Accounting for the Public Interest : Perspectives on Accountability, Professionalism and Role in Society / / edited by Steven Mintz |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (284 p.) |
Disciplina | 657 |
Collana | Advances in Business Ethics Research, A Journal of Business Ethics Book Series |
Soggetto topico |
Ethics
Accounting Bookkeeping Law—Philosophy Law Accounting/Auditing Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History |
ISBN | 94-007-7082-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""Reviewers ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Summary of Contributions""; ""Professionalism in Accounting: Myth or Reality?""; ""An Ethic of Accountability, Societal Responsibilities,and Accounting for the Public Interest""; ""Defining the Public Interest in Accounting""; ""Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Reporting""; ""Virtue and Public Interest Considerations of Bribery and Whistle-Blowing""; ""Contributors""; ""Part I: Professionalism in Accounting: Myth or Reality?""; ""Chapter 1: Call of Duty: A Framework for Auditors� Ethical Decisions""; ""1.1 Introduction""
""1.2 Characteristics of a Profession""""1.3 Balancing Ethical Decision-Making""; ""1.3.1 Truth-Telling""; ""1.3.1.1 Is “Not Materially Misstating� the Same as Truth-Telling?""; ""1.3.1.2 Consequentialism in Professional Standards�Effects on Truth-Telling""; ""1.3.1.3 Why Consequentialism Is Problematic for Truth-Telling in the Profession""; ""1.3.2 Dissent and Confrontation""; ""1.3.3 Honest Self-Assessment of Independence and Professionalism""; ""1.4 Recommendations for the Profession""; ""1.5 Conclusion""; ""References"" ""Chapter 2: Professionalizing the Tax Accounting Profession: Fulfilling Public-Interest Reporting Responsibilities""""2.1 Introduction""; ""2.2 The Normative Professional Ideal (The Goal)""; ""2.2.1 A General Reporting Model""; ""2.2.2 The Tax Accounting Professional�s Public Interest Foundation and Resulting Tensions""; ""2.3 De-professional Erosion (The Current State): A Fraud Triangle Analysis""; ""2.3.1 Opportunity 2 ""; ""2.3.2 Incentives""; ""2.3.3 Rationalization""; ""2.3.4 Results: Deprofessionalization and a Loss of Trust""; ""2.3.5 The International Dimension"" ""2.4 Achieving Change: A Structural Change Model""""2.5 Professionalization and a Return to Public Interest Responsibilities: Applying the Change Model to the Tax Profession""; ""2.5.1 An Example of a Practical Educational Model""; ""KPMG and the Sale of Tax Shelters: Synopsis""; ""2.5.1.1 Incentives Analyses""; ""Perform an Economic Analysis""; ""Perform a Legal Analysis""; ""Perform an Ethical Analysis""; ""2.5.1.2 Judgment: Propose a Convincing Solution and Analyze Impacts""; ""2.6 Conclusion""; ""References"" ""Chapter 3: The Bloom Is Off the Rose: Deprofessionalization in Public Accounting""""3.1 Specialized Knowledge""; ""3.1.1 Specialized Accounting Knowledge in Accounting""; ""3.2 Community of Practice""; ""3.2.1 Community of Accounting Practice""; ""3.3 Self-Regulation Ideology""; ""3.3.1 Self-Regulatory Ideology in Accounting""; ""3.4 Autonomy Demands""; ""3.4.1 Autonomy Demands of Accountants""; ""3.5 Public Interest Dedication""; ""3.5.1 Public Interest Dedication of Accountants""; ""3.6 Discussion""; ""References"" ""Part II: An Ethic of Accountability, Societal Responsibilities, and Accounting for the Public Interest"" |
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The Accusation Model Before the International Criminal Court : Study of Convergence of Criminal Justice Systems / / by Hanna Kuczyńska |
Autore | Kuczyńska Hanna |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (421 p.) |
Disciplina |
340
340.1 340.2 340.9 341 341.48 345 |
Soggetto topico |
International criminal law
International law Private international law Conflict of laws International humanitarian law Law—Philosophy Law International Criminal Law Sources and Subjects of International Law, International Organizations Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History |
ISBN | 3-319-17626-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The procedure before international criminal tribunals -- Prosecutor as an organ of international criminal tribunals -- Initiation of an investigation -- Judicial control of an accusation -- Obligations of the prosecutor related to the accused's right to information -- Influence of the prosecutor on the consensual termination of criminal proceedings -- Powers of the prosecutor before the Trial Chamber -- Powers of the prosecutor in the appeal proceedings -- Conclusion. |
