El presente volumen reúne las Primeras constituciones latinoamericanas promulgadas a lo largo del siglo XIX, en su mayoría con el propósito de declarar la Independencia nacional o el inicio de una Guerra anticolonial.
From eminent critic Peter Brooks, an exploration of the modern preoccupation with identity"e;We know that it matters crucially to be able to say who we are, why we are here, and where we are going,"e; Peter Brooks writes in Enigmas of Identity.
LasSiete Partidas es un cuerpo normativo redactado en Castilla, durante el reinado de Alfonso X (1252-1284), también conocido como Alfonso el Sabio, con el objetivo de dar uniformidad jurídica al Reino.
In Philosophy of Law, Andrei Marmor provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary debates about the fundamental nature of law-an issue that has been at the heart of legal philosophy for centuries.
As a child, Inga Markovits dreamt of stealing and reading every letter contained in a mailbox at a busy intersection of her town in order to learn what life is all about.
Even lawyers who obey the law often seem to act unethically--interfering with the discovery of truth, subverting justice, and inflicting harm on innocent people.
How the Ottomans refashioned and legitimated their rule through mystical imageries of authorityThe medieval theory of the caliphate, epitomized by the Abbasids (750-1258), was the construct of jurists who conceived it as a contractual leadership of the Muslim community in succession to the Prophet Muhammed's political authority.
How the science of unselfish behavior can promote law, order, and prosperityContemporary law and public policy often treat human beings as selfish creatures who respond only to punishments and rewards.
This book is an attempt to approach the issue of defining international terrorism, proposing that the most workable way to do so is to achieve due balance between the two principal driving forces of international law developments: State sovereignty interests and cosmopolitan ideals.
This collection brings together historians, political theorists and literary scholars to provide historical perspectives on the modern debate over freedom of speech, particularly the question of whether limitations might be necessary given religious pluralism and concerns about hate speech.
This collection brings together historians, political theorists and literary scholars to provide historical perspectives on the modern debate over freedom of speech, particularly the question of whether limitations might be necessary given religious pluralism and concerns about hate speech.
This book, based on the theory of Marxism-Leninism, aims to study the essence, content and features of various legal systems in China in different historical periods, as well as the rules of the development of Chinese legal systems.
This book provides useful tools and information to help readers understand the key factors involved in organizing, structuring and managing a company in China.
This book makes a significant contribution to the comprehension of the law and practice of provisional measures issued by international courts and tribunals, including international commercial arbitration.
This book covers all major topics in international tax law, ranging from permanent establishments and capital gains to the taxation of royalties and technical services, transfer pricing, and General Anti-Avoidance Legislation.
Windows Forensic Analysis Toolkit: Advanced Analysis Techniques for Windows 7 provides an overview of live and postmortem response collection and analysis methodologies for Windows 7.
Now in its completely updated second edition, this accessible guide provides essential information about how the law can be used to promote good practice and policy development for disabled children and young people.
In Children Taken Seriously, leading researchers and policy makers consider how children can be recognized as social actors rather than passive consumers or victims.
Adopting a distinctive legal and political analysis, this book argues that the EU is receptive to the sports sectors claims for special treatment before the law.
Originally published in 1989, in this remarkable conjunction of constitutional theory, jurisprudence, literary theory, constitutional law, and political theory, William Conklin first tells us what a constitution is not: it is not a text, nor a compendium of judicial and legislative decisions interpreting a text, nor a set of doctrines, nor moral/political values, nor customs, nor a priori conceptions.
Though polygraph has been the mainstay for government and police departments since World War II, it has undergone substantial transformation in recent years.
This volume draws on the recently discovered and extraordinarily rich scrapbook compiled by prosecuting solicitor Francis Hobler about the 1840 murder of Lord William Russell to consider public engagement with the issues raised from discovery of the murder itself through the ensuing legal processes.
Half a century after the beginning of the second wave, feminist legal theorists are still writing about many of the subjects they addressed early on: money, sex, reproduction, and jobs.
This book explores the complex package of mechanisms used to identify, record, manage and remediate contaminated land, including the system for allocating liabilities that has been set up by China's contaminated land law and accompanying administrative decrees and environmental standards.
Biological Distance Analysis: Forensic and Bioarchaeological Perspectives synthesizes research within the realm of biological distance analysis, highlighting current work within the field and discussing future directions.
Human Remains - Another Dimension: The Application of 3D Imaging in the Funerary Contextbrings together scattered literature on the topic, assimilating disparate pieces that relate to the novel use of non-invasive three-dimensional imaging techniques in the forensic context.
Identifying Ignitable Liquids in Fire Debris: A Guideline for Forensic Experts discusses and illustrates the characteristics of different ignitable liquid products.
Alors que la dualité de la source législative n'est en principe pas envisageable dans un Etat unitaire comme la France, l'article 77 de la Constitution permet l'octroi d'un pouvoir législatif à l'assemblée délibérante de la Nouvelle-Calédonie.
Cette étude porte sur les aspects juridiques de la participation des Etats de l'Association des Nations du Sud Est Asiatique (ASEAN) à l'Organisation Mondiale du Commerce (OMC), mais aussi sur les enjeux découlant de la participation à l'OMC pour les Pays en Voie de Développement, l'intégration de ces pays au système commercial multilatéral, l'interaction entre le multilatéralisme et le régionalisme.
Cet ouvrage analyse les changements à l'origine des variations de la criminalité légale depuis près de deux siècles : économiques (répression accrue de la criminalité contre les biens pendant les périodes de récession), politiques (répression accrue de la criminalité contre la chose publique sous les gouvernements autoritaires) et sociaux (répression accrue des agressions contre les enfants en lien avec les lois sur la protection de l'enfance, contre les viols à l'époque des mouvements féministes).
Il est toujours difficile de convaincre sur la possibilité d'unifier, d'harmoniser ou de codifier les législations fiscales d'un groupement d'Etats souverains, même si ceux-ci appartiennent à une même union économique ou monétaire.
