Libros de

Le fonti del Diritto

Giunto alla terza edizione, "Le fonti del diritto" ambisce ad essere qualcosa di più di un semplice manuale universitario. La nuova edizione ha inteso rafforzare la trattazione delle fonti con l'obiettivo di fornire uno strumento attento alla prassi applicativa del diritto, in un sistema ...

I contratti

Parte Generale

L’opera (I contratti. Parte generale), giunta alla 5° ed., ha natura di manuale ed ha ad oggetto la trattazione della parte generale dei contratti, ripartita in capitoli che hanno riguardo alla nozione del contratto, ai procedimenti di formazione e alle turbative, alla struttura, all ...

Manuale di Diritto costituzionale: italiano ed europeo

Volume I: Lo Stato e gli altri ordinamenti giuridici, i principi fondamentali e le istituzioni politiche

Lo studio manualistico del diritto costituzionale di uno Stato o di una comunità di Stati consiste essenzialmente, almeno in prima approssimazione, nell'esame delle regole (giuridiche) che presiedono all'individuazione, all'organizzazione e al funzionamento di un determinato gruppo sociale e delle sue istituzioni. Queste ...

Choosing the leader

leadership elections in the U.S. House of Representatives

The first comprehensive study in more than forty years to explain congressional leadership selection How are congressional party leaders chosen? In the first comprehensive study since Robert Peabody's classic Leadership in Congress, political scientists Matthew Green and Douglas Harris draw on newly collected data ...

Western Constitutionalism

history, institutions, comparative Law

This innovative textbook provides an introduction into comparative constitutional law to undergraduate and graduate students. Combining a clear and practical explanation of the topics with scientific knowledge, the textbook analyzes the origins and the development of constitutional law in the Western world, as well as ...

Bullshit jobs

a theory

Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows why, and what we ...

The road before me weeps

on the refugee route through Europe

A powerful and revealing firsthand account of the migrant and refugee experience on the overland route across Europe War and chaos in Syria and Iraq, violence in Afghanistan, and hopelessness in countries bordering war zones have spurred several million refugees and migrants to set out ...

The State and politics in Japan

Politics in Japan is undergoing a major transformation. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Abe Shinzo the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has, since 2012, embarked upon an ambitious program of policy reforms as well as changes to Japan's governing structures and processes. At the ...

Wealth of wisdom

the top 50 questions wealthy families ask

'Wealth of Wisdom' offers essential guidance and tools to help high-net-worth families successfully manage significant wealth. By compiling the 50 most common questions surrounding protection and growth, this book provides a compendium of knowledge from experts around the globe and across disciplines.

The choice of Law contract

This book offers a contractual framework for the regulation of party autonomy in choice of law. The party autonomy rule is the cornerstone of any modern system of choice of law; embodying as it does the freedom enjoyed by parties to a cross-border legal relationship ...

The Codes of the Constitution

This book describes an astounding feat of constitutional writing and publication. For a number of decades, officials working across different branches of the United Kingdom (UK) constitution have been engaged in a series of separate projects. Taken in their totality, they amount to a vast ...

Governing (through) rights

Taking a critical attitude of dissatisfaction towards rights, the central premise of this book is that rights are technologies of governmentality. They are a regulating discourse that is itself managed through governing tactics and techniques - hence governing (through) rights. Part I examines the 'problem of ...

Legal insanity and the brain

science, Law and European Courts

This landmark publication offers a unique comparative and interdisciplinary study of criminal insanity and neuroscience. Criminal law theories and ideologies which underpin the regulation of criminal insanity have always been the subject of controversy. The history of criminal insanity is characterised by conceptual and empirical ...

Comparative federalism

constitutional arrangements and case Law

This is the first comprehensive book that explores the subject of federalism from the perspective of comparative constitutional law, whilst simultaneously placing a strong emphasis on how federal systems work in practice. This focus is reflected in the book's two most innovative elements. First ...

Valoración de las indemnizaciones por secuelas derivadas de accidentes de tráfico

La valoración de los daños y perjuicios causados a las personas en accidentes de circulación, y la aplicación del baremo para determinar la indemnización pertinente, sigue planteando muchas dudas aplicativas entre los profesionales del Derecho y generando gran litigiosidad. Este Claves aborda la gran complejidad ...

Competencia en mercados con recursos esenciales compartidos

telecomunicaciones y energía

La electricidad y telecomunicaciones son los servicios peor valorados por los consumidores, siendo el principal motivo de esta insatisfacción los elevados precios de los mismos. Ello denota la necesidad del rol fundamental que el Derecho de la competencia debe seguir jugando para avanzar en el ...

Internamientos psiquiátricos y por razones de salud pública

aspectos civiles, administrativos y penales

El objeto de esta monografía son los internamientos médicos, ya sea por razones psiquiátricas o asimiladas, ya sea por razones de salud pública. Se trata desde una perspectiva multidisciplinar, al hacer referencia a los diversos profesionales que intervienen en el internamiento de una persona, destacando ...

Tribunal Constitucional y fines de la prisión provisional

evolución de la prisión provisional en España

Una vez alcanzada la democracia en España y después de la Constitución de 1978, nuestra legislación procesal se ha demorado veinticinco años en adecuarse, con mayor o menor fortuna, a los fines que constitucionalmente justifican la adopción de la medida cautelar de prisión provisional. La ...

Los legados en el Código Civil de Cataluña

El mundo de los legados es un mundo quizás excesivamente amplio. Su mayor dificultad probablemente se encuentre en la separación del legado de otras figuras que cumplen una finalidad semejante y la elaboración de un concepto de legado que pueda unificar la multitud de figuras ...

Derecho transnacional iberoamericano

En un espíritu de integración académica y de conjugación de materias jurídicas en el espacio iberoamericano, la obra «Derecho Transnacional Iberoamericano » nace con un claro propósito de presentar exitosos trabajos de interés para la comunidad jurídica iberoamericana. En este sentido, los lectores tendrán acceso a ...