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Advance Directives: Rethinking Regulation, Autonomy & Healthcare Decision-Making / / by Hui Yun Chan |
Autore | Chan Hui Yun |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (179 pages) |
Disciplina | 362.175 |
Collana | International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine |
Soggetto topico |
Bioethics
Medical laws and legislation Law—Philosophy Law Medical Law Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History |
ISBN | 3-030-00976-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- The making of advance directives -- Legal responses to the challenges of making advance directives -- Supported decision-making: an approach to advance directives -- A supported decision-making model for advance directives -- Regulating advance directives. |
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African Legal Theory and Contemporary Problems : Critical Essays / / edited by Oche Onazi |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
Disciplina | 349.6 |
Collana | Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice |
Soggetto topico |
Law—Philosophy
Law Political science Criminology Culture—Study and teaching Development economics International education Comparative education Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History Philosophy of Law Criminology and Criminal Justice, general Regional and Cultural Studies Development Economics International and Comparative Education |
ISBN | 94-007-7537-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Introduction; Oche Onazi -- Part I: Law -- Chapter 1 On ‘African’ Legal Theory: A Possibility, An Impossibility or Mere Conundrum?; Chikosa Mozesi Silungwe -- Chapter 2 When British Justice (in African Colonies) Points Two Ways: On Dualism, Hybridity, and the Genealogy of Juridical Negritude in Taslim Olawale Elias; Mark Toufayan -- Chapter 3 Decoding Afrocentrism: Decolonizing Legal Theory; Dan Kuwali -- Chapter 4 Connecting African Jurisprudence to Universal Jurisprudence through a shared understanding of Contract; Dominic Burbidge -- Chapter The Legal Subject in Modern African Law: A Nigerian Report; Olúfémi Táíwó -- Part II: Rights -- Chapter 6 African Values, Human Rights and Group Rights: A Philosophical Foundation for the Banjul Charter; Thaddeus Metz -- Chapter 7 Before Rights and Responsibilities: An African Ethos of Citizenship; Oche Onazi -- Chapter 8 The Practice and the Promise of Making Rights Claims: Lessons from the South African Treatment Access Campaign; Karen Zivi.- Chapter 9 Unpacking the Universal: African Human Rights Philosophy in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart; Basil Ugochukwu -- Part III: Society -- Chapter 10 Legal Empowerment of the Poor: Does Political Participation matter? Oche Onazi -- Chapter 11 The Humanist basis of African Communitarianism as viable third alternative theory of developmentalism; Adebisi Arewa -- 12 Crime Detection and the Psychic Witness in America: an Allegory for re-appraising Indigenous African Criminology; Babafemi Odunsi -- Index. |
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An African Path to Disability Justice : Community, Relationships and Obligations / / by Oche Onazi |
Autore | Onazi Oche |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xix, 179 pages) |
Disciplina | 342.087 |
Collana | Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice |
Soggetto topico |
Private international law
Conflict of laws Political science Law—Philosophy Law Social justice Human rights Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law Philosophy of Law Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights |
ISBN | 3-030-35850-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1. Introduction: African Scholarship and the Neglect of Disability -- Chapter 2. Africa in Disability Justice, Legal and Political Theory -- Chapter 3. Human Rights and Disability Justice in Africa -- Chapter 4. Towards an African Legal Theory of Disability Justice -- Chapter 5. From African Legal Theory to Practice: A Bill of Responsibilities -- Chapter 6. Conclusion. |
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AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems [[electronic resource] ] : International Workshops AICOL-I/IVR-XXIV, Beijing, China, September 19, 2009 and AICOL-II/JURIX 2009, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, December 16, 2009 Revised Selected Papers / / edited by Pompeu Casanovas, Ugo Pagallo, Giovanni Sartor, Gianmaria Ajani |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2010.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (X, 243 p. 62 illus.) |
