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Perfil ambiental de España 2008

informe basado en indicadores

Elaborado por el Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio rural y marino. La quinta edición del Perfil Ambiental de España, un informe basado en indicadores, correspondiente al año 2008, mantiene la estructura básica de los indicadores de ediciones anteriores. Ello permite analizar las tendencias del ...

European perspectives on producers' liability

direct producers' liability for non-conformity and the Sellers' right of redress

Eds. Martin Ebers, André Janssen, Olaf Meyer. A growing number of countries recognise a direct producers' liability for non-conforming goods. The European Commission has considered the introduction of an EU-wide direct producers' liability for a long time. Will there be new responsibilities for producers in ...

La Libertad

ilusiones y límites

El gran interés que suscitan las reflexiones sobre la libertad como dimensión esencial de la condición humana queda patente en las ponencias y comunicaciones que se recogen en este libro, que analizan la libertad desde la perspectiva de la Teología cristiana, así como de la ...

Labour Law

Labour law is a highly dynamic and complex field which can be properly understood only in its broader international and historical context. Deakin and Morris: Labour Law, a work increasingly cited as authoritative in the higher appellate courts, provides a comprehensive analysis of current British ...

Romero Robledo y el parlamentarismo español

Romero Robledo nació en Antequera el día 8 de marzo de 1838, en el seno de una familia de ricos y hacendados labradores. Aún no contaba los dos años de edad cuando murió su madre. Sus primeros estudios los cursó en Archidona y Málaga, obteniendo ...

The first amendment freedom of speech

if constitutional history and the contemporary debate

Ed. Vikram David Amar. This volume collects, edits, and presents some of the most important classic and cutting-edge thinking on the constitutional freedom of speech. Students of law, political science, and all who are interested in understanding the basics of American self-government will be able ...

The Blair identity

leadership and foreign policy

Why did Tony Blair take Britain to war with Iraq? Because, this book argues, he was following the core political beliefs and style - the Blair identity - manifest and consistent throughout his decade in power. Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, and finally Iraq were wars to which ...

Caín

Si en El Evangelio según Jesucristo José Saramago nos dio su visión del Nuevo Testamento, en Caín regresa a los primeros libros de la Biblia. En un itinerario heterodoxo, recorre ciudades decadentes y establos, palacios de tiranos y campos de batalla de la mano de ...

Impersonations

troubling the person in Law and culture

Personhood is considered at once a sign of legal-political status and of socio-cultural agency, synonymous with the rational individual, subject, or citizen. Yet, in an era of life-extending technologies, genetic engineering, corporate social responsibility, and smart technology, the definition of the person is neither benign ...

The politics of imprisonment

how the democratic process shapes the way America punishes offenders

The Politics of Imprisonment seeks to document and explain the chronic long-term differences in American crime policy. It argues that the American states responded in radically different ways to rising crime, social upheaval, war, and declining trust in government due to the variation, complexity, and ...

The british Constitution

In the latter part of the nineteenth century Walter Bagehot wrote a classic account of the British constitution as it had developed during Queen Victoria's reign. He argued that the late Victorian constitution was not at all what people thought it was. Anthony King ...

Government as entrepreneur

Government acts as entrepreneur when its involvement in market activities is both innovative and characterized by entrepreneurial risk. Thinking of government as entrepreneur is a unique lens through which we characterize in this book a specific subset of government policy actions. As such, our viewpoint ...

Who decides, and how?

preferences, uncertainty, and policy choice in the european parliament

How do individual legislators in the European Parliament (EP) make decisions on the wide variety of policy proposals they routinely confront? Despite a flourishing literature on the European Union's only directly elected institution, we know surprisingly little about the micro-foundations of EP politics. Who ...

Legal aspects of carbon trading

Kyoto, Copenhagen and beyond

Eds. David Freestone, Charlotte Streck. Since 2005 the carbon market has grown to a value of nearly $100 billion per annum. This new book examines all the main legal and policy issues which are raised by emissions trading and carbon finance. It covers not only ...

The European takeover directive and its implementation

Ed. Paul Van Hooghten. The EU Takeover Directive describes the history and the political and economic objectives of the Directive. Paul Van Hooghten offers detailed commentary on the text of the Directive including a discussion and explanation of each article. He provides insight on national ...

Privacy

the lost right

The disturbing reality of contemporary life is that technology has laid bare the private facts of most people's lives. Email, cell phone calls, and individual purchasing habits are no longer secret. Individuals may be discussed on a blog, victimized by an inaccurate credit report ...

Moral panics and the copyright wars

Metaphors, moral panics, folk devils, Jack Valenti, Joseph Schumpeter, John Maynard Keynes, predictable irrationality, and free market fundamentalism are a few of the topics covered in this lively, unflinching examination of the Copyright Wars: the pitched battles over new technology, business models, and most of ...

Rhetoric and the rule of Law

a theory of legal reasoning

When cases come before courts can we predict the outcome? Is legal reasoning rationally persuasive, working within a formal structure and using recognisable forms of arguments to produce predictable results? Or is legal reasoning mere <'rhetoric>' in the pejorative sense, open to use, and abuse, to ...

El regreso de Keynes

"La actual crisis económica global, que no es exógena al mercado, sino que procede de los fallos del sistema de mercado mismo, pide a gritos el regreso del maestro. Como los propios gurús neoclásicos han proclamado: "cuando estamos en el agujero todos somos keynesianos". Hay ...

España y Nápoles

coleccionismo y mecenazgo virreinales en el siglo XVII

Durante el siglo XVII los virreyes españoles de Nápoles favorecieron un flujo continuo de tesoros artísticos italianos a las colecciones de la Corona, cumpliendo las órdenes llegadas desde Madrid o atendiendo a sus propios deseos de obsequiar al monarca. Veinticinco esoecialistas en las relaciones artísticas ...