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State funding for teaching about religion ::international perspectives on state aid for schools with a religious character /
No full text"This book enhances awareness of the legal issues surrounding public funding of faith-based schools in representative nations around the world. In this edited volume, contributors explore whether tax monies should support religious institutions in advancing their beliefs, and if such support inadvertently favors certain religions over others. Chapters cover issues ranging from allowing vouchers, tuition tax programs, and school choice programs to providing transportation to and from school, delivering special education services on-site in faith-based schools, and paying for textbooks and other instructional materials for secular and religious subjects. Drawing on the latest legal research, this interdisciplinary volume features work from an international group of leading academics in law, education, and religion. The contributors address similar issues to allow for comparative analyses, whilst also addressing issues unique to their nations and perspectives. This comprehensive resource will benefit researchers and scholars, as well as students, practitioners, policymakers, and libraries"-- Provided by publisher
Law, humanities, and tourism ::interdisciplinary approaches to the restitution of cultural heritage /
No full textThis book is a pioneering volume that unites experts across law, humanities, and tourism to examine the legal, ethical, and sociopolitical issues surrounding the return of stolen or illegally exported cultural treasures to their rightful owners. Positioned at the intersection of these fields, it serves as a theoretical and practical toolkit for law enforcement, customs officers, tourism officials, curators and police in facilitating the restitution of cultural
ACCESS TO PUBLIC INFORMATIONA FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT
No full textInformation is not only a human-fundamental right, but it has been shaped as a pillar for the exercise of other human rights around the world. It is the path for bringing to account authorities and other powerful actors before the people, who are, for all purposes, the actual owners of public data.Providing information about public decisions that have the potential to significantly impact a community is vital to modern democracy. This book explores the forms in which individuals and collectives are able to voice their opinions and participate in public decision-making when long-lasting effects are at stake, on present and future generations. The strong correlation between the right to access public information and the enjoyment of civil and political rights, as well as economic and environmental rights, emphasizes their interdependence.This study raises a number of important questions to mobilize towards openness and empowerment of people's right of ownership of their public information
Water law in a nutshell /
No full text"With authors from riparian and prior appropriation jurisdictions, the new edition adds dozens of recent decisions and key statutory changes. The revised edition explains changes in evolving areas like climate disruption, groundwater-surface water conflicts, public recreational uses, instream flow protection, federal water development, takings claims, and water access and equity."-
Comparative law considerations on the Norwegian wealth tax / Carl Baudenbacher, Mads Andenas, Laura Melusine Baudenbacher
No full textNachhaltige Entwicklung und Menschenrechte in EU-Handelsabkommen : Untersuchung werteorientierter Ansätze in der vertraglichen Handelspolitik der EU am Beispiel des EU-Handelsabkommens mit Kolumbien und Peru / Sarah Brugger
No full textArtificial intelligence ::law and regulation /
No full text"This timely new edition provides an updated and expanded overview and analysis of the law and regulation as it applies to the technology and uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It examines the human and ethical concerns associated with the technology, the history of AI and AI in commercial contexts. Written by outstanding lawyers, technologists and other professionals, this book will help readers acquire an understanding of the taxonomy of AI, the legal rules that apply to AI and the way AI has been utilised in various commercial contexts.
