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Business Law: The Ethical, Global, And E-commerce Environment
Manufacturer: Irwin/McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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Patents for Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology: Fundamentals of Global Law, Practice and Strategy
Philip W. Grubb Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0199273782 |
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The chemicals, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology industries worldwide rely upon being able to patent inventions in order to protect investment in research and development, and to reap commercial rewards. Philip Grubb's highly acclaimed book guides the reader through the legal and procedural complexities of the British, European, Japanese and US patent systems, and explains in detail the role of patent practitioners (both in-house and in private practice) in maximising the commercial potential of their client's or company's innovative products. This eagerly awaited fourth edition provides vital updating to take account of the latest legal developments, while retaining the focus upon the relevant technology and industry practices in this sector that sets it apart from more general books on patent law and procedure. Patents for Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology provides a complete description of the techniques and industry know-how that underlie successful patent practice and portfolio management and will be invaluable to all patent agents and practitioners working in the area of patent law. With its lucid and accessible presentation and practical approach, this book will also be welcomed by scientists, researchers and managers without a legal background.Customer Reviews:
First rate.......2005-08-17
An outstanding publication.......2003-03-30
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Business Law: The Ethical, Global, and E-Commerce Environment with PowerWeb and Student DVD
Jane P. Mallor , A. James Barnes , L. Thomas Bowers , Arlen W Langvardt , Jane Mallor , and Arlen Langvardt Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Irwin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0072860952 |
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Mallor, Barnes, Bowers and Langvardt’s, Business Law: The Ethical, Global, and E-Commerce Environment, 12th Edition, is appropriate for the two-term business law course. The cases in the 12th edition are excerpted and edited by the authors. The syntax is not altered, therefore retaining the language of the courts. As in the 11th edition, the 12th edition includes a mix of actual AND hypothetical cases. The title has been changed to reflect a new focus of the book – the global and Internet environment. Business Law: The Ethical, Global, and E-Commerce Environment, 12e includes new pedagogy such as opening vignettes and new-boxed features such as “Ethics in Action” and “Cyberlaw in Action.” This combined with case briefs and concept reviews, along with some reorganization of the text results in a more complete, relevant and user-friendly text.Customer Reviews:
wrong one.......2006-11-11
Great intro to law text.......2005-09-30
Excellent!!!.......2005-09-27
Not reader friendly, not study friendly, not friendly...........2003-09-03
This book - textually speaking - is so poorly arranged. Key terms are imbedded in the text, there's no review at the end of the chapters, it's written in terrible legal-ease. "Down to earth" (non lawyer legal-ease) examples are difficult to come by, since most of the examples are actual cases that go on for pages (and they're "briefs"). To compound the matter, I spent $$$ on the study "guide" because the book is so unfriendly for studying. And guess what? The study guide has NO ANSWERS! What kind of a guide is that? How does that guide you? If you want it to be an "additional exercises" book, then call it that. But STUDY GUIDES ALWAYS have the answers. I hope your Prof. is better than the book they assign. "Business Law Today" is worlds better and easier to read and study, and better outlined and formatted for the "lay" person.
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Business: Its Legal, Ethical, and Global Environment with InfoTrac College Edition
Marianne M. Jennings Manufacturer: South-Western College/West ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0324164858 |
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This highly effective text provides superior legal, ethical, and regulatory coverage while fully integrating practical business practices for tomorrow's business managers. Legal topics are explored and explained through real-world business examples (over 300 references to business are made in the text). In addition to a solid foundation in the law, students learn valuable legal and ethical reasoning skills through a variety of critical thinking exercises. Students receive -- and appreciate -- practical advice on when it is necessary to call a lawyer, how best to use legal aid services and how to avoid legal trouble in the first place. This text fulfills current curricular and AACSB accrediting standards.Customer Reviews:
FAST SHIPPING!!!.......2007-09-10
Quite Comprehensive.......2006-03-17
Good enough.......2005-09-12
15 days to tell us they didn't have the book........2004-11-16
Overall, I recommend it........2001-09-04
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Citizenship Today: Global Perspectives and Practices
Manufacturer: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0870031848 |
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The forms, policies, and practices of citizenship are changing rapidly around the globe, and the meaning of these changes is the subject of deep dispute. Citizenship Today brings together leading experts in their field to define the core issues at stake in the citizenship debates.The first section investigates central trends in national citizenship policy that govern access to citizenship, the rights of aliens, and plural nationality. The following section explores how forms of citizenship and their practice are, can, and should be located within broader institutional structures. The third section examines different conceptions of citizenship as developed in the official policies of governments, the scholarly literature, and the practice of immigrants and the final part looks at the future for citizenship policy.
