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Grands systèmes de droit contemporains (2e édition)


di: Gilles Cuniberti

                         

                               

 Ce manuel étudie les principaux systèmes juridiques du monde dont le fonctionnement est radicalement différent du système juridique français, et plus généralement des systèmes juridiques appartenant à la tradition juridique continentale. L'objet n'est donc pas la comparaison des institutions particulières de plusieurs pays, mais la comparaison envisagée au niveau macro-juridique, entre les systèmes de droit. En particulier, il s'agit de comparer le mode de production des normes, le fondement des systèmes considérés et l'importance et l'influence des différents acteurs dans chacun de ces ordres juridiques. A la différence d'autres ouvrages, il traite de manière aussi approfondie des grands systèmes juridiques occidentaux et des grands systèmes juridiques orientaux. L'ouvrage est destiné aux étudiants en droit comparé de master, mais aussi à tous les juristes intéressés par les diverses formes que peut prendre le phénomène juridique.                       

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Civil Litigation in a Globalising World

A cura di: X.E. Kramer - C.H. Rhee

              



Globalization of legal traffic and the inherent necessity of having to litigate in foreign courts or to enforce judgments in other countries considerably complicate civil proceedings due to great differences in civil procedure. This may consequently jeopardize access to justice. This triggers the debate on the need for harmonization of civil procedure. In recent years, this debate has gained in importance because of new legislative and practical developments both at the European and the global level. This book discusses the globalization and harmonization of civil procedure from the angles of legal history, law and economics and (European) policy. Attention is paid to the interaction with private law and private international law, and European and global projects that aim at the harmonization of civil procedure or providing guidelines for fair and efficient adjudication. It further includes contributions that focus on globalization and harmonization of civil procedure from the viewpoint of eight different jurisdictions. This book is an unique combination of theory and practice and valuable for academic researchers in the area of civil procedure, private international law, international law as well as policy makers (national and EU), lawyers, judges and bailiffs.

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Routledge Handbook of Sports Development

A cura di: Barrie Houlihan - Mick Green

                       

Sports development has become a prominent concern within both the academic study of sport and within the organisation and administration of sport. Now available in paperback, the Routledge Handbook of Sports Development is the first book to comprehensively map the wide-ranging territory of sports development as an activity and as a policy field, and to offer a definitive survey of current academic knowledge and professional practice. Spanning the whole spectrum of activity in sports development, from youth sport and mass participation to the development of elite athletes, the book identifies and defines the core functions of sports development, exploring the interface between sports development and cognate fields such as education, coaching, community welfare and policy. The book presents important new studies of sports development around the world, illustrating the breadth of practice within and between countries, and examines the most important issues facing practitioners within sports development today, from child protection to partnership working. With unparalleled depth and breadth of coverage, the Routledge Handbook of Sports Development is the definitive guide to policy, practice and research in sports development. It is essential reading for all students, researchers and professionals with an interest in this important and rapidly evolving discipline.

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Reflections on Process Sociology and Sport
'Walking the Line'

di: Joseph Maguire

                       

The book focuses on the distinctive contribution that Joseph Maguire has made to process sociology and the study of sport. Maguire's work over the past three decades highlights how process sociology has a unique perspective on the relationship between sport, culture and society, and to the body, globalisation and civilisational analysis. Reflecting on this body of work and the use of process sociology, Maguire captures the research dynamic of 'walking the line' between involvement and detachment, theory and observation, and engagement and critique. The book is structured around four broad sections: Theory, Sport and Society; The Meaning of Sport, Body and Society; Case Studies in Sport and Process Sociology; Globalisation, Sport and Civilisational Analysis. Providing an introduction to, and key examples of, a process sociology approach to the study of sport, the body, civilising processes and globalisation, this book will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in sport studies / sports science degrees, sociology, cultural studies and to those studying migration, globalisation and cross cultural civilisation relations. This book was previously published as a Special Issue of Sport in Society.                  

           

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The Routledge Handbook of Sport Communication

A cura di: Paul M. Pedersen

                       

The Routledge Handbook of Sport Communication is the only book to offer a fully comprehensive and in-depth survey of the contemporary discipline of sport communication. It explores communication within, through, and for sport in all its theoretical, conceptual, cultural, behavioral, practical and managerial aspects, tracing the contours of this expansive, transdisciplinary and international discipline and demonstrating that there are few aspects of contemporary sport that don't rely on effective communications. Including contributions from leading sport media and communications scholars and professionals from around the world, the book examines emerging (new and social) media, traditional (print, broadcast and screen) media, sociological themes in communication in sport, and management issues, at every level, from the interpersonal to communication within and between sport organisations and global institutions. Taking stock of current research, new ideas and key issues, this book is an essential reference for any advanced student, researcher or practitioner with an interest in sport communication, sport business, sport management, sport marketing, communication theory, journalism, or media studies.

