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La burbuja que quebró el mundo

Garet Garrett, como su compatriota Henry Hazlitt, fue un brillante periodista liberal estadounidense. Su denuedo a la hora de apoyar causas perdidas resulta admirable. Atacó desde el imperialismo hasta la condonación de las deudas, desde el rescate de empresarios con dinero público hasta el New ...

Legal insanity and the brain

science, law and European Courts

This landmark publication offers a unique comparative and interdisciplinary study of criminal insanity and neuroscience. Criminal law theories and ideologies which underpin the regulation of criminal insanity have always been the subject of controversy. The history of criminal insanity is characterised by conceptual and empirical ...

The more economic approach to EU antitrust law

In the late 1990s, the European Commission embarked on a long process of introducing a 'more economic approach' to EU Antitrust law. One by one, it reviewed its approach to all three pillars of EU Antitrust Law, starting with Article 101 TFEU, moving on to ...

Abuse of EU law and regulation of the internal market

How can the concept of abuse of European Union law – which can be defined as undesirable choice of law artificially made by a private citizen – generate so much disagreement among equally intelligent individuals? Seeking to transcend the classical debate between its supporters and adversaries, the ...

Comparative law in practice

contract law in a mid-channel jurisdiction

This book provides a comparative study of contract law, examining the interaction of common law and civil law approaches to contract law. Drawing extensively upon English, French and European law, the book explores how the law of contract of Jersey, Channel Islands, has been influenced ...

Lecciones de Derecho constitucional

Hay algo que debemos además tener presente. Y es el método o si se quiere el enfoque con el cual nuestro autor aborda los problemas. Pertenece, como es bien sabido, a la corriente o escuela analítica italiana con sede en Génova y esto realza sus ...

Passing wealth on death

will-substitutes in comparative perspective

Wealth can be transferred on death in a number of different ways, most commonly by will. Yet a person can also use a variety of other means to benefit someone on death. Examples include donationes mortis causa, joint tenancies, trusts, life-insurance contracts and nominations in ...

The codes of the constitution

This book describes an astounding feat of constitutional writing and publication. For a number of decades, officials working across different branches of the United Kingdom (UK) constitution have been engaged in a series of separate projects. Taken in their totality, they amount to a vast ...

The choice of law contract

This book offers a contractual framework for the regulation of party autonomy in choice of law. The party autonomy rule is the cornerstone of any modern system of choice of law; embodying as it does the freedom enjoyed by parties to a cross-border legal relationship ...

Religious freedom, religious discrimination and the workplace

This book considers the extent to which religious interests are protected at work, with particular reference to the protection against religious discrimination provided by the Equality Act 2010. It establishes a principled basis for determining the proper scope of religious freedom at work, and considers ...

Governing (through) rights

Taking a critical attitude of dissatisfaction towards rights, the central premise of this book is that rights are technologies of governmentality. They are a regulating discourse that is itself managed through governing tactics and techniques – hence governing (through) rights. Part I examines the 'problem of ...

Constructing the person in EU law

rights, roles, identities

The European Union places the 'individual' or person, 'at the heart of its activities'. It is a central concept in all of EU economics, politics, society and ethics. The 15 chapters in this innovative edited collection argue that EU law has had a transformative effect ...

Current issues in succession law

While continental and comparative lawyers have recently rediscovered succession law as an area of immense practical importance deserving greater academic attention, it is still a neglected field in England. This book aims to reinvigorate the English debate. It brings together contributions by leading academics and ...

Unjust enrichment

Unjust enrichment is one of the least understood of the major branches of private law. This book builds on the 2006 work by the same authors, which examined the developing law of unjust enrichment in Australia. The refinement of the authors' thinking, responding to novel ...

Cagliari and Valencia during the Baroque Age

essays on art, history and literature

Historia sobre la relación española con la isla de Cerdeña, en este caso la relación entre Valencia y Cagliari, relatos, ensayos, arte y literatura.

Cecas de Potosí y Lima: guía de las cantidades acuñadas

una síntesis y conversión matemática del trabajo de Carlos Lazo García, con sección especial galanos

La cacería

En este relato descarnado Maurice Sachs narra sus años en el París de la Ocupación con la aspereza acostumbrada y sin importarle el qué dirán acerca de su vileza y de la refinada criminalidad de muchos de sus actos. En 1949, Gaston Gallimard, que tanto ...

Calderón en su laboratorio

(Anuario Calderoniano, Nº 8, año 2016)

Los autógrafos son testimonios valiosísimos para trazar los procesos de escritura, revisión y corrección de una comedia o un auto, así como para investigar las relaciones entre el poeta y otros profesionales que intervienen en la puesta en escena o en la transmisión de la ...

La ley del menor

Acostumbrada a evaluar las vidas de los demás en sus encrucijadas más complejas, Fiona Maye se encuentra de golpe con que su propia existencia no arroja el saldo que desearía: su irreprochable trayectoria como jueza del Tribunal Superior especializada en derecho de familia ha ido ...

Tumba revuelta

cara y cruz de la Fundación Cela

Tumba revuelta es un relato testimonial de quien vivió durante 17 años el día a día de la Fundación Cela, zarandeada por egoísmos familiares, mediáticos, judiciales y políticos, hasta amenazarla de ruina o –lo que dolería aún más a su fundador– de insolvencia cultural. Junto ...