Disciplina | 340.1 |
Collana | Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence |
Soggetto topico |
Law—Philosophy
Law Artificial intelligence Application software Data mining Computer communication systems Computers and civilization Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History Artificial Intelligence Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet) Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Computer Communication Networks Computers and Society |
ISBN |
1-280-39000-X
9786613567925 3-642-16524-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems -- Introduction: Complex Systems and Six Challenges for the Development of Law and the Semantic Web -- I Language and Complex Systems in Law -- As Law Goes By: Topology, Ontology, Evolution -- Sailing the Semantic Seas by Structural Vessels: Problems and Perspectives for the Identification of Implicit Knowledge in the Legal Domain -- Network Analysis of the French Environmental Code -- Model Regularity of Legal Language in Active Modifications -- II Ontologies and the Representation of Legal Knowledge -- Traceability and Change in Legal Requirements Engineering -- When a FrameNet-Style Knowledge Description Meets an Ontological Characterization of Fundamental Legal Concepts -- Application of an Ontology-Based Model to a Selected Fraudulent Disbursement Economic Crime -- Multi-layer Markup and Ontological Structures in Akoma Ntoso -- III Argumentation and Logics -- Prescriptive and Descriptive Obligations in Dynamic Epistemic Deontic Logic -- Lex Minus Dixit Quam Voluit, Lex Magis Dixit Quam Voluit: A Formal Study on Legal Compliance and Interpretation -- IV Dialogue and Legal Multimedia -- Legal Electronic Institutions and ONTOMEDIA: Dialogue, Inventio, and Relational Justice Scenarios -- Mediation, ODR, and the Web 2.0: A Case for Relational Justice -- Legal “Neutral Dialogue”, Implementing the Work of Bruce Ackerman in the Field of Law -- Legal Multimedia Management through JPEG2000 Framework. |
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Antitrust: The Person-centred Approach / / by Abayomi Al-Ameen |
Autore | Al-Ameen Abayomi |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
Disciplina |
330.1
340 340.1 340.2 |
Soggetto topico |
Private international law
Conflict of laws Law—Philosophy Law International law Trade Law—Europe Economics Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History International Economic Law, Trade Law European Law Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods |
ISBN | 3-319-01724-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2. Antitrust – The “Other” Mode of Analysis -- 3. The Person-Centred Approach to Antitrust -- 4. Antitrust Right -- 5. Capability Approach: The Framework for the Person-centred Analysis -- 6. Antitrust Pluralism and Justice -- 7 Person-centred Approach and Antitrust Enforcement -- 8. Conclusion. . |
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Argument Types and Fallacies in Legal Argumentation / / edited by Thomas Bustamante, Christian Dahlman |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (230 p.) |
Disciplina | 345.075 |
Collana | Law and Philosophy Library |
Soggetto topico |
Law—Philosophy
Law Political science Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History Philosophy of Law |
ISBN | 3-319-16148-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- about the authors -- I. Argument Types or Fallacies? -- 1. Appeal to Expert Testimony – A Bayesian Approach; Christian Dahlman and Lena Wahlberg -- 2. Ad Hominem Fallacies and Epistemic Credibility; Audrey Yap -- 3. On the Absence of Evidence; Giovanni Tuzet -- 4. The Uses of Slippery Slope Argument; Jose Juan Moreso -- 5. Institutional constraints of topical strategic maneuvering in legal argumentation. The case of ‘insulting’; Harm Kloosterhuis -- 6. One-Sided Argumentation in the Defense of Marriage Act; Janice Schuetz -- II. Argument Types and Legal Interpretation -- 7. Anti-Theoretical Claims about Legal Interpretation: The Argument behind the Fallacy; Thomas Bustamante -- 8. Frames of Interpretations and the Container-Retrieval View: Reflections on a Theoretical Contest; Pierluigi Chiassoni -- 9. Argument Structures in Legal Interpretation: Balancing and Thresholds; Michał Araszkiewicz -- 10. An Analysis of some Juristic Techniques for Handling Systematic Defects in the Law; Giovanni Battista Ratti -- 11. Argumentation from reasonableness in the justification of judicial decisions; Eveline Feteris -- 12. Legal Argumentation and Theories of Adjudication in the U.S. Legal Tradition: Between Cass Sunstein’s Minimalism, Richard Posner’s Pragmatism and Ronald Dworkin’s Advocacy of Integrity; Bernardo Gonçalves Fernandes.- Index. |
