Bøger af Alexandra George

Daniel is an orphan with a prestigious and ghastly past-a past he knows nothing about. He is the last surviving member of the royal family, the rest of whom were murdered by the monk-turned-politician, Specula Greavus. With the Empire on the brink of civil war, the search for the world's greatest warrior has begun. When Daniel discovers he is a Miraclist, able to bend water to his will, he is plucked from his dilapidated orphanage and thrust into a school of heroes in-training. After years of honing his abilities, he is finally accepted into the Imperial University to continue his education. But first, he and his friends must battle in the Grand Investiture: a fierce competition to select a new champion for the Empire. Now, Daniel is fired by a single passion: to rise above his blemished past and prove he is the hero the Empire needs.

Focussing on the jurisprudence of English-speaking liberal democracies - predominantly the United Kingdom, the USA and Australia - the author of this book examines the legal control of the kind of self-regarding actions that could be regarded as modes of self-expression. She distinguishes between the ways in which the law tends to regulate expressive aspects of ΓÇÖthe selfΓÇÖ when those expressions have commercial potential (and could thus be considered to be self-regarding actions with value to others) as opposed to when they are of a more personal nature. This conclusion leads to the identification of a contemporary ΓÇÖcommercialΓÇÖ form of liberalism which, it will be suggested, tends to dominate over the historical forms of liberalism in which many modern liberal democracies are notionally grounded. The reasons for, and consequences of this, are then discussed.