Libros de

Ley y Reglamento de Subvenciones

Esta segunda edición ofrece los textos, actualizados y anotados, de la normativa fundamental que tiene por objeto la regulación del régimen jurídico general de las subvenciones otorgadas por las Administraciones públicas: · Ley 38/2003, de 17 de noviembre, General de Subvenciones, con las numerosas modificaciones ...

Constitución Española y Declaraciones de Derechos

El dieciocho Brumario de Luis Bonaparte

Libro fundamental para una primera aproximación a Karl Marx (1818-1883), la lectura de “El dieciocho Brumario de Luis Bonaparte” (1852) nos acerca a algunas claves del pensamiento de su autor, especialmente a su modo de enfocar los fenómenos políticos y a su concepción del cambio ...

Transparencia e Hiperregulación en la UE

Durante muchos años, la transparencia ha estado ausente prácticamente de la labor de las Instituciones, de los órganos y de las agencias comunitarias. Esta situación no podía mantenerse indefinidamente en el tiempo, en primer lugar por la falta de claridad a la hora de relacionarse ...

Teoría y Filosofía del Derecho

INDICE: El concepto del derecho. La ciencia del derecho. Conceptos jurídicos fundamentales. La filosofía del derecho. Metodología y ciencia jurídica. La filosofía del derecho en su perspectiva histórica.

Law, psychology and morality

the role of loss aversion

Kahneman and Tversky's Prospect Theory posits that people do not perceive outcomes as final states of wealth or welfare, but rather as gains or losses in relation to some reference point. People are generally loss averse, meaning that the disutility generated by a loss ...

Wind power

politics and policy

The wind power development policy community faces a conundrum. On the one hand, as the most commercially viable form of utility-scale renewable energy, the wind power industry has experienced in excess of ten-fold growth in total installed capacity over the past decade. On the other ...

For peace and money

french and british finance in the service of tsars and commissars

From the late imperial period until 1922, the British and French made private and government loans to Russia, making it the foremost international debtor country in pre-World War I Europe. To finance the modernization of industry, the construction of public works projects, railroad construction, and ...

Human Rights and european Law

building new legal orders

Senior judges and politicians increasingly question the role of the EU and the European Court of Human Rights. Some call for a reconsideration of the influence of transnational courts in the legal life of the UK, while others argue for a repeal of the Human ...

Historia del Rey de los Reyes y Señor de los Señores

La historia del rey de los reyes es la última obra en la que trabajó fray José de Sigüenza, cuyos últimos capítulos estaban inconclusos cuando le sobrevino la muerte en 1606. Pese a ello, la gran cantidad de texto conservada permite conocer con claridad las ...

Rule of Law in war

international Law and United States counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan

Rule of Law in War places international law at the centre of the transformation of United States counterinsurgency (COIN) that occurred during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. It claims international law matters more than is often assumed and more than we have previously been able ...

Do-it-Yourself democracy

the rise of the public engagement industry

Citizen participation has undergone a radical shift since anxieties about "bowling alone" seized the nation in the 1990s. Many pundits and observers have cheered America's twenty-first century civic renaissance-an explosion of participatory innovations in public life. Invitations to "have your say!" and "join the ...

¡Haz reír, haz reír!

vida y obra de Enrique Jardiel Poncela

Enrique Jardiel Poncela (Madrid, 1901-1952) fue el comediógrafo y novelista que revolucionó el humor español durante la primera mitad del siglo XX, e hizo reír (y pensar) con una risa hija de la observación, del lenguaje y de la poesía. Y esta es su biografía ...

Macroeconomics

institutions, instability, and the financial system

This authoritative new textbook integrates the modern monetary framework, based on the 3-equation model of the demand side, the supply side and the policy maker, with a model of the financial system. As a result, the authors comprehensively address the limitations of the mainstream macroeconomic ...

International commercial litigation

The new edition of this highly regarded work has been fully updated to reflect current trends and concerns in commercial litigation practice. It considers the many significant changes in the law since the first edition, and how they affect both the structure and drafting of ...

Patients with passports

medical tourism, Law, and ethics

Can your employer require you to travel to India for a hip replacement as a condition of insurance coverage? If injury results, can you sue the doctor, hospital or insurer for medical malpractice in the country where you live? Can a country prohibit its citizens ...

Seis meses que condujeron al rescate

crónica de un rescate que Mariano Rajoy no supo evitar. Noviembre 2011 - Mayo 2012

Noviembre de 2010. El PSOE afronta su último año de mandato con la crisis económica arreciando. La portavoz de la oposición, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, dice que la prima de riesgo en España «se llama José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero». Noviembre de 2011. Los ciudadanos castigan ...

Public trials

Burke, Zola, Arendt, and the politics of lost causes

How should we view moments of democratic failure, when both the law and citizens forsake justice? Do such moments reveal a wholesale failure of democracy or a more contested failing, pointing to what could have been? There are certain moments, such as the American founding ...

Benito Arias Montano

La obra de Aubrey F.G. Bell no pasa de ser una síntesis de la vida de Arias Montano, se convirtió en una referencia inevitable de la bibliografía montaniana, funcionando de hecho como eslabón entre la obra de González Carvajal (1832) y la tesis de ...

Proportionality in international Law

Proportionality is intimately linked to the overarching concepts of self-defense, lawful force, and the controlled application of violence. It is one of the most visible facets of humanitarian law designed to reduce unnecessary human suffering and avoid excessive damage to property, and the natural environment ...