Just a decade ago security had little claim to criminological attention. Today a combination of disciplinary paradigm shifts, policy changes, and world political events have pushed security to the forefront of the criminological agenda. Distinctions between public safety and private protection, policing and security services, national and international security are being eroded.

Presents an overview of regulation of standard form contracts in the selected jurisdictions of the European Union. In this book, different options aimed at eliminating trade restrictions created by foreign regulations on standard form contracts are contemplated.

This publication is a human rights teaching manual for teachers and resource persons who are proficient in the craft and profession of policing as practitioners, or learned in that field as educators or academics.
It is also a reference manual for police officials participating in programmes based on the manual, and a continuing source of reference for them when they have completed a programme.

Publishes articles, comments, case notes, and book reviews dealing with international trade and business law, arbitration law, foreign law and comparative law.

This book provides a concise analyis of each article of the CISG. Comprising a careful and well-considered selection of CISG case law, it guides the reader through the leading cases in this significant area of uniform law.

‘Professor Lateef Mtima and his stellar list of contributors are onto something genuinely new in this important volume; the idea that the ‘public interest’ goals of the IP system extend beyond encouraging innovation, to take in a wide range of other social justice interests: promoting economic participation by excluded groups, helping to assure distributional fairness, and enabling significant gestures of cultural preservation. The range of specific topics covered is impressive, and their presentation is at once rigorous and accessible to non-specialist readers. This transformational collection is an essential item for any contemporary IP bookshelf.’

Tax practitioners outside the United States whose clients have activities in the country generally rely on their U.S. tax advisors for technical advice on the U.S. tax aspects of their clients’ transactions. In order to position themselves to evaluate the advice received and to relate it to their own tax systems, however, foreign tax advisors must place the material they receive from their U.S. counterparts within the overall structure of the U.S. international tax system.

Given its economic importance, insurance is a field that has been underserved as an area of academic study. This detailed book provides much needed coverage of insurance law and regulation in its international context.

Less than half of all rapes believed to occur are reported to law enforcement, and of those assailants arrested even fewer are convicted of rape. This problem is now being addressed by all professions whose work brings them into contact with the victim or the offender.