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Reinforcing Rule of Law Oversight in the European Union

Carlos Closa, Dimitry Kochenov - Cambridge University Press, 13 ott 2016 

 

Anteprima

Part I. Establishing Normative Foundations: 1. Reinforcing EU monitoring of the rule of law: normative arguments, institutional proposals and the procedural limitations Carlos Closa 2. Beyond legality - before democracy: rule of law caveats in the EU two-level system Gianluigi Palombell 3. Overseeing the rule of law in the EU: legal mandate and means Christophe Hillion 4. Protecting democracy inside the EU: on article 7 TEU and the Hungarian turn to authoritarianism Bojan Bugaric Part II. Proposing New Approaches: 5. Enforcing the basic principles of EU law through systemic infringement actions Kim Lane Schepple 6. Mutual trust: the virtue of reciprocity – strengthening the acceptance of the rule of law through peer review Ernst Hirsch Ballin 7. The rule of law and the role of fundamental rights: seven practical pointers Gabriel N. Toggenburg and Jonas Grimheden 8. The potential of the EU charter of fundamental rights for the development of the rule of law indicators Martin Scheinin 9. The EU charter of fundamental rights as the most promising way of enforcing the rule of law against EU member states András Jakab 10. Protecting the rule of law (and democracy!) in the European Union: the idea of a Copenhagen Commission Jan-Werner Müller 11. From Copenhagen to Venice Kaarlo Tuori Part III. Identifying Deeper Problems: 12. EU democratic oversight and domestic deviation from the rule of law: sociological reflections Paul Blokker 13. Why improve EU oversight of rule of law? The two-headed problem of defending liberal democracy and fighting corruption Milada Anna Vachudova 14. The missing EU rule of law Dimitry Kochenov Epilogue: living in a glass house: Europe, demoracy and the rule of law J. H. H. Weiler.

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Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance: Making it Stick

Malcolm Langford, César Rodríguez-Garavito, Julieta Rossi -Cambridge University Press,  2017

 

Anteprima

The past few decades have witnessed an explosion of judgments on social rights around the world. However, we know little about whether these rulings have been implemented. Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance is the first book to engage in a comparative study of compliance of social rights judgments as well as their broader effects. Covering fourteen different domestic and international jurisdictions, and drawing on multiple disciplines, it finds significant variance in outcomes and reveals both spectacular successes and failures in making social rights a reality on the ground. This variance is strikingly similar to that found in previous studies on civil rights, and the key explanatory factors lie in the political calculus of defendants and the remedial framework. The book also discusses which strategies have enhanced implementation, and focuses on judicial reflexivity, alliance building and social mobilisation.

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International Cultural Heritage Law in Armed Conflict: Case-Studies of Syria, Libya, Mali, the Invasion of Iraq, and the Buddhas of Bamiyan

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Marina Lostal - Cambridge University Press, 30 mar 2017

 

This book fills gaps in the exploration of the protection of cultural heritage in armed conflict based on the World Heritage Convention. Marina Lostal offers a new perspective, designating a specific protection regime to world cultural heritage sites, which is so far lacking despite the fact that such sites are increasingly targeted. Lostal spells out this area's discrete legal principles, providing accessible and succinct guidelines to a usually complex web of international conventions. Using the conflicts in Syria, Libya and Mali (among others) as case studies, she offers timely insight into the phenomenon of cultural heritage destruction. Lastly, by incorporating the World Heritage Convention into the discourse, this book fulfills UNESCO's long-standing project of exploring 'how to promote the systemic integration between the [World Heritage] Convention of 1972 and the other UNESCO regimes'. It is sure to engender debate and cause reflection over cultural heritage and protection regimes.

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Sovereignty and Territorial Temptation: The Grotian Tendency

Christopher R. Rossi - Cambridge University Press, 27 apr 2017

 

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This powerful book stands on its head the most venerated tradition in international law and discusses the challenges of scarcity, sovereignty, and territorial temptation. Newly emergent resources, accessible through global climate change, discovery, or technological advancement, highlight time-tested problems of sovereignty and challenge liberal internationalism's promise of beneficial or shared solutions. From the High Arctic to the hyper-arid reaches of the Atacama Desert, from the South China Sea to the history of the law of the sea, from doctrinal and scholarly treatments to institutional forms of global governance, the historically recurring problem of territorial temptation in the ageless age of scarcity calls into question the future of the global commons, and illuminates the tendency among states to share resources, but only when necessary.

