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Uncertain Risks Regulated compares various models of risk
regulation in order to understand how these systems shape the
relationship between law and science, and how they attempt to
overcome public distrust in science-based decision-making. The book
contributes to the ongoing debate relating to uncertainty and risks
- and the difficulties faced by the European Union in particular -
in regulating theses issues, taking account of both national and
international constraints. The term 'uncertain risk' is comparable
with notions of hazard and indeterminate risk, as deployed within
the social sciences; but it also aims to capture the modern
regulatory reality that a non-quantifiable hazard must still be
addressed by society, law and its regulators. Decisions must be
taken in the face of uncertainty. And, whilst it is not possible to
provide clear cut models of risk regulation, in focusing on
regulatory practices at a national, EU and international level, the
contributors to this volume aim to use fact finding as a core
instrument of learning for risk regulation.
This book examines the heritage of Victor Shklovsky in a variety of
disciplines. To achieve this end, Slav N. Gratchev and Howard
Mancing draw upon colleagues from eight different countries across
the world-the United States, Canada, Russia, England, Scotland, the
Netherlands, Norway, and China-in order to bring the widest variety
of points of view on the subject. Viktor Shklovsky's Heritage in
Literature, Arts, and Philosophy is more than just another
collection of essays of literary criticism: the editors invited
scholars from different disciplines-literature, cinematography, and
philosophy-who have dealt with Shklovsky's heritage and saw its
practical application in their fields. Therefore, all of these
essays are written in a variety of humanist academic and scholarly
styles, all engaging and dynamic.
The trade conflicts that the EU has faced within the EU or WTO
context demonstrate that the question of how to balance trade and
other societal values in situations of uncertainty has not been
solved by the regulatory model evolved by the EU in the aftermath
of the BSE crisis - one which privileges processes of
depoliticisation and scientification. This book addresses the
current key dilemmas around science, law and the regulation of
trade, both on a regime level and in the context of particular
industrial sectors, e.g pharmaceuticals, climate change and
nanotechnology. It will present possible future research avenues by
looking at both theory and practice and learning from various
disciplines (law and social sciences), legal realities (WTO, USA
and EU) and actors (regulators, stakeholders, courts).
The trade conflicts that the EU has faced within the EU or WTO
context demonstrate that the question of how to balance trade and
other societal values in situations of uncertainty has not been
solved by the regulatory model evolved by the EU in the aftermath
of the BSE crisis - one which privileges processes of
depoliticisation and scientification. This book addresses the
current key dilemmas around science, law and the regulation of
trade, both on a regime level and in the context of particular
industrial sectors, e.g pharmaceuticals, climate change and
nanotechnology. It will present possible future research avenues by
looking at both theory and practice and learning from various
disciplines (law and social sciences), legal realities (WTO, USA
and EU) and actors (regulators, stakeholders, courts).
Uncertain Risks Regulated compares various models of risk
regulation in order to understand how these systems shape the
relationship between law and science, and how they attempt to
overcome public distrust in science-based decision-making. The book
contributes to the ongoing debate relating to uncertainty and risks
- and the difficulties faced by the European Union in particular -
in regulating theses issues, taking account of both national and
international constraints. The term 'uncertain risk' is comparable
with notions of hazard and indeterminate risk, as deployed within
the social sciences; but it also aims to capture the modern
regulatory reality that a non-quantifiable hazard must still be
addressed by society, law and its regulators. Decisions must be
taken in the face of uncertainty. And, whilst it is not possible to
provide clear cut models of risk regulation, in focusing on
regulatory practices at a national, EU and international level, the
contributors to this volume aim to use fact finding as a core
instrument of learning for risk regulation.
