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The Oxford companion to international criminal justice

Ed. Antonio Cassese. The move to end impunity for human rights atrocities has seen the creation of international and hybrid tribunals and increased prosecutions in domestic courts. The Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice is the first major reference work to provide a complete overview ...

Equity and trusts

concentrate

Equity and Trusts Concentrate is a high quality revision guide which covers the main topics found on undergraduate and GDL courses. The clear, succinct coverage of key legal points within a specific topic area, including key cases, enables students to quickly grasp the fundamental principles ...

A constitution of many minds

why the founding document doesn´t mean what it meant before

The future of the U.S. Supreme Court hangs in the balance like never before. Will conservatives or liberals succeed in remaking the court in their own image? In "A Constitution of Many Minds", acclaimed law scholar Cass Sunstein proposes a bold new way of ...

Stauffenberg

la biografía del hombre que atentó contra Hitler

Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg es una figura fascinante y mal conocida. De origen nobiliario, recibió una educación exquisita y se formó en la más alta tradición militar prusiana. Intérprete de violonchelo, próximo al círculo del poeta Stefan George, consumado jinete, católico devoto y prometedor ...

The reform of european legal capital rules

Given the current turmoil in global financial markets, a sound and properly functioning capital maintenance system, for companies whose shareholders benefit from limited liability, is of paramount importance. Capital maintenance rules deal with topics suc

Law's allure

how Law shapes, constrains, saves, and kills politics

Judicial and political power are inextricably linked in America, but by the time John Roberts and Samuel Alito joined the Supreme Court, that link seemed more important, more significant, and more pervasive than ever before. From war powers to abortion, from tobacco to integration, from ...

The handbook of national legislatures

a global survey

Where is the power? Students of politics have pondered this question and social scientists have scrutinized formal political institutions and the distribution of power among agencies of the government and the state. This book assesses the strength of the national legislature of every country in ...

Comparative politics

rationality, culture and structure

Eds. Mark Irving Lichbach, Alan S. Zuckerman. 'This volume offers a completely revised, updated and exciting version of the well-known volume published by Mark Lichbach and Alan Zuckerman a few years ago. Both editors have recruited a cast of outstanding scholars to offer a balanced ...

I dissent

great opposing opinions in landmark Supreme Court cases

Ed. Mark Tushnet. In offering thirteen famous dissents - from Marbury v. Madison and Brown v. Board of Education to Griswold v. Connecticut and Lawrence v. Texas, each edited with the judges' eloquence preserved - Supreme Court scholar Mark Tushnet reminds us that court decisions are not ...

James Madison and the spirit of republic self-government

'Colleen Sheehan's Madison is driven by an overarching concern: What would it take for this American population to become - and remain - a self-governing people? More was at stake than survival and prosperity. For Madison the new national community could flourish only if the people ...

Les grandes délibérations du Conseil Constitutionnel

1958-1983

Auts. Julien Bonnet...[et.al]. Préface de Jean-Louis Debré. Les délibérations du Conseil constitutionnel étaient jusqu'à présent secrètes. La loi organique du 15 juillet 2008 renverse ce principe commun à toutes les juridictions : au bout de 25 ans, les procès-verbaux des délibérations du Conseil ...

Comparative politics

structures and choices

Auts. Lowell Barrington...[et.al]. Taking a unique approach, the exciting new COMPARATIVE POLITICS: STRUCTURE AND CHOICE begins each chapter with an introduction of relevant concepts and then ties those concepts together by applying them to the governments of ten countries. This model enables readers ...

The democratic debate

american politics in an age of change

Auts. Bruce Miroff...[et.al]. "I believe that the "elite vs. popular democracy" framework of this text is good for several reasons. First, it gives students a way to think about political information. This helps their retention of the information and promotes critical thinking. Second ...

ICTY

towards a fair trial?

Ed. Thomas Kruessmann. The ICTY does not merely represent a historical stage in the development of international criminal justice which can now be put aside and left to legal historians. It also has a lasting impact, due to the fact that its Rules of Procedure ...

Il segreto bancario e fiduciario in Italia e all'estero

Presentazione di Tancredi Bianchi. Prefazione di Marco Liera. libro definisce il segreto bancario, ne evidenzia le deroghe e fornisce al lettore una sintesi comparata del segreto bancario all#interno e all#esterno dell#Europa, non dimenticando di entrare nel merito del problema, sempre attuale, della ...

Adiós mi querida España

testimonios de los emigrantes españoles de los años sesenta y setenta: historias del otro exilio

Contiene ilustraciones. Entre los años cincuenta y setenta, más de tres millones de españoles se vieron obligados a emigrar. Sin embargo, ese exilio ha sido borrado y silenciado. ¿Cómo hemos podido olvidar que también nosotros #como los ecuatorianos, los rumanos o los marroquíes que hoy ...

Hipatia

la estremecedora historia de la última gran filósofa de la Antigüedad y la fascinante ciudad de Alejandría

Hipatia de Alejandría, la última filósofa de la Antigüedad, murió de forma terrible: asesinada por una muchedumbre de fanáticos cristianos dirigida por el ambicioso obispo Cirilo. De esta manera, el mundo clásico, la libertad de conciencia y la búsqueda de la belleza y la armonía ...

Diccionario de sinónimos y antónimos

Este Diccionario de sinónimos y antónimos se basa en el corpus del Diccionario de uso del español de María Moliner. Incluye americanismos y regionalismos, abundantes expresiones pluriverbales, extranjerismos de uso y expresiones coloquiales o malsonantes. Incorpora el importante caudal léxico de la última edición del ...

Ecología para no ecologistas

ideas y pequeños gestos cotidianos que contribuirán a mejorar nuestra relación con el planeta

Como su título indica, este es un libro de ecología para no ecologistas, es decir, un práctico y sencillo manual sobre cómo tener un comportamiento ecológico en el quehacer diario, sin que eso nos obligue a cambios de vida drásticos. El lector encontrará aquí ideas ...

La cuadratura del cuadrado y otras curiosidades matemáticas del gabinete del profesor Stewart

Las matemáticas se encuentran en todas partes, aunque las más de las veces no nos demos cuenta. Son discretas, aunque no por ello aburridas o insustanciales. Todo lo contrario, constituyen una fuente maravillosa de entretenimiento y placer intelectual, como demuestra este libro, en el que ...