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Big Data and Global Trade Law
This collection explores the relevance of global trade law for data, big data and cross-border data flows. Contributing authors from different disciplines including law, economics and political science analyze developments at the World Trade Organization and in preferential trade venues by asking what future-oriented models for data governance are available and viable in the area of trade law a…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781108919234
- Collation
- xxv, 376p :ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 343.0815 MIR
Framing global mathematics
This open access book is about the shaping of international relations in mathematics over the last two hundred years. It focusses on institutions and organizations that were created to frame the international dimension of mathematical research. Today, striking evidence of globalized mathematics is provided by countless international meetings and the worldwide repository ArXiv. The text follows …
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- 1st
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030956837
- Collation
- ccclxxxiv, 20p ; ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 372.7 NOR f
Illiberal trends and anti-EU politics in East Central Europe
This open access book provides an in-depth look into the background of rule of law problems and the open defiance of EU law in East Central European countries. Current illiberal trends and anti-EU politics have the potential to undermine mutual trust between member states and fundamentally change the EU. It is therefore crucial to understand their domestic causes, context conditions, specific p…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030546748
- Collation
- xx, 353p ; ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 320.3 MIC i
The European Parliament as an Accountability Forum
Academic attention has focused on America's influence on European stage works, and yet dozens of operettas from Austria and Germany were produced on Broadway and in the West End, and their impact on the musical life of the early twentieth century is undeniable. In this ground breaking book, Derek B. Scott examines the cultural transfer of operetta from the German stage to Britain and the USA an…
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- five edition
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781108886611
- Collation
- xiii, 254p,: ill,
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- -
- Call Number
- 341.242 AKB t
Law Student Professional Development and Formation
Law schools currently do an excellent job of helping students to 'think like a lawyer,' but empirical data show that clients, legal employers, and the legal system need students to develop a wider range of competencies. This book helps legal educators to understand these competencies and provides practical ways to build them into a law school curriculum. Based on recommendations from the Americ…
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- Second edition
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781108776325
- Collation
- xv, 186,: ill,
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- -
- Call Number
- 340.071173 LAW
Embodied Narratives: Protecting Identity Interests through Ethical Governance…
Increasing quantities of information about our health, bodies, and biological relationships are being generated by health technologies, research, and surveillance. This escalation presents challenges to us all when it comes to deciding how to manage this information and what should be disclosed to the very people it describes. This book establishes the ethical imperative to take seriously the p…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781108652599
- Collation
- xiv, 316p: ill,
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- Cambridge Bioethics and Law
- Call Number
- 610 EMI e
The limits of the legal complex : nordic lawyers and political liberalism
This insightful volume provides a comprehensive account of the history and politics of lawyers of the last 200 years in the Nordic countries: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland. Topping most global indexes of core civil rights, these states have been found to contain few to no visible legal complexes. Where previous studies have characterized lawyers as stewards and guardians of the …
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- 1
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- 9780192848413
- Collation
- 27p
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- -
- Call Number
- 342 FEE t
Pandemics : insurance and social protection
This open access book collects expert contributions on actuarial modelling and related topics, from machine learning to legal aspects, and reflects on possible insurance designs during an epidemic/pandemic. Starting by considering the impulse given by COVID-19 to the insurance industry and to actuarial research, the text covers compartment models, mortality changes during a pandemic, risk-shari…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030783341
- Collation
- xx, 313 p. : ill.
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- -
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- 368.0015118 BOA p
Understanding the Rights of Nature : A Critical Introduction
Rivers, landscapes, whole territories: these are the latest entities environmental activists have fought hard to include in the relentless expansion of rights in our world. But what does it mean for a landscape to have rights? Why would anyone want to create such rights, and to what end? Is it a good idea, and does it come with risks? This book presents the logic behind giving nature rights and…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783837654318
- Collation
- 168 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 300 TAN u
A global history of execution and the criminal corpse
Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon's knife in Dresden and the burial of executed Nazi war criminals, this volume provides a fresh perspective on the history of capital punishment. This book has two open access chapters under a CC BY license.
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781137443991
- Collation
- 313 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 364.6609 RIC a
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