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Frontex and Non-Refoulement: The International Responsibility of the EU

Roberta Mungianu - Cambridge University Press, 18 ago 2016

 

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Since the Frontex Border Agency's establishment in 2004, its activities have foregrounded the complexity and difficulty of protecting the human rights of those seeking access to the European Union. In this connection, protection from refoulement should be paramount in the Agency's work. By navigating through the intricacies of Frontex's structure and working methods, this book answers abiding questions: which circumstances would trigger European Union responsibility if violations were to occur in Frontex's joint operations? What is the legal standing of the principle of non-refoulement in relation to Frontex's activities? Can Frontex be entrusted with an exclusive search and rescue mandate? This book offers a theoretical and practical insight into the legislative intricacies of Frontex's work, examining the responsibility of the EU, and scrutinising the interaction of international law and EU law with a focus on the principle of non-refoulement.

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Lifetime Disadvantage, Discrimination and the Gendered Workforce

Susan Bisom-Rapp, Malcolm Sargeant - Cambridge University Press, 20 ott 2016  

 

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Lifetime Disadvantage, Discrimination and the Gendered Workforce fills a gap in the literature on discrimination and disadvantage suffered by women at work by focusing on the inadequacies of the current law and the need for a new holistic approach. Each stage of the working life cycle for women is examined with a critical consideration of how the law attempts to address the problems that inhibit women's labour force participation. By using their model of lifetime disadvantage, the authors show how the law adopts an incremental and disjointed approach to resolving the challenges, and argue that a more holistic orientation towards eliminating women's discrimination and disadvantage is required before true gender equality can be achieved. Using the concept of resilience from vulnerability theory, the authors advocate a reconfigured workplace that acknowledges yet transcends gender.

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Cyber Mercenaries: The State, Hackers, and Power

Tim Maurer - Cambridge University Press, 18 gen 2018 

 

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Cyber Mercenaries explores the secretive relationships between states and hackers. As cyberspace has emerged as the new frontier for geopolitics, states have become entrepreneurial in their sponsorship, deployment, and exploitation of hackers as proxies to project power. Such modern-day mercenaries and privateers can impose significant harm undermining global security, stability, and human rights. These state-hacker relationships therefore raise important questions about the control, authority, and use of offensive cyber capabilities. While different countries pursue different models for their proxy relationships, they face the common challenge of balancing the benefits of these relationships with their costs and the potential risks of escalation. This book examines case studies in the United States, Iran, Syria, Russia, and China for the purpose of establishing a framework to better understand and manage the impact and risks of cyber proxies on global politics.

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Ne Bis in Idem in EU Law

Bas van Bockel - Cambridge University Press, 21 giu 2018

 

Questions of the application and interpretation of the ne bis in idem principle in EU law continue to surface in the case law of different European courts. The primary purpose of this book is to provide guidance and to address important issues in connection with the ne bis in idem principle in EU law. The development of the ne bis in idem principle in the EU legal order illustrates the difficulty of reconciling pluralism with the need for doctrinal coherence, and highlights the tensions between the requirements of effectiveness and the protection of fundamental rights in EU law. The ne bis in idem principle is a 'litmus test' of fundamental rights protection in the EU. This book explores the principle, and the way the Court of Justice of the European Union has interpreted it, in the context of competition law and the areas of freedom, security and justice, human rights law and tax law.

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Fact-Finding before the International Court of Justice

James Gerard Devaney - Cambridge University Press, 29 set 2016

 

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Fact-Finding before the International Court of Justice examines a number of significant recent criticisms of the way in which the ICJ deals with facts. The book takes the position that such criticisms are warranted and that the ICJ's current approach to fact-finding falls short of adequacy, both in cases involving abundant, particularly complex or technical facts, and in those involving a scarcity of facts. The author skilfully examines how other courts such as the WTO and inter-State arbitrations conduct fact-finding and makes a number of select proposals for reform, enabling the ICJ to address some of the current weaknesses in its approach. The proposals include, but are not limited to, the development of a power to compel the disclosure of information, greater use of provisional measures, and a clear strategy for the use of expert evidence.

