This edited volume explores the complex interplay between institutions, equity and social justice in South Asia. The book addresses critical questions concerning institutional development, governance practices, reforms, and the promotion of equitable and just societies in the South Asian region, while also examining the region's progress towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Chapters focus on topics such as the role of local governments and grassroots organization in fostering equity and social change, new methodological approaches to studying diversity and equity in governance, and barriers to inclusion in policymaking and implementation.

Bringing together diverse perspectives and research, this volume aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of how institutional dynamics shape equity and justice in South Asia, and how these can be leveraged to achieve the SDGs, ensuring sustainable development and social cohesion. As such, the volume will be of interest to scholars and students of public administration, governance, South Asian politics, comparative policy, gender, and the SDGs.

Expert contributors introduce and discuss potential reforms, examining notions that reflect on the directive's scope. Chapters focus on the importance of improving and fostering competition, highlighting the instrumental use of public procurement competition rules and analyzing the expansion of the rules on contract performance. In addition, the book explores emerging issues such as greening the EU, climate change and social injustice, among other key topics. Overall, this book serves to spur academic and policy debates in order to inform and drive future change in EU public procurement law.

Reforming EU Public Procurement is a crucial resource for students and scholars of public procurement law, European law and commercial law. Practitioners, NGOs, lobbyists, think tanks and representative bodies involved in the legislative process will benefit from the novel ideas for interpretation of legal concepts and their implementation in this book.

Explaining classical frameworks alongside modern developments in theory, authors explore the Heckscher-Ohlin and Eaton-Kortum models, amongst others. The Encyclopedia presents the developments, trends, and impacts of key international trade topics and concepts in entries that are engaging and accessible. Entries outline key topics, including the political economy of policy, foreign direct investment and migration within the context of trade.

This is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of international trade, economics and finance, business and management as well as politics and public policy. Its practical insights are also greatly beneficial for policymakers in international trade.

Key Features:

• Includes over 40 contributions by leading scholars across the world
• Presents accessible explanations of key topics using established knowledge and open questions
• Establishes excellent starting point for specialists, students, policymakers and general readers seeking greater understanding

This book examines the role of innovation in local public administration across Europe and highlights its value in terms of promoting sustainable development, inclusion and citizen participation. It examines representative practices in three key areas: environmental sustainability, diversity and inclusion, and citizen participation. The book emphasizes the need for local governments to adopt systematic measures that embed environmental sustainability, inclusivity and citizen participation into their administrative frameworks.

Drawing on political theory, public choice, complexity thinking and contemporary debates on artificial intelligence, the book argues that 'the Good' lies in sustaining the ecological, institutional, epistemic and educational infrastructures that make freedom and meaning possible within an interdependent world. Moving across democracy, ethics, education, water governance and digital transformation, Olssen deepens and extends his theory of continuance ethics, showing how responsibility can be understood in terms of preserving the conditions for future agency rather than conforming to a singular vision of the good life.

Against both foundational moralism and relativistic fragmentation, The Return of the Good in the Age of AI offers a distinctive normative vocabulary for governing under conditions of uncertainty, complexity and technological power. It will be essential reading for scholars and advanced students of political theory, public policy, philosophy, education, sociology and economics seeking to rethink ethics and democracy in a planetary and digital age.

The definitive resource on the topic of executive privilege, now in a revised and updated fifth edition that includes the Biden presidency.

Executive Privilege-called "the definitive contemporary work on the subject" by the Journal of Politics-is widely considered the best in-depth history and analysis of executive privilege and its relation to the proper scope and limits of presidential power.

The expanded fifth edition picks up where the fourth edition left off in 2019, with President Donald Trump's bold assertion of a "protective executive privilege" that recognizes no balancing powers against the executive branch. In addition to an expanded analysis of the battle over the Mueller Report, the controversy surrounding the citizenship question on the 2020 census, and the White House security clearances dispute, new sections examine the conflict over the report on steel and aluminum tariffs and the investigation into missing presidential records stored at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, some of which were marked as classified.

