For over a thousand years, Muslim scholars worked to ensure that Islamic law was always fresh and vibrant, that it responded to the needs of an evolving Muslim community and served as a moral and spiritual compass. They did this by "hacking" Islamic law in accordance with changing times and contexts, diving into the interconnected Islamic legal tradition to recalibrate what was outdated, making some laws work better and more efficiently while leaving others undisturbed. These hacking skills made Islamic law both flexible and relevant so that it could meet the needs of a community with changing values while remaining true to its ancient roots. Today, the hacking process has stalled in the face of unprecedented structural challenges, and Islamic law has stagnated. This book is designed to revitalize the hacking tradition by getting readers involved in the process. It walks them through the ins and outs of Islamic legal change, vividly describing how Muslim scholars have met new and evolving challenges on topics as diverse as abolition, democracy, finance, gender, human rights, sexuality, and more. And it provides step-by-step instructions for readers to hack laws for themselves, so that through their engagement and creativity, they can help Islamic law regain its intrinsic vitality and resume its role as a forward-looking source for good in the world.

Die Rechtsfolgen des Refinanzierungsregisters koennen eine entscheidende Weichenstellung bei der Strukturierung von mit Sicherheiten gedeckten Wertpapieren darstellen. Erst wenn die Deckungsmasse haftungsrechtlich den Anlegern vollstandig zugeordnet werden kann, geniessen Wertpapierforderungen einen besonderen Schutz, der vor allem bei Asset-Back Securities und Pfandbriefen so immanent ist. Khanh Dang Ngo widmet sich in der Studie den Rechtsfolgen einer Registereintragung gemass 22j KWG und wird dabei von der grundlegenden Frage begleitet: Wie gut sichert eine Registereintragung die eingetragenen Vermoegensgegenstande vor dem Zugriff Dritter ab? Er analysiert die Probleme eines unvollstandigen Schutzes der Registereintragung und bietet moegliche Loesungen zu ihrer Bewaltigung an.

Publishing Law is an authoritative and engaging guide to a wide range of legal issues affecting publishing today. Hugh Jones and Christopher Benson present readers with clear and accessible guidance to the complex legal areas specific to the ever evolving world of contemporary publishing, including copyright, moral rights, contracts and licensing, privacy, confidentiality, defamation, infringement and trademarks, with analysis of legal issues relating to sales, advertising, marketing, distribution and competition. This new fifth edition presents updated coverage of the key principles of copyright , as well as new copyright exceptions, licensing and open access. There is also further in-depth coverage of the legal issues around the sale of digital content. Key features of the fifth edition include: updated coverage of EU and UK copyright, including a new chapter on copyright exceptions following the significant changes in the 2014 Regulations Comprehensive coverage of publishing contracts with authors, as well as with other providers, including translators, contributors and contracts for subsidiary rights up to date coverage of the Defamation Act 2013, and other changes to EU and UK legislation exploration of the legal issues relating to digital publishing, including eBook and other electronic agreements, data protection and online issues in relation to privacy, and copyright infringement a range of summary checklists on key issues, ranging from copyright ownership to promotion and data protection useful appendices offering an A to Z glossary of legal terms and lists of useful address and further reading.

Historian Chris Bray (a former soldier) tells the sweeping story of military justice from the institution of the American court martial in the earliest days of the Republic to contemporary arguments over how to use military courts to try foreign terrorists or soldiers accused of sexual assault.

This conference volume on the German-Japanese colloquium a oeTransformations or Erosion of Private Autonomy?a carries the debate on the subject into the area of contract law that is central to economic life.

Written by an MD/JD, this book offers a unique perspective on medical-legal issues surrounding daily clinical practice. It covers all the essentials and tells the inside secrets of how to avoid cases that cost the medical community millions each year. Readers will learn basic law and the ways laws are interpreted. In addition, the book focuses on the law-medicine-politics triangle and its effect on physicians, the impact of and issues related to diversity in medical malpractice, and other essential topics. Physicians who better understand malpractice laws are better clinical decision makers who feel more confident in their ability as doctors.

