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La víctima en sus espejos

variaciones sobre víctima y cultura

Es habitual seguir a la víctima a partir de evidencias estandarizadas, documentadas convencionalmente desde registros psicológicos, sociológicos o normativos. Es, sin embargo, menos frecuente ir a darle encuentro, o perseguir su silueta distintiva, entre la moderna imaginería virtual, los poemarios tradicionales, la Ópera, el Cine ...

International business Law

emerging fields of regulation

This book provides an accessible introduction to selected new issues in transnational law, and connects them to existing theoretical debates on transnational business regulation. More specifically, (i) it introduces the argument about the evolving character of contemporary international business regulation; (ii) it provides an overview ...

El Artículo 12 de la Convención de Derechos de Personas con Discapacidad

El autor trata la Convención sobre los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad de las Naciones Unidas y su impacto en el modelo de comprensión de la discapacidad y en particular se centra en su artículo 12, si bien trata otros artículos por la necesaria ...

La preparación del proceso civil

las diligencias preliminares

La presente monografía aborda, con un enfoque eminentemente práctico, una herramienta esencial para la preparación del proceso civil: las diligencias preliminares. La obra recoge la doctrina científica y judicial más relevante en el ámbito de las diligencias preliminares efectuando, al mismo tiempo, una crítica revisora ...

Los delitos de pornografía infantil

(análisis del art. 189 CP)

Los delitos de pornografía infantil conforman el llamado Derecho penal sexual, cuyas sucesivas reformas son síntoma del carácter controvertido y polémico de esta tipología delictiva, planteando complejas cuestiones tanto respecto a la forma en la que el Derecho penal debe intervenir, así como a los ...

La discriminación de personas con discapacidad y otros colectivos vulnerables en la contratación entre particulares

La igualdad de oportunidades no puede ser efectiva en un mundo donde reina la discriminación. La igualdad de oportunidades sólo existe en una sociedad que reconoce la capacidad de todos y cada uno, cada uno con una capacidad diferente, y refuerza la posición de los ...

Digital Vortex

cómo las empresas tradicionales pueden competir con las más disruptivas

¿Cómo pueden las grandes compañías ya consolidadas competir con las nuevas empresas digitales ávidas por hacerse con su cuota de mercado?. Digital Vortex ofrece las claves para que las organizaciones aprendan a usar las estrategias de las startups y enseña el camino para anticipar amenazas ...

Inferencia estadística para Economía

Texto básico para la asignatura de Inferencia estadística del Grado de Economía. Los autores han desarrollado el libro de manera que, si bien el lector debe de tener unos conocimientos previos de estadística y cálculo de probabilidades, no utilizan una herramienta matemática muy elevada. En ...

Permanent States of emergency and the rule of Law

Constitutions in the Age of Crisis

"Permanent States of Emergency and the Rule of Law" explores the impact that oxymoronic 'permanent' states of emergency have on the validity and effectiveness of constitutional norms and, ultimately, constituent power. It challenges the idea that many constitutional orders are facing permanent states of emergency ...

Obligation and commitment in Family Law

A tension lies at the heart of family law. Expressed in the language of rights and duties, it seeks to impose enforceable obligations on individuals linked to each other by ties that are usually regarded as based on love or blood. Taking a contextual approach ...

The EU better regulation agenda

a critical assessment

Better Regulation in the EU is a perennial and topical question which has important implications for the future direction of EU law. While actions directed at improving the quality and accessibility of EU regulation are not novel, in recent years the Better Regulation Agenda has ...

The United Kingdom and the federal idea

How should political power be divided within and among national peoples? Is the nineteenth-century theory of the sovereign and unitary State still fit for purpose in the twenty-first century? If not, can federalism provide a viable alternative model? This collection looks at federalism from the ...

Uniform rules for european contract Law?

a critical assessment

Over the last 30 years, the evolution of acquis communautaire in consumer law and harmonising soft law proposals have utterly transformed the landscape of European contract law. The initial enthusiasm and approval for the EU programme has waned and, post Brexit, it currently faces increasing ...

Food and animal welfare

Animal welfare offers a vital lens through which to explore the economies, culture and politics of food. This is the first text to provide a much-needed overview of this contentious area of the food industry. Drawing together the latest research and a range of case ...

What is the Sharia?

In the West, 'sharia' often calls to mind antiquated laws founded upon gender discrimination and barbaric punishments. In the East, for some it means the ideal standards by which Muslims strive to live; for others, it is the greatest obstacle to modernisation of their societies ...

The types of economic policies under capitalism

Kozo Uno is widely recognised as one of the most important Marxist economists of the 20th century, and yet most of his work remains untranslated and thus unavailable to the Anglo-Saxon world. This English language edition of his influential Keizai-Seisakuron introduces Uno's argument for ...

The mismeasure of wealth

essays on Marx and social form

Murray's essays concentrate on Marx the historical materialist, the investigator of historically specific social forms of wealth and labour. In probing Marx's dialectical accounts of the commodity, value, money, surplus value, wage labour and capital, The Mismeasure of Wealth establishes Marx's singular ...

Marxist monetary theory

collected papers

This essential volume collects the papers of Costas Lapavistas, one of the first political economists to notice the ascendancy of money and finance as dominant features of contemporary capitalism. These ground breaking papers range far and wide, covering markets and money, finance and the enterprise ...

The unity of public Law?

doctrinal, theoretical and comparative perspectives

This major collection contains selected papers from the second Public Law Conference, an international conference hosted by the University of Cambridge in September 2016. The collection includes contributions by leading academics and judges from across the common law world, including senior judges from Australia, Canada ...

Questioning the foundations of public Law

In 2010, Martin Loughlin, Professor of Public Law at the LSE, published Foundations of Public Law, 'an account of the foundation of the discipline of public law with a view to identifying its essential character'. The book has become a landmark in the field, and ...