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Thoroughly revised and updated, this third edition of EU Private
International Law incorporates many developments in legislation and
case-law since the publication of the second edition in 2010.
Building on the book's reputation for comprehensive coverage and
attention to detail, Peter Stone provides an authoritative and
accessible introduction to the subject.The book provides full
analysis of the revised version of the Brussels I Regulation (in
the form of Regulation 1215/2012), and gives attention to the
proposed regulation on matrimonial property and the proposed
revision of the regulation on insolvency proceedings. It considers
issues relating to the harmonization of conflict of laws at the
European Union level, and offers a critical assessment of
developments across the main areas of concern. With the
considerable advancement in this area of law since the first and
second editions, academics, students and practitioners interested
in international litigation in matters governed by private law will
find the up-to-date coverage offered by this new edition of EU
legislative measures in the sphere of private international law to
be essential reading. Contents: 1. Introduction 2. History, Outline
and Scope 3. Domicile 4. Alternative Jurisdiction 5. Protected
Contracts 6. Exclusive Jurisdiction 7. Submission 8. Concurrent
Proceedings 9. Provisional Measures and Taking Evidence 10.
Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments 11. Enforcement Procedure
12. The Proper Law of a Contract 13. Contractual Issues and
Exceptions 14. Protected Contracts 15. Torts 16. Restitution 17.
Matrimonial Proceedings 18. Parental Responsibility 19. Maintenance
and Property 20. Succession on Death 21 Insolvency Index
The harmonization of private international law in Europe has, to a
very large extent, been the result of both legislation adopted at
EU level and the subsequent case law arising from the
interpretation of that legislation. This fourth edition of Peter
Stone?s authoritative work has been thoroughly revised and updated
to take account of the most recent developments at both EU and
national levels, including the recast Brussels I regulation on
civil jurisdiction and the recast Insolvency regulation, and
numerous decisions of the European and English courts. Key features
include:? comprehensive and in-depth coverage of key legislative
developments within the EU in relation to private international
law? addresses key questions and identifies weaknesses in the
current law, following up with suggestions for improvements?
combines perspectives from both civil law and common law
traditions? extensive tables of cases and legislation. This timely
work will be an invaluable point of reference for practising
lawyers, the judiciary, legislators and policy-makers throughout
the EU. Academics and public officials interested in conflicts of
laws will also find this a vital resource.
The harmonization of private international law in Europe has
advanced rapidly since the entry into force of the Treaty of
Amsterdam. Most aspects of private international law are now
governed or at least affected by EU legislation, and there is a
substantial and growing body of case-law from the European Court as
well as the courts of the Member States. This timely Handbook
addresses key questions and problems that currently exist in the
rules of private international law laid down by European Union
regulations. Bringing together perspectives from both civil law and
common law traditions, the book mainly considers issues relating to
the Brussels I Regulation on civil jurisdiction and judgments, and
to the Rome I and II Regulations on choice of law in respect of
contractual or non-contractual obligations. Weaknesses in the
current law are identified, and suggestions are made for possible
improvements. The expert contributors focus on currently relevant
problems including some issues which have tended to be neglected.
Academics, law students and public officials interested in private
international law will find this Handbook to be a valuable
resource. Both practising lawyers and commercial lobbyists will
also find many useful insights. Contributors include: O. Bamodu, I.
Carr, Y. Farah, G. Guneysu-Gungoer, L. Heffernan, S. Hourani, D.
Kenny, M. Koutsias, X.E. Kramer, P. Stone, E. Treppoz, A.
Yilmaz-Vastardis, H.-L. Yu
The past is everywhere around us, and teaching about the past is a
common trait of all societies. However, the choice of what past is
taught, and how, are complex decisions. These chapters argue for
the value of using the physical remains of the past. This evidence
is not commonly used in education for a range of reasons, including
lack of time and experience, so the introductory chapters show how
and where the historic environment can be used to fit into and
enhance learning. These guidelines are reinforced by case studies
from a wide cross section of the heritage sector that also prove
that physical heritage can not only be used to teach obvious
subjects such as history, but is also useful across the curriculum,
from literacy and numeracy to citizenship.
Practical, inspiring and instructive, "Education and the Historic"
"Environment" emphasizes the contribution to both education and
heritage that results from a positive relationship between the two
disciplines. Teachers at all levels, and students, academics, and
professionals in archaeology and heritage management will all be
able to use the case studies to reform and enhance their work.
