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  • List of Construction Law Abbreviations of Reports

    List of Construction Law Abbreviations of Reports AC, App Cas Law reports, Appeal Cases ALJR Australian Law Journal Reports All ER All England Law Reports B & Ad Barnwall and Adolphus ’ s Reports B & S Best and Smith ’ s Reports BCL Building and Construction Law Beav Beavan ’ s Reports BLM Building…

  • List of Construction Law Abbreviations of Reports

    List of Construction Law Abbreviations of Reports AC, App Cas Law reports, Appeal Cases ALJR Australian Law Journal Reports All ER All England Law Reports B & Ad Barnwall and Adolphus ’ s Reports B & S Best and Smith ’ s Reports BCL Building and Construction Law Beav Beavan ’ s Reports BLM Building…

  • International Trade

    International Political Economy Trends: International Trade Introduction to International Trade In the 21st century, international trade has grown to 20 percent of the world's total production of goods and services-around $6.5 trillion per year. This volume of trade is almost seven times […]

  • International Trade

    International Political Economy Trends: International Trade Introduction to International Trade In the 21st century, international trade has grown to 20 percent of the world's total production of goods and services-around $6.5 trillion per year. This volume of trade is almost seven times […]

  • Data Protection

    Governments and regulators around the world are considering a number of legislative and regulatory proposals concerning data protection. In addition, the interpretation and application of consumer and data protection laws or regulations in the United States, Europe and elsewhere are often […]

  • Data Protection

    Governments and regulators around the world are considering a number of legislative and regulatory proposals concerning data protection. In addition, the interpretation and application of consumer and data protection laws or regulations in the United States, Europe and elsewhere are often […]

  • Piracy

    See Transnational crime . The first precise attempt to codify piracy was in 1958 when the Convention on the High Seas was adopted in order to clarify the legal status of pirates and the competence to arrest pirates. These articles in the Convention on the High Seas have been incorporated into […]

  • International Narcotics Control Board

    International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) It is an independent, quasi-judicial expert body established by the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 by merging two bodies: the Permanent Central Narcotics Board, created by the 1925 International Opium Convention; and the Drug […]

  • Insecticide

    By Glen Martin, a contributing environmental writer. Colony collapse disorder (CCD), as the phenomenon is known, has plagued honeybee populations across the developed world. The syndrome is defined by the USDA as a dead colony with neither adults nor dead bee bodies, but with a live queen […]

  • Education

    "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." — Alvin Toffler See Education links History of Education In the following treatment of this subject, the theory and early history of education is […]

  • Sociology

    Introduction to Sociology Sociology may be defined as the scientific study of human social relations or group life. See more definitions of Sociology in the Legal Dictionary. Other disciplines within the social sciences-including economics, political science, anthropology, and […]

  • German Concentration Camps

    German Concentration Camps Concentration Camps, 1933–1939 Concentration camps (Konzentrationslager; abbreviated as KL or KZ) were an integral feature of the regime in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945. The term concentration camp refers to a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest…

  • Structural Bias

    Besides “partisan bias” in media reporting, a second type of media bias is known as “structural bias.” This type of bias stems from certain “structures” (customs, reporting routines, commercial pressures, etc.) that operate within the news industry. As a result of the highly commercial and purportedly nonpartisan nature of the mainstream media, the issue of…

  • General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean

    General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean [COPEMED] The objectives of FAO COPEMED Project are the advice, technical support and establishment of cooperation networks to facilitate coordination to support fisheries management in the Mediterranean. COPEMED area covers the Western and Central sub-regions of the Mediterranean. Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Malta, Italy, France and Spain have adhered…

  • Financial Reporting

    Traditionally, the function of financial reporting was to provide proprietors with information about the companies that they owned and operated. Once the delegation of managerial responsibilities to hired personnel became a common practice, financial reporting began to focus on stewardship, […]