Libros de

Proprietà e beni

saggi di diritto privato

"Una riflessione su di un tema così vasto e dalle implicazioni molteplici esige una necessaria delimitazione tanto del punto di osservazione da adottare, quanto del profilo di cui occuparsi. In ordine al primo, il riferimento stesso nel tema assegnato al "dibattito sulla proprietà" implica necessariamente ...

Ricerche sulla Stipulatio Poenale

"La definizione della pena convenzionale, la sua struttura, il nesso di accessorietà in relazione all'obbligazione principale, le modalità di efficacia della pena rispetto al tempo e al regime di responsabilità, il cumulo di pretese tra pena e prestazione principale, il rapporto tra l'adempimento ...

Diritto Privato

Il principio di precauzione fra ordinamento europeo e ordinamento italiano

Il principio di precauzione si è affermato in questi ultimi decenni (dapprima nel diritto internazionale dell'ambiente e poi quale principio generale dell'ordinamento europeo) in ragione degli esiti del progresso scientifico che hanno fatto emergere "nuovi bisogni di tutela" riguardanti tutti i settori della ...

Il contratto

sistema del Diritto Civile

"Il volume che si presenta rappresenta l'ultima testimonianza di una nobilissima tradizione giuridica che vuole i giuristi più impegnati confrontarsi - a un punto di maturazione della loro riflessione - con il genere trattatistico e in particolare con il tema del contratto, che, per le caratteristiche ...

Il caso giuridico

una ricostruzione giusfilosofica

"Il caso giuridico. Una ricostruzione giusfilosofica" costituisce una monografia scientifica dedicata all'analisi del concetto di "caso giuridico". Nonostante i tentativi, portati avanti dalla filosofia del diritto, di sottolineare l'importanza di un "diritto del caso concreto", il rapporto tra norma e caso ha continuato ...

Fascism

the career of a concept

What does it mean to label someone a fascist? Today, it is equated with denouncing him or her as a Nazi. But as intellectual historian Paul E. Gottfried writes in this provocative yet even-handed study, the term's meaning has evolved over the years. Gottfried ...

Liberal suppression

Section 501(c)(3) and the taxation of speech

In the course of exempting religious, educational, and charitable organizations from federal income tax, section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code requires them to refrain from campaign speech and much speech to influence legislation. These speech restrictions have seemed merely technical adjustments, which ...

Islam and the rule of justice

image and reality in Muslim Law and culture

In the West, we tend to think of Islamic law as an arcane and rigid legal system, bound by formulaic texts yet suffused by unfettered discretion. While judges may indeed refer to passages in the classical texts or have recourse to their own orientations, images ...

Building the prison State

race and the politics of mass incerceration

The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other industrialized nation in the world—about 1 in 100 adults, or more than 2 million people—while national spending on prisons has catapulted 400 percent. Given the vast racial disparities in incarceration, the prison ...

Why liberalism failed

Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century-fascism, communism, and liberalism-only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism's proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural ...

Boundaries of the international

Law and empire

It is commonly believed that international law originated in relations among European states that respected one another as free and equal. In fact, as Jennifer Pitts shows, international law was forged at least as much through Europeans’ domineering relations with non-European states and empires, leaving ...

The price of prestige

conspicuous consumption in international relations

If wars are costly and risky to both sides, why do they occur? Why engage in an arms race when it's clear that increasing one's own defense expenditures will only trigger a similar reaction by the other side, leaving both countries just as ...

Last resort

the financial crisis and the future of bailouts

The bailouts during the recent financial crisis enraged the public. They felt unfair-and counterproductive: people who take risks must be allowed to fail. If we reward firms that make irresponsible investments, costing taxpayers billions of dollars, aren't we encouraging them to continue to act ...

Obstacles to fairness in criminal proceedings

individual rights and institutional forms

This volume considers the way in which the focus on individual rights may constitute an obstacle to ensuring fairness in criminal proceedings. The increasingly cosmopolitan nature of criminal justice, forcing legal systems with different institutional forms and practices to interact with each other as they ...

Boards that dare

how to future-proof today's corporate boards

THE CHALLENGE Corporate boards as fiduciaries are responsible for delivering maximum value and the highest standards of care. The persistent misconception that boards should be driven primarily by shareholder value will soon be an outdated one, and boards that continue to apply narrow interpretations of ...

Collapse

Europe after the European Union

It is now commonplace to hear people say the EU is embroiled in an existential crisis. Indeed, Brexit may mean the process of EU disintegration has already begun. However, while much political and journalistic attention is centred on describing the EU's woes, far less ...

CEO Society

the corporate takeover of everyday life

Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) have become the cultural icons of the 21st century. Figures like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg are held up as role models who epitomise the modern pursuit of innovation, wealth and success. We now live, Bloom and Rhodes argue, in a ...

Crash and beyond

causes and consequences of the global financial crisis

In 2008, the world was plunged into a financial and economic crash. This book explores the roots of the crash, including the build-up of global economic imbalances, the explosion in the use of novel financial instruments, the mismanagement of risk, and the specific roles played ...

Global tensions in financial markets

Research in Finance seeks to provide a collection of quality research articles that reflect the current and primary issues in financial markets. Contributions include finance theory and financial practice, plus accounting issues such as reporting derivatives positions, reflecting intangible holdings, or predicting financial distress. The ...