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Begins with a treatment of the inauspicious debut of social science in HI, noting how it aided & abetted colonization. However, although much of the analysis is aimed at elucidating current political issues in HI, its organizing concern is with a general critique of the historical role of social & political science "knowledge." Accordingly, much of the chapter deals with a trajectory of discourses on political analysis, nation-building, & equality throughout the 20th century, to which the primary contributions have been from US social science. To conclude, a way of theorizing inequality that challenges the predicates of state-centric discourses on rights & equality before the law is posited. Adapted from the source document.

'Law and Language' contains a broad range of essays by scholars interested in the interactions between law and language. This volume examines the themes of truth in language and the law, and the role of language in different areas of law, including contract and criminal law

AbstractThe Systems Thinking and Curriculum innovation Network (STACIN) Project is a multiyear implementation and research effort intended to examine the impact of a systems thinking approach using mulation modeling software. The purpose of the project is test the potential and effects of using are technology‐based oproach in pre‐college curricula as teach problem‐soliving skills as well as content‐specific knowledge.

"Feminists today are re-imagining nature, biology, and matter in feminist thought and critically addressing new developments in biology, physics, neuroscience, epigenetics and other scientific disciplines. Mattering, edited by noted feminist scholar Victoria Pitts-Taylor, presents contemporary feminist perspectives on the materialist or 'naturalizing' turn in feminist theory, and also represents the newest wave of feminist engagement with science. The volume addresses the relationship between human corporeality and subjectivity, questions and redefines the boundaries of human/non-human and nature/culture, elaborates on the entanglements of matter, knowledge, and practice, and addresses biological materialization as a complex and open process. This volume insists that feminist theory can take matter and biology seriously while also accounting for power, taking materialism as a point of departure to rethink key feminist issues. The contributors, an international group of feminist theorists, scientists and scholars, apply concepts in contemporary materialist feminism to examine an array of topics in science, biotechnology, biopolitics, and bioethics. These include neuralplasticity and the brain-machine interface; the use of biometrical identification technologies for transnational border control; epigenetics and the intergenerational transmission of the health effects of social stigma; ADHD and neuropharmacology; and randomized controlled trials of HIV drugs. A unique and interdisciplinary collection, Mattering presents in grounded, concrete terms the need for rethinking disciplinary boundaries and research methodologies in light of the shifts in feminist theorizing and transformations in the sciences"--The publisher

Since both Mr. Goldberg and Mr. Gregor have limited their responses principally to my specific criticisms of the deductive model, it would seem appropriate to emphasize once more the purpose of this criticism. The issue which I wish to raise, using the discussion of the deductive model as a vehicle, goes far beyond the model itself and even the approach to the philosophy of science which it represents. It should be apparent that there may be little chance of resolving the differences that stand between the respondents and myself regarding either the character of the philosophy of science as a discipline of inquiry or its product, but to some extent these differences can be separated from the more general problem of the relationship between social science and the philosophy of science.I suggested that there is a significant intellectual lag or gulf between political science and contemporary work in the philosophy of science. This situation need not, in principle, be viewed as odd or even undesirable since the distance between philosophy and other fields of science is at least as great. What is unique about political science is that, although it has lost touch with philosophy, it has to a large extent derived its conception of science and its notion of the procedural rules of empirical inquiry from a restricted body of literature in the philosophy of science, i.e., traditional logical empiricism.

"An accident happened in the North Sea and I need a complete overview of the rules regarding oil pollution at sea. I need to draft a legal advice for a financial institution on paperless trade finance. I wish to have the legal rules applicable to copyrights and trademarks at hand during my client's meeting. As a student, I wish to have one compendium in which the most important materials and legal provisions on (International) Commercial Law are gathered. For these and many more examples, one can rely on the Materials on Commercial Law. Indeed, this reader bundles in four volumes the most important materials - even those published by soft-law organisations and not always easy to access by the public - in the eclectic field of commercial law. The reader is user-friendly via its index at the beginning of each Volume. The legislative texts are categorized per legal domain."--

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Editor's Note -- Árpád Passed Away … Personal Thoughts on a Quiet But Efficient Hungarian International Lawyer - in Memoriam Árpád Prandler (1930-2014) -- Part I Thematic Part: International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law and Human Rights Law -- 1 The Development of the International Human Rights Law with Specific Regard to the European Human Rights System -- 2 The European Court of Human Rights and Social Rights - Emerging Trends in Jurisprudence?

The relationship between social science & modernization in the People's Republic of China is examined. A recent history of the introduction of social science to China is given, stressing research difficulties such as objectivity, extreme theorizing to the exclusion of practicality, & microstudies with no regard to broader changes in the larger world. Social science is seen as the basis for Chinese modernization, as the study of economic, political, & social systems produces findings on which to base positive changes. Chinese economic reforms, based on social science research, are cited. Recommendations are made to foreign researchers to consider the needs & potentials of their host country, to respect their host's rules & practices, & to share their findings. D. Graves.

A concise introduction to the role of law in environmental protection. It offers a greater understanding of international and national environmental law and has case studies from all over the world.