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Book Should Trees Have Standing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher D. Stone
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2010-04-07
  • ISBN : 0199774242
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Should Trees Have Standing written by Christopher D. Stone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing? was a rallying point for the then burgeoning environmental movement, launching a worldwide debate on the basic nature of legal rights that reached the U.S. Supreme Court. Now, in the 35th anniversary edition of this remarkably influential book, Christopher D. Stone updates his original thesis and explores the impact his ideas have had on the courts, the academy, and society as a whole. At the heart of the book is an eminently sensible, legally sound, and compelling argument that the environment should be granted legal rights. For the new edition, Stone explores a variety of recent cases and current events--and related topics such as climate change and protecting the oceans--providing a thoughtful survey of the past and an insightful glimpse at the future of the environmental movement. This enduring work continues to serve as the definitive statement as to why trees, oceans, animals, and the environment as a whole should be bestowed with legal rights, so that the voiceless elements in nature are protected for future generations.

Book Annulment under the ICSID Convention

Download or read book Annulment under the ICSID Convention written by R. Doak Bishop and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Systematically describes the theory and practice of ICSID annulment proceedings by thoroughly analysing this mechanism in light of the annulment decisions rendered so far, and alongside existing literature.

Book Revised Laws of Mauritius  2000

Download or read book Revised Laws of Mauritius 2000 written by Mauritius and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Comparative Law Before the Courts

Download or read book Comparative Law Before the Courts written by Guy Canivet and published by British Institute for International & Comparative Law. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative law is increasingly recognized as an essential reference point for judicial decision-making. The English courts have long been open to considering how legal problems are solved in other jurisdictions and there have been parallel developments across the Channel. Comparative law is gaining in utility and relevance in the decisions of the courts. This book is extremely timely, bringing together a collection of essays by distinguished jurists from the judiciary and academia and providing an important contribution to analysis of this topic. Contributors focus on a variety of European jurisdictions but also look at North America and South Africa. The first part of the book deals with the problems and possibilities of comparative law in national courts. Discussion ranges from the problems of proof of foreign law in national courts to legal borrowings and institutional mechanisms for international judicial cooperation in national courts. The second part of the book, focusing on European Law, contains a range of chapters exploring in a number of dimensions the suggestion that an intensification of comparative law methodology in the courts might be attributable to the growth and impact of European supra-national law. The third part of the book takes the argument into the field of administrative law, an area which has traditionally been relatively impervious to comparative cross-fertilization between European states. The fourth part of the book covers a widely diverse set of topics in the field of general and mainly private law.

Book Philostratus

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philostratus (the Athenian)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1912
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Philostratus written by Philostratus (the Athenian) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Graphic History

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  • Author : Philip Benedict
  • Publisher : Librairie Droz
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9782600004404
  • Pages : 454 pages

Download or read book Graphic History written by Philip Benedict and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 2007 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The suite of forty prints published in Geneva in 1570 depicting the wars, massacres and troubles of the French Wars of Religion may have been the first picture history made in woodcuts or etchings that promised a geenral public a true view of great events of the recent past. This richly illustrated study reconstructs the gradual elaboration of this experimental work, situating it within the previously untold story of the use of the graphic arts to report the news in the fist centuries of European printmaking. Successive chapters explore the pictorial traditions that inspired the printmakers, examine how they gathered their information, assess the reliability of the scenes, and analyze the historical vision informing the series. Part 2 reproduces the full suite with commentary in double page fold-outs. Through the study of a single print series, lost chapters in the history of jorunalism, of the graphic arts, and of Protestant historical consciousness re-emerge.

Book The Judgment of Palaemon

Download or read book The Judgment of Palaemon written by Philip Ford and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Virgil's third Eclogue, Palaemon concludes the poetry competition between Menalcas and Damoetas by saying that he cannot choose between them, a judgment that is emblematic of the contest between Neo-Latin and vernacular poetry in Renaissance France. Both forms of poetry draw on similar roots, both are equally accomplished, and the contest between them is largely amicable. The Judgment of Palaement illustrates the almost symbiotic relationship between Renaissance Latin and French poetry, while exploring poets' motivation for choosing one language over another, the different challenges each form of writing involved, and the extent of the collaboration between different language communities. It focuses on some of the major writers of the period, as well as less known ones, and on genres specific to humanist poetry. It shows that composing in Latin was often considered more natural than writing in the vernacular, at a time when many Frenchmen's mother tongue was a non-standard French dialect or distinct language. Book jacket.