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The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Criminology

Gerben J. N. Bruinsma, Shane D. Johnson -Oxford University Press, 2018

 

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The study of how the environment, local geography, and physical locations influence crime has a long history that stretches across many research traditions. These include the neighborhood effects approach developed in the 1920s, the criminology of place, and a newer approach that attends to the perception of crime in communities. Aided by new technologies and improved data-reporting in recent decades, research in environmental criminology has developed rapidly within each of these approaches. Yet research in the subfield remains fragmented and competing theories are rarely examined together. The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Criminology takes a unique approach and synthesizes the contributions of existing methods to better integrate the subfield as a whole. Gerben J.N. Bruinsma and Shane D. Johnson have assembled a cast of top scholars to provide an in-depth source for understanding how and why physical setting can influence the emergence of crime, affect the environment, and impact individual or group behavior. The contributors address how changes in the environment, global connectivity, and technology provide more criminal opportunities and new ways of committing old crimes. They also explore how crimes committed in countries with distinct cultural practices like China and West Africa might lead to different spatial patterns of crime. This is a state-of-the-art compendium on environmental criminology that reflects the diverse research and theory developed across the western world.

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Criminal Misconduct in Office: Law and Politics

Jeremy Horder - Oxford University Press, 23 feb 2018

 

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Should the criminal law be used to deter and punish corruption in politics: from employing family members at public expense to improper spending on elections, lobbying, and cronyism? How did so many MPs avoid facing charges after the 2009 government expenses scandal? In this book, Jeremy Horder tackles these questions and more. As well as offering the first treatment of the history, philosophy, and politics of the application of the offence of misconduct in office to Members of Parliament in England and Wales, Horder explains how political corruption might be dealt with in future, and how politicians could be held accountable for their actions so that they are deterred from betraying the public's trust. Use of the criminal law should not be the sole or even the main way to remedy all corruption in politics. Nevertheless, for too long the offence of misconduct in a public office has had an ambiguous status in the political realm. If we are to preserve the good health of government it must be seen as a constitutional fundamental. A charge of misconduct provides a way in which corrupt conduct on the part of legislators can be punished with an appropriate label, holding them to account for the misuse of power by reference to the standards of ordinary people. When other - civil law or regulatory - means prove insufficient, it should be possible for ordinary members of a jury, and not for Parliamentarians or other officials, to decide whether, for example, the expenditure of public money on legislators' private income and benefits amounts to a criminal abuse of the public's trust. This book offers an authoritative and accessible account of a 'bottom-up' (jury standards-led), as opposed to a 'top-down' (officials applying their own standards), approach to the role of the criminal law in constitutional contexts.

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Theoretical Boundaries of Armed Conflict and Human Rights

Jens David Ohlin - Cambridge University Press, 4 ago 2016  

 

Anteprima

In the last two decades, human rights law has played an expanding role in the legal regulation of wartime conduct. In the process, human rights law and international humanitarian law have developed a complicated sibling relationship. For some, this relationship is viewed as a mutually reinforcing effort between like-minded regimes designed to civilize human behavior. For others, the relationship is a more complicated sibling rivalry. In this book, an unparalleled collection of legal theorists examine the relationship between these two bodies of law. Each chapter skilfully maps the possibilities of harmonization while, at the same time, raising cautionary flags about the limits of that project. The authors not only chart the existing state of the law, but also debate the normative implications of the continuing influence of human rights norms on current practices including torture, targeted killings, the conduct of non-international armed conflicts, and post-war state building.

