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Enforcing Morality is written for scholars and graduate students working in the fields of philosophy, law and political theory. It provides both a critical overview of debates on the enforcement of morality and a defense of a distinctive position on the topic.

Enforcing Morality is written for scholars and graduate students working in the fields of philosophy, law and political theory. It provides both a critical overview of debates on the enforcement of morality and a defense of a distinctive position on the topic.

This interdisciplinary volume, which includes eight case study chapters, offers a novel conceptual and empirical analysis of resilience, adaptive peacebuilding and transitional justice. It is the first volume of its kind to show how these three concepts can combine to inform individual and collective recovery from large-scale violence.

As the first analysis of the archives of international courts, examining how these archives produce particular understandings of what the 'international community' is, the book is essential reading for IR and ILAW scholars and archival scientists, as well as historians interested in the relationship between history, memory and law.

Increasing quantities of information about our health, bodies, and biological relationships are being generated by health technologies, research, and surveillance. This escalation presents challenges to us all when it comes to deciding how to manage this information and what should be disclosed to the very people it describes. This book establishes the ethical imperative to take seriously the potential impacts on our identities of encountering...

For centuries, the starting points for serious thought about ethics, justice, and government were traditions founded, in China by Confucius, and in the West by his near contemporary Socrates. In both classical traditions, norms were based on human nature, to contravene these norms was to deny part of one's humanity. The Chinese and Western philosophical traditions have often been regarded as mutually unintelligible. This book shows that the di...

The UN Security Council and International Law explores the legal powers, limits and potential of the United Nations Security Council, offering a broadly positive (and positivist) account of the Council's work in practice. This book aims to answer questions such as 'when are Council decisions binding and on whom?', 'what legal constraints exist on Council decision making?' and 'how far is the Council bound by international law?'. Defining the c...

As the first woman to be appointed President of the UK Supreme Court, Brenda Hale was one of the UK's most high profile and influential judges, and she is among the most powerful women leaders of our time. For almost half a century, she pioneered as an educator, reformer, and decision-maker, leaving a distinct mark on the law and the lives of many. In commemoration of her recent retirement from the Supreme Court, this collection celebrates her...

Combining interdisciplinary techniques with original ethnographic fieldwork, Christoph Sperfeldt examines the first attempts of international criminal courts to provide reparations to victims of mass atrocities. The observations focus on two case studies: the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, where Sperfeldt spent over ten years working at and around, and the International Criminal Court's interventions in the Democratic Republ...

In times of disenchantment with democracy and 'erosion' of the system of checks and balances, the book proposes to reflect upon the main problems of our constitutional democracies, from a particular regulative ideal: that of the conversation among equals.

Dethroning the false centrality of certain key texts, this book offers an ambitious, novel perspective on Carl Schmitt and his legal and political thinking by analysing his writings from across his decades-long career. It explores Schmitt's varied and developing thoughts on exceptionalism and societal pluralism.

The first global and comparative study of litigation in which refugees seek protection from a place of ostensible 'refuge'.

This book is valuable for law, sociology, and transitional justice researchers and postgraduate students interested in themes including cause lawyering, the sociology of the professions, the legal profession, gender and the law, the role of law in transition, peace negotiations, truth recovery, amnesties, strategic litigation, and legal ethics.

Much attention has been focused on how states produce knowledge about the people they govern, far less has been written about those aspects of society that states choose to keep obscure. This book makes an original contribution to understanding state ignorance by focusing on one of the most complex and contested social issues of our day: the governance of irregular migrants. Tracing the evolution of state monitoring and control of irregular mi...

A quick reference guide to drapery styles. My Drapery Sketchbook presents an inspiring visual catalog of: Draperies: non-pleated, pleated, rod pocket, tiebacks, tieback styles, heading styles, and hem styles. Top Treatments: valances, cornice boxes, swags and cascades, pole swags, pleated swags, and gathered swags. Fabric Shades: Austrian, Roman, and many more.

What happened to my life? One minute I'm just a single dad and fire chief. The next, I'm Mr. January. That's right, Georgia from Georgia's been hired to organize the annual fundraiser. The former pageant queen's not satisfied with a chili dinner. No. She came up with the crazy idea of a firefighter calendar. With puppies and kittens. The department's gone crazy over the idea. And her. So has my six-year old because he thinks she's shown up to ...

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...American troops are in contact... The UH-1H helicopter swoops in to bail them out... ...Tracer fire everywhere, the windshield shatters, the door gunners returning fire... Will Colonel Cory's helicopter be able to rescue the pinned down soldiers? Undaunted Valor is the first hand account of helicopter pilot, Colonel Dan Cory as he flies combat missions in the jungles of Vietnams. From dodging enemy ground fire and RPGs, to constant ...