The jurist Ebu's-suud (c. 1490-1574) occupies a key position in the history of Islamic law. An Ottoman tradition, which began in the seventeenth century and which modern historians often reiterate, asserts that Ebu's-suud succeeded in harmonizing the secular law with the "shari 'a," creating, in effect, a new ideal Islamic legal system. This book examines the validity of this assertion.
The author begins by choosing five areas of Islamic law for analysis: the Sultan and legal sovereignty; land tenure and taxation; trusts in mortmain; marriage and the family; and crimes and torts. In each of these areas, he lays out the most important rules and concepts in the Islamic juristic tradition, and then gives his translations of a selection of Ebu's-suud's writings on the topic in question, with a brief analysis. From these materials, the author suggests that readers draw their own conclusions as to whether Ebu's-suud did indeed reconcile Ottoman secular legal practice with the sacred law.

Over the last decade, the U.S., UK Israel and other states have begun to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for military operations and for targeted killings in places like Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. Worldwide, over 80 governments are developing their own drone programs, and even non-state actors such as the Islamic State have begun to experiment with drones. The speed of technological change and adaptation with drones is so rapid that it is outpacing the legal and ethical frameworks which govern the use of force. This volume brings together experts in law, ethics and political science to address how drone technology is slowly changing the rules and norms surrounding the use of force and enabling new, sometimes unprecedented, actions by states. It addresses some of the most crucial questions in the debate over drones today. Are drones a revolutionary form of technology that will transform warfare or is their effect merely hype? Can drone use on the battlefield be made wholly consistent with international law? How does drone technology begin to shift the norms governing the use of force? What new legal and ethical problems are presented by targeted killings outside of declared war zones? Should drones be considered a humane form of warfare? Finally, is it possible that drones could be a force for good in humanitarian disasters and peacekeeping missions in the near future? This book was previously published as a special issue of The International Journal of Human Rights.

Indonesia has been home to some of the most vibrant and complex developments in modern Islamic thought anywhere in the world. Nevertheless little is known or understood about these developments outside South East Asia. By considering the work of the leading Indonesian thinkers of the twentieth century, Michael Feener, an intellectual authority in the area, offers a cogent critique of this diverse and extensive literature and sheds light on the contemporary debates and the dynamics of Islamic reform. The book highlights the openness to, and creative manipulation of, diverse strands of international thought that have come to define Islamic intellectualism in modern Indonesia. This is an accessible and interpretive overview of the religious and social thought of the world's largest Muslim majority nation. As such it will be read by scholars of Islamic law and society, South East Asian studies and comparative law and jurisprudence.

This is a new examination of how Sharia (TM)a law affects public policy both theoretically and in practice, across a wide range of public policy areas, including for example human rights and family law.

The process by which public policy is decided - through elections, debates, political processes, and political discourse - has an additional dimension in the Islamic world. This is because Shari'a (divine law) has a great deal to say on many mundane matters of everyday life and must be taken into account in matters of public policy. In addition, matters are complicated further by the fact that there are differing interpretations of the Shari'a and how it should be applied to contemporary social issues.

Written by leading experts in their field, this is the first comprehensive single volume analysis of Islam and public policy in the English language and offers further understanding of Islam and its wider social and political implications.

First full-length study and edition of the acts of the Court of Arches, the most important medieval English ecclesiastical court. The appellate court of the archbishop of Canterbury as metropolitan of the province of Canterbury [covering all of England south of the Humber and all of Wales] was the most important ecclesiastical court in medieval England; it sat in the church of St Mary le Bow in London, from whose Latin name [de arcubus] it took its popular name, the Court of Arches. This volume offers the first full-length study of the Court. The introduction traces its history from its first appearance in the records of the mid- thirteenth century to 1533, when the Statute in Restraint of Appeals altered its constitution, and describes how cases proceeded in the court from initial appeal to final disposition. It is followed by an edition of the essential texts governing the court - its statutes and its customs - as well as editions of treatises about the court's procedure, which were written by practitioners in the Arches. A list of the court's personnel, including proctors and advocates, and a discussion of the court's calendar complete the volume.

