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Milton Friedman

Milton Friedman (1912-2006) was one of the most important 20th century advocates of libertarian and conservative ideas in academia and amongst the wider public. He made a critical contribution to the development of the free market and monetarist economics that challenged the dominant interventionist and ...

F.A. Hayek

Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992), winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, was an influential economist and political philosopher. The increased attention he received in the late 20th century with the rise of conservatism in the US and UK, led him to publish "Why I ...

Corporate residence

Corporate Residence is about the UK's approach to determining the residence status of corporations and thus their exposure to UK tax. If companies are not managed and controlled in the correct way they could unintentionally become UK resident and so be rendered subject to ...

Contemporary gender relations and changes in legal cultures

In the 21st century, political, business and professional leadership and economic ownership is dominated by men on a global scale regardless of the prevailing type of regime or culture. This is also the case for religious leadership globally, another normative culture of increasing importance over ...

Aims and values in competition Law

With the Lisbon Treaty the principle of undistorted competition disappeared from the EU Treaty itself and was moved to a Protocol and the principle of social market economy was introduced. Together with the economization of competition law this has provoked a debate on the role ...

Illustrative IFRS consolidated financial statements

for 2013 year ends

This publication provides an illustrative set of consolidated financial statements, prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), for a fictional manufacturing, wholesale and retail group (IFRS GAAP plc). IFRS GAAP plc is an existing preparer of IFRS consolidated financial statements. This publication is ...

The spirit of Corporate Law

core principles of Corporate Law in continental Europe

Reading the Company Law Action Plan of the European Commission (issued on 21 May 2003) it is impossible not to gain the impression that European company law policy is focused on listed companies, and that their efficiency will be enhanced, if possible, by means of ...

Can Law make life (too) simple?

from gene patents to the patenting of environmentally sound technologies

This book investigates the challenges to modern patent law, particularly from the rapid developments in biotechnology. The subject of patent law is not dealt with in isolation; it is considered in the contexts of environmental law, trade law and European law in order to position ...

Israeli constitutional Law in the making

In the domain of comparative constitutionalism, Israeli constitutional law is a fascinating case study constituted of many dilemmas. It is moving from the old British tradition of an unwritten constitution and no judicial review of legislation to fully-fledged constitutionalism endorsing judicial review and based on ...

The killing fields of inequality

Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is a socio-cultural order which, for most of us, reduces our capabilities to function as human beings, our health, our dignity, our sense of self, as well as our resources to act and participate ...

Parliamentary immunity

a comprehensive study of the systems of parliamentary immunity in the United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands in a european context

Is it necessary and just that parliamentarians are immune from legal action? If so, to what extent is such immunity justified and which purpose does it serve? These questions reveal a constitutional dilemma. On the one hand, parliamentary immunity safeguards the necessary independence of the ...

The battle for Britain

Scotland and the independence referendum

A 300-year-old union. A comprehensive debate. A historic decision. On 18 September 2014, Scots will decide their future: should the country quit the United Kingdom and take control of its own destiny, or should it remain part of what advocates call the most successful political ...

The spirit of cities

why the identity of a city matters in a Global Age

Cities shape the lives and outlooks of billions of people, yet they have been overshadowed in contemporary political thought by nation-states, identity groups, and concepts like justice and freedom. The Spirit of Cities revives the classical idea that a city expresses its own distinctive ethos ...

Lectures on the history of moral and political philosophy

G. A. Cohen was one of the leading political philosophers of recent times. He first came to wide attention in 1978 with the prize-winning book Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence. In subsequent decades his published writings largely turned away from the history ...

Disciplina della concorrenza nella UE

La disciplina della concorrenza nell’Unione Europea è cambiata enormemente negli ultimi dieci anni, a partire dalla cosiddetta “modernizzazione”, ed ha acquisito una importanza straordinaria anche in relazione alla crisi economica generale che attanaglia l’Europa. Da più parti si era sentito il bisogno, nella ...

Compendio di storia della filosofia del Diritto

E' un testo didattico che nasce dall'esperienza pluriennale dell'Autore e si qualifica per connettere lo sviluppo della storia delle idee al mutare delle condizioni della vita sociale. Questa seconda edizione sintetizza in larga misura il quarantennale insegnamento di Filosofia del diritto dell'Autore ...

La giustizia privata

Il libro vuole fornire un’esposizione completa di quello che possiamo definire il diritto comune della giustizia privata, individuando ed analizzando le varie forme in cui essa può operare, arbitrato rituale, arbitrato irrituale e perizia contrattuale. L’opera, rivolta, oltre che all’accademia, agli studenti ...

Riflessioni di Biodiritto

Lo sviluppo scientifico e tecnologico dell’ultimo trentennio ha determinato effetti estremamente rilevanti in campo biomedico con specifico riguardo alla vita e alla salute dell’uomo. Le scoperte scientifiche e le connesse applicazioni tecnologiche hanno reso possibili interventi e trattamenti sanitari che pongono nuove ed ...

Lo que dice Gandhi

sobre la no violencia, la resistencia y el valor

Este libro condensa la esencia de la doctrina de Gandhi de la resistencia no violenta. La experiencia vital y las reflexiones de Gandhi que aquí se recogen suponen un tesoro que sirve de guía a los idealistas, aunque disciplinados, valerosos, aunque cautos, jóvenes cuando se ...

Manifiesto del nuevo realismo

El «nuevo realismo» es la toma de conciencia de un cambio de época. La experiencia histórica de los populismos ligados a los medios de comunicación de masas, de las guerras tras el 11 de septiembre y de la crisis económica, ha acabado por desvelar el ...