This book critically analyses the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, UNESCO's latest and ground-breaking treaty in the area of cultural heritage protection. Intangible cultural heritage is broadly understood as the social processes that inform our living cultures, and our social cohesion and identity as communities and peoples. On the basis of this conception, the Treaty proposes to turn our understanding of how, for whom, and why heritage is safeguarded on its head, by putting communities, groups and individuals at the centre of the safeguarding process. 0The commentary, written by leading experts in the field from all continents and multiple disciplines, provides an authoritative guide to interpreting and implementing not only this Treaty, but also its ripple effects on how we think about cultural heritage and our experience with it as a part of our living cultures. This book is of interest to lawyers, policy-makers, anthropologists, cultural diplomacy specialists, archaeologists, cultural heritage studies experts, and, foremost, the people who practice and enact this heritage.

"The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities promotes ability equality, but this is not experienced in national laws. Australia, Canada, Ireland, the UK and US all have one thing in common: regulatory frameworks which treat workers with psychosocial disabilities less favorably than workers with either physical or sensory disabilities. Ableism at Work is a comprehensive and comparative legal, practical and theoretical analysis of workplace inequalities experienced by workers with psychosocial disabilities. Whether it be denying anti-discrimination protection to people with episodic disabilities, addictions or other psychological impairments, failing to make reasonable accommodations/adjustments for workers with psychosocial disabilities, or denying them workers compensation or occupational health and safety protections, regulatory interventions imbed inequalities. Ableism, sanism and prejudice are expressly stated in laws, reflected in judgments, and perpetuated by workplace practices and this book enables advocates, policy makers and lawmakers to understand the wider context in which systems discriminate workers with psychosocial disabilities"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Consumer Protection in China
• Extra-Judicial Processes for Handling Consumer Disputes
• Consuming the Consumer Council : Complainants' Experience
• The 'Professional' in Consumer Disputes
• Consuming Litigation : Going to Court
• Going 'Public' : New Approaches in Resolving Consumer Disputes
• Conculsions.

"This monograph offers an ethnographic exploration of the local organisation of consumer complaint processing and dispute resolution in the People's Republic of China - now the second largest consumer market in the world - and how the consumer, both ordinary and 'professional', experiences the local system. Drawing on detailed analysis of an impressive amount of empirical data, this book highlights local Chinese understandings and practice styles of 'mediation', as well as identifying a continuing sense of reliance in popular consciousness on the government for securing consumer rights in China. These are not only important features of consumer dispute processing in themselves, but also help to explain the failure of an ombuds system to emerge. By looking at the nature of and issues in China's distinctive consumer dispute resolution and complaints system, and the experiences of consumers with that system, this innovative book illustrates the processes available at the local level giving access to justice for aggrieved consumers and provides a unique contribution to comparative consumer law studies in Asia and elsewhere"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: Accountability in the Counter-Terrorist State
• 1. The Counter-Terrorist State
• 2. The Practice and Potential of Counter-Terrorism Review
• 3. The Prevailing Approach to Review
• 4. Problematising Counter-Terrorism Review
• Conclusion: Accountability and Review in the Counter-Terrorist State.

Counter-terrorism is now a permanent part of the legislative apparatus of the state yet little is known about how it is reviewed. Building on exclusive interviews with political actors and practitioners, this book presents the first critical analysis of counter-terrorism review in the United Kingdom.

• Preface
• Administrative law : an introduction
• The growth of administrative power and its impact on the American system
• Legislative attempts to achieve democratic accountability in the administrative process
• Protecting administrators from undue interference and harassment
• Rulemaking and ordermaking : agencies as quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial bodies
• Agency hearings : how fair are they?
• Administering public policies : discretionary agency actions
• Judicial review of agency behaviour
• Suing the government and its administrators
• An administrative law challenge : balancing societal and individual rights when executing administrative searches, seizures, and detentions

