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Political Community In Carl Schmitt's International Legal Thinking, Markus Gunneflo

Markus Gunneflo

Copyright And Inequality, Lea Shaver

Lea Shaver

The prevailing theory of copyright law imagines a marketplace efficiently serving up new works to an undifferentiated world of consumers. Yet the reality is that all consumers are not equal. The majority of the world’s people experience copyright law not as a boon to consumer choice, but as a barrier to acquiring knowledge and taking part in cultural life. The resulting patterns of privilege and disadvantage, moreover, reinforce and perpetuate preexisting social divides. Class and culture combine to explain who wins, and who loses, from copyright protection. Along the dimension of class, the insight is that just because new works …

The Life And Times Of Targeted Killing, Markus Gunneflo

Markus Gunneflo

Against the background of the ongoing shift in the perception of the legality and legitimacy of extraterritorial lethal force in counterterrorism, my doctoral thesis analyses the emergence of so-called “targeted killing” in the history of Israel and the US, as well as in international law. It finds that the relationship between targeted killing and law, particularly international law, is not a straightforward case of more or less determinate and legally binding norms being applied to state measures adopted in situations of insecurity (in this case, those of the second Intifada and 9/11) but rather one of a much longer and …

Global Justice And International Economic Law: Three Takes, Frank Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

For centuries, international trade has been seen as essential to the wealth and power of nations, and defended as a system through which all could benefit. It is only recently that trade's problematic role as an engine of distributive justice has begun to be understood, due in part to globalization and the global justice debates. In this compelling new book, international legal scholar Frank J. Garcia proposes a radically new way to evaluate, construct, and manage international trade - one that is based on norms of economic justice as well as comparative advantage and national interest. This book examines three …

Global Justice And International Economic Law: Opportunities And Prospects, Frank Garcia, Chios Carmody, John Linarelli

Frank J. Garcia

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Item "Proprietà (Nuove Forme Di)", Ugo Mattei

Ugo Mattei

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Trade, Inequality, And Justice: Toward A Liberal Theory Of Just Trade, Frank Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

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The War Against Authority: From The Crisis Of Legitimacy To A New Social Order, Nicholas Kittrie

Nicholas Kittrie

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