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International investment arbitration

lessons from developments in the MENA region

Arbitration is the most common mechanism for settlement disputes in developing countries. Following the adoption of a free market economy, arbitration will play an increasingly fundamental role in order to protect foreign investors in the Middle East and North African Region (MENA). This book examines ...

An international Bill of the Rights of man

An International Bill of the Rights of Man, first published in 1945, is one of the seminal works on international human rights law. Its author, Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, is widely considered to be one of the great international lawyers of the 20th century. It continues ...

The practice of life assurance

a text-book for actuarial students

In this highly influential textbook, first published in 1952, actuaries Ogborn and Coe provide a condensed overview of many aspects of life assurance for the actuary-in-training. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of actuarial practice.

The barbarous years

the peopling of British North America: the conflict of civilizations, 1600-1675

They were a mixed multitude—from England, the Netherlands, the German and Italian states, France, Africa, Sweden, and Finland. They moved to the western hemisphere for different reasons, from different social backgrounds and cultures, and under different auspices and circumstances. Even the majority that came ...

Por si se va la luz

No se llevaron nada, o casi; ni siquiera el gusto por la aventura. Y cuando llegaron al pueblo, entraron en casa y se echaron encima de un colchón como si la noche no fuera a acabar nunca. Amaneció, y a la luz del sol descubrieron ...

Filosofía del saber

La Filosofía del Saber de Leopoldo-Eulogio Palacios es una investigación personal, pero sistemática, sobre el conocimiento científico y técnico en sus aspectos filosóficos. Su primera parte está dedicada al estudio de los elementos que componen los saberes llamados ciencia, y asimismo al significado de su ...

Asco, soberbia, odio

fenomenología de los sentimientos hostiles

«Extraño tema ha escogido usted, Sr. Kolnai», dijo Edmund Husserl cuando tuvo por primera vez entre sus manos el texto de Aurel Kolnai acerca del asco, que junto a la soberbia y el odio constituyen los tres ensayos que el autor escribió sobre los sentimientos ...

Hermanos Marx: Groucho & Chico, abogados

Flywheel, Shyster y Flywheel, el serial radiofónico perdido de los Hermanos Marx

En 1932 la compañía de radio estadounidense NBC emitió veintiséis episodios de una estrafalaria comedia protagonizada por Groucho Marx, en el papel de W.T. Flywheel, un abogado cantamañanas y bromista, y por su hermano Chico, en el de Emmanuel Ravelli, su perdulario asistente. Gracias ...

Ramón Llull. Journal of applied ethics

Issue 04 - 2013

ARTICLES 1 TWO OR THREE BATTLES: ORGANICITY AND TEMPORALITY IN CARTESIAN ETHICS by Pablo Bustinduy Amador 2 MANAGING CORPORATE REPUTATION BY VALUES: A VALUE-BASED TOOL TO GENERATE, MAINTAIN AND AMELIORATE CORPORATE REPUTATION by Antonio Márquez Zamohano 3 AMORALITY EXPLAINED. ANALYSING THE REASONS THAT EXPLAIN THE ...

Érase una vez una paradoja

ilusiones, trucos y engaños de la mente

En este original libro se cuentan un buen puñado de historias muy diferentes entre sí, pero con un nexo que las une: todas ellas encierran paradojas. Aparentemente contrarias a toda lógica, las paradojas en manos de PiergiorgioOdifreddi se convierten en mecanismos efectivos, y al mismo ...

Hobbes on resistance

defying the Leviathan

Hobbes's political theory has traditionally been taken to be an endorsement of state power and a prescription for unconditional obedience to the sovereign's will. In this book, Susanne Sreedhar develops a novel interpretation of Hobbes's theory of political obligation and explores important ...

Choice-of-court agreements under the european and international instruments

This is the first text to address all the instruments that will govern choice-of-court agreements in Europe and to engage in a practical discussion of their mutual relationship. The existing common law, which has dominated discussion of this subject for so long, will become less ...

English private Law

Now in its third edition, this work has established itself as a key point of reference on English private law for lawyers in the UK and throughout the world. The book acts as an accessible first point of reference for practitioners approaching a private law ...

West-Nordic constitutional judicial review

a comparative study of scandinavian review and judicial reasoning

The pros and cons of judicial review are well known to most people interested in the subject. Conversely, this thesis is not on what ought to be. Rather, the focus will be on what constitutional judicial review actually is in the West-Nordic countries.

International commercial arbitration

standard clauses and forms. Commentary

This comprehensive handbook provides the full range of clauses, forms and documents needed by practitioners in the course of arbitral proceedings as well as commentaries based on scientific principles and insider know-how with regard to arbitration in specific countries. The book encompasses all the different ...

Sociología de la educación

introducción al estudio de los fenómenos pedagógicos y de sus relaciones con los demás fenómenos sociales

Fundamentada en el método sociológico ideado por Émile Durkheim, este análisis fue el primer tratado en el mundo que pretende sistematizar y teorizar científicamente los fenómenos pedagógicos y su relación con los fenómenos sociales. En este estudio de procesos, instituciones y sistemas escolares, además de ...

Growth of the international economy, 1820-2015

Kenwood and Lougheed's classic book has been the benchmark introduction to the development of the global economy for decades. For this fifth edition, Michael Graff has brought the story up to date to include events from the early part of the twenty first century ...

Internet arabic

Gives you up-to-date expressions, jargon and new coinages to express modern concepts in internet Arabic. What is the Arabic term for 'homepage'? How would you say 'podcast'? Could you recognise the phrase 'add this site to your favourites'? Or 'printer-friendly version'? This short, accessible vocabulary ...

Criminal justice

What is the criminal justice system for? How does it operate? How does it treat victims, suspects, defendants and offenders? Does it work? Is it fair? Criminal Justice provides a thought-provoking and critical introduction to the challenges faced by the UK's criminal justice system ...

Posthumanism

a critical analysis

What does it mean to be human today? The answer to this question, which is as old as the human species itself, is becoming less and less certain. Current technological developments increasingly erode our traditional humanist reflexes: consciousness, emotion, language, intelligence, morality, humour, mortality - all ...