Emphasizing that administrative law must be understood within the context of the political system, this core text combines a descriptive systems approach with a social science focus. Author Kenneth F. Warren explains the role of administrative law in shaping, guiding, and restricting the actions of administrative agencies. Providing comprehensive coverage, he examines the field not only from state and federal angles, but also from the varying perspectives of legislators, administrators, and the public. Substantially revised, the sixth edition emphasizes current trends in administrative law, recent court decisions, and the impact the Trump administration has had on public administration and administrative law. Special attention is devoted to how the neo-conservative revival, strengthened by Trump appointments to the federal judiciary, have influenced the direction of administrative law and impacted the administrative state. Administrative Law in the Political System: Law, Politics, and Regulatory Policy, Sixth Edition is a comprehensive administrative law textbook written by a social scientist for social science students, especially upper division undergraduate and graduate students in political science, public administration, public management, and public policy and administration programs.
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"[T]his ... second edition provides a clear and concise introduction to the fundamental components of international trade law, presenting the basic structure and principles of this complex area of law, alongside elucidation of specific GATT and WTO legal rules and institutions. Key features include: a nuanced yet highly readable summary of the area placement of trade law into historical, political and economic contexts, including new analysis of populist critiques references to the most recent cases, decisions, treaty negotiation developments and economic and legal scholarship analysis of new areas including digital trade, migration and security exceptions to alert students to developments in international trade law links and connections between different areas of trade law to provide students with an integrated overview of the topic"--Provided by the publisher.

• The urgency of advancing equality
• Part one. Equal rights and nondiscrimination
• Historic exclusion and persisting inequalities : advancing equal rights on the basis of race and ethnicity
• Why addressing gender is foundational
• One in thirty : protecting fundamental rights for the world's migrants and refugees
• Negotiating the balance of religious freedom and equal rights
• Moving forward in the face of backlash : equal rights regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity
• From non-discrimination to full inclusion : guaranteeing the equal rights of people with disabilities
• Ensuring rights and full participation regardless of social and economic position
• Part two. Social and economic rights that are fundamental to equality
• The right to education : a foundation for equal opportunities
• The right to health : from treatment and care to creating the conditions for a healthy life
• How far has the world come?
• Each of us, all of us : taking action to strengthen rights globally.

"In a world where basic human rights are under attack and discrimination is widespread, Advancing Equality reminds us of the critical role of constitutions in creating and protecting equal rights. Combining a comparative analysis of equal rights in the constitutions of all 193 United Nations member countries with inspiring stories of activism and powerful court cases from around the globe, the book traces the trends in constitution drafting over the past half century and examines how stronger protections against discrimination have transformed lives. Looking at equal rights across gender, race and ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity, disability, social class, and migration status, the authors uncover which groups are increasingly guaranteed equal rights in constitutions, whether or not these rights on paper have been translated into practice, and which nations lag behind. Serving as a comprehensive call to action for anyone who cares about their country's future, Advancing Equality challenges us to remember how far we all still must go for equal rights for all"-- Provided by publisher.

• Prologue: Nathan the Wise PART ONE. LEG SHOWS AND LONGHAIRS
• 1. Immigrant Passages
• 2. The Pittsburgh Troubles
• 3. To Victor Belong the Spoils PART TWO. A RIVER OF NICKELS
• 4. Tin Pan Alley
• 5. Canned Music
• 6. Mr. Burkan Goes to Washington
• 7. The Two-Cent Solution PART THREE. BENDING THE FIRMAMENT
• 8. Entr'acte
• 9. The Lone Star
• 10. Charlie in the Harem
• 11. The Price of a Good Time PART FOUR. FLEETING, EPHEMERAL, AND FUGITIVE
• 12. The Gospel of Performing Rights
• 13. Shanley's Cabaret Extraordinaire
• 14. The Music Tax
• 15. The Ether Toy PART FIVE. CHIEF OF JUSTICE OF CELLULOIDIA
• 16. The Silent Screen
• 17. The Jazz Singer PART SIX. TWENTY DAYS IN JANUARY 1927
• 18. Rumrunners
• 19. The Bindlestiff
• 20. New York's Spotlight Lawyer PART SEVEN. THE NAKED CITY
• 21. Love's Undertaker
• 22. Nightstick Censorship
• 23. The Big Bankroll and the Little Flower PART EIGHT. MODERN TIMES
• 24. New Deal Days
• 25. Gloria
• 26. Blue Bloods Meet the Hoi Polloi
• 27. Twilight of the Music Trust
• 28. Exeunt Acknowledgments Chronology Notes Selected Bibliography Index.
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Adventures of a Jazz Age Lawyer is the lively story of legal giant Nathan Burkan, whose career encapsulated the coming of age of the institutions, archetypes, and attitudes that define American popular culture. With a client list that included Charlie Chaplin, Al Jolson, Frank Costello, Victor Herbert, Mae West, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, Arnold Rothstein, and Samuel Goldwyn, Burkan was "New York's Spotlight Lawyer" for more than three decades. He was one of the principal authors of the epochal Copyright Act of 1909 and the guiding spirit behind the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (Ascap), which provided the first practical means for songwriters to collect royalties for public performances of their works, revolutionizing the music business and the sound of popular music. While the entertainment world adapted to the disruptive technologies of recorded sound, motion pictures, and broadcasting, Burkan's groundbreaking work laid the legal foundation for the Great American Songbook and the Golden Age of Hollywood, and it continues to influence popular culture today. Gary A. Rosen tells stories of dramatic and uproarious courtroom confrontations, scandalous escapades of the rich and famous, and momentous clashes of powerful political, economic, and cultural forces. Out of these conflicts, the United States emerged as the world's leading exporter of creative energy. Adventures of a Jazz Age Lawyer is an engaging look at the life of Nathan Burkan, a captivating history of entertainment and intellectual property law in the early twentieth century, and a rich source of new discoveries for anyone interested in the spirit of the Jazz Age.
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• Introduction : Exploring the Relationship between Hard and Soft International Law and Social Change / Daniel D. Bradlow and David B. Hunter
• The Softening of Hard Law and the Hardening of Soft Law : an Extended
• Synopsis / Upendra Baxi
• Promoting Social Change through Treaties and Customary International Law : the Experience of the Inter-American Human Rights System / Claudio Grossman
• Children's Rights : Social Change through the Application of Hard and Soft International Law / Ann Skelton
• The International Criminal Court and the Use of Hard Law in the Quest for Accountability for Core International Crimes / Angela Mudukuti
• The Hard Choices in Promoting Environmental Access Rights / Natalia Gomez Peña and David Hunter
• Hard Choices for Soft Commitments in the Climate Change Regime / David B. Hunter
• A Turning Point in a Slow Revolution : the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control / Patricia Anne Lambert
• Soft International Law and the Promotion of Financial Regulation and Responsibility / Daniel D. Bradlow
• Levers for and Obstacles to Social Change : Bank Lending, the Law and the Equator Principles / Sheldon Leader and Luis Felipe Yanes
• Non-Judicial Grievance Mechanisms : Hardening the Soft Law of Corporate Accountability? / Nikki Reisch
• Hard and Soft International Law and Their Contribution to Social
• Change : The Lessons Learned / Daniel D. Bradlow & David B. Hunter

