Libros de

Conocerme, comprenderte, sintonizar

un modelo de estilos de personalidad

En este Manual se explican los distintos Estilos de Personalidad; podrás saber cómo eres tú mismo o, mejor aún, cómo te ven los demás (conocerte), podrás elucubrar y entender cómo piensan, sienten y se comportan los otros (comprender), y mejorar tus resultados en las relaciones ...

Competition Law and public interests

principles for resolving conflicts and an application to the banking sector

Should self-regulation that serves public interests be shielded from the cartel prohibition? Or should public interests have a place in the balancing exercise of Article 101(3) TFEU? Is it legally possible to admit anti-competitive mergers when they are still in the best interest of ...

The rise and fall of the European Constitution

The Draft European Constitution was arguably both an attempt to constitutionalise the Union, re-framing that project in the language of the state, and an attempt to stretch the boundaries of constitutionalism itself, re-imagining that concept to accommodate the sui generis European Union. The (partial) failure ...

The rise and decline of fundamental rights in EU citizenship

This book argues that there is an inherent relationship between EU fundamental rights and EU citizenship: they both have the same objective of guaranteeing protection for the individual. This is underpinned by the development of case law in the field by the Court of Justice ...

Improperly obtained evidence

in Anglo-American and Continental Law

This is the first book to offer an extensive cosmopolitan, cross-cultural insight into the perennial controversy over the use of improperly obtained evidence in criminal trials. It challenges the conventional view that exclusionary rules are idiosyncratic of Anglo-American law, and highlights the 'constitutionalisation' and 'internationalisation ...

Intermediation and beyond

The global shift from the direct holding of securities by investors to the current intermediated holding system raises many important legal issues. These include the impact of the intermediated holding system on the rights of investors, and the enforcement of those rights against intermediaries and ...

The history of European Union

constructing utopia

The European Union celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2017, but celebrations were muted by Brexit and the growing sense of a crisis of identity. However, as this seminal work shows, the history and ambition of the European Union are considerable. Written by key stakeholders who ...

Legal validity

the fabric of justice

Critical human interests are affected on a daily basis by appeal to past decisions deemed to be 'legally valid'. They include statutes, deportation orders, judgments, mortgage contracts, patents and wills. Through the technique of validity, lawyerly reasoning settles morally pressing matters in a way that ...

Sexuality and transsexuality under the European Convention on Human Rights

a queer reading of Human Rights Law

This book undertakes a critical analysis of international human rights law through the lens of queer theory. It pursues two main aims: first, to make use of queer theory to illustrate that the field of human rights law is underpinned by several assumptions that determine ...

Collective bargaining and collective action

labour agency and governance in the 21st Century?

This book offers a unique contribution that examines major recent changes in conflict, negotiation and regulation within the labour relations systems and related governance institutions of advanced societies. The broad scope of analysis includes social welfare institutions, new forms of protest including judicialisation, transnational structures ...

Digital copyright

Law and practice

The first edition of this book in 2002 was the first UK text to examine digital copyright together with related areas such as performers' rights, moral rights, database rights and competition law as a subject in its own right. Now in its fifth edition, the ...

Leadership intelligence

the 5Qs for thriving as a leader

In today's complex corporate world, contemporary governance calls for a varied and versatile cognitive approach to problems - demanding times require nimble minds and rounded perspectives. The authors' research has identified five key leadership intelligences - the 5Qs - which high-performing leaders need to simultaneously employ in ...

Retail therapy

why the retail industry is broken - and what can be done to fix it

Almost weekly, the news is full of stories about disappearing retail chains. From House of Fraser and BHS to Toys'R'Us and Sears, recognised names are vanishing overnight - as such large organizations disappear, so the malls, shopping centres, high streets and main streets become ...

Bank capital structure and procyclicality of leverage

This book investigates the determinants of bank capital structure and procyclical behavior of leverage. A panel data analysis is developed to find out the relation between different types of leverage ratios and asset growth of banks. Furthermore, possible impacts of bank specific and macroeconomic variables ...

Judicial interpretation of the 1997 Criminal Code provisions on self-defence

In this book the authors present and, more importantly, give their own assessment of judicial decisions interpreting the Criminal Code provisions currently in force on self-defence and the transgression of its limits. The authors have critically verified the empirical material of 88 Supreme Court, 194 ...

Industry 4.0 from the MIS perspective

Nowadays, an end-to-end industrial transformation called Industry 4.0 sets new goals for manufacturing and impacts on business outcomes. With some of its characteristic elements such as IoT (Internet of Things), digital twin simulation models, advanced robots, big data analytics, and virtual/augmented reality, Industry ...

Apuntes de política criminal

Son grandes tiempos para la política criminal práctica, la política criminal con minúsculas. La tensión entre el modelo de intervención penal garantista y el de la seguridad ciudadana se ha ido resolviendo a favor de este último, ensanchado los horizontes de la aplicación del Derecho ...

Ineficacia y rescisión del negocio jurídico

la ventaja injusta

La presente obra Ineficacia y rescisión del negocio jurídico. La Ventaja injusta, ofrece un estudio riguroso y actual de la materia, que parte de la categoría clásica y compleja de la ineficacia del negocio jurídico, para concluir en una propuesta de regulación en nuestro ordenamiento ...

Las tasas judiciales

Recientes pronunciamientos del Tribunal Constitucional han declarado la inconstitucionalidad y nulidad de gran parte de los criterios de cuantificación establecidos para las tasas judiciales en la Ley 10/2012, de 20 de noviembre, en su aplicación a las personas físicas o jurídicas, según los casos ...

Epistemología y metodología jurídica

Esta obra presenta un estudio acerca de la metodología jurídica, que intenta aunar la visión científica del Derecho con el carácter práctico y prudencial de la determinación individual del mismo. Con este objetivo, el libro comienza con una reflexión propiamente epistemológica acerca de las principales ...