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Teoría general del Derecho administrativo

En el proceso de exposición se pueden encontrar algunas dificultades en el camino hacia la comprensión de este concepto, ya que se encuentra inmerso en ámbitos y métodos generales que por sí mismos son complejos. El derecho administrativo es una disciplina acotada y específica de ...

¿En qué consiste eso de ser jurista?

Un jurista en esencia, es aquel que debe entender la ley vigente en un amplio-y a la vez, preciso-sentido para aplicarla en diversos y variadas escenas. "Conocida ya la fuente jurídica, el jurista trata de entenderla, de interpretarla que no es una tarea tan llana ...

Del Tigre de Santa Julia, la princesa italiana y otras historias

sistema judicial, criminalidad y justicia en la ciudad de México (siglos XIX y XX)

Elisa Speckman Guerra analiza el tránsito del orden jurídico novohispano al mexicano, la codi?cación, las manifestaciones de la criminalidad y las concepciones e imaginarios de la delincuencia. Homicidios pasionales, infanticidios, duelistas y bandidos comparten estas páginas con criminales célebres como El Tigre de Santa ...

El moderno sistema mundial

TOMO IV: El triunfo del liberalismo centrista, 1789-1914

La aparición en inglés del primer volumen de El moderno sistema mundial supuso en 1974 el comienzo de una verdadera revolución en la historiografía y un fuerte impulso al renacimiento de la sociología histórica. Más allá de las discrepancias y las polémicas a las que ...

El concepto de ideología

Volumen 2: El marxismo posterior a Marx: Gramsci y Althusser

El concepto de ideología que propone Jorge Larraín en este texto, se relaciona con la tradición marxista tras la muerte de este filósofo, y que es trabajado, principalmente, por autores como Lenin, Lukács, Gramsci y Althusser. Larraín hace referencia en sus notas introductorias, a la ...

Storytelling for Lawyers

Good lawyers have an ability to tell stories. Whether they are arguing a murder case or a complex financial securities case, they can capably explain a chain of events to judges and juries so that they understand them. The best lawyers are also able to ...

Constitutional fragments

societal constitutionalism and globalization

In recent years a series of scandals have challenged the traditional political reliance on public constitutional law and human rights as a safeguard of human well-being. Multinational corporations have violated human rights; private intermediaries in the internet have threatened freedom of opinion, and the global ...

Why Law matters

Contemporary political and legal theory typically justifies the value of political and legal institutions on the grounds that such institutions bring about desirable outcomes - such as justice, security, and prosperity. In the popular imagination, however, many people seem to value public institutions for their own ...

Constitutional referendums

the theory and practice of republican deliberation

The use of referendums around the world has grown remarkably in the past thirty years and, in particular, referendums are today deployed more than ever in the settlement of constitutional questions, even in countries with little or no tradition of direct democracy. This is the ...

The economic constitution

There has been little analysis of the constitutional framework for management of the UK economy, either in constitutional law or regulatory studies. This is in contrast to many other countries where the concept of an 'economic constitution' is well established, as it is in the ...

How interpretation makes international Law

on semantic change and normative twists

Challenging the classic narrative that sovereign states make the law that constrains them, this book argues that treaties and other sources of international law form only the starting point of legal authority. Interpretation can shift the meaning of texts and, in its own way, make ...

Preventive justice

This book arises from a three-year study of Preventive Justice directed by Professor Andrew Ashworth and Professor Lucia Zedner at the University of Oxford. The study seeks to develop an account of the principles and values that should guide and limit the state's use ...

Fixing U.S. international taxation

International tax rules, which determine how countries tax cross-border investment, are increasingly important with the rise of globalization, but the modern U.S. rules, even more than those in most other countries, are widely recognized as dysfunctional. The existing debate over how to reform the ...

The language of Law

The close connection between philosophy of language and philosophy of law has been recognized for decades through the work of many influential legal philosophers. This volume brings recent advances in philosophy of language to bear on contemporary debates about the nature of law and legal ...

Fundamental Rights in Europe

The European architecture for the protection of fundamental rights combines the legal regimes of the states, the European Union, and the European Convention on Human Rights. The purpose of this book is to analyse the constitutional implications of this multilevel architecture and to examine the ...

The new geography of capitalism

firms, finance, and society

Globalization is a dominant feature and force in the contemporary world, impacting all areas of business, economics, and society. This accessibly written overview of contemporary capitalism shows how the development of global supply chains, the global division of labour, and, in particular, the globalization of ...

Managing risk and opportunity

the fovernance of strategic risk-taking

This book promotes good risk governance and risk management practices to corporate managers, executives, and directors wherever they operate around the world. The major corporate scandals have their roots in governance failure pointing to the link between risk governance and good performance outcomes. This topic ...

The language of murder cases

intentionality, predisposition, and voluntariness

The Language of Murder Cases describes fifteen court cases for which Roger Shuy served as an expert language witness, and explains the issues at stake in those cases for lawyers and linguists. Investigations and trials in murder cases are guided by the important legal terms ...

The revolutionary constitution

The framers of the Constitution chose their words carefully when they wrote of a more perfect union-not absolutely perfect, but with room for improvement. Indeed, we no longer operate under the same Constitution as that ratified in 1788, or even the one completed by the ...

The Slave Trade and the origins of international Human Rights Law

There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment but that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II. In this narrative, the nineteenth century's ...