"The range, scope, scale, and speed of cross- border activity has significantly increased over the past half century.* Today in addition to the linkages created by international trade, foreign investment, international diplomacy, and state- to- state relations, the world is connected through deep and dynamic technological, social, cultural, and environmental interactions. The result is a profound shift towards more international connectedness through migration, trade in goods and services, social media, tourism, education exchanges, cybercrime, communicable diseases, invasive species and environmental pollution.1 Despite the drag caused by persistent and occasionally resurgent nationalism, the intensity and diversity of these interactions is likely to continue growing"-- Provided by publisher.

• Affirmative action before Kennedy
• Kennedy and Johnson
• Affirmative action spreads-and mutates
• Nixon and the Philadelphia plan
• Prejudice persists, affirmative action grows
• Marco Defunis, Allan Bakke, and Brian Weber
• Changing academia
• Backlash and defense
• Blacks and Jews divide
• Women and affirmative action
• The Reagan presidency
• The Court changes its mind
• Mend it, don't end it-or not
• Prop 209
• Affirmative action and elections
• Seeking diversity in higher education
• Women and affirmative action II
• Other groups, here and abroad
• Bush, Obama, and Fisher
• Yes...and no...and Trump.

Melvin Urofsky explores affirmative action in relation to sex, gender, and education and shows that nearly every public university in the country has at one time or another instituted some form of affirmative action plan-some successful, others not. Urofsky traces the evolution of affirmative action through labor and the struggle for racial equality, writing of World War I and the exodus that began when some six mil­lion African Americans moved northward between 1910 and 1960, one of the greatest internal migrations in the country's history. He describes how Harry Truman, after becoming president in 1945, fought for Roosevelt's Fair Employment Practice Act and, surprising everyone, appointed a distinguished panel to serve as the President's Commission on Civil Rights, as well as appointing the first black judge on a federal appeals court in 1948 and, by executive order later that year, ordering full racial integration in the armed forces. In this important, ambitious, far-reaching book, Urofsky writes about the affirmative action cases decided by the Supreme Court: cases that either upheld or struck down particular plans that affected both governmental and private entities. We come to fully understand the societal impact of affirmative action: how and why it has helped, and inflamed, people of all walks of life; how it has evolved; and how, and why, it is still needed. -- Publisher.

