Libros de

Confesión

"En 1879, el autor de Guerra y paz y Ana Karenina, de cincuenta años de edad, llegó a creer que sus logros y su existencia carecían de sentido, sumiéndolo en un estado de dolor y desasosiego extremos que parecen conducirlo fatalmente hacia el suicidio. Escrita ...

Joaquín Sorolla

Sorolla tiene un don extraordinario para la pintura, un dominio de la misma que va mucho más allá del virtuosismo para, con ánimo sereno y radiante, adentrarse en un arte capaz de plasmar lo voluptuoso de los sentidos, el fulgor de la luz, la alegría ...

Jonas Mekas

El paraíso recobrado

Jonas Mekas nunca supo dónde empezaba su vida y dónde terminaba. Salió de un pueblo de Lituania con veintiún años y se exilió en Nueva York tras pasar un lustro en campos de trabajo y de refugiados. Fue poeta, crítico de cine, archivista, distribuidor de ...

Tax justice and tax law

understanding unfairness in tax systems

Most people would agree that tax systems ought to be 'just', and perhaps a great deal more just than they are at present. What is more difficult is to agree on what tax justice is. This book considers a range of different approaches to, and ...

The law and governance of mining and minerals

a global perspective

This book explores a disciplinary matrix for the study of the law and governance concerning mining and minerals from a global perspective. The book considers the key challenges of achieving the goals of Agenda 2030 and the transition to low-carbon circular economies. The perspective encompasses ...

Access and cartel cases

ensuring effective competition law enforcement

This book examines the legislative patchwork surrounding access to the European Commission's cartel case files. Recent legislative changes have increased the value of the files and have also highlighted the inherent tension between a number of competing interests affecting their accessibility. The Commission is ...

Intersectionality and human rights law

This collection of essays analyses how diversity in human identity and disadvantage affects the articulation, realisation, violation and enforcement of human rights. The question arises from the realisation that people, who are severally and severely disadvantaged because of their race, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual ...

A guide to global private international law

This book provides a substantial overview of the discipline of private international law viewed from a global perspective. The guide is divided into 4 key sections. Theory Institutional and Conceptual Framework Issues Civil and Commercial Law (apart from Family Law) Family Law Each chapter is ...

Fragmentation and the European patent system

This book provides an in-depth study on current perceptions of, and responses to, fragmentation in the European patent system (EPS). For decades, attempts have been made to address this fragmentation by introducing a unitary patent system. The most recent attempt, the EU unitary patent system ...

Constitutional semiotics

the conceptual foundations of a constitutional theory and meta-theory

This book offers an outline of the foundations of a theory of constitutional semiotics. It provides a systematic account of the concept of constitutional semiotics and its role in the representation and signification of meaning in constitution, constitutional law, and constitutionalism. The book explores the ...

The making of the modern company

This book adopts a historical perspective to highlight, and bring back into focus, the key features of the modern company. A central argument in the book is that legal personhood attaching to an entity containing a corporate fund seeded by shareholders is a direct and ...

The global energy transition

law, policy, and economics for energy in the 21st century

Global energy is on the cusp of change, and it has become almost a truism that energy is in transition. But what does this notion mean exactly? This book explores the working hypothesis that, characteristically, the energy system requires a strategy of the international community ...

The legal foundations of INTERPOL

Since the publication of the extremely well regarded first edition of this title, the legal regime which forms the basis for INTERPOL has changed significantly due to increasing criticism and calls for reform. This timely new edition provides a complete update to reflect the significant ...

Reconceptualising corporate compliance

responsibility, freedom and the law

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the issues surrounding corporate compliance. Should corporations comply with the spirit or the letter of the law? What role does compliance play in a capitalist market economy? Why is it that otherwise law-abiding citizens are willing to implement ...

EU soft law in the member states

theoretical findings and empirical evidence

This volume analyses, for the first time in European studies, the impact that non-legally binding material (otherwise known as soft law) has on national courts and administration. The study is founded on empirical work undertaken by the European Network of Soft Law Research (SoLaR), across ...

What is a family justice system for?

Does a justice system have a welfare function? If so, where does the boundary lie between justice and welfare, and where can the necessary resources and expertise be found? In a time of austerity, medical emergency, and limited public funding, this book explores the role ...

Law's humility

enlarging the scope of jurisprudential disagreement

This book invites newcomers to analytical legal philosophy to reconsider the terms in which they are accustomed to describing and defending their jurisprudential allegiances. It argues that familiar taxonomic labels such as legal positivism, natural law theory and legal interpretivism are poor guides to the ...

The foundations of the Aarhus Convention

environmental democracy, rights and stewardship

This important new monograph offers an innovative new analysis of the Aarhus Convention. Environmental law is dense with monolithic concepts, from environmental democracy to intergenerational justice, from sustainable development to stewardship. Each concept generates its own mythology about what environmental law should aspire to. Sometimes ...

Decarbonisation and the energy industry

law, policy and regulation in low-carbon energy markets

This timely collection of essays examines the legal and regulatory dynamics of energy transitions in the context of emerging trends towards decarbonisation and low-carbon energy solutions. The book explores this topic by considering the applicable energy law and policy frameworks in both: (i) highly industrialised ...

Governing the extractive sector

regulating the foreign conduct of international mining firms

This book considers, and offers solutions to, the problems faced by local communities and the environment with respect to global mining. The author explores the idea of grievance mechanisms in the home states of the major mining conglomerates. These grievance mechanisms should be functional, pragmatic ...