Overview: Socio-Legal Approaches to Anti-Discrimination Law -- Scaling the Pyramid: A Sociolegal Model of Employment Discrimination Litigation -- Law’s Role in Addressing Complex Discrimination -- What We Know about the Problem of the Century: Lessons from Social Science to the Law, and Back -- Debating the Prevalence and Character of Discrimination -- Including Mechanisms in our Models of As…
Old and New Security Risks and Instability in the Balkans -- Theoretic Preconditions of Fighting Terrorism: The View from South East Europe -- State Violence, State Weakness — Explaining the Plethora of Security Risks and Instability in South East Europe -- Civil-Military Relations, Democratic Control of the Armed Forces and Security Sector Reform During the Fight Against Terrorism -- Civil-M…
What’s New in Scientific Advice to Politics? -- Bioethical Controversies and Policy Advice: The Production of Ethical Expertise and its Role in the Substantiation of Political Decision-Making -- Advisory Systems in Pluralistic Knowledge Societies: A Criteria-Based Typology to Assess and Optimize Environmental Policy Advice -- Institutional Design for Socially Robust Knowledge: The National To…
Cosmopolitanism and Global Justice -- Real World Justice -- Against Global Egalitarianism -- What We Owe to the Global Poor -- The Role of Apparent Constraints in Normative Reasoning: A Methodological Statement and Application to Global Justice -- Do Patriotic Ties Limit Global Justice Duties? -- Duties to the Distant: Aid, Assistance, and Intervention in the Developing World -- The Cosmopolita…
Informal Logic Methods for Law -- Generalizations in Legal Reasoning -- Defeasible Reasoning in Dialogue Systems -- Relevance Determinations of Legal Evidence -- Methods Applied to Problems of Evidence -- Dialectical Explanation in AI -- Argument Invention for Proof Preparation.During a recent visit to China to give an invited lecture on legal argumentation I was asked a question about conventi…
Childhood and Nation explores the historical and manifold current relations between nation and childhood. Millei and Imre bring together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address many pressing questions of today. The analytical incisions created by nation and childhood bring answers to the following questions: How do national agendas related to economic, social and pol…
'Globalization' and 'the Nation' provide significant contexts for examining past educational thinking and practice and to identify how education has been influenced today. This book, written collaboratively, explores country case studies - Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the UK and USA as well as discussing the transnational European Union.
Concepts Taken Apart -- The Concept of Power -- The Concept of Influence -- Concepts Put Together -- Power and Freedom -- Social Power and Legal Power -- Influence and Power: A Mess Transformed?.This book will be of interest to legal, political and other social theorists/philosophers. Unique in its topics as well as in its approach, the book takes substantial steps towards answering essential q…
Preparation and Military Support for a Possible Bioterrorism Incident -- Department of Defense Capabilities Supporting Bioterrorism Response -- Modeling for Bioterrorism Incidents -- Biological Weapons Defense -- Medical Countermeasures and Decontamination -- Pathogenesis by Aerosol -- Bacillus anthracis and the Pathogenesis of Anthrax -- Virologic and Pathogenic Aspects of the Variola Virus (S…
1. Interactive Perspectives on Water Governance in Asia -- 2. Citizen Initiatives in Water Governance in the Netherlands:Reflection and Implications to Asian Cases -- 3. Contextual Factors Affecting the Modes of Interaction in Governance: The Case of Dam Removal in Japan -- 4. Interactive Participation under a Fragmented Administration System: Watershed Governance in Zhejiang Province, China --…