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From social competition to social dumping

The European economic unification - mainly inspired by a neoliberal philosophy - has made a lot of victims. The realization of the single market has come about without any adjusting or accompanying economic and social policies. Its effects on social and human relations go far beyond the ...

The American Convention on Human Rights

crucial rights and their theory and practice

The American Convention on Human Rights contains an in-depth analysis of and comment on crucial rights protected under the American Convention on Human Rights in the light of the decisions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. It shows the initially hesitant steps of the ...

The EU private damages directive practical insights

minutes of the closed workshop 2015

This book on the EU Private Damages Directive (PDD) offers an in-depth discussion of selected issues of interpretation of the PDD. The Directive sets out certain rules necessary to ensure that anyone who has suffered harm caused by an infringement of competition law by an ...

Economic evidence in EU competition Law

The use of economic theory and economic evidence in competition cases, their appropriate interpretation, meaning, impact, usefulness and validity are among the most challenging issues that judges and legal practitioners are facing in their daily decision-making. Notorious questions of, for example, how courts, practitioners and ...

Beyond responsibility to protect

generating change in international Law

The history of international law is replete with concepts that have generated change: individual criminal responsibility, common heritage of mankind and sustainable development to name but a few. These are concepts that have influenced the scope, structure and purpose of international law. This book explores ...

Strangers at our door

Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the people behind the doors, these uninvited guests were always strangers, and strangers tend to generate fear and anxiety precisely ...

International migration

a very short introduction

In recent years, global migration has transformed in terms of its numbers and reach, its political significance, and its impact. The rising rates of international migration have been matched by growing public and media interest around the world. Today, the political and media attention on ...

Europe's untapped capital market

rethinking financial integration after the crisis

This book builds on a year-long discussion with a group of academics, policy-makers and industry experts to provide a long-term contribution to the Capital Markets Union project, launched by the European Commission in 2015. It identifies 36 cross-border barriers to capital markets integration and provides ...

The incomplete currency

the future of the Euro and solutions for the Eurozone

A fact-based treatise on the Eurozone crisis, with analysis of possible solutions The Incomplete Currency is the only technical yet accessible analysis of the current Eurozone crisis from a global perspective. The discussion begins by explaining how the Euro's architecture, the relationship between finance ...

Investing online for dummies

Building substantial online investments is a page away Anyone can invest online, but without the right guidance and know-how, a well-meaning online investment can go wrong fast. Inside, you'll find the investment strategies you need to pick a winning strategy, find an online broker ...

Recuerdos literarios en honor a un gran historiador de Castilla Gonzalo Martínez Díez (1924-2015)

El 21 de abril de 2015 fallecía, el P. Gonzalo Martínez Díez, Catedrático emérito de Historia del Derecho y de las Instituciones en las Universidades de Valladolid y Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid, historiador infatigable del pasado jurídico e institucional castellano, maestro insustituible, amigo entrañable ...

The Byzantine dark ages

The Byzantine Dark Ages explores current debates about the sudden transformation of the Byzantine Empire in the wake of environmental, social and political changes. Those studying the Byzantine Empire, the successor to the Roman Empire in the eastern Mediterranean, have long recognized that the mid-7th ...

Pirates and emperors, old and new

international terrorism in the real world

Pirates & Emperors, Old & New constitutes a collection of extended essays written between 1986 and 2001 which explore how "selected incidents of terrorism" are used as a cover for Western violence across the globe. Topics covered include the Lockerbie Bombing, the Second Palestinian Intifada and the ...

Family Law in Islam

divorce, marriage and women in the muslim world

In both the West and throughout the Muslim world, Islamic family law is a highly and hotly debated topic. In the Muslim World, the discussions at the heart of these debates are often primarily concerned with the extent to which classical Islamic family law should ...

The american Supreme Court

For more than fifty years, Robert G. McCloskey s classic work on the Supreme Court s role in constructing the US Constitution has introduced generations of students to the workings of our nation s highest court. As in prior editions, McCloskey s original text remains ...

What Galileo saw

imagining the scientific revolution

The Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century has often been called a decisive turning point in human history. It represents, for good or ill, the birth of modern science and modern ways of viewing the world. In What Galileo Saw, Lawrence Lipking offers a new ...

De la amistad extrema

Montaigne y La Boétie

Una obra sobre la perfecta amistad con la que Montaigne describió su relación con el también célebre autor Étienne de La Boétie. Hermosamente literaria, por momentos poética, Jean-Luc Hennig ha escrito una obra sobre un misterio que se mantiene indescifrable, la naturaleza y la forma ...

What they do with your money

how the financial system fails us and how to fix it

Each year we pay billions in fees to those who run our financial system. The money comes from our bank accounts, our pensions, our borrowing, and often we aren't told that the money has been taken. These billions may be justified if the finance ...

Big Data in practice

how 45 successful companies used Big Data analytics to deliver extraordinary results

The best-selling author of Big Data is back, this time with a unique and in-depth insight into how specific companies use big data. Big data is on the tip of everyone's tongue. Everyone understands its power and importance, but many fail to grasp the ...

AI

its nature and future

The applications of Artificial Intelligence lie all around us; in our homes, schools and offices, in our cinemas, in art galleries and - not least - on the Internet. The results of Artificial Intelligence have been invaluable to biologists, psychologists, and linguists in helping to understand the ...