The Politics of Water in Africa:

Norms, Environmental Regions and

Transboundary Cooperation in the Orange-Senqu and Nile Rivers

by Inga M. Jacobs 

Water resources and related issues are of great significance in 21st century politics. In Africa, for example, hydropolitics affect politics and policymaking at the local, national, and international levels. To investigate water politics, this unique work focuses on the issue transboundary water governance in Southern and Eastern Africa.

Based on extensive field research, it offers a comparative study of the Orange Senqu and Nile basins in Africa, arguing that both causal and behavioral factors (such as localization and trust building) drive the multi-leveled development of cooperative management norms and foster the creation of regional communities of interest.

The book combines theory, analysis, and fieldwork within the framework of Constructivism as well as a wide range of examples to identify and analyze the nature of norms in hydropolitics. By doing so, it will help shape the debate on how water conflict and cooperative governance should evolve and will interest anyone studying African politics, hydropolitics, and issues of development.

Consequential Courts

Judicial Roles in Global Perspective

Diana Kapiszewski

In the early twenty-first century, courts have become versatile actors in the governance of many constitutional democracies, and judges play a variety of roles in politics and policy making. Assembling papers penned by academic specialists on high courts around the world, and presented during a year-long Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar at the University of California, Berkeley, this volume maps the roles in governance that courts are undertaking and the ways they have come to matter in the political life of their nations. It offers empirically rich accounts of dramatic judicial actions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, exploring the political conditions and judicial strategies that have fostered those assertions of power and evaluating when and how courts' performance of new roles has been politically consequential. By focusing on the content and consequences of judicial power, the book advances a new agenda for the comparative study of courts.

Shared Authority

Courts and Legislatures in Legal Theory                    

Dimitrios Kyritsis           

    

This new book advances a fresh philosophical account of the relationship between the legislature and courts, opposing the common conception of law, in which it is legislatures that primarily create the law, and courts that primarily apply it. This conception has eclectic affinities with legal positivism, and although it may have been a helpful intellectual tool in the past, it now increasingly generates more problems than it solves. For this reason, the author argues, legal philosophers are better off abandoning it. At the same time they are asked to dismantle the philosophical and doctrinal infrastructure that has been based on it and which has been hitherto largely unquestioned. The book offers an alternative framework for understanding the role of courts and the legislature; a framework which is distinctly anti-positivist and which builds on Ronald Dworkin's interpretive theory of law. But, contrary to Dworkin, it insists that legal duty is sensitive to the position one occupies in the project of governing; legal interpretation is not the solitary task of one super-judge, but a collaborative task structured by principles of institutional morality such as separation of powers which impose a moral duty on participants to respect each other's contributions. Moreover this collaborative task will often involve citizens taking an active role in their interaction with the law.

The Political Economy of Terrorism

by Walter Enders, Todd Sandler

The Political Economy of Terrorism: Second Edition presents a widely accessible political economy approach to the study of terrorism. It applies economic methodology - theoretical and empirical - combined with political analysis and realities to the study of domestic and transnational terrorism. In so doing, the book provides both a qualitative and quantitative investigation of terrorism in a balanced up-to-date presentation that informs students, policy makers, researchers, and the general reader of the current state of knowledge. Included are historical aspects, a discussion of watershed events, the rise of modern-day terrorism, examination of current trends, the dilemma of liberal democracies, evaluation of counterterrorism, analysis of hostage incidents, and much more. The new edition expands coverage of every chapter, adds a new chapter on terrorist network structures and organization, accounts for changes in the Department of Homeland Security, and the USA Patriot Act, and insurance against terrorism. Rational-actor models of terrorist and government behavior and game-theoretic analysis are presented for readers with no prior theoretical training. Where relevant, the authors display graphs using data from International Terrorism: Attributes of Terrorist Events (ITERATE), the Global Terrorism Database (GTD), and other public-access data sets.

