OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
Now showing items 1441-1460 of 50512
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(2024)The Mirror of Desire Unbidden: Retrieving the Imago Dei in Tolkien and Late Medieval English Literature sets Tolkien’s theory of Fantasy against the backdrop of Western history of phantasia, all the way back to the Biblical ...
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(2024)The book proposes a new category – heterotopia of affect – which builds upon Michel Foucault’s typology. The category refers to changes of the places that accumulate contents of ideological, historical, religious, and ...
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(2025)As artificial intelligence (AI) systems have become increasingly capable, the world has awakened to the global stakes of this technology. AI’s impacts are often framed as an uncontrollable wave of technological change. But ...
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(2024)This book explores how international law has accommodated human individuals, and how individual status, rights, and obligations have become denser and more important in the international legal system. The ‘humanisation’ ...
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(2024)The proverbial benefits of prevention over cure are self-evident—and yet we are reluctant to invest in protecting or improving health. Resolution of this age-old dilemma begins with a timeless truth: the benefits of good ...
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(2025)Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory is a biennial forum for some of the best new work in private law theory by scholars from around the world. The third volume of the series explores wide-ranging theoretical topics ...
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(2026)This chapter examines the interaction between international investment law (IIL) and human rights law, and the issue of precedent in investment treaty arbitration from a sociological perspective. It argues that the ...
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(2020)‘What is the difference between a language and a dialect?’ is one of the questions most frequently asked of linguists. A notorious and oft-repeated answer is ‘A language is a dialect with an army and navy’, wrongly attributed ...
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(2026)In recent years, the UK has seen the emergence of a new approach to violence reduction—the public health approach. This method prioritizes early intervention and holistic support to prevent violence upstream. This movement, ...
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(2025)As the British Empire consolidated its geographical possession of distant lands by the nineteenth century, the agrarian nature of its colonies necessitated careful considerations about land tenure relationships. After ...
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(2025)The potential for climate change to cause vast human movement is a major global issue. Dominant approaches to climate-related migration take mobility as the starting point, exploring legal frameworks that tend to provide ...
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(2025)For Bernard Williams, philosophy and history are importantly connected. His work exploits this connection in a number of directions: he believes that philosophy cannot ignore its own history the way science can; that even ...
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(2024)In the beginning there was anarchy—but was there? The nineteenth century is (mis)understood as a century in which states were free to wage war against each other whenever they deemed it politically necessary. Not until the ...
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(2023)What does it mean to say that the European Union has a constitution—theoretically, but more importantly, practically? What sort of possibilities such assertion opens for various actors—politicians, legal professionals, or ...
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(2023)Music and dance can change our sense of time. They rely on synchronizing our movements with auditory events and with other people, both involve memory and anticipation for audiences and performers alike, and both facilitate ...
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(2023)Vaccine discovery, financing, and distribution offer technical challenges requiring difficult choices. Patients, parents, providers, and politicians all must decide about who, when, where to vaccinate. Billions if not ...
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(2021)This book explores the role of Nordic lawyers in the struggle for political liberalism. Previous studies have found that lawyers, in a guardian role, organize through their professional organizations to fight for political ...
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(2025)Sustainability is a topic that is also gaining in importance for antitrust and competition authorities. The book investigates how competition law and competition authorities around the world deal with sustainability. It ...
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(2024)This book argues that older people globally are experiencing widespread violations of their fundamental right to freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment through inadequate and coercive ...
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(2023)As tax crimes significantly influence the national and international economy and the global financial system, Tax Crimes and Enforcement in the European Union discusses a timely and valuable comparative study of the legal ...
