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The Impact of eConveyancing on Title Registration
This work is an assessment of how to manage risk in property transactions in the context of the move from paper-based to electronic conveyancing (eConveyancing). In particular the focus is on risks that impact on title registration, and the security, protection or lack thereof that this registration offers to land owners, third parties and property claimants. The impact is the extent to which a…
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- 978-3-319-10341-9
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- XV, 316, 7 illustrations in colour
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- The Impact of eConveyancing on Title Registration
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The Impact of Corruption on International Commercial Contracts
This volume presents national reports describing the legal instruments that are available to prevent the payment of bribes for acquiring contracts. Anti-corruption is one of the preeminent issues in the modern global commercial order and is tackled with the help of criminal law and contract law in different ways in different countries. The reports included in this volume, from very diverse part…
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- 978-3-319-19054-9
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- XIV, 446, 1 b/w illustrations
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- Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law
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The Impact of Cartels on National Economy and Competitiveness
The book presents theoretical and empirical research on the integrated assessment of cartels’ effects on national economies. The empirical analysis is based on three cases in Lithuania, a country chosen because it corresponds to the features of a small economy with a developing culture of competition. An integrated assessment of a cartel’s impact by measuring the net economic effect created…
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- 978-3-319-17287-3
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- XX, 315, 26 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
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- The Impact of Cartels on National Economy and Competitiveness
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The Illegal Business of Human Trafficking
This book offers a brand-new perspective on human trafficking as an illegal business. It also proposes a new form of networked action: combining the perspectives of academic researchers with those of highly skilled professionals involved in policymaking in this area, this book is a unique contribution and a first step toward a networking paradigm, promoting collaboration in preventing and comba…
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- 978-3-319-09441-0
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- XXII, 154, 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
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- The Illegal Business of Human Trafficking
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The Hamburg Lectures on Maritime Affairs 2011-2013
In 2007, the International Max Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs together with the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), both based in Hamburg, decided to establish an annual lecture series, the "Hamburg Lectures on Maritime Affairs" - giving distinguished scholars and practitioners the opportunity to present and discuss recent developments in this field. The present …
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- 978-3-642-55104-8
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- X, 302, 4 b/w illustrations
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- Hamburg Studies on Maritime Affairs Hamburg Studies on Maritime Affairs
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The Greenhouse Gas Balance of Italy
The book addresses in a comprehensive way the full greenhouse gases budget of the Italian landscape, focusing on land use and terrestrial ecosystems. In recent years there has been a growing interest in the role of terrestrial ecosystems with regard to the carbon cycle and only recently a regional approach has been considered for its specificity in terms of new methodologies for observations an…
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- 978-3-642-32424-6
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- VIII, 211, 27 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
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- Environmental Science and Engineering
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The Great Council of Malines in the 18th century
This work studies the Great Council of Malines as an institution. It analyzes the Council’s internal organization and staff policy, its position within the broader society of the Austrian Netherlands, the volume and nature of litigation at the Council and its final years and ultimate demise in the late 18th and early 19th century. By means of this institutional study, this volume provides ins…
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- 978-3-319-09638-4
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- XVII, 348, 18 illustrations in colour
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- Studies in the History of Law and Justice
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The Post-Election Violence in Kenya
In the spirit of this road map, the author analyzes the post-election violence in Kenya from a legal point of view. He extensively examines legal options for domestic criminal accountability and discusses both retributive (prosecutions) and restorative justice (mainly truth commission) mechanisms, being the main legal responses to the gross violations of human rights. Furthermore, he thoroughly…
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- 978-94-6265-041-1
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- XVIII, 275
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- International Criminal Justice Series
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Consumer Protection Law : A Guide for Navigating Safely in the Modern World
Overview: Consumer Protection Law: A Guide For Navigating Safely in the Modern World is an introduction to the issues consumers face every day and the protections put in place to reduce consumer harm. This text and the course it is designed to accompany is unique in undergraduate education. Most consumer protection law courses take place in either a law school setting or in only a handful of un…
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- 340 SMI c
Nils Petter Gleditsch: Pioneer in the Analysis of War and Peace
This book presents Nils Petter Gleditsch, a staff member of the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO) since 1964, a former editor of the Journal for Peace Research (1983-2010), a former president of the International Studies Association (2008-2009) and the recipient of several academic awards as a pioneer in the scientific analysis of war and peace. This unique anthology covers major themes i…
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- 978-3-319-03819-3
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- XXI, 171
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- SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice
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