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Great catastrophe

armenians and turks inthe shadow of genocide

The destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 was the greatest atrocity of World War I. Around one million Armenians were killed, and the survivors were scattered across the world. Although it is now a century old, the issue of what most ...

Fundamentos históricos y jurídicos de la libertad de testar

El presente estudio contiene una revisión en profundidad de la tesis doctoral elaborada por la autora, bajo la dirección de la profesora Margarita Fuenteseca, Catedrática de Derecho romano. Tiene como objetivo principal situar en su contexto histórico la figura de los herederos forzosos, esto es ...

The sex factor

how women made the west rich

In this passionate and skilfully argued book, leading feminist Victoria Bateman shows how we can only understand the burning economic issues of our time if we put sex and gender - 'the sex factor' - at the heart of the picture. Spanning the globe and drawing on ...

White shoe

how a new breed of Wall Street lawyers changed big business and the american century

Around 1890, a new type of lawyer was born, one who understood business as well as the law, employing his expertise to guide corporations, find loopholes and foresee legal roadblocks in the way of profits. The result was the unprecedented rise of the power of ...

Jurist in context

a memoir

This is the engaging and accessible intellectual memoir of a leading jurist. It tells the story of the development of his thoughts and writings over sixty years in the context of three continents and addresses the complexities of decolonisation, the troubles in Belfast, the contextual ...

Financial econometrics

models and methods

This is a thorough exploration of the models and methods of financial econometrics by one of the world's leading financial econometricians and is for students in economics, finance, statistics, mathematics, and engineering who are interested in financial applications. Based on courses taught around the ...

Contract Law without foundations

toward a republican theory of Contract Law

This book advances a theoretical account of contract law, grounded in value pluralism. Arguing against attempts to delineate branches of legal doctrine by reference to single unifying values, the book suggests that a field such as contract law can only be explained and justified by ...

European Union politics

European Union Politics is the most complete and most issues-led introductory textbook on the European Union. Written by an expert team of contributors, it fully equips students to understand the European Union and the topical debates which surround it. Alongside its comprehensive coverage of the ...

Health

a history

From antiquity to the early modern period, many philosophers also studied anatomy and medicine, or were medical doctors themselves - yet the history of philosophy and of medicine are pursued as separate disciplines. This book departs from that practice, gathering contributions by both historians of philosophy ...

C.S. Lewis

a very short introduction

Beloved by children and adults worldwide, the writings of C.S. Lewis have a broad and enduring appeal. Although he is best known for the iconic Chronicles of Narnia series, C. S. Lewis was actually a man of many literary parts. Already well-known as a ...

Copyright and the Court of Justice of the European Union

This title focuses specifically on the role, action, and legacy of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the field of copyright, also by providing an exclusive survey that covers two decades (1998 - 2018) of CJEU decisions in this area of the ...

The dynamic free speech clause

free speech and its relation to other Constitutional Rights

The right to free speech intersects with many other constitutional rights. Those intersections have significantly influenced the recognition, scope, and meaning of rights, ranging from freedom of the press to the Second Amendment right to bear arms. They have also influenced interpretation of the Free ...

At the edge of Reformation

Iberia before the Black Death

At the Edge of Reformation springs from Peter Linehan's continuing interest in the history of Spain and Portugal, on this occasion in the first half of the fourteenth century between the recovery of each kingdom from widespread anarchy and civil war and the onset ...

Married life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300

Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300 contains an analysis of the experience of married life by men and women in Christian medieval Europe, c. 900-1300. The study focusses on the social and emotional life of the married couple rather than on the institutional history ...

Antitrust procedural fairness

Much of antitrust law scholarship has focused on substantive legal issues - theories of harm and changing law and policy. Surprisingly, there has been very little work that is comparative, on a fundamental element that is a critical building block to effective policy - procedural fairness. Procedural ...

Heidegger

a very short introduction

Martin Heidegger, considered by some to be the greatest charlatan ever to claim the title of 'philosopher', by some as an apologist for Nazism, and by others as an acknowledged leader in continental philosophy, is probably the most divisive thinker of the twentieth century. In ...

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law

This fully revised and updated second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law provides a wide-ranging and diverse critical survey of comparative law at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It summarizes and evaluates a discipline that is time-honoured but not easily understood in ...

The perils of partnership

industry influence, institutional integrity, and public health

La sustitución empresarial de trabajadores huelguistas

el tratamiento jurídico-laboral del esquirolaje

Nuestro ordenamiento jurídico, y concretamente el artículo 6.5 del Real Decreto Ley 17/1977 sobre Relaciones de Trabajo, prohíbe al empresario sustituir a los trabajadores huelguistas por otros de nueva contratación y no vinculados a la empresa en el momento de convocarse la huelga ...

La vergüenza en el punto ciego

violencia estatal y cumplimiento de un deber

Cuando el ser humano afronta el miedo, o simplemente vive la incertidumbre, se activan mecanismos de defensa que con frecuencia ni controla porque siquiera se da cuenta de ellos, alcanzando incluso afectaciones radicales de la percepción de la realidad, o de otros aspectos fundamentales de ...