La naturaleza de la hipoteca multidivisa

Las hipotecas multidivisa comenzaron a comercializarse en España sobre todo durante los años 2007 y 2008 con la promesa de un interés mucho más bajo; el contexto económico existente durante dicho periodo, hizo que fueran especialmente atractivas por los elevadísimos niveles del Euribor y por ...

Reglamento General de protección de Datos

La editorial Colex publica esta obra que contiene el Reglamento general de protección de datos (Reglamento (UE) 2016/679 del Parlamento Europeo y del Consejo, de 27 de abril de 2016, relativo a la protección de las personas físicas en lo que respecta al tratamiento ...

Lawyers and mediators

the brave new world of services for separating families

Do lawyers make matters worse, or do they provide information, advice and support which can help to prevent disputes arising or manage them when they do? Do mediators enable parties to communicate and reach agreements tailor-made to their needs? Or working outside the legal framework ...

Divergences in private Law

This book is a study of doctrinal and methodological divergence in the common law of obligations. It explores particular departures from the common law mainstream and the causes and effects of those departures. Some divergences can be justified on the basis of a need to ...

Property and Human Rights in a global context

Property as a human rights concern is manifested through its incorporation in international instruments and as a subject of the law through property-related cases considered by international human rights organs. Yet, for the most part, the relationship between property and human rights has been discussed ...

The Common Law of Obligations

divergence and unity

The development of the law of obligations across the common law world has been, and continues to be, a story of unity and divergence. Its common origins continue to exert a powerful stabilising influence, carried forward by a methodology that places heavy weight on the ...

Defences in unjust enrichment

This book is the second in a series of essay collections on defences in private law. It addresses defences to liability arising in unjust enrichment. The essays are written from a range of perspectives and methodologies. Some are doctrinal, others are theoretical, and several offer ...

El Artículo 12 de la Convención de Derechos de Personas con Discapacidad

El autor trata la Convención sobre los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad de las Naciones Unidas y su impacto en el modelo de comprensión de la discapacidad y en particular se centra en su artículo 12, si bien trata otros artículos por la necesaria ...

Art and modern copyright

the contested image

This book is the first in-depth and longitudinal study of the history of copyright protecting the visual arts. Exploring legal developments during an important period in the making of the modern law, the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, in relation to four themes - the protection ...

Uniform rules for european contract Law?

a critical assessment

Over the last 30 years, the evolution of acquis communautaire in consumer law and harmonising soft law proposals have utterly transformed the landscape of European contract law. The initial enthusiasm and approval for the EU programme has waned and, post Brexit, it currently faces increasing ...

Obligation and commitment in Family Law

A tension lies at the heart of family law. Expressed in the language of rights and duties, it seeks to impose enforceable obligations on individuals linked to each other by ties that are usually regarded as based on love or blood. Taking a contextual approach ...

The seller's right to cure under article 48 CISG

Allegedly, contracts are enforceable mutually beneficial agreements. In the event of a breach of contract, most national and international legal systems-including European harmonization projects on private law-resort to cure regimes for the furtherance of contractually generated welfare. A Nachfrist-mechanism, a hierarchy of remedies, and debtor ...

Commentaries on european Contract Laws

The book provides rule-by-rule commentaries on European contract law (general contract law, consumer contract law, the law of sale and related services), dealing with its modern manifestations as well as its historical and comparative foundations. After the collapse of the European Commission's plans to ...

Does the Law of Succession reflect cultural differences?

This is the published version of the first Maastricht Private Law Lecture which was delivered by Reinhard Zimmermann January 27th, 2017. According to a widely held view, the law of succession is shaped by the cultural values of the society within which it prevails. Related ...

La función social del Derecho privado y otros estudios

La enseñanza trascendental de Gierke es haber explicado la posteridad, de forma explícita, las contradicciones entre el Juristenrecht y el de Volkrecht y la nota característica de la tradición germánica de cara a la edificación de su concepto de un Estado soberano, esto es, la ...

No se alquila un vientre, se adquiere un hijo

(la llamada gestación por sustitución)

En España, Francia e Italia, entre otros países, no se admite la gestación por sustitución. Sin embargo, dado el poder adquisitivo de nacionales de dichos países, han nacido en el extranjero hijos asumidos luego mediante dicho recurso. Esto ha generado el problema de la admisión ...

Embedding the principles of life time contracts

a research agenda for contract Law

Following the success of EuSoCo’s book, Life Time Contracts: Social Long-term Contracts in Labour, Tenancy and Consumer Credit Law (Eleven International Publishing, 2014), in which EuSoCo laid out sixteen Principles of Life Time Contracts to apply whenever individuals seek to form or continue such ...

Valorisation of household labour in family property Law

a comparative perspective

This book provides a comparative overview of the valorisation and compensation of household labour in property relations between spouses and cohabitants. Academic experts from Belgium (Prof. Charlotte Declerck and Prof. Ingrid Boone), Germany (Prof. Katharina Lugani), England & Wales (Prof. Anne Barlow), France (Prof. Vronique Bouchard-Barab ...

Reclaiming fair use

how to put balance back in Copyright

In the increasingly complex and combative arena of copyright in the digital age, record companies sue college students over peer-to-peer music sharing, YouTube removes home movies because of a song playing in the background, and filmmakers are denied a distribution deal when a permissions i ...

Instituciones de Derecho privado

Tomo IV - Volumen 3º: Familia

El presente Volumen, enmarcado dentro del TOMO IV, FAMILIA, quiere ser fiel demostración del propósito que anima a todos los que intervienen en las INSTITUCIONES DE DERECHO PRIVADO, 2ª edición. El Volumen 3º del tomo de Derecho de Familia cuenta con destacados autores: Gabriel García ...