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A Short & Happy Guide to Civil Procedure

Of the first-year subjects, Civil Procedure is the most foreign to students' experience. This book unlocks Civil Procedure by explaining doctrine and rules and placing them in context - explaining the role of each and how each doctrine relates to the others. It includes a chapter ...

A Short & Happy Guide to Administrative Law

This efficient, concise, and up-to-date Guide explains complex Administrative Law concepts in accessible language without sacrificing the nuance that distinguishes a superior exam performance from an average one. It follows a logical sequence of topics used by many professors in their classes, starting with the ...

Principles of International Litigation and Arbitration

Principles of Investigative Criminal Procedure

For law students of constitutional criminal procedure, Principles of Investigative Criminal Procedure will assist them in learning about Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment issues associated with criminal investigations. This volume is an effort to provide a comprehensive, though "Concise", treatise for law students and attorneys ...

Why Politics Fails

The Five Traps of the Modern World & How to Escape Them

Why do the revolving doors of power always leave us disappointed? In Why Politics Fails, award-winning Oxford professor Ben Ansell shows that it's not the politicians that are the problem, it's that our collective goals result in five political 'traps'. Democracy: we all ...

Taxtopia

How I Discovered the Injustices, Scams and Guilty Secrets of the Tax-Evasion Game

In TAXTOPIA a rogue accountant breaks ranks to share his journey from clueless naïf to skilled tax consultant -and in doing so blows the lid on the murky world of making the tax burdens of the ultra-wealthy disappear. In the topsy-turvy world of tax avoidance ...

When Innocence Is Not Enough

Hidden Evidence and the Failed Promise of the Brady Rule

A gripping work of narrative nonfiction, told across time, that exposes what's at stake when prosecutors conceal evidence-and what we can do about it The Brady rule was meant to transform the U.S. justice system. In soaring language, the Supreme Court decreed in ...

Chip War

The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Power in the modern world - military, economic, geopolitical - is built on a foundation of computer chips. America has maintained its lead as a superpower because it has dominated advances in computer chips and all the technology that chips have enabled. (Virtually everything runs on chips ...

Progressive Capitalism

How to Make Tech Work for All of Us

Unequal access to technology and the revenue it creates is one of the most pressing issues in the United States. An economic gulf exists between those who have struck gold in the tech industry and those left behind by the digital revolution; a geographic divide ...

Unexpected Voices in Imperial Parliaments

This collection follows the extraordinary careers of nine colonial subjects who won seats in high-level parliamentary institutions of the imperial powers that ruled over them. Revealing an unexplored dimension of the complex political organisation of modern empires, the essays show how early imperial constitutions allowed ...

Selection and Decision in Judicial Process Around the World

Empirical Inquires

This book empirically explores whether and under what conditions the judicial process is efficient. Three specific issues are addressed: first, disputants self-select into litigation. Do they tend to bring cases with merit? Second, filed cases differ in their social import. Do courts select more important ...

The (Mis)behaviour of Markets

A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward

This international bestseller, which foreshadowed a market crash, explains why it could happen again if we don't act now. Fractal geometry is the mathematics of roughness: how to reduce the outline of a jagged leaf or static in a computer connection to a few ...

International Taxation

This helpful study aid addresses the international taxation aspects of the U.S. tax system. In recent years, there has been an effort among the G-7 nations to better align their domestic tax laws. As a result, principles and enforcement mechanisms found in the U ...

La escribanía pública de Dos Hermanas entre dos siglos

(1476-1553)

Este volumen analiza el funcionamiento de la escribanía pública de Dos Hermanas en el tránsito de la Edad Media a la Moderna como paradigma de lo que se ha venido denominando «escribanía pública de ámbito rural», pieza clave en la vida cotidiana de las numerosas ...

How the Court Became Supreme

The Origins of American Juristocracy

Over the course of its history, the United States Supreme Court has emerged as the most powerful judiciary unit the world has ever seen. Paul D. Moreno's How the Court Became Supreme offers a deep dive into its transformation from an institution paid little ...

Natural Law and Thomistic Juridical Realism

Prospects for a Dialogue With Contemporary Legal Theory Petar PopoviÔc

This book proposes a rather novel legal-philosophical approach to understanding the intersection between law and morality. It does so by analyzing the conditions for the existence of a juridical domain of natural law from the perspective of the tradition of Thomistic juridical realism. In order ...

Preventing Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

A Practical Guide for Bank Supervisors

laundering and terrorism financing undermine the integrity and stability of financial systems and can have a significant adverse impact on a jurisdiction's economy. Challenges to effective supervision and prevention of laundering and financing of terrorism were exacerbated in the aftermath of the 2008 financial ...

Information in War

Military Innovation, Battle Networks, and the Future of Artificial Intelligence

An in-depth assessment of innovations in military information technology informs hypothetical outcomes for artificial intelligence adaptations In the coming decades, artificial intelligence (AI) could revolutionize the way humans wage war. The military organizations that best innovate and adapt to this AI revolution will likely gain ...

La respuesta del Derecho canónico ante los abusos sexuales cometidos a menores por parte de clérigos en España

Propuestas de cooperación procesal entre el ordenamiento estatal y el ordenamiento canónico

Esta monografía aborda en dos partes muy diferenciadas la problemática de los abusos sexuales a menores realizados por clérigos en España.Antes de profundizar en esta cuestión, el autor nos introduce en la compleja realidad de los abusos sexuales a menores desde la historia, la ...

El contrato de gestión de los derechos de autor

El derecho de autor comprende un conjunto de facultades patrimoniales sobre las obras del ingenio que permiten a sus titulares el ejercicio exclusivo de múltiples derechos, entre los que se encuentran los de reproducción, distribución, comunicación pública, transformación o los compensatorios. Hay determinados derechos que ...