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• Chapter One: Introduction: A Brief Global History of the Emergence, Evolution, Development and Proliferation of Freedom of Information: Principles Definitive of Scope and Substance
• Chapter Two: Myths Surrounding Freedom of Information Laws
• Chapter Three: How FOI aids women's Empowerment and redcues Gender and Sexual Based Violence
• Chapter Four: Comparative Analysis of Freedom of Information Laws in Sierra Leone and Liberia
• Chapter Five: Sierra Leone's Resource Curse: How the Abuse of Diamonds, Politics and Power Collapsed a Nation
• Chapter Six: War, Business as Usual: The Global Scramble for Sierra Leone's Natural Resources
• Chapter Seven: Diamonds, War, Poverty and Underdevelopment: A Multidimensional Perspective on the Global Diamond Industry and its Need for Reform
• Chapter Eight: The Place of FOI in the Second Republic
• Chapter Nine: Localising Transparency and Accountability: Access to Information and Citizen Engagement Under the Local Government Act 2004
• Chapter Ten: The Effect of The EITI Process on Transparency and Accountability in Sierra Leone's Extractive Industry
• Chapter Eleven: Conclusion-- Breaking Free of the Bog: The Need for a Novel Impetus in the Implementation of the RTAI Act 2013.
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This book argues that Sierra Leone's ten-year civil conflict demonstrates the criticality of freedom of information (FOI) as a facet of good governance where corruption thrives, spanning both public and private sectors, if Sierra Leone's continued security and stability are to be ensured. It argues that it was the absence of an anti-corruption tool like FOI and its attendants, transparency, and accountability, in governance generally, and in the area of the extractive industry in particular, that lead to other social phenomena which directly sparked the war. It proffers that for the continued consolidation of peace, security, stability and development in Sierra Leone, transparency and accountability must be ensured by protecting and implementing the demand driven anti-graft FOI. Straddling the disciplines of law, political science, public policy, and history, the book's major premise is that it was the absence of FOI in the area of governance and the extractive industry, which enabled politicians, civil servants and the politically connected to ransom and exploit Sierra Leone's mineral resources for their own profit with impunity, a state of affairs which led to underdevelopment, state collapse and an embittered civil populace especially the youth. The book postulates that as such any attempt to ensure long-term peace in Sierra Leone, should seek to avoid replicating the conditions that gave rise to that gruesome conflict- elites expropriation of national resources through endemic graft. The book proposes the comprehensive and effective implementation of the Right to Information Act 2013.
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• Foreword by the editors
• General introduction
• Status of religious communities
• Relations betwee the State and Islam
• State support for Islamic religious communities
• Muslims in integration law
• Mosques and prayer houses
• Burial and cemeteries
• Education and schools
• Chaplaincy and freedom of religion in public institutions
• Employment and social rights
• Islamic ritual slaughter and food-related regulations
• Islamic goods and services
• Islamic dress
• Criminal law
• Family law.

This volume of Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe covers Finland and consists of an annotated collection of legal documents affecting the status of Islam and Muslims. The legal texts are published in the original Finnish language while the annotations and supporting material are in English. By legal documents are meant the texts of legislation, including relevant secondary legislation, as well as significant court decisions. Each legal text is preceded by an introduction describing the historical, political and legal circumstances of its adoption, plus a short paragraph summarising its content. The focus of the collection is on the religious dimensions of being Muslim in Europe, i.e. on individuals' access to practise their religious obligations and on the ability to organise and manifest their religious life.
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• Introduction
• Development and fundamental aspects of environmental law
• Legal system
• Pollution control
• Legislation on waste
• Legislation on chemicals and other dangerous substances
• Nature conservation
• Management of natural resources
• Land use planning and building
• Climate change and energy
• Environmental impact assessment
• Environmental liability
• Concluding remarks.

• Basics
• Law of the person
• Contract law
• Business
• Debts and collaterals
• Consumer law
• Intellectual property
• Law of damages
• Lease
• Labour law
• Family and inheritance law
• Procedural law
• Criminal law
• Insolvency law
• Administrative law
• Tax law
• Environmental law
• International law
• International private law.

• Constitution in general context
• Institutional design
• Legislative power : the parliament
• Executive power
• Decentralised government
• Judicial institutions and their functions
• Fundamental rights and their protection
• Changing the Constitution
• Challenges and future directions.

• Introduction
• Dissolution of the pre-modern patriarchy : negotiations on universal legal subjects
• Introducing legal equality in the framework of the nuclear family
• Equality as symmetry : the Nordic welfare model as dismantling or recognising gender?
• Liberalism revisited : individual rights, equal protection and differences
• Late modern legal personality : re-establishment or dissolution of the modern concepts?
• Conclusion.

