New Perspectives on the Public-Private Divide

New Perspectives on the Public-Private Divide
Author: Law Commission of Canada
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2003
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780774810432

The separation between public and private spheres has structured much of our thinking about human organizations. This collection of essays explores how the public-private divide influences, challenges, and interacts with law and law reform.

Understanding the Private–Public Divide

Understanding the Private–Public Divide
Author: Avner Offer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2022-04-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108853528

Markets are taken as the norm in economics and in much of political and media discourse. But if markets are superior why does the public sector remain so large? Avner Offer provides a distinctive new account of the effective temporal limits on private, public, and social activity. Understanding the Private–Public Divide accounts for the division of labour between business and the public sector, how it changes over time, where the boundaries ought to run, and the harm that follows if they are violated. He explains how finance forces markets to focus on short-term objectives and why business requires special privileges in return for long-term commitment. He shows how a private sector policy bias leads to inequality, insecurity, and corruption. Integrity used to be the norm and it can be achieved again. Only governments can manage uncertainty in the long-term interests of society, as shown by the challenge of climate change.

The Right to Health at the Public/Private Divide

The Right to Health at the Public/Private Divide
Author: Colleen M. Flood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 511
Release: 2014-04-28
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1107038308

A comparative study covering all continents, this book explores the role of health rights in advancing greater equality through access to health care.

New Perspectives on Investment in Infrastructures

New Perspectives on Investment in Infrastructures
Author: G. J. M. Arts
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2008
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9053566082

The essays in this bundle analyse the effects on long-term investment in different infrastructures and from different perspectives and disciplines.

Ethnography and Law

Ethnography and Law
Author: Eve Darian-Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2017-11-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1351158821

Ethnographies of law are historically associated with anthropology and the study of far-away places and people. In contrast, this volume underscores the importance of ethnographic research in analyzing law in all societies, particularly complex developed nations. By exploring recent ethnographic research by socio-legal scholars across a range of disciplines, the volume highlights how an ethnographic approach helps in appreciating the realities of legal pluralism, the subtle contradictions in any legal system and how legal meaning is constantly reproduced on the ground through the cultural frames and practices of peoples' everyday lives.

Transnational Commercial Law

Transnational Commercial Law
Author: Maren Heidemann
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2018-11-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 150995855X

Transnational Commercial Law is a textbook that deals predominantly with substantive legal contract rules that apply across borders and are designed to govern cross-border business transactions. This is an emerging field of research, teaching and practical interest in international trade and commercial law, requiring reference to multiple areas of law, including both private and public international law, the law of specific commercial transactions and arbitration. For the first time Transnational Commercial Law combines all these relevant issues in one book, and provides a basis for further study as well as detailed, cutting edge academic analyses. It provides a compact yet accessible guide to the most important cornerstones of this evolving legal discipline. Transnational Commercial Law is aimed primarily for use on LLM courses and master's programmes in commercial law. Students are presented with the actual contractual rules in the wider context of the general legal framework, and situates it within the theoretical debate, providing a truly international perspective on transnational commercial law in a globalised world.

International Human Rights in Context

International Human Rights in Context
Author: Henry J. Steiner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 1534
Release: 2008
Genre: Law
ISBN: 019927942X

Completely revised and updated to bring it up to date with recent events, this popular textbook incorporates a wide range of carefully edited materials from both primary and secondary sources.

Lived Citizenship on the Edge of Society

Lived Citizenship on the Edge of Society
Author: Hanne Warming
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2017-07-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319550683

This edited collection presents the concept of lived citizenship as a fruitful avenue for exploring the role played by social work practices in the lives of people in vulnerable positions. The book centres on the everyday experiences through which people practice, negotiate, understand and feel their citizenship. The authors offer both empirical analyses of how social work influences the rights, obligations, identities and belongings of children, homeless people, migrants, ethnic minorities, and young people with mental disabilities; and a theoretical framework for analysing the complexities of social work. Drawing on the notion of intimate citizenship and an understanding of citizenship as socio-spatial, the theoretical framework addresses the challenges of enhancing the agency of social work clients and of promoting inclusive citizenship, and how these challenges are shaped by emotions, affect, rationality, materiality, power relations, policies and managerial strategies. Lived Citizenship on the Edge of Society will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including social policy and social work.

Civil Justice, Privatization, and Democracy

Civil Justice, Privatization, and Democracy
Author: Trevor C.W. Farrow
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2014-04-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 144269503X

Privatization is occurring throughout the public justice system, including courts, tribunals, and state-sanctioned private dispute resolution regimes. Driven by a widespread ethos of efficiency-based civil justice reform, privatization claims to decrease costs, increase speed, and improve access to the tools of justice. But it may also lead to procedural unfairness, power imbalances, and the breakdown of our systems of democratic governance. Civil Justice, Privatization, and Democracy demonstrates the urgent need to publicize, politicize, debate, and ultimately temper these moves towards privatized justice. Written by Trevor C.W. Farrow, a former litigation lawyer and current Chair of the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice, Civil Justice, Privatization, and Democracy does more than just bear witness to the privatization initiatives that define how we think about and resolve almost all non-criminal disputes. It articulates the costs and benefits of these privatizing initiatives, particularly their potential negative impacts on the way we regulate ourselves in modern democracies, and it makes recommendations for future civil justice practice and reform.

Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law and Religion

Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law and Religion
Author: Clifford Ando
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2015-03-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3110392518

The public/private distinction is fundamental to modern theories of the family, religion and religious freedom, and state power, yet it has had different salience, and been understood differently, from place to place and time to time. The volume brings together essays from an international array of experts in law and religion, in order to examine the public/private distinction in comparative perspective. The essays focus on the cultures and religions of the ancient Mediterranean, in the formative periods of Greece and Rome and the religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Particular attention is given to the private exercise of religion, the relation between public norms and private life, and the division between public and private space and the place of religion therein.