Libros de

Asébeia

Estudios sobre la irreligiosidad en Grecia = Studies in Greek Irreligiosity

La dicotomía ‘religiosidad’ / ‘irreligiosidad’ surge de manera incipiente a final de la época arcaica y recorre el período clásico de la Grecia Antigua. Las 14 contribuciones que nutren este volumen tratan de incidir, mediante análisis minuciosos de índole terminológica e historiográfica, en un axioma incontrovertible ...

Networks of collaborative contracts for innovation

With the rise of automation and artificial intelligence, the companies that will succeed in the future are those who operate under a constant state of innovation. Not just that, they will often need to ensure that they pursue 'open innovation'. This book explores the contractual ...

What is the family of law?

the Influence of the nuclear family

This book argues that the legal understanding of 'family' in the UK continues to be underpinned by the idealised image of the 'nuclear family', premised upon the traditional, gendered roles of 'father as breadwinner' and 'mother as homemaker'. This examination of the law's model ...

La catedral de los caminos

una biografía de la iglesia de Santiago

Santiago y su catedral reciben y acogen con la mejor de sus miradas a personas llegadas desde los puntos más remotos del planeta, sin que importen sus creencia, lenguas o condiciones. Editado con motivo de la restauración de la Catedral, este magnífico estudio, realizado por ...

El espectáculo del mundo

Una historia cultural del paisaje

El paisaje no es un concepto que ha aparecido subrepticiamente en algún momento de nuestra historia, sino que se trata de un constructo cultural que ha costado mucho esfuerzo, tiempo e ingenio armar, y en cuyo proceso han intervenido filósofos, poetas, artistas, cartógrafos, geógrafos y ...

Cross-border litigation in Europe

This substantial and original book examines how the EU Private International Law (PIL) framework is functioning and considers its impact on the administration of justice in cross-border cases within the EU. It grew out of a major project (ie EUPILLAR: European Union Private International Law ...

Obstacles to fairness in criminal proceedings

individual rights and institutional forms

This volume considers the way in which the focus on individual rights may constitute an obstacle to ensuring fairness in criminal proceedings. The increasingly cosmopolitan nature of criminal justice, forcing legal systems with different institutional forms and practices to interact with each other as they ...

Contract law and the legislature

autonomy, expectations, and the making of legal doctrine

This volume revisits some of the key debates about the nature and shape of contract law, in light of the impact that statutes have had on its development. With contributions from leading contract law scholars, it fills a significant gap in existing theoretical and doctrinal ...

Contents of commercial contracts

terms affecting freedoms

Freedom of contract is a great strength of English law: indeed it is a key reason why English law is often the law of choice. But the terms of commercial contracts often restrict freedom of action. This book considers such terms. Leading commentators take stock ...

Sexuality and transsexuality under the European Convention on Human Rights

a queer reading of Human Rights Law

This book undertakes a critical analysis of international human rights law through the lens of queer theory. It pursues two main aims: first, to make use of queer theory to illustrate that the field of human rights law is underpinned by several assumptions that determine ...

La pandemia de la desigualdad

una antropología desde el confinamiento

Sinopsis: La desigualdad y la exclusión social no son fenómenos recientes. A lo largo de la historia, colectivos completos de personas han sido prejuzgadas y afrentadas no tanto por lo que hacían, sino por lo que eran. Bajo la pandemia, las formas y los mecanismos ...

Historia del pensamiento socialista

I. Los precursores, 1789-1850

Investigación que nos introduce en el pensamiento socialista. Abarca desde 1789 hasta mediados del siglo XIX. Estudia, entre otros, a Gracchus Babeuf y su "conspiración de los iguales"; a Godwin, Paine y Hall, iniciadores del pensamiento socialista inglés; a Saint Simon y sus discípulos y ...

Les Juristes écrivains de la Rome antique

les œuvres des juristes comme littérature

Grâce au Digeste de Justinien, les œuvres des juristes romains ont constitué le droit en vigueur dans de nombreux pays d’Europe, du XIe au XIXe siècle. Mais ces écrits ont suscité plus d’intérêt pour leur contenu juridique que pour leurs qualités littéraires. D ...

Iglesia parroquial y medio rural en el Antiguo Régimen

Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Palma del Río (Córdoba)

Como es sobradamente conocido, la parroquia es la institución eclesiástica primaria e indispensable de la sociedad española católica del Antiguo Régimen por sus exclusivas funciones. También debe distinguirse entre parroquia como jurisdicción, circunscripción o territorio del que dependen otras entidades eclesiásticas existentes en un lugar ...

Productivity

Productivity looms large in public policy discussions yet many find themselves hard-pressed to explain exactly what the term means. Even within economics, its nature and significance is contested and the focus of complex debate. Michael Haynes cuts through the jargon and political sloganeering to provide ...

Quantitative easing

the Great Central Bank Experiment

Before the Great Financial Crisis of 2008-09, significant reductions in official interest rates typically proved sufficient to generate sustainable economic recoveries from downturns. However, with economies and financial markets in freefall during the crisis despite a cut in interest rates to effectively zero, policymakers in ...

Banking on the state

the political economy of public savings banks

Germany’s public savings banks – Sparkassen – are a remarkable and puzzling phenomena. No other advanced industrial country relies as heavily on such small, public financial institutions to fuel its economy and how is it that such small institutions can drive one of the biggest and ...

Presidents, populism, and the crisis of democracy

Has American democracy's long, ambitious run come to an end? Possibly yes. As William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe argue in this trenchant new analysis of modern politics, the United States faces a historic crisis that threatens our system of self-government--and if democracy ...

Who judges?

designing jury systems in Japan, East Asia, and Europe

The delivery of justice is a core function of the modern state. The recent introduction of jury/lay judge systems for criminal trials in Japan, South Korea, Spain, and perhaps soon Taiwan represents a potentially major reform of this core function, shifting decision making authority ...

La crisis de la utopía

Aristófanes contra Platón

El reconocido helenista Luciano Canfora estudia la noción de utopía en la Atenas clásica y las discusiones que ésta suscitó en la cultura de esa y otras épocas. Canfora trata primero de esclarecer la disputa alrededor de dos autores clásicos, Platón y Aristófanes. La comedia ...