Mark J. Rozell and Mitchel A. Sollenberger have also added a new chapter on President Joe Biden, whom the authors regard as taking a measured approach to questions of secrecy and privilege. This chapter recounts how Biden handled former President Trump's executive privilege claims during the January 6th investigation, while also managing the controversy surrounding his own classified documents dispute and the investigations into his son, Hunter Biden.

With its thorough and authoritative analysis of the many controversies regarding presidential privilege and accountability from the founding of the nation to Trump and beyond, Executive Privilege remains an essential resource.

The volume moves across levels: constitutional rules, administrative systems, frontline delivery, and the digital state. It shows how hybrid arrangements emerge when central control meets local power, and how data, AI, and platforms can enable coordination yet also invite new forms of oversight. The result is a comparative account of when reform travels, what adapts, and where path dependence resists change.

Governance and Public Policy in the Middle East and North Africa is an essential read for scholars and students of comparative politics, public policy and administration, development studies, and MENA studies. It is also beneficial for policy practitioners and analysts seeking actionable advice informed by regional governance dynamics and institutional change processes.

For years, LGBTQ+ policies worldwide have been crafted based on heteronormative views, needs, and practices. However, this has gradually changed over the last two decades as LGBTQ+ individuals have become key players in the development of gender-based policies. This important and timely book examines these political and social changes, evaluates how actors have successfully integrated LGBTQ+ needs into the mainstream policy agenda, and provides a comprehensive guide to understanding the policymaking processes from an LGBTQ+ perspective. Drawing on data from Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, and the USA, it presents a systematic framework for understanding "queering public policy" as a policy process. The final chapter offers a roadmap for scholars interested in exploring this evolving field further. This book will appeal to anyone interested in public policy, public administration, and queer studies.

Chapters systematically link responsibility for the destruction of Earth others to the rise of neoliberalism and the failure of dominant systems of law to address the problems at this structural level. The authors build on Indigenous knowledge, relational ontologies and evolutionary developmental biology to articulate a novel, critical methodology for explicitly recognising Earth others in statutory re-drafting and the reimagining of climate and biodiversity laws. They critique the dominant legal approaches, presenting Multispecies Climate Justice as an alternative metanarrative for law and a transformative way forward.

Multispecies Climate Justice, Disasters and Responsibility is an essential resource for academics and students in law and development, climate and environmental law, human rights and climate change as well as politics and public policy. It is also an informative read for activists, practitioners, professionals and policymakers involved in climate justice.

The collection conceptualizes gender, violence and law broadly, enabling expert authors to devise comprehensive strategies against individual aggression, structural violence and intersecting oppressions impacting women and other marginalized groups. Example case studies include sexual violence in conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, feminist legal activism and the undercover policing scandal in the UK, and masculinity, race and violence in post-colonial Italy. Presenting a wide range of perspectives and international voices from scholars, activists and legal professionals, this Research Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the field and suggests avenues for future research, such as digital activism and challenging coloniality and academic extractivism in feminist studies.

The Research Handbook on Gender, Violence and Law is a valuable resource for scholars and students of law, gender studies, sociology, politics, international relations, and media and cultural studies. Activists and legal professionals will also benefit from its insights into key legal and policy debates, and methods of addressing gendered violence.

In this highly informative book leading international scholars consider the potential avenues for future research on succession law. They examine the response of researchers to societal developments such as ageing populations, technological developments and changing family forms.

The extent to which succession law serves its most important functions, from testamentary freedom to the provision of clarity, is a core question for this book. Against that backdrop the authors explore key topics that are expected to occupy scholars, including electronic wills, disinheritance, intestate succession, aboriginal inheritance and modern funerals. Using a diverse range of research methods, contributors consider how research in succession law will evolve in the changing economic and social world order.

