Rettsvitenskap

This edited collection discusses the rule of law in the Amazon and the capabilities of the region's sovereign states to police their territory considering security matters.

Covering a broad chronology from the colonial era to the present, this volume's 28 chapters reflect the diverse approaches, interests and findings of an international group of new and established scholars working on American crime histories today.

Providing an original and innovative contribution to our thinking about the political nature and significance of restorative justice from the specific perspective of political philosophy, this book will appeal to students and scholars of restorative justice specifically and of criminal justice and criminology more broadly.

This book argues that Christianity has something of value to say about various issues of direct relevance to contemporary society, such as the place of human rights and individual claims of conscience. It shows that, in many cases, Catholic and Protestant thinking on areas such as natural law is not as divergent as it is often thought.

"AI is guaranteed to change nearly every aspect of our lives, but predicting how it will do so and determining what role law and regulation should play involve huge uncertainty.  Kovac gives us an insightful roadmap, using the tools of law and economics, to our bewildering future.  In the process, he also provides a comprehensive and necessary guide to understanding the regulatory and legal challenges we will face in the very near future."-Jonathan Klick, Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania and Erasmus Chair of Empirical Legal Studies, Erasmus University RotterdamThis book takes a comparative law and economics approach to explore the role of public and private actors in regulating generative artificial intelligence. The book provides an introduction and context for the creation of new generative AI technologies, now understood to be the chief goal of the leading AI companies. As autonomous 'super-intelligences', these technologies are still an unknown entity which nevertheless have profound implications for liberal democracy, consumer choice mechanisms, mutual trust, and political legitimacy.This book explores the deep challenges posed for lawmakers and how we can achieve an optimal form of regulation and governance of such unreliable technologies. Chapters investigate possible hybrid modes of regulation, such as a co-regulatory approach between private AI companies and public actors in addressing the issue of misinformation spread. It also explores mixed types of regulation toward research on new forms of AI, arguing that different levels of systemic risk posed by different technologies must be accounted for. Different contemporary and historical contexts for the regulation of unprecedented technical innovation are also considered, and new suggestions for policy are presented. This book is a timely resource which will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in economic governance, law and regulation, artificial intelligence, and comparative law.Mitja Kovä is full time Professor of Civil and Commercial Law at the University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business, Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is also a visiting lecturer at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, at University of Ghent, Belgium, at the ISM University of Management and Economics in Vilnius, Lithuania, and at University of Vienna, Austria. He publishes in the fields of comparative contract law and economics, new institutional economics, consumer protection, contract theory and competition law and economics.

This book explores an increasingly important issue for legal systems across the world. It asks what do we lose and gain when legal proceedings go online? Adopting a multi-disciplinary socio-legal perspective, it draws on an emerging body of empirical evidence from the UK, Australia, Canada and the US about the ways in which digital justice is being conceived of and experienced. Insights are drawn from across the social sciences to discuss the interface of digitalisation with a range of issues such as due process, procedural justice, digital disadvantage, ceremony and ritual, science and technology studies and the dematerialisation of the civic sphere. Written accessibly and provocatively, it poses questions from a variety of different perspective with a particular focus on marginalised groups.

Delves into the nexus of cybersecurity, data science, and sustainable development in a variety of areas. The book serves as a comprehensive guide for researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and stakeholders navigating the complex landscape of cyber security and data science in the pursuit of sustainable development across HEICC domains.

Europe has been struggling with a series of challenging global crises. Caught between the shockwaves and counter-measures are Europe's minority communities. By combining various methodologies with case studies from across Europe, this book stresses the importance of listening to the unique concerns of minority communities in times of crisis.

This book presents a critical chronology of the modern slavery survivor journey in the UK, from intervention by the authorities to long-term recovery. The work examines the modern slavery survivor pathway and assesses the support systems available to survivors throughout this process.

This book introduces legal aspects of business networks in logistics with the example of shippers' co-operation in cargo bundling, which is the practice of manufacturing and distributing companies (shippers) consolidating cargo before the engagement of a carrier.

The book analyses how State aid law and the law of the free movement of goods apply to renewable energy support schemes and how they have been instrumentalised to affect national renewable energy support policies. It will be of value to practitioners, judges, academics and policy makers interested in renewable energy support schemes.

As legal jurisdictions in the Global South, both India and South Africa have long histories of inequality and structural oppression. This book engages in comparative socio-legal analysis to examine the contours of social justice in both countries.

This book argues that the moral quality of an act comes from the agent's inner states. By arguing for the indispensable relevance of intention in the moral evaluation of acts, the book moves against a mainstream, 'objective' approach in normative ethics.

This book offers an examination of physician-assisted death, but it also extends the discussion to a broader range of end-of-life decisions including suicide, palliative care and sedation until death.

This book explores the politics of money laundering and terrorist financing regulation in several countries across Africa and the Small Island States. It advocates for a comprehensive understanding of the nuanced compliance challenges of developing countries and proposes practical solutions to address them.

Focusing on the intersection of spatial justice, child rights, and planning policy, this book investigates the challenges of resettlement in East Africa. It will be of interest to planning and development professionals, and researchers across the fields of children's rights and Development Studies.

This book argues for the critical potential of locating the girl as the subject-position and voice of legal critique.