This chapter strikes a bridge from current-day imaginations to pre-modern concepts of empire. It shows how, on the one hand, modern visions of empire are echoing political and religious notions of an all-encompassing rule that go back to Antiquity. On the other hand, it stresses how such modern conceptualizations tend to fall short on understanding diversity in a world where state penetration and

The question of reciprocity between the Abbasid and Byzantine capitals in the heydays of Graeco-Arabic translation remains a contested topic, where irreconcilable theories sometimes stand against each other. This paper makes a case study out of the old Hemmerdinger theory, according to which, the Bibliotheca of Photius was actually compiled in Baghdad. The paper discusses the criticism against the

OBJECTIVE: To assess the efficacy of inhaled ciclesonide in reducing the duration of oxygen therapy (an indicator of time to clinical improvement) among adults hospitalised with COVID-19.DESIGN: Multicentre, randomised, controlled, open-label trial.SETTING: 9 hospitals (3 academic hospitals and 6 non-academic hospitals) in Sweden between 1 June 2020 and 17 May 2021.PARTICIPANTS: Adults hospitalise

Den här festskriften är tillägnad Jan Darpö, professor i miljörätt vid Uppsala universitet. Författarna bakom boken vill uppmärksamma Darpös stora betydelse för såväl miljörätten som den rättsvetenskapliga forskningen i stort. Vid tiden för överlämnandet av denna festskrift har Jan Darpö, eller Janne som hans vänner och kollegor brukar kalla honom, uppnått pensionsålder. Trots det fortsätter han a

This Handbook is the first comprehensive account of comparative environmental law. It examines in detail the methodological foundations of the discipline as well as the substance of environmental law across countries from four vantage points: country studies from all continents, responses to common problems (including air pollution, water management, nature conservation, genetically modified organ

Den här boken är tillägnad Gabriel Michanek med anledning av att han blev professor emeritus i januari 2019.

Case C-425/13, European Commission v Council of the European Union, ECLI:EU:C:2015:483 (Australia ETS), delivered 16 July 2015.

Decolonisation aims at exposing the ills of colonialism in an attempt to undo their long-standing effects. Important criticism of curriculum decolonisation has focused on potential conflicts with academic freedom. However, this criticism has to some extent suffered from a perceived lack of agreement on the concept and status of academic freedom itself. The present study views decolonisation in Sou