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Law and judicial duty

Almost every day, a judge in the United States holds a statute unconstitutional. This power of the judges is known as "judicial review," and it often seems the central feature of American constitutional law. The authority and scope of this power, however, have long remained ...

International Judicial Institutions

the architecture of international justice at home and abroad

Written by a former UN Chief Prosecutor and a leading international law expert, this is a much needed, short and accessible introduction to the current debates in international humanitarian law. Analyzing the legal and political underpinnings of international judicial institutions, it provides the reader with ...

Routledge handbook of political management

Ed. Dennis W. Johnson. "The Routledge Handbook of Political Management" is a comprehensive overview of the field of applied politics, encompassing political consulting, campaigns and elections, lobbying and advocacy, grass roots politics, fundraising, media and political communications, the role of the parties, political leadership, and ...

The eye of the Law

two essays on legal history

Written by the eminent German legal historian, Michael Stolleis, these two 'Essays on Legal History' offer an original and compelling history of the symbolism through which law is characterised as being 'above' us. In "The Eye of the Law", the history of this metaphor is ...

Ecología y economía

un enfoque de desarrollo sostenible

100 casos empresariales de éxtio

Los intangibles en la regulación contable

Con la entrada en vigor de las Normas Internacionales de Información Financiera (NIIF), de obligada aplicación a partir del ejercicio 2005 para la preparación de las Cuentas Consolidadas de las sociedades cotizadas en Bolsas de Valores de la Unión Europea, y la del Plan General ...

Constitutional fictions

a unified theory of constitutional facts

David Faigman's Constitutional Fictions is the first book-length examination of the role of fact-finding in constitutional cases. Because the role of facts is central to the day-to-day realities of constitutional law, Faigman provides an extraordinarily important analysis of a subject that has been largely ...

Power and rights in US Constitutional Law

This book provides a coherent, readily accessible analysis of the tensions inherent in American constitutional law between the governing body and the governed. Combining extensive analysis with text from seminal Supreme Court decisions, each chapter examines different components of constitutional law. It has been updated ...

Distributive principles of criminal Law

who should be punished how much?

The rules governing who will be punished and how much determine a society's success in two of its most fundamental functions: doing justice and protecting citizens from crime. Drawing from the existing theoretical literature and adding to it recent insights from the social sciences ...

The bramble bush

the classic lectures on the Law and Law School

With a new introduction and notes by Steve Sheppard. For over 70 years, prospective and enrolled law students have been assigned to read a text that prepares them what they are about to encounter. That text is Bramble Bush. This classic answers questions that all ...

Defending humanity

when force is justified and why

In Defending Humanity, internationally acclaimed legal scholars George P. Fletcher and Jens David Ohlin tackle one of the most important and controversial questions of our time: When is war justified? When a nation is attacked, few would deny that it has the right to respond ...

Friends of the Supreme Court

interest groups and judicial decision making

The U.S. Supreme Court is a public policy battleground in which organized interests attempt to etch their economic, legal, and political preferences into law through the filing of amicus curiae ("friend of the court") briefs. In Friends of the Supreme Court: Interest Groups and ...

Diccionario de economía

Este DICCIONARIO BÁSICO, con más de un millar de entradas directas, remisiones a términos o siglas relacionados y concisas y claras definiciones, pretende ayudarnos a comprender la información económica que nos transmiten los medios de comunicación y facilitar la comunicación económica en nuestros asuntos personales ...

The origin of financial crises

Central banks, credit bubbles and the efficient market fallacy

In a series of disarmingly simple arguments financial market analyst George Cooper challenges the core principles of today's economic orthodoxy and explains how we have created an economy that is inherently unstable and crisis prone. With great skill, he examines the very foundations of ...

La distinction des ordres et des systèmes juridiques dans les conflits de lois

Préface de Horatia Muir Watt. C'est à une question, en apparence fort simple, qu'entend répondre la présente étude : que recoupe le mot " lois " dans l'expression " conflit de lois " ? Cette expression demeure, de fait, grevée de profondes ambiguïtés. Un tel constat, qui n ...

La modernidad sin prejuicios

la religión en los asuntos públicos estadounidenses.Vol. 2: Normativa

El presente estudio es una suerte de breviario sobre cultura político- jurídica de los Estados Unidos de América. Su hilo argumental es la presencia del factor religioso en los asuntos públicos de la gran potencia de la Modernidad. Luego, tal aparente paradoja sirve de guía ...

Marco constitucional de la protección de menores

El trabajo se centra en un análisis sistemático de la jurisprudencia del Tribunal Constitucional relativa a lso procedimientos de oposición al desamparo, de acogimiento y de adopción. Se han examinado las sentencias y autos del Alto Tribunal que han resuelto diversos recursos de amparo interpuestos ...

Droit et épistémologie

l'Organon du droit

En prenant pour objet le droit, l'épistémologie ne fait pas irruption dans un monde qui lui est totalement étranger dans la mesure où, prétendant fixer le statut de la connaissance, elle n'a cessé de se poser des questions " de droit " au sens le ...

L'égalité en matière pénale

Préface de Patrick Maistre du Chambon. Cette étude s'attache à examiner le caractère égalitaire du droit pénal, de fond comme de forme. L'ouvrage s'ouvre sur une introduction dans laquelle il est démontré que l'égalité, en droit, ne se confond pas avec ...