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La Construcción de Europa a través de la cooperación judicial en materia de protección de víctimas de violencia de género

¿Es Europa una gran ilusión? Las palabras de Judt preconizaban un camino nada fácil en la construcción de Europa. La falta de convergencia y voluntad de armonización de ordenamientos jurídicos ha devenido un óbice para el derecho procesal, que en algunas áreas trasunta entre Estados ...

After the crash

financial crises and regulatory responses

The 2008 crash was the worst financial crisis and the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression. It triggered a complete overhaul of the global regulatory environment, ushering in a stream of new rules and laws to combat the perceived weakness of the financial ...

When the President calls

conversations with economic policymakers

Interviews with thirty-five economic policymakers who advised presidents from Nixon to Trump. What is it like to sit in the Oval Office and discuss policy with the president? To know that the decisions made will affect hundreds of millions of people? To know that the ...

Citizenship

The story of citizenship as a tale not of liberation, dignity, and nationhood but of complacency, hypocrisy, and domination. The glorification of citizenship is a given in today's world, part of a civic narrative that invokes liberation, dignity, and nationhood. In reality, explains Dimitry ...

Ten great ideas about chance

A fascinating account of the breakthrough ideas that transformed probability and statistics In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, gamblers and mathematicians transformed the idea of chance from a mystery into the discipline of probability, setting the stage for a series of breakthroughs that enabled or ...

Unelected power

the quest for legitimacy in central banking and the regulatory State

How central banks and independent regulators can support rather than challenge constitutional democracy Unelected Power lays out the principles needed to ensure that central bankers and other independent regulators act as stewards of the common good. Blending economics, political theory, and public law, this critically ...

Finance and security

global vulnerabilities, threats and responses

The global financial sector is increasingly vulnerable to penetration by criminal money-launderers, terrorist financiers, and proliferators of weapons of mass destruction. At the same time, it offers instruments that can be usefully employed to pursue foreign and security policy objectives. It is thus hardly surprising ...

Non-consensus investing

being right when everyone else is wrong

At a time when many proclaim the death of active investing, Rupal J. Bhansali, global contrarian, makes a clarion call for its renaissance. Non-consensus thinking has resulted in breakthrough successes in science, sports, and Silicon Valley. Bhansali shows how to apply it to the world ...

Creating legal worlds

story and style in a culture of argument

A legal judgment is first and foremost a story, a narrative of facts about the parties to the case. Creating Legal Worlds is a study of how that narrative operates, and how rhetoric, story, and style function as integral elements of any legal argument. Through ...

The end of Law

Carl Schmitt in the Twenty-First Century

Scholarly and political interest in the work of the controversial 20th Century German thinker Carl Schmitt has exploded in the 20 years since William E. Scheuerman's important book was first published. However, Scheuerman's work remains distinctive. Firstly, it focuses directly on Schmitt's ...

Conciencia, persona y ordenamiento jurídico

elementos para una "syneidética" jurídica

En la presente monografía se aborda el papel que se ha de reconocer a la conciencia en cuanto fundamento del ordenamiento jurídico en los Estados de derecho. La sociedad actual, plural y globalizada, tiende, a su vez, a la generación de ordenamientos, cada vez más ...

Democracy may not exist, but we'll miss it when it's gone

Democracy is in crisis. In every major company it has been stole by elites or in the hands of strong men. In democracy's name we see a raft of policies that spread inequality and xenophobia worldwide. It is clear that democracy - the principle of ...

The decay of International Law

a reappraisal of the limits of legal imagination in international affairs

Originally published in 1986 this book has become a classic of international law literature. It was a penetrating critique of the methodology of international law as it had come to be understood and accepted by the generality of international lawyers. It called for a realisation ...

The return of the Russian Leviathan

Russia’s relationship with its neighbours and with the West has worsened dramatically in recent years. Under Vladimir Putin’s leadership, the country has annexed Crimea, begun a war in East Ukraine, used chemical weapons on the streets of the UK and created an army ...

Equal justice

fair legal systems in an unfair world

A philosophical and legal argument for equal access to good lawyers and other legal resources. Should your risk of wrongful conviction depend on your wealth? We wouldn't dream of passing a law to that effect, but our legal system, which permits the rich to ...

Testosterone

an unauthorized biography

Testosterone is not what you think it is, and it is decidedly not a "male sex hormone." Here is the debunking life story of a molecule we thought we all knew. Testosterone is a familiar villain, a ready explanation for innumerable social phenomena, from the ...

Secretario y administrador en la comunidad de propietarios

nombramiento, competencias, obligaciones, responsabilidad y cese. 251 preguntas y respuestas + jurisprudencia aplicable

Esta obra contiene más de 250 preguntas y respuestas de máximo interés tanto para la Comunidad de Propietarios como para los profesionales que la administran. ¿A quién se puede nombrar para desempeñar el papel de administrador de fincas y que cualificación profesional debe tener? ¿Qué ...

La audiencia del menor en los procesos de Familia

La audiencia o exploración del menor es una de las cuestiones que se practica de forma dispar ante nuestros Tribunales. ¿Quiénes deben estar presentes? ¿Cómo ha de documentarse? ¿Quién tiene que extender el acta y qué contenido se recogerá en ella? ¿Se debe dar traslado ...

Derecho de Familia y Sucesiones: jurisprudencia Tribunal Supremo

Crónica de los años 2016, 2017 y 2018

Esta completa obra recopila tres años de jurisprudencia de la Sala Primera del Tribunal Supremo en materia de Familia y Sucesiones, continuación de la línea de publicaciones ya iniciada en estudios anteriores. Está dividida en dos grandes apartados: las resoluciones del Pleno de la Sala ...

Rusofilia

la opinión pública estadounidense y el aliado ruso, 1939-1945

Segunda Guerra Mundial. La Alemania nazi pone en jaque a las potencias europeas. Estados Unidos sabe que la derrota de sus aliados le traerá consecuencias negativas. Pero sabe también que solo la intervención de la Unión Soviética puede frenar a Hitler. La máquina propagandística se ...