Der Autor befasst sich mit wesentlichen Fragen aus dem Sachverstandigenrecht, dem die gerichtliche und die aussergerichtliche Arbeit des Sachverstandigen zugrunde liegt. Im Rahmen dieser Tatigkeit muss sich der Sachverstandige mit seiner Beauftragung, seiner Honorierung, der Haftung, dem Versicherungsschutz und der Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Kollegen beschaftigen. Hinzu kommt, dass der Sachverstandige sich einwandfrei gegenuber seinen Auftraggebern, den Gerichtsparteien und dem Gericht verhalten muss, will er eine ordnungsgemasse Arbeit abliefern. Dazu soll das Buch wertvolle Hinweise geben.

This work analyzes the history of the application of Islamic law (Shari`ah) in Nigeria. It analyzes how Islamic law emerged in Nigeria toward the beginning of the 19th century and remained applicable until the arrival of the British Colonial regime in Northern Nigeria in 1903. It sheds light on how the law survived colonial rule and continues until today. Dr. Yushau Sodiq analyzes progressive elements in Islamic law over the past two centuries. He goes on to discuss many objections raised by the Nigerian Christians against the application of Islamic law, as well as how Muslims respond to such criticism. In a world that is often saturated with Islamophobia and ignorant misconceptions about Islam, this book aims to clarify and respond to many important concepts and ideas within Islamic religious tradition.

Targeting Americans: The Constitutionality of the U.S. Drone War focuses on the legal debate surrounding drone strikes, the use of which has expanded significantly under the Obama Presidency as part of the continuing war against terror. Despite the political salience of the legal questions raised by targeted killing, the author asserts that there has been remarkably little careful analysis of the fundamental legal question: the constitutionality of the policy. From a position of deep practical expertise in constitutional issues, Prof. Powell provides a dispassionate and balanced analysis of the issues posed by U.S. targeted killing policy, using the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki in September 2011 as a focus for discussion. While Powell concludes that the al-Awlaki strike was constitutional under 2001 legislation, he rejects the Obama administration's broader claims of authority for its drone policies. Furthermore, he argues, citizens acting as combatants in al-Qaeda and associated groups are not entitled to due process protections: by due process standards, the administration's procedures are legally inadequate. A fundamental theme of the book is that the conclusion that an action or policy is constitutional should not be confused with claims about its wisdom, morality, or legality under international norms. Part of the purpose of constitutional analysis is to draw attention to these other normative concerns and not, as is too often the case, to occlude them.

Im Jahr 2001 hat der deutsche Gesetzgeber durch mehrere AEnderungen der Zivilprozessordnung die Grundlagen fur einen Einsatz von Informationstechnologien im Zivilprozess geschaffen (FormanpassungsG 2001; ZPO-ReformG 2001; ZustellungsreformG 2001). Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit einer der zentralen Neuregelungen in diesem Zusammenhang, der Durchfuhrung von Videokonferenzen im Zivilprozess auf der Grundlage von 128 a ZPO i.d F. des ZPO-Reformgesetzes 2001. Es ist die erste monografische Untersuchung dieses Themas. Die Arbeit will einen Beitrag zur Genese juristischer Meinungen leisten, Reflektionen zu bestehenden Ansatzen und Denkanstoesse zu Neuem geben.

Diese Arbeit stellt in einzelnen Aufsatzen praxisnahe Anwendungen der oekonomischen Theorie des Rechts dar. Die Aufsatze wurden so gewahlt, dass die Fulle der moeglichen Anwendungen und zugleich ihr unmittelbarer rechtspolitischer Nutzen deutlich werden. So werden Analysen und rechtspolitische Vorschlage zur Zerstoerung der Rauschgiftmarkte, der Struktur von Zivilprozessen, der Kontrolle der Unternehmensverwaltung und deren Vergutung, zur Wahl effizienter Haftungssysteme, der Abschreckung von Straftaten und der Regulierung der Glucksspielindustrie vorgelegt. Im Rahmen von Anwendungen werden auch die Konzepte der mit dem Nobelpreis ausgezeichneten Autoren des Fachgebietes wie Coase, Becker, Stigler, Akerlof, North und Kahneman dargestellt und erlautert. Sie machen die innovative Kraft und die Zukunftsfestigkeit der dargelegten Konzepte deutlich und belegen ihren Nutzen fur die Praxis der Jurisprudenz.