• PART ONE: THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT. A précis on radical evils, the ICC, and African armed conflicts
• The elements of radical evils
• Theories of the radical evil of genocide
• Genocide in historical perspective
• Genocide in Africa
• International criminal justice in perspective
• Juridical basis and applicable law in international criminal trials
• Contemporary international legal institutions authorized to prosecute radical evils
• PART TWO: INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN AFRICA. Africa's ownership of its international criminal trials
• Africa and the international criminal legal order
• Africa's objection to the ICC as the "white man's witch hunt"
• Facing the dread of the ICC
• In search of a viable ICC accountability initiative for Africa.

This book provides an overview of crimes under international law, radical evils, in a number of African states. This overview informs a critical analysis of the debates surrounding the African Union's call for withdrawal from the International Criminal Court and proposes a way forward with a more pertinent role for the Court. The work critically analyzes the arguments around withdrawal from the ICC and the extension of the jurisdiction of the African Court into criminal matters. It is held that this was not intended in the spirit of complementarity as envisaged by the Rome Statute, and is subject to political calculation and manipulation by national governments. Recasting the ICC as a court of second instance would provide a stronger institutional and jurisdictional regime. The book will be a valuable resource for students, academics, and policymakers working in the areas of international humanitarian law, international criminal law, African studies, and genocide studies.

• 1963
• Race
• Sex
• War
• Debt
• Diversity
• Winners
• Losers.

Conservative columnist Christopher Caldwell has spent years studying the liberal uprising of the 1960s and its unforeseen consequences. Even the reforms that Americans love best have come with costs that are staggeringly high -- in wealth, freedom, and social stability -- and that have been spread unevenly among classes and generations. Caldwell describes the political turning points of the past half century, taking readers on a roller-coaster ride through Playboy magazine, affirmative action, CB radio, leveraged buyouts, iPhones, Oxycontin, Black Lives Matter, and internet cookies. In doing so, he shows that attempts to redress the injustices of the past have left Americans living under two different ideas of what it means to play by the rules.

• Introduction : Agency in Earth System Governance / Michele M. Betsill, Tabitha M. Benney, Andrea K. Gerlak, Calum Brown, Sander Chan, Okechukwu Enechi, Ronald B. Mitchell, Ina Möller, James J. Patterson, Michelle Scobie, Sandra van der Hel and Oscar E. Widerberg
• Conceptualizing Agency and Agents in Earth System Governance / Michelle Scobie, Tabitha M. Benney, Cakyn Brown and Oscar E. Widerberg
• Theories and Methods of Agency Research in Earth System Governance / Tabitha M. Benney, Amandine Orsini, Devon Cantwell and Laura Iozzelli
• How Geographies and Issues Matter in ESG-Agency Research / Andrea K. Gerlak, Megan Mills-Novoa, Alison Elder, Okechukwu Enechi, Pritee Sharma and Kanak Singh
• Power (ful) and Power (less) : A Review of Power in the ESG-Agency Scholarship / Andrea K. Gerlak, Thomas R. Eimer, Marie-Claire Brisbois, Megan Mills-Novoa, Luuk Schmitz, Jorrit Luimers and Paivi Abernethy
• The Performance of Agency in Earth System Governance / Michele M. Betsill and Manjana Milkoreit
• Agency and Knowledge in Environmental Governance : A Thematic Review / Manjana Milkoreit, Jennifer S. Bansard and Sandra van der Hel
• Agency and Architecture : Producing Stability and Change / James J. Patterson
• Agency in a Multiscalar World / Michelle Scobie, Michele M. Betsill and Hyeyoon Park
• Agency and Norms : Who Defines What Ought to Be? / Michael Angstadt and Ina Möller
• Agency in the Allocation of and Access to Natural Resources / Pritee Sharma, Okechukwy Enechi, and Salla Nithyanth Kumar
• Agency and Adaptiveness : Navigating Change and Transformation / James J. Patterson
• Accountability in the Governance of Global Change / Caum Brown and Michelle Scobie / How to Evaluate Agents and Agency / Sander Chan and Ronald B. Mitchell
• Conclusion : Policy Implications of ESG-Agency Research and Reflections on the Road Ahead / Andrea K. Gerlak, Michele M. Betsill, James J. Patterson, Sander Chan, Tabitha M. Benney, Marie-Claire Brisbois, Thomas R. Eimer, and Michelle Scobie.

