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El socio (Byblos: Narrativa Thriller) (Byblos: Narrativa Thriller)
Espiaron cada uno de sus movimientos hasta obtener la seguridad absoluta de que era él. Se hacía llamar Danilo Silva y vivía en una modesta casa de una ciudad pequeña de Brasil. Pesaba mucho menos e incluso su cara era levemente distinta, gracias a la intervención de un cirujano Al parecer, vivía solo. Es decir, nada que ver con aquel abogado de Biloxi llamado Patrick Lanigan que, cuatro años antes, había desaparecido con noventa millones de dólares dejando atrás a su hermosa mujer y a su adorable hija. Pero ellos estaban convencidos de que Danilo Silva era Lanigan. Y de que con su captura pondrían fin a aquella historia. Grave error: la historia acababa de empezar. .
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Law as a Social System (Oxford Socio-Legal Studies)
Modern systems theory provides a new method for the analysis of society through an examination of the structures of its communications. In this volume, Niklas Luhmann, the theory's leading exponent, explores its implications for our understanding of law. Luhmann argues that current thinking about how law operates within a modern society is seriously deficient. He lays out the theoretical and methodological tools that, he argues, can advance our understanding of contemporary society and in particular of the identity, performance, and function of the legal system within that society. In systems theory, society is its communications: they are its empirical reality; the items that can be observed and studied. Systems theory identifies how communications operate within a physical world and how different sub-systems of communication operate alongside each other. In this volume, Luhmann uses systems theory to address a question central to legal theory: what differentiates law from other social practices? However, unlike conventional legal theory this volume seeks to provide an answer in terms of a general social theory: a methodology that answers the question in a manner applicable not only to law, but also to all the other complex and highly differentiated systems within modern society, such as politics, the economy, religion, the media, and education. This sociological approach offers profound insights into the relationships between law and other social systems..
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Law in Action: A Socio-Legal Reader (University Casebook)
This text is designed for law students, and for courses in legal studies programs. The reader deals in depth with the relationship between the legal system and its surrounding society, including such classic issues as the social sources of law and the impact of legal rules and institutions on society; other chapters examine the role of judges and lawyers in the system, and how culture and historical tradition help mold the legal systems of various societies. The book is divided into six chapters, each containing classic and contemporary readings on these subjects, together with extensive notes and questions to guide the student..
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Law and Body Politics: Regulating the Female Body (Socio-legal Studies)
The metaphor of the Body Politic found in the works of Plato, Aristotle, and Hobbes, amongst others, has been drawn upon by feminists to permit investigations of the politicization of the body and the saturation of the body with political meaning. Feminists have shown that whilst the female body has emerged as a site of struggle and a focus of legal fascination, the legal system has at the same time played a role in silencing women and rendering women's needs, if not their bodies, invisible. In unmasking the alleged impartiality and neutrality of law and in exposing the extent to which the legal subject is gendered, women have been shown to be alien to the legal system. This has led in some quarters to an expression of concern as to how, when, indeed whether at all women should resort to law. The premise of this book is that it is not necessary to accept or reject wholesale legal rules and procedures, and that different strategies can be advocated in response to different issues. Each chapter is concerned with an exploration of points at which law and the female body make contact and with strategies through which the nature and meaning of that contact can be reformulated. Areas such as women's reproductive lives, female circumcision, sterilization and violence against women are dealt with..
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The Justice of Islam: Comparative Perspectives on Islamic Law and Society (Oxford Socio-Legal Studies)
One out of five people in the world today lives subject to Islamic law, but stereotypes of rigid doctrine or harsh punishment obscure an understanding of the values and style of reasoning that characterize everyday lslamic adjudication. By considering its larger social and cultural context, this book shows Islamic law to be a kind of common law system: justice is sought through a careful assessment of persons, more than facts, and justice resides not in equality but in a quest for equivalence..
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Theory And Method in Socio-legal Research (O~nati International Series in Law and Society)
Socio-legal researchers increasingly recognise the need to employ a wide variety of methods in studying law and legal phenomena, and that this needs to be informed by an understanding of debates about theory and method in mainstream social science. This collection illustrates how a range of topics, including EU law, ombudsmen, judges, lawyers, Shariah Councils and the quality assurance industry can be researched from a socio-legal perspective. The objective of the collection is not, however, simply to present an interesting set of papers, but to use them to explore how different methods can be used in researching law and legal phenomena, and how methodological issues and debates in sociology are relevant to the study of law. A central theme is the debate between "structural" and "action" traditions in researching law. The collection also approaches the methodological problem of how sociology of law can address the content of legal practice, as a lawyer understands this, from a variety of perspectives. There is also discussion of the relationship between pure and applied research. The editors have provided a critical introduction to each of the six sections, and a general introduction on law, sociology and method. The collection will provide an useful resource for socio-legal researchers wishing to improve the quality of their empirical work, and for law school researchers and postgraduates interested in the relationship between law and sociology..
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Colonial Genocide and Reparations Claims in the 21st Century: The Socio-Legal Context of Claims under International Law by the Herero against Germany for Genocide in Namibia, 1904-1908
More and more, the descendants of indigenous victims of genocide, land expropriation, forced labor, and other systematic human rights violations committed by colonial powers are seeking reparations under international law from the modern successor governments and corporations. As the number of colonial reparations cases increases, courts around the world are being asked to apply international law to determine whether reparations are due for atrocities and crimes that might have been committed long ago but whose lasting effects are alleged to injure the modern descendants of the victims. Sarkin analyzes the thorny issues of international law raised in such suits by focusing on groundbreaking cases in which he is involved as legal advisor to the paramount chief of the Herero people of Namibia. In 2001, the Herero became the first ethnic group to seek reparations under the legal definition of genocide by bringing multi-billion-dollar suits against Germany and German companies in a number of U.S. federal courts under the Alien Torts Claim Act of 1789. The Herero genocide, conducted in German South-West Africa (present-day Namibia) between 1904 and 1908, is recognized by the UN as the first organized state genocide in world history. Although the Herero were subjected to "Germany's First Genocide," they have, unlike the victims of the Holocaust, received no reparations from Germany. By machine-gun massacres, starvation, poisoning, and forced labor in Germany's first concentration camps, the German Schutztruppe systematically exterminated as many as 105,000 Herero women, and children, composing most of the Herero population. Sarkin considers whether these historical events constitute legally defined genocide, crimes against humanity, and other international crimes. He evaluates the legal status of indigenous polities in Africa at the time and he explores the enduring impact in Namibia of the Germany's colonial campaign of genocide. He extrapolates the Herero case to global issues of reparations, apologies, and historical human rights violations, especially in Africa..
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A General Jurisprudence of Law and Society (Oxford Socio-Legal Studies)
A theoretical and sociological exploration of the relationship between law and society, this book constructs an approach to law that integrates legal theory with sociological approaches to law. Law is generally understood to be a mirror of society--a reflection of its customs and morals--that functions to maintain social order. Focusing on this common understanding, the book conducts a survey of Western legal and social theories about law and its relationship within society, engaging in a theoretical and empirical critique of this common understanding..
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