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Ley de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales

una revisión crítica, veinte años después

Ciertamente, si bien de una forma mucho más «silenciosa» que otras "leyes laborales", la Ley de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales (LPRL) ha experimentado a lo largo de estas dos décadas de vigencia numerosos y muy relevantes cambios, tantos y de tanta intensidad real, que es ...

Semblanza de grandes laboralistas

Gaspar Bayón Chacón

El Ministerio de Empleo y Seguridad Social inicia con este libro una nueva colección dedicada a homenajear a los grandes laboralistas españoles, a aquellas personas que dedicaron sus vidas al estudio de las relaciones laborales, influyendo en la transformación de la realidad social, económica y ...

Delincuencia juvenil online

el menor infractor y las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación

El análisis de la sociedad actual – redefinida como aldea global como consecuencia de la tecnologización de la misma – en la que el menor se desarrolla, en el ámbito de la Unión Europea es objeto de un profundo análisis y de revisión de conceptos. Entre otros ...

Free market criminal justice

how democracy and Laissez Faire undermine the rule of Law

Free Market Criminal Justice offers a critique of the ideology behind the US criminal justice system. It argues that the distinctive ideology shaping American criminal processes is a commitment to a set of values in institutional design as divided into two categories - "democracy" and "markets ...

Post sovereign constitution making

learning and making

Constitutional politics has become a major terrain of contemporary struggles. Contestation around designing, replacing, revising, and dramatically re-interpreting constitutions is proliferating worldwide. Starting with Southern Europe in post-Franco Spain, then in the ex-Communist countries in Central Europe, post-apartheid South Africa, and now in the Arab ...

China's economy

what everyone nedds to know

China is on track to exceed the United States as the world's largest economy in the next several years. It is already the leading global trading nation. Even though its growth rate has recently slowed from years past, China has had the fastest yearly ...

Comparative constitutionalism in South Asia

Despite their divergent recent histories and political experiences, there is a remarkable degree of constitutional and legal kinship among the South Asian countries. Yet for long legal communities in these countries were in the habit of looking to the West for statutory modelling and jurisprudential ...

Philosophical foundations of fiduciary Law

Fiduciary law is a critically important body of law. Fiduciary duties ensure the integrity of a remarkable variety of relationships, institutions, and organizations. They apply to relationships of great personal significance, including in some jurisdictions the relationship between parents and children. They structure a wide ...

Judging statutes

In an ideal world, the laws of Congress-known as federal statutes-would always be clearly worded and easily understood by the judges tasked with interpreting them. But many laws feature ambiguous or even contradictory wording. How, then, should judges divine their meaning? Should they stick only ...

Liquidity lost

the governance of the global financial crisis

The interventions of crisis management during the 2007 to 2011 financial crisis were not simply responses to a set of given developments in markets, banking or neo-liberal capitalism. Nor can those interventions be adequately explained as the actions of sovereign state officials and institutions. Instead ...

Lethal but legal

corporations, consumption and protecting public health

Decisions made by the food, tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceutical, gun, and automobile industries have a greater impact on today's health than the decisions of scientists and policymakers. As the collective influence of corporations has grown, governments around the world have stepped back from their responsibility ...

The nature of legislative intent

Are legislatures able to form and act on intentions? The question matters because the interpretation of statutes is often thought to centre on the intention of the legislature and because the way in which the legislature acts is relevant to the authority it does or ...

The dynamic Welfare State

The Dynamic Welfare State explains the decline of the classic welfare state and documents the emergence of a third stage in the American welfare state, evident in corporations exploiting markets in healthcare, education, and financial services. Architects of the welfare state envisaged government as the ...

Drones

what everyone needs to know

Drones quite possibly represent the most transformative military innovation since jet engines and atomic weaponry. No longer do humans have to engage in close military action or be in the same geographical vicinity as the target. Now, through satellite imaging and remote technology, countries such ...

Sistemas de escritura no latinos con Latex

Volumen 1

Estos Sistemas de escritura no latinos con Latex exponen al mundo de las humanidades en general, y al de la filología en particular, una herramienta con la que salvar muchos de los problemas que generan los sistemas al uso de edición de textos, entre los ...

La Guerra Civil española

Siete décadas después del estallido de la Guerra Civil, ha transcurrido tiempo suficiente para poder superar las pasiones y los rencores que suscitó, y emprender un análisis riguroso y objetivo de sus orígenes, su trayectoria y sus consecuencias. Con este objetivo, veintiún historiadores de primerísima ...

Política criminal ante el reto de la delincuencia transnacional

El fenómeno de la criminalidad transnacional ha abierto procesos de restructuración subjetiva, normativa y funcional, determinando la política criminal en el contexto de las transformaciones económicas, sociales y culturales que acompañan la globalización. Desde una perspectiva novedosa, se aborda el concepto, naturaleza, alcance del sistema ...

La pena de privación del derecho a conducir vehículos a motor y ciclomotores

Esta obra analiza en profundidad la pena de privación del derecho a conducir vehículos a motor y ciclomotores. Tanto su contenido y configuración como pena principal en el Código Penal como su duración, forma de ejecución y consecuencias de su incumplimiento. Se abordará también el ...

Relic

how our constitution undermines effective goverment and why we need a more

Our government is failing us. From health care to immigration, from the tax code to climate change, our political institutions cannot deal effectively with the challenges of modern society. Why the dysfunction? Contemporary reformers single out the usual suspects, including polarization and the rise in ...

Relato de mi vida

En esta obra autobiográfica Thomas Mann relata los acontecimientos más relevantes de su vida, su ansia de independencia y libertad, detalles sobre la construcción de sus obras y las fuentes en las que se inspiró. Además, escribe acerca de las similitudes entre su propia vida ...