Libros de

Diario de una filósofa embarazada

Escribía Doris Lessing, en Memorias de una superviviente, que "nadie tiene la menor idea, hasta que tiene hijos, de lo que esto significa". Algo así sucede con el embarazo. Hasta que no se experimenta en primera persona la profunda transformación que supone quedarse embarazada, una ...

Yo que nunca supe de los hombres

En un futuro cercano, en un planeta irreconocible, cuarenta mujeres son mantenidas en una jaula custodiada por silenciosos hombres uniformados. La más joven de ellas, la única que no recuerda cómo era el mundo antes de la catástrofe, narra este relato inquietante y se pregunta ...

Insolación

una historia amorosa

Con motivo de la conmemoración del primer centenario de la muerte de la escritora Emilia Pardo Bazán, publicamos una edición ilustrada a todo color de una de sus novelas más importantes: "Insolación", publicada en 1889, cuando ya había sido reconocida por la crítica como gran ...

De otro modo que ser

o más allá de la esencia

La cuestión decisiva no es «¿ser o no ser?», por muy especial que ella sea, sino «¿en qué soy único?». Ni mi historia, ni mi muerte, ni mi libertad me hacen insustituible. Lo que de verdad me hace único es la respuesta que doy al ...

Las Señoritas de Avignon y el discurso crítico de la modernidad

Cinco mujeres desnudas miran fijamente al espectador. Éste les devuelve la mirada. ¿Qué ve? Y ellas, las espectadoras, ¿ven lo mismo en Las señoritas de Avignon? Este libro traza la historia de las interpretaciones de esta pintura desde distintos puntos de vista: el formalista, el ...

Economic complexity in the Ancient Near East

management of resources and taxation (Third-Second Millennium BC)

The spread of cuneiform writing from its Mesopotamian heartland to the peripheries during the second half of the third, and especially in the second millennium BC, represents an important historical and cultural phenomenon. From the beginning of the second millennium BC cuneiform writing became the ...

New economic constitutionalism in Europe

New Economic Constitutionalism in Europe focuses on the institutional mutation of constitutionalism following the major economic crisis in the Eurozone and globally. The main axis is that a new economic constitutionalism has arisen which trespasses on the conventional conceptual foundations and needs to be addressed ...

French Civil Liability in Comparative Perspective

The French law of torts or of extra-contractual liability is widely seen as exceptional. For long it was based on a mere five articles of the Civil Code of 1804, but on this foundation the courts and legal scholars have constructed liabilities for fault and ...

Reconceptualising strict liability for the tort of another

This book adopts a novel approach to resolving the present difficulties experienced by the courts in imposing strict liability for the tort of another. It looks beyond the traditional classifications of 'vicarious liability' and 'liability for breach of a non-delegable duty of care' and, for ...

The Constitution of Poland

a contextual analysis

This book focuses on the Polish Constitution of 1997, concentrating on its structure, its substance and some of the institutional choices made by the drafters. The core of the Constitution is similar to other liberal democratic constitutions, but, in addition, it regulates a number of ...

Form and substance in the law of obligations

This volume explores the relationship between form and substance in the law of obligations. It builds on the rich tradition of legal thought that deploys the concepts of form and substance to inform our understanding of the common law. The essays in this collection offer ...

Unpacking normativity

conceptual, normative, and descriptive issues

This book provides a new and wide-ranging study of law's normativity, examining conceptual, descriptive and empirical dimensions of this perennial philosophical issue. It also contains essays concerned with, among other issues, the relationship between semantic and legal normativity; methodological concerns pertaining to understanding normativity ...

The right to employee inventions in patent law

debunking the myth of incentive theory

Although employers are required to pay compensation for employee inventions under the laws in many countries, existing legal literature has never critically examined whether such compensation actually gives employee inventors an incentive to invent as the legislature intends. This book addresses the issue through reference ...

Public procurement and aid effectiveness

a roadmap under construction

This edited collection fills a significant gap in the literature by gathering contributions from the most prominent academics and practitioners of aid and procurement. It explores the economic, political and legal relationship between procurement and aid effectiveness in developing countries, and takes stock of current ...

Justice and efficiency in mega-litigation

Justice and Efficiency in Mega-Litigation explores the phenomenon of extremely long-running, resource-intensive civil litigation known as 'mega-litigation'. Such litigation challenges the courts to reconcile the objectives of justice and efficiency - for the parties to the case and for the community. Drawing on interviews with judges ...

Constitutional change and transformation in Latin America

Over the past 30 years, Latin America has lived through an intense period of constitutional change. Some reforms have been limited in their design and impact, while others have been far-reaching transformations to basic structural features and fundamental rights. Scholars interested in the law and ...

Founding moments in constitutionalism

Founding moments are landmark events that break ties with the ancien régime and lay the foundation for the establishment of a new constitutional order. They are often radically disruptive episodes in the life of a state. They reshape national law, reset political relationships, establish future ...

Critical reflections on constitutional democracy in the European Union

This book takes a wide-ranging approach to tackle the complex question of the current state of constitutional democracy in the EU. It brings together a broad set of academics and practitioners with legal and political perspectives to focus on both topical and perennial issues concerning ...

Constitutional Law of the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy

competence and institutions in external relations

The Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) of the European Union is a highly exceptional component of the EU legal order. This constitutionalised foreign policy regime, with legal, diplomatic, and political DNA woven throughout its fabric, is a distinct sub-system of law on the outermost ...

Ideology and criminal law

fascist, national socialist and authoritarian regimes

With populist, nationalist and repressive governments on the rise around the world, questioning the impact of politics on the nature and role of law and the state is a pressing concern. If we are to understand the effects of extreme ideologies on the state's ...