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"Economic and sociological research has long shown that the widespread presence of criminal organizations in the territory is a factor that contrasts economic and social development. This is just one aspect of the complex relationship that exists between local economic dynamics and the illegal behavior of social actors. The relationship between social norms and legal norms, the quality and quantity of social capital, the bonds of trust between the actors and the legitimization of the state, the local power systems, the certainty of the sanctions, are other aspects that certainly contribute to create the conditions that favor illegal responses to the crisis.The book seeks to highlight how legality and illegality present facets and interdependencies that can't simply be traced back to the moral categories of good and evil, but need to be analyzed in a multifactorial perspective."

Society & social sciences --- Anthropology --- Economics --- Legality --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man

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The Tyrolean knight Oswald von Wolkenstein (ca 1376 - 1445) is considered to be the most important German poet and composer of the Late Middle Ages. Besides his songs and compositions more than 1000 documents bear evidence of his chivalrous career and the medieval life of the lower nobility in all its social, economic and legal details. This exceptional historical attestation came down to us in ca 40 archives spread all over Austria, Italy, Germany and neighbouring countries. Partly known and with exceptions not published before this five volume edition presents the material in a totally new edition following the rules of historic-diplomatic editions, based on new transcriptions and accompanied by source descriptions as well as ample commentaries. Volume IV comprises the years 1438 to 1442, a period that shows how Wolkenstein is establishing himself as a leading member oft Tyrolean nobility, renown as legal adviser as well as a land-owner involved in arguments

Middle Ages in literature --- German literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Germanic Literature --- Nobility --- Tyrol --- Later Middle Ages --- Conflict - Peace --- Conception of legality --- Early New High German --- Brixen --- Oswald von Wolkenstein --- Papier --- Wolkenstein, Oswald von, --- Austria --- Germany --- Holy Roman Empire --- History --- History --- History --- Nobility --- Tyrol --- Later Middle Ages --- Conflict - Peace --- Conception of legality --- Early New High German --- Brixen --- Oswald von Wolkenstein --- Papier

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The Tyrolean knight Oswald von Wolkenstein (ca 1376 - 1445) is considered to be the most important German poet and composer of the Late Middle Ages. Besides his songs and compositions more than 1000 documents bear evidence of his chivalrous career and the medieval life of the lower nobility in all its social, economic and legal details. This exceptional historical attestation came down to us in ca 40 archives spread all over Austria, Italy, Germany and neighbouring countries. Partly known and with exceptions not published before this five volume edition presents the material in a totally new edition following the rules of historic-diplomatic editions, based on new transcriptions and accompanied by source descriptions as well as ample commentaries. Volume IV comprises the years 1438 to 1442, a period that shows how Wolkenstein is establishing himself as a leading member oft Tyrolean nobility, renown as legal adviser as well as a land-owner involved in arguments

Middle Ages in literature --- German literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Germanic Literature --- Wolkenstein, Oswald von, --- Austria --- Germany --- Holy Roman Empire --- History --- History --- History --- Nobility --- Tyrol --- Later Middle Ages --- Conflict - Peace --- Conception of legality --- Early New High German --- Brixen --- Oswald von Wolkenstein --- Papier

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Women's experiences of divorce court in China illustrate the grave limits of a legal system that too often disregards their lawful rights and interests.

Divorce --- Sex discrimination against women --- Law and legislation --- China. --- Chinese family and marriage. --- authoritarian legality. --- culture and the state. --- dispute resolution. --- divorce litigation. --- law and politics. --- popular resistance. --- power and inequality. --- women’s rights.

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This book presents an answer to the question of why modern legal institutions and the idea of citizenship are important for leading a free life. The majority of views in political and legal philosophy regard the law merely as a useful instrument, employed to render our lives more secure and to enable us to engage in cooperate activities more efficiently. The view developed here defends a non-instrumentalist alternative of why the law matters. It identifies the law as a constitutive feature of our identities as citizens of modern states. The constitutivist argument rests on the (Kantian) assumption that a person's practical identity (its normative self-conception as an agent) is the result of its actions. The law co-constitutes these identities because it maintains the external conditions that are necessary for the actions performed under its authority. Modern legal institutions provide these external prerequisites for achieving a high degree of individual self-constitution and freedom. Only public principles can establish our status as individuals who pursue their life plans and actions as a matter of right and not because others contingently happen to let us do so. The book thereby provides resources for a reply to anarchist challenges to the necessity of legal ordering.

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Legal theory and methods. Philosophy of law --- Citizenship. --- Effectiveness and validity of law. --- Law --- Jurisprudence --- Validity and effectiveness of law --- International law --- Birthright citizenship --- Citizenship --- Citizenship (International law) --- National citizenship --- Nationality (Citizenship) --- Political science --- Public law --- Allegiance --- Civics --- Domicile --- Political rights --- Philosophy. --- Law and legislation --- Identity. --- Legality. --- Modern State.