Libros de

Cambio climático, energía y Derecho internacional

perspectivas de futuro

El régimen internacional sobre cambio climático se enfrenta a uno de los momentos más relevantes en el que determinar su viabilidad y sus posibilidades de eficacia. En 2012 acaba el primer periodo de cumplimiento del Protocolo de Kioto, sin que hasta la fecha se haya ...

Pre-trial detention = Détention avant jugement

human rights, criminal procedural Law and penitentiary Law, comparative Law = droits de l'homme, droit de la procédure pénale et droit pénitentiaire, droit comparé

It is estimated that in the course of a year, approximately 10 million people will pass through pre-trial detention. Although presently, no adequately functioning criminal justice system can do entirely without detaining any suspects, pre-trial detention thus remains problematic in the context of human rights ...

The legal protection of foreign investment

a comparative study

The law of foreign investment is at a crossroads. In the wake of an unprecedented global financial crisis and a sharp surge of investment arbitration cases, states around the world are reflecting on the pros and cons of the current liberal investment regime and exploring ...

Who loses in the downturn?

economic crisis, employment and income distribution

Economic events such as the recent global economic crisis can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the individual and household levels. Identification of appropriate and timely policy responses that support vulnerable groups is hampered by how little is known about the likely ...

Creative enterprise

contemporary art between museum and marketplace

In the face of unparalleled growth and a truly global audience, the popularity of contemporary art has clearly become a double-edged affair. Today, an unprecedented number of museums, galleries, biennial-style exhibitions, and art fairs display new work in all its variety, while art schools continue ...

The European Commission and bureaucratic autonomy

Europe's custodians

This book examines the struggle of the European Union bureaucracy to maintain its autonomy in an increasingly complex institutional setting and adverse political environment. Using an original survey of nearly two hundred top European Commission officials, it shows that the Commission is a coherent organization ...

Legal education in the Digital Age

During the coming decades, the digital revolution that has transformed so much of our world will transform legal education as well. The digital production and distribution of course materials will powerfully affect both the content and the way materials are used in the classroom and ...

Laughing at the Gods

great judges and how they made the Common Law

Any effort to understand how law works has to take seriously its main players - judges. Like any performance, judging should be evaluated by reference to those who are its best exponents. Not surprisingly, the debate about what makes a 'great judge' is as heated and ...

Foreign policy

theories, actors, cases

The ever-changing field of foreign policy is explored first by examining the theoretical and historical perspectives, then the variety of actors, context and goals, and concludes with an interesting range of relevant case studies. In this way, the editors take a balanced approach, presenting the ...

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 ...

Liquefied natural gas

the Law and business of LNG

From its regional beginnings, the business of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has been transformed into a broad industry that now spans the globe. The production and liquefaction of natural gas and its shipping, regasification and use bring together diverse producer and consumer jurisdictions under many ...

On temporal and spiritual authority

on laymen or secular people, on the temporal power of the Pope, against William Bairclay, on the primary duty of the Supreme Pontiff

Robert Bellarmine was one of the most original and influential political theorists of his time. He participated in several of the political debates that agitated early modern Europe, such as the controversy over the Oath of Allegiance in England. Bellarmine presents one of the clearest ...

Grow

how ideals power growth and profit at the world's greatest companies

Those who center their business on improving people’s lives have a growth rate triple that of competitors and outperform the market by a huge margin. They dominate their categories, create new categories and maximize profit in the long term. Pulling from a unique ten ...

Redeemers

ideas and power in Latin America

Latin America has been of vital importance to the United States almost since the birth of our nation, and the significance of this relationship has only increased in recent decades. But mutual understanding between these regions is lacking, even as Latin Americans are striving to ...

The politics of coalition

how the Conservative-Liberal Democrat government works

The Politics of Coalition is the tale of two parties embarking on the first coalition government at Westminster for over 60 years. What challenges did they face in the first couple of years, and how did they deal with them?With the authorisation of Prime ...

Credit scoring, response modeling, and insurance rating

a practical guide to forecasting consumer behavior

Within all large consumer facing organizations, most decisions about how to deal with people are made automatically by computerized decision making systems. Information about people, their lifestyle and past behavior are used to predict how they are expected to behave in the future. It can ...

Carter's breach of contract

Hart edition

J W Carter's Breach of Contract is well established as the leading text on the subject in the Commonwealth, having been cited regularly and with approval by the courts in a number of jurisdictions. This new edition, first published in Australia by Lexis Nexis ...

A Treatise on political economy

"A Treatise on Political Economy" by Antonie Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy (1754-1836) is a foundational text of nineteenth-century, free-market economic thought and remains one of the classics of nineteenth-century French economic liberalism. Destutt de Tracy was one of the founders of the classical liberal ...

My enemy's enemy

proxy warfare in international politics

The topic of proxy war is currently subject to intense debate with reference to US, British and Israeli accusations that Iran is sponsoring subversive and insurgent movements from Lebanon to Afghanistan; contemporary academic and media controversies over the effect of international assistance to the Afghan ...

Depoliticization

the political imaginary of global capitalism

This book follows in the path blazed by Hannah Arendt and Cornelius Castoriadis, where politics is seen as a mode of freedom; the possibility for individuals to consciously and explicitly create the institutions of their own societies. Starting with such problem as: What is capital ...