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Constitutional rights and constitutional design

moral and empirical reasoning in judicial review

The decisions courts make in constitutional rights cases pervade our political life and touch on our most basic interests and values. The spread of judicial review of legislation around the world means that courts are increasingly called on to settle matters of moral and political ...

Permanent states of emergency and the Rule of Law

constitutions in an age of crisis

Permanent States of Emergency and the Rule of Law explores the impact that oxymoronic 'permanent' states of emergency have on the validity and effectiveness of constitutional norms and, ultimately, constituent power. It challenges the idea that many constitutional orders are facing permanent states of emergency ...

The role of monarchy in modern democracy

European monarchies compared

How much power does a monarch really have? How much autonomy do they enjoy? Who regulates the size of the royal family, their finances, the rules of succession? These are some of the questions considered in this edited collection on the monarchies of Europe. The ...

Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy

Volume 2: Normativism and Anti-normativism in Law

This second volume of the Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy series presents 11 chapters which are dedicated to normativist and anti-normativist approaches to law. The book focuses on the question: What is law? Is it a set of obligations imposed on courts and officials to ...

Sobre la prevención de la tortura

El presente texto tiene por objeto realizar una reflexión sobre las principales herramientas normativas que existen en la actualidad para poder detectar y prevenir las torturas y/o cualesquiera otros malos tratos que sucedan intramuros de las prisiones, especialmente desde el punto de vista del ...

Defendiendo a mi enemigo

los nazis americanos, el Caso de Skokie y los riesgos que entraña la libertad

En Abril de 1977 el partido Nazi estadounidense pretendía manifestarse en Skokie, una localidad de estado de Illinois donde residía la mayor comunidad de supervivientes del Holocausto en estados Unidos después de Nueva York. El asunto generó una diatriba judicial y moral que Aryeh neier ...

Fausto

Fausto es sin duda una de las obras fundamentales y más originales de la historia de la literatura. Y quizá su universalidad resida en el hecho de que el lector, cualquier lector, no puede menos que reconocerse en su personaje central, en la parte más ...

El seny y la rauxa en Cataluña

la lucha entre la virtud y el pecado

El seny es la sensatez, la cordura, el sentido común. Eugenio d’Ors lo llamó clasicismo. La rauxa es todo lo contrario. Son los principios contradictorios que hay dentro de una persona. En palabras de Eugenio d’Ors el barroco. O dicho de otra manera ...

Roy Campbell

marginación, exilio y conversión

Roy Campbell fue poeta de acción, hombre de raza, converso católico al que no le importó sacrificar su carrera literaria y buscarse enemigos por defender causas justas y la política en la que mejor supo desenvolverse, sus amigos. Y todo lo desarrolló a capa y ...

Arte y globalización en el Mundo Hispánico de los siglos XV al XVII

Este volumen profundiza en el papel del mundo hispánico en la temprana globalización a través del arte. Se traza aquí un dinámico mapa de redes y nodos, horizontes de encuentro y de diálogo en la gran trama de la Monarquía Hispánica entre los siglos XV ...

'Mujeres ricas y libres'

Mujer y poder : Inés Muñoz y las encomenderas en el Perú (s. XVI)

El 20 de mayo de 1543, en una misiva enviada al monarca Felipe II solicitando la devolución de los indígenas encomendados que le habían sido arrebatados por el licenciado Vaca de Castro, la sevillana Inés Muñoz se declaraba la primera española casada que había entrado ...

Balmaseda

una villa de Indianos

El término Indiano tiene varias connotaciones, pero en general y según definición de la R.A.E., era una persona que emigraba a América o las Indias, y regresaba rica y próspera a su lugar de origen. Entre los siglos XVI al XIX cientos de ...

The Luck Factor

why some people are luckier than others and how you can become one of them

Luck. We can't see it, or touch it, but we can feel it. We all know it when we experience it. But does it go deeper than this? And if it goes deeper, does it do so in any way which we can harness ...

The Zurich Axioms

If you want to get rich, no matter how inexperienced you are in investment, this book can help you. Its message is that you must not avoid risk, nor court it foolhardily, but learn how to manage it - and enjoy it too. The 12 major ...

Justice on trial

radical solutions for system at breaking point

Chris Daw QC has been practising criminal law for over 25 years, navigating Britain's fractured justice system from within. He has looked into the eyes of murderers, acted for notorious criminals, and listened to the tangled tales woven by fraudsters, money launderers and drug ...

The inflation myth and the wonderful world of deflation

The Inflation Myth and the Wonderful World of Deflation illustrates our rapidly changing world where constant technological innovation leads to cheaper and better products. These changes are no longer reflected in the ways we measure inflation. Renowned investor and author Mark Mobius persuasively argues that ...

After law

Law is the most sacred fetish of our time. From radicals to conservatives, there is no militant, activist or thinker who would consider doing without it. But the history of our fascination with law is long and complex, and reaches deeper into our culture than ...

The hunt for unicorns

how sovereign funds are reshaping investment in the digital economy

Who holds the power in financial markets? For many, the answer would probably be the large investment banks, big asset managers, and hedge funds that are often in the media's spotlight. But more and more a new group of sovereign investors, which includes some ...

Real estate investment and finance

The fully revised and updated version of the leading textbook on real estate investment, emphasising real estate cycles and the availability and flow of global capital Real Estate Investment remains the most influential textbook on the subject, used in top-tier colleges and universities worldwide. Its ...

The Limited Liability Company under German Law (the GmbH)

With over one million entities, by far the most common and, thus, the most important legal company form used in Germany is the limited liability company (the GmbH). The GmbH has a number of advantages: it limits shareholder liability; it can be adapted to the ...