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The Sport and Society Reader            
Perspectives on Sport and Society

A cura di: David Karen - Robert E. Washington

                       

Although everyone loves to watch a fair, evenly matched sports contest, there is no such thing as 'pure sport'. "The Sport and Society Reader" is a collection of key scholarly and journalistic articles that demonstrate the ways that the sports we love to watch and the teams we love to root for are embedded in important social structures and processes that undermine sports' 'purity'. The volume presents articles on: sports with - more or less - class race matters in sports gender myths and privileges in sports; sports and deviance sexuality; and, sport globalizing sport. The articles selected are both entertaining and highly illustrative of the links between sport and other areas of social study, resulting in a book that is as compelling as it is useful. In addition, the introductory approach used throughout orients the reader to specific key issues, making "The Sport and Society Reader" an ideal standalone text for students of all levels. Davide Karen and Robert E. Washington's fascinating collection of scholarly and journalistic articles challenges the prevailing perception of sports, and will stimulate discussion in the classroom and beyond. This is essential reading for all students of sports studies, the sociology of sport, and the sociology of culture.

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Sport and Film

di: Sean Crosson

                       

The sports film has become one of commercial cinema's most recognizable genres. From classic boxing films such as Raging Bull (1980) to soccer-themed box-office successes like Bend it Like Beckham (2002), the sports film stands at the interface of two of our most important cultural forms. This book examines the social, historical and ideological significance of representations of sport in film internationally, an essential guide for all students and enthusiasts of sport, film, media and culture. Sport and Film traces the history of the sports film, from the beginnings of cinema in the 1890s, its consolidation as a distinct fiction genre in the mid 1920s in Hollywood films such as Harold Lloyd's The Freshman (1925), to its contemporary manifestation in Oscar-winning films such as Million Dollar Baby (2004) and The Fighter (2010). Drawing on an extensive range of films as source material, the book explores key issues in the study of sport, film and wider society, including race, social class, gender and the legacy of 9/11. It also offers an invaluable guide to 'reading' a film, to help students fully engage with their source material. Comprehensive, authoritative and accessible, this book is an important addition to the literature in both film and media studies, sport studies and cultural studies more generally.

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Sport in Capitalist Society            
A Short History

di: Tony Collins

                       

Why are the Olympic Games the driving force behind a clampdown on civil liberties? What makes sport an unwavering ally of nationalism and militarism? Is sport the new opiate of the masses? These and many other questions are answered in this new radical history of sport by leading historian of sport and society, Professor Tony Collins. Tracing the history of modern sport from its origins in the burgeoning capitalist economy of mid-eighteenth century England to the globalised corporate sport of today, the book argues that, far from the purity of sport being 'corrupted' by capitalism, modern sport is as much a product of capitalism as the factory, the stock exchange and the unemployment line. Based on original sources, the book explains how sport has been shaped and moulded by the major political and economic events of the past two centuries, such as the French Revolution, the rise of modern nationalism and imperialism, the Russian Revolution, the Cold War and the imposition of the neo-liberal agenda in the last decades of the twentieth century. It highlights the symbiotic relationship between the media and sport, from the simultaneous emergence of print capitalism and modern sport in Georgian England to the rise of Murdoch's global satellite television empire in the twenty-first century, and for the first time it explores the alternative, revolutionary models of sport in the early twentieth century. Sport in a Capitalist Society is the first sustained attempt to explain the emergence of modern sport around the world as an integral part of the globalisation of capitalism. It is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the history or sociology of sport, or the social and cultural history of the modern world.

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Outdoor Adventure and Social Theory

A cura di: Elizabeth Pike - Simon Beames

                       

Adventure and outdoor sports - from rock climbing to freestyle kayaking - are a modern social phenomenon that can tell us much about the relationship between sport, culture and contemporary society. In this engaging new introductory text, adventure sports are used to illustrate key concepts in social theory and to demonstrate why an understanding of social theory is essential for any student taking a course in sport, adventure, or outdoor education. Each chapter in the book introduces a key 'classical' or modern social theorist, including Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Elias, or a universal topic or issue in social theory, such as sustainability, commodification or identity. Within each of those chapters the theorist or topic is brought to life through case studies of adventurous activities and lived experiences, helping the reader to connect their own sporting and adventurous interests with the frameworks we use to understand wider culture and society. Concise and full of cutting-edge contemporary examples, Outdoor Adventure and Social Theory is the perfect companion for any module on the sociology of sport, adventure or outdoor recreation.

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Sport Beyond Television            
The Internet, Digital Media and the Rise of Networked Media Sport

di: Brett Hutchins - David Rowe

                       

Television is no longer the only screen delivering footage and news to people about sport. Computers, the Internet, Web, mobile and other digital media are increasingly important technologies in the production and consumption of sports media. Sport Beyond Television analyzes the changes that have given rise to this situation, combining theoretical insights with original evidence collected through extensive research and interviews with people working in the media and sport industries. It locates sports media as a pivotal component in online content economies and cultures, and counteracts the scant scholarly attention to sports media when compared to music, film and publishing in convergent media cultures. An expanding array of popular sports media - industry, user, club, athlete and fan produced - is now available and accessible in networked digital communications environments. This change is confounding the thinking of major sports organizations that have lived off the generous revenue flowing from exclusive broadcast contracts with free-to-air and subscription television networks for the last five decades. These developments are creating commercial and policy confusion, particularly as sports audiences and the advertising market fragment in line with the proliferation of niche channels and sources of digital sports media. Chapters in this title examine the shift from broadcast to online sports media markets, the impact of social networking platforms like Twitter and Facebook, evolving user and fan practices, the changing character of sports journalism, and the rise of sports computer gaming. Each chapter traces the socio-cultural implications of trends and trajectories in media sport.

