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En busca del poder territorial

cuatro décadas de elecciones autonómicas en España

En 2019 se cumplen cuarenta años de la celebración de las primeras elecciones autonómicas en la España democrática. La primera cita electoral de este tipo fue el 3 de abril de 1979 en Navarra y desde entonces se han celebrado más de 160 elecciones autonómicas ...

Aprender y trabajar

Los buenos estrategas a veces necesitan volver atrás para avanzar. Esta parece ser la propuesta de Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957), una de las primeras graduadas por Oxford, reconocida novelista de literatura policiaca, ensayista, apologeta, traductora al inglés de Dante (muchos todavía consideran que su versión es ...

Systemic functional linguistics at the crossroads: intercultural and contrastive descriptions of language

Proceedings of the 27th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (29th June- 01st July 2017)

This volume provides an exploration of the latest developments in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), an area of linguistics developed by Michael Halliday (1925-2018). Combining different aims and perspectives, chapters cover key issues on intercultural and contrastive aspects of language, and are organised in four thematic ...

El oficio de historiar

entre pasados y futuros

Una de las tareas fundamentales de la historia y la historiografía es insistir en la recuperación de la conciencia individual, de la conciencia social, de la conciencia humana. Los capítulos que componen este libro, escrito en un estilo directo que busca provocar y generar más ...

Cuatro siglos de Ingeniería española en Ultramar

Siglos XVI-XIX

Presentamos una obra magna, aunque no tanto como el inmenso legado que los ingenieros españoles al servicio de la Corona diseñaron en los territorios de Ultramar. La técnica y el conocimiento aplicado permitieron armonizar uno de los mayores imperios de la historia. De hecho, podemos ...

Matters of principle

codes on the independence and impartiality of the judiciary

Matters of Principle contains the most important international, European and Dutch judiciary codes.

Refuge beyond reach

how rich democracies repel asylum seekers

Media pundits, politicians, and the public are often skeptical or ambivalent about granting asylum. They fear that asylum-seekers will impose economic and cultural costs and pose security threats to nationals. Consequently, governments of rich, democratic countries attempt to limit who can approach their borders, which ...

Russia

Over the past century alone, Russia has lived through great achievements and deepest misery; mass heroism and mass crime; over-blown ambition and near-hopeless despair – always emerging with its sovereignty and its fiercely independent spirit intact. In this book, leading Russia scholar Dmitri Trenin accompanies readers ...

The gig economy

The "gig economy" is a relatively recent term coined to describe a range of working arrangements that have previously been denoted as precarious, flexible and contingent. These may include casual workers, temporary agency workers, those on zero-hours contracts and dependent contractors. This books seeks to ...

Brexit in history

sovereignity or a European Union?

Are Europeans hard-wired for conflict? Given the enmities that wracked the Greek city-states, or the Valois, Bourbons and Habsburgs, it seems undeniable. The Holy Roman Empire promised peace, but collapsed before it could deliver it, while rival rulers counter-balanced its power by stressing their own ...

Global forensic cultures

making fact and justice in the modern era

Contemporary forensic science has achieved unprecedented visibility as a compelling example of applied expertise. But the common public view—that we are living in an era of forensic deliverance, one exemplified by DNA typing—has masked the reality: that forensic science has always been unique ...

A concise introduction to International Law

This textbook provides an overview of the functioning international law, rather than the full knowledge of the immense developments of international law of the last decades, concerning the regulation of its subjects, sources, stateresponsibility, the means of dispute settlement and the ever increasingly problematic relation ...

Law enforcement in digital society

Worldwide child pornography networks that are dismantled by the police, hacks that disrupt entire businesses, and people who are victims of dating scams: this is just a sample of the news reports that appear in the media about computer crime. Law Enforcement in Digital Society ...

Re- De- Co-dification?

new insights on the codification of Private Law

Is it time for jurisdictions to undertake recodification, decodification, or even codification of their private laws? This volume addresses this recurring question in legal science by presenting recent developments and new perspectives on the codification of private law from a comparative law viewpoint. Contributions in ...

Property Law Perspectives VI

This volume is the sixth instalment in the Property Law Perspectives Series. Founded by the Young Property Lawyers Forum (www.yplf.net), a global network of young property law scholars, this volume presents the carefully curated highlights of two consecutive conferences held in Hamburg (Max ...

Network corruption: when social capital becomes corrupted

its meaning and significance in corruption and network theory and the consequences for (EU) Policy and Law

Corruption is generally referred to as bribery. This books deals with a different form of corruption: corruption caused by networks. Network corruption is the form of corruption in which the interaction of multiple actors within a social network results in corruption but in which the ...

Ministers of Justice in comparative perspective

European Financial Services Law

article-by-article Commentary

This volume analyses and explains EU legislation governing financial services. It is for legal practitioners in international law firms, the financial industry, regulators, and academics needing an in-depth understanding of financial services regulations. It is intended to serve as a handy reference book, providing both ...

Raise the debt

how developing countries choose their creditors

Credit is the lifeblood of capitalism and development. Brazil, Russia, India, and China-also called BRICs-have become important creditors to developing countries. However, how will their loans affect economic development and democracy in recipient countries? We need to understand why governments accept Chinese over Western loan ...

The Oxford handbook of criminal process

The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Process surveys the topics and issues in the field of criminal process, including the laws, institutions, and practices of the criminal justice administration. The process begins with arrests or with crime investigation such as searches for evidence. It continues through ...