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  • 3 - Southern India in the Age of Vijayanagara, 1350–1550

  • Catherine B. Asher, University of Minnesota, Cynthia Talbot, University of Texas, Austin
  • Book:
    India before Europe
    Published online:
    15 September 2022
    Print publication:
    08 September 2022, pp 62-97

  • Summary

    Chapter three focuses on south India from the mid-fourteenth through mid-fifteenth centuries with an emphasis on Vijayanagara. We consider the rise and fall of this powerful kingdom including its military nature and its cultural orientation. While the rulers of Vijayanagara cast themselves as exemplary Hindu kings, they also embraced Islamicate cultural expression in their courtly dress and their palace buildings. The robust economy of Vijayanagara allowed for successful territorial expansion facilitated by active and successful trading. Contemporary with Vijayanagara was the Muslim ruled Bahmani kingdom situated to the northwest. The prime minister Mahmud Gawan’s ability to control its two dominant factions, nobles from Iran on one hand and Indian Muslims on the other, is among the topics explored.

  • 8 - Transnational Legal Practice

  • Michael W. Dowdle
  • Book:
    Transnational Law
    Published online:
    12 November 2022
    Print publication:
    08 September 2022, pp 581-670

  • Summary

    Chapter 8 explores how transnationalization is affecting legal practice. First, it is creating new kinds of commercial law firm, called ‘global law firms’. Global firms are comprised of a geographically and culturally disperse collection of local branch offices, which results in distinctive organizational issues. It is also results in a more complex form of commercial practice, demanding ever greater forms of specialization: this is particularly evident in the revival of the role of in-house counsel, and in new, emerging kinds of legal practice found in the Global South. Globalization is also producing new, global forms of legal advocacy, which pose their own distinct sets of practical and normative issues and challenges depending on the nature of the issue being advanced (such as whether the advocacy is in response to a particular condition or to a particular event; or whether it is seeking to address primarily local injustices or more globally prevalent injustices). Transnational legal practice also gives rise to new issues regarding professional ethics, with different domestic legal regimes addressing these issues in sometimes contradictory ways.

Australian Politics in the Twenty-First Century
  • Old Institutions, New Challenges
  • 2nd edition
  • Stewart Jackson, Joff Lelliott, Shannon Brincat, Josephine Bourne, Nick Economou
  • Published online:
    06 September 2022
    Print publication:
    02 September 2022
  • The global political environment in the twenty-first century is proving dynamic and challenging for Australian policymakers and political institutions. Australian Politics in the Twenty-first Century contextualises the Australian political landscape through an institutional lens. It examines the legislative and judicial bodies, minor parties, lobby groups, the media and the citizenry, providing historical and contemporary facts, explaining political issues and examining new challenges. The second edition has been updated to reflect the application of political theories in today's civic environment. New spotlight boxes highlight issues including marriage equality, COVID-19 and federalism, the inclusion of First Nations peoples in the political system, and gender equality in public policy. Short-answer, reflection, research and discussion questions encourage students to test and extend their knowledge of each topic and to clearly link theory to practice. Written in an accessible and engaging style, Australian Politics in the Twenty-First Century is an invaluable introduction to the Australian political system.

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