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  • Paper Machines

    About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929

    Translated by Peter Krapp ...
    Series series History and Foundations of Information Science
    Why the card catalog—a “paper machine” with rearrangeable elements—can be regarded as a precursor of the computer.Today on almost every desk in every office sits a computer. Eighty years ago, desktops were equipped with a nonelectronic data processing machine: a card file. In Paper Machines, Markus Krajewski traces the evolution of this proto-computer of rearrangeable parts (file cards) that ... Read more

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  • The Server

    A Media History from the Present to the Baroque

    Translated by Ilinca Iurascu ...
    A cutting†‘edge media history on a perennially fascinating topic, which attempts to answer the crucial question: Who is in charge, the servant or the master?†‹Though classic servants like the butler or the governess have largely vanished, the Internet is filled with servers: web, ftp, mail, and others perform their daily drudgery, going about their business noiselessly and unnoticed. Why then are ... Read more

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  • World Projects

    Global Information before World War I

    Translated by Charles Marcrum II ...
    Series series Electronic Mediations
    Markus Krajewski is emerging as a leading scholar in the field of media archaeology, which seeks to trace cultural history through the media networks that enable and structure it. In World Projects he opens a new portal into the history of globalization by examining several large-scale projects that, at the beginning of the twentieth century, shared a grand yet unachievable goal: bringing order to ... Read more

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  • European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2024

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    As global economic governance faces mounting challenges—from climate change to geopolitical shifts—the 2024 edition of EYIEL revisits the enduring debate of fragmentation vs. integration in international economic law. Exploring trade, investment, sustainability, and human rights, this volume examines the evolving interplay between economic regulation and pressing global concerns. With insights ... Read more

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  • Shifting Paradigms in International Investment Law

    More Balanced, Less Isolated, Increasingly Diversified

    International investment law is in transition. Whereas the prevailing mindset has always been the protection of the economic interests of individual investors, new developments in international investment law have brought about a paradigm shift. There is now more than ever before an interest in a more inclusive, transparent, and public regime. Shifting Paradigms in International Investment Law ... Read more

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  • Exploring Corporate Human Rights Responsibilities in OECD Case Law

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This open access book consolidates a collection of scholarly papers presented at the academic conference titled "Corporate Human Rights Responsibility in OECD Case Law: Actors, Issues, Responsibilities, and Remedies", held on 4 and 5 May 2023. The conference was organized by the OECD Case Law Project at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.The book is divided into three sections. The ... Read more

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  • European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2021

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Volume 12 of the EYIEL focuses on “The Future of Dispute Settlement in International Economic Law”. While new forms of dispute settlement are emerging, others are in deep crisis. The volume starts off with reflections on Dispute Settlement and the World Trade Organisation, most prominently the crisis of the Appellate Body, but also addressing international intellectual property law and the African ... Read more

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  • European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2022

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Climate change is the defining challenge of our time. While political leadership and scientific expertise are key, law has a major role to play in fashioning responses. Volume 13 of the EYIEL assesses central aspects of the legal regimes governing "Climate Change and Liability". Covering traditional trade and investment topics as well EU instruments regulating private actors, contributions reflect ... Read more

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  • European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2023

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The focus of volume 14 of the EYIEL is on “(Public) Procurement and Competition Law in European and International Economic Law”. It is testimony to the fact that areas of law originally perceived as purely economic are permeated by the challenges of society today and adapting to these by embracing innovation, promoting sustainability and social responsibility and including new values in their ... Read more

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  • European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2020

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Volume 11 of the EYIEL focuses on rights and obligations of business entities under international economic law. It deals with the responsibilities of business entities as well as their special status in various subfields of international law, including human rights, corruption, competition law, international investment law, civil liability and international security law. The contributions to this ... Read more

    $256.19 CAD

  • Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability in State-Owned Enterprises

    Series series Human Rights and International Law
    This book presents case studies on the human rights performance of state-owned enterprises from four Latin American and three European countries, as well as foreign investments by Chinese state-owned enterprises on these continents. State-owned enterprises are considered among some of the worst perpetrators of contamination and corporate human rights violations around the globe, both domestically ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Human Rights in the Extractive Industries

    Transparency, Participation, Resistance

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book addresses key challenges and conflicts arising in extractive industries (mining, oil drilling) concerning the human rights of workers, their families, local communities and other stakeholders. Further, it analyses various instruments that have sought to mitigate human rights violations by defining transparency-related obligations and participation rights. These include the Extractive ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD