Libros de

Republican Europe

Constitutional orders constitute political communities - and international orders deriving from them - by managing conflicts that threaten peace. This book explores how a European political community can be advanced through EU constitutional law. The constitutional role of the Union is to ensure peace by addressing two ...

The limits of asset confiscation

On the legitimacy of extended appropriation of criminal proceeds

This book provides a normative analysis of the justifications and limits of asset confiscation as a crime control measure in a comparative perspective. More specifically, it deals with what in this context is referred to as extended appropriation, that is, confiscation in cases where the ...

Family reunification in the EU

the movement and residence rights of third country national family members of EU citizens

This monograph examines the intricate legislative and jurisprudential scenario of family reunification between EU citizens and third country nationals that has developed in the European Union over the last 50 years. Focusing on family residence rights granted to third country national family members of EU ...

General principles of Law

european and comparative perspectives

Examining general principles of law provides one of the most instructive examples of the intersection between EU law and comparative law. This collection draws on the expertise of high-profile and distinguished scholars to provide a critical examination of this interaction. It shows how general principles ...

Environmental Law and governance for the Anthropocene

The era of eco-crises signified by the Anthropocene trope is marked by rapidly intensifying levels of complexity and unevenness, which collectively present unique regulatory challenges to environmental law and governance. This volume sets out to address the currently under-theorised legal and consequent governance challenges presented ...

Human Rights between Law and politics

the margin of appreciation in post-national contexts

This book analyses human rights in post-national contexts and demonstrates, through the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, that the Margin of Appreciation doctrine is an essential part of human rights adjudication. Current approaches have tended to stress the instrumental value of ...

The EU and nanotechnologies

a critical analysis

This book investigates the role of law in confronting major societal transformations embodied by the emergence of nanotechnologies. Taking the case of the European Union, it explores who the key decision-makers in the regulation of nanotechnologies are and how they take decisions. The questions are ...

Religion, equality and employment in Europe

the case for reasonable accommodation

The management of religious and ideological diversity remains a key challenge of our time - deeply entangled with debates about the nature of liberal democracy, equality, social cohesion, minorities and nationalism, security and foreign policy. This book explores this challenge at the level of the workplace ...

The federal idea

Public Law between governance and political life

A significant part of the world's population lives under some sort of federal arrangement. And yet, the concepts of federalism and federation remain under-theorised. Federalist theorists have, for the most part, defined their object by opposition to the unitary state. As a result, they ...

Law's judgement

Law's Judgement elucidates and defends a feature of contemporary law that is currently either overlooked or too glibly dismissed as morally troublesome or historically anachronistic. That feature is the abstract nature of law's judgement and its three components show that, when law judges ...

The foundations and traditions of constitutional amendment

There is growing interest in constitutional amendment from a comparative perspective. Comparative constitutional amendment is the study of how constitutions change through formal and informal means, including alteration, revision, evolution, interpretation, replacement and revolution. The field invites scholars to draw insights about constitutional change across ...

Criminal sentencing

as practical wisdom

How do judges sentence? In particular, how important is judicial discretion in sentencing? Sentencing guidelines are often said to promote consistency, but is consistency in sentencing achievable or even desirable? Whilst the passing of a sentence is arguably the most public stage of the criminal ...

Régimen de la devolución de ingresos y responsabilidad patrimonial en el impuesto municipal de plusvalía

En esta monografia pretendemos exponer, de forma sistemática y detallada, los supuestos legítimadores y los trámites procedimentales predicables de la devolución de ingresos indebidos y de la responsabilidad patrimonial del Estado, a raíz de la inconstitucionalidad parcial del Impuesto sobre el Incremento de Valor de ...

Camino de Santiago y patrimonio cultural

UNa visión jurídica integradora

El patrimonio cultural está adquiriendo cada día mayor presencia científica y social, ya sea como expresión identitaria de un concreto modo de percibir el mundo ya como riqueza que testimonia la creatividad de las civilizaciones a lo largo del tiempo. La presente obra brinda al ...

El Derecho ante la transformación digital

oportunidades, riesgos y garantías

Las tecnologías digitales y el desarrollo de diferentes formas de inteligencia artificial configuran un panorama de cambio radical que afecta a múltiples sectores de la actividad humana. El derecho no puede permanecer impasible ante esta transformación. Es necesario abordar una reflexión en torno a las ...

Violencia y acoso de persecución sindical

nuevas perspectivas de tutela a la luz del Convenio 190

Ejecución de sentencias en materia de Seguridad Social

El objetivo del presente estudio es el conjunto de problemas prácticos que suscita la ejecución de sentencias en materia de Seguridad Social. No estamos pues ante una obra de carácter dogmático que englobe la sistemática de la ejecución de sentencias en esta materia, sino ante ...

La aporofobia en el sistema penal español

especial referencia al colectivo de personas sin hogar

Este libro aborda un tema sobre el tratamiento que otorgan el Derecho Penal y la Política Criminal actuales a las personas excluidas del sistema político, social y económico, las personas sin hogar, con la finalidad de denunciar una realidad existente: la deriva del modelo de ...

Del libre albedrío a la autodeterminación

hacia una nueva fundamentación de la responsabilidad jurídico-penal

El presente libro investiga la noción de autodeterminación del sujeto como elemento que sostiene la responsabilidad en el Derecho penal. La hipótesis a ser verificada sugiere que el libre albedrío, verdadero fundamento del jus puniendi estatal, es un concepto que no parece apto para proporcionar ...

Manual de Derecho Civil

Curso III. Derecho reales. Registro de la Propiedad

Este Manuel de Derecho Civil, Curso III, incluye la exposición de los denominados derechos reales y, también, las líneas fundamentales de la organización, funcionamiento y efectos del Registro de la Propiedad. El objetivo básico que se ha perseguido es proporcionar al lector un instrumento de ...