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Life imprisonment and Human Rights

In many jurisdictions today, life imprisonment is the most severe penalty that can be imposed. Despite this, it is a relatively under-researched form of punishment and no meaningful attempt has been made to understand its full human rights implications. This important collection fills that gap ...

Reconstructing judicial review

This book offers a new interpretation of judicial review in England and Wales as being concerned with the advancement of justice and good governance, as opposed to being concerned primarily with ultra vires or common law constitutionalism. It is developed both from examining the functions ...

Private power, online information flows and EU Law

mind the Gap

This monograph examines how European Union law and regulation address concentrations of private economic power which impede free information flows on the Internet to the detriment of Internet users' autonomy. In particular, competition law, sector specific regulation (if it exists), data protection and human rights ...

Metaphilosophy of law

Methodological and metaphilosophical disputes in the contemporary philosophy of law are very vivid. Basic issues remain controversial. The purpose of the book is to confront approaches of Anglo-Saxon and continental philosophy of law to the following topics: the purpose of legal philosophy, the role of ...

Law in theory and history

new essays on neglected dialogue

This collection of original essays brings together leading legal historians and theorists to explore the oft-neglected but important relationship between these two disciplines. Legal historians have often been sceptical of theory. The methodology which informs their own work is often said to be an empirical ...

The european social charter and the employment relation

This collection addresses the potential of the European Social Charter to promote and safeguard social rights in Europe. Drawing on the expertise of the ETUI Transnational Trade Union Rights expert network from across Europe, it provides a comprehensive commentary on these fundamental rights. Taking a ...

Discrimination as stigma

a theory of anti-discrimination Law

This monograph reconceptualises discrimination law as fundamentally concerned with stigma. Using sociological and socio-psychological theories of stigma, the author presents an 'anti-stigma principle', promoting it as a method to determine the scope of legal protection from discrimination. The anti-stigma principle recognises the role of institutional ...

Single-member Limited Liability Company (SUP)

a necessary reform of EU Law on business organizations?

The book is a contribution to the European rights policy in the field of company law. It contains a critical opinion on the proposal from the European Commission for a European single-member company (Societas unius Personae, SUP) (COM [2014] 212). Meanwhile, both major weaknesses are ...

Ethical Judgments

re-writing Medical Law

This edited collection is designed to explore the ethical nature of judicial decision-making, particularly relating to cases in the health/medical sphere, where judges are often called upon to issue rulings on questions containing an explicit ethical component. However, judges do not receive any specific ...

Complicity in international criminal Law

This book tackles one of the most contentious aspects of international criminal law - the modes of liability. At the heart of the discussion is the quest for balance between the accused's individual contribution and the collective nature of mass offending. The principle of legality ...

Taxation of intellectual property

Taxation of Intellectual Property, Fourth Edition is the most comprehensive analysis on Intellectual Property as the only volume to give commentary for both individuals and corporates with both a UK and international focus. This title provides a practical and easy-to-use structure following life-cycle of IP ...

Clearing and settlement

Clearing and Settlement (originally titled: Clearing and Settlement in Europe), Second Edition comprehensively explains, both in theory and practice, the complexities of the law and regulation surrounding the processes of clearing and settlement. Clearing and Settlement: 1. Describes what happens in clearing and settlement, and ...

La pasión de mejorar

Este libro está escrito desde la experiencia del trabajo práctico en la facilitación de equipos, el asesoramiento personal y la propia vida personal del autor. En el fondo, a lo largo de estos años su obsesión sigue siendo la misma: la Innovación personal, que el ...

Ante todo, mucho karma

Si creías que después de volver con Aarón, Sara, nuestra Sara, iba a alcanzar la paz y la serenidad, es que no la conoces... ni a ella, ni al p... karma. Al comienzo de esta novela, Sara se encuentra justo al principio de su cuento ...

La sirena de Gibraltar

Una novela negra sobre los límites del amor y la venganza. "Contra Gibraltar la política ya no vale", le dice a Juan Torca una mujer que quiere que asesine a dos prostitutas gibraltareñas. Un mes después el cuerpo desnudo de Rebecca Cruz aparece en el ...

El libro de Jonás

Ramón Pernas, Premio Azorín 2014, ofrece una narración delicadamente literaria y muy evocadora basada en las voces de sus protagonistas, desde su infancia en un pueblo gallego costero, Vilaponte, hasta el comienzo de su ancianidad, el momento clave para reencontrarse con los niños que fueron ...

Trenes rigurosamente vigilados

Una divertida y entrañable historia sobre la resistencia frente al invasor alemán durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial protagonizada por los empleados de la estación de tren de un pequeño pueblo checoslovaco cerca de la frontera con Alemania. El descubrimiento del amor y del deseo están ...

Historia de la yihad

catorce siglos de sangre en el nombre de Alá

Este libro nos adentra de manera magistral en la historia del "yihadismo", desde Mahoma hasta el actual Estado Islámico, pasando por la Hispania visigoda, las cruzadas, el imperio otomano y la guerra fría. José Javier Esparza profundiza en las raíces de la lucha contra el ...

Contra la ceguera

cuarenta años luchando por la utopía

Este es un libro que anhela recuperar la pasión por la vida y el entusiasmo por cambiar las cosas. Un libro que sueña y, aún más, siente la utopía. Una utopía de lo posible, de lo concreto, de lo cercano e inmediato, de lo perentorio ...

Rights and wrongs under the ECHR

the prohibition of abuse of rights in article 17 of the European Convention on Human Rights

The prohibition of abuse of rights in Article 17 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR or Convention) embodies one of the Convention's main principles: its commitment to democracy and democratic values. The provision aims to prevent groups and individuals from successfully invoking ...