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Teoría general de las obligaciones

Es comúnmente reconocido que el contenido económico-social del derecho de obligación, al menos en definitiva, es el interés a una prestación ajena: prestación que tiene por termino de referencia una persona; en cambio, contenido del derecho real es el interés a una utilidad (derechos reales ...

Elementos de Derecho procesal penal

Este libro expone las lineas generales del proceso penal italiano; las materias están tratadas en el en forma sintética, doctrinal y practica a la vez.

Empresa y sociedad

actualidad y relevancia

Ponemos a disposición de la comunidad académica, breves reflexiones sobre temas de actualidad sobre la empresa y el derecho societario, de especial interés de cada uno de los autores, a través de su practica cotidiana y su leal saber y entender.

El error en la doctrina del negocio jurídico

Una vez abandonado el dogma de la voluntad, la interpretación de las normas concretas nos lleva a conclusiones en gran parte distintas de la las tradicionales y mas adecuadas al espíritu menos formalista de la actual concepción legislativa.

Derecho de sucesiones

Por derecho sucesorio se entiende el conjunto de normas jurídicas que, dentro del derecho privado, regulan el destino del patrimonio de una persona después de su muerte.

El pensamiento jurídico

La teoría general del derecho es una ciencia internacional y sus representantes forman una gran hermandad que no reconoce fronteras nacionales. Los une el esfuerzo común para alcanzar la verdad con el espíritu de la autocrítica científica mas rigurosa.

Sociología criminal juvenil

El área de la delincuencia juvenil ofrece un laboratorio de fecundas posibilidades de integración de los diversos enfoques que a su respecto se han formulado desde la psicología, sociología, psicología social y derecho.

La tradición de la Ley natural

reflexiones de un filósofo

En estas lecciones el profesor Yves. R. Simon explora el significado de uno de los fundamentos de la civilización occidental, esto es, la convicción de que existe una justicia objetiva y universal que trasciende las expresiones particulares de la justicia del hombre.

El Derecho de los Estados Unidos

El Derecho de Estados Unidos de América es probablemente el mas apasionante y complicado que existe.

Los errores judiciales

El hombre mas honrado, mas respetado, puede ser victima de la Justicia. Es usted, por ejemplo, buen padre, buen esposo, buen ciudadano y anda con la cabeza bien alta. Cree que no tendrá que rendir cuenta alguna a los magistrados de su país. ¿Que fatalidad ...

Re-imagining offshore finance

market-dominant Small Jurisdictions in a globalizing financial world

Small jurisdictions have become significant players in cross-border corporate and financial services. Their nature, legal status, and market roles, however, remain under-theorized. Lacking a sufficiently nuanced framework to describe their functions in cross-border finance - and the peculiar strengths of those achieving global dominance in the ...

Handbook of comparative education Law

selected European Nations. Vol.3: Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, and Spain

Each of the four volumes in this set, as well as each volume independently, provide comparative analyses for researches, practitioners, and students of the law and education in examining law and education in various countries around the world. Designed to allow readers to learn from ...

Agricultural risk transfer

from insurance to reinsurance to capital markets

'Agricultural Risk Transfer' introduces the main concepts of agricultural (re)insurance and capital market risk transfer that are discussed through industry case studies. It also discusses best industry practices for all main insurance products for crop, livestock, aquaculture and forestry risks including risk assessment, underwriting ...

Can political violence ever be justified?

Violence - from state coercion to wars and revolutions - remains an enduring global reality. But whereas it is often believed that the point of constitutional politics is to make violence unnecessary, others argue that it is an unavoidable element of politics. In this lucid and erudite ...

Will the gig economy prevail?

Increasingly, employees are being falsely treated as 'self-employed.' This phenomenon - the 'gig economy' - is seen as the inevitable shape of things to come. In this book, Colin Crouch takes a step back and questions this logic. He shows how the idea of an employee - a ...

America, compromised

"There is not a single American awake to the world who is comfortable with the way things are." So begins Lawrence Lessig's sweeping indictment of contemporary American institutions and the corruption that besets them. We can all see it-from the selling of Congress to ...

Currency statecraft

monetary rivalry and geopolitical ambition

At any given time, a limited number of national currencies are used as instruments of international commerce, to settle foreign trade transactions or store value for investors and central banks. How countries whose currencies gain international appeal choose to use this status forms their strategy ...

Team human

In one hundred lean and incisive statements, Douglas Rushkoff argues that we are essentially social creatures and that we achieve our greatest aspirations when we work together-not as individuals. Yet today society is threatened by a vast antihuman infrastructure that undermines our ability to connect ...

The bookshop of the world

making and trading books in the Dutch Golden Age

The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world's greatest bibliophiles The Dutch Golden Age has long been seen as the age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, whose paintings captured the public imagination and came to represent the ...

Amritsar 1919

an Empire of fear and the making of a massacre

A powerful reassessment of a seminal moment in the history of India and the British Empire-the Amritsar Massacre-to mark its 100th anniversary The Amritsar Massacre of 1919 was a seminal moment in the history of the British Empire, yet it remains poorly understood. In this ...