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Sport and Sociology

di: Dominic Malcolm

                       

How has our understanding of sport been shaped by sociological ideas? How can the study of sport help sociologists to understand wider society? The sociology of sport is a sub-discipline approaching maturity. This is the first book to stand back and reflect upon the subject's growth, to trace its developmental phases and to take stock of the current fund of knowledge. It offers a 'state of the art' review of the sociology of sport and investigates those areas where sport has come to influence the sociological mainstream. The book also examines how the sociology of sport has attempted to engage with a popular readership, and what the consequences of such engagement have been. Focusing on touchstone issues and concepts within sociological discourse such as race, gender, celebrity, the body and social theory, the book assesses the successes and failures of the sociology of sport in influencing the parent discipline, related sub-disciplines and the wider public. It also asks to what extent the sociology of sport can be said to be autonomous, distinctive and distinguished, and challenges students of sport to extend their work out of the narrow confines of the subdiscipline and across disciplinary divides. As the first book to provide a history of the sociology of sport and to clearly locate the contemporary discipline in the wider currents of sociological discourse, this is important reading for all students and scholars interested in the relationship between sport and society, whether they are working in sport studies or in the sociological mainstream.

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The Global Economics of Sport

di: Chris Gratton - Dongfeng Liu - Girish Ramchandani - Darryl Wilson

                       

Sport has become a global business. There is no corner of the Earth that isn't reached by coverage of global sporting mega-events such as the Olympics or the World Cup, events managed by international governing bodies such as the IOC and FIFA that operate like major international businesses. Companies such as Nike now design, produce, distribute and market their products across every continent, while an increasingly important part of every country's sport market is now international in terms of its influences and opportunities. This book is the first to examine the economics of contemporary sport using the global market as the primary unit of analysis. Starting with a survey of the changing nature of the sports market over the last hundred years, the book explores the difficulties of measuring the true scale and impact of the global sports economy, employing a wealth of empirical data to define and analyze the sports market and all its sub-sectors. In doing so, the book draws on case studies from the UK, Europe, North America and beyond. This book is essential reading for any student or professional with an interest in the economics of sport.

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Watching Sport            
Aesthetics, Ethics and Emotion

di: Stephen Mumford

                       

Do we watch sport for pure dumb entertainment? While some people might do so, Stephen Mumford argues that it can be watched in other ways. Sport can be both a subject of high aesthetic values and a valid source for our moral education. The philosophy of sport has tended to focus on participation, but this book instead examines the philosophical issues around watching sport. Far from being a passive experience, we can all shape the way that we see sport. Delving into parallels with art and theatre, this book outlines the aesthetic qualities of sport from the incidental beauty of a well-executed football pass to the enshrined artistic interpretation in performed sports such as ice-skating and gymnastics. It is argued that the purist literally sees sport in a different way from the partisan, thus the aesthetic perception of the purist can be validated. The book moves on to examine the moral lessons that are to be learned from watching sport, depicting it as a contest of virtues. The morality of sport is demonstrated to be continuous with, rather than separate from, the morality in wider life, and so each can inform the other. Watching sport is then recognized as a focus of profound emotional experiences. Collective emotion is particularly considered alongside the nature of allegiance. Finally, Mumford considers why we care about sport at all. Addressing universal themes, this book will appeal to a broad audience across philosophical disciplines and sports studies.

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Leisure and Recreation in a Victorian Mining Community            
The Social Economy of Leisure in North-East England, 1820-1914

di: Alan Metcalfe

         

'Amusements they must have, or life would hardly be worth living...' - "Newcastle Weekly Chronicle", 1895. This text explores life in the mining villages of the north-east of England in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - a time of massive social and industrial change. The sporting lives of these communities are often marginalized by historians, but this thoroughly researched account reveals how play as well as work were central to the lives of the working classes. Miners contributed significantly to the economic success of the north-east during this time, yet living conditions in the mining villages were 'horrendous'. Sport and recreation were essential to bring meaning and pleasure to mining families, and were fundamental to the complex social relationships within and between communities.Features of this extensive text include: analysis of the physical, social and economic structures that determined the leisure lives of the mining villages; the role of 'traditional' and 'new' sports; and comparisons with other British regions.

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Body and Mind            
Sport in Europe from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance

di: John McClelland

                       

This is the first book to address the gap in the literature linking the physical culture of the ancient world with the beginnings of modern sport, this original book traces the history of the evolution of a variety of sport, games and physical education from 450-1650AD across Western Europe. Drawing on primary sources, this book takes a thematic approach, looking at the changing nature of geopolitical structures, educational systems, religious institutions and the practice of warfare and medicine and goes on to trace the disappearance of ancient physical culture with its gymnasia, gladiators and chariot races, the invention of a new physical culture based on chivalry around 1000 AD, the transformation of that culture in the Renaissance, and its disappearance around 1650 under the influences of new science. Offering a new and original perspective on the relationship between sport and society, this unique study will be of great interest to all historians of sport and culture.

