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Libertad de contratar y libertad contractual

El Derecho de contratos resulta especialmente atractivo por ser la expresión del reconocimiento de la autonomía privada que se manifiesta, tanto en la formación y desarrollo del propio concepto de contrato, como en su consagración en los códigos modernos y que responde a la idea ...

Garner's dictionary of legal usage

This new edition of Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage marshals and analyses the modern legal vocabulary more thoroughly than any other contemporary reference work can claim to do. Since the first edition, Bryan A. Garner has drawn on his unrivalled experience as a legal ...

Handbook of corporate equity derivatives and equity capital markets

Equity strategies are closely guarded secrets and as such, there is very little written about how investors and corporate can utilise equity vehicles as part of their growth strategies. In this much-needed book, industry expert Juan Ramiraz guides readers through the whole range of equity ...

Creating a balanced scorecard for a financial services organization

How to tap the power of Balanced Scorecard for financial services organizations This book explains how financial services organizations can build and implement a Balanced Scorecard (a strategy management framework) that can deliver accountability, transparency, and risk management. With plentiful case study examples supported by ...

Cambridge handbook of experimental political science

Laboratory experiments, survey experiments and field experiments occupy a central and growing place in the discipline of political science. The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science is the first text to provide a comprehensive overview of how experimental research is transforming the field. Some chapters ...

Losing twice

harms of indifference in the Supreme Court

Constitutional 'losers' represent a thorny and longstanding problem in American constitutional law. Given our adversarial system, the way that rights cases are decided means that regardless of whether a losing side has committed any actions that cause harm to others, they typically suffer unnecessary harm ...

Litigation readiness

a practical approach to electronic discovery

Industry studies indicate that corporations in the United States spend almost $4-5 billion annually taking electronically stored information (ESI) from its source and producing it for a requesting party. The cost to review this information for privilege/responsiveness prior to production is estimated to be ...

Risk and energy infrastructure

cross-border dimensions

This book examines the spectrum of risks posed to the development, financing, construction and operation of trans-boundary energy infrastructure and the tools that may be deployed to manage these risks. The book begins by examining trends in trans-boundary energy infrastructure and the nature of the ...

Crisis in Korea

America, China, and the risk of war

The South Korean warship Cheonan was sunk in mysterious circumstances on 26 March 2010. The remarkable events that followed are analysed by Tim Beal and woven into a larger study of the increasingly volatile relations between North and South Korea and US concern about the ...

Birth rites and rights

This multi-disciplinary collection of essays from the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group is concerned with the varying circumstances, manner, timing and experiences of birth. It contains essays from a wide range of disciplines including law, medicine, anthropology, history, and sociology, examining birth from the perspectives of mother ...

Institutions and the economy

Institutions are central to economic life. They have a major impact on consumer preferences, the actions and processes of firms, levels of wealth and poverty in countries, the growth of international trade, and much more. Indeed, none of the preconditions for economic activity - such as ...

Forestry economics

a mangerial approach

Forestry Economics introduces students and practitioners to all aspects of the management and economics of forestry. The book adopts the approach of managerial economics textbooks and applies this to the unique processes and problems faced by managers of forests. While most forestry economics books are ...

The public nature of private property

What, exactly, is private property? Or, to ask the question another way, what rights to intrude does the public have in what is generally accepted as private property? The answer, perhaps surprisingly to some, is that the public has not only a significant interest in ...

Executive's guide to project management

organizational processes and practices for supporting complex projects

This title offers how-to guidance for defining and implementing a complex project performance environment. Sharing his forty-five years of project management experience, best-selling author and industry guru Robert Wysocki presents a straightforward, enlightening, and pragmatic guide to help senior managers make the transition to an ...

The new old world

The New Old World looks at the history of the European Union, the core continental countries within it, and the issue of its further expansion into Asia. It opens with a consideration of the origins and outcomes of European integration since the Second World War ...

The culture of commerce in England, 1660-1720

Late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England - the period between the Restoration and the South Sea Bubble - was dramatically transformed by the massive cost of fighting wars, and, significantly, a huge increase in the re-export trade. This book seeks to ask how commerce was legitimated, promoted ...

Fundamentals of corporate governance

a guide for directors and corporate counsel

This new and updated edition provides lawyers with an overview of corporate governance and how it has evolved over the past decade including the role of the board of directors in corporate governance, corporate governance in a troubled company and more.

A theory of fairness and social welfare

The definition and measurement of social welfare have been a vexed issue for the past century. This book makes a constructive, easily applicable proposal and suggests how to evaluate the economic situation of a society in a way that gives priority to the worse-off and ...

The quants

how a new breed of math whizzes conquered Wall Street and nearly destroyed it

In a fast-moving narrative, Wall Street Journal reporter Patterson explores the coterie of mathematicians behind the Wall Street crash of 2008. The story's stars are "an unusual breed of investors" called quants, who "used brain-twisting math and super-powered computers to pluck billions in fleeting ...