This book deals with the dilemmas caused by the various roles one has in life simultaneously. For instance, being a family member, an employee, a friend, a member of a sports club. This could generate tension because expectations of behaviour may clash, or even contradict one another. Individuals may find themselves in a tight spot because notions about loyalty in one's own family, for instance, may be at odds with the dedication and integrity expected by an employer.

The central theme of the...

EU Member States must continually review their anti-corruption policy and regulation to ensure that they provide effective, proportionate and dissuasive criminal penalties to protect the financial interests of the EU. Best practices from other countries can provide guidance. The US practice of negotiated settlements for corruption offences has proven to be of growing importance and the spread of such settlements as a mechanism for anti-corruption enforcement in other countries raises the ques...

We live in an ever-changing world, where people with different interests and goals have to deal with an unpredictable future. In this world, everybody is solving problems every day. But especially when problems become highly complex, how do you know you are solving the problem you or your client are actually experiencing? How to include the different insights and interests of those involved? What needs to be done to reach a desired future, rather than a future you fear or dislike? People are ...

Some frontline organizations presume that frontline command (defined as the direct supervision of frontline workers by frontline commanders) is required for frontline work to be effective. However, little scholarly effort has been devoted to investigate frontline command.

This thesis therefore investigates the effectiveness of frontline command in the police organization responsible for major criminal investigation and the response organization of the fire service. Several research methods are...

This volume is a follow-up to the conference 'Constitutional Review and Democracy' organized from 24 to 25 November 2013 at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade. The conference was convened as part of the ongoing project 'Constitutionalism and Rule of Law in the Nation-State Building - the Case of Serbia'. The aim of this volume is to shed new light on the complex relation between democracy and judicial review of constitutionality. The book starts off with some general and theoretical a...

Legal English is a professional language. This means that a good command of ordinary English does not make a student automatically proficient in legal English. Many foreign law students on English language programmes experience problems when suddenly all their lectures, textbooks, discussions and written work have to be in English. A lack of familiarity with legal English canseriously impede their progress. And a command of legal English is not just a desirable academic skill. It has become a...

This book contains an up-to-date analysis on the legal aspects of nuclear non-proliferation

and disarmament. It scrutinizes the effectiveness, the limits, the adaptation, and the future

challenges of the regime on the control of nuclear weapons which is still based on the 1968

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and supported by the IAEA

controls.

It also deals with new challenges to the non-proliferation legal order deriving mainly from

new nuclear weapon states, the Nor...