A Research Agenda for Succession Law is a valuable resource for scholars of succession, property and family law. It will also be beneficial for policymakers, practitioners and judges working in succession law.

Leading scholars and experts highlight emerging trends and challenges in the field, covering key topics including policy transfer, penal populism, technocratic approaches to penal policy, the influence of human rights, outcome assessment of penal policy decisions, and decarceration strategies. The chapters examine penal governance and the politics of crime and punishment, investigating how decisions about penal interventions are made, as well as the values, interests, and practical constraints which influence them. Combining theoretical examination and normative inquiry with a cross-national perspective and real-world analysis, the Handbook bridges theory and practice, serving as a foundational resource for engaging with contemporary debates in penal policy.

This Research Handbook is an essential read for scholars and students of criminal law, criminal justice, and criminology. It is also beneficial for policymakers and criminal justice practitioners looking to better understand the complex forces shaping penal policy across diverse national and institutional contexts.

The story of the legal battle between the Cherokee Nation and the State of Georgia that ultimately led to the infamous Trail of Tears and the ongoing struggles for Native sovereignty.

Sovereignty on Trial tells the story of a trio of landmark United States Supreme Court cases-Johnson v. M'Intosh (1823), Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831), and Worcester v. Georgia (1832)-that considered the legal status of Native nations in the early nineteenth century.

Known as the Marshall Trilogy-majority opinions all written by Chief Justice John Marshall-the decisions are inconsistent in their holdings and reasoning, leaving American Indian law and interpretations of Native sovereignty confusing and ambiguous. In M'Intosh, Marshall used the imperial doctrine of discovery to diminish the property rights and autonomy of the Native nations. Subsequent interpretations of Marshall's opinion in Cherokee Nation, with its "guardian and ward" analogy, ultimately placed Native people in a dependent status with the United States. At the end of his judicial career, however, Marshall came to view Native rights in a different light, and his opinion in Worcester was a powerful acclamation of Native political sovereignty and territorial rights. Courts have tried with little success to find a coherent line through the three rulings.

The two Georgia cases resulted from the state's efforts to extend its jurisdiction over the Cherokee Nation and annihilate its government. These cases were decided against the backdrop of the Indian Removal Act of 1830. When President Andrew Jackson and Congress failed to enforce Worcester, Georgia interned and forcibly removed the Cherokee in the now infamous tragedy known as the Trail of Tears.

Tim Alan Garrison places this trio of cases in their broader legal and historical context. Significantly, Garrison explains why Georgia sought to expel the Cherokees from their homeland, how these attacks on native sovereignty tore apart Cherokee national unity, and how the changes in Cherokee political culture determined their strategy in resisting the state's onslaught. The Cherokee resistance against Georgia was a remarkable example of national courage for the Indigenous peoples of the world, and their determination to fight oppression through the judicial system of the United States left a lasting impact on American Indian law. The Cherokee Cases tells an important, if disturbing, story whose reverberations are felt to the present day.

