Search for dissertations about: "history of law"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 107 swedish dissertations containing the words history of law.
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1. The code of Concord : Emerson's search for universal laws
University dissertation from Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell International / Acta Universitatis StockholmiensisAbstract : The purpose of this work is to detect a pattern: the concordance of Ethics and Aesthetics, Poetics and Politics in the most influential American thinker of the nineteenth century. It is an attempt to trace a basic concept of the Emersonian transcendentalist doctrine, its development, its philosophical meaning and practical implications. READ MORE
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2. Yellow Stars and Trouser Inspections Jewish Testimonies from Hungary, 1920–1945
University dissertation from Uppsala : Acta Universitatis UpsaliensisAbstract : This study analyzes narratives of individual Jewish experiences of discrimination and genocidal violence in Hungary during the period of 1920–1945. The aim is to increase our knowledge and understanding of the events through an investigation of survivor testimonies concerning anti-Jewish laws and the Holocaust. READ MORE
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3. Creating Player Appeal. Management of Technological Innovation and Changing Pattern of Industrial Leadership in the U.S. Gaming Machine Manufacturing industry, 1965-2005
University dissertation from Göteborg : University of GothenburgAbstract : The gaming machine market has been growing rapidly in the U.S. for the last three decades, following a period of deregulation and an increasing share of gaming machines on casino floors. READ MORE
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4. The Life and Times of Targeted Killing
University dissertation from Göteborg : University of GothenburgAbstract : Against the background of the ongoing shift in the perception of the legality and legitimacy of extraterritorial lethal force in counterterrorism, this thesis analyses the emergence of so-called “targeted killing” in the history of Israel and the US, as well as in international law. It finds that the relationship between targeted killing and law, particularly international law, is not a straightforward case of more or less determinate and legally binding norms being applied to state measures adopted in situations of insecurity (in this case, those of the second Intifada and 9/11) but rather one of a much longer and mutually productive relationship. READ MORE
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5. Impartial or Uninvolved? : The Anatomy of 20th Century Doctrine on the Law of Neutrality
University dissertation from Stockholm : Juridiska institutionenAbstract : This work focuses on neutrality as a discourse in the 20th century. I have looked at a number of doctrinal texts and read them both as legal arguments and as texts with philosophical and political implications. Therefore, this is a piece of intellectual (or conceptual) history in international law. READ MORE
