Libros de

Autobiografía

Sucesiones y herencias

Este complejo trabajo aborda todos los aspectos relacionados con las "SUCESIONES Y HERENCIAS" dotando al jurista de soluciones en temas tan complejos como la sucesión, el testamento, la institución de heredero, la sustitución, la legítima, la preterición, la mejora, los derechos del cónyuge viudo, el ...

Intervenciones corporales ilícitas

tutela penal

Las nuevas técnicas de investigación plantean conflictos entre los derechos individuales y el interés público en la averiguación y persecución de los delitos. El cuerpo humano se convierte en una fuente inagotable de información que facilita el ejercicio delius puniendi del Estado. El descubrimiento de ...

LEX MENTOR-Contable 2008

Incluye una potente base de datos en CD-Rom con toda la legislación y jurisprudencia citada a texto completo y anexos y formularios.

Internet governance

the new frontier of global institutions

The expansion of the Internet has been called the most revolutionary development in the history of human communications. It is ubiquitous and is changing politics, economics and social relations. Its borderless nature affects the roles of individuals, the magic of the marketplace and the problems ...

The bill of rights in Modern America

revised and expanded

This newly revised and expanded edition of "The Bill of Rights in Modern America" captures the noisy and potentially defining national debate about the nature and extent of our individual rights. Free speech, the separation of church and state, public safety and gun control, property ...

Investment treaty arbitration and public Law

The recent explosion of investment treaty arbitration marks a revolutionary change in both international and public law, above all because it demonstrates how states have unwittingly privatised key powers of the courts in public law. This book outlines investment treaty arbitration as a public law ...

The Hell-Fire Clubs

sex, satanism and secret societies

The Hell-Fire Clubs scandalized eighteenth- century English society. Rumors of their orgies, recruitment of prostitutes, extensive libraries of erotica, extreme rituals, and initiation ceremonies circulated widely at the time, only to become more sensational as generations passed. This thoroughly researched book sets aside the exaggerated ...

Christianity and Law

an introduction

What impact has Christianity had on the law from its beginnings to the present day? This introduction explores the main legal teachings of Western Christianity, set out in the texts and traditions of scripture and theology, philosophy and jurisprudence. It takes up the weightier matters ...

Corruption, inequality, and the rule of Law

Corruption flouts rules of fairness and gives some people advantages that others don't have. Corruption is persistent; there is little evidence that countries can escape the curse of corruption easily - or at all. Instead of focusing on institutional reform, Uslaner suggests that the roots ...

European Union and the deconstruction of the Rhineland frontier

The Rhineland region includes the core regional economy of western Europe, encompassing Belgium, Luxemburg and parts of the Netherlands, France, Switzerland and Germany. Throughout history there have been tensions between this region's roles as a frontier and as western Europe's economic core. Michael ...

Toxic Torts

science, Law, and the possibililty of justice

The relationship between science, law and justice has become a pressing issue with recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions beginning with Daubert v. Merrell-Dow Pharmaceutical. How courts review scientific testimony and its foundation before trial can substantially affect the possibility of justice for persons wrongfully ...

Saving the Constitution from Lawyers

how legal training and Law reviews distort constitutional meaning

This book is a sweeping indictment of the legal profession in the realm of constitutional interpretation. The adversarial, advocacy-based American legal system is well suited to American justice, in which one- sided arguments collide to produce a just outcome. But when applied to constitutional theorizing ...

Tort Wars

Tort Wars brings together the diverse and usually insufficiently related strands of tort law and treats the moral, economic, and systemic problems running through those strands with a single analysis and theory. In that tort law employs theory at all, it is typically theory measured ...

The She-Apostle

the extraordinary life and death of Luisa de Carvajal

Before dawn one morning in June 1612, an elderly Frenchman took charge of a carriage carrying a precious cargo near Tyburn Fields, London's notorious place of execution. It was heading for a house in Spitalfields, where a wizened Spanish woman was waiting to receive ...

Climate change

a guide to carbon Law and practice

The development of the carbon markets on the back of laws designed to mitigate climate change has been swift. Billions of euros of emission rights are now being traded around the world under cap and trade markets such as the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and ...

El maniqueísmo

estudio introductorio

El maniqueísmo, nacido en el siglo III e.c. en la Mesopotamia sometida al dominio persa, se extendió desde Europa hasta China, rivalizando con el zoroastrismo, el cristianismo, el budismo y el islam, y originando diversos fenómenos de fusión cultural. A pesar de su importancia ...

El maniqueísmo

textos y fuentes

Si bien hasta principios del siglo XX el maniqueísmo era conocido casi únicamente por los testimonios de heresiólogos cristianos y doxólogos musulmanes, el descubrimiento de fuentes maniqueas en Asia Central, Egipto y el norte de África ha revolucionado nuestro conocimiento de esta religión universalista. El ...

Clara de Asís

amiga de la soledad, hermana de la ciudad

Esta biografía de Clara de Asís recorre el itinerario espiritual de la santa sin perder de vista el trasfondo de la sociedad medieval en la que vivió, la época de las ciudades nacientes, de las catedrales y del surgimiento de una nueva espiritualidad laica. Al ...

Los documentos de archivo

cómo se conservan

Actualmente la conservación preventiva, debido al acceso casi sin límites a los archivos por parte del ciudadano, se ha convertido en un reto para los profesionales del ámbito de la archivística, reto que se da tanto a nivel tecnológico como de recursos, por lo cual ...