Die Rechte der Natur haben sich von einem etwas exzentrischen Nischenthema zu einem Mainstream-Forschungsfeld entwickelt. Zuerst in Rechtsordnungen der suedlichen Hemisphaere eingefuehrt, haben sie . seither ihren Weg auch in noerdliche Rechtsordnungen gefunden - von Kanada bis Spanien. In vielen anderen stossen sie jedoch auf Ablehnung. Als rechtliche Innovation aus dem Globalen Sueden, die ihren Weg in den Norden findet, sind sie fuer eine dekoloniale Rechtsvergleichung, die Eurozentrismus vermeidet und ueberwindet, ebenso von besonderer Bedeutung wie fuer Analysen des globalen Rechtspluralismus jenseits des Staates..
Dieser Sammelband vereint zwei Generalberichte, fuenf Spezialberichte und 20 Laenderberichte, die urspruenglich fuer den Weltkongress 2022 der Internationalen Vereinigung fuer Rechtsvergleichung erstellt und seither gruendlich aktualisiert wurden. Durch die Verknuepfung der Rechte der Natur mit Diskussionen ueber globalen Rechtspluralismus traegt er zu einem tieferen Verstaendnis beider Phaenomene bei. Innovativ ordnet er die Laender drei Kategorien zu: poietische Systeme, die am Ursprung der Rechte der Natur stehen, mimetische Systeme, die das Konzept uebernommen haben, sowie widerstaendige Systeme, die dies nicht getan haben. Gerade die letztgenannte Kategorie ist bislang weitgehend unbeachtet geblieben; dabei sind Widerstand und seine Gruende entscheidende Elemente fuer das Verstaendnis der Rechte der Natur. Das Buch verbindet formelles Recht mit der Analyse soziooekonomischer und kultureller Rahmenbedingungen und untersucht insbesondere die lokalen und transnationalen Bewegungen, die hinter der Einfuehrung der Rechte der Natur stehen.

This book explores how multisector collaboration approaches in Kenya and South Africa contribute to the fulfilment of human rights state obligations to prevent and effectively respond to sexual violence against women. Applying a feminist human rights perspective, the author unpacks state obligations to exercise due diligence in prevention, protection, prosecution, punishment and provision of adequate remedies to victims. This perspective puts victims' needs and rights at the forefront in assessing service integration models, while foregrounding the need for state accountability to establish sustainable and effective sexual violence interventions. Using a qualitative case-study approach and interview data, it analyses how sexual violence service integration centers operate in urban, peri-urban and rural contexts . It demonstrates how these multi-sector collaboration approaches can produce different service orientations that may eclipse and de-center the needs and rights of sexual violence victims. The author concludes by discussing the parameters of what a victimcentered service integration approach would look like and highlights critical ways to shift deeply-rooted social, structural and institutional norms, which are the root causes of violence against women.

This book critically examines violence and violent crime through sociological, psychological, and theoretical perspectives, analyzing the complex relationships between policing, community conflict, and crime control. Bringing together leading experts, it explores the underlying factors that contribute to violence, the impact of police practices, and the challenges of balancing law enforcement with public trust. The chapters are organized thematically to address key issues, including the psychology of violence, the role of communities in crime prevention, police brutality and accountability, and the increasing violence targeting law enforcement. Taking a global and comparative approach, the book investigates case studies from North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Pacific to assess how different societies respond to violent crime. It further considers policy implications, proposing evidence-based strategies to reduce violence, improve policing practices, and enhance institutional integrity in an evolving security landscape.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the philosophy of Watsuji Tetsuro (1889-1960). Watsuji was one of the leading figures in modern Japanese philosophy and is increasingly being recognized internationally. Within Watsuji's oeuvre, this book focuses on "Ningen no gaku toshite no rinrigaku" (1934), "Fudo" (1935), and "Rinrigaku"(1937-1949) as well as on other related texts.

This text is comprised of three parts and fifteen chapters. Each chapter is written by an accomplished scholar. The readers are introduced to the key concepts of Watsuji's thought: fuudo, ningen/aidagara, rinri, sonzai, and ku followed by critical appropriations of Heidegger, Kant, and Hegel. Watsuji is then situated within the broader context of the Kyoto school philosophy. Watsuji's relevance is explored over a variety of topics within and outside of philosophy such as nature, ethics, transcultural philosophy, the history of ideas, education, and environmental politics. The appendix gives the reader a sample of Watsuji's elegant style by offering a new translation of "The fundamental theory of fudo." This text arguably comprises Watsuji's philosophy in a nutshell and is meant to complement the preceding chapters. This book appeals to teachers, researchers and graduate students.