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Understanding Sport A Socio-Cultural Analysis

di: John Horne - Alan Tomlinson - Garry Whannel - Kath Woodward

                       

In the decade or more since publication of the first edition of Understanding Sport, both sport and wider global society have undergone profound change. In this fully updated, revised and expanded edition of their classic textbook, John Horne, Alan Tomlinson, Garry Whannel and Kath Woodward offer a critical and reflective introduction to the relationship between sport and contemporary society and explain how sport remains an important agent and symptom of socio-cultural change. Fully integrating historical, sociological, political and cultural analysis, the book covers every key topic in the study of sport and society, including: debate, interpretation and theory sport and the media sport and the body sport and politics commercialization globalization. Retaining the accessibility and scholarly rigour for which Understanding Sport has always been renowned, this new edition includes entirely new chapters on global transformations, sports mega-events and sites, sporting bodies and governance, as well as a succinct guide to researching sport. With review and seminar questions included in every chapter, plus concise, helpful guides to further reading, Understanding Sport remains an essential textbook for all courses on sport and society, the sociology of sport, sport and social theory, or social issues in sport.                  

           

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The Problem of Pleasure Leisure, Tourism and Crime

A cura di:             

Carol Jones

Elaine Barclay

Rob Mawby

                           

The tourism and leisure industries are big business. Opportunities for leisure and tourism have escalated as disposable income, technology, travel and education have become increasingly available in recent times. However, this trend has been juxtaposed with an increase in crime, particularly since the early the 1950s. Acquisitive crimes have been facilitated with the development of more portable and valuable commodities; some activities, such as drink driving and disorder, have now been socially defined as crimes and are more readily identified through new technology such as the increasing use of CCTV. The Problem of Pleasure covers them all. The purpose of this book is to inform and enlighten a range of readers, whose interests may be academic or commercial on possible crime events and modus operandi of criminals. The book has a global perspective, bringing together leading academics from the UK, the US, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand who examine several aspects of leisure that are vulnerable to crime, from illegal hunting to street racing, as well as the impact of crime upon tourists and the tourism industry. This book will be a key text for students of tourism and leisure as well as criminology and sociology; people working in the tourism and recreation industry; policy makers and the police.

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Sport, Culture and Society            
An Introduction

di: Grant Jarvie

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It is impossible to fully understand contemporary society and culture without acknowledging the place of sport. Sport is part of our social and cultural fabric, possessing a social and commercial power that makes it a potent force in the world, for good and for bad. Sport has helped to start wars and promote international reconciliation, while every government around the world commits public resources to sport because of its perceived benefits. From the bleachers to the boardroom, sport matters. Now available in a fully revised and updated new edition, this exciting, comprehensive and accessible textbook introduces the study of sport, culture and society. International in scope, the book explores the key social theories that shape our understanding of sport as a social phenomenon and critically examines many of the assumptions that underpin that understanding. Placing sport at the very heart of the analysis, and including vibrant sporting examples throughout, the book introduces the student to every core topic and emerging area in the study of sport and society, including: the history and politics of sport sport and globalization sport and the media sport, violence and crime sport, the body and health sport and the environment alternative sports and lifestyles sporting mega-events sport and development. Each chapter includes a wealth of useful features to assist the student, including chapter summaries, highlighted definitions of key terms, practical projects, revision questions, boxed case-studies and biographies, and guides to further reading, with additional teaching and learning resources available on a companion website. Sport, Culture and Society is the most broad-ranging and thoughtful introduction to the socio-cultural analysis of sport currently available and sets a new agenda for the discipline. It is essential reading for all students with an interest in sport. Visit the companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/jarvie.

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Giorgio Scichilone
Francesco Crispi

Flaccovio Editore
 2012

L’esistenza di Francesco Crispi (Ribera, 4 ottobre 1818 – Napoli, 11 agosto 1901) che «percorre tutto l’Ottocento, e oggi, oltre un secolo dopo la sua morte, in un’epoca assai distante dagli eventi che lo videro impegnato, dove lo stesso mondo che egli ha contribuito a cambiare è del tutto dissolto dai fenomeni recenti della globalizzazione e dell’alta tecnologia multimediale che hanno trasformato sia la vita quotidiana degli individui che la natura degli stati; proprio oggi, si diceva, gli storici sono inclini a riconoscere che la parabola oggettivamente straordinaria di questo personaggio, un siciliano di stirpe albanese che divenne uno degli statisti più autorevoli e discussi del suo tempo, possa essere ripensata come la chiave interpretativa della politica di un’epoca, la transizione definitiva dello stato moderno dall’Ancien Régime all’ordinamento giuridico liberale, il passaggio istituzionale da cui è venuto fuori il mondo che noi oggi abitiamo»

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 Le impugnazioni civili 
Autori : Francesco L. Luiso, Romano Vaccarella


