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Polarization

what everyone needs to know

The 2016 election of Donald J. Trump invoked a time for reflection about the state of American politics and its deep ideological, cultural, racial, regional, and economic divisions. But one aspect that the contemporary discussions often miss is that these fissures have been opening over ...

The limits of the market

the pendulum between government and market

The old discussion of 'Market or State' is obsolete. There will always have to be a mix of market and state. The only relevant question is what that mix should look like. How far do we have to let the market go its own way ...

Interactive governance

advancing the paradigm

Governance has become one of the most commonly used concepts in contemporary political science. It is, however, often used to mean a variety of different things. This book helps to clarify this conceptual muddle by concentrating on one variety of governance-interactive governance. The authors argue ...

Innovation commons

the origins of economic growth

Innovation is among the most important topics in understanding economic sustained economic growth. Jason Potts argues that the initial stages of innovation require cooperation under uncertainty and draws from insights on the solving of commons problems to shed light on policies and conditions conducive to ...

The Constitution of Freedom

an introduction to legal constitutionalism

Constitutional democracy is more fragile and less 'natural' than autocracy. While this may sound surprising to complacent democrats, more and more people find autocracy attractive, because they were never forced to understand or imagine what despotism is. Generations who have lived in stable democracies with ...

The Law of the Constitution

The Law of the Constitution has been the main doctrinal influence upon English constitutional thought since the late-nineteenth century. It acquired and long retained extraordinary legal authority, despite fierce criticism and many changes in law and government. By many, it was treated as a canonical ...

Comparative constitutionalism

This book provides a complement to Dicey's The Law of the Constitution. These largely unpublished comparative constitutional lectures were written for different versions of a comparative constitutional book that Dicey began but did not finish prior to his death in 1922. The lectures were ...

Courts and comparative Law

While the role of comparative law in the courts was previously only an exception, foreign sources are now increasingly becoming a source of law in regular use in supreme and constitutional courts. There is considerable variation between the practices of courts and the role of ...

The EU citizenship directive

a commentary

The EU Citizenship Directive defines the right of free movement for citizens of the European Economic Area. It applies to EU citizens and their family members who move to another Member State. This might at first seem like a straightforward definition, but immediately questions arise ...

Online Courts and the future of justice

In Online Courts and the Future of Justice, Richard Susskind, the world's most cited author on the future of legal services, shows how litigation will be transformed by technology and proposes a solution to the global access-to-justice problem. In most advanced legal systems, the ...

Territorial sovereignty

a philosophical exploration

Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration offers a qualified defense of a territorial states-system. It argues that three core values-occupancy, basic justice, and collective self-determination-are served by an international system made up of self-governing, spatially defined political units. The defense is qualified because the book does ...

Ideas with consequences

the federalist society and the conservative counterrevolution

There are few intellectual movements in modern American political history more successful than the Federalist Society. Created in 1982 to counterbalance what its founders considered a liberal legal establishment, the organization gradually evolved into the conservative legal establishment, and membership is all but required for ...

Le mafie nell'economia legale

scambi, collusioni, azioni di contrasto

Le mafie continuano a prosperare sia nelle zone di insediamento tradizionale sia in quelle di nuova espansione. In particolare, risulta in crescita la loro presenza nell’economia legale, favorita da situazioni in cui si ravvisa una «confusione» tra lecito e illecito. Il libro affronta questi ...

Diritto Amministrativo comparato

Mutamenti dei sistemi nazionali e contesto globale

Il volume contiene un’analisi comparata di diversi sistemi amministrativi nazionali e dei loro mutamenti nel tempo, anche nel contesto sovranazionale. Ne emerge un avvicinamento progressivo tra i vari sistemi, favorito da un contatto e da un dialogo crescente fra giudici e studiosi dei differenti ...

Manual para el ejercicio del derecho a la asistencia jurídica gratuita

resolución de las preguntas y dudas más frecuentes en la práctica forense

La presente obra ofrece un análisis integral del derecho a la asistencia jurídica gratuita, partiendo de su examen constitucional hasta su concreto reconocimiento y aplicabilidad práctica. Ello exige analizar la Ley 1/1996, de 10 enero, de Asistencia Jurídica Gratuita y su desarrollo reglamentario, que ...

Manual práctico sobre agravantes y subtipos agravados en el Código Penal

A lo largo de 211 preguntas y respuestas, el autor analiza toda la casuística que rodea el tratamiento de las agravantes del artículo 22 del Código Penal, así como los diferentes subtipos agravados que existen en cada tipo penal. La respuesta adecuada a cada duda ...

Gestación subrogada

principales cuestiones civiles, penales, registrales y médicas: su evolución y consideración (1988-2019)

ÍNDICE ASPECTOS CIVILES, LABORALES Y DE ORDEN REGISTRAL Y JURISPRUDENCIAL GESTACIÓN DE SUSTITUCION (1984-2019), Marcelo Palacios LA GESTACIÓN SUBROGADA EN LA LEGISLACIÓN ESPAÑOLA. LEY 35/1988, DE 22 DE NOVIEMBRE, SOBRE TÉCNICAS DE REPRODUCCIÓN ASISTIDA Y LA LEY 14/2006, DE 26 DE MAYO, SOBRE ...

Tratado de arbitraje comercial interno e internacional en Iberoamérica

Durante siglos los tribunales estatales han sido apreciados por los ciudadanos como la única vía disponible a la hora de resolver sus eventuales disputas. Sin embargo, esta situación de expansión del poder judicial vivida durante los últimos siglos se encuentra hoy en una situación de ...

Homenaje de Aida al profesor D. Jesús González Pérez

MEMENTO PRÁCTICO-Sociedades Cooperativas 2020-2021

Un estudio riguroso y multidisciplinar de las sociedades cooperativas - ámbitos societario, laboral, fiscal y contable- para quienes las gestionan y para sus asesores. Se analizan todos los aspectos societarios: constitución, régimen de los socios y de los órganos sociales, régimen económico, disolución y liquidación, modificaciones ...