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¿Para qué sirve la teoría de la argumentación jurídica?

(Teoría y Derecho. Revista de pensamiento jurídico, Nº 20, año 2016)

DEBATE ¿Para qué sirve la teoría de la argumentación jurídica? Dirigido por: Marina Gascón Articulos: Manuel Atienza Alfonso Garcla Figueroa Juan Antonio Carda Amado Luigi Ferrajoli ESTUDIOS Nullum crimen sine lege: Comisión por omisión y dogmática penal Tomás S. Vives Antón Interpretación de la Constitución ...

Hipotecas y venta extrajudicial de inmuebles hipotecados

El autor analiza el pasado, el presente y el futuro de la Venta extrajudicial ante notario con la finalidad de implantarla como verdadera alternativa a la ejecución judicial directa, asegurando la obtención de la misma utilidad para el deudor y dotándola de las mismas garantías ...

Norms without the great powers

international Law and changing social standards in world politics

Can multilateral treaties succeed in transforming conduct when they are rejected by the most powerful states in the international system? In the past two decades, coalitions of middle-power states and transnational civil society groups have negotiated binding legal agreements in the face of concerted opposition ...

Ordinary democracy

sovereignty and citizenship beyond the neoliberal impasse

While various democratic theorists have looked at particular instances of recent social movements (Occupy or the Arab Spring, for example), none have yet attempted a more general theoretical take on what it is that relates all of these movements and what that running thread can ...

Gli oracoli della moneta

l'arte della parola nel linguaggio del banchieri centrali

L'arte della parola nel linguaggio dei banchieri centrali «La vita dell’uomo è dominata dalla parola o dal denaro». Se l’aforisma di Menandro ha resistito all’urto di più di venti secoli di storia e la commedia umana dell’oggi si specchia ancora ...

Family and business

during the Industrial Revolution

Small businesses were at the heart of the economic growth and social transformation that characterized the industrial revolution in Britain. In towns across north-west England, shops and workshops dominated the streetscape, and helped to satisfy an increasing desire for consumer goods. Yet despite their significance ...

The Future of the Professions

how technology will transform the work of human xxperts

This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and ...

Breve historia del África Subsahariana

En esta obra el lector conocerá las principales etapas de la historia del continente africano: la prehistoria, con la aparición de los primeros homínidos en África; los tiempos antiguos, donde se observan similitudes culturales entre el Antiguo Egipto y las sociedades subsaharianas; los siglos oscuros ...

The internal market as a legal concept

What does the 'internal market' mean? The EU is committed to the construction of an internal market, and in this analysis Stephen Weatherill explains that the EU's internal market is an ambiguous legal concept. One may readily suppose that the United Kingdom possesses an ...

Brother, can you spare a billion?

the United States, the IMF, and the international lender of last resort

When financial crises occur, it has long been accepted that national economies need a lender of last resort to stabilize markets. In today's global financial system, crises are rarely confined to one country. Indeed, they often go global. Yet, there is no formal international ...

Essays on paradoxes

This volume brings together many of Terence Horgan's essays on paradoxes: Newcomb's problem, the Monty Hall problem, the two-envelope paradox, the sorites paradox, and the Sleeping Beauty problem. Newcomb's problem arises because the ordinary concept of practical rationality constitutively includes normative standards ...

Russia in revolution

an Empire in crisis, 1890 to 1928

The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Now, to mark the centenary of this epochal event, historian Steve Smith ...

Behavioural economics

a very short introduction

Traditionally economists have based their economic predictions on the assumption that humans are super-rational creatures, using the information we are given efficiently and generally making selfish decisions that work well for us as individuals. Economists also assume that we're doing the very best we ...

Military strategy

a very short introduction

Since ancient times, poets, historians, and philosophers have contemplated warlords' exploits in battle and praised their ability to lead armies toward victory as the "art of the general." Today, this quality is designated military strategy. Military strategy plays a vital role in every conflict, because ...

Valutare il rischio in ambito criminologico

procedure e strumenti per l'assessment psicologico

Per essere efficace il sistema della giustizia penale deve basarsi su assunti validi riguardanti le complesse relazioni tra motivazioni, intenzioni, decisioni e comportamenti delle persone. Poiché lo scopo della legge penale non è solo quello punitivo e retributivo (pronuncia di condanna proporzionale all’antigiuridicità dell ...

La democrazia costituzionale

Nel rinnovato dibattito sulla Costituzione questa utile sintesi mette a fuoco le diverse dimensioni della democrazia, da quella formale, relativa al potere legittimante della volontà popolare, necessaria ma non sufficiente, a quella sostanziale, relativa ai limiti e ai vincoli imposti al potere del popolo dai ...

Corte Costituzionale e Corti Europee

fra diversità nazionali e visione comune

Per la prima volta nella sua veste di giudice costituzionale, in questo libro Giuliano Amato ripercorre con avvolgente finezza giuridica e appassionato coinvolgimento umano alcune decisioni della nostra Corte e delle Corti europee in materia di diritti della persona. Ne scaturisce un intreccio di voci ...

Manuale dei Diritti Fondamentali in Europa

Il manuale, con specifica attenzione ai riflessi sull’ordinamento italiano, descrive il sistema europeo di protezione dei diritti e libertà che sono comuni alla Convenzione europea dei diritti umani e alla Carta dei diritti fondamentali dell’Unione europea. La prima vincola i 47 Stati del ...

Los instrumentos de gestión del empleo público

El lector interesado tendrá en sus manos una obra que intenta ofrecer, desde una perspectiva de conjunto, un estudio de una parte significada del régimen del empleo público que hasta este momento carecía de una visión de autor en términos monográficos. Esperamos sinceramente que contribuya ...

La noche de los proletarios

Archivos del sueño obrero

No expresaremos con este título ninguna metáfora. Los personajes de este libro son algunas decenas, algunas centenas de proletarios que tenían 20 años alrededor de 1830 y que habían decidido, en ese tiempo, cada uno por su cuenta, no soportar más lo insoportable: el dolor ...