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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Guía práctica concursal

La presente obra aborda un estudio completo, sintético y sistemático de la Ley Concursal, que cuenta con una importante aportaciónn de jurisprudencia debidamente actualizada tanto de los distintos juzgados de lo mercantil, como de las audiencias Provinciales y del tribunal supremo, surgida tras más de ...

Jovellanos

vida y pensamiento

En 2011 se conmemoró el bicentenario del fallecimiento de este ilustre personaje asturiano, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, representante por excelencia de la ilustración española. Manuel Álvarez-Valdés nos presenta un análisis de su vida, legado y mensaje en esta obra indispensable para el saber jovellanista. Lujosamente ...