Derecho penal y procesal penal de los Estados Unidos

INDICE: El Derecho Penal Sustantivo. Ley penal. Teoría del delito. Tipicidad, culpabilidad y antijuridicidad. La confabulación o conspiracy. Tentativa y participación. Concurso de delitos. Penas. Delitos principales. El Derecho Procesal Penal. Los órganos. Situación del imputado. Iniciación del proceso. Instancias previas al juicio. Juicio público ...

The ideal of public service

reflections on the higher civil service in Britain

This work offers a close examination of the ethics of higher civil servants in Britain and how they have been undermined by recent developments in public administration. Barry O'Toole tackles key questions such as: how should public servants behave? How should they be encouraged ...

Responsabilidad patrimonial del Estado

análisis doctrinal y jurisprudencial comparado. Propuesta legislativa en México

Manual de Derecho procesal penal nicaragüense

Perspectiva del Derecho cubano actual

El presente libro, abigarrado sin duda, diverso y sin pretensiones de unidad orgánica, es una valiosa compilación de las principales tesis de doctorado defendidas por los actuales profesores de la Facultad de Derecho. Por supuesto que como material de consulta es de inestimable valor, mucho ...

Convenios de estradición

Código Civil Argentino y legislación complementaria

Código Civil chileno

El presente libro contiene una edición del Código Civil de Chile, promulgado en 1855 y aún vigente, en versión actualizada, con un apéndice de leyes complementarias

La familia en perspectiva internacional y europea

La pervivencia de la familia como célula básica de la sociedad exige una especial atención por parte, tanto de los poderes públicos estatales, como de las instancias internacionales. Centrándose en este último aspecto, esta obra profundiza en la labor de promoción y protección de la ...

The regulation of international financial markets

perspectives for reform

International financial relations have become increasingly important for the development of global and national economies. At present these relations are primarily governed by market forces, with little regulatory interference at the international level. In the light of numerous financial crises, this abstinence must be seriously ...

The executiveand public Law

power and accountability in comparative perspective

For most of the past two hundred years or more - the grand era of national constitution-making - founding fathers and constitutional scholars alike seem to have focused more sharply on questions of legislative power than they have on executive power. Executive power, by contrast, they worried ...

The WTO, the Internet and trade in digital products

EC-US perspectives

The rapid development of the Internet has led to a growing potential for electronic trade in digital content like movies and video games. As a result, there is a need for a global trade framework applicable to such digitally-delivered content products. Yet, digital trade is ...

The new german Law of obligations

historical and comparative perspectives

On 1 January 2000 the German Civil Code (BGB) became one hundred years old. It had been remarkably resilient throughout a century marked by catastrophic upheavals and a succession of fundamentally different political regimes. Two years later, however, the most sweeping individual reform ever to ...

Interpreting Constitutions

a comparative study

This book describes the constitutions of six major federations and how they have been interpreted by their highest courts, compares the interpretive methods and underlying principles that have guided the courts, and explores the reasons for major differences between these methods and principles. Among the ...

Corporate governance in context

corporations, states and markets in Europe, Japan and US

Increased regulatory competition has sharpened the comparative awareness of advantages or disadvantages of different national models of political economy, economic organization, governance and regulation. Although institutional change is slow and subject to functional complementarities as well as social and cultural entrenchment, at least some features ...

Party funding and campaign financing in international perspective

This volume deals with questions of political party funding and campaign financing, issues which arouse controversy in many parts of the world. How are the central actors in the political arena supposed to gather the funds necessary to operate effectively on behalf of their chosen ...

La armonización del Derecho de obligaciones en Europa

Es notoria La importancia que cada vez más adquiere el proceso de construcción de un Derecho privado común a todos Los países de la Unión Europea y, para demostrarlo, baste de momento señalar que existen ya tres resoluciones del Parlamento europeo {1989, 1994, 2001) que ...

EC public procurement

case Law and regulation

Public procurement represents a specialist yet important area of practice in the European and international business and commercial legal environment. This book offers an inclusive, coherent and practical analysis of the relevant law and jurisprudence, with the principal focus on the case law of the ...

The creation of States in international Law

As much as was ever the case in 1979 when the first edition of "The Creation of States in International Law" published, in the 21st century problems of territorial status and statehood are likely to continue to be a focal point of international disputes. As ...

Legal risk in the financial markets

This timely new book explains what legal risk means in the context of the financial markets and why concerns about legal risk have grown in recent years. It also considers how legal risk is intended to be addressed as part of operational risk under the ...