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Framing global mathematics
This open access book is about the shaping of international relations in mathematics over the last two hundred years. It focusses on institutions and organizations that were created to frame the international dimension of mathematical research. Today, striking evidence of globalized mathematics is provided by countless international meetings and the worldwide repository ArXiv. The text follows …
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- 1st
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- 9783030956837
- Collation
- ccclxxxiv, 20p ; ill
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- -
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- 372.7 NOR f
Encounters between foreign relations law and international law : bridges and …
Foreign relations law and public international law are two closely related academic fields that tend to speak past each other. As this innovative volume shows, the two are closely interrelated and depend on each other for their mutual construction and identity. A better understanding of this relationship is of vital importance for upholding important constitutional values like democracy, the ru…
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- -
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- 9781108942713
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- xxviii, 418 p. ; ill
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- 342.0412 AUS e
Studies in global animal law
This open access book contains 13 contributions on global animal law, preceded by an introduction which explains key concepts and methods. Global Animal Law refers to the sum of legal rules and principles (both state-made and non-state-made) governing the interaction between humans and other animals, on a domestic, local, regional, and international level. Global animal law is the response to t…
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- -
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- 9783662607565
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- viii, 183 p.
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- Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht 290
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- 346.046954 PET s
Intellectual property and public health in the developing world
Across the world, developing countries are attempting to balance the international standards of intellectual property concerning pharmaceutical patents against the urgent need for accessible and affordable medicines. In this timely and necessary book, Monirul Azam examines the attempts of several developing countries to walk this fine line. He evaluates the experiences of Brazil, China, India, …
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- -
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- 9781783742301
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- xxiiii, 348 p. : ill.
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- -
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- 615.1091724 AZA i
Insurance distribution directive : a legal analysis
This open access volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation offers the first comprehensive legal and regulatory analysis of the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD). The IDD came into force on 1 October 2018 and regulates the distribution of insurance products in the EU. The book examines the main changes accompanying the IDD and analyses its impact on insurance…
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- -
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- 9783030527389
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- xi, 439p. : ill.
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- -
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- 346.4086 INS i
Public actors in international investment law
Traditional studies on actors in international investment law have tended to concentrate on arbitrators, claimant investors and respondent states. Yet this focus on the “principal” players in investment dispute settlement has allowed a number of other seminal actors to be neglected. This book seeks to redress this imbalance by turning the spotlight on the latter. From the investor’s home …
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- -
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- 9783030589165
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- x, 199p. : ill.
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- -
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- 346.09 PUB p
The world of the seafarer : qualitative accounts of working in the global shi…
This open access book constitutes an ethnographic mosaic which depicts the contextual complexities of the life and work of seafarers who are employed in the international merchant cargo fleet. The collection is based upon the observations and interviews of researchers in multiple disciplines. It is woven together to offer a richly detailed insight into the ways in which a complex global industr…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030498252
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- viii, 198p. : ill.
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- -
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- 387.5 WOR w
Protecting the rights of people with autism in the fields of education and em…
European Law; Human Rights; International and Comparative Education; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law; Law and Psychology
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- -
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- 9783319137919
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- IX, 197 p.
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- -
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- 346.40138 DEL p
Connecting the nation: a short thematic history of Australian civil aviation
Aviation has played an important part in shaping Australia’s culture and history through the course of the twentieth century. Australia embraced aviation from its earliest days, eagerly responding to its potential to cover a challenging country, to bring far-flung communities closer and to provide services that could not be delivered any other way. Add the romance of pioneer heroes, the vital…
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- -
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- 9780994503954
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- 140p.:
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- -
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- 354.79 ASH c
The Law in the Information and Risk Society
The information and risk society poses a new challenge for the law in all its fragments. Modern media communication and technologies increase people’s prosperity while stating new risks with not uncommonly devastating crisis-potential: The banking crisis, the safety net for the euro zone and the nuclear incident in Fukushima are only the latest forms of those specific modern common dangers wh…
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- -
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- 9783863950125
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- xi, 170p: ill.
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- -
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- 349.43 LAW l
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