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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “david schneiderman”
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  • A Sociology of International Investment Law

    Themes from Max Weber

    by David Schneiderman ...
    Series series The History and Theory of International Law
    A Sociology of International Investment Law applies methods associated with the sociologist Max Weber to illuminate aspects of international investment law - a regime made up of thousands of treaties that protect foreign investors from state action diminishing the value of their investments. By applying many of Weber's key themes associated with legal modernity - legitimacy, rationality, ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Red, White, and Kind of Blue?

    The Conservatives and the Americanization of Canadian Constitutional Culture

    by David Schneiderman ...
    Situated between two different constitutional traditions, those of the United Kingdom and the United States, Canada has maintained a distinctive third way: federal, parliamentary, and flexible. Yet in recent years it seems that Canadian constitutional culture has been moving increasingly in an American direction. Through the prorogation crises of 2008 and 2009, its senate reform proposals, and the ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • Investment Law's Alibis

    Colonialism, Imperialism, Debt and Development

    by David Schneiderman ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    This book aims to connect narratives associated with the past to the international regime that protects property and contract rights of foreign investors. The book scrutinizes justifications offered to sustain practices associated with colonialism, imperialism, civilized justice, debt, and development, revealing that a number of the rationales offered in support of investment law disciplines ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Rethinking Investment Law

    Edited by David Schneiderman, Gus Van Harten ...
    There is no denying that the rules and enforcement mechanisms of investment law and arbitration reach deep into the regulatory and policy space of host states. Investment tribunals have the ability to second-guess all variety of state measures and, in doing so, have displayed a remarkable lack of restraint. Despite investment law's muscularity, without equal in international law, the prevailing ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Constitutional Review and International Investment Law

    Deference or Defiance?

    by Prof David Schneiderman ...
    The revival of interest in comparative constitutional studies, alongside the rise of legal limitations to state action due to investment treaty commitments, calls for a unique analysis of both investment law and comparative constitutional law. The unresolved tensions that arise between the two are only beginning to be addressed by judges. Are courts resisting these new international limitations on ... Read more

    $103.49 USD

  • A Sense of Regard

    Essays on Poetry and Race

    by Martha Collins, Tony Hoagland, Randall Horton, Major Jackson, Timothy Liu, Kazim Ali, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Lucy Biederman, Jaswinder Bolina, Rafael Campo, Ken Chen, Travis Hedge Coke, Joanna Penn Cooper, Adebe DeRango-Adem, Paula Hayes, Garrett Hongo, Ailish Hopper, Leigh Johnson, Patrick S. Lawrence, Matthew Lippman, Charles H. Lynch, Philip Metres, Mihaela Moscaliuc, David Mura, Sara Marie Ortiz, Jason Schneiderman, Ravi Shankar, Tess Taylor, Timothy Leyrson, Dr. Gerald Maa, Camille T. Dungy ...
    A Sense of Regard, says Laura McCullough, “is an effort to collect the voices of living poets and scholars in thoughtful and considered exfoliation of the current confluence of poetry and race, the difficulties, the nuances, the unexamined, the feared, the questions, and the quarrels across aesthetic camps and biases.”The contributors discuss issues as various as their own diverse racial and ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

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    by David Harvey ...
    Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Its spread has depended upon a reconstitution of state powers such that privatization, finance, and market processes are emphasized. State interventions in the economy are ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

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  • Time for Socialism

    Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021

    by Thomas Piketty ...
    A chronicle of recent events that have shaken the world, from the author of Capital in the Twenty‑First Century**Praise for Time for Socialism:“Lively, thought‑provoking, grounded in facts, and resolutely optimistic—these essays grapple with the big questions of our time, from the rise of Trumpism and Brexit, to gender inequality and wealth taxation.”—Gabriel Zucman, University of California, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Art of Cruelty

    A Reckoning

    by Maggie Nelson ...
    "This is criticism at its best." —Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles TimesWriting in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark work about representations of cruelty and violence in art. From Sylvia Plath’s poetry to Francis Bacon’s paintings, from the Saw franchise to Yoko Ono’s performance art, Nelson’s nuanced ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • International Investment Law

    Text, Cases and Materials, Second Edition

    by Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer ...
    This fully revised and updated edition of International Investment Law remains a complete and concise guide to the law of international investment protection and continues to approach the subject with an easy-to-follow, broad and balanced text. New to this edition:- updates to include numerous new cases- completely reworked sections on standards of treatment- new Q&A section to capture ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • A Human Eye

    Essays on Art in Society, 1997-2008

    by Adrienne Rich ...
    “Adrienne Rich is the Blake of American letters.”—Nadine GordimerAcross more than three decades Adrienne Rich’s essays have been praised for their lucidity, courage, and range of concerns. In A Human Eye, Rich examines a diverse selection of writings and their place in past and present social disorders and transformations. Beyond literary theories, she explores from many angles how the arts of ... Read more

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  • The Welfare State

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Garland ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Welfare states vary across nations and change over time. And the balance between markets and government; free enterprise and social protection is perennially in question. But all developed societies have welfare states of one kind or another - they are a fundamental dimension of modern government. And even after decades of free-market criticism and reform, their core institutions have proven ... Read more

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