The Strategy of Politics

Results of a Comparative Study

Politicians often talk about "strategy". What do they mean by this term? Where does the development of political strategies take place? Who is involved in strategic processes? Which methods are used? The attempt to answer these questions, leads to an interesting look behind the scenes ...

Democracy, intermediation, and voting on four continents

This book presents the results of systematic comparative analyses of electoral behavior and support for democracy in 13 countries on four continents. It is based on national election surveys held in "old" and "new" democracies in Europe (Germany, Britain, Spain, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria), North ...

The principle of indemnity in marine insurance contracts

a comparative approach

With the global expansion of the maritime sector, marine insurance is on the forefront nowadays, more than ever before. Notwithstanding this growth, a vast number of legal disputes continues to emerge, with indemnity being, inter alia, amidst their focal points. Accordingly, the author discusses legal ...

Bewigged and bewildered?

a guide to becoming a barrister in England and Wales

Misunderstandings and jargon prevent many from seriously considering a career as a barrister in the belief that such a career is not for them or that they are not for it. Others know that they might want to become barristers but not how to go ...

Diritto privato e codificazioni europee

INDICE SOMMARIO: Tradizione civilistica e codificazioni europee - "Diversità, armonizzazione, unificazione e codificazione": le tappe di un difficile percorso - Arte e tecnica della legislazione civile (nel pensiero di Stefano Rodotà e di Justus Wilhelm Hedemann) - Riflessioni su un progetto di Codice europeo dei contratti - Significato del ...

Il matrimonio nel Diritto inglese

E' una trattazione sufficientemente ampia dell'istituto del matrimonio nel diritto anglosassone. Ne spiega tutti i fondamenti giuridici e la regolamentazione pratica. Indice: Introduzione. # Il matrimonio tra status e volontà. Fondamenti ed evoluzione storica. # II: Il matrimonio come atto. # III: L#invalidità matrimoniale. # IV: Gli ...

Civil procedure used for enforcement of EC competition Law by the english, french and german Civil Courts

European competition law has been increasingly subject to two complementary forces: decentralisation and harmonisation. In the course of this process, certain procedural elements have come to the fore as constituting impediments to the enforcement of Articles 81 and 82 EC in terms of actions for ...

United States and international sales, lease, and licensing Law

cases and problems

This brand new casebook combines both cases and problems, allowing the professor to use case analysis pedagogy, a problems approach, or a combination of the two. The cases are thoughtfully selected and edited with a skilled hand. Professor Hull includes ample explanatory material in the ...

The history of cruel and unusual

This title offers a searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo in the steady dismantling of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment. The revelations of prisoner abuse ...

Tradition and change in administrative Law

an Anglo-German comparison

Administrative legal systems are based on national constitutional legal traditions and cultural values. English judges have for centuries applied the common law. In Germany, judges have developed Administrative legal principles for the protection of the individual against state action. However, over the last few decades ...

Non-discrimination Law

cases, materials and text on national, supranational and international

This casebook, the result of the collaborative efforts of a panel of experts from various EU Member States, is the latest in the "Ius Commune Casebook" series developed at the Universities of Maastricht and Leuven. The book provides a comprehensive and skilfully designed resource for ...

Fundamental rights. Contract Law and the protection of the weaker party

a comparative analysis of the constitutionalisation of contract Law, with emphasis on risky financial transactions

Originally, contract law was considered to be immune from the effect of fundamental rights, the function of which was limited to being individual defences against the vigilant eye of the state. This traditional view, however, has recently been put under pressure as a result of ...

El deber de declaración del riesgo en el contrato de seguro

exposición crítica del modelo brasileño y estudio del derecho comparado

La buena fe y los contratos de seguro. El riesgos como aspecto esencial del contrato de seguro. El deber de declaración del riesgo. Infracción del deber de declaración.

Fundamentos de Derecho comunitario y comparado europeo y norteamericano, del trabajo y de la Seguridad Social = Foundations on community and comparative, european and North American, labor and social security Law

Este manual universitario expone con toda claridad, pero también con todo rigor académico, el conjunto de «Fuentes», «Instituciones» y «Derechos, Libertades y Principios», integrados en un curso académico ?a explicar a lo largo de un cuatrimestre? sobre dos grandes áreas temáticas. De un lado, el ...

Notaries in Europa-growing fields of competence

Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia

Les retraites professionnelles d'entreprise en Europe = Betriebliche altersversorgung in Europa = Occupational pension schemes in Europe

droits européen et compré = eruopäisches recht und rechtsverleichung = european Law and comparative Law

L'ouvrage a pour objet l'analyse et la comparaison de systèmes de retraites professionnelles d'entreprise dans les États de l'Union européenne. L'étude, résultat d'une collaboration entre praticiens et universitaires, tient aussi bien compte du droit national que du droit communautaire.

La determination du prix dans le contrat

Etude comparée entre le Droit français et le Droit helléniqu

La question de la détermination du prix dans le contrat a nourri la jurisprudence française pendant trois décennies avant que les fameux arrêts « Alcatel » de l#Assemblée plenière de la Cour de cassation apportent des débouchés susceptibles de résoudre ce « noeud gordien » juridique moderne. Des ...

Publicidad y Derecho penal

(estudio comparado del modelo americano y europeo

La creciente preocupación por los efectos adversos de la publicidad falsa no deja de ser un fenómeno ligado al espectacular desarrollo de los mercados y de los medios de comunicación de masas. Al contrario de lo que se suele pensar, la irrupción del Derecho penal ...

Igualdad y acciones afirmativas

La cultura de los derechos humanos aún carga el legado de la igualdad formal dejado por el liberalismo, legado que establece que los derechos deben ser ciegos a las diferencias de raza, color, género, orientación sexual, origen, etnia, etc. ¿Hasta qué punto ese legado debe ...

American juries

the verdict

This volume reviews over fifty years of empirical research on civil and criminal juries and returns a verdict that strongly supports the jury system. Rather than relying on anecdotes, authors Vidmar and Hans place the jury system in its historical and contemporary context, giving the ...