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Inquisitive and diverse, this innovative Research Handbook explores
the ways in which human rights apply to people at work, through
national constitutional provisions, judicial decisions and the
application of rights expressed in supranational instruments.
Analysing why certain human rights are deemed fundamental and how
they apply in the context of work, this expansive Research Handbook
highlights the gulf between the ideal applications of these rights
universally, and the increasing reality in the new economy that
these are rarely enforceable for employees in alternative forms of
employment. Established and emerging scholars provide perspectives
from countries across all continents, identifying issues of
prominence in their area of the globe. Probing workers' rights and
business obligations, the Research Handbook on Labour, Business and
Human Rights Law will be imperative reading for scholars and
students working within the fields of labour law, human rights, and
business ethics. This timely Research Handbook will also appeal to
lawyers, trade union officials and government affairs staff,
broadening their understanding of the laws and obligations
impacting their positions.
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.
This book discusses the intense practical and theoretical
challenges of forensic science evidence and the pivotal role it
plays in modern criminal proceedings. A global team of prominent
scholars and practitioners explores the contemporary challenges of
forensic science evidence and expert witness testimony from a
variety of theoretical, practical and jurisdictional perspectives.
Both the methodological integrity and the reliability of forensic
science have been questioned in recent official reports and
inquiries. The wide-ranging contributions to this book offer
thorough and far-reaching explorations of the institutional
organisation of forensic science, its epistemological and
methodological foundations, and its procedural regulation,
applications and evaluation in jurisdictions across Europe and
beyond. The development and reform of expert evidence law and
procedural regulation are reconsidered from a range of legal and
scientific perspectives. Brimming with comparative and
interdisciplinary insight, this book also explores the
transnational dimensions of contemporary forensic science,
assessing its value and appropriate uses as expert evidence in
criminal investigations, prosecutions and trials. This contemporary
book will be essential reading for scholars, advanced students,
practitioners and policymakers concerned with the role of forensic
science in the administration of criminal justice. Contributors
include: S. Carr, E. Cunliffe, G. Edmond, S. Farrar, A. Gallop, R.
Graham, L. Heffernan, E.J. Imwinkelried, A. Jackson, A.C.
McCartney, M.M. Muhamad, E. Piasecki, P. Roberts, M. Stockdale, G.
Tully, J. Vuille, T. Ward, T.J. Wilson
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.
In 100 per cent of criminal trials someone, if not everyone, tells
lies. If it wasn't for liars, there wouldn't be trials. When a
defendant swears 'to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing
but the truth', most judges and barristers believe their evidence
will be 'nothing like the truth'. Who can blame them? During years
of exposure to a daily diet of murder and mayhem, lies and liars,
they've heard it all before. In Nothing Like the Truth, Nigel
Lithman QC provides an entertaining and irreverent insight into
life in the criminal courts as barrister, QC and Crown Court judge.
Using his experience in true crime, he mixes tales of horror with
humour and questions whether it is possible for defendants to get a
fair trial.
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.
For the Cherokee Nation, the Civil War was more than a contest
between the Union and the Confederacy. It was yet another battle in
the larger struggle against multiple white governments for land and
tribal sovereignty. Cherokee Civil Warrior tells the story of Chief
John Ross as he led the tribe in this struggle. The son of a
Scottish father and mixed-blood Indian mother, John Ross served the
Cherokee Nation in a public capacity for nearly fifty years,
thirty-eight as its constitutionally elected principal chief.
Historian W. Dale Weeks describes Ross's efforts to protect the
tribe's interests amid systematic attacks on indigenous culture
throughout the nineteenth century, from the forced removal policies
of the 1830s to the exigencies of the Civil War era. At the outset
of the Civil War, Ross called for all Cherokees, slaveholding and
nonslaveholding, to remain neutral in a war they did not support-a
position that became untenable when the United States withdrew its
forces from Indian Territory. The vacated forts were quickly
occupied by Confederate troops, who pressured the Cherokees to
align with the South. Viewed from the Cherokee perspective, as
Weeks does in this book, these events can be seen in their proper
context, as part of the history of U.S. "Indian policy," failed
foreign relations, and the Anglo-American conquest of the American
West. This approach also clarifies President Abraham Lincoln's
acknowledgment of the federal government's abrogation of its treaty
obligation and his commitment to restoring political relations with
the Cherokees-a commitment abruptly ended when his successor Andrew
Johnson instead sought to punish the Cherokees for their perceived
disloyalty. Centering a Native point of view, this book recasts and
expands what we know about John Ross, the Cherokee Nation, its
commitment to maintaining its sovereignty, and the Civil War era in
Indian Territory. Weeks also provides historical context for later
developments, from the events of Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee to
the struggle over tribal citizenship between the Cherokees and the
descendants of their former slaves.
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