Libros de

My Lai

Vietnam, 1968, and the descent into darkness

On the early morning of March 16, 1968, American soldiers from three platoons of Charlie Company (1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division), entered a group of hamlets located in the Son Tinh district of South Vietnam, located near the Demilitarized Zone ...

European insolvency regulation

article-by-article commentary

The new European Insolvency Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2015/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2015 on insolvency proceedings) has come into effect on 26 June 2017 for insolvency proceedings that are opened on or after that date. The Recast ...

Manuale di Diritto Privato

Il Manuale si ripresenta ai lettori rispettando la cadenza di aggiornamento biennale inaugurata da qualche tempo, imposta dalla continua evoluzione normativa e dall'abbondanza della produzione giurisprudenziale. In particolare a quest'ultima si è scelto di dedicare crescente attenzione nell'intento, da un lato, di ...

Il notaio digitale

dalla firma alla blockchain

Il volume, curato dal Past Chairman del New Technologies Working Group del notariato europeo, affronta con taglio operativo gli aspetti centrali del rapporto tra notaio e mondo digitale. Nel dettaglio il testo si occupa di temi quali: copia autentica di pagina web; risorse online e ...

Il ruolo del notaio delle disposizioni sul fine e sul dopo vita

La legge n. 219/2017 sul testamento biologico, dopo quella sulle unioni civili del 2016, è una "legge di civiltà" che affronta non solo il tema centrale del biotestamento, ma anche, coraggiosamente, moltissimi profili ad esso connessi. Questa opera ne affronta gli aspetti principali, occupandosi ...

Diritto Penale

La nuova edizione dello storico Manuale costituisce una sintesi della parte generale del diritto penale, di cui fornisce peraltro un quadro completo e aggiornato. L'impianto metodologico segue canoni tradizionali, per corrispondere alle esigenze didattiche da cui il lavoro è scaturito, ma è attento alle ...

Manuale del Processo Civile

La nuova edizione apporta i necessari aggiornamenti legislativi e giurisprudenziali, conservando integralmente l'impostazione originaria dell'Autore, la Sua veduta sul processo e l'originale metodo didattico. La consultazione è resa agevole dall'uso dei neretti e dai frequenti rinvii; l'esposizione anche di tesi ...

Responsabilità contrattuale e danni risarcibili

L'innovativo approccio che connota il presente lavoro è dettato dalla necessità di valutare la tenuta dei tradizionali principi al cospetto delle nuove sfide che la modernità impone al giurista, in un contesto reso ancor più arduo dalla vigenza del noto principio dell'autonomia contrattuale ...

Riding for Deliveroo

resistance in the new economy

"What is life like for workers in the gig economy? Is it a paradise of flexibility and freedom? Or is it a world of exploitation? Callum Cant took a job with one of the most prominent platforms, Deliveroo, to find out. This mix of first-hand ...

The wealth and poverty of cities

why nations matter

That some cities are vibrant while others are in decline is starkly apparent. In The Wealth and Poverty of Cities, Mario Polèse argues that focusing on city attributes is too narrow. Cities do not control the basic conditions that determine their success or failure as ...

Congress

the first branch

An introduction to the U.S. Congress, from seasoned political historians and teachers In this accessible overview of the United States Congress's past and present, Ginsberg and Hill introduce students to the country's most democratic institution. This text surveys Congressional elections, the internal ...

Data selves

As people use self-tracking devices and other digital technologies, they generate increasing quantities of personal information online. Lupton develops a fresh and intriguing perspective on how people make sense of and use their personal data, and what they know about others who use this information"--

Commercializing Blockchain

strategic applications in the real world

Blockchain has grown at an enormous rate in a very short period of time. In a business context, blockchain can level the playing field between small and large organisations in several ways: exact copies of the immutable, time-stamped data is held by all parties, all ...

Adversarial legalism

the american way of Law

In the first edition of this groundbreaking book, Robert Kagan explained why America is much more adversarial-likely to rely on legal threats and lawsuits-than other economically advanced countries, with more prescriptive laws, more costly adjudications, and more severe penalties. This updated edition also addresses the ...

How european is European Private International Law?

sources, court practices, academic discourse

Over the course of the last few decades, the European legislature has adopted a total of 18 Regulations in the area of private international law. The question remains, however, if these efforts have turned private international law into a truly European field? The book analyses ...

The pursuit of parenthood

reproductive technology from test-tube babies to uterus transplants

Since the 1978 birth of the first IVF baby, Louise Brown, in England, more than eight million children have been born with the help of assisted reproductive technologies. From the start, they have stirred controversy and raised profound questions: Should there be limits to the ...

Money without boundaries

how Blockchain will facilitate the denationalization of money

Largely inspired by 'The Denationalization of Money' by Fredrich Hayek, 'Money Without Boundaries'' ideological foundation is also inspired by economists and thought leaders like Milton Friedman and Irving Fisher, advancements in capital markets over the past 50 years, and the convergence of old and new ...

Free enterprise

an american history

An incisive look at the intellectual and cultural history of free enterprise and its influence on American politics Throughout the twentieth century, "free enterprise" has been a contested keyword in American politics, and the cornerstone of a conservative philosophy that seeks to limit government involvement ...

The will of the people

the revolutionary birth of America

A prize-winning historian provides the missing piece in the story of America's founding, introducing us to the ordinary men and women who turned a faltering rebellion against colonial rule into an unexpectedly potent and enduring revolution. Over eight years of war, ordinary Americans accomplished ...

The political economy of international trade

An outline and analysis of the dynamics of trade in the twenty-first century in relation to the prevalence of protectionist sentiment.