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La trattazione ha ad oggetto la disciplina delle impugnazioni, considerata nella sua globalità. Sono quindi presi dapprima in esame i profili attinenti alla parte generale delle impugnazioni, e quindi al giudicato formale, nonché alla legittimazione ed all’interesse ad impugnare, alla pluralità di parti, alle vicende anomale (inammissibilità, improcedibilità ed estinzione), ed infine all’effetto espansivo interno ed esterno. Segue l’esposizione relativa ai singoli mezzi di impugnazione (regolamento di competenza, appello, ricorso per cassazione, revocazione ed opposizione di terzo). L’analisi non si limita alla disciplina ordinaria, ma si estende anche ai riti speciali, anche alla luce del decreto legislativo sulla semplificazione dei riti (Decreto legislativo 1° settembre 2011 n. 150). Nella analisi degli istituti, pur senza trascurare la dottrina, particolare attenzione è stata dedicata alla giurisprudenza. Il lavoro, tuttavia, non si limita ad una rassegna ragionata, in quanto suggerisce anche la soluzione a problemi tuttora aperti a livello giurisprudenziale e dottrinale. La trattazione è corredata da un approfondito indice analitico e dall’indice delle sentenze citate.

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Modelli di giustizia per i mercati - Autore : Simone Lucattini



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La funzione giustiziale delle autorità amministrative indipendenti è stata, negli ultimi anni, al centro dell’attenzione del legislatore, nazionale e comunitario, che ha individuato in tali autorità la sede privilegiata per la risoluzione delle controversie che nascono sui mercati regolati, tra operatori economici e tra questi e i consumatori. La ratio di tali sistemi giustiziali alternativi va, dunque, ricercata nella più elevata attitudine, rispetto al processo giurisdizionale, a risolvere in modo stabile ed adeguato controversie ad alto tasso di tecnicità e rilevanza economica. Come emerge dall’indagine condotta, vari ed eterogenei sono i metodi (conciliazioni, arbitrati, procedure contenziose o precontenziose) all’uopo utilizzati dalle autorità indipendenti; tra loro simili appaiono, invece, le finalità della funzione giustiziale da esse svolta: garantire l’effettività nella risoluzione di controversie intersoggettive e, ad un tempo, il buon funzionamento dei mercati affidati alle loro cure, nell’ottica della certezza e della tutela dell’affidamento. È proprio questo particolare intreccio tra giustizia e regolazione il profilo maggiormente caratterizzante il modello di tutela enucleato, sotto il nome di “giustizia per i mercati”.





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Corso di diritto Processuale civile - III : L'esecuzione forzata, i procedimenti speciali, l'arbitrato e la mediazione

Autori : Crisanto Mandrioli e Antonio Carratta

 

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Corso di diritto Processuale civile - II : Il processo di Cognizione

Autori . Crisanto Mandrioli e Antonio Carratta

 



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Corso di diritto Processuale civile - I : nozioni introduttive e disposizioni generali

Autori . Crisanto Mandrioli e Antonio Carratta

 

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Le ulteriori modifiche legislative al codice di rito, introdotte nella seconda metà dello scorso anno, insieme agli effetti della sentenza della Corte Costituzionale n. 272 del 21 dicembre 2012, che ha dichiarato l’illegittimità costituzionale dell’articolo 5, 1° comma del Decreto Legislativo 4 marzo 2010 n. 28 sull’obbligatorio esperimento della procedura di mediazione preventivamente alla domanda giudiziale, sono alla base di questa nuova edizione, che – come di consueto - recepisce anche gli opportuni aggiornamenti giurisprudenzali e dottrinali.

 



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      Ius monetarium. Diritto e moneta alle origini   della modernità.

    Autore : Eugenio Barcellona  

 

Lo studio della moneta di quel grandioso periodo d’Europa, che dall’età comunale conduce alle soglie della modernità, costituisce l’occasione per una duplice riflessione: non solo sull’essenza del diritto del mercato, ma ancor prima sulle origini della società occidentale. Una società che si istituisce sulla soppressione di ogni gerarchia fra uomo (servo) e uomo (padrone) – qual è la società fondata sul mito dell’«homo aequalis» – è destinata ad erigere quale nuovo «dio» il trittico diritto, mercato e moneta. Fra uomini eguali, l’unica signoria tollerabile è quella impersonale del diritto chiamato ad assicurare la tenuta di uno scambio mediato attraverso la moneta. La centralità della moneta nelle relazioni fra uomini e fra stati (che è oggi sotto gli occhi di tutti) ne è chiara testimonianza: nell’«homo aequalis» delle origini è già iscritto l’«homo monetarius» dei nostri giorni. Ma il diritto del mercato – che è il diritto degli uomini eguali – rivela una natura da Giano bifronte. Duplice ne appare, infatti, la logica. Ad una istanza di «razionalità economica» diretta ad assicurare la calcolabilità monetaria di uno scambio fra eguali (diritto del mercato in senso stretto) si contrappone una «razionalità politica» diretta, al contrario, a preservare la superiorità degli uni rispetto agli altri (diritto del contro-mercato). Quelle gerarchie, di cui la modernità celebrava la definitiva soppressione, inevitabilmente ritornano sotto forma di privilegio elargito ad un ceto di mercanti «amici del principe». E fra i mercanti cui il diritto accorda questo privilegio (garanzia di diseguaglianza) la posizione d’onore spetta a quelli più vicini al misterioso processo di produzione della moneta: i mercanti-banchieri. Questo libro si occupa di quell’età tardo-medievale che, pur in un contesto di frammentazione politica, già esperisce una forma di globalizzazione economica non dissimile da quella attuale. Non è però difficile intuire come si parla di «ieri» perché si vuole essenzialmente comprendere l’«oggi».

