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Charting the divide between common and civil Law

What does it mean when civil lawyers and common lawyers think differently? In Charting the Divide between Common and Civil Law, Thomas Lundmark provides a comprehensive introduction to the uses, purposes, and approaches to studying civil and common law in a comparative legal framework. Superbly ...

Aspectos léxicos en los Becerros de Valpuesta

El problema de Spinoza

El 10 de mayo de 1940, las tropas nazis de Hitler invaden los Países Bajos. Desde febrero de 1941, a cargo del cuerpo de la expedición encargado del expolio, el Reichsleiter Rosenberg se apresura en llegar a Ámsterdam para confiscar la biblioteca de Spinoza. ¿Qué ...

Financial markets and exchanges Law

This work is essential for banking and investment business legal practitioners and provides an invaluable reference source on current on and off-exchange market trading and regulatory issues, in the banking, investment and derivatives fields. The book provides a comprehensive and authoritative analysis on the regulation ...

End this depression now!

The Great Recession is more than four years old - and counting. Yet, as Nobel Prize winning author Paul Krugman argues in this powerful new book, "Nations rich in resources, talent, and knowledge - all the ingredients for prosperity and a decent standard of living for all ...

Strategic intelligence for the 21st century

the Mosaic method

Strategic Intelligence for the 21st Century: The Mosaic Method provides an industry insider's assessment of current intelligence methods and offers a new strategic model, directed toward the police, military, and intelligence agencies. The birth of the internet, the advent of 24 hour news and ...

El leasing mobiliario como garantía en operaciones financieras

Las situaciones de crisis económica y la necesidad de financiación han hecho resurgir figuras jurídicas como el leasing, que permite la compra financiada de bienes en situaciones de falta de recursos y necesidad de renovar equipos o el inicio de actividades empresariales sin grandes desembolsos ...

Social media and the Law

a guidebook for communication students and professionals

Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, and Flickr allow users to connect with one another and share information with the click of a mouse or a tap on a touchscreen-and have become vital tools for professionals in the news and strategic communication fields ...

Pluralism and european private Law

European private law has hitherto tended to be conceptualised firmly around ideas of unity and harmony. Yet the discourse within other areas of European law, notably constitutional law scholarship, visibly adoptsapluralist perspectives. This book seeks to bridge the gap between 'public' and 'private' law by ...

The concept of Mens Rea in international criminal Law

the case for a unified approach

The purpose of this book is to find a unified approach to the doctrine of mens rea in the sphere of international criminal law, based on an in-depth comparative analysis of different legal systems and the jurisprudence of international criminal tribunals since Nuremberg. Part I ...

Criminal justice forecasts of risk

a machine learning approach

Machine learning and nonparametric function estimation procedures can be effectively used in forecasting. One important and current application is for making forecasts of "future dangerousness" to inform criminal justice decision. Examples include the decision to release an individual on parole, determination of the parole conditions ...

Humanity's Law

In Humanity's Law, renowned legal scholar Ruti Teitel offers a powerful account of one of the central transformations of the post-Cold War era: the profound normative shift in the international legal order from prioritizing state security to protecting human security. As she demonstrates, courts ...

International business

challenges and choices

This stimulating text provides a truly international perspective, with a wealth of real life examples from developed and emerging countries to help students envisage how organizations across the globe practise business. Thoroughly updated and revised to give students a deeper understanding of the key international ...

A regresión franquista

a muller durante o primeiro franquismo. Sección Feminina en Ponteareas (1936-1955)

ÍNDICE: Introdución I. Antes da guerra... un novo horizonte en feminino II. A muller na España Nacional III. A Falanxe. Un partido para unha guerra IV. A Falanxe feminina V. A Sección Feminina na provincia de Pontevedra VI. A Sección Feminina de Ponteareas VII. O ...

Franquismo y represión de género en Galicia

Si hay algo que caracterice a la represión implementada sobre las mujeres es su carácter sistémico e integral. Las mujeres no solo fueron castigadas por su implicación en actividades políticas o sociales de carácter izquierdista durante la República, por participar en la resistencia al golpe ...

Sotos contra Riquelmes

regidores, inquisidores y criptojudíos

Todo parece que comenzó un día indeterminado de un año también impreciso en torno a 1550. Aquel día el alcalde mayor de Lorca –oficio que representaba a la autoridad del rey y que se ejercía en nombre del corregidor residente en Murcia–, el licenciado Quevedo ...

La historia cultural

autores, obras, lugares

Cultura es cualquier creación, material o inmaterial, realizada por los seres humanos; es todo artificio, lo que nos separa de la naturaleza, lo que nos protege, recubre o reprime. Hablamos, pues, de elaboraciones que sirven para construir un entorno humano; o para destruirlo. Pero la ...

History of political theory

an introduction. Vol.II: Modern

History of Political Theory: An Introduction not only explores the great works of Western political theory but demonstrates their continuing relevance. Volume II traces the origin and development of liberal political theory, and so the foundations for contemporary views. The work provides a readable, scholarly ...

Honoré de Balzac

Como dijo Oscar Wilde, el siglo XIX es un invento de Balzac. Dentro de La comedia humana, el vasto ciclo de su novelística, Eugénie Grandet ocupa un lugar cenital. La historia del avaro Grandet y de su hija Eugénie, que vive desgarrada entre la tiranía ...

Presencia del cancionero popular infantil en la lírica hispánica

Homenaje a Margit Frenk

Investigadores mexicanos (UNAM), portugueses (Universidades de Tras-os-Montes y Nova de Lisboa), argentinos (Universidad Nacional de la Plata) y españoles (Universidades de Alcalá de Henares, Almería, Valencia, Alicante, Murcia, Cádiz, Extremadura y Castilla-La Mancha), además del coleccionista Jesús Martínez y del folclorista Joaquín Díaz, aportaron trabajos ...