"The modern era is facing unprecedented governance challenges in striving to achieve long-term sustainability goals and to limit human impacts on the earth system. This volume synthesizes a decade of multidisciplinary research into how diverse actors exercise authority in environmental decision making, and their capacity to deliver effective, legitimate and equitable earth system governance. Actors from the global to the local level are considered, including governments, international organizations and corporations. Chapters cover how state and non-state actors engage with decision-making processes, the relationship between agency and structure, and the variations in governance and agency across different spheres and tiers of society. Providing an overview of the major questions, issues and debates, as well as the theories and methods used in studies of agency in earth system governance, this book provides a valuable resource for graduate students and researchers, as well as practitioners and policy makers working in environmental governance"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface
• Introduction
• The agency relationship
• Duties of principal to agent
• Duties of agent to principal
• Vicarious tort liability
• Contractual powers of agents
• The undisclosed principal
• Liability of the agent to third persons
• The doctrine of ratification
• Notice and notification : imputed knowledge
• Termination of the agency relationship
• The creation of a partnership
• The operation of a partnership
• Dissociation of a partner and dissolution of a partnership
• The limited partnership
• The limited liability company

This comprehensive guide explains the law of agency, partnership, and limited liability companies, and includes numerous references to the Restatement of the Law Third-Agency and the most recent versions of the partnership and LLC statutes. The authors seek to provide concise and accurate explanations of fundamental principles in these areas of the law as well as useful applications of those principles.
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• Constitutionalism & impoverishment : a complex dynamic / Arun Thiruvengadam and Gedion Hessebon
• Senses of Sen : reflections on Sen's ideas of justice / César Arjona, Arif A. Jamal, Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Victor V. Ramraj and Francisco Satiro
• Capabilities and human rights / Martha C. Nussbaum
• Amartya Sen and human rights / Upendra Baxi
• Amartya Sen's vision for human rights : and why he needs the law / Kim Lane Scheppele
• Entitlement relations and "unruly" social practices : a comment on the work of Amartya Sen / Charles Gore
• Labour law's theory of justice / Brian Langille
• Social rights and market order : adapting the capability approach / Simon Deakin and Jude Browne
• A capability approach to labour law / Supriya Routh
• Capabilities as fundamental entitlements : Sen and social justice / Martha Nussbaum
• Labour as a "fictive commodity" : radically reconceptualizing labour law / Judy Fudge
• Development as freedom : the spaces of Amartya Sen / Stuart Corbridge
• Introduction : the third moment in law and development theory and the emergence of a new critical practice / David M. Trubek and Alvaro Santos
• The Sen conception of development and contemporary international law discourse : some parallels / Bhupinder Chimni.

• Part one. Voter qualification and participation
• Immigration, citizenship, and the 2020 census / C. Robert Heath
• Strict construction of voter registration laws : Georgia's experience in 2018 / Kristen Clarke, Julie Houk, John Powers
• Too broke to vote : how Florida's felon re-enfranchisement law penalizes the poor / Nancy G. Abudu
• Millennials and electoral access in 2018-2020 / Lauren E. Ward, Benjamin E. Griffith
• A holistic approach to assisting language minority voters / Terry Ao Minnis
• Native American voting rights / Robert O. Saunooke
• Part two. The voting process
• Early voting in America : public usage and public support / Paul Gronke, Peter Miller
• Voter ID laws and jurisprudence : the path to 2020 / Rachel Provencher
• Cybersecurity threats to election systems and development of best practices / Lucy L. Thomson
• Ranked-choice voting : Maine's experience / Peter J. Brann
• Voter fraud claims in America : a historical review of how voter fraud claims have shaped policy and affected voters / Allegra Lawrence-Hardy, Maia Cogen
• Potential legal pitfalls for the 2020 elections / Trevor Potter, Olivia N. Marshall
• For the People Act of 2019 (H.R. 1) : unpacking the most comprehensive democracy reform package since Watergate / Sean J. Wright
• Part three. Voting rights litigation
• Criminal enforcement of the election laws : lessons from 2016 and what to expect in 2020 / Kevin Paulsen
• Section 2 vote dilution in 2018 and beyond, with emphasis on state legislative redistricting / Tommie Cardin, Parker Berry
• Digitized election administration : perils and promise / Rebecca Green, Margaret Hu
• Impact of Shelby County v. Holder on 2018 and 2020 election cycles / Kurt G. Kastorf
• Part four. Redistricting
• Partisan gerrymandering under federal and state law / G. Michael Parsons
• The new redistricting math : establishing fair districts / Gowri Ramachandran, Dara Gold
• Part five. Audits and recounts
• Risk-limiting and ballot image audits / Thomas W. Ryan
• Recounts : the new reality two decades after Bush v. Gore / Christina E. Bustos, Chris Sautter, John Hardin Young.

"Each edition of America Votes! explores issues of concern and problems that threaten the security and fairness of the American electoral system. There is much that needs to be done across a whole host of issues to restore confidence in the fairness, equity, and security of the voting process in communities across America. This edition describes in detail what these issues are"-- Provided by publisher.