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 Rimetti a noi i nostri debiti. Forme della remissione del debito dall'antichità all'esperienza europea contemporanea - Autore : Arrigo D. Manfredini 

Nella percezione comune – e nella sua coscienza bibliografica – la storia dell’insolvenza è principalmente una storia di sanzioni. Rovesciando questa impostazione il volume assume, come punto centrale di prospettiva, la non-sanzione, ovvero la remissione del debito nelle sue molteplici forme: nell’antica Roma, le leggi sulla cancellazione, le «indulgenze» fiscali e le dilazioni per rescritto del Principe; nell’Europa medievale e moderna, i «respiri» concessi attraverso le lettere sovrane; nell’Europa contemporanea, i termini di grazia nelle loro svariate declinazioni, fino alla controversa materia del sovraindebitamento del consumatore e relativa esdebitazione.

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Non per profitto. perché le democrazie hanno bisogno della cultura umanistica

Autore : Martha C. Nussbaum

Alle prese con la crisi economica e le sue spending reviews molti paesi infliggono pesanti tagli agli studi umanistici ed artistici a favore di abilità tecniche e conoscenze pratico-scientifiche. E così mentre il mondo si fa più grande e complesso, gli strumenti per capirlo si fanno più poveri e rudimentali; mentre l’innovazione richiede intelligenze flessibili, aperte e creative, l’istruzione ripiega su poche nozioni stereotipate. Non si tratta di difendere una presunta superiorità della cultura classica su quella scientifica, bensì di mantenere l’accesso a una conoscenza che nutra la libertà di pensiero e di parola, l’autonomia del giudizio, la forza dell’immaginazione, come altrettante precondizioni per una umanità matura e responsabile.

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 Giustizia Sociale e  dignità umana    
 Autore :  Martha Nussbaum

«Ciò che questo approccio persegue è una società in cui ciascuno sia considerato degno di rispetto, e in cui ciascuno sia stato posto nella condizione di vivere in modo realmente umano»
Martha C. Nussbaum                      

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The Human Rights Treaty Obligations of Peacekeepers

di: Kjetil Mujezinovic Larsen

                       

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Do States, through their military forces, have legal obligations under human rights treaties towards the local civilian population during UN-mandated peace operations? It is frequently claimed that it is unrealistic to require compliance with human rights treaties in peace operations and this has led to an unwillingness to hold States accountable for human rights violations. In this book, Kjetil Larsen criticises this position by addressing the arguments against the applicability of human rights treaties and demonstrating that compliance with the treaties is unrealistic only if one takes an 'all or nothing' approach to them. He outlines a coherent and more flexible approach which distinguishes clearly between positive and negative obligations and makes treaty compliance more realistic. His proposals for the application of human rights treaties would also strengthen the legal framework for human rights protection in peace operations without posing any unrealistic obligations on the military forces.

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Between Autonomy and Dependence

A cura di: Ramses A. Wessel - Steven Blockmans

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The European Union is traditionally seen as a new and partly separate legal order within the global legal system. At the same time, the EU is an important player in the global governance network. The strong and explicit link between the EU and a large number of other international organisations raises questions concerning the impact of decisions taken by those organisations and of international agreements concluded with those organisations (either by the EU itself or by its Member States) on the autonomy of the EU legal order. This book addresses the relationship between the EU and other international organisations by looking at the increasing influence of norms enacted by international organisations on the shaping of EU law.

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Free Ride            
How Digital Parasites Are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back

di: Robert Levine - Robert Levine

Autore/i: Robert Levine, Robert Levine Editore: Anchor Books

                 

                                                

             

            

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Nove su dieci.
Perché stiamo (quasi) tutti peggio di 10 anni fa


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di: Mario Pianta

                       

Ogni ricco ha il reddito di cento poveri. Non è l'Inghilterra di Dickens, è l'Italia di oggi. Redditi e ricchezza si sono concentrati nelle mani di una persona su dieci. Le altre nove - quasi tutti noi - stanno peggio di dieci anni fa, sono i 'perdenti', divisi in mille modi - tra uomini e donne, tra vecchi e giovani, tra Nord e Sud - ma uniti dal declino. Com'è potuto succedere? Togliere ai poveri per dare ai ricchi, rendere il lavoro più debole e il capitale più forte è da trent'anni l'orizzonte del liberismo. Da qui ha origine la crisi attuale, in Europa e in Italia. Ma un'alternativa c'è, ci meritiamo un altro futuro.

