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Legal Method (Palgrave Professional Masters)

Introduces the nature of law and legal reasoning for anyone beginning serious legal training or study. Starting with the English legal system and constitutional law, Mcleod moves on to case law and precedent, statute law and interpretation including EC law as it arises.

Leistungen zur Rehabilitation (Gabler-Studientexte)

The Limits of Freedom of Contract

Our legal system is committed to the idea that private markets and the law of contracts that supports them are the primary institutions for allocating goods and services in a modern economy. Yet the market paradigm, this book argues, leaves substantial room for challenge.

Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties And Public Morality (Clarendon Paperbacks)

Contemporary liberal thinkers commonly suppose that there is something in principle unjust about the legal prohibition of putatively victimless immoralities. Against the prevailing liberal view, Robert P. George defends the proposition that `moral laws' can play a legitimate, if subsidiary, role in preserving the `moral ecology' of the cultural environment in which people make the morally significant choices by which they form their characters and influence, for good or ill, the moral lives of others. George shows that a defence of morals legislation is fully compatible with a `pluralistic perfectionist' political theory of civil liberties and public morality.

Male Prostitution

Here is the most comprehensive empirical study ever published about male prostitutes and their clients. Written by one of the most distinguished international scholars in psychiatry and criminal justice, this book provides a carefully designed presentation of in-depth interviews with several hundred London “rent boys.” The interviews included a large sample of one-to-one conversations in a private room tape-recorded with the consent of the interviewees. Dr. West and his colleague, Mr. de Villiers, bring you squarely into the everyday lives of male prostitutes and cover little known details of their lives, such as: the drift into homelessness sexual orientation entry into prostitution sexual orientation threats of blackmail, violence, and murder by male prostitutes or their clients attitudes and intentions of the male prostitutes post-prostitution careers, legal and criminology issues personal fears, desires, and interests of male prostitutesEncyclopedic in scope and depth, Male Prostitution never strays from combining high-level research presented in a readily understandable and often entertaining style and incisive insights and issues critical for both the informed layperson and researchers in human sexuality. Dr. West and his colleague provide is a source of unbiased, detailed information on the male sex industry and their clients which is unavailable in any other book published to date.

Male Prostitution

Here is the most comprehensive empirical study ever published about male prostitutes and their clients. Written by one of the most distinguished international scholars in psychiatry and criminal justice, this book provides a carefully designed presentation of in-depth interviews with several hundred London “rent boys.” The interviews included a large sample of one-to-one conversations in a private room tape-recorded with the consent of the interviewees. Dr. West and his colleague, Mr. de Villiers, bring you squarely into the everyday lives of male prostitutes and cover little known details of their lives, such as: the drift into homelessness sexual orientation entry into prostitution sexual orientation threats of blackmail, violence, and murder by male prostitutes or their clients attitudes and intentions of the male prostitutes post-prostitution careers, legal and criminology issues personal fears, desires, and interests of male prostitutesEncyclopedic in scope and depth, Male Prostitution never strays from combining high-level research presented in a readily understandable and often entertaining style and incisive insights and issues critical for both the informed layperson and researchers in human sexuality. Dr. West and his colleague provide is a source of unbiased, detailed information on the male sex industry and their clients which is unavailable in any other book published to date.

Managing Hazardous Air Pollutants: State of the Art

Managing Hazardous Air Pollutants presents a detailed examination of the state-of-the-art in the management of air pollutants ("air toxics"). This important new volume focuses on the latest research, regulatory perspectives, modeling, environmental and human risk assessments, new control strategies, monitoring programs, risk communication, and risk management. Key chapters in the book are devoted to these timely subjects:

Managing Hazardous Air Pollutants: State of the Art

Managing Hazardous Air Pollutants presents a detailed examination of the state-of-the-art in the management of air pollutants ("air toxics"). This important new volume focuses on the latest research, regulatory perspectives, modeling, environmental and human risk assessments, new control strategies, monitoring programs, risk communication, and risk management. Key chapters in the book are devoted to these timely subjects:

Mandatum und Verwandtes: Beiträge zum römischen und modernen Recht

Marketing for Attorneys and Law Firms

Marketing for Attorneys and Law Firms presents timely topics which are well-researched and written by a fine array of authors from around the country. As attorneys are becoming more interested in marketing and how it can benefit their practices, this book is an important tool. It aids attorneys as they evaluate and improve old marketing strategies and create new marketing strategies where such advertising was neglected. It is an ideal readings text for today’s attorney and legal consultants who wish to obtain a better insight into select aspects of marketing the law firm.This is the only readings book that focuses on these areas: applications of marketing planning, attorney selection by consumers, and client and provider attitudes toward legal services. Part Two thoroughly examines various aspects of how clients select and evaluate the performance of legal services. Today’s attorneys must first fully understand what their clients perceive about their services before jumping into marketing their services. This section provides insight that most attorneys would normally not investigate and lays the groundwork for the development of marketing programs. Part Three addresses the wide use of legal advertising, and again provides insight into what clients and attorneys think and perceive about various forms of advertising the law firm. This provides a base from which attorneys who are planning to advertise may be able to prevent failure and promote a greater level of success for the advertising program.Applied mainly to private legal practices and clinics, some of the specific topics covered in the three sections include consumers’perceptions of attorneys and legal advertising; attorneys’perceptions of marketing and advertising; perceived risk in selecting an attorney and how consumers actually select attorneys; customer/client service attributes for attorneys; measuring the effectiveness of legal advertising; market planning and strategies for today’s legal practice; promoting the legal practice; and developing referral and networking systems in legal practice.For attorneys in private practice, law firm libraries and administrators, law professors who specialize in practice development, consultants who concentrate in legal practice marketing, law school libraries, and marketing professors and consultants who teach or consult in the professional service sectors should read this invaluable reference book.

Marketing for Attorneys and Law Firms

Marketing for Attorneys and Law Firms presents timely topics which are well-researched and written by a fine array of authors from around the country. As attorneys are becoming more interested in marketing and how it can benefit their practices, this book is an important tool. It aids attorneys as they evaluate and improve old marketing strategies and create new marketing strategies where such advertising was neglected. It is an ideal readings text for today’s attorney and legal consultants who wish to obtain a better insight into select aspects of marketing the law firm.This is the only readings book that focuses on these areas: applications of marketing planning, attorney selection by consumers, and client and provider attitudes toward legal services. Part Two thoroughly examines various aspects of how clients select and evaluate the performance of legal services. Today’s attorneys must first fully understand what their clients perceive about their services before jumping into marketing their services. This section provides insight that most attorneys would normally not investigate and lays the groundwork for the development of marketing programs. Part Three addresses the wide use of legal advertising, and again provides insight into what clients and attorneys think and perceive about various forms of advertising the law firm. This provides a base from which attorneys who are planning to advertise may be able to prevent failure and promote a greater level of success for the advertising program.Applied mainly to private legal practices and clinics, some of the specific topics covered in the three sections include consumers’perceptions of attorneys and legal advertising; attorneys’perceptions of marketing and advertising; perceived risk in selecting an attorney and how consumers actually select attorneys; customer/client service attributes for attorneys; measuring the effectiveness of legal advertising; market planning and strategies for today’s legal practice; promoting the legal practice; and developing referral and networking systems in legal practice.For attorneys in private practice, law firm libraries and administrators, law professors who specialize in practice development, consultants who concentrate in legal practice marketing, law school libraries, and marketing professors and consultants who teach or consult in the professional service sectors should read this invaluable reference book.

Maurice Blanchot on Poetry and Narrative: Ethics of the Image (Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry)

Blanchot and his writings on three major poets, Mallarmé, Hölderlin, and Char, provide a decisive new point of departure for English language criticism of his philosophical writings on narrative in this study by leading Blanchot scholar, Kevin Hart.Connecting his work to later leading figures of 20th-century French philosophy, including Emmanuel Levinas, Simone Weil, and Jacques Derrida, Hart highlights the importance of Jewish philosophy and political thought to his overall conception of literature. Chapters on community and negation reveal Blanchot's emphasis on the relationship between narrative and politics over the more commonly connected narrative and aesthetics. By fully discussing Blanchot's elusive concept of “the Outside” for the first time, this book progresses scholarly understandings of his entire oeuvre further. This central concept engages Franz Rosenzweig's work on Abrahamic faiths, enabling a reckoning on the role of suffering and literature in the wake of the Shoah, with significant implications for Jewish studies more generally.

Medienrecht (Springer-Lehrbuch)

Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics

Using path-breaking discoveries of cognitive science, Mark Johnson argues that humans are fundamentally imaginative moral animals, challenging the view that morality is simply a system of universal laws dictated by reason. According to the Western moral tradition, we make ethical decisions by applying universal laws to concrete situations. But Johnson shows how research in cognitive science undermines this view and reveals that imagination has an essential role in ethical deliberation. Expanding his innovative studies of human reason in Metaphors We Live By and The Body in the Mind, Johnson provides the tools for more practical, realistic, and constructive moral reflection.

Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics

Using path-breaking discoveries of cognitive science, Mark Johnson argues that humans are fundamentally imaginative moral animals, challenging the view that morality is simply a system of universal laws dictated by reason. According to the Western moral tradition, we make ethical decisions by applying universal laws to concrete situations. But Johnson shows how research in cognitive science undermines this view and reveals that imagination has an essential role in ethical deliberation. Expanding his innovative studies of human reason in Metaphors We Live By and The Body in the Mind, Johnson provides the tools for more practical, realistic, and constructive moral reflection.

Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics

Using path-breaking discoveries of cognitive science, Mark Johnson argues that humans are fundamentally imaginative moral animals, challenging the view that morality is simply a system of universal laws dictated by reason. According to the Western moral tradition, we make ethical decisions by applying universal laws to concrete situations. But Johnson shows how research in cognitive science undermines this view and reveals that imagination has an essential role in ethical deliberation. Expanding his innovative studies of human reason in Metaphors We Live By and The Body in the Mind, Johnson provides the tools for more practical, realistic, and constructive moral reflection.

Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics

Using path-breaking discoveries of cognitive science, Mark Johnson argues that humans are fundamentally imaginative moral animals, challenging the view that morality is simply a system of universal laws dictated by reason. According to the Western moral tradition, we make ethical decisions by applying universal laws to concrete situations. But Johnson shows how research in cognitive science undermines this view and reveals that imagination has an essential role in ethical deliberation. Expanding his innovative studies of human reason in Metaphors We Live By and The Body in the Mind, Johnson provides the tools for more practical, realistic, and constructive moral reflection.

Morality and Rational Choice (Theory and Decision Library A: #18)

Public controversies - such as those about the distribution of goods between rich and poor, trade and population policies, allocation of medical resources, and the tradeoff between environment al protection and economic efficiency - often hinge on fundamental views about how we ought to make decisions tImt affect each other, that is, what principles we ought to follow. Efforts to find an acceptable public philosophy, a set of such principles on which people might agree, have foundered because of dis agreement among philosophers and others who are concerned with such issues. One view, which I shall develop and defend here, holds that decisions that affect others should be made according to an overall evaluation of the consequences of each option. This consequentialist view is opposed by a variety of alternatives, but many of the alternatives have in COlllmon a basis in moral intuition. To take a simple example, consequentialism holds that, other things equal, if we have decided that it is better to let a terminally ill patient die than to prolong her agony by keeping her alive, then we ought to kill her.

The Morality of Pluralism

Controversies about abortion, the environment, pornography, AIDS, and similar issues naturally lead to the question of whether there are any values that can be ultimately justified, or whether values are simply conventional. John Kekes argues that the present moral and political uncertainties are due to a deep change in our society from a dogmatic to a pluralistic view of values. Dogmatism is committed to there being only one justifiable system of values. Pluralism recognizes many such systems, and yet it avoids a chaotic relativism according to which all values are in the end arbitrary. Maintaining that good lives must be reasonable, but denying that they must conform to one true pattern, Kekes develops and justifies a pluralistic account of good lives and values, and works out its political, moral, and personal implications.

Murmuring Judges

A young lawyer's involvement in her first case leads her through a criminal justice system - police, courts and prisons - which is cracking at the seams.Murmuring Judges is the second play in David Hare's highly acclaimed trilogy about British institutions. Racing Demon, which won four awards as Play of the Year in 1990, was the first part of the trilogy and examined the Church. The Absence of War, a play about the Labour Party, completed the trilogy.

Neue Ethik der Technik?: Philosophische Kontroversen

Ökonomische Analyse des Unternehmensrechts: Beiträge zum 3. Travemünder Symposium zur ökonomischen Analyse des Rechts

Dieses Buch enthält Untersuchungen zur ökonomischen Analyse der Unternehmung und ihrer rechtswissenschaftlichen Umsetzung im Unternehmensrecht. Zum einen sind Beiträge enthalten, die sich mit der Theorie der Unternehmung, dem Stand der Diskussion, der Fruchtbarkeit für rechtswissenschaftliche Fragestellungen und den weiteren interdisziplinären Forschungsperspektiven befassen. Zum anderen finden sich Beiträge zu Problemen der Unternehmenskontrolle und -organisation sowie der Unternehmenshaftung. Mehrere Beiträge, darunter auch die der amerikanischen Teilnehmer diskutieren die Tendenzen zur Herausbildung eines einheitlichen Unternehmensrechts. Das Buch richtet sich an die Leser, die sich mit dem Unternehmen im Schnittbereich von Recht- und Ökonomie befassen.