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The WTO and International Investment Law: Converging Systems

Jürgen Kurtz - Cambridge University Press, 25 gen 2016

 

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International law has historically regulated foreign trade and foreign investment differently. Distinct evolutionary pathways have led to variances in treaty form, institutional culture, and dispute settlement. With their inevitable erosion through the late twentieth to early twenty-first centuries, those weak boundaries have become porous and indefensible. Powerful economic, legal and sociological factors are now pushing the two systems together. In this book, Jürgen Kurtz systematically explores the often complex and little-understood dynamics of this convergence phenomenon. Kurtz addresses the growing connections between international trade and investment law, proposing a theoretically grounded and doctrinally tractable framework to understand the deepening relationship between them. The book also offers reform ideas and possibilities, providing treaty negotiators and other government officials with a set of theoretical insights and doctrinal models that can guide actors in building a justifiable and sustainable level of commonality between the two legal systems.

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Anteprima

The Inter-State Application under the European Convention on Human Rights: Between Collective Enforcement of Human Rights and International Dispute Settlement

Isabella Risini - BRILL, 9 mag 2018

The comprehensive analysis about the Inter-State Application under the ECHR by Isabella Risini fills a gap in the literature. The study provides an informed proposal to strengthen the protection of human rights in Europe and the role of the Court.

Sezione Diritto pubblico

The Inter-State Application under the European Convention on Human Rights: Between Collective Enforcement of Human Rights and International Dispute Settlement

Anteprima

Isabella Risini - BRILL, 9 mag 2018 

 

The comprehensive analysis about the Inter-State Application under the ECHR by Isabella Risini fills a gap in the literature. The study provides an informed proposal to strengthen the protection of human rights in Europe and the role of the Court.

Sezione Diritto pubblico

Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance: Making it Stick

Anteprima

Malcolm Langford, César Rodríguez-Garavito, Julieta Rossi

Cambridge University Press, 2 mar 2017

 

The past few decades have witnessed an explosion of judgments on social rights around the world. However, we know little about whether these rulings have been implemented. Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance is the first book to engage in a comparative study of compliance of social rights judgments as well as their broader effects. Covering fourteen different domestic and international jurisdictions, and drawing on multiple disciplines, it finds significant variance in outcomes and reveals both spectacular successes and failures in making social rights a reality on the ground. This variance is strikingly similar to that found in previous studies on civil rights, and the key explanatory factors lie in the political calculus of defendants and the remedial framework. The book also discusses which strategies have enhanced implementation, and focuses on judicial reflexivity, alliance building and social mobilisation.

Sezione Diritto penale

Respuestas normativas de la Unión Europea a la amenaza del Estado Islámico, Dáesh

Juan Jorge Piernas López - Editorial Comares, 2018

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Anteprima

General Principles of Law and International Investment Arbitration

Andrea Gattini, Attila Tanzi, Filippo Fontanelli - BRILL, 1 giu 2018 

 

In General Principles of Law in Investment Arbitration, the authors address selected general principles of law, assessing their functions in investment arbitration. The resulting picture is that of a lively source that escapes doctrinal straitjackets and maintains its relevance.

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Drones and Other Unmanned Weapons Systems Under International Law

di Stuart Casey-maslen, Maziar Homayounnejad, Hilary Stauffer, Nathalie Weizmann -  Brill, 2018

Drone strikes have become a key feature of counterterrorism operations in an increasing number of countries. This work explores the various domestic and international legal regimes that govern the manufacture, transfer, and use of armed drones as well as fully autonomous weapons systems where computer algorithms decide who or what to target and when to fire.

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Boundaries of State, Boundaries of Rights: Human Rights, Private Actors, and Positive Obligations

Tsvi Kahana, Anat Scolnicov - Cambridge University Press, 20 ott 2016

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This collection of essays draws together innovative scholars to examine the relationship between two legal and political phenomena: the shrinking of the state as a monopoly of power in favour of the expansion of power over individuals in private hands, and the change in the nature of rights. The authors expertly discuss the implications of the changing boundaries of state power, the legal responses to this development, its application to human rights, and re-conceptualizations of public life as obligations are handed over to private hands. This innovative book deals with an important set of problems and offers a fresh perspective of different legal themes in an integrated fashion.