A Primer on American Labor Law 5th Edition

by William B. Gould IV

A Primer on American Labor Law is an accessible guide written for nonspecialists as well as labor lawyers - labor and management representatives, students, and general practice lawyers, and trade unionists, government officials, and academics from other countries. It covers topics such as the National Labor Relations Act, unfair labor practices, the collective bargaining relationship, dispute resolution, the public sector, and public-interest labor law. This updated fifth edition contains extensive new materials covering developments that include the repeal or change in public employee labor law and the development of case law relating to wrongful dismissals and pension reform in the public sector; bankruptcy in both the private and public sector; ADA litigation and 2008 amendments of that statute; new cases on all subjects, but particularly Bush and Obama NLRB decisions, sexual harassment, sexual orientation, and retaliation; and the globalization of labor disputes in labor-management relations in the United States, with particular reference to professional sports disputes and the extraterritoriality of American labor law generally.

Die libri disputationum des Claudius Tryphoninus

Eine spätklassische Juristenschrift

Auteur: Kathrin Fildhaut 

Die Verfasserin untersucht den Werkcharakter und die Textgeschichte der libri disputationum des spätklassischen Juristen Claudius Tryphoninus, einer bislang wenig beachteten, zu Beginn des dritten Jahrhunderts n. Chr. verfaßten römischen Juristenschrift. Ein Werk gleichen Titels ist nur noch von Ulpian bekannt. Nach dem Werktitel hat man vermutet, daß den libri disputationum streitige Erörterungen zugrunde lagen. Sie werden den quaestiones an die Seite gestellt, sollen aber deutlicher als diese den Ursprung im Rechtsunterricht erkennen lassen. Nach verbreiteter Auffassung zeigen die in den Digesten überlieferten Fragmente tiefe Spuren nachklassischer Überarbeitung; vereinzelt wird Tryphonins Urheberschaft überhaupt in Zweifel gezogen.

Die Untersuchung besteht im Haupteil aus ausführlichen Exegesen einer repräsentativen Auswahl der überlieferten Digestenfragmente. Ihre Gliederung bestimmen formale Kriterien, da sich die Texte durchweg mehr oder weniger festen, nach ihren jeweiligen Eigentümlichkeiten benannten Darstellungsformen zuordnen lassen (Traktate, Kommentare, Distinktionen, Dialoge). Die Autorin kommt zu dem Ergebnis, daß die libri disputationum nicht für die juristische Praxis bestimmt sind. Sie verfolgen vielmehr theoretische Absichten und sind Beiträge zur gelehrten Diskussion. Ihr Interesse ist Rechtserkenntnis, ihr Medium die Fallerörterung. Daneben ist auch ein pädagogisches Interesse nicht zu übersehen, so daß die libri disputationum zugleich eine anspruchsvolle juristisch-pädagogische Anleitung darstellen. Nicht bestätigt wird die extreme Kritik der überlieferten Texte. Zwar ist Tryphonins Text weder in den dreihundert Jahren vor der justinianischen Kompilation noch bei deren Herstellung unberührt geblieben. Von einer tiefgreifenden Überarbeitung oder gar vollkommenen Umgestaltung des klassischen Textes kann jedoch keine Rede sein.

Laws against strikes.

The South African Experience in an international and Comparative Perspective

by Bob Hepple,  Rochelle le Roux, Silvana Sciarra

Laws against Strikes, comprising contributions from South African, Italian and British legal scholars, examines the right to strike in periods of socio-economic crisis. The book aims to contribute to the debates on this issue, by comparing, where appropriate, the operation of the right to strike in South Africa with its operation in the European Union countries.

Rethinking Comparative Labor Law:

Bridging the Past and the Future

by Benjamin A. Aaron & Katherine V.W. Stone

Labor law is no longer a subject of purely domestic significance. The comparative study of labor law systems has been an important field of law for many decades, but now, as production becomes increasingly global, issues of comparative labor law arise with a new urgency. The papers in this volume explore all facets of comparative work in the labor law field, addressing questions such as, what was the purpose of engaging in the study of comparative labor law in the past, and what is the purpose of such an inquiry today? Are national labor law systems converging in the face of the increasing globalization of production in recent decades? How are different countries responding to current challenges to their domestic labor law regimes, challenges such as the advent of new flexible models of production, an increase in immigration, and domestic participation in transnational trading blocs? Labor law scholars from eight countries, spanning several generations, met at the UCLA School of Law in the fall of 2005 to consider these and other questions. The papers in this volume present the ideas exchanged and invite yet further reflection on the goals, purposes, possibilities and pitfalls of comparative work in the labor law field.

