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The peace continuum

what it is and how to study it

The idea of studying peace - over studying war, genocide and political violence (hereafter violent conflict) and then inferring about peace - has gained considerable traction in the past few years after languishing in the shadows of conflict for decades but how should it be studied? The ...

Property and Human Rights in a global context

Property as a human rights concern is manifested through its incorporation in international instruments and as a subject of the law through property-related cases considered by international human rights organs. Yet, for the most part, the relationship between property and human rights has been discussed ...

The Common Law of Obligations

divergence and unity

The development of the law of obligations across the common law world has been, and continues to be, a story of unity and divergence. Its common origins continue to exert a powerful stabilising influence, carried forward by a methodology that places heavy weight on the ...

Defences in unjust enrichment

This book is the second in a series of essay collections on defences in private law. It addresses defences to liability arising in unjust enrichment. The essays are written from a range of perspectives and methodologies. Some are doctrinal, others are theoretical, and several offer ...

Human dignity in context

explorations of a contested concept

Human dignity is the key term that the Universal Declaration on Human Rights placed at the centre of legal discourse on a global level. The Universal Declaration inspired the subsequent use of dignity in domestic constitutional documents as well as in international and regional human ...

Administrative Law and judicial deference

In recent years, the question whether judges should defer to administrative decisions has attracted considerable interest amongst public lawyers throughout the common law world. This book examines how the common law of judicial review has responded to the development of the administrative state in three ...

Divergences in private Law

This book is a study of doctrinal and methodological divergence in the common law of obligations. It explores particular departures from the common law mainstream and the causes and effects of those departures. Some divergences can be justified on the basis of a need to ...

Towards a decent labour market for low-waged migrant workers

This anthology analyzes low-wage migrant workers in Europe from many perspectives, including migration policies, human rights, economics, and more. Free movement of workers and services in the EU calls into question the extent to which the labor market and its institutions are able to counteract ...

We, the sovereign

What does it mean for the people to actually rule? Formal democracy is an empty and cynical shell, while the nationalist Right claims to advance its anti-democratic project in the name of 'the People'.

Cost-benefit analysis

concepts and practice

Cost-Benefit Analysis provides accessible, comprehensive, authoritative, and practical treatments of the protocols for assessing the relative efficiency of public policies. Its review of essential concepts from microeconomics, and its sophisticated treatment of important topics with minimal use of mathematics helps students from a variety of ...

Investigating cryptocurrences

understanding, extracting, and analyzing blockchain evidence

Bitcoin has traditionally been the payment system of choice for a criminal trading on the Dark Web, and now many other blockchain cryptocurrencies are entering the mainstream as traders are accepting them from low-end investors putting their money into the market. Worse still, the blockchain ...

Optimization methods in finance

Optimization methods play a central role in financial modeling. This textbook is devoted to explaining how state-of-the-art optimization theory, algorithms, and software can be used to efficiently solve problems in computational finance. It discusses some classical mean-variance portfolio optimization models as well as more modern ...

El abecé de las familias

En el mundo hay una inmensa variedad de familias. Las hay numerosas, pequeñas, monoparentales, interraciales, adoptivas, etc. Entre familia y familia también varía el idioma que se habla, los alimentos que se comen, los hogares en los que se vive y hasta el modo en ...

Foreign investment, strategic assets and national security

At the time of a paradigm change Foreign Investment, Strategic Assets and National Security is a timely analysis of the changing attitude towards foreign investment in major economies, namely the United States of America, the PeopleÆs Republic of China, Australia, Canada, and Germany, France and ...

A people's Court?

a bottom-up approach to litigation before the European Court of Justice

Each year the European Court of Justice delivers over a thousand decisions on the basis of EU law that affect the Member States as well as the lives of their citizens. Most of these decisions are the result of requests for a preliminary ruling sent ...

The Law and policy of international trade in electricity

The book examines the legal guarantees provided under the European Union (EU) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules for the development of electricity transmission systems, either by constructing new transmission lines or by increasing transmission capacity. In the context of an analysis of trade ...

Estudios acerca de la evolución del Derecho privado

Los fenómenos jurídicos constituyen una gran parte de los sociales, porque consisten en normas precisas que regulan acciones más importantes de la vida social, tienen, pues, por su naturaleza, un aspecto externo visible y mayor precisión que los fenómenos de la moral, de la conciencia ...

Nulidad de planeamiento y ejecución de sentencias

La ejecución de las Sentencias declarativas de la nulidad de un instrumento de planeamiento urbanístico constituye en la práctica jurídico-administrativa una verdadera odisea. Los motivos son variados y van desde las dificultades estrictamente procesales, a los problemas específicamente materiales. Las dificultades más evidentes surgen de ...

Desencuentros entre la policía y el público

factores de riesgo y estrategias de gestión

La inmensa mayoría de los encuentros entre la policía y la ciudadanía son placenteros y satisfactorios para ambas partes, tal como demuestran los resultados de las encuestas existentes en estos momentos. Sin embargo, cuando algunos de esos encuentros, a causa de los múltiples factores que ...

La autoliquidación y su incidencia en el sistema de aplicación de los tributos en España

La obra se refiere a la incidencia de la autoliquidación en el sistema de aplicación de los tributos en España, se valora cómo la participación del contribuyente influyó en la normativa tributaria reguladora del “esquema clásico de gestión” hasta llegar al predomino de aplicación de ...