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Speech and silence in american Law

Rather than abstract philosophical discussion or yet another analysis of legal doctrine, Speech and Silence in American Law seeks to situate speech and silence, locating them in particular circumstances and contexts and asking how context matters in facilitating speech or demanding silence. To understand speech ...

The legal foundations of inequality

constitutionalism in The Americas, 1776-1860

The long revolutionary movements that gave birth to constitutional democracies in the Americas were founded on egalitarian constitutional ideals. They claimed that all men were created equal with similar capacities and also that the community should become self-governing. Following the first constitutional debates that took ...

The Solicitor General and the United States Supreme Court

executive branch influence and judicial decisions

The United States government, represented by the Office of the Solicitor General, appears before the Supreme Court more than any other litigant. The Office's link to the president, the arguments it makes before the Court and its ability to alter the legal and policy ...

The lawyer-judge bias in the american legal system

Virtually all American judges are former lawyers. This book argues that these lawyer-judges instinctively favor the legal profession in their decisions and that this bias has far-reaching and deleterious effects on American law. There are many reasons for this bias, some obvious and some subtle ...

Voting for policy, not parties

how voters compensate for power sharing

This book proposes an institutionally embedded framework for analyzing voter choice. Voters, Orit Kedar argues, are concerned with policy, and therefore their vote reflects the path set by political institutions leading from votes to policy. Under this framework, the more institutional mechanisms facilitating post-electoral compromise ...

En defensa del Imperio

los ejércitos de Felipe IV y la guerra por la hegemonía europea (1635-1659)

Un mastodonte jurásico contrapuesto a las más «modernas» fuerzas armadas de Holanda y Francia, un paquidermo inmóvil incapaz de modificar sus estructuras de combate y mando, frente a enemigos que supieron aprovechar los cambios introducidos —a partir de las primeras décadas del siglo XVII— en ...

De lo sublime y de lo bello

Si bien Edmund Burke (1729-1797) suele ser más conocido por su faceta como político y por los escritos en que fustigó el nacimiento de la política ideológica que culminó con la Revolución Francesa, como 'Reflexiones sobre la revolución en Francia', en su juventud tentó el ...

Ruling by statute

how uncertainty and vote buying shape lawmaking

What are the main factors that allow presidents and prime ministers to enact policy through acts of government that carry the force of law? Or, simply put, when does a government actually govern? The theory presented in this book provides a major advance in our ...

Courts in Latin America

To what extent do courts in Latin America protect individual rights and limit governments? This volume answers these fundamental questions by bringing together today's leading scholars of judicial politics. Drawing on examples from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica and Bolivia, the authors ...

Property Law and social morality

Property Law and Social Morality develops a theory of property that highlights the social construction of obligations that individuals owe each other. By viewing property law through the lens of obligations rather than through the lens of rights, the author affirms the existence of important ...

Constitutional protection of Human Rights in Latin America

a comparative study of Amparo Proceedings

Together with the expansive process of human rights constitutional declarations, in addition to the writ of habeas corpus and of habeas data, Latin American constitutions created a specific judicial remedy for the protection of constitutional rights, known as the suit, action, recourse, or writ of ...

The multilateralization of international investment Law

Attempts at developing a theory of international investment law are complicated by the fact that this field of international law is based on numerous, largely bilateral treaties and is implemented by arbitral panels established on a case-by-case basis. This suggests a fragmented and chaotic state ...

Museo del Gredo

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Los vikingos

el terror de Europa

Este innovador y bien documentado estudio sobre los vikingos establece los hechos que explican su emergencia y terrible reputación. Paddy Griffith somete a un incisivo examen el arte vikingo de la guerra: utiliza el pensamiento militar moderno para analizar sus tácticas, su pericia náutica, su ...

La experiencia de la visita al museo

conociendo a nuestros visitantes

El objeto de este informe es analizar la calidad de la experiencia de la visita al museo por parte del público. Cómo valora el visitante su vivencia en el museo en términos tanto cognitivos como emocionales, analizando variables relativas al confort de la visita, al ...

Historia urbana de Asturias en la Edad Moderna

Desde la óptica de la historia social del poder nos centramos en el estudio de la clase política en la Asturias de la Edad Moderna; nos interesan las oligarquías municipales, así como la estructura del poder local y el ejercicio del mismo. La venta de ...

Pablo no fue cristiano

el mensaje original de un apóstol mal entendido

Pablo no es el fundador del cristianismo ni un converso ferviente del judaísmo, como se ha dicho frecuentemente. Tampoco afirmó que Jesús sustituyera a la Torá. Pablo, argumenta convincentemente Pamela Eisembaum, continuó siendo un judío piadoso que creía que Jesús uniría a los judíos y ...

Cisneros, el cardenal de España

En 1497 muere el príncipe don Juan, heredero de los Reyes Católicos, lo que da inicio a un conflicto sucesorio en las coronas de Castilla y Aragón que se extenderá durante más de veinte años. Estamos ante una encrucijada decisiva en la historia de España ...

Geopolitics and expertise

knowledge and authority in european diplomacy

Geopolitics and Expertise is an in-depth exploration of how expert knowledge is created and exercised in the external relations machinery of the European Union. Provides a rare, full-length work on transnational diplomatic practice Based on a rigorous and empirical study, involving over 100 interviews with ...

La novela blanqueada

'El doctor Zhivago' de Pasternak entre el KGB y la CIA

En otoño de 1956 un avión que cubría el recorrido entre dos ciudades europeas aterrizó inesperadamente en Malta. Mientras los viajeros esperaban en una sala del aeropuerto a que se reparara la aparente avería, unos hombres buscaban en el portaequipajes del avión una maleta que ...