Product Description: This compendium offers access to readers interested in the humanities and in social, cultural, and legal studies to a broad and multifaceted exploration of linguistic practices in the legal sciences. A range of scholars from the fields of linguistics and the legal sciences focus on specific performative aspects of the connections between language and the law...read more

Product Description: English summary: Should tax law also protect the environment, promote good health and reward social behavior? Or should taxes only provide the state with financial resources? Rainer Wernsmann looks into these questions and endeavors to differentiate among the various approaches...read more