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A Bishopric Between Three Kingdoms
This book explores the peculiarities of the Bishopric of Calahorra’s eleventh- and twelfth-century institutional development, and their profound relationship to the see’s location on a highly volatile frontier between the emergent and fiercely competitive Christian kingdoms of north-eastern Iberia.
The Temporal Dimension of Justice
Should historical injustices always be repaired? Upon scrutinising public institutions and present holdings, it becomes evident that many are partially the result of past injustices. Consequently, the imperative to rectify and repair historical injustices emerges. However, as circumstances change over time and these changes affect justice, the argument for repairing historical injustices becomes more intricate. The distributive and reparative aspects of justice may be in tension with each other. Possible tensions between these aspects of justice are assessed by discussing the thesis about the supersession of historical injustices. Different facets of the supersession thesis are evaluated in ...
Debating Laws
This book seeks to explore the potential and actual value of parliamentary debates as a source of legislative justification. Drawing on a sample of recent Spanish legislation, the papers collected here analyse (critically) the rationale of several laws or legislative measures as it can be reconstructed from the respective parliamentary discussions. All issues covered have given rise to intense political, legal and social controversy: they range from the combat against gender violence, the legal status of bullfighting, the protection of crime victims and the so-called ‘push-backs’ at the border, to the regulation of euthanasia, the minimum living income, underage girls’ access to aborti...
Transatlantic Studies
This book emerges from, and performs, an ongoing debate about transatlantic approaches in the fields of Iberian, Latin American, African, and Luso-Brazilian studies. In thirty-five short essays, leading scholars reframe the intertwined cultural histories of the transnational spaces encompassed by the former Spanish and Portuguese empires.
Exploring the Province of Legislation
Legisprudence considers a variety of perspectives and relies on contributions from numerous different disciplines. Rather than providing examples of the various possible approaches to legisprudential studies, this book – bringing together lawyers and legal theorists from seven different countries – highlights two aspects of the many disciplines involved. Firstly, it discusses theoretical abstraction, which borders on, or enters into the realm of full-fledged philosophical speculation. Secondly, it examines empirical observation of specific cases, precisely situated regarding their spatial or historical collocation, or referring to a particular species of legislative policy. Focusing on l...
Seguridad jurídica, pobreza y corrupción en Iberoamérica
Este volumen reúne parte de los trabajos presentados en el II Congreso Bienal sobre Seguridad Jurídica que estuvo dedicado a la relación entre Seguridad Jurídica, Pobreza y Corrupción. El libro está dividido en dos partes. En la primera se recogen los artículos que exploran de manera teórica la vinculación entre (in)seguridad jurídica, pobreza y corrupción. En la segunda parte de este volumen se agrupan una serie de trabajos en donde esa relación teórica, presentada en la primera parte, se corporiza en el relato de diversas experiencias sobre estas vinculaciones. Así se presentan diferentes casos o situaciones que dan cuenta de la relación entre los tres ejes temáticos de la publicación. Jueces, funcionarios públicos nacionales e internacionales y académicos son colaboradores en este trabajo imprescindible para entender tres de las grandes "calamidades" que afectan a Iberoamérica. Además de su rigurosidad teórica y su importancia práctica, el libro es un llamado de atención a considerar como central las cuestiones vinculadas a la seguridad jurídica y a fortalecerla en pos de combatir los otros flagelos que, a su vez, se realimentan entre sí.
Derecho y pobreza
Este libro ofrece una aproximación a la cuestión de la pobreza desde una perspectiva estrictamente jurídica, que no describe únicamente las consecuencias de la práctica jurídica sobre la pobreza, sino que promueve un análisis más profundo de sus estrechas interconexiones teóricas y, en algunos casos, sobre el modo en que la práctica permite visibilizar esas vinculaciones. Habitualmente el derecho se ha preocupado de manera especial por la desigualdad, solo desde hace pocos años se ha comenzado a explorar la relación multifacética y ubicua que media entre derecho y pobreza. Este libro constituye una contribución a esos debates que se promueve desde la noción misma de derecho y ...
Pobreza, corrupción, (in)seguridad
La pobreza, la corrupción y la inseguridad jurídica son tres calamidades que afectan a nuestras sociedades. Estos fenómenos dependen por completo de acciones humanas voluntarias e intencionales. Son, pues, evitables. Sin embargo, su universalidad y su persistencia provocan que sean considerados como catástrofes naturales. Se asumen, de ese modo, como ineludibles y nadie se siente responsable por ellas. Pero nada más lejos de la realidad. La pobreza es una cuestión que interroga nuestras posiciones desde diversos puntos de vista: moral, político, económico y social. Y ha de preocupar a los diseños institucionales y a las prioridades políticas de un modo apremiante, ya que su presenc...
Contact Strategies
Around the year 1800, independent Native groups still effectively controlled about half the territory of the Americas. How did they maintain their political autonomy and territorial sovereignty, hundreds of years after the arrival of Europeans? In a study that spans the eighteenth to twentieth centuries and ranges across the vast interior of South America, Heather F. Roller examines this history of power and persistence from the vantage point of autonomous Native peoples in Brazil. The central argument of the book is that Indigenous groups took the initiative in their contacts with Brazilian society. Rather than fleeing or evading contact, Native peoples actively sought to appropriate what w...
Reversal of Development in Argentina
Carlos Waisman has pinpointed the specific beliefs that led the Peronists unwittingly to transform their country from a relatively prosperous land of recent settlement, like Australia and Canada, to an impoverished and underdeveloped society resembling the rest of Latin America. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
