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El lenguaje de la justicia penal

La lingüística forense se hace cada vez más necesaria en los tribunales de todo el mundo. Este ensayo de investigación aborda cómo el sistema judicial estadounidense carece de conocimientos sobre el lenguaje y de qué modo a través de una serie de casos reales -desde ...

A Macat analysis of Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, fast and slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman offers a general audience access to over six decades of insight and expertise from a Nobel Laureate in an accessible and interesting way. Kahneman's work focuses largely on the problem of how we think, and warns of ...

A Macat analysis of Chris Argyris's The individual and organization: some problems of mutual adjustment

Argyris's Integrating The Individual and the Organization is part of a series of essays and books considering how organisations should be run. This essay explores the lack of congruence between the needs and expectations of individual employees and the organisations that employ them. Grounding ...

A Macat analysis of Amartya Sen's Inequality reexamined

Amartya Sen's Inequality Re-examined is a seminal text setting out a theory to evaluate social arrangements and inequality. By asking the question, 'equality of what'?, Sen shows that (in)equality should be assessed as human freedom; for people to have the ability to pursue ...

A Macat analysis of Ludwig von Mises's The Theory of Money and Credit

Ludwig Von Mises's 1912 contribution to the theory of monetary policy and the current prevailing consensus in modern economic liberalism, The Theory of Money and Credit, was a milestone achievement. The author's familiarity with the historical literature on banking and credit allows him ...

Brexit and financial services

Law and policy

This timely book examines the legal and regulatory implications of Brexit for financial services. The UK's withdrawal from the EU is likely to have significant market, political, and policy consequences for the UK financial system, for the single market and the euro area, and ...

Banca y seguros

Capital y contabilidad (IFRS 9, 17, Basilea III y Solvencia II)

Un aspecto distintivo de este libro es que cubre simultáneamente la contabilidad y la regulación del capital, tanto de bancos como de aseguradoras, y trata de hacerlo con un lenguaje que facilite a sus lectores la comprensión respecto de cómo se genera y destruye valor ...

Insolvency and restructuring manual

Insolvency and Restructuring Manual examines the main formal processes involved in the world of corporate insolvency and restructuring such as liquidation, administration, receivership, company voluntary arrangements and schemes of arrangement. Distinctly practical in style Insolvency and Restructuring Manual utilises bullet pointed and highlighted text, flowcharts ...

Beswick and Wine: buying and selling private companies and businesses

Structured to reflect the process in practice Beswick and Wine: Buying and Selling Private Companies and Businesses focuses on the key commercial, tax and legal issues that arise from business sales. By addressing fundamental issues from the perspective of both the seller and the purchaser ...

Die Historische Rechtsschule

Bucher uber die Historische Rechtsschule konnten ganze Bibliotheken fullen. Gleichwohl fallt es bis heute schwer zu beantworten, wer warum zu dieser Schule gerechnet werden kann und wer nicht. Dies liegt auch daran, dass die geistesgeschichtliche Methode, welche die Rechtshistoriografie im 20. Jahrhundert lange dominierte, bis ...

Secured credit in Europe

from conflicts to compatibility

This monograph seeks the optimal way to promote compatibility between systems of proprietary security rights in Europe, focusing on security rights over tangible movables and receivables. Based on comparative research, it proposes how best to tackle cross-border problems impeding trade and finance, notably uncertainty of ...

Constitutional argument and institutional structure in the United States

US constitutional jurisprudence often conflates two distinct enquiries: how to interpret the Constitution and how to allocate interpretive authority. This book explains the distinct role of judgements about interpretive authority in constitutional practice. It argues that these judgements do not determine what qualifies as good ...

A critical account of Article 106(2) TFEU

government failure in public service provision

A Critical Account of Article 106(2) TFEU: Government Failure in Public Service Provision offers a sceptical perspective on how EU law applies to public services. Article 106(2) provides that other Treaty rules may be disapplied in order to sustain a Service of General ...

Justice and leadership in Early Islamic Courts

This book presents an in-depth exploration of the administration of justice during Islam’s founding period, 632–1250 CE. Inspired by the scholarship of Roy Parviz Mottahedeh and composed in his honor, this volume brings together ten leading scholars of Islamic law to examine the ...

Legislative style

Once elected, members of Congress face difficult decisions about how to allocate their time and effort. On which issues should they focus? What is the right balance between working in one's district and on Capitol Hill? How much should they engage with the media ...

Making the Arab world

Nasser, Qutb, and the clash that shaped the Middle East

How the conflict between political Islamists and secular-leaning nationalists has shaped the history of the modern Middle East In 2013, just two years after the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military ousted the country's first democratically elected president-Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim ...

Poetic justice

rereading Plato's Republic

When Plato set his dialogs, written texts were disseminated primarily by performance and recitation. He wrote them, however, when literacy was expanding. Jill Frank argues that there are unique insights to be gained from appreciating Plato's dialogs as written texts to be read and ...

Crime and global justice

Over the last quarter of a century a new system of global criminal justice has emerged. But how successful has it been? Are we witnessing a new era of cosmopolitan justice or are the old principles of victors justice still in play? In this book ...

The killing season

a history of the indonesian massacres, 1965-66

The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century-the shocking antileftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965-66, leaving some five hundred thousand people dead and more than a million others in ...

American capitalim

new histories

American Capitalism presents cutting-edge research that makes capitalism a subject of historical inquiry. Venturing new angles on finance, debt, and credit; women's rights; slavery and political economy; labor; the racialization of capitalism; and the production of knowledge, it demonstrates the breadth and scope of ...