Ökonomische Theorie des Steuerentzuges: Steuervermeidung, -umgehung und -hinterziehung (Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Beiträge #86)

Die vorliegende Arbeit ist während meiner Tätigkeit als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter bei Prof. Dr. Heinz-Dieter Wenzel am Lehrstuhl für Volkswirt­ schaftslehre, insbesondere Finanzwissenschaft der Universität Bamberg ent­ standen und an der Universität Bamberg als Dissertation angenommen wor­ den. Für die Betreuung der Arbeit durch Herrn Prof. Dr. Heinz-Dieter Wenzel möchte ich an dieser Stelle herzlich Dank sagen. Mein Dank gilt ebenso Herrn Prof. Dr. Ulrich Meyer, der als zweiter Gutachter durch hilfreiche Anregungen zum Gelingen der Arbeit beitrug. In einem kollegialen Klima der gegenseitigen Unterstützung gedeiht wissen­ schaftliche Arbeit am besten. Meinen Kollegen Herrn Dr. Martin Arnold und Frau Dipl.-Volkswirtin Barbara Wolfe möchte ich Dank aussprechen für ihre Bereitschaft, sich während des gesamten Entstehungsprozesses der Arbeit mit den von mir zu Papier gebrachten Ideen in Inhalt und Form auseinanderzusetzen. Besonderen Dank schulde ich Herrn Dr. Kai Konrad und meinem Bruder, Herrn Dipl.-Mathematiker Ingo Wrede, die zu einzelnen Aspekten der The­ matik äußerst wertvolle Hinweise gaben. Frau Andrea Wölfe! und Herrn Michael Betten, die durch sorgfältiges Durcharbeiten des Manuskriptes manchen Fehler auszumerzen halfen, danke ich hierfür. Mein innigster Dank aber gilt meiner Frau, Frau Dipl.-Volkswirtin Christi­ ane Wrede, die mir nicht nur durch kritische Lektüre zahlreicher Entwürfe geholfen hat. Ihr Verständnis und ihre Unterstützung gestatteten es, mir die erforderliche Zeit zur Fertigstellung der Arbeit zu nehmen.

On Pornography: Literature, Sexuality and Obscenity Law (Language, Discourse, Society)

The policing of pornography remains a subject of widespread controversy. On Pornography provides a history of this policing and an understanding of the current debate. The authors show that obscenity law should not be understood negatively as censorship but as part of the positive administration of a particular practice of sexuality. This book indicates that obscenity law is not, as liberals claim, a mistaken attempt to police moral ideas, but rather forms part of the legitimate governmental regulation of a problematic social conduct.

Österreichisches Zwangsvollstreckungsrecht (Springers Kurzlehrbücher der Rechtswissenschaft)

Unmittelbarer AnlafJ zu dieser Neuaujlage war die ExekutionsnoveUe 1991, die tiefgreifende Anderungen vor aUem im Bereich des Lohnpfiin­ dungsrechts gebracht hatte. Das Liegenscha/tsbewertungsgesetz 1992, das aber die exekutive Liegenschaftsversteigerung hinaus das Schiitzungsver­ fahren grundlegend neu regelt, und noch ein paar kleinere Schritte des nimmermUden Gesetzgebers haben mich genotigt, das Buch auch in anderen Teilen zu aberarbeiten. Zudem konnte ich etliche Verbesserungs­ vorschliige hilfreicher Leser - insbesondere aus der Praxis - berucksich­ tigen. Abgesehen davon, ist es mir gelungen, die Neufassung ausgewiihl­ ter Kapitel namhaften Fachleuten zu ubertragen, deren personliche Schau das Werk urn wertvolle Akzente bereichert. Den kamerareifen Umbruch haben Frau Gisela Rinner und - ihr nachfolgend - Frau Manuela Berger in computerunterstutzter Textverar­ beitung hergestellt. Herzlichen Dank! Richard H olzhammer Linz, im September 1993 Inhaltsverzeichnis Seite XI Abkiirzungsverzeichnis Erster Teil Einleitung Grundbegriffe (I) Rechtsquellen (II) 7 Vollstreckungsorgane (Ill) 9 Parteien (IV) 13 Vollstreckbarer Anspruch und Vollstreckungsanspruch (V) 20 Vollstreckungsschutz (VI) 22 Zweiter Teil Allgemeine Verfahrensregeln Der gewohnliche Verfahrensverlauf (I) 26 Anwendung der ZPO (II) 27 OffIzialmaxime - Dispositionsmaxime (Ill) 28 Untersuchungsmaxime - Beibringungsmaxime (IV) 30 Einseitigkeit des Verfahrens (V) 30 Miindlichkeit - Schriftlichkeit (VI) 31 Freibeweis - Bescheinigung (VII) 33 Spezialexekution (VIll) 34 Einheit des Verwertungsverfahrens (IX) 37 Fristen und Tagsatzungen (X) 38 Versliumung (XI) 40 Gerichtliche Entscheidungen (XII) 41 Zustellung und Bekanntmachung (XllI) 43 Vollzugshandlungen (XIV) 45 Vertretung der Parteien (XV) 48Exekutionskosten (XVI) 50 Exekutionsvoraussetzungen (XVll) 55 Vollstreckungsinteresse (XVllI) 58 Vollstreckungsunterworfenheit (XIX) 59 vm Inhaltsverzeichnis Dritter Teil Verrahren erster Instanz Exekutionstitel (I) 63 Vollstreckungskiausel (II) 69