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This book explores the interactions of fiduciary law and trust, drawing on insights into personal and political trust from various disciplines. It explores the full scope of extension claimed for the fiduciary principle, from its heartland in private law, to its frontiers in public law and government more broadly.

A reinterpretation of how Britain maintained order, protected its interests and carried out its defence obligations in the Gulf before its withdrawal from the region in 1971, benefitting from the extensive use of recently declassified British Government archival documents and India Office records.

Immigrants and immigration are increasingly represented as a threat to welfare, traditions, and culture, despite an understanding that immigration is needed in Europe. This book looks at immigration and asylum legislation and policies in Europe to establish how far othering, stigmatization, and exclusion are the result of official policies.

The book develops the law of political economy as a new field of scholarly enquiry. Based on empirical insights from a wide range of areas, it provides a novel conceptual framework for studying conflicts and challenges in political economy contexts while outlining the contours of a new law of political economy.

This book examines diverse causes of government-based religious discrimination, including secular ideologies, religious monopolies, wealth, regime, and more, against 771 minorities in 183 countries over a twenty-five year period.

This book guides advanced undergraduates, researchers and practitioners through current debates at the interface of psychology, phenomenology, and psychiatry. It demonstrates how psychopathology benefits from phenomenological and embodied approaches, and how they combine to apply to a range of mental disorders.

This book tells the dramatic story of how ordinary Kurds and their lawyers tried to mobilize the European Court of Human Rights against state violence in Turkey. It meticulously documents the reasons behind their successes and failures, providing sobering conclusions on the limitations of supranational courts in dealing with authoritarian regimes.

Bringing together a team of scholars from linguistics and philosophy, this book bridges the gap between the two fields, which while closely related, are often approached with very different methodologies and processes. Accessible and engaging, it is essential reading for researchers and students in both disciplines.

Focusing on one of the most influential poems in the European literary tradition, this collection brings together specialised chapters on medieval intellectual history, legal history, psychology, ethics, and logic. Re-evaluates the significance of the Roman de la Rose: indispensable reading for literary specialists and intellectual historians.

The Compendium, like an encyclopedia, contains entries on the foundational principles and concepts underlying both commercial and investment arbitration. It has brought together many of the leading and emerging voices in the field from both academia and practice, who outline the central approaches taken in respect of the topics addressed.

The Indo-European dispersal has puzzled scholars for centuries. When in prehistory did this dramatic linguistic shift take place and from where? What were the main driving forces? This books provides the newest insights from linguistics, archaeology and genetics on the prehistoric spread of one of the world's largest language families.

This book provides a much-needed perspective on how bilingual speakers comprehend ambiguous information arising from the languages they know, both at the word and sentence levels. It gives students and researchers the tools needed to tackle enduring theoretical questions in bilingual research, particularly at the neuropsychological level.

A history of movements and of how we make sense of the world. Cognitive activities happen as bodies interact with their environment. In order to be, think, know, imagine and will, we need to move. Historical case-studies include dancing kings and sea-captains, and nationalists who engage in gymnastic exercises.

An original study of the language of mediation, which uses excerpts from real mediation sessions to illustrate how mediation works and how mediators can best help disputants make claims, present evidence and propose solutions. It will interest researchers and students of sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, and the sociology of law.

This textbook is designed for a year-long introductory course in Functional Analysis and the theory of Operator Algebras. It guides graduate students and researchers through a wide range of topics including Hilbert spaces, Weak Topologies and C*-algebras. With numerous problems and examples, it is suitable for classroom teaching and self-learning.

The first ever authoritative overview of the vitally important task of monitoring, reporting and verifying greenhouse gas emissions at both an industry and a regional/national level. This book is written for practitioners in the private and public sectors involved in designing, implementing and reacting to climate policy regulation.