Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Ethics & Professional Responsibility

The essays in this volume concern the topic of legal rights, how they are related to morality, the place of rights on moral theory, and the legal recognition of rights.

The development of medical law in the UK has been shaped by landmark decisions on such issues as consent, child welfare, genetics, and assisted suicide. Drawing on legal developments in the UK, US, and other jurisdictions, this book revisits a selection of leading cases in medical law, and argues that while the judgments in each came to the correct conclusion, many issues were left unaddressed, and have led to avoidable confusion. Shaun Pattinson presents an idealised judgment for each case, written with the intention to provide insight into how the court could have supported its...

This book is an ideal sourcebook for students and practitioners who are interested in international business transactions and want to gain familiarity with the law and practice of international trade law, policies and ethics.

It contains eleven chapters, which deal extensively with the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, Incoterms 2000, Carriage of Goods by Sea, Land and Air, Letters of Credit law, the World Trade Organization, international intellectual property law, anti-dumping...

In December 2015, 196 parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the Paris Agreement, seen as a decisive landmark for global action to stop human-induced global warming. The Paris Agreement creates legally binding obligations and in order to halt global warming it is imperative for these national commitments to be implemented.

This book, the third in a series of three examining the global climate integrity system, provides an implementation 'rulebook' for the post-Paris climate regime. This is an essential, as the temperature goal...