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Diritti e libertà nella storia d'Italia.
Conquiste e conflitti 1861-2011

di: Stefano Rodotà

                       

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Diritti e libertà accompagnano la nascita del cittadino moderno, definiscono un ordine politico e simbolico interamente nuovo: essi divengono il connotato di un'età, appunto "l'età dei diritti", come l'ha definita Norberto Bobbio. La dimensione dei diritti, però, ci appare al tempo stesso fondativa e fragilissima, perennemente insidiata da restaurazioni e repressioni. In particolare, negli ultimi quindici anni si è assistito nel nostro paese a un processo graduale che ha portato la classe politica di centro-destra, dall'iniziale tentativo di delegittimazione, a un vero e proprio attacco frontale alla Costituzione. La ricostruzione sintetica che Rodotà qui propone vuole obbedire proprio a questa logica. Non segue e discute le idee sui diritti, ma analizza politiche e comportamenti dai quali è dipesa la loro affermazione o negazione, cercando di rendere evidenti gli intrecci tra riconoscimenti formali di libertà e diritti e condizioni materiali per la loro attuazione. Le vicende delle libertà e dei diritti mostrano la lenta inclusione di un numero crescente di cittadini nel demos e le modalità attraverso le quali si costruisce la moderna cittadinanza, nel succedersi delle diverse "generazioni" dei diritti. Ma rivelano anche tenaci resistenze all'effettività dei diritti proclamati. Serve una grande fede per affermare i diritti nei tempi difficili. E di questo la vicenda delle libertà, che è poi vicenda concretissima di donne e di uomini, è testimonianza continua.

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Il reddito di cittadinanza.
Una proposta per l'Italia e per l'Europa

di: Giuseppe Bronzini

                       

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Il venir meno della promessa del lavoro per tutti (mito degli anni Cinquanta) e l'affermarsi di condizioni lavorative saltuarie pone il problema di come assicurare a tutti condizioni di vita dignitose. Il tema è quello del "reddito garantito" o "reddito di cittadinanza" o "basic incom", cioè di un reddito minimo assicurato dallo Stato in mancanza di attività lavorativa. La soluzione, molto discussa a livello teorico, è oggi adottata in tutti i paesi europei eccettuate l'Italia, la Grecia e l'Ungheria. In Italia c'è una sola sperimentazione, prevista da un decreto legislativo del 1998, ormai abbandonata nel tempo. Sui fondamenti etici e politici del reddito di cittadinanza, sulle realizzazioni in Europa e sulle possibilità in Italia, fa il punto il volume di Giuseppe Bronzini, magistrato, autore di numerose pubblicazioni in materia.

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Il diritto al pluralismo dell'informazione in Europa e in Italia

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a cura di:
Riccardo Mazzeschi
Angela Del Vecchio
Michela Manetti
Pietro Pustorino           

                         

                           

Il libro si occupa del diritto al pluralismo informativo come una componente essenziale della libertà di espressione e come elemento fondamentale di una società democratica. Si tratta di un tema di grande attualità e di sempre maggiore interesse, poiché i continui progressi tecnologici nel settore dei media impongono un rapido aggiornamento del quadro normativo che deve regolare la materia in maniera equa ed efficace. D'altra parte, tale diritto viene ormai disciplinato da una pluralità di sistemi giuridici, che hanno origine diversa e talora anche obiettivi diversi, ed è pertanto necessario non confinare l'analisi entro i limiti dell'ordinamento giuridico italiano. Infatti, le varie problematiche che si pongono sono state affrontate e sviluppate nel quadro del sistema giuridico creato dalla Convenzione europea dei diritti dell'uomo e dal suo organo di controllo, del diritto dell'Unione europea e del diritto costituzionale italiano. Soltanto questa prospettiva più ampia consente di cogliere i risultati normativi finora raggiunti; ma anche le numerose carenze e lacune che ancora esistono, specie in Italia, e che richiedono con urgenza di essere colmate.

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Sovereign Defaults Before International Courts and Tribunals

di: Michael Waibel

                           
                 

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International law on sovereign defaults is underdeveloped because States have largely refrained from adjudicating disputes arising out of public debt. The looming new wave of sovereign defaults is likely to shift dispute resolution away from national courts to international tribunals and transform the current regime for restructuring sovereign debt. Michael Waibel assesses how international tribunals balance creditor claims and sovereign capacity to pay across time. The history of adjudicating sovereign defaults internationally over the last 150 years offers a rich repository of experience for future cases: US state defaults, quasi-receiverships in the Dominican Republic and Ottoman Empire, the Venezuela Preferential Case, the Soviet repudiation in 1917, the League of Nations, the World War Foreign Debt Commission, Germany's 30-year restructuring after 1918 and ICSID arbitration on Argentina's default in 2001. The remarkable continuity in international practice and jurisprudence suggests avenues for building durable institutions capable of resolving future sovereign defaults.

