Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Public

Liberal theories have long insisted that cultural diversity in democratic societies can be accommodated through classical liberal tools, in particular through individual rights, and they have often rejected the claims of cultural minorities for group rights as illiberal. Group Rights as Human Rights argues that such a rejection is misguided. Based on a thorough analysis of the concept of group rights, it proposes to overcome the dominant dichotomy between "individual" human rights and "collective" group rights by recognizing that group rights also serve individual...

This book addresses the issue of privacy and confidentiality in the broader context of the Egyptian legal system. The volume opens with an overview of the major approaches to confidentiality adopted in various jurisdictions. It goes on to examine the duties of confidentiality and privacy in arbitration law and practice on the basis of interviews with 30 law professors and practitioners who often act as arbitrators or counsel for parties in arbitral disputes together with the relevant Egyptian arbitration law provisions.

The effect of modern and communication technology on civil procedure first appeared on the agenda of the conference organized by the International Association of Procedural Law in 1999, verifying Lord Woolf's statement from the 90's, that "IT will not only assist in streamlining and improving our existing systems and process; it is also likely, in due course, itself to be catalyst for radical change as well...."

At the conference in Pecs in the autumn of 2010 participants from three continents and twenty-five countries examined all aspects of the impact of modern information...

This edited volume presents case studies of the transformation of China's public services over the past decade in China. As the country has experienced fundamental changes in its demographic, economic, social and environmental structures, demands on public services have been increasing tremendously, and have become unprecedentedly diverse. In response, innovations to provide new services, expand service recipients, adopt new technologies, engage partners, and streamline service processes have been employed widely in China to increase service efficiency, enhance quality, enlarge coverage,...

Das 10-jahrige Jubilaum der Staatswissenschaftlichen Fakultat der Universitat Erfurt, im Mai 2000 mit Vertretern aus Rechts-, Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften gegrundet, war Anlass zur Feier, aber auch zu kritischer Reflexion. Der Band dokumentiert die dazu aus der Innen- wie der Auenperspektive verfassten Beitrage, etwa zu Grundungsgeschichte und -auftrag der Fakultat, zum wissenschaftlichen Gehalt des sektoren- und disziplinubergreifenden Konzepts der Staatswissenschaften und uber den besonderen Wert der darauf basierten disziplinubergreifenden BA- und MA-Ausbildung.

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Digital technologies such as self-driving cars and independently acting robots are taking over more of our work and are already making many decisions without our participation. This book examines the technological complexities and covers the legal issues in the use of autonomously functioning, cooperative, intelligent software agents.