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Del conocimiento jurídico a la gestión y dirección de despachos de abogados

el camino hacia el cambio de Pablo y Santiago

La obra trata sobre las vicisitudes que se encuentran un joven licenciado en derecho al incorporarse al despacho de un abogado contrastado, por un lado tenemos al joven abogado que después de una etapa de pasantía observa que en el despacho no se sigue una ...

Ley 22/2015, de 20 de julio, de Auditoría de Cuentas

El amparo judicial de los Derechos Fundamentales ante los Tribunales de lo Contencioso-Administrativo

¿En qué casos se puede usar el recurso de amparo judicial frente a una actuación administrativa que considero vulneradora de derechos fundamentales? ¿Qué ventajas prácticas puede significar frente a un proceso contencioso-administrativo común? El plazo para interponerlo: ¿Se computa según días naturales o hábiles? En ...

Human Rights

politics and practice

Human Rights: Politics and Practice is the most comprehensive, most topical, and most student-friendly introduction to human rights. Bringing together a range of international experts including political scientists, philosophers, lawyers, and policy-makers, the book provides students with a broad range of perspectives on the theoretical ...

Poor justice

how the poor fare in the courts

Poor Justice: How the Poor Fare in the Courts provides a vivid and informative account of what happens when the legal system decides cases in areas crucial to the poor's economic and social well-being, including government benefits, child welfare, homelessness, the mental health system ...

Derecho social y trabajo informal

implicaciones laborales, económicas y de Seguridad Social del fenómeno del trabajo informal y de la economía sumergida en España y Latinoamérica

La existencia de prestaciones laborales ajenas a la tutela pública mínima se manifiesta como la expresión más severa del fracaso jurídico y político de un aparato institucional incapaz de adaptarse a los tiempos presentes y como un espacio privilegiado para las mayores violaciones de los ...

La jurisprudencia del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos en torno al Derecho de libertad religiosa en el ámbito laboral

En los orígenes de la institución en donde se incardina el órgano judicial cuyas decisiones y resoluciones serán objeto de estudio y comentario en el libro que el lector tiene entre sus manos, el Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos, se encuentra la idea de crear ...

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 ...

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 ...