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Trumpocracy

the corruption of the american republic

As the President of the United States, Donald Trump continually voices admiration for brutal strongmen such as Russia's Vladimir Putin, the Philippines' Roderigo Duterte, Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Egypt's Abedel Fattah el-Sisi. He has threatened the American mainstream media, obsessed over ...

The reactionary mind

conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump

Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is "boring," said the founding father of the American right. "Devoting your life to it," as conservatives do, "is horrifying if only because it's so repetitious. It's like sex." With ...

The Law and politics of Brexit

The decision made by the United Kingdom in 2016 to leave the European Union has produced shock waves across Europe and the world. Brexit calls into question consolidated assumptions on the finality of the EU, and simultaneously sparks new challenges. These new challenges are not ...

Historia de Al-Andalus según las crónicas medievales

Volumen VIII: El gobierno del Emir Muhammad

No se trata en esta obra de contar la Historia de Al-Andalus, sino de dejar fluir la voz de sus protagonistas para que nos vayan relatando lo que vieron y vivieron, pero también lo que oyeron les contaron, y obtener, a través de sus testimonios ...

Do great cases make bad law?

"Great cases like hard cases make bad law" declared Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in his dissenting opinion in the Northern Securities antitrust case of 1904. His maxim argues that those cases which ascend to the Supreme Court of the United States by virtue of ...

Normativity and power

analyzing social orders of justification

Humans are justificatory beingsthey offer, demand, and require justifications. The rules and institutions they follow rest on justification narratives that have evolved over time and, taken together, constitute a dynamic and tension-laden normative order. In this collection of essays, the first translation into English of ...

Political jurisprudence

Political jurisprudence is the branch of jurisprudence that treats law as an aspect of human experience called 'the political'. This is an approach that many contemporary jurists, those whose work presupposes the autonomy of legal order, tend to suppress. In this book, Martin Loughlin assesses ...

Controlling the EU executive?

the politics of delegation in the European Union

Every year the EU Commission issues thousands of rules based on powers delegated by the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament. But delegation is carefully controlled. Traditionally, control has been exerted through a system of committees of member state representatives ('comitology'). However, this system ...

Philosophical foundations of the nature of Law

In recent years we have witnessed major developments in philosophical inquiry concerning the nature of law and, with the continuing development of international and transnational legal institutions, in the phenomenon of law itself. This volume gathers leading writers in the field to take stock of ...

Italian constitutional justice in global context

Italian Constitutional Justice in Global Context is the first book ever published in English to provide an international examination of the Italian Constitutional Court (ItCC), offering a comprehensive analysis of its principal lines of jurisprudence, historical origins, organization, procedures, and its current engagement with transnational ...

Commitment and cooperation on High Courts

a cross-country examination of institutional constraints on judges

Judicial decision-making may ideally be impartial, but in reality it is influenced by many different factors, including institutional context, ideological commitment, fellow justices on a panel, and personal preference. Empirical literature in this area increasingly analyzes this complex collection of factors in isolation, when a ...

Inmigración, trabajo y servicio doméstico

en la Europa urbana, siglos XVIII-XX

Los trabajos de este libro permitirán al lector hacerse con una visión comparada de la relación que la inmigración, el funcionamiento de los mercados de trabajo y el servicio doméstico han establecido entre sí en el seno de diferentes ciudades europeas en el curso de ...

The exchange order

property and liability as an economic system

There are three basic institutional systems for governing the exchange of property. One is consensual: the exchange of property rights in ordinary markets. The other two, however, are nonconsensual: the involuntary exchange of entitlements in either civil or criminal liability cases. In The Exchange Order ...

The ethics and Law of omissions

This edited volume of new essays explores the principles that govern moral responsibility and legal liability for omissive conduct behavior that did not occur. Many contributors here try to make sense of the possibility of moral responsibility for omissions, including those that occur unwittingly. The ...

Regulating the polluters

markets and strategies for protecting the global environment

National governments and private stakeholders have long recognized that protecting the global environment requires international cooperation. Climate change, tropical deforestation, biodiversity loss, ozone depletion, hazardous wastes, and ocean pollution are among several issues that have brought national governments together to alleviate the consequences of environmental ...

Understanding jurisprudence

an introduction to legal theory

Written with students in mind, Professor Raymond Wacks brings legal theory to life through his lucid and entertaining style. The author has crafted a manageable guide, balancing concise introductions to the key theorists and core issues such as punishment and rights without ignoring the subtleties ...

Vertical agreements in EU Competition Law

Now in its third edition, this volume provides complete and specialized coverage of EU competition law applicable to vertical agreements, and detailed and practice-oriented analysis of the EU regulatory framework as applied the Commission and the EU courts. The authors consider issues directly relevant in ...

Market abuse regulation

commentary and annotated guide

This book analyses the European market abuse regime contained in the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) and related directives and regulations. Written by leading scholars in the field of capital market law from a number of European jurisdictions, the book is divided into two main parts ...

Lean gamification

crea productos exitosos y motiva el deseo de tus clientes

Cómo se desarrolla un producto de éxito? ¿Cómo se motiva al cliente para que desee usarlo? Con lean gamification podrás desarrollar apps innovadoras de reconocido éxito internacional como Duolingo, Memrise, Fitbit, Garmin, Run Keeper, Gyminee, etc. También aprenderás a generar soluciones que motiven a tus ...

Organizaciones-Sociedad, una relación compleja

nuevas estrategias, nuevos actores

Este libro muestra experiencias y reflexiones recientes en el campo de la Sociología de las Organizaciones y en la Sociología de la Comunicación. Buena parte de los textos tienen su origen en trabajos elaborados para el Encuentro de la Asociación Iberoamericana de Sociología de las ...