In an era where technology is rapidly transforming the legal landscape, Transforming Arbitration explores how innovations like AI, blockchain, the Metaverse, and Web3 are reshaping arbitration as a key form of dispute resolution. The book features insights from leading academics, practitioners, and policymakers, offering a comprehensive look at how these advancements are influencing our conceptual, substantive and procedural understandings of many parts of this field.

Each chapter examines t...

Een beeld in technicolor. Vijftig jaar oorlogen in Vietnam 1940-1990 geeft een brede en vernieuwende interpretatie van de geschiedenis van Vietnam tussen 1940 en 1990. Zwart-wit typeringen, eenzijdige interpretaties en heersende mythen worden ontzenuwd. In plaats daarvan wordt een genuanceerd en rijkgeschakeerd beeld gegeven, waarin de Verenigde Staten nu eens minder op de voorgrond staan.

Geschiedenis wordt niet alleen door de overwinnaars geschreven en mag dus ook in dit geval niet alleen w...

This book presents a concise history of the scientific discovery of the mind. Although people have speculated about the nature and functioning of their minds for thousands of years, it was only about 200 years ago that they replaced the philosophical armchair with the laboratory and began to investigate the mind scientifically.

Surprisingly, the work of one of the founders of scientific psychology, Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920), has been largely forgotten, despite its relevance to current psych...

Floating cradles, water wolves, a finger in the dike: what do stories about their struggle with the water tell us about the Dutch? For centuries the Dutch have battled with water. Time after time they managed to tame the water wolf, but they have had to deal at least as often with devastating floods. There was the Saint Elizabeth’s Day Flood of 1421, for example, and the North Sea flood of 1953. In the cultural representation of such catastrophic events, vulnerability and pride go hand in h...