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Transparencia e integridad en grandes eventos deportivos

lecciones aprendidas en Río 2016

Los Juegos Olímpicos modernos se han convertido en un poderoso instrumento de crecimiento económico y regeneración urbana de las ciudades anfitrionas. Aparte de los beneficios económicos, la celebración de los juegos también genera aumento del espíritu comunitario y el fortalecimiento de una cultura del deporte ...

The law as a conversation among equals

In a time of disenchantment with democracy, massive social protests and the 'erosion' of the system of checks and balances, this book proposes to reflect upon the main problems of our constitutional democracies from a particular regulative ideal: that of the conversation among equals. It ...

Riverflow

the right to keep water instream

There are many people and places connected to rivers: fishermen whose livelihood depends on river ecosystems, farms that need irrigation, indigenous groups whose cultures rely on fish and flowing waters, cities whose electricity comes from hydroelectric dams, and citizens who seek wild nature. For all ...

International Judicial Review

when should international courts intervene?

This book is motivated by a question: when should international courts intervene in domestic affairs? To answer this question thoroughly, the book is broken down into a series of separate inquiries: when is intervention legitimate? When can international courts identify good legal solutions? When will ...

Dispute settlement in the World Trade Organization

practice and procedure

The WTO dispute settlement process has evolved in recent years into one of the most successful, yet complex, systems of international arbitration. In this extensively revised new edition of Palmeter, Mavroidis, and Meagher's authoritative book on WTO dispute settlement, the authors provide a comprehensive ...

Once a bitcoin miner

scandal and turmoil in the cryptocurrency wild west

Part autobiography and part investigation, Once a Bitcoin Miner explains the opulence of Bitcoin's late-2017 boom and the bleakness of the subsequent bust. We begin with scandal and conflict in Canada's cryptocurrency Wild West and spiral outward, including exclusive, on-the-ground access to the ...

America, Unite or Die

how to save our democracy

America: Unite Or Die is a real-time analysis of why American Democracy is crumbling and why both sides are responsible for its collapse. This is the first objective, non-partisan analysis of what has happened, and most importantly, explains what we can do to avoid impending ...

Demands of Justice

the creation of a global human rights practice

Demands of Justice draws on original interviews and archival research to show how global appeals for human rights began in the 1970s to expand the boundaries of the global neighbourhood and disseminate new arguments about humane concern and law in direct opposition to human rights ...

How to spend a trillion dollars

the 10 global problems we can actually fix

If you had a trillion dollars and a year to spend it for the good of the world and the advancement of science, what would you do? It's an unimaginably large sum, yet it's only around one per cent of world GDP, and ...

The Economist Guide to Commodities

producers, players and prices, markets, consumers and trends

From aluminium and platinum to zinc and gold, oil and gas to cocoa and wheat, our lives are full of products derived or made from commodities - the world's natural resources. We often take them for granted - but at our peril, given the pivotal role ...

Law in the time of crisis

'Thoughtful, stimulating and even entertaining ... Lord Sumption's opinion is always worth listening to, even - or especially - if one disagrees with it.' Daily Telegraph 'Time spent on Law in a Time of Crisis is time spent in the company of a brilliant mind considering interesting ...

Liberalism and its discontents

A defence of liberalism by the renowned political philosopher 'We need more thinkers as wise as Fukuyama digging their fingers into the soil of our predicament' The New York Times 'A brilliantly acute summary of the way some aspects of liberal thought have consumed themselves ...

Confronting Leviathan

a history of ideas

Based on the History Of Ideas podcast series by Talking Politics host David Runciman, A History of Ideas explores some of the most important thinkers and prominent ideas lying behind modern politics - from Hobbes to Gandhi, from democracy to patriarchy, and from revolution to lock ...

The digital silk road

China's quest to wire the world and win the future

Its vast infrastructure projects now extend from the ocean floor to outer space, and from Africa's megacities into rural America. China is wiring the world, and, in doing so, rewriting the global order. As things stand, the rest of the world still has a ...

Butler to the world

how Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AS SEEN ON LED BY DONKEYS 'Brilliant' Marina Hyde, Guardian 'A savage analysis of Britain's soul. As essential as Orwell at his best' Peter Pomerantsev 'Horribly brilliant' James O'Brien How did Britain become the servant of the world's ...

The Rule of Laws

A 4000-Year Quest to Order the World

'Fascinating, insightful and gripping, The Rule of Laws provides a comprehensive exploration of the history underpinning our modern legal systems. A triumph' The Secret Barrister The laws now enforced throughout the world are almost all modelled on systems developed in Europe in the eighteenth and ...

How should a government be?

the new levers of state power

For a century, the most divisive question in political thought has been about the size of the state. Should it expand and take an active role in all sorts of areas of life? Or is that just meddlesome and wasteful? Those questions might have made ...

Cross-border claims to cultural objects

property or heritage?

Cultural objects have a protected status on account of their intangible value, as symbols of an identity. This has been so since the early days of international law, and today there is an extensive legal framework that ensures this protection. Yet, when it comes to ...

Essentials in cybercrime

a criminological overview for theory and practice

Cybercrime has greatly increased in recent years. That is why it is important for criminologists and legal professionals to learn the basics about cybercrime. This book offers insights into the various types and features of cybercrime, offender and victim characteristics, quantitative and qualitative methods for ...

Derecho digital

esquemas y casos prácticos para su estudio

La digitalización de la sociedad ha cambiado prácticamente todas las parcelas de nuestra realidad individual y colectiva, condicionando inevitablemente nuestro presente, pero también el devenir de nuestro futuro más inmediato. La capacidad de innovación del estado tecnológico actual ha revolucionado y acelerado la forma en ...