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The Art of Law : Artistic Representations and Iconography of Law and Justice in Context, from the Middle Ages to the First World War / / edited by Stefan Huygebaert, Georges Martyn, Vanessa Paumen, Eric Bousmar, Xavier Rousseaux |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (462 pages) |
Disciplina | 344.43097 |
Collana | Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice |
Soggetto topico |
Law—Philosophy
Law Conflict of laws Cultural studies Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law Cultural Studies |
ISBN | 3-319-90787-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I: Law, Justice and Art -- Chapter 2. The Bruges exhibition ‘The Art of Law’ -- Chapter 3. Law’s Manifestations: From Signs to Images – on Early Modern Legal Iconology -- Chapter 4. Works of Art as Criminal Punishment in the Low Countries (14th-17th c.) -- Chapter 5. “ut experiri et scire posset”. Pictorial Evidence and Judicial Inquiry in Hans Fries’ Kleiner Johannes Altar -- Part II: Moralising Law and Justice Representations in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Era -- Chapter 6. Changes in Late-Medieval Artistic Representations of Hell in the Last Judgment in North-Central Italy, ca. 1300-1400: A Visual Trick? -- Chapter 7. Medieval Iconography of Justice in a European Periphery: The Case of Sweden, ca. 1250-1550 -- Chapter 8. Justitia, Examples and Allegories of Justice, and Courts in Flemish Tapestry, 1450-1550 -- Chapter 9. The Judgment of Cambyses: Multiple Sources and Post-David Nachleben of a Rich Iconographical Topic -- Chapter 10. Multilayered Functions of Early Modern Court Room Equipment: Lüneburg for Example -- Part III: Lawyers and Justices: Their Books, Their Work, Their Symbols -- Chapter 11. Civic Bodies and their Identification with Justice and Law in Early Modern Flemish Portraiture -- Chapter 12. The Paradoxes of Lady Justice’s Blindfold -- Chapter 13. Lawyers and Litigants: The Corrupting Appeal and Effects of Civil Litigation in Hendrick Goltzius’ Litis abusus -- Chapter 14. Framing the Law. Legal Iconology of the Grotesque in the Sixteenth Century -- Chapter 15. The Mechanical Art of Rhetoric in an Ordinary Sixteenth Century German Formulary -- Chapter 16. A Ghostly Corpse in the City? Spatial Configurations and Iconographic Representations of Capital Punishment in the ‘Belgian’ space (16th-20th c.) -- Chapter 17. Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité ou la Mort. The Iconography of Injustice in the Work of Pierre Goetsbloets -- Part IV: Justice Architecture and Decorations in the Long 19th Century -- Chapter 18. Joseph-Jonas Dumont’s Prison Gatehouses: architecture parlante in Neo-Tudor Style -- Chapter 19. Experiencing Justice in the Cour d’Assises of Brabant (1893-1913). A Place of Education and Entertainment -- Chapter 20. The Judge, the Artist and the (Legal) Historian: Théophile Smekens, Pieter Van der Ouderaa, Pieter Génard and the Antwerp cour d’assises -- Chapter 21. Images of Justice in the Colonial Courts of British India. The Judicial Iconography of the Bombay High Court. . |
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The Art of Legislating / / by Virgilio Zapatero Gómez |
Autore | Zapatero Gómez Virgilio |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 228 pages) |
Disciplina | 328 |
Collana | Legisprudence Library, Studies on the Theory and Practice of Legislation |
Soggetto topico |
Law—Philosophy
Law Political science Legislative bodies Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History Philosophy of Law Legislative and Executive Politics |
ISBN | 3-030-23388-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction – The Study of Legislation -- The Dignity of Laws -- Laws under Suspicion -- The Design of Laws -- Legislative Policy -- A Soft Law -- The Art of Regulating -- Modes of Legislative Drafting -- The Drafter’s Tasks -- Drafter’s Deontology -- Implementation -- Government and Parliament -- Legislators and Judges -- Epilogue: The Art of Legislating and Globalisation. |
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