Bridging the fields of gender studies and political science, contributors examine how gendered hierarchies shape political institutions, decision-making and access to resources. They present global, interdisciplinary and intersectional perspectives on key themes such as feminisms, intersectionality, political behaviour, conflict and media. Guided by inclusivity and authorial agency, the Encyclopedia sheds light on gaps in the literature, critiques prevailing theories and charts future research directions.

Scholars and students of political science, gender studies and the social sciences more broadly will benefit from this comprehensive and accessible resource. It is also beneficial for practitioners and policymakers looking to enact gender-sensitive policies and practices.

Key Features:

• Includes over 80 compelling entries
• Written by scholars from across the globe
• Challenges traditional approaches to the discipline
• Serves as both a reference work and a conceptual resource

Since the first edition was published 20 years ago, this large-scale commentary on the German Limited Liability Companies Act (GmbHG) has established itself as an indispensable standard work in corporate law. Written by renowned experts from academia and practice, the work combines rigorous scholarly standards with strong practical relevance. It provides a comprehensive and in-depth treatment of GmbH law-from its fundamental principles to complex individual issues. The commentary is thus a reliable companion for anyone dealing with demanding legal questions in GmbH law and a work that no legal library should be without.
This fourth edition has been completely revised. There are also once again some changes among the contributors: Joerg Paura has left the circle of authors at his own request; Paragr. 33 is now commented on by Mathias Habersack. Carsten Schaefer is now solely responsible for the commentary on Sections 45 to 51b GmbHG; following the death of Thomas Raiser, this also applies to the commentary on the law of resolutions defects in the appendix to Section 47. Kai Wallisch has been recruited as a co-author for the commentary on Sections 35 to 44.
The commentary is published in three volumes and is available only as a complete set.
Volume 1 was published in 2024. Volume 3 is expected to be published in 2027.

Dieses umfassende Werk zum Schuldverschreibungsrecht haelt in der nunmehr dritten Auflage an seinem bewaehrten Konzept fest und bietet sowohl tiefgehende Kommentierungen, aber auch systematische Darstellungen und Vertragsmuster. Kommentiert werden unter Beruecksichtigung der neusten Gesetzesnovellen wie z.B.

• StoFoeG, 3. BSchuWGAendG und ZuFinG
• das gesamte Schuldverschreibungsgesetz (SchVG),
• Paragr. 221 AktG (Spezialvorschrift zu Schuldverschreibungen bei Aktiengesellschaften),
• das Bundesschuldenwesengesetz (BSchuWG) sowie
• das Gesetz ueber elektronische Wertpapiere (eWpG)

Systematische Darstellungen finden sich zu

• Anleihestrukturen und Anleihebedingungen, zur Rechnungslegung sowie zum Aufsichts- und Steuerrecht,
• zur Restrukturierung von Schuldverschreibungen ausserhalb des SchVG, nach StaRUG oder InsO sowie
• zum Internationalen Privatrecht und zu Auslandsanleihen.

Zudem werden die juengsten Entwicklungen wie z.B. der EU Listing Act (z.B. Aenderungen Insiderrecht/Ad hoc-Publizitaet) und das Verteidigungsfinanzierungspaket 2025 (2025 EU Defense Financing Package) aufgegriffen.