An original and innovative recasting of constitutionalism, written
by acknowledged experts in the field, this empirically grounded and
theoretically informed volume addresses the strategies and
philosophies that judges and lawyers bring to bear when creating
European constitutional jurisprudence; investigating and promoting
promotes the sustainability of a theory or praxis of 'procedural'
constitutionalism. Building upon European and American critical
legal scholarship, Michelle Everson and Julia Eisner argue that
constitutional adjudication has never been the neutral matter of a
mere judicial 'identification' of the values, norms and procedures
that each society seeks to concretise in its own body of
constitutional law. Instead, a 'mythology' of comprehensive
national constitutional settlement has obscured the primary legal
constitutional conundrum that is created by the requirement that a
judiciary must always adapt its constitutional jurisprudence to the
evolving values that are to be found within any society; but must
always, also, maintain the integrity and autonomy of the law
itself. European judges and lawyers, having been denied recourse to
all forms of constitutional mythology, provide us with an
alternative model of constitutionalism; one that does not require a
founding myth of constitutional settlement, and one which both
secures the autonomy of law, as well as ensures dialogue between
law and society. This occurs, however, not through grand theories
of 'constitutional adjudication' but, as The Making of a European
Constitution documents, rather through a practical process.
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Cornish Studies Volume 7 (Paperback)
Philip Payton; Contributions by Catherine Brace, Brian Elvins, Michael Everson, Jim Hall, …
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R895
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The seventh volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the
only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the
past and present of a nation.
Contributions by
Catherine Brace, Brian Elvins, Michael Everson, Jim Hall, John
Hurst, Patrick Laviolette, Jon Mills, William A. Morris, Philip
Payton, Ronald Perry, Sharron P. Schwartz, Garry Tregidga and
Nicholas Williams
This book aims to examine the heritage of Victor Shklovsky in a
variety of disciplines. To achieve this end, we drew upon
colleagues from eight different countries across the world - USA,
Canada, Russia, England, Scotland, the Netherlands, Norway, and
Hong Kong - in order to bring the widest variety of points of view
on the subject. But we also wanted this book to be more than just
another collection of essays of literary criticism: we invited
scholars from different disciplines - literature, cinematography,
and philosophy - who have dealt with Shklovsky's heritage and saw
its practical application in their fields. Therefore, all these
essays are written in a variety of humanist academic and scholarly
styles, all engaging and dynamic.
If one compares the vocabulary laid out in the handbooks of revived
Cornish with the lexicon of the traditional texts, one is struck by
how different are the two. From the beginnings Unified Cornish in
the 1920s it appears that revivalists have tended to avoid words
borrowed from English, replacing them with more "Celtic' etyma."
Indeed the more Celtic appearance the vocabulary of both Welsh and
Breton seens to have been a source of envy to some Cornish
revivalists. From Nance onwards such purists have believed that
English borrowings disfigured Cornish and in some sense did not
belong in the language. They considered that revived Cornish would
be more authentic, if as many borrowings as possible were replaced
by native or Celtic words. Such a perception is perhaps
understandable in the context of the Cornish language as a badge of
ethnic identity. From a historical and linguistic perspective,
however, it is misplaced. Cornish, unlike its sister languages, has
always adopted words from English. Indeed it is these English
borrowings which give the mature language of the Middle Cornish
period its distinctive flavour. Cornish without the English element
is quite simply not Cornish. Since there is no sizeable community
speaking revived Cornish as a native language, we are compelled to
rely on the only native speakers available to us, namely the
writers of the traditional texts. We must follow them as closely as
we can. It is to be hoped that this book will in some small measure
assist learners of Cornish to speak and to write a form of the
language more closely related to what remains to us of the
traditional language.
The two tales in this book are both responses to Lewis Carroll's
Wonderland, aimed at instilling an interest in grammar in young and
recalcitrant readers. Audrey Mayhew Allen wrote "Gladys in
Grammarland" in 1897. In this story, Gladys becomes sleepy after
class and finds that a Verb Fairy has taken an interest in her
education. Louise Franklin Bache's charming play "Alice in
Grammarland" was written in 1923 for "Better Speech Week" and was
published in "Junior Red Cross News" in that year. In it, Carroll's
Alice returns to meet old friends the Mad Hatter and the White
Rabbit, together with the King and Queen of Grammarland.
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A Voyage to Arcturus (Hardcover)
David Lindsay; Illustrated by John O'Connor; Edited by Michael Everson
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R823
Discovery Miles 8 230
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A Voyage to Arcturus (Paperback)
David Lindsay; Illustrated by John O'Connor; Edited by Michael Everson
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R606
Discovery Miles 6 060
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The Prophet (Paperback)
Kahlil Gibran; Illustrated by Kahlil Gibran; Afterword by Michael Everson
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R524
Discovery Miles 5 240
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