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The separation of powers in the contemporary Constitution

judicial competence in independence in the United Kingdom

Roger Masterman examines the dividing lines between the powers of the judicial branch of government and those of the executive and legislative branches in the light of two of the most significant constitutional reforms of recent years: the Human Rights Act (1998) and Constitutional Reform ...

Reforma estatuaria y régimen local

La presente obra es fruto de una investigación realizada en el marco del Proyecto I+D+i del Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, “El papel de las Entidades locales ante las transformaciones del régimen local: la reforma de los Estatutos de Autonomía y de la ...

The limits of judicial independence

This book investigates the causes and consequences of congressional attacks on the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that the extent of public support for judicial independence constitutes the practical limit of judicial independence. First, the book presents a historical overview of Court-curbing proposals in Congress ...

The Agnostic Age

Law, religion, and the Constitution

The Agnostic Age: Law, Religion, and the Constitution is a book for lawyers, law professors, law students, lawmakers, and any citizen who cares about church-state conflict and about the relationship between religion and liberal democracy. It provides a way to understand and balance the conflicts ...

Nuevos títulos de protección de carácter comunitario para los vinos de calidad

a propósito de la nueva OCM del vino

La presente monografía aborda el análisis de los nuevos títulos de protección de carácter comunitario previstos para los vinos con procedencia que han sido aprobados por el Reglamento (CE) núm. 479/2008, cuyo contenido se ha implementado en el llamado Reglamento Único para las OCM ...

comparing policies

Fritz W. Scharpf's renowned model of the 'joint-decision trap' suggestes that the requirements of (nearly) unanimous decisions in the EU's Council of Ministers, combined with conflicting preferences among member governments, will systematically limit the problem-solving effectiveness of European policies. However, certain conditions have ...

The economist's oath

on the need for and content of professional economic ethics

Economists enjoy enormous influence over the life chances of the world's inhabitants, yet do not receive, at any point in their training, any exposure to the professional ethical challenges that their work entails. This lack of attention to professional ethics means that even well-meaning ...

Derecho administrativo

parte general. Textos y materiales

La implantación obligatoria del nuevo título de grado en Derecho, impuesta por la adaptación al Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES) en el marco del proceso de convergencia iniciado por la Declaración de Bolonia de 1999, implica profundos cambios en la forma en que las ...

Secularization

The decline in power, popularity and prestige of religion across the modern world is not a short-term or localized trend nor is it an accident. It is a consequence of subtle but powerful features of modernization. Renowned sociologist, Steve Bruce, elaborates the secularization paradigm and ...

The power of place

geography, destiny, and globalization's rough landscape

The world is not as mobile or as interconnected as we like to think. As Harm de Blij argues in The Power of Place, in crucial ways--from the uneven distribution of natural resources to the unequal availability of opportunity--geography continues to hold billions of people ...

India

the emerging giant

India is not only the world's largest and fiercely independent democracy, but also an emerging economic giant. But to date there has been no comprehensive account of India's remarkable growth or the role policy has played in fueling this expansion. India: The Emerging ...

Social pacts in Europe

emergence, evolution, and instituttionalization

The result of a four-year long comparative research study centered at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and financed by the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme, Social Pacts in Europe presents the first full-length theoretical and comparative empirical study of new social pacts ...

Infringement Nation

Copyright 2.0 and you

Written on the occasion of copyright's 300th anniversary, John Tehranian's Infringement Nation presents an engaging and accessible analysis of the history and evolution of copyright law and its profound impact on the lives of ordinary individuals in the twenty-first century. Organized around the ...

Job matching, wage dispersion, and unemployment

Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides are the recipients (with Peter Diamond) of the Nobel memorial Prize in Economics 2010. They have made path-breaking contributions to the analysis of markets with search and matching frictions, which account for much of the success of job ...

Combatting unemployment

Why is unemployment higher in some countries than others? Why does it fluctuate between decades? Why are some people at greater risk than others? Layard and Nickell have worked on these issues for thirty years. Their famous model, first published in 1986, is now used ...

One Nation under surveillance

a new social contract to defend freedom without sacrificing liberty

What limits, if any, should be placed on a government's efforts to spy on its citizens in the name of national security? Spying on foreigners has long been regarded as an unseemly but necessary enterprise. Spying on one's own citizens in a democracy ...

The Oxford handbook of economic inquality

The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality presents a new and challenging analysis of economic inequality, focusing primarily on economic inequality in highly developed countries. Bringing together the world's top scholars this comprehensive and authoritative volume contains an impressive array of original research on topics ...

La categoría de la antijuridicidad en Derecho penal

El presente estudio sobre La categoría de la antijuridicidad en Derecho penal apareció publicado por primera vez como monografía en 1996, por la editorial colombiana Señal Editora, gracias al interés de mi apreciado amigo, colega y muy reconocido penalista Fernando Velásquez V.Anteriormente se había ...

Principles of international financial Law

One of the key questions for lawyers dealing with financial transactions is "if the operation of this transaction goes wrong and the matter comes before court, what will the judge do?" To be able to answer this, the financial lawyer has to understand not only ...