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La mezquita contestada

islamofobia, racismo y capitalismo

Lundsteen desenmascara las coartadas y formas sutiles que se esconden detrás del repudio social a las mezquitas. Escruta las diversas maneras de decir que los «inmigrantes» son «inmigrantes», pero no «vecinos». Martin Lundsteen cuestiona los dos paradigmas dominantes en torno a los conflictos de mezquita ...

New constitutional horizons

towards a pluralist constitutional theory

We live in a pluralist world of multi-level law and governance. More than ever before multiple legal systems and governing authorities at different levels - sub-state, state, supranational, international - are recognized as applying to, and claiming authority over, the affairs of the same sets of individuals ...

Majority minority

How do societies respond to great demographic change? This question lingers over the contemporary politics of the United States and other countries where persistent immigration has altered populations and may soon produce a majority minority milestone, where the original ethnic or religious majority loses its ...

Driverless finance

fintech's impact on financial stability

Everyone is talking about fintech, and they're usually saying good things. Driverless Finance provides a balance to that conversation, exploring the threats that different fintech innovations pose for our financial system. With in-depth and accessible descriptions of new financial technologies and business models - ranging ...

How to do public policy

How to Do Public Policy offers a guide to students and practitioners on how to improve problem-solving with policies in a political world. It integrates insights from applied policy analysis and studies of the policy process to develop a framework that conceives policy-making as structured ...

The sentimental life of international law

literature, language, andl longing in world politics

The Sentimental Life of International Law is about our age-old longing for a decent international society and the ways of seeing, being, and speaking that might help us achieve that aim. This book asks how international lawyers might engage in a professional practice that has ...

Boards of appeal of EU agencies

towards judicialization of administrative review?

While the EU agencies that have been granted the power to adopt binding decisions are a diverse group, they at least share one feature: in all of them an organisationally separate administrative review body, i.e. a board of appeal, has been established. The review ...

The Poseidon project

the struggle to govern the world's oceans

In 1609, the Dutch lawyer Hugo Grotius rejected the idea that even powerful rulers could own the oceans. "A ship sailing through the sea," he wrote, "leaves behind it no more legal right than it does a track." A philosophical and legal battle ensued, but ...

Ashworth's principles of criminal law

Ashworth's Principles of Criminal Law, now in its tenth edition, takes a distinctive approach to the subject of criminal law, whilst still covering all of the vital topics found on criminal law courses. Uniquely theoretical, it begins with an exploration of the underlying principles ...

Le droit international privé de la famille à l'épreuve de l'impératif de reconnaissance des situations

En ce début de XXIe siècle, le droit international privé doit composer avec des réalités à bien des égards inédites, qui imposent de repenser une série de présupposés longtemps restés à l'abri de toute remise en cause d'envergure. Ce questionnement présente une physionomie ...

La gravité de la faute en droit de la responsabilité civile

Tantôt officielles, tantôt clandestines, les manifestations de la gravité des fautes civiles sont d'une importance quantitative et qualitative incontestable, en ce qu'elles sous-tendent nombre d'institutions et de mécanismes essentiels au fonctionnement du droit de la responsabilité. Pourtant, l'appréciation et la considération ...

English legal system

How does the English legal system work? How does it affect everyday life? How well does it achieve its aims? Addressing these questions and more, English Legal System provides students with the fundamental knowledge they need to approach the subject with confidence. Packed with questions ...

Political leadership between democracy and authoritarianism

comparative and historical perspectives

This book sheds light on the theory of political leadership, which is still an under-researched field of political science. It is related to the philosophical argument about determinism versus activism and helps to understand the basic conflict of the 21st century between liberal democracy and ...

The abstract police

critical reflections on contemporary change in police organisations

Over the past ten to fifteen years the police in many Western European countries have undergone a series of profound organisational changes. The police now appear to operate at a greater distance from citizens, they are more impersonal and decontextualized and have become more dependent ...

The quest for complex policy

exploring the tensions between simplification and complexification in public policymaking

Governments often present societal problems simpler than they are. In public policy, problems are bound, extracted from their context, and provided with one-dimensional solutions. As demonstrated in this book, ‘criminal youth groups'must be imprisoned, and the municipal transport service must get passengers from A ...

Missing the target

why stock-market short-termism is not the problem

According to many political leaders, pundits, and corporate lawmakers, stock-market-driven short-termism - when corporations prioritize immediate results in the next quarter over their longer-term interests - is harming the American economy. This view, popular in influential circles, sees short-termism as causing sharply declining research and development (R ...

Effective judicial protection in consumer litigation

Article 47 of the EU Charter in practice

In EU consumer law, the rise of Article 47 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights – which guarantees the right to an effective remedy and a fair trial – over the past decade has coincided with a wave of crisis-induced litigation. Courts were confronted with large ...

Company law

ee Roach's Company Law is a thoroughly modern textbook, effortlessly engaging the student reader and leading them through the complexities of the law. Focused on students, this account of company law is written with exceptional clarity. Supported with learning features, the core principles and ...

Contract law

Written by a leading contract lawyer with extensive teaching experience, Contract Law takes a unique approach to a complex subject. Chen-Wishart combines academic rigour with an innovative visual approach, presenting the law with diagrams, flowcharts and tables to provide students with a stimulating account of ...

American global pre-eminence

the development and erosion of systemic leadership

A unique analysis that assesses how we can determine which country will be the next world leader. Will China surpass the United States as the world's leader? In American Global Pre-eminence, William R. Thompson argues that the answer depends on leads in technological innovation ...