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Innovación y desarrollo en español como lengua extranjera

Templarios

del origen de las cruzadas al final de la Orden del Temple

En una Europa sumida en la anarquía, unos hombres hicieron de las armas su modo de vida y forjaron un legado entre la realidad y la leyenda que ha perdurado hasta nuestros días. HISTORIA nos invita a un apasionante viaje por los secretos más oscuros ...

Remembering the Crusades and Crusading

Remembering the Crusades and Crusading examines the diverse contexts in which crusading was memorialised and commemorated in the medieval world and beyond. The collection not only shows how the crusades were commemorated in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, but also considers the longer-term remembrance of ...

Jurisdicción voluntaria en materia mercantil

tras la Ley 15/2015 de 2 de julio de Jurisdicción Voluntaria

La Ley 15/2015. de 2 de julio, de Jurisdicción Voluntaria, supone una definitiva y muy esperada reforma de la norma decimonónica que regulaba esta materia en el derecho español. abriendo para todos los operadores jurídicos una vía moderna y novedosa en la resolución de ...

Towards shared accountability in international Human Rights Law

Law, procedures and principles

Winner of the 2015 Max van der Stoel Human Rights Award. Non-State actors, principally corporations and international organizations, as well as foreign States, influence decision-making. This reality particularly affects the enjoyment and implementation of economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights. Alongside what has become a ...

Stereotypes and Human Rights Law

Stereotypes are beliefs about groups of people. Some examples, taken from human rights case law, are the notions that 'Roma are thieves', 'women are responsible for childcare', and 'people with a mental disability are incapable of forming political opinions'. Increasingly, human rights monitoring bodies - including ...

Agentes del Imperio

caballeros, corsarios, jesuítas y espías en el Mediterráneo del siglo XVI

En la segunda mitad del siglo XVI, la mayoría de los estados cristianos de Europa occidental estaban permanentemente a la defensiva contra una superpotencia musulmana, el Imperio de los sultanes otomanos. Había enfrentamientos violentos, desde ataques e incursiones de corsarios hasta guerras, pero también otras ...

Venecia, ciudad de fortuna

auge y caída del imperio naval veneciano

Entre los siglos X y XVI, Venecia pasó de ser un poblado de modestos comerciantes hecho de casas de madera a convertirse en una majestuosa ciudad cuya riqueza y esplendor asombraría al mundo. Los venecianos no solo forjaron un legendario imperio naval, sino que impusieron ...

Scarcity and the State I

the allocation of limited rights by the Administration

Managing scarcity to serve the public interest is a classic government task. An important way to execute this task is by allocating individual rights that are only available in limited quantities, such as CO2 emission allowances, gambling licences, subsidies, radio frequencies, public contracts and parking ...

The development of european private Law in a multilevel legal order

Using insights from multilevel governance and pluralism, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the development of European private law in the Dutch and German legal order. It focuses on the question whether the coexistence of national and European state and non-state actors is detrimental ...

The European Union and national civil procedure

A book series devoted to the common foundations of the European legal systems. The Ius Commune Europaeum series includes comparative legal studies as well as studies on the effect of treaties within national legal systems. All areas of the law are covered. The books are ...

The citizen in european private Law

In numerous fields of law, ranging from family law to company law, private actors increasingly set their own rules, revert to private enforcement of those rules and choose the applicable law. Within each field this tendency has already been scrutinised. Until now, however, few attempts ...

Principles of tort Law

Presenting the law of tort as a body of principles, this authoritative textbook leads students to an incisive and clear understanding of the subject. Each tort is carefully structured and examined within a consistent analytical framework that guides students through its preconditions, elements, defences and ...

No borders

the politics of immigration control and resistance

From the streets of Calais to the borders of Melilla, Evros, and the United States, the slogan 'No borders!' is a thread connecting a multitude of different struggles for the freedom to move and to stay. But what does it mean to make this slogan ...

Impact

how Law affects behavior

Laws and regulations are ubiquitous, touching on many aspects of individual and corporate behavior. But under what conditions are laws and rules actually effective? A huge amount of recent work in political science, sociology, economics, criminology, law, and psychology, among other disciplines, deals with this ...

Misreading Law, misreading democracy

American law schools extol democracy but teach little about its most basic institution, the Congress. Interpreting statutes is lawyers’ most basic task, but law professors rarely focus on how statutes are made. This misguided pedagogy, says Victoria Nourse, undercuts the core of legal practice. It ...

The market as God

The Market has deified itself, according to Harvey Cox s brilliant exegesis. And all of the world s problems widening inequality, a rapidly warming planet, the injustices of global poverty are consequently harder to solve. Only by tracing how the Market reached its divine status ...

Open for business

the new cuban economy

90 miles off the coast of Florida a new revolution is afoot. This time instead of guerrillas marching through the streets of Havana, it is a global economy that will revolutionize Cuba. Now open to the world, how will this nascent economy develop? Open for ...

La brecha procesal civil entre EEUU y Europa

una visión panorámica de los principales puntos de divergencia

El incremento de los intercambios comerciales con Los EEUU ha llevado consigo que Los profesionales del Derecho, en España y en toda Europa, hayan de relacionarse con un sistema jurídico ?o más bien con un conjunto de ellos? que les resulta considerablemente extraño. Dicha situación ...

Protocolos sobre jubilación

Guía sobre el régimen jurídico de la protección por jubilación, tanto en su modalidad contributiva (Régimen General y Regímenes especiales de la Seguridad Social) como en su modalidad no contributiva. Guía sobre el régimen jurídico de la protección por jubilación, tanto en su modalidad contributiva ...