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Protection of Property Rights within the European Convention on Human Rights

This work discusses the concept of property as a human right within the context of the European Convention on Human Rights. Within the last two decades, the Article established by the Convention has become a significant human rights instrument for member states of the Convention ...

Defining civil and political rights

the jurisprudence of the United Nations Human Rights Committee

INDEX: Introduction, Scott Davidson; Procedure under the optional protocol, Scott Davidson; Self-determination, Richard Burchill; Democratic and civil rights, Alex Conte; Security of the person, Alex Conte; The judicial process, Alex Conte; Privacy, honour and reputation, Alex Conte; Equality and non-discrimination, Scott Davidson; Minority rights, Richard ...

Your life or mine

how geoethics can resolve the conflict between public and private interests in xenotransplantation

The issue of xenotransplantation is the subject of this monograph. The author demonstrates that problems regarding the introduction of zoonoses into the human gene pool can be overcome. The book also considers costs, and the perception by some that using animals to keep dying humans ...

The mother of all crimes

Human Rights, criminalization and the child born alive

This book considers the appropriate response of the criminal law with regard to women whose acts or omissions in pregnancy cause the death or injury of the child born alive. It compares recent developments in English law in the light of the Human Rights Act ...

Right and prejudice

prolegomena to a Hermeneutical philosophy of Law

Most current works in the field of legal interpretation approach problems from the point of view of analytical philosophy. In this book, however, Jarkko Tontti adopts the somewhat neglected viewpoint of continental hermeneutical philosophy, as developed by thinkers such as Gadamer, Ricoeur, Vattimo and Heidegger ...

Deliberation and decision

economics, Constitutional Theory and deliberative democracy

"Deliberation and Decision" explores ways of bridging the gap between two rival approaches to theorizing about democratic institutions: constitutional economics on the one hand and deliberative democracy on the other. The two approaches offer very different accounts of the functioning and legitimacy of democratic institutions ...

The logic of consent

the diversity and deceptiveness of consent as a defense to criminal conduct

The Logic of Consent analyzes the varied nature of consent arguments in criminal law and examines the confusions that commonly arise from the failure of legislatures, courts and commentators to understand them. Peter Westen skillfully argues that the conceptual aspect accounts for a significant number ...

Hard lessons

reflections on governance and crime control in late modernity

The essays in this book catalogue a wide and varied range of instances "where things go wrong" in the practices of criminal justice. The contributions document instances where laws, policies and practices have produced unintended consequences of the most deleterious kind, drawing attention to the ...

La sección sindical

La metáfora

Microeconomic theory

basic principles and extensions

Nicholson's Microeconomic Theory: Basic Principles and Extensions, 9th edition is a tried-and-true, well-known and respected market-leading text. Applauded for providing the most clear and accurate presentation of advanced microeconomic concepts, it offers an ideal level of mathematical rigor for upper level undergraduate students and ...

La Sierra de Guadarrama

biografía de un paisaje

Atlas ilustrado de la historia de Madrid

Este libro ilustrado nos permite una doble aproximación a la historia. Por un lado, observamos la transformación de un espacio en el tiempo: vemos el surgimiento, crecimiento y desarrollo de la ciudad que transforma su faz, incorpora nuevos edificios, barrios y monumentos, otros desaparecen y ...

Revoluciones en las ciencias naturales

la nueva visión de la Tierra y de la vida

Madrid

introducción plural a la Villa y Corte

Luis Antonio de Villena (Madrid, 1951) vive en su ciudad natal, donde estudió Filología Clásica y Románica. Desde muy joven se dedicó a la literatura. Ha cultivado ampliamente la poesía (desde Huir del invierno hasta Las herejías privadas), la narrativa (desde Amor Pasión hasta El ...

La nouveau droit de l'urbanisme

Le droit anglais des biens

Parce qu'il recourt à des catégories dont les frontières sont floues et qu'il ne distingue pas de façon tranchée le droit réel et le droit de créance, le droit anglais fait preuve d'une grande souplesse qui, en particulier dans le domaine des ...

Droit du travail

Le consentement contractuel à l'épreuve des conditions générales

De l'utilité du concept de déclaration de volonté

Le consentement a cessé d'être un concept unique, les acteurs juridiques préférant en effet recourir à des régimes spéciaux lorsqu'il s'agit de déterminer l'inclusion ou non de conditions générales dans un contrat. Cette approche peut fournir des solutions apparemment adaptées à ...

Money,politics and health care

reconstructing the federal-provincial partnership

eds.Harvey Lazar;France St-Hilaire The First Ministers' Accord on Health Care Renewal, announced in February 2003 just a few months following the release of the Romanow and Kirby reports on the future of health care in Canada, gave rise to high expectations. Many Canadians ...