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All About Rights--Very Little About Loyalty or Duties.......2001-06-03
I have mixed feelings about this book. On the most positive side, it is the only, and therefore the best, treatment of the issues of citizenship that I could identify, and that is why I bought it. The range of authoritative essays that have been brought together is very worthy, and anyone contemplating this topic must take this work into account.
On the other hand, as I went through chapter after chapter, what I tended to see was an awful lot of academic whining about how the world is getting too complex and too multi-cultural to be able to pin someone down to just one citizenship, let them have many. Reality check needed here. Governments exist to preserve and protect very specific moral, ideological, and cultural values, and governments are the means by which a Republic finances what are called external diseconomies--those things that are needed for the common good but not profitable for the private sector to do.
There are glimmers here and there of how one might better integrate new immigrants and otherwise promote good citizenship, but overall what this book is missing is a major commitment to thinking about how one draws the line between nationalized citizens truly loyal to their newly chosen nation-state, and those who choose to retain another primary citizenship and simply enjoy the bounty of the land they have chosen to VISIT....
Of all the contributions, the one that stood out for me was by Adrian Favell, on "Integration Policy and Integration Research in Europe: A Review and Critique." Despite the title, the heart of this chapter concerns the information "sources and methods" that underlie conclusions about citizenship and the policies on citizenship. There is a great deal of meat in this chapter, and it could useful guide the next book in what I hope will become a series.
I like this book. It forced me to think and it certainly opened my eyes to how we are letting a whole bunch of people debate the nature of citizenship without ever really being committed to the idea that an oath of loyalty is fundamental--as universal service should be fundamental, not to flesh out the military, but rather to provide a common foundation for knowing one another intimately, for respecting one another from that common ground. How one defines citizenship is fundamental to the future of every nation--this book both enlightens and frightens.
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Risky Business: Corruption, Fraud, Terrorism & Other Threats to Global Business
Stuart Poole-Robb , and Alan Bailey Manufacturer: Kogan Page ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0749440317 |
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The terrorist outrages of September 11, 2001 and the rapid collapse of Enron both highlight the uncomfortable fact that businesses and business people are subject to risks much broader and often more personally hazardous than the commerical and financial risks studied at business school.
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The Implementation and Effectiveness of International Environmental Commitments: Theory and Practice (Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation)
Manufacturer: The MIT Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0262720280 |
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Because environmental problems do not respect borders, their solutions often require international cooperation and agreements. The contributors to this book examine how international environmental agreements are put into practice. Their main concern is effectiveness--the degree to which such agreements lead to changes in behavior that help to solve environmental problems. Their focus is on implementation--the process that turns commitments into action, at both domestic and international levels. Implementation is the key to effectiveness because these agreements aim to constrain not just governments but a wide array of actors, including individuals, firms, and agencies whose behavior does not change simply because governments have made international commitments.
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Islamic Family Law in A Changing World: A Global Resource Book
Manufacturer: Zed Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Accessories: ASIN: 1842770934 |
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Military Intervention after the Cold War: The Evolution of Theory and Practice (Ohio RIS Global Series)
Andrea Kathryn Talentino Manufacturer: Ohio University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0896802450 |
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For hundreds of years military intervention was considered taboo and prohibited by international law. Since 1992, intervention has often been described as an international responsibility and efforts have been made to give it legal justification. This represents an extraordinary change in perceptions, and one that has taken place in only the space of a decade. Military Intervention After the Cold War explores how and why this change took place, looking at how both ideas and actions changed in the post-Cold War period to make military intervention a tool of international security and a defining characteristic of the international system. Although it is often touted as a strategy to rebuild collapsed states, the examples of success are few and far between. Andrea Kathryn Talentino argues that standards of human rights and responsible governance have become part of the definition of international security. She addresses questions that are vital in the post-9/11 world, where weak and collapsed states are recognized as permissive and at times supportive environments for criminal actors. The specter of terrorism has placed even greater emphasis on the need to understand why military intervention happens and how it could be more effective. With the news full of stories on intervention and nation-building, scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, and readers interested in understanding global interdependence will find Military Intervention After the Cold War an indispensable book. Andrea Kathryn Talentino is an assistant professor of international relations at Tulane University, New Orleans.The author of numerous articles on military intervention and post- conflict rebuilding, she is currently focusing on the link between nation-building and political violence.
