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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 ...

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 ...

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 pillars of Finance

the misalignment of finance theory and investment practice

In The Pillars of Finance, author and finance expert Guy Fraser-Sampson challenges the fundamental conventions of modern finance. He asserts that, at its core, finance is not the highly scientific, modern discipline that most would claim, but has in fact stood still for the past ...

Desertores

una historia silenciada de la Segunda Guerra Mundial

En la segunda guerra mundial, más de 150.000 soldados aliados desertaron. Ésta es la historia desconocida de algunos de esos hombres corrientes en tiempos extraordinarios.

Koffman and Macdonald's Law of contract

If you are new to the study of law then Koffman and Macdonald's The Law of Contract will provide you with a clear, non-technical account of contract law that will take you through your first year module. The authors' case summaries, extracts and analyses ...

Diversidad de formaciones políticas en Mesopotamia y el Cercano Oriente

organización interna y relaciones interregionales en la Edad del Bronce

El presente volumen reúne trabajos acerca de las formaciones po­líticas de Mesopotamia y el Cercano Oriente realizados sobre una base filológico-textual y arqueológica, pero con una ambición y una impronta decididamente históricas. En él se presta atención a la historia de los estudios, a ...

Cartas animadas con dibujos

la complicidad estética de las vanguardias en España

De esta forma, terminaba Federico García Lorca una misiva con ilustraciones dirigida a Jorge Guillén en enero de 1927. La advertencia del poeta no debería pasar desapercibida. Este ensayo pretende dejar constancia de la continua presencia de dibujos como éstos, enviados por los artistas de ...

La Alpujarra

PEDRO Antonio de Alarcón (1833-1891) cultivó a lo largo de su vida una amplia variedad de géneros literarios, entre ellos la literatura de viajes, escasamente desarrollada por autores españoles de su época. En 1875 publicó La Alpujarra, un relato de viajes de sensibilidad que podríamos ...

Estética del ensayo

la forma ensayo, de Montaigne a Godard

El film-ensayo es un subproducto que ha sido incansablemente generado desde el siglo de Montaigne, y que se ha plasmado en esos ejercicios liminares de escritura como los diarios personales, los autorretratos, los ejercicios epistolares, los diarios íntimos, las autobiografías, los ensayos. Este libro reflexiona ...

Julio Cortázar y Cris

A veces se produce el encuentro entre dos grandes escritores y de esa conmoción surgen risas, relatos, poemas, cartas, viajes, diálogos chispeantes y fascinación mutua. En la última década de su vida, Julio Cortázar y Cristina Peri Rossi se encontraron y vivieron una relación intensa ...

Utilitarismo y contractualismo

fundamentos para la evolución de políticas públicas

La idea central de este libro es mostrar que los axiomas fundamentales de la teoría económica han permitido, por un lado, la construcción de un aparato conceptual y técnico impresionante para orientar la toma de decisiones sobre política económica, así como para orientar su diseño ...

El trastorno por déficit de atención e hiperactividad (TDAH)

Aspectos jurídico-penales, psicológicos y criminológicos

El Trastorno por Déficit de Atención e Hiperactividad (TDAH) es Psicopatología del Neurodesarrollo más prevalente a nivel mundial. Diagnosticada en los primeros años de vida bajo la apreciación de síntomas de inatención, hiperactividad, e impulsividad, se caracteriza principalmente por una alteración de la función ejecutiva ...