Sezione Diritto privato

GDPR e normativa privacy. Commentario

G. M. Riccio, G. Scorza, E. Belisario - Ipsoa, 2018

Sezione Diritto e società

Anteprima

Abuso del diritto tributario

Villani Maria - G Giappichelli Editore, 28 lug 2017

Sezione Diritto e società

Diritto penale tributario

Enzo Musco, Francesco Ardito - Zanichelli, 2016 

 

Questo volume persegue l'obiettivo di fare il punto sullo "stato di salute" del nuovo diritto penale tributario, recentemente introdotto con il d.lgs. 158/2015, per coglierne le ragioni che hanno spinto il legislatore a modificare la disciplina vigente di cui al d.lgs. 74/2000. Come è noto invero la riforma del 2000 aveva rotto i ponti con il sistema delle condotte incriminate dalla l. 516/1982 e aveva focalizzato l'intervento riformistico su poche fattispecie penali, riportando sostanzialmente il diritto tributario penale nella casa comune del diritto penale, amalgamando così scelte e tecniche di costruzione delle fattispecie penale. Ma le opzioni normative successive alla riforma del 2000 ne avevano, purtroppo, ridimensionato le strategie soprattutto con innesti normativi svincolati dai criteri direttivi della legge delega e con l'utilizzo di tecniche di normativa di tipo casistico, riportando indietro le lancette del diritto penale tributario con l'incriminare nuovamente condotte prodromiche a prescindere da un reale accertamento dell'evasione. Si imponeva allora un nuovo intervento riformistico e non solo per ragioni teoriche ma anche perché la prassi applicativa aveva compiuto in non pochi casi evidenti forzature interpretative del testo normativo per adeguarlo a situazioni contingenti.

Sezione Diritto e società

Codice civile e leggi collegate 2018

Giorgio De Nova - Zanichelli, 2018

Sezione Diritto pubblico

Manuale di diritto amministrativo

Stefano Tarullo - Zanichelli, 2017

 

Il testo, concepito prevalentemente per gli studenti universitari delle materie giuridiche, si propone di fornire un quadro esaustivo del vigente diritto amministrativo sostanziale, tentando allo stesso tempo di favorirne il rapido apprendimento. Ne è riprova l'originale metodologia prescelta, che punta a conciliare completezza di illustrazione e sintesi concettuale. Rispetto ad analoghi manuali, il testo si segnala per alcune innovative classificazioni e partizioni della materia, elaborate dall'autore per una migliore e più immediata comprensione della disciplina. In tal senso alcune delle categorie del passato meritavano di essere riviste ed ammodernate in considerazione dell'inarrestabile sviluppo che il diritto amministrativo ha conosciuto negli ultimi decenni e continua a conoscere: basti soltanto pensare al recente codice dei contratti pubblici (D.Lgs. n. 50/2016) ed alle riforme che hanno interessato la trasparenza amministrativa, l'accesso civico ed il procedimento amministrativo (il pensiero va soprattutto al D.Lgs. n. 33/2013, nonché alla L. n. 124/2015 ed ai relativi decreti attuativi). Valorizzando l'esperienza didattica vissuta nelle aule universitarie e nelle scuole di specializzazione per le professioni legali, l'autore fa tesoro delle acquisizioni dottrinali e giurisprudenziali che informano la fisionomia degli istituti, riversando nell'opera la propria personale esperienza di avvocato del foro amministrativo. Viene così sviluppato un percorso espositivo insieme critico, coerente ed organico, incentrato su tre cardini fondamentali: enucleazione delle nozioni, loro collocazione sistematica e loro interrelazione. Ne scaturisce una visione d'insieme che guarda al diritto amministrativo del presente e soprattutto del futuro, con un occhio sempre attento alle tendenze evolutive dell'ordinamento.

