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Análisis de la incidencia de la Ley Orgánica 1/2025

En materia de eficiencia, en los sistemas alternativos y complementarios de solución de conflictos jurisdiccionales

La judicialización de los conflictos inter partes en España cada año va en aumento, lo que supone un grave problema no sólo para la administración de Justicia sino también para el justiciable, que ve cómo los procesos se dilatan en el tiempo en detrimento de ...

Gestión jurídico-pública de la libertad de creencias

La diversidad de creencias, religiosas y seculares, propia de las sociedades plurales, como cada vez más viene siendo la española, plantea una serie de exigencias a los poderes públicos que, sea por inadvertencia o contrariedad con el orden público, no siempre están prestos a atender ...

Violencia de género vs. Violencia doméstica. Paso a paso

Examen profundo de las diferencias conceptuales, jurídicas y sociales entre dos de las manifestaciones más graves de la violencia en el ámbito familiar y afectivo

La distinción entre violencia doméstica y violencia de género presenta desafíos importantes en el ámbito jurídico debido a un contexto común: ambas se desarrollan en la esfera íntima de la persona. Mientras la violencia doméstica se caracteriza por su habitualidad y por darse en el ...

Conversaciones informadas sobre desinformación

El libro surge del congreso Del celuloide a la IA: desinformación en tiempos de guerra, concebido como un espacio de encuentro y diálogo interdisciplinario entre académicos, periodistas, juristas, tecnólogos, activistas y ciudadanos. A pesar de la diversidad de lenguajes y enfoques, todos compartieron una preocupación ...

Desafíos medioambientales de la Unión Europea

La lucha contra el cambio climático y la conservación de la biodiversidad

La Unión Europea se enfrenta a algunos de los mayores retos de nuestro tiempo: la lucha contra el cambio climático y la conservación de la biodiversidad. Ambos desafíos exigen respuestas jurídicas, políticas y sociales articuladas a distintos niveles y en constante diálogo con el marco ...

Tratado de jurisdicción voluntaria

La obra se estructura en nueve títulos, que abarcan desde las disposiciones generales y normas comunes de tramitación hasta los distintos expedientes clasificados por materias: Personas y Familia; Derecho sucesorio; Obligaciones y derechos reales; Subastas voluntarias; Cuestiones mercantiles; Conciliación. La obra ofrece: Se subraya el ...

El derecho de reembolso de los cónyuges frente a la sociedad de gananciales

Este trabajo estudia el derecho de reembolso de los cónyuges frente a la sociedad de gananciales al tiempo de la liquidación, en su configuración como mecanismo técnico jurídico cuya finalidad es restaurar el equilibrio entre las masas patrimoniales privativas de los cónyuges y la de ...

The tech coup

how to save democracy from Silicon Valley

A tech insider who has been hailed by The New Yorker for her "forceful critique" of Big Tech describes what must be done to stop its erosion of democracy Over the past decades, under the cover of "innovation," technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and ...

AI snake oil

what artificial intelligence can do, what it can't, and how to tell the difference

From two of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI, what you need to know about AI-and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and products Confused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the ...

The backsliders

why leaders undermine their own democracies

Why democracy is under assault across the globe by the leaders entrusted to preserve it Democracies around the world are getting swept up in a wave of democratic erosion. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, two dozen presidents and prime ministers have attacked their ...

How progress ends

technology, innovation, and the fate of nations

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award How 1,000 years of global history show why technological and economic progress is often followed by stagnation and even collapse In How Progress Ends, Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional belief ...

Death in a shallow pond

a philosopher, a drowning child, and strangers in need

From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein's Poker, a fascinating account of Peter Singer's controversial "drowning child" thought experiment-and how it changed the way people think about charitable giving Imagine this: You're walking past a shallow pond and spot a toddler thrashing around ...

Principles of Bitcoin

technology, economics, politics, and philosophy

Principles of Bitcoin presents a holistic, first-principles-based framework for understanding one of the most misunderstood inventions of our time. By stripping away the hype, jargon, and superficial analysis that often surrounds the crypto industry, this book uncovers the true ingenuity behind Satoshi Nakamoto's creation-and ...

The investment philosophers

financial lessons from the great thinkers

What do Warren Buffett and Friedrich Nietzsche have in common? Why does Baruch Spinoza's understanding of irrational emotions help explain financial markets? How did Voltaire's success in a bond lottery arbitrage shape his writing? Can David Hume teach an investor when to buck ...

Beyond the water's edge

how partisanship corrupts U.S. foreign policy

Intense partisanship is a familiar part of the contemporary United States, but its consequences do not stop at the country's borders. The damage now extends to U.S. relations with the rest of the world. Too often, political leaders place their own party's ...

Scandal

why politicians survive controversy in a partisan era

Once, it was thought, a scandal was the kiss of death for a political career. Today, however, surviving scandal seems to be the norm. Donald Trump has weathered-and even perhaps benefited from-controversies that would have been unimaginable for virtually any other candidate. Prominent figures in ...

The tech-media hybrid

Google's news ambition

Google is typically thought of as a tech giant and the world's largest search engine, but it was also among the first tech companies to invest in news. After 9/11, the company recognized the economic and social value of up-to-the-minute information and began ...

Inside data science

hackers and the making of a new profession

Data scientists appeared suddenly in the early 2010s and quickly became ubiquitous. Institutions, from established corporations to start-ups, universities to government agencies, scrambled to recruit specialists. Somehow, a loose band of computer experts and hackers integrated established technologies and methodologies-and some questionable ideas-into a distinct ...

Nations without nationalism

Underlying Julia Kristeva's Nations Without Nationalism is the idea that otherness-whether it be ethnic, religious, social, or political-needs to be understood and accepted in order to guarantee social harmony. This book is an impassioned plea for tolerance and for commonality, aimed at a world ...

Securing peace in Europe

Strobe Talbott, NATO, and Russia after the Cold War

After the Cold War, the United States and its NATO allies faced crucial questions. Could Russia, their old adversary, be integrated into the liberal international order? What roles should former Soviet republics and satellite states in Eastern and Central Europe play in the Euro-Atlantic security ...