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Global Justice or Global Revenge? International Criminal Justice at the Crossroads
Hans Köchler Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 3211007954 |
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The evolving concept of universal jurisdiction, the modern doctrine of humanitarian intervention, and the challenges faced by legal theory in addressing issues of international terrorism are subjects of this profound study. The author´s main intention is to reflect upon the legal and philosophical foundations of international criminal law in the context of politics. He analyzes the prospects of the International Criminal Court and compares this institution to other forms of universal jurisdiction such as the Security Council´s ad hoc tribunals. He also points out the problem of double standards in the current practice of "humanitarian politics”. Hans Koechler was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations as international observer at the Lockerbie trial in the Netherlands. His experience gained at the "trial of the century” motivated him to reflect on the feasibility of international criminal justice and humanitarian intervention in the framework of the present unipolar world order.Customer Reviews:
A WORTHY GUIDE FOR A CURED INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ORDER.......2004-02-01
Dr. Hans Köchler, a distinguished professor of philosophy and law, added another thorough analysis, entitled Global Justice or Global Revenge?, to his impressive list of challenging publications, all of which should be judged justifiably as marked contributions to a world order based on legality.
For the purposes of this review, one has to dispense with detailed references to his previous but much-related published works that constitute an extensive record laying out the author's consistency in thinking and certitude in preferences. All of them are scholarly tributes to the universality of democratic principles, revitalization of international law, and the reconstruction of an alternative society for the world at large.
Without probing into specifications, and certainly very much short of a full bibliography, one may mention, nevertheless, by way of drawing a deserved framework, some titles and their essential significance. Analyzing the changing nature of international relations in the era of globalization (Globality versus Democracy? 2000), Prof. Köchler devoted several books/booklets to the study of relations between democracy and related concepts. Some are: Democracy in International Relations, 1986; Democracy and Human Rights, 1990; Demokratie und Neue Weltordnung, 1992; Democracy after the End of the East-West Conflict, 1995. In all of them, and more comprehensibly in his Democracy and the International Rule of Law (1995), Prof. Köchler searched for a reformulation of the democratic concept applicable on a world-wide basis.
Various publications entail his timely suggestions for U.N. reform. Some are: The United Nations and International Democracy, 1995, 1997; The United Nations and the New World Order, 1992. One of his books examines the normative contradiction in the U.N. Charter and its consequences on international relations (The Voting Procedure in the United Nations Security Council, 1991). Two books are devoted to the unethical aspects of the U.N. sanctions policy. They are: Ethische Aspekte der Sanktionen im Völkerrecht, 1994; The United Nations Sanctions Policy and International Law, 1995.
Coming to some selected topics, he dwelled in Terrorism and National Liberation (1988), on the conflict of wills of a powerful versus a weaker state. In another treatise, entitled Green Dialogue for an Alternative World Order (1995), he judged the industrialized countries in terms of their attitudes vis-à-vis various issues from global warming to toxic wastes. Still another (In Search of a Just World Order, 1998) treated the gap between the right to vote and popular participation, especially in the Pacific region.
In various other books, he urged for alternative international economic and information orders, appraised the cultural-philosophical aspects of international cooperation, and took up such diversified issues as non-alignment, Palestine and President Reagan's foreign policy. Almost all of the author's scholarly endeavours are, in the main, philosophical reflections on the principles of an improved international legal order. Even his criticism of Edmund Husserl's phenomenology as an "idealistic misunderstanding" is a quest to utilize the effectiveness of philosophy in interpreting direct world experience.
