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The power of punitive damages

is Europe missing out?

At its annual conference in November 2010, the Ius Commune Research School devoted its Liability and Insurance Workshop to "The Power of Punitive Damages." European legal scholars and policy makers - in their search for better ways to enforce private and public legal rules, prevent damage ...

Introduction to comparative politics

Updated to reflect today's political climate, the Sixth Edition of "Introduction to Comparative Politics, International Edition" offers a country-by-country approach that allows students to fully examine similarities and differences among countries and within and between political systems. Each chapter offers an analysis of political ...

The Draft common frame of reference

national and comparative perspectives

The Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR) is the result of more than 25 years of academic research on European private law. The final academic version of the DCFR was published in October 2009, and currently the European Commission is undertaking a selection process in ...

Contestación a la pregunta: ¿Qué es la Ilustración?

Immanuel Kant fue uno de los filósofos más influyentes de toda Europa y transformó el pensamiento occidental con sus análisis de la razón y la naturaleza de la realidad. En estos escritos examina el progreso humano, la civilización, la moral y por qué, para ser ...

A simple guide to SPSS for political science

"A Simple Guide to SPSS for Political Science, International Edition" is a supplemental text that can be used with another statistics or research methods text. Designed for Political Science majors, "A Simple Guide to SPSS for Political Science, International Edition" helps students navigate through SPSS ...

Securing the State

Governments recognise that national security in the turbulent conditions of the early twenty-first century must centre on the creation of public confidence that normal life can continue even in the face of threats such as terrorism and proliferation, and of natural hazards such as pandemics ...

Educating european lawyers

The continuing and accelerating process of European integration impacts European legal education - or ought to have an impact on the ideas about legal education in Europe. Although legal education in Europe is mainly national and usually conducted in the national language, there are initiatives that ...

Eu Energy Law and policy issues

This third volume of EU Energy Law and Policy Issues presents an overview of some of the most recent developments taking place in the EU energy sector at a time when the Third Energy Package is likely to be, or has been, implemented in the ...

Critical perspectives in transitional justice

In the last 20 years, the field of transitional justice has gone from being a peripheral concern to a ubiquitous feature of societies recovering from mass conflict or repressive rule. In both policy and scholarly realms, transitional justice has proliferated rapidly with ever-increasing variety in ...

Humanitarian and security Law

a compendium of international and european instruments

Humanitarian and Security Law presents a comprehensive and easily accessible compilation of the most important legal instruments that pertain to armed conflicts and security threats, which will be of use and interest to practitioners and researchers working in the areas of international and European humanitarian ...

Un llamamiento a los esforzados, oprimidos y exhaustos pueblos de Europa

Ya sea haciendo un llamamiento al fin del sistema capitalista, dirigiéndose a las multitudes después de la Revolución Rusa o atacando a Stalin durante sus años de exilio, los discursos de Trotsky ofrecen una extraordinaria visión de las ideas de un hombre cuyas palabras y ...

De las conjuras

Maquiavelo es uno de los estrategas más famosos de todos los tiempos. En este libro aborda los peligros de las conspiraciones y los componentes de un ejército, algo vital en su día para conseguir y conservar el poder. Aconseja, además, sobre tácticas y disciplina, y ...

Autobriografía

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) fue, «avant la lettre», el hombre representativo americano que podría haber figurado en la ilustre galería de retratos literarios de Emerson. Franklin, habitante de las colonias inglesas, presenció, y casi selló con un célebre discurso, el nacimiento de los Estados Unidos como ...

Ataque a un enemigo de la libertad

Los mordaces discursos de Cicerón en contra de las ambiciones dictatoriales de Marco Antonio se encuentran entre los más famosos e influyentes de la historia y constituyen el apasionado testamento del más grande estadista de su época; un último intento por recuperar su querida República ...

Servicios sociales y cohesión social

ÍNDICE: Presentación 01—Institucionalización de los servicios sociales 02—Agentes de intervención social, accesibilidad, eficacia de los servicios sociales y creación de empleo 03—Impactos de la rama de los servicios sociales en el bienestar social

Interpretation of fundamental rights in a multilevel legal system

an analysis of the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union

Fundamental rights provisions are known for their relatively vague and general formulation. As a result, judges dealing with these provisions are confronted with many and often controversial interpretative choices. These interpretative choices already present judges operating in a national context with difficulties, but even more ...

Economic criteria for criminalization

optimizing enforcement in case of environmental violations

Why should criminal law be used to enforce environmental violations? Aren't administrative sanctions, particularly administrative fines, more efficient to use? This book examines the question why - from an economic perspective - society should enforce certain violations through criminal law, while others through private or administrative ...

Cooperativas de viviendas

la promoción, construcción y adjudicación de la vivienda al socio cooperativo

ÍNDICE: Abreviaturas Nota a la tercera edición Introducción Capítulo Primero. Cooperativas en general. Cooperativas de viviendas. I. Cooperativas en general. La cooperativa como persona jurídica en nuestro ordenamiento II. Cooperativas de viviendas en general: tratamiento específico de ellas; regulación actual; aparición y evolución de la ...

Nacionalismo

Novelista, músico, poeta y dramaturgo, Tagore fue además un feroz oponente del gobierno británico en la India. En esta obra analiza el resurgimiento de Oriente y el desafío que esto plantea a la supremacía occidental, y hace un llamamiento a un futuro más allá del ...

Probation measures and alternative sanctions in the European Union

The free movement of citizens within the European Union has been increasingly simplified, which means that, nowadays, more and more sentences are imposed on non-residents and, as a consequence, have to be enforced on the territory of other Member States. An effective application of the ...