Los diez ensayos jurídicos que se recogen en este libro tratan sobre temas muy variados: el futuro del Derecho y de la filosofía del Derecho, el razonamiento jurídico, los límites del Derecho, el activismo judicial, los derechos humanos, el Derecho y la literatura…Todos ellos obedecen, sin embargo, a un mismo propósito de fondo que se concreta en la idea de que, en contra de lo que suele pensarse (de lo que suelen pensar los no juristas apoyándose —hay que reconocerlo— en formas de actuar bastante frecuentes entre los propios juristas), el Derecho es una empresa esencialmente problemática, abierta, que exige dosis considerables de imaginación, notables recursos teóricos, formación y entereza moral, y que resulta esencial para comprender el mundo social y contribuir a su transformación.
Explores unspoken beliefs that engender workplace behaviour and legislative/judicial failures that contribute to the “glass ceiling” and workplace inequality.
The rise and spread of the Internet has accelerated the global flows of money,technology and information that are increasingly perceived as a challenge to thetraditional regulatory powers of nation states and the effectiveness of their constitutions.
As an important contribution to debates on property theory and the role of law in creating, disputing, defining and refining property rights, this volume provides new theoretical material on property systems, as well as new empirically grounded case studies of the dynamics of property transformations.
The book explores, from a comparative and inter-disciplinary perspective, the relationship between fundamental rights and private law in Europe, a debate usually referred to as Drittwirkung or 'horizontal effect of fundamental rights'.
The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty-here for the first time in EnglishIn 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria created a sensation when he published On Crimes and Punishments.
Shakespeare's Law is a critical overview of law and legal issues within the life, career, and works of William Shakespeare as well as those that arise from the endless array of activities that happen today in the name of Shakespeare.
Cypherpunk Ethics explores the moral worldview of the cypherpunks, a movement that advocates the use of strong digital cryptography-or crypto, for short-to defend individual privacy and promote institutional transparency in the digital age.
This key work analyses the disputes between Greece and Turkey as to their respective rights in the Aegean Sea, paying particular attention to the claims regarding territorial waters, the continental shelf, and the yet to be declared exclusive maritime zones in the area.
This is the first and leading comprehensive guide to security for costs in international arbitration, including commercial and investment arbitration, providing a text which will be the key resource for those considering, making and ruling on applications for security for costs.
In the conservative and competitive society of ancient Rome, where the law of the father (patria potestas) was supposedly absolute, motherhood took on complex aesthetic, moral, and political meanings in elite literary discourse.
La Revolución francesa inauguró un Estado moderno como Estado de Derecho, en el que no solamente los gobernados sino también los gobernantes estarían sometidos al ordenamiento jurídico de cada nación.
This book analyses and investigates the neutral legal formulae of the English common law and the Italian and French civil law traditions, together with those used in international settings such as the European Union.
This collection of essays makes an important contribution to debate about the structure underlying private law and the relationships between its different branches.
"e;The articles in this volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society cover an exciting and diverse range of topics relating to law's relationship with and impact on society.
This collection of essays interrogates how human rights law and practice acquire meaning in relation to legal pluralism, ie, the co-existence of more than one regulatory order in a same social field.
This book focuses on the stratification of the Japanese legal profession and its impact on legal practice, drawing upon findings from two national surveys, one on Japanese lawyers (2018-19) and the other on Japanese people (2021), as well as qualitative data from interviews.
Covering both the principles and practice of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), this important new textbook equips students not only with a contextual understanding of the role of ADR in adjudicating civil disputes but also with the different forms of mediation and ADR available and the key issues in their application.
The Crown and Constitutional Reform is an innovative, interdisciplinary exchange between experts in law, anthropology and politics about the Crown, constitutional monarchy and the potential for constitutional reform in Commonwealth common law countries.
Public Law is an ideal choice for all students looking for a comprehensive yet accessible textbook on this area of law, as its clear writing style, accessible tone, and focus on modern case law help bring the subject to life.
Drawing on novel archival evidence that sheds light on Anglo-Italian diplomatic relations and the French-Italian contest for power in the Adriatic, this book recounts the story of decadent poet Gabriele D'Annunzio's occupation of Fiume.
This book bridges the gap between basic science, which deals with general concepts of aggression and its neurobiological foundations, and law enforcement as one of the applied fields of aggression research.
This book takes stock of the development of EU criminal law from the establishment of the ECSC to the first European Union criminal law directives passed after the Lisbon Treaty.