Sezione Diritto privato

Maternità e congedi parentali

di Rossella Schiavone - IPSOA, 2012

Sezione Diritto privato

Le persone e la famiglia: 4

di Andrea Sassi, Francesco Scaglione, Stefania Stefanelli - UTET Giuridica, 2018

Sezione Storia del diritto

A Textbook of International Law

di Alf Ross - Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2013   

Sezione Diritto pubblico

Le statut d'État membre de l'Union européenne: Quatorzièmes Journées Jean Monnet

Laurence Potvin-Solis - Bruylant, 16 gen 2018

 

Anteprima

Cet ouvrage rassemble les actes actualisés des Quatorzièmes Journées Jean Monnet sur « Le statut d’État membre de l’Union européenne », un sujet qui vient à point nommé en cette année anniversaire des traités de Rome et à l’heure du Brexit. Ce statut est situé dans l’ordre constitutionnel de l’Union et rapporté aux processus d’intégration et de fédéralisation qui caractérisent l’Union. Il est conçu comme le socle de la condition juridique de l’État membre de l’Union et se définit comme un ensemble d’engagements, de droits, d’obligations et de garanties inscrits dans les traités et la jurisprudence de la Cour de justice de l’Union. Il est mis à l’étude dans sa singularité rapportée à la singularité de l’Union. Il lie l’État membre et l’Union et agit sur la condition de l’État et de l’Union. Il est analysé en lien avec les valeurs communes, les principes fondamentaux et les objectifs de l’Union. Il s’impose aux États candidats à l’adhésion puis comme statut d’appartenance et de participation à l’ordre juridique de l’Union.

Il est traité comme expression de l’acquis constitutionnel de l’Union et comme facteur de progrès par la dynamique intégrative qui anime sa nature intrinsèque liée à l’essence fédérale de la construction européenne et qui gouverne la participation des États membres aux fonctions et aux politiques de l’Union. Il est donc étudié au regard des avancées des processus d’intégration, de constitutionnalisation et de fédéralisation qui caractérisent l’Union, en soulignant tant leurs évolutions positives que les obstacles qui les affectent ainsi que la possibilité de régressions dans toutes les dimensions et implications constitutionnelles qu’elle comporte. Comme statut commun aux États membres de l’Union, il est rapporté aux processus de différenciation dans l’Union et aux enjeux du droit de retrait introduit par le traité de Lisbonne, mis en exergue par le Brexit.

Il met en lumière la singularité, la permanence, l’affinement et l’enrichissement du statut d’État membre de l’Union, d’un point de vue institutionnel et matériel. Il permet d’identifier la teneur positive et l’interdépendance des droits et obligations que ce statut incarne, leur dualité de substance européenne/nationale, ainsi que leurs variations dans les relations entre l’État membre et l’Union. Il met en évidence les liens et tensions que ce statut exprime, - dans l’ordre interne de l’Union et dans ses relations extérieures -, entre l’Union et ses États, d’une part, et entre les États membres entre eux, d’autre part. Le rôle constitutionnel de la Cour de justice de l’Union ainsi que les apports constitutionnels de la jurisprudence et du « dialogue des juges » occupent une place privilégiée dans les analyses menées.

Sezione Storia del diritto

Alf Ross: A Life

Jens Evald - DJØF Publishing, 2014 

 

Alf Ross (1899-1979) was a well-known Danish legal and moral philosopher, a scholar of international law, and one of the founding fathers of the so-called Scandinavian legal realism. On the surface, the life of Alf Ross might have been considered a fairy tale. Ross had to go through hardship, both in relation to love and work, before he became an internationally known and recognized philosopher and legal scholar. But, the story of Alf Ross is not a fairy tale. It is the story of a man's struggle to greatness and the consequences of such a struggle in his relationship with other people, including his spouse. This book presents the personal and professional life story of Alf Ross.

Sezione Diritto penale

Fundamentos del derecho penal de la empresa

Jesús-María Silva Sánchez - Edisofer, 2016 

 

Esta obra constituye un instrumento de análisis y resolución de los principales problemas que se plantean en el ámbito del derecho penal económico y de la empresa.

Sezione Diritto e società

Why Democracy?

Alf Ross - Harvard University Press, 16 apr 2014 

Sezione Storia del diritto

Anteprima

Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana Leidensia

Pseudo-Dositheus, Dositheus (Magister.) - Walter de Gruyter, 2004 

 

Die Bibliotheca Teubneriana, gegründet 1849, ist die weltweit älteste, traditionsreichste und umfangreichste Editionsreihe griechischer und lateinischer Literatur von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit. Pro Jahr erscheinen 4-5 neue Editionen. Sämtliche Ausgaben werden durch eine lateinische Praefatio ergänzt.