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Beyond the Invisible Hand            
Groundwork for a New Economics

di: Kaushik Basu    

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One of the central tenets of mainstream economics is Adam Smith's proposition that, given certain conditions, self-interested behavior by individuals leads them to the social good, almost as if orchestrated by an invisible hand. This deep insight has, over the past two centuries, been taken out of context, contorted, and used as the cornerstone of free-market orthodoxy. In "Beyond the Invisible Hand", Kaushik Basu argues that mainstream economics and its conservative popularizers have misrepresented Smith's insight and hampered our understanding of how economies function, why some economies fail and some succeed, and what the nature and role of state intervention might be. Comparing this view of the invisible hand with the vision described by Kafka - in which individuals pursuing their atomistic interests, devoid of moral compunction, end up creating a world that is mean and miserable - Basu argues for collective action and the need to shift our focus from the efficient society to one that is also fair. Using analytic tools from mainstream economics, the book challenges some of the precepts and propositions of mainstream economics. It maintains that, by ignoring the role of culture and custom, traditional economics promotes the view that the current system is the only viable one, thereby serving the interests of those who do well by this system. "Beyond the Invisible Hand" challenges readers to fundamentally rethink the assumptions underlying modern economic thought and proves that a more equitable society is both possible and sustainable, and hence worth striving for. By scrutinizing Adam Smith's theory, this impassioned critique of contemporary mainstream economics debunks traditional beliefs regarding best economic practices, self-interest, and the social good.

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Austerity            
The History of a Dangerous Idea

di: Mark Blyth   

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Conservatives in America have succeeded in casting government spending as useless profligacy that has made their economy worse, centering the policy debate in the wake of the financial crisis on draconian budget cuts. Americans are told that they need to live in an age of austerity since they have all lived beyond their means and now need to tighten their belts. This view conveniently forgets where all that debt came from. Not from an orgy of government spending, but as the direct result of bailing out, recapitalizing, and adding liquidity to the broken banking system. Through these actions private debt was rechristened as government debt while those responsible for generating it walked away scot free, placing the blame on the state, and the burden on the taxpayer. That burden now takes the form of a global turn to austerity, the policy of reducing domestic wages and prices to restore competitiveness and balance the budget. The problem, according to political economist Mark Blyth, is that austerity is a very dangerous idea. First of all, it doesn't work. As the past two years of trying and countless other historical examples show, while it makes sense for any one state to try and cut its way to growth, it simply cannot work when all states try it simultaneously: all that happens is a shrinking economy. Second, it relies upon those who didn't make the mess to clean it up, which is always bad politics. Third, it rests upon a tenuous and thin body of evidence and argumentation that acts more to prop up dead economic ideas and preserve astonishingly skewed income and wealth distributions than to restore prosperity for all. In Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, Blyth demolishes the conventional wisdom, marshaling an army of facts to demand that we recognize austerity for what it is, and what it costs us.

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Legal Language

di: Peter M. Tiersma

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Why is legal language so different from ordinary English? Statutes, judicial opinions, contracts, deeds and wills profoundly affect our daily lives, but their language tends to be convoluted, antiquated and often nearly impossible for the public to understand. So where did the "lessees" and "tortfeasors" come from and are they necessarily here to stay? This history of legal language slices through the polysyllabic thicket of legalese. It shows to what extent legalese is simply a product of its past, when Anglo-Saxon mercenaries, Latin-speaking missionaries, Scandinavian raiders and Norman invaders all left their marks on the language that lawyers use today. Peter Tiersma suggests, however, that history alone provides an inadequate explanation for the peculiarities of legal language. He considers how lawyers cling to their foreign-sounding language because it convinces laypeople that the legal system is far too complex to navigate without professional assistance. Obscurity, Tiersma suggests, can also be strategic (as when an insurance company prints oppressive legal terms in small type on the back of a policy), as can clarity (if lawyers need to persuade a jury of their client's innocence, they speak and write with newfound ease). All these issues are wrapped up in the legal language that continues to evolve and shape our culture. This text demonstrates that arcane vocabulary is not an inevitable feature of our legal system and Tiersma concludes with a call for simplification. It brings the verbiage of leases, employment agreements and other consumer documents out of the shadows.

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Philosophical Foundations of Language in the Law

A cura di: Andrei Marmor - Scott Soames

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This collection brings together the best contemporary philosophical work in the area of intersection between philosophy of language and the law. Some of the contributors are philosophers of language who are interested in applying advances in philosophy of language to legal issues, and some of the participants are philosophers of law who are interested in applying insights and theories from philosophy of language to their work on the nature of law and legal interpretation. By making this body of recent work available in a single volume, readers will gain both a general overview of the various interactions between language and law, and also detailed analyses of particular areas in which this interaction is manifest. The contributions to this volume are grouped under three main general areas: The first area concerns a critical assessment, in light of recent advances in philosophy of language, of the foundational role of language in understanding the nature of law itself. The second main area concerns a number of ways in which an understanding of language can resolve some of the issues prevalent in legal interpretation, such as the various ways in which semantic content can differ from law's assertive content; the contribution of presuppositions and pragmatic implicatures in understanding what the law conveys; the role of vagueness in legal language, for example. The third general topic concerns the role of language in the context of particular legal doctrines and legal solutions to practical problems, such as the legal definitions of inchoate crimes, the legal definition of torture, or the contractual doctrines concerning default rules. Together, these three key issues cover a wide range of philosophical interests in law that can be elucidated by a better understanding of language and linguistic communication.