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Law --- Law. --- History --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- history --- law --- legal systems --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation --- Regions --- History of the law

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Law and Justice around the World is designed to introduce students to comparative law and justice, including cross-national variations in legal and justice systems as well as global and international justice. The book draws students into critical discussions of justice around the world today by: taking a broad perspective on law and justice rather than limiting its focus to criminal justice systemsexamining topics of global concern, including governance, elections, environmental regulations, migration and refugee status, family law, and others focusing on a diverse set of global examples, from Europe, North America, East Asia, and especially the global south, and comparing the United States law and justice system to these other nations continuing to cover core topics such as crime, law enforcement, criminal courts, and punishmentincluding chapter goals to define learning outcomessharing case studies to help students apply concepts to real life issues Instructor resources include discussion questions; suggested readings, films, and web resources; a test bank; and chapter-by-chapter PowerPoint slides with full-color maps and graphics. By widening the comparative lens to include nations that are often completely ignored in research and teaching, the book paints a more realistic portrait of the different ways in which countries define and pursue justice in a globalized, interconnected world.

Comparative law. --- comparative justice. --- comparative legal systems. --- crime. --- criminal courts. --- criminal justice. --- global justice. --- international justice. --- law enforcement. --- law. --- punishment. --- social justice. --- textbook.

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Creditor-friendly laws are generally associated with more credit to the private sector and deeper financial markets. But laws mean little if they are not upheld in the courts. The authors hypothesize that the effectiveness of creditor rights is strongly linked to the efficiency of contract enforcement. This hypothesis is tested using firm level data on 27 European countries in 2002 and 2005. The analysis finds that firms have more access to bank credit in countries with better creditor rights, but the association between creditor rights and bank credit is much weaker in countries with inefficient courts. Exploiting the panel dimension of the data and the fact that creditor rights change over time, the authors show that the effect of a change in creditor rights on change in bank credit increases with court enforcement. In particular, a unit increase in the creditor rights index will increase the share of bank loans in firm investment by 27 percent in a country at the 10th percentile of the enforcement time distribution (Lithuania). However, the increase will be only 7 percent in a country at the 80th percentile of this distribution (Kyrgyzstan). Legal protections of creditors and efficient courts are strong complements.

Access to Finance --- Bank loans --- Bankruptcy and Resolution of Financial Distress --- Banks and Banking Reform --- Contract enforcement --- Creditor --- Creditor Rights --- Creditors --- Debt Markets --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Finance Corporation --- Financial markets --- Legal protections --- Legal systems --- Public Disclosure

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As the image of anthropologists exploring exotic locales and filling in blanks on the map has faded, the idea that cultural anthropology has much to say about the contemporary world has likewise diminished. In an increasingly smaller world, how can anthropology help us to tackle the concerns of a global society? David A. Westbrook argues that the traditional tool of the cultural anthropologist-ethnography-can still function as an intellectually exciting way to understand our interconnected, yet mysterious worlds. Navigators of the Contemporary describes the changing nature of ethnography as anthropologists use it to analyze places closer to home. Westbrook maintains that a conversational style of ethnography can help us look beyond our assumptions and gain new insight into arenas of contemporary life such as corporations, financial institutions, science, the military, and religion. Westbrook's witty, absorbing book is a friendly challenge to anthropologists to shed light on the present and join broader streams of intellectual life. And for those outside the discipline, his inspiring vision of ethnography opens up the prospect of understanding our own world in much greater depth.

Ethnology --- Applied anthropology --- Philosophy. --- #SBIB:39A3 --- Philosophy --- Antropologie: geschiedenis, theorie, wetenschap (incl. grondleggers van de antropologie als wetenschap) --- ethnography, ethnographic, law, legality, legal systems, anthropology, anthropologists, interconnections, cultural studies, assumptions, individuals cultures, social research, behavior, interpretation, inquiry, participant observation, qualitative, holistic study, university, higher education, fieldwork, writing, process, discipline.

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Congrès. --- Emigration and immigration law --- Emigration and immigration law. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Ethnic minorities. --- Europe. --- Histoire. --- Legal systems. --- Législation sur l'immigration. --- Migration. --- Minorities --- Minorités ethniques. --- Minorités --- UE/CE Elargissement. --- Émigration et immigration --- Legal status, laws, etc --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Droit