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The Changing Role of the Hospital in European Health Systems

The delivery of healthcare tends to be neglected in much of the policy discussion despite its crucial role in determining many important health outcomes. Our new book, The Changing Role of the Hospital...

Nigel Edwards | 17 Sep 2020

Are We Slaves to Our Genes?

The term ‘slaves’ has taken on fresh and emotive resonances during the year 2020. Such resonances were far from my mind when choosing the title of this book – Are We Slaves to Our Genes? –...

Denis R. Alexander | 17 Sep 2020

How Kabbalah went viral

The impetus behind the shaping of this book was my desire to experience the process of writing narrative history. And indeed, the story of modern Kabbalah is both compelling and instructive for grasping...

Jonathan Garb | 17 Sep 2020

Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire

As clashes over race have become pressing in many countries around the globe, the challenge of understanding the legacies of slavery, colonisation, and exploitation has only sharpened. In 2017 Australian...

Jane Lydon | 16 Sep 2020

Education amidst Covid-19

With the Covid-19 pandemic unfolding across the world, schools, universities, daycare centers and other places of learning went into lockdown. As a response, in many countries education went digital,...

Marius R. Busemeyer, Julian L. Garritzmann, Erik Neimanns | 16 Sep 2020

The Past Can’t Heal Us. The Double Edge Sword of the Human Rights Memorialization Agenda

The world is, and has always been, very short on justice. The recent Black Lives Matter movement is just another example in a long line of collective appeals to repair historical injustices. In my book...

Lea David | 14 Sep 2020

Are international organizations accountable towards individuals when they violate human rights?

International organizations are becoming increasingly powerful. In recent decades states have steadily been conferring powers upon international organizations in order to solve transnational problems...

Stian Øby Johansen | 10 Sep 2020

Artificial Intelligence and Consumer Protection

AI-based applications raise new, so far unresolved legal questions, and consumer law is no exception. The use of self-learning algorithms in Big Data analysis gives companies the opportunity to gain a...

Martin Ebers and Susana Navas | 10 Sep 2020

The Remarkable Basilica of Saint John Lateran

By any standards, the Archbasilica of St John Lateran in Rome is a remarkable place. The world’s first cathedral, and the seat of the Pope; it is known as the mater et caput, the mother and head, of...

I. P. Haynes, L. Bosman, P. Liverani | 10 Sep 2020

The Veto Power and Atrocity Crimes

Some of the permanent members of the UN Security Council periodically use their veto (i.e., negative vote)—or threat of veto—to stop resolutions aimed at preventing or stopping the commission of core...

Jennifer Trahan | 8 Sep 2020

A Q&A with Charles Baukal, Jr.: A Gallery of Combustion and Fire

What inspired this book? The Central States Section of the Combustion Institute (CSSCI) has been hosting a combustion art contest at its meetings for many years.  Someone at Cambridge University...

Charles Baukal, Jr. | 4 Sep 2020

A Bird Stuck in the Sky

Co-author of The Kestrel, David Costantini, discusses why the Kestrel is so important to him and his inspiration behind co-writing a book all about them.

David Costantini | 4 Sep 2020