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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 ...

Administrative regulation beyond the non-delegation doctrine

a study on EU Agencies

The importance of administration in the EU has been growing progressively together with the development of EU competences and tasks in the internal market. From the original model of a Community leaving enforcement with the Member States, the EU has become a complex legal order ...

Global constitutionalism and its challenges to Westphalian Constitutional Law

Westphalian constitutionalism has shaped our understanding of politics, socio-political institutions and personal and political freedom for centuries. It is historically based in the foundations of Western modernity, such as humanism and rationalism, and is organised around familiar principles of national sovereignty, the rule of law ...

Secutiry interests under the Cape Town Convention on international interests in mobile equipment

This book provides an extensive analytical examination of the Cape Town Convention and its Protocols. The Convention aims to facilitate asset-based financing and leasing of aircraft, railway and space objects by establishing a uniform legal regime for the creation and protection of security and related ...

Defences in equity

This book is the fourth in a series of essay collections on defences in private law. It addresses defences to liability arising in equity. The essays range from those adopting a mainly doctrinal perspective to others that explore the law from a more philosophical perspective ...

EU Constitutional Law

an introduction

The third edition of this acclaimed book continues the story of the EU's constitutional journey. The EU's constitution, composed of myriad legal texts, case law and practice, is no less of a moving target than before and the pace of change has, if ...

Criminologies of the military

militarism, national security and justice

This innovative collection offers one of the first analyses of criminologies of the military from an interdisciplinary perspective. While some criminologists have examined the military in relation to the area of war crimes, this collection considers a range of other important but less explored aspects ...