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The Congress of Vienna

power and politics after Napoleon

Convened following Napoleon s defeat in 1814, the Congress of Vienna is remembered as much for the pageantry of the royals and elites who gathered there as for the landmark diplomatic agreements they brokered. Historians have nevertheless generally dismissed these spectacular festivities as window dressing ...

Sueños

A comienzos de enero de 1956, Adorno anotó dos reflexiones sobre los sueños que demuestran el especial interés que tenía al respecto: «Ciertas experiencias oníricas me permiten suponer que el individuo vive su propia muerte como catástrofe cósmica». Y: «Nuestros sueños no sólo están vinculados ...

The harm in hate speech

Every liberal democracy has laws or codes against hate speech - except the United States. For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Against this absolutist view, Jeremy Waldron argues powerfully that hate speech should be regulated as part ...

Cataluña como problema

(Revista El Cronista del Estado Social y Democrático de Derecho, Nº 42, año 2014)

SUMARIO: Santiago Muñoz Machado: La cuarta vía Ricardo García Cárcel: La dialéctica Cataluña-España. Algunas reflexiones José María Serrano Sanz: Cataluña en España: intereses creados Francesc De Carreras: ¿Puede celebrarse un referendum en Cataluña? Juan José Solozábal Echavarría: La ofensiva soberanista catalana ante el Tribunal Constitucional ...

Acción, praxis y Ley

estudio metafísico y psicológico de la acción legislativa en Francisco Suárez

La presente investigación es un estudio monográfico sobre la acción humana y la elaboración de una ley en Francisco Suárez, en la que se intenta abordar de manera sistemática y completa dichos fenómenos. Para ello, primero, se explica qué es la acción y la manera ...

Assessing legal interppreter quality through testing and certification

the qualitas project

Respect for the procedural rights of any individual involved in police or judicial matters is a basic tenet of a modern and sound system of justice. Providing legal interpreting services to suspects, defendants, victims and witnesses who are not proficient in the language in which ...

In the wake of the crisis

leading economists reassess economic policy

In 2011, the International Monetary Fund invited prominent economists and economic policymakers to consider the brave new world of the post-crisis global economy. The result is a book that captures the state of macroeconomic thinking at a transformational moment. The crisis and the weak recovery ...

Guardians of finance

making regulators work for US

The recent financial crisis was an accident, a "perfect storm" fueled by an unforeseeable confluence of events that unfortunately combined to bring down the global financial systems. Or at least this is the story told and retold by a chorus of luminaries that includes Timothy ...

The great recession

lessons for central bankers

The recent financial crisis shook not only the global economy but also conventional wisdom about economic policy. After the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, policy makers reversed course and acted on an unprecedented scale. The policy response was remarkable both for its magnitude ...

Financial innovation

too much or too little?

In assigning blame for the recent economic crisis, many have pointed to the proliferation of new, complex financial products--mortgage securitization in particular--as being at the heart of the meltdown. The prominent economists from academia, policy institutions, and financial practice who contribute to this book, however ...

The definition of Law

Originally intended as an introduction to a larger, unfinished work, and published as a monograph in 1958, this volume contains the opinions of the great jurist Hermann Kantorowicz on various fundamental questions of law and the bounds of legal science. Kantorowicz considers the differences between ...

Republicanism, rhetoric, and roman political thought

Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus

Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought develops readings of Rome's three most important Latin historians - Sallust, Livy and Tacitus - in light of contemporary discussions of republicanism and rhetoric. Drawing on recent scholarship as well as other classical writers and later political thinkers, this book ...

Deontic logic and legal systems

A considerable number of books and papers have analyzed normative concepts using new techniques developed by logicians; however, few have bridged the gap between the Continental (namely European) and Latin American traditions in legal philosophy. This book addresses this issue by offering an introductory study ...

The people's government

an introduction to democracy

The People's Government is premised on the idea that democracy is based on two fundamental rights: freedom and liberty. Liberty is the right to be left alone, while freedom is the right to participate in a political community. How people view democracy depends on ...

Order within anarchy

the laws of war as an international institution

Order within Anarchy focuses on how the laws of war create strategic expectations about how states and their soldiers will act during war, which can help produce restraint. The success of the laws of war depends on three related factors: compliance between warring states and ...

Dirty entanglements

corruption, crime, and terrorism

The entangled threat of crime, corruption, and terrorism now deserves high-level policy attention because of its growth trajectory. Using lively case studies, this book analyzes the transformation of crime and terrorism and the business logic of terrorism. Louise I. Shelley concludes that corruption, crime, and ...

Global capitalism and the crisis of humanity

This exciting new study provides an original and provocative expose of the crisis of global capitalism in its multiple dimensions - economic, political, social, ecological, military, and cultural. Building on his earlier works on globalization, William I. Robinson discusses the nature of the new global capitalism ...

Conversaciones con Francisco Ayala

Este libro es fruto, no solo de la larga amistad de la autora con el escritor, sino también de los muchos años que dedicara ella al análisis de su obra narrativa. Amén de numerosos artículos, Rosario Hiriart ha publicado dos libros monográficos, ambos en el ...

Ring of steel

Germany and Austria-Hungary at war, 1914-1918

For the empires of Germany and Austria-Hungary the Great War - which had begun with such high hopes for a fast, dramatic outcome - rapidly degenerated as invasions of both France and Serbia ended in catastrophe. For four years the fighting now turned into a siege on ...

La formación inicial del profesorado para la educación bilingüe

Este libro trata el tema de la formación inicial del profesorado de educación bilingüe con especial referencia al profesorado de educación artística. Comienza hablando sobre la integración del contenido de las materias curriculares y de las lenguas extranjeras que se empleen para su enseñanza (AICLE ...