice experience, this book
elevates knowledge and skills through a comprehensive analysis of
all legal authority and other relevant sources of information. It
also guides readers through various components of compliance best
practices from the fundamentals of conducting a risk assessment, to
effectively communicating compliance expectations, to implementing
and overseeing compliance strategies. With a focus on active
learning, this book allows readers to assess their acquired
knowledge through various issue-spotting scenarios and skills
exercises and thereby gain confidence in their specific job
functions. Anyone seeking an informed and comprehensive
understanding of the modern era of enforcement of bribery laws and
related risk management strategies will find this book to be a
valuable resource including in-house compliance personnel, FCPA and
related practitioners, board of director members and executive
officers.
Commercial Uses of Space and Space Tourism combines the
perspectives of academics, policy makers and major industry players
around three central themes: the international legal challenges
posed by the dramatic changes to the spacefaring landscape; the
corresponding legal and regulatory responses to these challenges at
the national level; and topical questions of global space
governance. Chapters cover emerging activities in commercial
spacefaring, including space tourism and space transportation, and
identify the regulatory issues that may arise in the absence of a
clear boundary between airspace and outer space. By taking a
pragmatic, inductive approach, the book aims to breathe new life
into the discussion of the air?space boundary, while informing
readers about the many exciting recent developments in commercial
spacefaring. This book will appeal to lecturers, academics and
students in space law and air law, as well as policy makers and
industry practitioners involved in the regulation of orbital and
suborbital commercial spaceflight, both manned and unmanned.
Contributors include: P. De Man, M. Gold, A. Harrington, C.
Hearsey, T. Herman, A. Kerrest, J.-B. Marciacq, J.-F. Mayence, W.
Munters, D.P. Murray, K. Nyman-Metcalf, L.J. Smith, A. Soucek, J.
Stubbs, S. Wood, J. Wouters
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