Libros de

Droit civil

les contrats spéciaux civils et commerciaux

Prolongement naturel de la théorie générale des obligations, l'étude des contrats spéciaux civils et commerciaux en fournit la mise en #uvre dans les divers secteurs économiques. A mi-chemin entre le traité et le manuel, cet ouvrage a pour ambition de combiner une présentation très ...

Les sûretés

la publicité foncière

Les sûretés sont indispensables au crédit, lequel innerve la vie économique. Elles prennent appui sur le droit des obligations et le droit des biens et sont à la recherche d'un équilibre entre le droit du créancier, les intérêts du débiteur et les contraintes de ...

Atlas Maior of 1665 Anglia, Scotia and Hibernia

England, Scotland and Ireland=Angleterre, L'Écosse et L'Irlande=England, Schottland und Irland

The Atlas Maior, the cartographical masterpiece of the Baroque period, was brought out between 1662 and 1665 by the Amsterdam publisher Joan Blaeu, one of Holland#s leading cartographers. Originally appearing in Latin, the atlas comprised 594 maps in 11 volumes, which depicted the whole ...

Topica

"Cicero's Topica" is one of the canonical texts on ancient rhetorical theory. This is the first full-scale commentary on this work, and the first critical edition that is informed by a full analysis of its transmission. Cicero recommends an Aristotelian theory of argumentation to ...

Bioethics and women

across the life span

All persons, while different from one another, have the same value: this is the author's relatively uncontroversial starting point. Her end point is no uncontroversial: an ideal of justice as human flourishing, based on each person's unique set of capabilities. Because the book ...

El camino del Tao

Inspirándose en los antiguos textos de Lao-tzu, Chuang-tzu, el libro de Kuan-tzu y el I Ching, así como en los estudios de Joseph Needham, Lin Yutang y Arthur Waley -entre otros-, Alan Watts ha escrito, con su inimitable estilo, un libro destinado a convertirse en ...

Language and the Law

"Language and the Law" looks at some common areas of interaction between linguistics and the legal process. Each chapter pairs a problem in language with a corresponding issue in law. Sanford Schane thoroughly examines each topic both from a legal point of view and a ...

El Nuevo Bronce de Osuna y la política colonizadora romana

En este volumen se edita y estudia exhaustivamente una tabla de bronce inédita de la Ley de la colonia Genetiva Julia, la única ley conservada del momento liminar de la extensión por parte de Roma del régimen municipal a las provincias. Por su significación patrimonial ...

Norms and the Law

This book contains perspectives of world-renowned scholars from the fields of law, economics, and political science about the relationship between law and norms. The authors take different approaches by using a wide variety of perspectives from law, legal history, neoclassical economics, new institutional economics, game ...

The least examined branch

the role of legislatures in the constitutional State

Unlike most works in constitutional theory, which focus on the role of the courts, this book addresses the role of legislatures in a regime of constitutional democracy. Bringing together some of the world's leading constitutional scholars and political scientists, the book addresses legislatures in ...

Toxic torts

science, Law and the possibility 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 ...

Interpreting WTO agreements

problems and perspectives

The case law of the World Trade Organization is now extensive, running into over one hundred cases and thousands of pages. The interpretative process involved in this jurisprudence constitutes a form of legislative activity, and is therefore of great significance not only to the parties ...

Internet banking and the Law in Europe

regulation, financial integration and electronic commerce

The European Union has long sought to create a single financial area across Europe where consumers in one country benefit from financial markets and activities in other countries. With the emergence of the Internet as a platform for the provision of online banking services, the ...

Economic foundations of Law and organization

This book serves as a compact introduction to the economic analysis of law and organization. At the same time it covers a broad spectrum of issues. It is aimed at undergraduate economics students who are interested in law and organization, law students who want to ...

The reluctant ecomomist

perspectives on economics, economic history, and demography

At the start, I was not a reluctant economist. In the beginning, economics opened up a new and exciting world. The Keynesian Revolution was in full swing, and, like other graduate students, I was caught up in it. The message of the revolution was new ...

Natural Law liberalism

Political philosophy and natural law theory are not contradictory, but - properly understood - mutually reinforcing. Contemporary liberalism (as represented by Rawls, Guttman and Thompson, Dworkin, Raz, and Macedo) rejects natural law and seeks to diminish its historical contribution to the liberal political tradition, but it is ...

Architects of political change

constitutional quandaries and aocial choice theory

This work offers a set of extended interpretations of Madison's argument in Federalist X of 1787, using ideas from social choice theory and from the work of Douglass North, Mancur Olson, and William Riker. Its focus is not on rational choice theory itself, but ...

Ancient astrology

Most people today know their 'star-sign', but few know much of the system of thought which relates human destiny to the stars. Fewer still have any idea of its origins. This book reveals the importance of astrology in ancient thought, morals, politics and daily life ...

La vida de Buda

(El Kitab Bilawhar va Budasf según la versión persa)

Una de las obras más traducidas y difundidas en Occidente desde la antigüedad preislámica, es el Kitab Bilawhar va Budasf, también conocido como Barlaam y Josafat en sus versiones cristianizadas, donde se recrea la vida de Buda. Existen versiones en casi todas las lenguas europeas ...

Les actes de gouvernement

Tout régime qui a l'ambition de réaliser l'Etat de droit doit biffer de ses institutions ce symbole défectueux qu'est l'acte de gouvernement. A la solution simpliste et rudimentaire qu'il consacre en faveur de la liberté de l'Exécutif, nous demandons ...