Corte costituzionale e sistema istituzionale
Giornate di studio in ricordo di Alessandra Concaro. 
Atti del Seminario svoltosi a Pisa il 4-5 giugno 2010
(a cura di) Dal Canto e Rossi - Giappichelli, 2011

Indice:

I problemi. – I. Il mercato come formazione sociale, rilevanza giuridica degli status e principio di uguaglianza. – II. Il contraente “forte” nel mercato. – III. Il contraente “debole” nel mercato. – IV. Concorrenza e Costituzione economica . – V. Tecniche di tutela del contraente “debole” nella prospettiva del mercato. – VI. Società, persona fisica e danni non patrimoniali da violazione di un diritto fondamentale. – VII. Diritti fondamentali e bilanciamento di valori. – Conclusioni.

Il difficile cammino della democrazia paritaria

di Marilisa D'Amico - Giappichelli, 2011

 Principali argomenti trattati nel testo: La rappresentanza politica femminile e i suoi ostacoli teorici - Le esperienze straniere: quote o parità? - Il caso italiano fra legislatore e Corte Costituzionale - Il nuovo art. 51 e la legislazione elettorale - La promozione delle pari opportunità negli statuti e nelle leggi elettorali delle regioni - Tra principi e realtà: la parità ottenuta davanti al giudice.

Il cittadino e la pubblica amministrazione. Giornate di stuti in onore di Guido Corso

AA.VV. - Hoepli, 2016 

Anteprima del libro

Il regionalismo italiano tra tradizioni unitarie e processi di federalismo. Contributo allo studio della crisi della forma di stato in Italia

Stelio Mangiameli - Giuffrè Editore, 2012

Il libro è dedicato alla verifica della revisione costituzionale degli anni 1999-2001 e riguarda, perciò, l'approfondimento del regionalismo, in un momento nel quale la nuova crisi economica iniziata sul finire del 2007 ha determinato e sta determinando un cambiamento profondo, anche di mentalità, della relazione tra individuo, società e istituzioni e tra istituzioni.

Un Senato delle autonomie per l'Italia federale: Atti del Convegno, Roma, 20 febbraio 2003

Stelio Mangiameli - Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2003

Giustizia Costituzionale e il Nuovo Regionalismo

Viceconte Nicola, Colasante Paolo - Giuffrè, 2013

Autonomie della Repubblica: la Realizzazione Concreta

Mangiameli Stelio - Giuffrè, 2013

Annuario DRASD 2012. Dal federalismo devolutivo alla spending review

Renato Balduzzi, Jörg Luther - Giuffrè, 2013

 

 

Anteprima del libro

La condizione giuridica dello straniero in Italia nella giurisprudenza

Andrea Di Francia - Giuffrè, 2006

 

 

 Il lato oscuro della sussidiarietà

FILIPPO PIZZOLATO e PAOLO COSTA (a cura di) - Giuffré, 2013

Indice del libro

Il principio di sussidiarietà ha avuto un notevole rilievo nel discorso politico e giuridico degli ultimi anni. Tuttavia, non sempre l'attenzione si è soffermata a fondo sui problemi di ordine teorico e pratico che esso pone. Per tale ragione, il volume raccoglie alcuni saggi che intendono offrire uno studio critico di quei profili della sussidiarietà talvolta lasciati in ombra.

Profili giuridici della funzione amministrativa

Marco Gaetano Pulvirenti - Giuffrè, 2013

 

La modifica del primo comma dell'art. 117 della Costituzione, nel prevedere che la potestà legislativa è esercitata nel rispetto - tra l'altro - dei vincoli derivanti dall'ordinamento comunitario e dagli obblighi internazionali, non si è limitata ad introdurre un limite per la legislazione, ma ha ricadute anche sull'amministrazione ed in particolare sulla funzione amministrativa, quale effettivo svolgersi del potere pubblico. Ne risulta modificato il collegamento tra la funzione e l'insieme delle finalità di essenziale rilievo nell'azione dello Stato. L'art. 117, in altri termini, favorisce una rilettura della funzione amministrativa in chiave di effettività e di giustizia sostanziale, soprattutto tramite la legittimazione attraverso i diritti umani.

Giustizia e processo nell'ordinamento costituzionale

Sorrenti Giusi - Giuffrè, 2013