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El presente libro describe y analiza doce sentencias que implican un gran avance en la protección de los derechos humanos en el Perú. Para ello, la investigación se desarrolló de manera interdisciplinaria, con especialistas de derecho y ciencias sociales que, junto a un equipo de investigadores, llevaron a cabo reuniones de debate e intercambio de ideas que enriquecieron el estudio de cada uno de los casos.
Los fallos cubren una amplia variedad...
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El ordenamiento jurídico de un Estado tiene componentes legislativos que empiezan con la Constitución y siguen con las leyes y demás normas jurídicas. Igualmente, existe un marco teórico de comprensión y aplicación de todas esas normas.
Este libro, escrito por Marcial Rubio Correa y Elmer Arce, recoge todos los conocimientos esenciales que un abogado debe tener para manejar con competencia profesional estos distintos elementos normativos y...
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David D. Friedman is Professor of Law at the University of Santa Clara School of Law. He holds a Ph. D. in physics from the University of Chicago and is the author of, among other books, Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life and The Machinery of Freedom.
What does economics have to do with law? Suppose legislators propose that armed robbers receive life imprisonment. Editorial pages applaud them for getting tough on crime. Constitutional...
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Wild law is a groundbreaking approach to law that stresses human dependence on nature. For the first time, this volume brings together voices from the leading proponents of wild law around the world. It introduces readers to the idea of wild law and considers its relationship to environmental law, the rights of nature, science, religion, property law and international governance.
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George P. Fletcher is Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia University. His books include Loyalty: An Essay on the Morality of Relationships, Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy, With Justice for Some: Victims' Rights in Criminal Trials, and A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial. He is a frequent commentator in the media on legal affairs.
America is at war with terrorism. Terrorists must...
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Get the Summary of Frederic Bastiat's The Law in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Law" by Frederic Bastiat is a treatise on the principles of justice, property, and individual rights as they relate to the law. Bastiat argues that the law has been corrupted from its original purpose of protecting these rights into a tool for legal plunder, where the law is manipulated to benefit a select few at the expense of...
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Alan Hyde is Professor and Sidney Reitman Scholar at the Rutgers University School of Law (Newark).
The most basic assertions about our bodies--that they are ours and distinguish us from each other, that they are private and have boundaries, races, and genders--are all political theories, constructed in legal texts for political purposes. So argues Alan Hyde in this first account of the body in legal thought. Hyde demonstrates that none of the constructions...
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TheRisale-i Nur Collection is full of "general principles," not only related to the Islamic Jurisprudence but also to all the fields of Islam or Islamic life and Islamic branches of knowledge. Based on or specially favored with profound wisdom having its source in the Divine Wisdom or the Divine Name of the All-Wise, the Risale-i Nur Collection contains numerous principles, precepts, or maxims which are standards or brilliant criteria enabling people...
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Steven H. Shiffrin is Professor of Law at Cornell University. He is the author of The First Amendment, Democracy, and Romance (paperback available from Princeton) and the coauthor of Constitutional Law: Cases-Comments-Questions and The First Amendment: Cases-Comments-Questions.
Americans should not just tolerate dissent. They should encourage it. In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Steven Shiffrin makes this case by arguing that dissent should...
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Martha Minow is Professor of Law at Harvard University. Her books include Partners, Not Rivals, Between Vengeance and Forgiveness, Not Only for Myself, and Making All the Difference. She recently served on the Independent International Commission on Kosovo. Nancy L. Rosenblum is Professor of Government at Harvard University. She is the author of Membership and Morals, editor of Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith, and coeditor of Civil...
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Este libro expone algunas representaciones tanto visuales como discursivas del grupo guerrillero FARC-EP y su relación de enemistad con el Estado colombiano, a lo largo de más de 50 años de confrontación. Para llevarlo a cabo, el texto plantea, en primer lugar, un marco teórico en el que se expone el concepto de representación en sus distintas acepciones. En segundo lugar, el análisis de imágenes y discursos en el contexto de cinco acontecimientos...
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Este libro se enfoca en un aspecto controversial y poco explorado de la teoría del razonamiento jurídico de MacCormick: el razonamiento jurídico consecuencialista.
Piero Ríos Carrillo es abogado por la Universidad Católica San Pablo (Arequipa, Perú), en donde obtuvo el reconocimiento a primer puesto de la promoción de egreso 2018-2. Ha sido orador del equipo que quedó en el segundo lugar de la 10ª edición del Moot Madrid (Madrid, España)...
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Aharon Barak was president of the Supreme Court of Israel until his retirement in 2006. He is the author of Judicial Discretion, The Judge in a Democracy, numerous articles in English-language law journals, and several books in Hebrew. He is the winner of the 2006 Gruber Justice Prize from the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation. He is the author of Judicial Discretion (Yale), numerous articles in English-language law journals, and several books...
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Our courts, the third branch of the government, are central in the administration of our democracy. But, their operations are shrouded in a mythology with its ritual incantations of "rule of law," "equal justice" and "presumption of innocence"-one that this book pierces.
We have 30,000 judges. Many are hard-working and distinguished jurists; most are simply lawyers who knew a politician. It does not help that the job pays poorly. We have no judicial...
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Marianne Constable is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her previous book, The Law of the Other: The Mixed Jury and Changing Conceptions of Citizenship, Law, and Knowledge, won the J. Willard Hurst Prize in Legal History.
Is the Miranda warning, which lets an accused know of the right to remain silent, more about procedural fairness or about the conventions of speech acts and silences? Do U.S. laws about Native Americans...
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Carol Weisbrod is Ellen Ash Peters Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of The Boundaries of Utopia and Butterfly, the Bride and coauthor of a casebook on Family Law.
From outlawing polygamy and mandating public education to protecting the rights of minorities, the framing of group life by the state has been a subject of considerable interest and controversy throughout the history of the United States. The subject...
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En la actualidad, el derecho minero en Colombia presenta una serie de desafíos debido principalmente a cuatro razones: en primer lugar, al crecimiento exponencial de solicitudes y de concesiones mineras en los últimos años que han desbordado la capacidad de las instituciones públicas, en segundo lugar, a la derogatoria y suspensión de normas que han generado inseguridad jurídica y desconfianza en los inversionistas extranjeros, en tercer lugar,...
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La primera parte del tratado de derechos reales estuvo referida a la teoría general, luego tratamos la posesión y la propiedad, para posteriormente analizar las desmembraciones del derecho de propiedad, los denominados derechos reales sobre la cosa ajena o derechos reales de goce. En esta oportunidad, presentamos los derechos reales de garantía, dando especial énfasis a la teoría general, como sustento de fondo, y a la hipoteca, como la garantía...
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El orden público designa el conjunto de principios (escritos o no) que se consideran en un orden jurídico como fundamentales y cuyo respeto es a ese título imperativo. Él aparece entonces como una garantía (u obstáculo, depende) a la solución de litigios comerciales internacionales por medio del arbitraje. Sin embargo, puede comprobarse un retroceso del orden público en el derecho francés del arbitraje internacional. Mientras que el campo...
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