As a discipline, Archaeology has developed rapidly over the last
half-century. The increase in so-called 'public archaeology,' with
its wide range of television programming, community projects,
newspaper articles, and enhanced site-based interpretation has
taken archaeology from a closed academic discipline of interest to
a tiny minority to a topic of increasing interest to the general
public. This book explores how archaeologists share information -
with specialists from other disciplines working within archaeology,
other archaeologists, and a range of non-specialist groups. It
emphasises that to adequately address contemporary levels of
interest in their subject, archaeologists must work alongside and
trust experts with an array of different skills and
specializations. Drawing on case studies from eleven countries,
Sharing Archaeology explores a wide range of issues raised as the
result of archaeologists' communication both within and outside the
discipline. Examining best practice with wider implications and
uses beyond the specified case studies, the chapters in this book
raise questions as well as answers, provoking a critical evaluation
of how best to interact with varied audiences and enhance sharing
of archaeology.
The harmonization of private international law in Europe has
advanced rapidly since the entry into force of the Treaty of
Amsterdam. Most aspects of private international law are now
governed or at least affected by EU legislation, and there is a
substantial and growing body of case-law from the European Court as
well as the courts of the Member States. This timely Handbook
addresses key questions and problems that currently exist in the
rules of private international law laid down by European Union
regulations. Bringing together perspectives from both civil law and
common law traditions, the book mainly considers issues relating to
the Brussels I Regulation on civil jurisdiction and judgments, and
to the Rome I and II Regulations on choice of law in respect of
contractual or non-contractual obligations. Weaknesses in the
current law are identified, and suggestions are made for possible
improvements. The expert contributors focus on currently relevant
problems including some issues which have tended to be neglected.
Academics, law students and public officials interested in private
international law will find this Handbook to be a valuable
resource. Both practising lawyers and commercial lobbyists will
also find many useful insights. Contributors include: O. Bamodu, I.
Carr, Y. Farah, G. Guneysu-Gungoer, L. Heffernan, S. Hourani, D.
Kenny, M. Koutsias, X.E. Kramer, P. Stone, E. Treppoz, A.
Yilmaz-Vastardis, H.-L. Yu
As a discipline, Archaeology has developed rapidly over the last
half-century. The increase in so-called public archaeology, with
its wide range of television programming, community projects,
newspaper articles, and enhanced site-based interpretation has
taken archaeology from a closed academic discipline of interest to
a tiny minority to a topic of increasing interest to the general
public. This book explores how archaeologists share information
with specialists from other disciplines working within archaeology,
other archaeologists, and a range of non-specialist groups. It
emphasises that to adequately address contemporary levels of
interest in their subject, archaeologists must work alongside and
trust experts with an array of different skills and
specializations.
Drawing on case studies from eleven countries, "Sharing
Archaeology" explores a wide range of issues raised as the result
of archaeologists communication both within and outside the
discipline. Examining best practice with wider implications and
uses beyond the specified case studies, the chapters in this book
raise questions as well as answers, provoking a critical evaluation
of how best to interact with varied audiences and enhance sharing
of archaeology."
The Excluded Past examines the uneasy relationship between
archaeology and education, arguing that archaeologists have a vital
role to play in education alongside other interpreters of the past.
Cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary contributors show how the
exclusion of aspects of the past tends to impoverish and distort
social and educational experience.
A ground-breaking book that examines the uneasy relationship
between archaeology and education and argues that archaeologists
have a vital role to play in education alongside other interpreters
of the past. Contributors from different countries and disciplines
show how the exclusion of aspects of the past tends to impoverish
and distort social and educational experience.
A groundbreaking examination of one of the most controversial
topics within modern archaeology. The invention of metal detecting
technology during the Second World War allowed the development of a
hobby that has traditionally been vilified by archaeologists as an
uncontrollable threat to the proper study of the past. This book
charts the relationship between archaeologists and metal detectors
over the past fifty odd years within an international context. It
questions whether the great majority of metal detectors need be
seen as a threat or, as some argue, enthusiastic members of the
public with a valid and legitimate interest in our shared heritage,
charting the expansion of metal detecting as a phenomenon and
examining its role within traditional archaeology. A particular
strength of the book is its detailed case studies, from South
Africa, the USA, Poland and Germany, where metal detectors have
worked with, and contributed significantly towards, archaeological
understanding and research. With contributions from key individuals
in both the metal detecting and archaeological communities, this
publication highlights the need for increased understanding and
cooperation and asks a number of questions crucial to the
development of a long term relationship between archaeologists and
metal detectors. PETER G. STONE is Head of the School of Arts and
Cultures and formerly Director of the International Centre for
Cultural and Heritage Studies at the University of Newcastle. He
has been interested in the public's role and interest in
archaeology for over twenty-five years and has published widely on
this topic, especially with respect to formal and informal
education. SUZIE THOMAS is lecturer in museum studies at the
University of Helsinki.
International Trade Law offers a clear overview of the complexities
of an international sale transaction through informed analysis of
case law, legislation, and international conventions and rules.
