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Judge Theodor Meron addresses the key questions facing the international criminal justice system, drawing on two decades of experience as an international judge and a distinguished academic career. He provides insights into judicial independence and the principle of fairness in trying cases before international criminal courts and tribunals.

Martin Folkes (1690-1754): Newtonian, Antiquary, Connoisseur is a cultural and intellectual biography of the only President of both the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries.

This book discusses developments in the history of British house names from the earliest written evidence to the twentieth century.

This book reviews recent experimental and theoretical evidence that the physical and structural properties of transition metal oxides may decisively be influenced by strong spin-orbit interactions that compete with comparable Coulomb, magnetic exchange, and crystalline electric field interactions.

A considered balance of depth, detail, context, and critique, Directions books offer the most student-friendly guide to the subject; they empower students to evaluate the law, understand its practical application, and approach assessments with confidence.

This title provides an in-depth and comprehensive look at Japanese law, primarily looking at private law. Updated to include new case law, amendments, judgements, and Supreme Court cases since the last edition in 2009, this is an essential work for all dealing with Japanese law.

This book, authored by an array of internationally recognised researchers, is of direct relevance to all those involved in Academia and Industry wanting to obtain insights into the topics at the forefront of the revolution in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science.

Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and Human Rights provides a unique, cross-disciplinary approach to the study of public law. Engaging, critical and stimulating, it enables the reader to gain a thorough and fundamental appreciation of the law in its wider context.

Brink analyzes responsibility and its relations to desert, culpability, excuse, blame, and punishment. He argues that an agent is responsible for misconduct if and only if it is not excused, and that responsibility consists in agents having suitable cognitive and volitional capacities, and a fair opportunity to exercise these capacities.

This monograph examines unamendable provisions of constitutions, known as eternity clauses, and the challenges they present to democratic constitutionalism. The book explores the role of eternity clauses in constitution-making, constitutional adjudication, and constitutional reform and posits an ambiguous legacy for eternity clauses.

This edited volume is the first archival based historical investigation on the liberalization measures taken in various countries in the financial sector in the decades following the Bretton Woods system, from a comparative and a global perspective.

Complete Public Law: Text, Cases, and Materials combines extracts from key primary and secondary materials with clear explanatory text to provide a complete resource for students of constitutional and administrative law.

This book draws on both scientific insights and spiritual wisdom to help the reader focus on what is of value in helping them decide what makes for a good life. In using evidence from psychology, sociology, philosophy, theology, and other disciplines, it helps readers think through choices about what the good life consists of.

Haematology provides a broad-ranging overview of the study of blood, from its physiology to the key pathophysiological states that can arise. It demonstrates throughout how the physiology underpins the key investigations carried out by a biomedical scientist, forging a clear link between science and practice.

Energy Systems and Sustainability provides an exploration of the economic, social, environmental, and policy issues raised by current systems of energy use, as well as describing their key physical and engineering features.

This study sheds new light on the trials of 'libertine' authors (a term for religious, sexual, social or moral subversion), by considering them primarily as legal defendants.

This book brings Russia into the rich scholarly and popular literature on confession, penance, discipline, and gender in the modern world, and in doing so opens a key window onto church, state, and society.

Administrative Law explains the constitutional principles of the subject to enable students to apply them to the problems of administrative law and understand this complex branch of public law. The author's lively and analytical style encourages the development of a critical, questioning approach.

This book combines documentary evidence with original interviews with politicians, mediators, civil servants, and Republicans to create a vivid of the secret negotiations and back-channels that were used in repeated efforts to end the Northern Ireland conflict.

Leo Wilder must protect his village from the monsters that lurk in the surrounding forest. His job is top secret, but that secret has come under threat. To protect his world, Leo must battle with the ghostly Frightmare-a powerful monster that haunts the abandoned ruins, breathing deadly blue fire at any intruder.

Millie's TV show, Ballet Beat, is coming to town! Is Millie brave enough to audition for the show? All she needs is a little encouragement from her friends, the Ballet Bunnies.

National development banks (NDBs) have transformed from outdated relics of national industrial policy to central pillars of the European Union's economic project. This book explores why the EU has supported an increased role for NDBs, and how we might understand the dynamics between NDBs and European incentives and constraints.

This book is about vices of superiority, characteristic of those who feel entitled and have an inflated opinion of themselves, and vices of inferiority, typical of those who are riddled with self-doubt and feel inferior. Alessandra Tanesini shows the damaging effect that these vices of self-evaluation have on the life of the intellect

This is a history of 1968 written from a new perspective-that of center-right student activists in West Germany. Based on oral history interviews and new archival sources, it examines the ideas, experiences and repertoires of center-right students in this age of protest.

The definitive textbook for this fast-moving area of law, expertly guiding students through the key issues of immigration and asylum in the modern world. Clear analysis and commentary on the political and social impact of the law encourages the reader to develop a critical mindset.

The book provides scientists with a detailed understanding of the nature of superconductivity and the most interesting superconducting materials.

This volume provides the first complete edition of the third and final surviving draft of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, a landmark work in modern philosophy. Milton and Rogers offer a detailed account of the content and circumstances of composition of this draft, and a full description of the manuscript and its history.

The goal of the book is to use combinatorial techniques to solve fundamental physics problems, and vice-versa, to use theoretical physics techniques to solve combinatorial problems.

This innovative and accessible study illustrates how philosophy can help us understand and improve our interactions with AI.

Justification as Ignorance offers an original account of epistemic justification as both non-factive and luminous, vindicating core internalist intuitions without construing justification as an internal condition knowable by reflection alone.