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Environmental crime

Law, policy, prosecution

Using an interdisciplinary approach, Kathleen F. Brickley offers a unique perspective on the intersection of environmental law and criminal law. Suitable for courses or seminars on environmental law, white collar crime, federal criminal law, advanced criminal law, or public policy, the materials and discussion in ...

Un planeta de gordos y hambrientos

la industria alimentaria al desnudo

Vivimos en una gran paradoja: medio mundo se muere de hambre y el otro medio padece problemas de sobrepeso. ¿Qué falla en el mercado mundial de alimentos para que se produzca esta situación? ¿Qué parte de culpa tienen los grandes consorcios alimentarios y sus competitivas ...

Fundamentals of risk management for accountants and managers

tools and techniques

Both financial and non-financial managers with accountability for performance at either a strategic level or for a business unit have responsibility for risk management, in terms of failing to achieve organisational objectives. "Fundamentals of Enterprise Risk Management" is structured around four parts and 26 self-contained ...

Militarization and violence against women in conflict zones in the Middle East

a Palestinian case-study

This book examines and discusses the ordeals that women face as violence is perpetrated against them in politically conflicted and militarized areas. In conflict zones, every act is affected by, dependent on and mobilised by militaristic values. The militarization of both the private and public ...

Arbitrability

international and comparative perspectives

Eds. Loukas A. Mistelis, Stavros L. Brekoulakis. It often seems today that no dispute is barred from resolution by arbitration. Even the fundamental question of whether a dispute falls under the exclusive jurisdiction of a judicial body may itself be arbitrable. Arbitrability is thus an ...

Law of international contracting

The second edition of this well-known survey of the legal aspects of international business contracting has been needed for some time. Over the course of the last decade, a plethora of new concepts and procedures (many catalyzed by growth in the use of information technology ...

Towards a sustainable european company Law

a normative analysis of the objetives of EU Law, with the takeover directive as a test case

No one doubts any longer that sustainable development is a normative imperative. Yet there is unmistakably a great reluctance to acknowledge any legal basis upon which companies are obliged to forgo A shareholder value A

European economic Law

Given the enormous changes clearly evident in the history of the last twelve years, it is not surprising that this second edition of a well- known book - first published in 1996 as EC Commercial Law - is completely new, from its structure and content to its ...

The Right to damages in European Law

All legal systems provide for a form of action for non-contractual liability. This is the first book to present an in-depth discussion of the right of individuals to receive damages in European law. Analyzing relevant ECJ cases, the authors detail the substantive and procedural criteria ...

Reverse discrimination in EC Law

The spectre of reverse discrimination arises when it can be shown that a group is treated more favourably than another group that is normally favoured, as a consequence of positive action measures. Until recently, EC jurisprudence has consistently rejected allegations that reverse discrimination emerging in ...

Cross-border enforcement of claims in the EU

history, present time and future

In the legal areas of contractual claims and tax claims, various requirements exist in European Community law and in applicable conventions for the recognition and enforceability of foreign titles of execution, judgements and decisions. Besides the requirement that a foreign title of execution should fall ...

Legal systems and wind energy

a comparative perspective

Eds. Helle Tegner Anker, Birgitte Egelund Olsen, Anita Ronne. Wind energy as a renewable energy source attracts considerable interest in the climate change debate. The development of wind energy, however, faces a number of legal or regulatory challenges. This book provides an insight into the ...

Guía para viajeros inocentes

En 1867, los periódicos de Norteamérica se hacen eco del anuncio de la 'Excursión a Tierra Santa, Egipto, Crimea, Grecia y lugares de interés intermedios', para la que se proponen fletar un barco que partirá del puerto de Nueva York. Se trata de uno de ...

Hacia una filosofía del Budismo Zen

Trad., Raquel Bouso García. La expresión «filosofía del budismo zen» parece un contrasentido habida cuenta de la profunda aversión que siente el zen hacia las elucubraciones mentales, hacia toda forma de conceptualización y raciocinio que impida alcanzar la realidad en su inmediatez y distraiga del ...

Conservadurismo heterodoxo

tres vías ante las derechas españolas: Maurice Barrès, José Ortega y Gasset y Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora

Estos tres intelectuales, cuyas trayectorias políticas y filosóficas resultaron muy dispares, tiene una perspectiva conservadora heterodoxa con respecto a la tradición dominante en el conjunto d el aderecha española, es decir, el catolicismo.

Cuentos y leyendas populares de Marruecos

recopilados en Marrakech por la doctora Légey

Edición y traducción del francés de Antonio González Beltrán. Imaginemos la plaza de Jama el-Fna de Marrakech en plena ebullición: culebreros, magos, domadores de animales, curanderos, sacamuelas, danzantes, músicos, equilibristas... Llega el cuentero apoyándose en un largo bastón. Elige un lugar y con su bastón ...

El Real Cuerpo de Ingenieros del Ejército en la Guerra de la Independencia 1808-1814

Coord., Teniente General D. Agustín Quesada Gómez. Gran formato con ilustraciones. En el marco de una de las guerras más devastadoras que ha vivido nuestra Patria, se presenta la labor y entrega, el valor y el entusiasmo de un Cuerpo, de unos hombres, de un ...

Contratos bancarios

su significación en América Latina

Este libro fue publicado por primera vez en 1977 y ha llegado a convertirse en pieza fundamental del derecho bancario latinoamericano. El lector tendrá la oportunidad de evidenciar las transformaciones que en los últimos años ha tenido esta materia en Colombia y en el mundo ...

La antijuridicidad en la dogmática penal actual

INDICE:Introducción. Evolución del concepto de antijuridicidad. Relaciones propuestas entre tipo y antijuridicidad. Antijuridicidad formal y material. El conocimiento de la antijuricidad. Punto de vista personal. Caso práctico. Sipnosis. Bibliografía.

Philosophy and Kabbalah

Elijah Benamozegh and the reconciliation of western thought and jewish esotericism

Philosophy and Kabbalah offers an analysis of the life and work of Elijah Benamozegh (1823#1900), an Italian Kabbalist and philosopher of Moroccan origins. Although the relationship between Kabbalah and philosophy has always been problematic, Benamozegh considered Kabbalah to be the true dogmatic and rational ...