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Behavioural corporate finance

Orthodox financial theory often ignores the role played by managers' personal characteristics in their decision-making processes. However, as anyone with experience in the business world knows, managers' personalities are crucial in the choices they make. Indeed, it should be noted that firms do not make ...

Los juicios verbales de desahucio en la Ley de Enjuiciamiento Civil

Qué duda cabe de que los juicios verbales de desahucio, sobre todo los derivados de la falta de pago de la renta arrendaticia, son uno de los procesos civiles más frecuentemente utilizados en la práctica forense. Ello es debido, sobre todo, a que en el ...

War in Europe

1450 to the present

War in Europe is an overview of war and military development in Europe since 1450, bringing together the work of a renowned historian of modern European and military history in a single authoritative volume. Beginning with the impact of the Reformation and continuing up to ...

Distress dynamics in bankrupcy

A change in the dynamics of bankruptcy procedures is taking place in the Netherlands and United States. In the Netherlands, the opening of a bankruptcy procedure traditionally leads to the sale of the assets of the debtor and a distribution of the proceeds among creditors ...

35 years CISG and beyond

This book contains the presentations given at the conference 35 Years CISG and Beyond, hosted by the University of Basel, SVIR/SSDI (Swiss Association for International Law) and UNCITRAL on 29 and 30 January 2015.The Conference focused on open issues in regard to the ...

Postcapitalismo

hacia un nuevo futuro

El analista Paul Mason nos advierte que el capitalismo como modelo económico ha llegado a su fin y debemos prepararnos para una transición a un nuevo sistema basado en las nuevas tecnologías y la reestructuración del trabajo Los pilares del modelo capitalista se están derrumbando ...

Overarching views of crime and deviancy

rethinking the legacy of the Utrecht School

On October 1st 1934 Willem P.J. Pompe (1893-1968), Professor of Criminal Law at Utrecht University between 1928 and 1963, founded the 'Criminological Institute' (Criminologisch Instituut) within the Faculty of Law of Utrecht University. Pompe initiated a rather influential academic movement, based on multidisciplinary cooperation ...

Debating modern revolution

the evolution of revolutionary ideas

Revolution is an idea that has been one of the most important drivers of human activity since its emergence in its modern form in the 18th century. From the American and French revolutionaries who upset a monarchical order that had dominated for over a millennium ...

Property and Human Rights in a Global Context

Property as a human rights concern is manifested through its incorporation in international instruments and as a subject of the law through property-related cases considered by international human rights organs. Yet, for the most part, the relationship between property and human rights has been discussed ...

Landmark cases in the Law of tort

Soft Law and public authorities

remedies and reform

This book considers the phenomenon of soft law employed by domestic public authorities. Lawyers have long understood that public authorities are able to issue certain communications in a way that causes them to be treated like law, even though these are neither legislation nor subordinate ...

Divergences in private Law

This book is a study of doctrinal and methodological divergence in the common law of obligations. It explores particular departures from the common law mainstream and the causes and effects of those departures. Some divergences can be justified on the basis of a need to ...

Creating financial value

a guide for senior executives with no finance background

How many senior executives get to the top with little or no formal financial training? They may have been appointed to the executive board as a result of their expertise in marketing, HR, sales or IT, yet board members have a responsibility, individually and collectively ...

La nueva coordinación registro-catastro

Este libro incluye la Ley 13/2015, de 24 de marzo, de reforma de la Ley Hipotecaria y del texto refundido de la Ley de Catasto Inmobiliario.

Landmark cases in the Law of restitution

It is now well established that the law of unjust enrichment forms an important and distinctive part of the English law of obligations. Restitutionary awards for unjust enrichment and for wrongdoing are clearly recognised for what they are. But these are recent developments. Before the ...

The impact of Union citizenship on the Eu's market freedoms

The book's aim is to consider the impact that the introduction and development of the status of Union citizenship has had on the interpretation of the EU's market freedoms. Starting by providing, in its introductory part (part one), a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis ...

Access to justice

beyond the policies and politics of austerity

Building on a series of ESRC funded seminars, this edited collection of expert papers by academics and practitioners is concerned with access to civil and administrative justice in constitutional democracies, where, for the past decade governments have reassessed their priorities for funding legal services: embracing ...

Discrimination, equality and the Law

This monograph explores some of the conceptual questions which underpin the legal disputes which arise in relation to equality and discrimination. Among these are questions about the meaning of 'equality' as a legal concept and its relationship to the principle of non-discrimination; symmetrical and asymmetrical ...

La heráldica y la orgánica de los Reales Ejércitos

En este libro se comprenden las unidades de infantería, caballería y dragones, artillería e ingenieros desde su fundación hasta la entrada en el siglo xx. De esta manera queda cerrado el ciclo completo de las dos obras ya publicadas dedicadas a este siglo. Se sigue ...

El uso profesional de la imagen

de los artistas, intérpretes y ejecutantes

El estudio aborda la explotación económica de la imagen de los artistas intérpretes y ejecutantes desde la perspectiva jurídica. Su campo de acción es la determinación de las previsiones contractuales para esta explotación económica. Analiza con agudeza las condiciones para la emisión del consentimiento para ...