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Author: Tilmann Röder
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2011-11-25
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9004214631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAround 1900, standard contracts and clauses spread throughout international industries such as transport, insurance and finance. The "earthquake clause", which was globally introduced by reinsurers after the 1906 San Francisco catastrophe, exemplifies this paradigmatic change of the law.
Author: Tilmann Röder
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2011-11-25
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 900421237X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAround 1900, standard contracts and clauses spread throughout international industries such as transport, insurance and finance. The "earthquake clause", which was globally introduced by reinsurers after the 1906 San Francisco catastrophe, exemplifies this paradigmatic change of the law.
Author: James R. Silkenat
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-05-28
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 3319055852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the development of both the civil law conception of the Legal State and the common law conception of the Rule of Law. It examines the philosophical and historical background of both concepts, as well as the problem of the interrelation between the two doctrines. The book brings together twenty-five leading scholars from around the world and provides both general and specific jurisdictional perspectives of the issue in both contemporary and historical settings. The Rule of Law is a legal doctrine the meaning of which can only be fully appreciated in the context of both the common law and the European civil law tradition of the Legal State (Rechtsstaat). The Rule of Law and the Legal State are fundamental safeguards of human dignity and of the legitimacy of the state and the authority of state prescriptions.
Author: Ross Cranston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-05-27
Total Pages: 529
ISBN-13: 1107198895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDraws on archival research to tell the story of the nineteenth and twentieth-century development of commercial law through practice.
Author: Niels Viggo Haueter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0198754914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReinsurance was a global business from the start the method of spreading and balancing risks in international markets. But this also meant that reinsurance was more heavily exposed to global trends than many other industries. This book gives detailed accounts on how reinsurers dealt with all these challenges.
Author: Peter Borscheid
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013-12
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 0199689806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explains how today's insurance industry developed and highlights the role of the reinsurance industry in spreading risks globally. The book examines the development of insurance markets and of the reinsurance industry in particular, and the history of Swiss Re, one of the leading reinsurance companies in the world.
Author: James Mallery
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2024-06
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1496239407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSan Francisco’s reputation for accommodating progressive and unconventional identities can find its roots in the waves of transients and migrants that flocked to San Francisco between the gold rush and World War I. In the era of yellow journalism, San Francisco’s popular presses broadcast shocking stories about the waterfront, Chinatown, Barbary Coast, hobo Main Stem, Uptown Tenderloin, and Outside Lands. The women and men who lived in these districts did not passively internalize the shaming of their bodies or neighborhoods. Rather, many urbanites intentionally sought out San Francisco’s “vice” and transient lodging districts. They came to identify themselves in ways opposed to hegemonic notions of whiteness, respectability, and middle-class heterosexual domesticity. With the destabilizing 1906 earthquake marking its halfway point, James Mallery’s City of Vice explores the imagined, cognitive mapping of the cityscape and the social history of the women and men who occupied its so-called transient and vice districts between the late nineteenth century and World War I.
Author: Michael Zurn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-06-18
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1139510975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the various strategies, mechanisms and processes that influence rule of law dynamics across borders and the national/international divide, illuminating the diverse paths of influence. It shows to what extent, and how, rule of law dynamics have changed in recent years, especially at the transnational and international levels of government. To explore these interactive dynamics, the volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together the normative perspective of law with the analytical perspective of social sciences. The volume contributes to several fields, including studies of rule of law, law and development, and good governance; democratization; globalization studies; neo-institutionalism and judicial studies; international law, transnational governance and the emerging literature on judicial reforms in authoritarian regimes; and comparative law (Islamic, African, Asian, Latin American legal systems).
Author: Columbia University
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 372
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ted Laros
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017-12-29
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1683930169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1994, artistic freedom pertaining inter alia to literature was enshrined in the South African Constitution. Clearly, the establishment of this right was long overdue compared to other nations within the Commonwealth. Indeed, the legal framework and practices regarding the regulation of literature that were introduced following the nation’s transition to a non-racial democracy seemed to form a decisive turning point in the history of South African censorship of literature. This study employs a historical sociological point of view to describe how the nation’s emerging literary field helped pave the way for the constitutional entrenchment of this right in 1994. On the basis of institutional and poetological analyses of all the legal trials concerning literature that were held in South Africa during the period 1910–2010, it describes how the battles fought in and around the courts between literary, judicial and executive elites eventually led to a constitutional exceptio artis for literature. As the South African judiciary displayed an ongoing orientation towards both English and American law in this period, the analyses are firmly placed in the context of developments occurring concurrently in these two legal systems.