Book Italian Private Law

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1135393214
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Italian Private Law written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Laws of Late Medieval Italy  1000 1500

Download or read book The Laws of Late Medieval Italy 1000 1500 written by Mario Ascheri and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Laws of Late Medieval Italy Mario Ascheri examines the features of the Italian legal world and explains why it should be regarded as a foundation for the future European continental system. The deep feuds among the Empire, the Churches unified by Roman papacy and the flourishing cities gave rise to very new legal ideas with the strong cooperation of the universities, beginning with that of Bologna. The teaching of Roman law and of the new papal laws, which quickly spread all over Europe, built up a professional group of lawyers and notaries which shaped the new, 'modern', public institutions, including efficient courts (like the Inquisition). Politically divided, Italy was partly unified by the legal system, so-called (Continental) common law (ius commune), which became a pattern for all of Europe onwards. Early modern Europe had for long time to work with it, and parts of it are still alive as a common cultural heritage behind a new European law system.

Book American Legal Thought from Premodernism to Postmodernism

Download or read book American Legal Thought from Premodernism to Postmodernism written by Stephen M. Feldman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intellectual development of American legal thought has progressed remarkably quickly form the nation's founding through today. Stephen Feldman traces this development through the lens of broader intellectual movements and in this work applies the concepts of premodernism, modernism, and postmodernism to legal thought, using examples or significant cases from Supreme Court history. Comprehensive and accessible, this single volume provides an overview of the evolution of American legal thought up to the present.

Book A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans

Download or read book A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans written by Jakob von Uexküll and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Is the tick a machine or a machine operator? Is it a mere object or a subject?” With these questions, the pioneering biophilosopher Jakob von Uexküll embarks on a remarkable exploration of the unique social and physical environments that individual animal species, as well as individuals within species, build and inhabit. This concept of the umwelt has become enormously important within posthumanist philosophy, influencing such figures as Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze and Guattari, and, most recently, Giorgio Agamben, who has called Uexküll “a high point of modern antihumanism.” A key document in the genealogy of posthumanist thought, A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans advances Uexküll’s revolutionary belief that nonhuman perceptions must be accounted for in any biology worth its name; it also contains his arguments against natural selection as an adequate explanation for the present orientation of a species’ morphology and behavior. A Theory of Meaning extends his thinking on the umwelt, while also identifying an overarching and perceptible unity in nature. Those coming to Uexküll’s work for the first time will find that his concept of the umwelt holds new possibilities for the terms of animality, life, and the framework of biopolitics.

Book Tort Theory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kenneth D. Cooper-Stephenson
  • Publisher : Captus Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780921801870
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book Tort Theory written by Kenneth D. Cooper-Stephenson and published by Captus Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Grammar of Signs

    Book Details:
  • Author : Osvaldo Cavallar
  • Publisher : Robbins Collection University of California
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book A Grammar of Signs written by Osvaldo Cavallar and published by Robbins Collection University of California. This book was released on 1994 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bartolo da Sassoferrato (1314-57) is considered the preeminent jurist of the late Middle Ages, & his DE INSIGNIIS ET ARMIS is hailed as the foundational treatment of the heraldic arms & insignia central to the proper ranking of late medieval & early modern aristocracies. It quickly became an authoritative & influential source for all later works on heraldic questions & is still cited in contemporary manuals. The tract also includes a groundbreaking discussion of the use, ownership, & transfer of trademarks. Attacked by humanists as an example of barbaric Latinity, the tract was subjected to a notorious assault by Lorenzo Valla. The authors provide not only a reliable critical edition & first English translation of the tract, as well as a translation of Valla's polemic, but also a challenging & engaging reassessment of its composition, contents, historical context, & reception. This meticulously crafted volume is essential reading for students of the Italian city-states, art history, legal history, & heraldry. $30.00 HARDCOVER, 200 PAGES, ILLUSTRATED. To order this book, write to: Robbins Collection Publications, Boalt Hall, School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-2499. Phone: (510) 642-3064, FAX: (510) 643-8770.

Book Analecta  Or  Materials For a History of Remarkable Providences  Mostly Relating to Scotch Ministers and Christians

Download or read book Analecta Or Materials For a History of Remarkable Providences Mostly Relating to Scotch Ministers and Christians written by Robert Wodrow and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-25 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.

Book Humanism and Secularization

    Book Details:
  • Author : Riccardo Fubini
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2003-01-22
  • ISBN : 9780822330028
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Humanism and Secularization written by Riccardo Fubini and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-22 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Book Constitutional Fragments

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gunther Teubner
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2012-03
  • ISBN : 0199644675
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Constitutional Fragments written by Gunther Teubner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful private sectors of the world economy remain largely unconstrained by fundamental constitutional rules, leading to human rights abuses on a massive scale. This book examines how the values of constitutional governance can be applied to the private sphere in the modern world, through a network of constitutional fragments.