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La Legión desnuda

Antonio Maciá Serrano (1910-1985) nació en Elche (Alicante). Ingresó en la Academia General Militar de Zaragoza a finales de los años veinte. Después pasó a la de Infantería de Toledo, de la que salió con el grado de teniente en 1932. En Huesca el sorprendió ...

Defending the guilty

truth and lies in the criminal courtroom

Every day, criminal barrister Alex McBride stands up in court and attempts to save people from conviction, prison, even a lifetime behind bars. Sometimes it's a hopeless case. Sometimes he has the chance to right a wrong. But mostly his clients are just plain ...

Ciudadanía participativa y administración municipal

¿Existen en el ordenamiento jurídico municipal instrumentos que garanticen la participación real de los ciudadanos en los procedimientos de toma de decisiones de sus representantes municipales?. Ésta es la propuesta que constituye la justificación de la monografía Ciudadanía participativa y administración municipal, a la que ...

Ayudas de Estado e imposición directa en la Unión Europea

En los últimos tiempos, tanto la Comisión europea como el Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea, han venido haciendo una interpretación amplia y extensiva de las ayudas de Estado, penetrando con fuerza en un ámbito inicialmente reservado a la soberanía fiscal de los Estados ...

El procedimiento abreviado en la jurisdicción contencioso-administrativa

Nació «El Procedimiento Abreviado en la Jurisdicción Contencioso-Administrativa», junto con la Ley 29/1998 que lo creaba y pretendió desde el principio ser un libro de reflexión y ayuda tanto para los profesionales de la especialidad, como para los que se enfrentaban por primera vez ...

La organización administrativa de las fórmulas de gestión directiva de los servicios públicos locales

E hilo conductor de la obra se asienta sobre tres cuestiones cardinales: la relativa a la organización local y sus modalidades, la referida al concpeto de servicio público y sus modulaciones en el marco de la crisis económica que nos azota y la concerniente a ...

Aftermath

a new global economic order?

The global financial crisis showed deep problems with mainstream economic predictions. At the same time, it showed the vulnerability of the world's richest countries and the enormous potential of some poorer ones. China, India, Brazil and other countries are growing faster than Europe or ...

The deepening crisis

governance challenges after neoliberalism

Response to financial meltdown is entangled with basic challenges to global governance. Environment, global security and ethnicity and nationalism are all global issues today. Focusing on the political and social dimensions of the crisis, contributors examine changes in relationships between the world's richer and ...

This time is different

eight centuries of financial folly

Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is different"--claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the new ...

Upstream oil and gas

cases, materials and commentary

Oil and gas contracts are shaped by national and international laws that relate to common industry transactions. With standardised contracts being used across different jurisdictions, it is important that these legal principles are properly understood. The increasing scarcity of natural resources makes it more, rather ...

New essays on the normativity of Law

An important part of the legal domain has to do with rule-governed conduct, and is expressed by the use of notions such as norm, obligation, duty, and right. These require us to acknowledge the normative dimension of law. Normativity is, accordingly, to be regarded as ...

International environmental Law

"International Environmental Law" is a new textbook written for students, practitioners, and anyone interested in the subject. The overall aim of the book is to provide a fresh understanding of international environmental law as a whole, seen in the light of climate change, biodiversity loss ...

Financial derivative investments

an introduction to structured products

Structured products are sold to a wide range of retail, high net worth and institutional investors, with over GBP15bn of structured investments sold in the UK in 2009. Based on a non-specialist graduate lecture course given at University College London (UCL), this book provides an ...

Drugs and drug policy

what everyone needs to know

While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--regulations, taxes, and prohibitions--designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon. Those policies sometimes have terrible side-effects: most prominently the development of criminal enterprises dealing in forbidden (or ...

Political parties, business groups, and corruption in developing countries

Political corruption is one of the globe's most pressing yet seemingly permanent problems. It is a root cause of low growth and inequality, and plagues numerous nations throughout the world in varying degrees. In the past, it proved difficult to measure, and the political ...

A liberal theory of international justice

A Liberal Theory of International Justice advances a novel theory of international justice that combines the orthodox liberal notion that the lives of individuals are what ultimately matter morally with the putatively antiliberal idea of an irreducibly collective right of self-governance. The individual and her ...

Bounded rationality and industrial organization

Conventional economic theory assumes that consumers are fully rational, that they have well-defined preferences and easily understand the market environment. Yet, in fact, consumers may have inconsistent, context-dependent preferences, or simply not enough brain-power to evaluate and compare complicated products. Thus the standard model of ...

The implementation game

the TRIPS agreement and the global politics of intellectual property reform in developing countries

With the launch of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, its Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) emerged as a symbol of coercion in international economic relations. In the decade that followed, intellectual property became one of the most contentious topics ...

The Oxford handbook of economic forecasting

This Handbook provides up-to-date coverage of both new developments and well-established fields in the sphere of economic forecasting. The chapters are written by world experts in their respective fields, and provide authoritative yet accessible accounts of the key concepts, subject matter and techniques in a ...

Financial centres and international capital flows in the Nineteenth and Twientieth Centuries

As interest in financial markets intensifies, stimulated by the financial crisis of the early twenty-first century, this book aims to enrich our understanding of the workings and history of financial centres in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the determinants of their success and failure ...