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Essential concepts of land politics ::an A-Z guide /
No full textThis book compiles, discusses, and explains the key concepts in land politics in an easy-to-navigate A-Z format.This book takes a broad view on land, across the rural and urban corridor, and advocates for a holistic view of the politics of land, as an aggregation of land and global social life, that is, the politics of food, climate, labour, citizenship, and geopolitics. The authors have curated a wide-ranging list of 67 key terms most commonly used in the field, with each entry mapping out an important concept or idea and illustrating how it relates more broadly across this growing discipline. Across the entries, the book showcases that land has been and remains central to productive and social reproductive activities of humanity for the incessant renewal of life and society. A key assumption in this book is that the politics of land is made up of building blocks in the form of key concepts. These key concepts evolve, both in the sense that they are politically contested and in the changing broader context within which they are embedded. The key concepts in this book are therefore not discussed in a random way but rather framed from Critical Agrarian Studies perspectives and scholar-activist tradition, which means taking the side of the exploited and oppressed.With further reading recommendations included alongside the entries, this innovative and accessible volume will be of great interest to students, scholars, policy practitioners, and political activists
Criminal procedure /
No full text"Casebook for Criminal Procedure for law students in advanced criminal procedure courses"-- Provided by publisher
Wahl durch Klerus und Volk ::das Verfahren der Papstwahl bis ins 12. Jahrhundert /
No full text"Bis ins hohe Mittelalter galt für die Papstwahl grob der einfache Grundsatz der „Wahl durch Klerus und Volk". Dabei gab es weder ein Konklave noch die Abstimmung durch ein klar definiertes Kardinalskollegium. Die vielschichtigen, ritualisierten Abläufe der Papstwahl konnten dennoch stabile Ergebnisse hervorbringen.Die vorliegende Studie nimmt die mittelalterlichen Verfahrensformen, Wirkmechanismen und Rollen bei der Papstwahl durch Klerus und Volk in den Blick. Auf Basis des reichhaltigen Quellenmaterials werden die Vorgänge eines legitimen Herrschaftsüberganges in ihrer zeitgenössischen Beurteilung erfasst und mit einem modernen Analyseinstrumentarium untersucht."-
The character of international law ::a festschrift for Rob Cryer /
No full textProfessor Robert Cryer was a foundational voice in modern international criminal law. This book celebrates his character, his life, his work, and his influence. The book is a Festschrift of love and admiration to a voice that is dearly missed. Fittingly, the book also continues to voice the many conversations that Rob started. It thereby doubles as a critical examination of the life of international law. The book constellates 17 expertly-authored chapters nurtured by 4 editors through 5 distinctive sections, each of which reflects on the character of international law. These sections, presented as acts, are: discipline and borders, (re)imagination and continuity, violence and reckoning, acoustics and storytelling, and friendship and kindness. A wide gamut of touchpoints dovetails into a beautifully eclectic medley. These include criminal law, the law of war, music and harm, gender-based violence, nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence, law after war, the crime of aggression, drones and targets, the domestication of international law, and the role of law in inter-state relations. The book journeys to many places, including Japan, Bosnia, and Ukraine, while reflecting on the role of teaching and mentorship in the life of international law
Crafting a New Conservationism
No full textEnvironmental law has an animal problem. It lacks an account of whether and how animals’ interests matter. Case in point: The agencies tasked with protecting wild animals cannot stop killing them. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration slays sea lions to reduce predation on endangered salmon. The Fish and Wildlife Service shoots barred owls to curb competition with northern spotted owls. These widespread “removals” reflect a tension between safeguarding ecological collectives, such as species and ecosystems, and protecting individual animals.Wild animals’ uncertain status destabilizes conservation law, the branch of environmental law aimed at protecting natural resources, land, and wildlife. Yet the topic has received little attention from environmental legal scholars. This Article steps into that gap. First, it traces the development of competing reasons to protect wildlife— preserving ecological collectives and safeguarding individual animals—and explains how marquee conservation statutes, such as the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, contain both intuitions. Such statutes, however, say little about what to do when the two goals conflict. Resolving this tension falls to administrative agencies’ discretion. The Article next offers the first account of how agencies navigate these competing commitments by using animal removals as a window into agency thinking. The investigation draws on a novel analysis of more than one hundred National Environmental Policy Act reviews compiled through database searches and Freedom of Information Act requests. What emerges from this research is a thicket of incoherent agency attempts to incorporate individual animals’ inherent value into removals. Agencies may: (a) express no concern for individual animals; (b) recognize only negative duties toward animals (such as avoiding the infliction of suffering); or (c) observe positive duties toward animals (such as rescuing animals from harsh ecological conditions). Approaches vary across and within agencies, and even within individual agency decisions. Such variation is difficult to defend normatively and exposes agencies to litigation. To address these problems, the Article begins to craft a new conservationism, offering a range of possible agency approaches to incorporate individual animals’ inherent worth into wildlife management. The Article also recommends short-term changes to conservation-based removals that would improve the status quo under a variety of ethical frameworks. By excavating conservation-based removals, this Article contributes to an interdisciplinary reconceptualization of conservation law that treats animal interests seriously and systematically. </p