With the introduction of the Rome I Regulation, new legislation has become effective in International Contract Law in Europe and Germany. The latest developments are now commented on in best Staudinger quality and thoroughness. This most extensive commentary on the Rome I Regulation also examines questions of detail such as the choice-of-venue and arbitration agreements that are important for daily practice. In addition, particular consideration is devoted to the latest revisions regarding consumer protection for special areas and compulsory insurance contracts in the Introductory Law to the German Civil Code (EGBGB, Articles 46b and c).

The Ruhr-Akademie fA1/4r EuropAisches Privatrecht is an initiative of the Department of Civil Law, German and European Commercial and Business Law at the Ruhr-UniversitAt Bochum. Its objective is to process European private law for practitioners. The Ruhr-Akademie organises various events, further training, lectures and conferences. The contributions to the events are published in a series by the Ruhr-Akademie: "Practical Booklets on European Private Law."

Das Werk beschaftigt sich mit der in 2a Abs. 3 VermAnlG angesprochenen Internet-Dienstleistungsplattform, die bei den entgeltlichen Formen des Crowdfundings zwischen Kapitalsuchendem und Anleger steht. Dazu setzt sich der Autor - unter Berucksichtigung des Anlegerschutzes - mit den aufsichtsrechtlichen Anforderungen auseinander und nimmt eine zivilrechtliche Einordnung der Tatigkeiten der Plattformen vor.

Die Durchsetzung" hat sich im Recht des geistigen Eigentums zu einem ebenso zentralen wie vielschichtigen Begriff entwickelt. Der Sammelband beleuchtet die unterschiedlichen Aspekte des Begriffs, analysiert Entwicklungstendenzen, diskutiert gel ste und ungel ste Fragen des geltenden Rechts und zeigt rechtspolitische Perspektiven auf.

From the standpoint of practising engineers, architects and contractors, the law of contract is the most important one and, from preparation of technical documents to its execution and in the determination of disputes, the engineer or architect must have relevant knowledge. This book acts as a practical guide to building and engineering contracts. All points are explained with illustrations gathered from decided court cases. This book covers the substantive law of contract applicable to building and engineering contracts with updated noteworthy judgments. FIDIC conditions are mentioned at appropriate places with a global focus. Key Features: Guide for a full and thorough understanding of the contractual undertakings of the civil engineering industry, primarily in India Discusses specific conditions which are fertile sources of disputes, referring to and commenting upon the FIDIC conditions Covers internationally adopted standard form conditions of contract with analysis, discussions and interpretations, with decided court cases from India and abroad Focuses on technical civil engineering aspects Addresses cases from countries including UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India

Die Abgabe einer Praxis ist fur den Arzt, Zahnarzt oder Tierarzt ein wesentlicher Lebenseinschnitt, der sorgfaltig bedacht und geplant sein will. Fur den jungen Kollegen kann die Ubernahme einer Praxis der Idealeinstieg in seine berufliche Zukunft sein. Chancen und Risiken der Praxisubergabe werden aus der Sicht des Abgebers und des Ubernehmers ausfuhrlich erortert. Neben dem Ablauf des Nachbesetzungsverfahrens in gesperrten Gebieten werden auch die Rechtsprechung, z.B. zur Ubergabe der Patientenkartei, sowie betriebswirtschaftliche, finanzielle und praktische Probleme berucksichtigt. Die neueste steuerliche und vertragsarztliche Gesetzgebung ist eingearbeitet. Der Autor kommentiert aus einer jahrzehntelangen Erfahrung als Rechtsanwalt und Rechtsberater eines grossen arztlichen Berufsverbandes eingehend den Ubergabevertrag sowie die zugehorigen Nebenvertrage."

Das Web2.0 hat zu einem Wandel des Nutzerverhaltens in Internet gefuhrt: Immer mehr Nutzer gehen vom passiven Konsum uber zu einem interaktiven Nutzungsverhalten. Bei einem Grossteil der produzierten Beitrage greifen sie dabei auf fremde, zumeist urheberrechtlich geschutzte Inhalte zuruck. Vor diesem Hintergrund geht der Autor der Frage nach, inwieweit diese unautorisierte Verwendung fremder Werke und Leistungen urheberrechtlich zulassig ist und in welchem Umfang dieses Phanomen zukunftig vom Gesetzgeber privilegiert werden sollte.