Prof. Köchler's latest compendium (Global Justice or Global Revenge? International Criminal Justice at the Crossroads), released during the last month of 2003, is an inspiring guide for those attracted to the evolving concept of universal jurisdiction. The author's criterion in this work has been to define and elaborate on the measures of international law enforcement, which should agree with the norms governing peaceful co-existence in general and the U.N. rules of collective security in particular. Analyzing the legal and philosophical foundations of universal jurisdiction, the book scrutinizes the problems of legitimacy of international legal institutions within the context of power politics.
The book also presents (pp. 51f) a valuable historical overview of efforts, since the first proposal in 1872, towards international criminal justice. It took more than a century to reach the level of the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), on which the author dwells exhaustively.
The author notes that although the Nürnberg and the Tokyo trials established new standards of criminal responsibility (such as making heads of states accountable for criminal actions and rejection of obedience to superior orders as a defence argument), these two post-World War II tribunals were still examples of victors' justice. For instance, the Tokyo Tribunal had been preceded by U.S. Military Commissions set up to try Japanese war criminals on the basis of an order by General MacArthur, who also appointed the President of the Tribunal.
He considers the creation of two international tribunals (for former Yugoslavia and Rwanda), by the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council (UNSC), as a violation of the basic legal standards. They were, indeed, set up in a discriminatory manner defining legality in terms of power politics. The permanent members of the UNSC having a de facto control over them, they fall short, as observed by the author, of meeting the requirements for an international penal tribunal. The presiding judge in the Miloseviæ case, for instance, is a citizen of one of the countries that have waged war against the country of which the accused was the Head of State.
The author accurately perceives that political emotions prevent a rational analysis of the responsibilities for war, and consequently only the behaviour of the defeated party is judged, not that of the victor. The victor, now transformed into a judge, sets up the tribunal and the terms of persecution and enjoys total immunity from the same scrutiny.
A separation of powers is, then, a prerequisite for an international rule of law. He correctly underlines its value throughout the book (pp. 19-24, 67f, 117f, 251f). The author observes that the Special Court for Sierra Leone, to look into the crimes committed by the factions during the civil war in that country, is the one that meets the basic requirement of separating legality from politics. Being international and independent, it enjoys advantages over the other ad hoc courts.
The author emphasizes that global peace and security can prevail only if an efficient system of international criminal law entrenches itself. He rates the ICC, a supranational authority exercising some functions otherwise reserved to states, as a significant step in that direction. He terms its emergence as "a new qualitative stage" (p. 75). A fully independent international court is, indeed, a sine qua non for global justice, or the reverse of global revenge.
Still, the ICC has to protect its independence against the most powerful nation-states and the UNSC (pp. 200-57, 261-63). Well aware of the predicaments facing universal jurisdiction in a unipolar world, the author is repeatedly but appropriately critical of the stubborn efforts of the United Sates to challenge the authority of the ICC. From the point of view of a superpower, especially in a unipolar world, international law enforcement means the application of its own laws and the reinforcement of its own interests.
The United States has been paralyzing the ICC from its very beginning. Its withdrawal from the Rome Statute, the adoption of the American Servicemembers' Protection Act (2002), and the bilateral agreements to guarantee the non-extradition of U.S. citizens to the ICC demonstrate official American position towards universal justice. The UNSC, acting ultra vires, altered the meaning of Art. 16 of the Rome Statute and limited the scope of the ICC's jurisdiction. The United States, then, not only refused to recognize its jurisdiction over American citizens, but also extended its own (U.S.) jurisdiction to the territory of other states. According to Prof. Köchler, the 2002 Act is the "most decisive rejection" (p. 241) of the ICC by a non-state party thus far. The author poses, then, the following valid question: "How can the Court exercise its universal mandate when the unrivalled superpower threatens states with unilateral sanctions in the case of their ratifying the treaty or cooperation with the Court?" (p. 265). Further, if nuclear arms are not mentioned, in line with the French reservation (pp. 223-26), in the definition of war crimes, the ICC runs the risk of becoming irrelevant.
Prof. Köchler's book is not only a scholarly investigation into the past and present of criminal justice, but also a well-timed warning that the lessons from experience may not be in vain. His concerns do not invalidate the basic idea of universal and supranational jurisdiction. The book is a vade mecum that may be synopsized as "Justice, Not Revenge!"
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