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La determinación judicial de la filiación

funciones de la posesión de estado cuando se determina, se acredita y se prueba la filiación

La determinación de la filiación de una persona es presupuesto necesario para que la filiación produzca efectos en el ámbito jurídico. El Código civil maneja con poco tecnicismo las palabras «determinar», «acreditar» y sus derivadas, estableciendo los medios para determinar la filiación en los arts ...

Company Law in context

text and materials

Company Law in Context is an ideal main text for company law and corporate governance courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. In this sophisticated book, David Kershaw combines commentary and explanation (55%) with the primary case and statutory materials (45%). The book places the ...

The new economics of inequality and redistribution

Economists warn that policies to level the economic playing field come with a hefty price tag. But this so-called 'equality-efficiency trade-off' has proven difficult to document. The data suggest, instead, that the extraordinary levels of economic inequality now experienced in many economies are detrimental to ...

Territorial implications of high speed rail

a spanish perspective

High Speed Rail's (HSR) main objective is to attract air passengers between big metropolitan areas however the main territorial implications in many cases occur not in these metropolitan areas but in the intermediate cities. These implications open up new spatial planning possibilities such as ...

Fraud

the counter fraud practitioner's handbook

"The Fraud Practitioner's Handbook" looks at fraud investigation methods and explores the practical options for preventing and remedying fraud. An effective fraud and financial crime strategy involves intelligence and prevention, criminal and civil legal procedures, and asset recovery, all of which may involve investigators ...

The Great Recession

market failure or policy failure?

Since publication of Hetzel's The Monetary Policy of the Federal Reserve (Cambridge University Press, 2008), the intellectual consensus that had characterized macroeconomics has disappeared. That consensus emphasized efficient markets, rational expectations and the efficacy of the price system in assuring macroeconomic stability. The 2008-2009 ...

Border walls security and the war on terror in the United States, India, and Israel

Since the turn of the new millennium, and despite predictions of an increasingly borderless world through the process of globalization, the United States, Israel, and India have built an astonishing combined total of 5700 kilometers of fences and security barriers across their political borders. For ...

The EU in a nutshell

everything you wanted to know about the European Union but didn't know who to ask

Discover the truth about the EU ..."There are 70 words in the Lord's Prayer. 271 in the Gettysburg Address. 313 in the Ten Commandments. And European Commission Regulation (EC) No 1284/2002, laying down the marketing size for hazelnuts (in shell), runs to. 2 ...

Supranational citizenship

Can we conceive of a citizenship that could, in principle, be relevant to a variety of types of political framework? This book, available at last in paperback, offers a coherent and innovative conception of citizenship that is independent of any specific form of political organisation ...

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 ...

Zombie capitalism

global crisis and the relevance of Marx

We've been told for years that the capitalist free market is a self-correcting perpetual growth machine in which sellers always find buyers, precluding any major crisis in the system. Then the credit crunch of August 2007 turned into the great crash of September–October ...

The politics of identity in Visigothic Spain

religion and power in the histories of Isidore of Seville

revious scholarship has interpreted Bishop Isidore of Seville (d. 636) retrospectively as the architect of the medieval Spanish church, as the father of Spanish identity, and as a key figure in the transmission of Classical and Patristic learning to the Middle Ages. Drawing on recent ...

Manuel d'intelligence économique

Les tensions géopolitiques de l’après guerre froide, l’impact de la société de l’information et les crises industrielles amplifiées par les secousses financières modifient les grilles de lecture de l’économie de marché. Cette mutation a un impact direct sur leur mode de ...

Las Indias Occidentales

procesos de incorporación territorial a las Monarquías Ibéricas (siglos XVI a XVIII)

Las Indias Occidentales de antaño son nuestra actual Hispanoamérica. Como es sabido, entre finales del siglo XV y principios del XIX formaron parte de la Monarquía española, entidad compuesta de posesiones o dominios que se extendieron por casi todos los continentes. ¿Mediante qué procesos particulares ...

The Goal

A Process of Ongoing Improvement

Written in a fast-paced thriller style, 'The Goal' contains a serious message for all managers in industry and explains the ideas which underline the Theory of Constraints developed by the author.

Juvenile Justice

An Introduction

Juvenile Justice: An Introduction is a student-friendly analysis of all aspects of the juvenile justice system. The book covers the history and development of the juvenile justice system and the unique issues related to juveniles, including police interaction, court processes, due process, movements toward diversion ...