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 politics of adoption

international perspectives on Law, policy and practice

INDEX: Introduction.Part I: Adoption and Society. 1. Adoption: Concept, Principles and Social Construct. 2. The Changing Face of Adoption in the UK * Part II: Adoption and the Law. 3. The Legal Functions of Adoption. 4. International Benchmarks for Modern Adoption Law * Part III: Contemporary ...

Protección de datos de carácter personal en Iberoamérica

(II Encuentro Iberoamericano de Protección de Datos, La Antigua - Guatemala, 2-6 de junio de 2003)

ÍNDICE: PRESENTACIÓN DECLARACIÓN DE LA ANTIGUA DECLARACIÓN DE SANTA CRUZ DE LA SIERRA ESTUDIOS GENERALES: - El derecho fundamental a la protección de datos personales (LOPD) (José Luis Piñar Mañas) - Breve descripción de la evolución histórica y del marco normativo internacional del derecho fundamental a la ...

The public Law/Law private divide

une entente assez cordiale?: la distinction du Droit public et du Droit privé: regards français et britanniques

The contributions brought together in this book derive from joint seminars, held by scholars between colleagues from the University of Oxford and the University of Paris II. Their starting point is the original divergence between the two jurisdictions, with the initial rejection of the public-private ...

Filibuster

obstruction and lawmaking in the U.S. Senate

Parliamentary obstruction, popularly known as the "filibuster," has been a defining feature of the U.S. Senate throughout its history. In this book, Gregory J. Wawro and Eric Schickler explain how the Senate managed to satisfy its lawmaking role during the nineteenth and early twentieth ...

Policing gangs in America

Policing Gangs in America describes the assumptions, issues, problems, and events that characterize, shape, and define the police response to gangs in America today. The focus of the book is on the gang unit officers themselves and the environment in which they work. A discussion ...

Crime reduction partnerships

"The Blackstone's Practical Policing" series covers a range of topical subjects of vital importance in today's policing arena. Each practical guide contains clear and detailed explanations of the relevant legislation, accompanied by practical scenarios, illustrative diagrams and useful checklists. Packed with a wealth ...

The new public contracting

regulation, responsiveness, relationality

This book charts the significant increase in Britain over the last 25 years in the deployment of contract as a regulatory mechanism across a broad spectrum of social relationships. Since Labour came to power in 1997, the trend has accelerated, the use of contract spreading ...

Law of marine insurance

The law of marine insurance constitutes a major branch of the law of international trade and shipping law which is of considerable international importance. This new edition gives a clear, updated account of English marine insurance law, combining detailed analysis of modern statute and case ...

El derecho del adoptado a conocer sus orígenes en España y en el Derecho comparado

El incremento, en los últimos años, de la demanda de búsqueda de sus orígenes por los hijos que en su día fueron dados en adopción es un hecho que no puede ignorarse. Actualmente, hay un amplio reconocimiento de que la demanda responde a un interés ...

Public accountability

designs, dilemmas and experiences

There is an ongoing perception that public accountability in modern-day governance is in 'crisis', caused by globalization and the increasing power of private economic interests. This book responds to that idea, providing the most comprehensive survey to date of how different organizations hold persons acting ...

Descentralization and local governance in developing countries

a comparative perspectives

This book provides comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives on the current trend in the developing world of devolving political and economic power to local governments. Over the past three decades the developing world has seen increasing devolution of political and economic power to local governments. Decentralisation ...

Collective management of copyright and related rights

Authors, individual and corporate, are routinely compensated for the use by others of copyrighted material. Yet relatively little attention is paid to the vast and complex system of collective management that underlies these payments - capital flows that amount to ten billion euros each year. This ...

An index to common Law festschriften

from the beginning of the genre up to 2005

The German word Festschrift is now the universally accepted term in the academy for a published collection of legal essays written by several authors to honour a distinguished jurist or to mark a significant legal event. The number of Festschriften honouring common lawyers has increased ...

Canada

Dopo essere rimasto per secoli una folcloristica e gelida colonia britannica, popolata da nostalgici sudditi di Sua Maestà, da ostinati coloni francesi sconfitti e da remote tribù indiane, il Canada nella seconda metà del XX secolo si è trasformato, in pochi decenni, in uno stato ...

The politics of european codification

a history of the unification of Law in France, Prussia, the Habsburg Empire and the Netherlands

European codification of private law is talk of the day. The European Parliament favours it, the European Commission supports it and many legal scholars are already working on it. Why? This book addresses the forthcoming European codification from the perspective of previous codifications and their ...

Judiciaries within Europe

a comparative review

An in-depth study of the careers and roles of judges in France, Germany, Spain, Sweden and England, this book is based on original language materials and investigations of judges and judicial institutions in each country. On the basis of these detailed case studies, the book ...

Democracia y Derechos Humanos en Europa y en América

estudio comparado de los sistemas europeo e interamericano de protección de los Derechos Humanos

Trabajo de investigación jurídica que va más allá de la presentación ordenada de datos y de la interpretación de las correspondientes reglas, pues aporta una reflexión profunda sobre las relaciones entre democracia y Derechos Humanos en dos sistemas internacionales de protección de estos derechos tan ...

Crítica jurídica

teoría y sociología jurídica en los Estados Unidos

El presente libro explora la teoría del derecho y la sociología jurídica surgidas en los Estados Unidos con ocasión de las luchas jurídicas de estos movimientos sociales, así como varias de las críticas que se han formulado a las formas de búsqueda de la emancipación ...

Derecho económico e internacionalización empresarial

El libro que presentamos es producto de la inquietud de un grupo de profesores de la Universidad de Salamanca, testigos de las profundas modificaciones que la globalización económica viene generando.