Fully updated with changes to the law and new directions in legal
debate, this new edition considers: Standard trade terms including
INCOTERMS 2010, the Convention on International Sales of Goods 1980
and the UNIDROIT Principles for International Commercial Contracts
E-Commerce issues, including electronic bills of lading Insurance
and payment mechanisms, such as letters of credit and the UCP 600
International transportation of cargo, including the Rotterdam
Rules Dispute resolution (including jurisdiction, applicable law,
arbitration and mediation), with particular reference to the
relevant EU regulations and the developing case-law thereon
Corruption and anti-corruption conventions, including the UK
Bribery Act 2010 and developments relating to deferred prosecution
agreements In addition to clarifying a range of topics through
tables and diagrams, the book directs readers to relevant further
reading and online resources throughout, offering students an
accessible resource to this often challenging area of the law.
Over the last thirty years issues of culture, identity and meaning
have moved out of the academic sphere to become central to politics
and society at all levels from the local to the global. Archaeology
has been at the forefront of these moves towards a greater
engagement with the non-academic world, often in an extremely
practical and direct way, for example in the disputes about the
repatriation of human burials. Such disputes have been central to
the recognition that previously marginalized groups have rights in
their own past that are important for their future. The essays in
this book look back at some of the most important events where a
role for an archaeology concerned with the past in the present
first emerged and look forward to the practical and theoretical
issues now central to a socially engaged discipline and shaping its
future. This book is published in honor of Professor Peter Ucko,
who has played an unparalleled role in promoting awareness of the
core issues in this volume among archaeologists.
A prominent scholar once noted that lotteries in politics and
society-to break vote ties, assign students to schools, draft
people into the military, select juries-are "at first thought
absurd, and at second thought obvious." Lotteries have been part of
politics since the Greek and Roman times, and they are used
frequently in American politics today. When there is a two-to-two
vote tie for prospective school board members, officials will often
resort to flipping a coin (as happened recently in California). And
in military drafts, the conventional wisdom is that random
selection is far more just than non-lottery drafts. Northerners
rioted against the perceived injustice of the non-random draft
during the Civil War, and Americans by and large believed that
student deferments subverted the justice of the draft during the
Vietnam War. Over the years, people who study and practice politics
have devoted considerable effort to thinking about the legitimacy
of lotteries and whether they are just or not under certain
circumstances. Yet they have really only focused on lotteries on a
case-by-case basis, and no one has ever developed a substantial and
comprehensive political theory of lotteries. In The Luck of the
Draw, Peter Stone does just that. Examining the wide range of
arguments for and against lotteries, Stone comes to the startling
conclusion that lotteries have only one crucial effect relevant to
decision-making: they have the "sanitizing effect" of preventing
decisions from being made on the basis of reasons. Stone readily
admits that this rationale might sound absurd to us, but contends
that in many instances it is vital for people to make decisions
without any reasoned rationale to compel them. Sometimes, justice
can only be carried out through random selection-a fundamental
principle of the practice of lottery that Stone comes to call "The
Just Lottery Rule." By developing innovative ways for interpreting
this pervasive form of political practice, Stone provides us with a
foundation for understanding how to best make use of lottery when
making political decisions both large and small.
The River Thames has been integral to the prosperity of London
since Roman times. Explorers sailed away on voyages of discovery to
distant lands. Colonies were established and a great empire grew.
Funding their ships and cargoes helped make the City of London into
the world's leading financial centre. In the 19th century a vast
network of docks was created for ever-larger ships, behind high,
prison-like walls that kept them secret from all those who did not
toil within. Sail made way for steam as goods were dispatched to
every corner of the world. In the 19th century London was the
world's greatest port city. In the Second World War the Port of
London became Hitler's prime target. It paid a heavy price but soon
recovered. Yet by the end of the 20th century the docks had been
transformed into Docklands, a new financial centre. The History of
the Port of London: A Vast Emporium of Nations is the fascinating
story of the rise and fall and revival of the commercial river. The
only book to tell the whole story and bring it right up to date, it
charts the foundation, growth and evolution of the port and
explains why for centuries it has been so important to Britain's
prosperity. This book will appeal to those interested in London's
history, maritime and industrial heritage, the Docklands and East
End of London, and the River Thames.
International Trade Law offers a clear overview of the complexities
of an international sale transaction through informed analysis of
case law, legislation, and international conventions and rules.
Fully updated with changes to the law and new directions in legal
debate, this new edition considers: Standard trade terms including
INCOTERMS 2010, the Convention on International Sales of Goods 1980
and the UNIDROIT Principles for International Commercial Contracts
E-Commerce issues, including electronic bills of lading Insurance
and payment mechanisms, such as letters of credit and the UCP 600
International transportation of cargo, including the Rotterdam
Rules Dispute resolution (including jurisdiction, applicable law,
arbitration and mediation), with particular reference to the
relevant EU regulations and the developing case-law thereon
Corruption and anti-corruption conventions, including the UK
Bribery Act 2010 and developments relating to deferred prosecution
agreements In addition to clarifying a range of topics through
tables and diagrams, the book directs readers to relevant further
reading and online resources throughout, offering students an
accessible resource to this often challenging area of the law.