This book is the first comprehensive account of developments in legal equality in Finland from the late 19th through the early 21st century. The book demonstrates that equality is never a status or a state of affairs that either exists or does not exist. It is rather a continuous and controversial process of creating meanings that are bound to time and place. By exploring legal discourses, the book shows how in Finnish legal history, the formal and symmetrical understanding of equality has been dominant. However, this understanding has been informed by utilitarian arguments rather than the true protection of women as individuals. The assimilation of women into the male model of equality has been the powerful thread of equality policies and the law, but the gendered understandings of legal personality have imbued the formal and neutral law. The book will be of interest to legal historians, historians, and feminist scholars of law and social sciences.
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• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• References
• Monographs, Articles, etc., Attributable to Authors
• References without an Author
• Websites of Organizations, etc.
• Treaties, other Instruments and Documents
• Treaties
• European Union Law
• Documents Prepared by or for the UNCOPUOS
• Other International Instruments and Documents
• National Instruments
• Cases
• International Court of Justice
• Other Cases
• Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Environmental Problems Related to Space Activities
• 3 Space Law From an Environmental Perspective
• 4 International Environmental Law in the Space Sector
• 5 From General Principles to Practicable Rules
• 6 Concluding Remarks
• Index.
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While decades of space ventures have led to significant technological advances, space activities have also brought increasing environmental problems. This book examines the current international legal regimes in space law and environmental law in order to ascertain their applicability and efficacy in addressing environmental threats in the space sector. The research suggests mechanisms which could improve environmental protection in the sector and strengthen the environmental element in space law. These mechanisms include a variety of norm-setting strategies used in international environmental management. Special attention is drawn to the potential of environmental impact assessment in the space sector and to dispute resolution procedures. Like other areas of human activities, the space sector should accommodate both economic interests and environmental protection in line with the principle of sustainable development.
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• The status of indigenous and minority people in Finland / Tore Modeen
• Comparative law teaching in Finland / Tuulikki Mikkola
• Recent Finnish environmental law / Erkki J. Hollo
• Biotechnology, property rights and the environment : towards a new legal order especially considering GMOs and the Finnish agriculture / Eero Henrik Nordberg
• Mandatory and enabling rules in the Finnish corporate law / Timo Kaisanlahti
• Domain names on the internet / Laura Vilkkonen
• The status of the human embryo and fetus in Finnish law / Riitta Burrell
• Fighting international and national corruption by means of criminal law / Antti Pihlajamäki
• Prosecutorial discretion and its limits / Petri Jääskeläinen
• Regulating e-commerce in Finland : especially on service providers acting as intermediaries / Katri Kummoinen.

• The Author. Abbreviations. Preface. General Introduction. Select Bibliography.
• 1. Copyright and Neighbouring Rights.
• 2. Patents.
• 3. Utility Models.
• 4. Trademarks.
• 5. Trade Names.
• 6. Industrial Designs.
• 7. Plant Variety Protection.
• 8. Chip Protection.
• 9. Trade Secrets/Confidential Information. Index.
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This convenient volume sets out the main features of Finnish intellectual property law, a particularly significant area of practice today since Finland's emergence during the 1990s as a world leader in the electronics and software industries. It provides a clear overview of the field, and, at the same time, offers practical guidance on which sound preliminary decisions may be based. The ins and outs of the legal protection of copyrights, trademarks, patents, integrated circuit designs, plant varieties, and all other important aspects are covered, with due attention to the ownership and transfer of intellectual property rights, registration procedures, and remedies for infringement. For a reliable understanding of Finnish intellectual property law, "Intellectual Property Law in Finland" should be an ideal quick reference book for both practitioners and students.
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• The Author. List of Abbreviations. Introduction. 1. General Background. 2. Definitions and Notions 3. Historical Background. 4. The Role of Government in Labour Law and Industrial Relations. 5. Sources of Labour Law. 6. Private International Labour Law. 7. Selected Bibliography. Part I: The Individual Employment Relationship. 1. Definitions and Concepts. 2. Rights and Duties of the Parties in the Course of the Employment Relationship. 3. Working Time, Annual Vacations, Holidays. 4. Remuneration. 5. Suspension of the Execution of the Employment Contract. 6. End of Employment Relationship. 7. Protection of Certain Categories of Employees
• Discrimination. 8. Covenant of Non-Competition
• Statute of Limitations
• Inventions by Employees. 9. Settlement of Disputes over Rights. Part II: Collective Labour Relations. 1. Trade Union Freedom. 2. The Trade Unions and the Employers' Associations. 3. Institutionalized Relations between Employers and Employees. 4. Collective Bargaining. 5. Industrial Action. Index.
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This book begins with a short overview of Finland's geography and population, political and legal systems, and economy. The Introduction further discusses the history of the labour relations system and the role of government organs within the system. Part I discusses the law of the individual employment relationship: the individual employment contract; rights and duties of the contract parties; health and safety at work; employee privacy; working time and annual vacations; job security and other matters concerned with the end of the relationship; protection against discrimination; and settlement of disputes over rights. In Part II, collective labour relations are discussed: trade union freedom; the associations network; workplace participation and other institutionalized relations between employers and employees; general framework and law of collective agreements; and industrial action.
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Presenting an overview of the Finnish labour law system, this work deals with the sources of labour law, individual employment relationship, collective bargaining, remuneration, working conditions, and dispute settlement.
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