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Consumer credit, debt and investment in Europe

Produced under the auspices of an EU-funded Marie Curie research programme, this volume analyses vulnerability in European private law and scrutinises consumer protection in credit and investments in the context of the recent turmoil in financial markets and EU harmonisation initiatives in the area. It ...

Practice and theory in comparative Law

What does doing comparative law involve? Too often, explicit methodological discussions in comparative law remain limited to the level of pure theory, neglecting to test out critiques and recommendations on concrete issues. This book bridges this gap between theory and practice in comparative legal studies ...

New frontiers in the philosophy of intellectual property

Are intellectual property rights a threat to autonomy, global justice, indigenous rights, access to lifesaving knowledge and medicines? The essays in this volume examine the justification of patents, copyrights and trademarks in light of the political and moral controversy over TRIPS (the Agreement on Trade-Related ...

The natural moral Law

the good after modernity

The Natural Moral Law argues that the good can be known and that therefore the moral law, which serves as a basis for human choice, can be understood. Proceeding historically through ancient, modern and postmodern thinkers, Owen Anderson studies beliefs about the good and how ...

El pequeño libro del mar

Diccionario de imágenes de conceptos básicos para los más pequeños. Con solapas y troquelados. Agrupa conceptos con un rasgo en común, como por ejemplo las cosas relacionadas con el mar o aprender los colores. Una forma divertida de aprender.

La fiscalidad de la vivienda en España

Esta obra colectiva versa sobre una materia de permanente interés para el Derecho Tributario. En efecto, la fiscalidad de la vivienda siempre ha atraído la atención de especialistas y profanos; de los primeros, porque suscita profundos problemas de índole teórica y práctica; de los segundos ...

Carbon trading

some insights and perspectives

CONTENTS: Demystifying Carbon Trading: The Market Based Mechanism; An Insight into Carbon Trading: Understanding the Behavior of Emissions Market with a Financial Perspective; Carbon Credits - An Introduction; The Voluntary Carbon Market: Current & Future Market Status, and Implications for Development Benefits; Getting Carbon Offsets Right: A Business Brief on Engaging Offset Providers; Carbon ...

Cuestiones actuales de la protección de la vida y la integridad física y moral

Este libro responde, ante todo, a la pretensión de abordar algunas cuestiones penales de máxima actualidad (despenalización del aborto, violencia de género, torturas) con la profundidad que requiere su enorme trascendencia social. Para ello se ha contado con la colaboración inestimable de un conjunto de ...

Las medidas cautelares en la Ley de Enjuiciamiento Civil

doctrina, jurisprudencia y formularios

La presente obra analiza el régimen jurídico de las medidas cautelares en los procesos civiles, tanto la regulación que de las mismas lleva a cabo la Ley de Enjuiciamiento Civil, cuanto las diversas normativas que en materia cautelar contiene la legislación procesal especial. Y lo ...

Understanding the theory and design of organizations

CONTENTS: PART 1 INTRODUCTION TO ORGANIZATION THEORY AND DESIGN. 1. Introduction to Organizations. PART 2 ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY AND STRUCTURE. 2. The Arrangement of Reporting Relationships. 3. Strategy and Effectiveness. PART 3 EXTERNAL FACTORS AND DESIGN. 4. Relationships Between Organizations. 5. Global Organization Design. 6. The ...

Consumer ADR in Europe

civil justice systems

This is the first systematic comparative study into how consumer ADR systems (usually ombudsmen and mediateurs) work, the differing national architectures within which they operate and how they can be improved. It describes ADR schemes in Belgium, France, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Spain ...

Political risk and the multinational company

concepts, theories and evidence

This book is about political risk for multinational companies. It describes and analyses the complex, conflictual relationships between politics and international business. First, a theoretical framework is meticulously constructed. Second, a new dataset on political risk is presented and analysed. Third, a statistical investigation of ...

Saving Europe

how national politics nearly destroyed the Euro

Three times in the few years since the global financial crisis erupted, the euro has come close to extinction, endangering both the world economy and history's most ambitious project in shared sovereignty. Yet each time, the case for a common currency proved to be ...

Winner take all

China's race for resources and what it means for us

Our planet's resources are running out. The media bombards us with constant warnings of impending shortages of fossil fuels, minerals, arable land, and water and the political Armageddon that will result as insatiable global demand far outstrips supply. But how true is this picture ...

Valoración de suelos

análisis práctico comparativo de las decisiones empresariales, las normas de valoración y el nuevo reglamento de valoración de la Ley del Suelo

El texto tiene como objetivo principal, acometer el tema de Valoración de suelos, desde un nuevo punto de vista, realizando el análisis comparativo entre las DECISIONES EMPRESARIALES de las empresa cuya materia prima es el suelo comparándolas con los criterios de las normas de valoración ...

La encomienda de gestión

entre la eficacia administrativa y la contratación pública

A pesar de su amplia utilización por parte de todas nuestras administraciones públicas, la cierto es que el régimen jurídico de la encomienda de gestión sigue planteando, aún hoy, algunas dudas interpretativas muy importantes: ¿qué entidades públicas pueden hacer uso de esta figura?, ¿quienes pueden ...

La regulación del mercado laboral

un análisis después de la publicación de la Ley 3/2012

Este libro realiza un completo y práctico análisis de las modificaciones fundamentales que se introducen en nuestra normativa por la Ley de Reforma Laboral, tras la tramitación parlamentaria del Real Decreto-Ley 3/2012.

The mosaic Constitution

political theology and imagination from Machiavelli to Milton

It is a common belief that scripture has no place in modern, secular politics. Graham Hammill challenges this notion in "The Mosaic Constitution", arguing that Moses' constitution of Israel, which created people bound by the rule of law, was central to early modern writings about ...

Classical arabic stories

an anthology

Short fiction was an immensely innovative art in the medieval Arab world, providing the perfect vehicle for transmitting dazzling images of life and experiences as early as pre-Islamic times. These works also speak to the urbanization of the Arab domain after Islam, mirroring the bustling ...

El pacto de exclusiva

El pacto de exclusiva sirve para que las partes de un contrato, o al menos una de ellas, se obliguen a no contratar con un tercero la misma prestación objeto de aquél. Se trata de un instrumento que por su versatilidad ha ganado gran importancia ...