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The ethics of armed conflict: A cosmopolitan just war theory.
John W. Lango.
2014
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Resumen:
Just
war theory exists to stop armies and countries from using armed force
without good cause. But how can we judge whether a war is just? In this
book
John W. Lango aims to develop a set of cosmopolitan just war principles
for all forms of armed conflict, arguing that the more traditional
state-centric just war theory should be both globalized and
democratized.
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Human rights and democracy: The precarious Triumph of ideals.
Todd Landman.
2013
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Resumen:
The
20th century has been described as the bloodiest in human history, but
it was also the century in which people around the world embraced ideas
of
democracy and human rights as never before, constructing social,
political and legal institutions seeking to contain human behaviour.
Todd Landman offers an optimistic, yet cautionary tale of these
developments, drawing on the literature, from politics, international
relations and international law. He celebrates the global turn from
tyranny and violence towards democracy and rights but also warns of the
precariousness of these achievements in the face of democratic setbacks
and the undermining of rights commitments by
many countries during the so-called 'War on Terror'.
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Discrimination at work: Comparing European, French, and American Law.
Marie Mercat-Bruns.
2016
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Resumen:
Do
the United States and France, both post-industrial democracies, differ
in their views and laws concerning discrimination? Marie Mercat-Bruns, a
Franco-American
scholar, examines the differences in how the two countries approach
discrimination. Bringing together prominent legal scholars—including
Robert Post, Linda Krieger, Martha Minow, Reva Siegel, Susan Sturm,
Richard Ford, and others—Mercat-Bruns demonstrates
how the two nations have adopted divergent strategies. The United
States continues, with mixed success at "colorblind" policies, to deal
with issues of diversity in university enrollment, class action
sex-discrimination lawsuits, and rampant police violence
against African American men and women. In France, the country has
banned the full-face veil while making efforts to present itself as a
secular republic. Young men and women whose parents and grandparents
came from sub-Sahara and North Africa are stuck coping
with a society that fails to take into account the barriers to
employment and education they face. Discrimination at Work provides an
incisive comparative analysis of how the nature of discrimination in
both countries has changed, now often hidden, or steeped
in deep unconscious bias. While it is rare for employers in both
countries to openly discriminate, deep systemic discrimination exists,
rooted in structural and environmental causes and the ways each state
has dealt with difference in general. Invigorating
and incisive, the book examines hot-button issues such as sexual
harassment; race, religious and gender discrimination; and equality for
LGBT individuals, thereby delivering comparisons meant to further social
equality and fundamental human rights across border.
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Protecting
the rights of people with autism in the fields of education and
employment: International, European and national perspectives.
Valentina Della Fina y Rachele Cera Editors.
2015
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Resumen:
Fundamental
rights for all people with disabilities, education and employment are
key for the inclusion of people with autism. They play as facilitators
for the social inclusion of persons with autism and as multipliers for
their enjoyment of other fundamental rights. After outlining the
international and European dimensions of the legal protection of the
rights to education and employment of people with autism,
the book provides an in-depth analysis of domestic legislative,
judicial and administrative practice of the EU Member States in these
fields. Each chapter identifies the good practices on inclusive
education and employment of people with autism consistent
with principles and obligations enshrined in the UN Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Articles 24 and 27). The book
contains the scientific results of the European Project "Promoting equal
rights of people with autism in the field of employment
and education" aimed at supporting the implementation of the UN
Convention in the fields of inclusive education and employment.
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Migration, gender and social justice: Perspectives on human insecurity.
Thanh-Dam Truong, Des Gasper, Jeff Handmaker, Sylvia I. Bergh Editors.
2014
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Resumen:
This
book examines the links between gender and migration and their
implications for social justice thinking, both at the experiential and
normative
levels. It offers insights also into the uses of human security
thinking as a framework for attention to social justice concerns,
including in trans-border contexts, and to their intersectional
complexity. The volume presents a diverse but selective set of
empirical, theoretical, and methodological issues on gender in
migration from migrant-centred and southern perspectives. Its aim is to
stimulate debate and discussion among migration scholars and
professionals engaged in migration-related policy and to enable
insights and enrich practices on gender and social justice.
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Arte breve de la invención del derecho.
Ramon Llull.
2015
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Resumen:
Este libro contiene el arte breve de la invención del derecho, la traducción al español de
Ars brevis quae est de inventione iuris, la última obra de Ramon
Llull dedicada a la aplicación de su Arte al derecho, escrita en 1308.
En esta obra, tal y como sostiene Rafael Ramis Barceló en el Estudio
Preliminar a la misma, Llull intentó transformar,
hasta cierto punto, su Arte en una teoría de la argumentación,
adoptando tanto conceptos de la filosofía aristotélica como algunos
casos de derecho civil y canónico procedentes del acervo del
ius commune. El interés de este tratado luliano radica, entre
otras muchas cosas, en la exposición de un método jurídico radicalmente
distinto del que cultivaban los legistas y canonistas de su época, y que
era capaz de mostrar algunas de las debilidades
epistemológicas y argumentativas del saber jurídico y de su enseñanza a
comienzos del Siglo XIV.
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Basic questions of tort law from a comparative perspective.
Bjarte Askeland, W. Jonathan Cardi y Michael D. Green, entre otros colaboradores.
2015
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Resumen:
The
starting point for this project on the 'Basic Questions of Tort Law'
was the book written by Helmut Koziol, the 'Basic Questions of Tort Law
from
a Germanic Perspective' (Sramek Verlag, 2012), a volume which presented
an introduction into the law of torts from a Germanic perspective.
Colleagues from seven countries were then invited to give critical
responses to the ideas presented in the 2012 volume.
The comparative law conclusions then attempt to pick up on the ideas
expressed in the legal systems examined and to make them amenable for
debate on the further development of the legal systems and their
harmonization. Obviously, it was not possible to respond
to all of the valuable thoughts contained in the country reports. Above
all, the focus was on ideas that have not yet been discussed very often
and also on providing impulses in relation to legal policies. It was
fascinating that often the national responses
to law of damages issues at first gave the impression of being less
than appropriate but then in relation to basic ideas within the
respective legal systems and in interplay with other legal institutions,
for example social security law, they turned out to
have good arguments in their favour. Moreover, there were sometimes
additional features in yet other legal systems that supplied ideas for
how to further develop a not-yet persuasive solution and which
ultimately led to surprising, new basic concepts, which
could deliver valuable ideas for the development and harmonization of
the European law of damages. Thus, it was possible to develop in the
area of personal injuries a proposal for a new kind of interplay between
the law of damages, liability insurance and
social security, which could offer many benefits.
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Introducción al derecho comparado.
Alessandro Somma.
2015
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Resumen:
La mirada que se dirige al derecho
parte de un punto de observación externo. Se contempla el derecho en su
estructura, pero también en su función; en su consideración como
conjunto de preceptos, pero también de instituciones que los ponen en
acción para distribuir imperativamente bienes y valores.
Más que el derecho, se examina la experiencia jurídica, tanto en su
dimensión empírica como en su esencia de práctica discursiva. Así es
desde el nacimiento de la comparación como ciencia autónoma a inicios
del Siglo XX, cuando compareció en el escenario del
saber jurídico para refundarlo sobre bases críticas: Para dislocar las
convenciones y pensamientos únicos, como el legicentrismo y el
dogmatismo típico de los paradigmas científicos imperantes en la época.
De ahí se llama a analizar el fenómeno del derecho
inmerso en su dimensión espacio-temporal, valorando por tanto las
interacciones entre el derecho y las otras ciencias sociales.
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