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Constitutional Review and Democracy
2015 || Hardcover || Miodrag A. Jovanovic || Eleven international publishing
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...
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The Ghetto Workers' Law
social security benefits for work undertaken in Nazi ghettos under the German federal law
|| Hardcover || Avraham Weber || Eleven international publishing
Under the Nazi regime, tens of thousands of Jews lived in ghettos, working more or less normal jobs. Some of these ghettos had their own employment centers, and some employers even paid into retirements funds. Legislation known as "German Pensions for Work in Ghettos," or by its German acronym, ZRBG (Gesetz zur Zahlbarmachung von Renten aus Beschäftigungen in einem Ghetto) 1 was passed in 2002 to grant pensions to some of these former laborers. But more than ten years after its passage, its ...
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Well-being at and through Work
2017 || Hardcover || Tindara Addabbo e.a. || Eleven international publishing
The book "Well-being at and through Work" collects a selection of the contributions presented in the Fourteenth International Conference in commemoration of Prof Marco Biagi. The Conference was held at the Marco Biagi Foundation, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy). The essays, in English, investigate from manifold perspectives the possible implications of changes in the work organization and employment schemes for the well-being of individual workers. In legal terms, the topic sti...
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Shareholder Democracy
analysis of shareholder involvement in corporate policies
2016 || Hardcover || M. Olaerts e.a. || Eleven international publishing
This book deals with the topic of shareholder democracy from a comparative point of view. Shareholders have important rights which they can exercise democratically at the general meeting. They have the power to control and supervise management of the company. The term shareholder democracy relates to the different ways in which shareholders can influence or even determine a company's course of life. One of the disadvantages of shareholder democracy is a risk that most democratic systems face ...
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Facing the Past
Policies and Good Practices for Responses to Illegal Intercountry Adoptions
2024 || Hardcover || Elvira Loibl e.a. || Eleven international publishing
In a growing number of countries, inquiries into past intercountry adoptions take place that identify systemic abuses and irregularities and conclude that adoption stakeholders encouraged or facilitated illegal intercountry adoptions. However, so far, the response from these stakeholders has been inadequate in addressing the profound human rights violations endured by those affected by illegal adoptions. Despite the growing movement of adoptees advocating for justice on behalf of themselves a...
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Arranging Resilience
The role of social actors in preventing violent extremism
2021 || Hardcover || William Stephens || Eleven international publishing
Increasingly, teachers, youth workers, and social workers are being called on to ‘build resilience to radicalisation’. But, what does this actually mean? What is resilience to radicalisation, how can it be built, and whose role is it?
Drawing on an interdisciplinary analysis of policies and the perspectives of practitioners themselves, this book offers a fresh look at these questions. Through unpacking different ways of thinking about resilience to radicalisation, this book aims to bring ...
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Mental Health and Crinlnal Justice / Santé mentale et justice pénale
International and Domestic Perspectives on Defendants and Detainees with Mental Illness / Perspectives internationales et nationales sur les prévenus et les détenus atteints de maladie mentale
2022 || Hardcover || P.H.P.H.M.C. van Kempen e.a. || Eleven international publishing
More than 10.74 million people globally are detained in penal institutions. An estimated 40% to 90% of these detainees suffer from mental illness. This makes the prevalence of mental disorder in detainees extremely high compared with the general population (18% to 29%). As a consequence, defendants and detainees with mental illness are not ‘yet another vulnerable group’ that should be ‘taken into account’ in developing laws and policies On the contrary, they are a dominant force and t...
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Legitimate by Nature?
Examining the Legitimisation Activities Implemented by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
2022 || Hardcover || Claire M.H. Boost || Eleven international publishing
International crimes cause widespread victimisation and destruction, leading to social disruption that may take generations to repair. Over the years, the international community has established international courts to end the culture of impunity in relation to such crimes and to enforce a culture of accountability. A critical success factor for these courts is to ensure that they are perceived as legitimate in post-conflict societies.
Established after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi eth...
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Blaming the Addicted Brain
Building bridges between criminal law and neuroscientific perspectives on addiction
2022 || Hardcover || Anna Elisabeth Goldberg || Eleven international publishing
Addiction is pervasively present within the criminal justice sector, resulting in legal professionals regularly dealing with addicted defendants. Yet addiction is a complex and heterogeneous phenomenon, resulting in controversies regarding its conceptualisation, and thus difficulties in addressing addiction-related crime in court. Over the last decades, addiction has increasingly been conceptualised as a brain disease, which arguably could alter the law’s current approach towards the crimin...
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Proceedings of the International Institute of Space Law 2021
2022 || Hardcover || P.J. Blount e.a. || Eleven international publishing
This volume contains the proceedings of the 64th Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space held virtually in October 2021, as well as the report of the IISL Standing Committee on the Status of International Agreements Relating to Activities in Outer Space.