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Setting the stage -- Developing the 'value-based model' of self-defence -- The scholarly community's surprising neglect of values as self-defence decision-grounds -- The value-based model's answer to common theoretical ('hard case') questions -- Examining German law's treatment of self-defence from a value-centric perspective -- Examining the US law's treatment of self-defence from a value-centric perspective -- Examining the English law's treatment of self-defence from a value-centric perspective -- Parting observations.

North American law has been transformed in ways unimaginable before 9/11. Laws now authorise and courts have condoned indefinite detention without charge on secret evidence, mass secret surveillance, and targeted killing of U.S. citizens, suggesting a shift in the cultural currency of a liberal form of legality to authoritarian legality. This book demonstrates that extreme measures have been consistently embraced in politics, scholarship, and public opinion in a specific belief that 9/11 was the harbinger of a new order of terror

North American law has been transformed in ways unimaginable before 9/11. Laws now authorise and courts have condoned indefinite detention without charge on secret evidence, mass secret surveillance, and targeted killing of U.S. citizens, suggesting a shift in the cultural currency of a liberal form of legality to authoritarian legality. This book demonstrates that extreme measures have been consistently embraced in politics, scholarship, and public opinion in a specific belief that 9/11 was the harbinger of a new order of terror

As the fight against corruption goes global, practitioners in the compliance, regulatory and investigative space must navigate increasingly complicated and often perilous compliance waters. Featuring country-specific chapters and practitioner-focused 'how to' modules, 'From Baksheesh to Bribery' serves as a one-stop shop for practitioners, in-house counsel, compliance personnel, academics and others who want - and often need - to understand the world's perspective on corruption and the fight against it.

Introduction -- United States : deconstructing the FCPA -- Australia -- Brazil -- Canada -- China -- Cuba -- France -- Germany -- Guatemala -- India -- Indonesia -- Mexico -- Russia -- South Africa -- Tunisia -- The United Arab Emirates -- United Kingdom -- Carbon copy prosecutions -- The delicate task : a practice guide to investigating allegations of company-internal misconduct -- The key tools of the trade in transnational bribery investigations and prosecutions : Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (MLATS) and letters rogatory -- Global developments in, and evolution of, third party due diligence -- Investigations and privacy, and data security issues -- Increasing accountability and reducing corruption in the World Bank -- Anti-corruption system -- Corporate monitors and the monitorship process -- Corporate voluntary disclosures -- Deferred prosecution agreements, nonprosecution agreements, and corporate integrity agreements -- Company cooperation and U.S. sentencing guidelines -- Department of Justice's new revised FCPA corporate enforcement policy -- On the anti-bribery "watchlist" : compliance and labor/anti-trafficking issues

Surveying the scope of the problem -- The broad descriptive challenge -- Appreciating the human trafficking problem and its enforcement challenges -- Synchronized abuse : the impact of international organized crime groups on child trafficking and other forms of sexual exploitation -- Public corruption as the silent partner to child sexual exploitation -- Federal statutes targeting child exploitation -- Finding the world's voice : international instruments targeting the sexual exploitation of children -- Investigating child exploitation cases -- The syndicate and the scholar : examining the anatomy of the prosecution of University of Chicago pediatrician Dr. H. Marc Watzman -- The challenge of transnational investigations -- Victim witness protection in child exploitation cases -- The difficult defense : surveying the most common issues when representing individuals accused of child exploitation -- Overview of selected trial issues -- Sentencing considerations in sexual exploitation cases : does anything work?