This book includes the thoroughly refereed post-conference
proceedings of the 16th Annual RoboCup International Symposium,
held in Mexico City, Mexico, in June 2012. The 24 revised papers
presented together with nine champion team papers and one best
paper award were carefully reviewed and selected from 64
submissions. The papers present current research and educational
activities within the fields of Robotics and Artificial
Intelligence with a special focus to robot hardware and software,
perception and action, robotic cognition and learning, multi-robot
systems, human-robot interaction, education and edutainment, and
applications.
Robotics technology has recently advanced to the point of being
widely accessible for relatively low-budget research, as well as
for graduate, undergraduate, and even secondary and primary school
education. This lecture provides an example of how to productively
use a cutting-edge advanced robotics platform for education and
research by providing a detailed case study with the Sony AIBO
robot, a vision-based legged robot. The case study used for this
lecture is the UT Austin Villa RoboCup Four-Legged Team. This
lecture describes both the development process and the technical
details of its end result. The main contributions of this lecture
are (i) a roadmap for new classes and research groups interested in
intelligent autonomous robotics who are starting from scratch with
a new robot, and (ii) documentation of the algorithms behind our
own approach on the AIBOs with the goal of making them accessible
for use on other vision-based and/or legged robot platforms.
A full-color gallery with over 150 photos of the original Broadway
production; color costume and set designs and sketches; the
complete back-story of the production from concept to launch to hit
musical; artists at the helm: the crossing from fact to fiction; a
brief history of Titanic lore; poster and marketing art; and the
complete book and lyrics.
This book is the fourth offical archival publication devoted to RoboCup and documents the achievements presented at the Fourth Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences, RoboCup 2000, held in Melbourne, Australia, in August/September 2000. The book presents the following parts: introductory overview and survey, championship papers by the winners of the competitions, finalist papers for the RoboCup challenge awards, papers and posters presented at the workshop, team description of a large number of participating teams. This book is mandatory reading for the rapidly growing RoboCup community as well as a valuable source of reference and inspiration for R & D professionals interested in multi-agent systems, distributed artificial intelligence, and intelligent robotics.
Two essays, printed back to back in a single volume, offer
complementary solutions to the democratic deficit in Britain and
the USA. In his book "The Party's Over: Blueprint for a Very
English Revolution" (2004), Keith Sutherland questioned the role of
the party in the post-ideological age and concluded that it would
be better for government ministers to be appointed by headhunters
and held to account by a people's parliament selected by lot. This
completely revised and updated edition includes a study of the
recent literature on deliberative polling. The American founders
proposed that their legislature should be 'an exact portrait, in
miniature, of the people at large'. Whether or not this was true at
the time, the exponential growth of the population, skyrocketing
campaign funding, the power of pressure groups, the grease of the
pork-barrel and the dominance of charisma and demagoguery means
that the US Constitution could now better be described as a
kleptocracy. This pioneering essay proposes selecting Congressional
members by random lot (leaving the Senate and Presidency unchanged)
to 'restore a direct, powerful voice in Washington to the whole of
America'. Originally published in 1985, this new edition includes
an introduction by political scientist Peter Stone.
Lotteries have been used to make all kinds of public decisions ever
since the days of Ancient Greece. They can contribute to some of
our most important values, such as rationality, justice, and
democracy. But until recently, there was no theory to make sense of
lotteries and what they can do. The past few decades have changed
that with a veritable renaissance of studies on lotteries. This
book collects fourteen of the most important of these papers, and
offers a critical introduction tying them together. Table of
Contents Editor'sIntroduction 1. Vilhelm Aubert, Chance in Social
Affairs 2. Dael Wolfle, Chance, or Human Judgment? 3. Dennis C.
Mueller, Robert D. Tollison, and Thomas D. Willett, Representative
Democracy via Random Selection 4. Hank Greely, The Equality of
Allocation by Lot 5. George Sher, What Makes a Lottery Fair? 6.
Barbara Goodwin, Justice and the Lottery 7. Richard G. Mulgan, Lot
as a Democratic Device of Selection 8. Lewis A. Kornhauser and
Lawrence G. Sager, Just Lotteries 9. Torstein Eckhoff, Lotteries in
Allocative Situations 10. Fredrik Engelstad, The Assignment of
Political Office by Lot 11. Willem K.B. Hofstee, Allocation by Lot:
A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis 12. John Broome, Fairness 13.
David Wasserman, Let Them Eat Chances: Probability and Distributive
Justice 14. Sigmund Knag, Let's Toss for It: A Surprising Curb on
Political Greed
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