Mit der Einfuehrung des ?Single Supervisory Mechanism" (SSM) als Element der europaeischen Bankenunion wurden zentrale Aufgaben der Bankenaufsicht per Unionsrecht in eine unabhaengige Wahrnehmung durch einen aus Europaeischer Zentralbank und nationalen Aufsichtsbehoerden bestehenden Verwaltungsverbund ueberfuehrt. Aus der Perspektive des deutschen Verfassungsrechts wird eine unabhaengige Wahrnehmung von Verwaltungsaufgaben haeufig mit grosser Skepsis betrachtet und - wie etwa im Zentralbankenwesen - nur in eng begrenzten Ausnahmekonstellationen fuer zulaessig gehalten. Angesichts der Anforderungen demokratischer Legitimation und gegenseitiger Gewaltenkontrolle gilt sie als besonders rechtfertigungsbeduerftig. Christopher Finck widmet sich vor diesem Hintergrund den primaer- und verfassungsrechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen einer unabhaengigen Wahrnehmung von Bankenaufsichtsaufgaben und beruecksichtigt dabei auch die im SSM abgebildete Konstellation, in der diese Aufgaben gemeinsam mit Zentralbankaufgaben durch eine einzige Institution erfuellt werden. In Auseinandersetzung mit extrajuridischen Erkenntnissen, insbesondere aus den Wirtschaftswissenschaften, untersucht er zunaechst die Gruende und Wirkungen einer Unabhaengigkeitsstellung. Anschliessend ueberprueft er, ob und in welcher Form sich die aufsichtliche Unabhaengigkeit im SSM mit den Vorgaben des Primaerrechts und des nationalen Verfassungsrechts vereinbaren laesst. Er zeigt Gestaltungsmoeglichkeiten der Verwaltungsorganisation auf, die diesen rechtlichen Anforderungen entsprechen und zugleich eine wirksame Wahrnehmung der Aufsichtsaufgaben gewaehrleisten.

Die Arbeit wurde mit einem Sonderpreis der Deutschen Bundesbank ausgezeichnet.

This open access book explores how the elements of Blumenbach's epistemology have been variously assembled in different ways and in different historical-cultural and political-social contexts. It looks at the ways in which this epistemology has been enriched with new elements that have ensured its reproduction. The contributors revise approaches to the historical legacy of Enlightenment scholars such as Blumenbach in terms of nuances to our understanding of intellectual responsibility for the reproduction of race-informed thought, the legitimization of racial discrimination, and the lack of critical response to both. "Blumenbach's Racial Classification: Deconstructing the Timeless Call for Human Differentiation" transcends the simplistic boundaries between "right" and "left" science and revises the internally contradictory impact of racialist/racial thinking on knowledge about humanity. This book deepens our understanding of race as a contributor to various fields of the production of knowledge about humanity and different epistemic platforms. Instead of highlighting the pathos in revealing racism in the stances of the most authoritative thinkers, the editors and authors suggest contemplation of the persistence of epistemologies that promote racially informed views on humanity and their implications. The book attributes the responsibility for atrocities legitimized by "race science" to intellectual movements like Enlightenment, through more complex historicization, making it of great importance to philosophers, historians of science, and those specialised in racial studies and social sciences.

Drawing on economic theory, regulatory practice and CJEU case law, the textbook covers the entire field of capital markets law in the EU. Chapters explore the historical and institutional evolution of this legislation, alongside key definitions and overarching objectives.

Key Features:

• Provides an accompanying bibliography to inspire further research
• Assesses core legislation such as MiFID II/MiFIR, UCITS, CSDR and SFTR
• Analyses regimes on transparency, market abuse, takeover bids and PRIIPs
• Introduces recent developments in sustainability, crowdfunding and digital finance
• Examines the factors limiting progress and those contributing to a more integrated and resilient financial system

This accessible textbook is a crucial resource for students of EU financial legislation and European law, as well as finance and banking law more broadly.

The starting point of this book is the question of to what extent knowledge can be objectively justified and to what extent our statements, in their claim to be true, must necessarily presuppose a reference to a world given independently of our subjective experience. Overall, it is to be shown that, first, every theory of truth must in some way be based on correspondence-theoretical assumptions (i.e., truth is the agreement of a statement or thought with reality). Second, however, that every form of the correspondence theory necessarily leads either to internally contradictory systems (especially Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Aristotle, and Popper) or to self-contained doctrines that are, by definition, not falsifiable (Thomas Aquinas, the Stoics, Plato, Wittgenstein, Habermas). Conclusion: Since every epistemology must include correspondence-theoretical assumptions (e.g., the ontological principle of a correspondence between being and consciousness), there is always an explanatory gap inherent in them.