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  • En todos los rincones imperiales

    apropiaciones de tierras baldías y composiciones de propiedades agrarias en América y Filipinas (siglos XVI-XIX)

    "En 1591, el rey Felipe II requirió la contribución de sus súbditos en las Indias para la creación de una armada que se encargara de defender los navíos españoles de los ataques de corsarios y enemigos del Imperio español. También advirtió el desorden y el exceso habidos en la distribución de tierras en los virreinatos indianos. Para recaudar recursos y poder fundar la armada, el rey demandó de ... Read more

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  • Zoning Law Zenith: Land Use Conflicts Resolved

    Zoning Law Zenith: Land Use Conflicts Resolved is a comprehensive and insightful exploration of the laws, principles, conflicts, and public choices that shape the use of land in modern society. Land is never merely empty space. It is the foundation of homes, businesses, industries, farms, parks, roads, schools, sacred places, historic districts, and natural systems. Every decision about land use ... Read more

    PHP184.18

  • Derecho transicional de tierras

    ¿Cuáles la función del derecho agrario en Colombia? Este ensayo se plantea dicha pregunta constantemente. El derecho agrario ha evolucionado desde la producción de alimentos y el acceso a la tierra de los campesinos -hacia la regulación de diversos actores en minería, agroindustria, turismo, servicios ambientales, energía, entre otros. El uso de la tierra y sus efectos sobre la sustentabilidad de ... Read more

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  • Construction Contracts

    Questions and Answers

    This fully revised and updated edition of Construction Contracts: Questions and Answers includes 300 questions and incorporates 42 new judicial decisions, the JCT 2016 updates and the RIBA Building Contracts and Professional Services Contracts 2018 updates.Construction professionals of all kinds frequently need legal advice that is straightforward as well as authoritative and legally rigorous. ... Read more

    PHP5,235.24

  • Indigenous Reconciliation and Decolonization

    Narratives of Social Justice and Community Engagement

    Edited by Ranjan Datta ...
    Series series Indigenous Peoples and the Law
    This book addresses the ethical and practical issues at stake in the reconciliation of Indigenous and non-indigenous communities.An increasing number of researchers, educators, and social and environmental activists are eager to find ways to effectively support ongoing attempts to recognize, integrate and promote Indigenous perspectives and communities. Taking Canada as its focus, this book offers ... Read more

    PHP3,880.08

  • Natural Law and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Europe

    Jurisprudence, Theology, Moral and Natural Philosophy

    This impressive volume is the first attempt to look at the intertwined histories of natural law and the laws of nature in early modern Europe. These notions became central to jurisprudence and natural philosophy in the seventeenth century; the debates that informed developments in those fields drew heavily on theology and moral philosophy, and vice versa. Historians of science, law, philosophy, ... Read more

    PHP4,003.28

  • Medicine and Justice

    Medico-Legal Practice in England and Wales, 1700–1914

    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
    This monograph makes a major new contribution to the historiography of criminal justice in England and Wales by focusing on the intersection of the history of law and crime with medical history. It does this through the lens provided by one group of historical actors, medical professionals who gave evidence in criminal proceedings. They are the means of illuminating the developing methods and ... Read more

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  • Housing and Local Government

    In England and Wales

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Housing Policy and Home Ownership
    Originally published in 1966 and written at a time when UK housing policy was undergoing major changes, this volume provides a substantial historical introduction which outlines the development of housing policy in the UK from the mid 19th – mid 20th Centuries. Discussion of the administrative framework, the powers of local housing authorities, housing standards, finance and the improvement of ... Read more

    PHP3,079.30

  • The Export of Legal Education

    Its Promise and Impact in Transition Countries

    by D. Wes Rist ...
    This collection is the multifaceted result of an effort to learn from those who have been educated in an American law school and who then returned to their home countries to apply the lessons of that experience in nations experiencing social, economic, governmental, and legal transition. Written by an international group of scholars and practitioners, this work provides a unique insight into the ... Read more

    PHP4,742.45

  • Planning, Law and Economics

    The Rules We Make for Using Land

    Series series RTPI Library Series
    What rights does the state have over privately owned land? Why should some landowners be favoured over others? How can the practice of land-use planning be improved?This book addresses these essential questions and shows that the interests people have in property rights over land and buildings are not just emotional but often financial too. It follows that the law, which affects who has property ... Read more

    PHP3,387.29

  • Religion, Education and the State

    An Unprincipled Doctrine in Search of Moorings

    by Mark Strasser ...
    In the context of education, Church and State issues are of growing importance and appear to be increasingly divisive. This volume critically examines the developing jurisprudence relating to religion in the schools beginning with Everson v. Board of Education, where the US Supreme Court discussed the wall of separation between Church and State. The study traces both how the Court's views have ... Read more

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  • Women, Infanticide and the Press, 1822-1922

    News Narratives in England and Australia

    by Nicola Goc ...
    In her study of anonymous infanticide news stories that appeared from 1822 to 1922 in the heart of the British Empire, in regional Leicester, and in the penal colony of Australia, Nicola Goc uses Critical Discourse Analysis to reveal both the broader patterns and the particular rhetorical strategies journalists used to report on young women who killed their babies. Her study takes Foucault’s ... Read more

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  • The Culture of Equity in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Britain and America

    by Mark Fortier ...
    Drawing on politics, religion, law, literature, and philosophy, this interdisciplinary study is a sequel to Mark Fortier’s bookThe Culture of Equity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2006). The earlier volume traced the meanings and usage of equity in broad cultural terms (including but not limited to law) to position equity as a keyword of valuation, persuasion, and understanding; the present ... Read more

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  • Legal Dualism

    The Absorption of the Occupied Territories into Israel

    This book examines the various methods by which Israeli law is being applied to the occupied territories and their inhabitants. It discusses the legal situation of the territories from the point of view of the positive law that is in effect there. ... Read more

    PHP3,880.08

  • Home Ownership

    Differentiation and Fragmentation

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Housing Policy and Home Ownership
    Originally published in 1990 and drawing on extensive research, this book provides an evaluation of the impact of the growth of home ownership in the UK, and of the claims and counter-claims made for its social significance. The book examines critically the evidence for and against the proposition that mass home ownership is contributing towards a more equal society. Wide-ranging in its coverage, ... Read more

    PHP3,079.30

  • Building by Local Authorities

    The Report of an Inquiry by the Royal Institute of Public Administration

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Housing Policy and Home Ownership
    Originally published in 1961, is the report into an investigation of the forms of organization used by local authorities of many varied types, populations and areas for the design and erection of new buildings and the maintenance of existing ones. It discusses the relations between Government departments and local authorities in the control of building design, standards and costs and the part ... Read more

    PHP3,202.50

  • Justiça Climática e Vulnerabilidades - 1ª Ed - 2024

    "É buscando contribuir com tais reflexões que se organizou o presente livro. Dividido em três partes ("Questões introdutórias", "Questões estruturais" e "Justiça Climática e Grupos Vulneráveis mais impactados", que por sua vez se subdivide em geral e Brasil), contando com 15 capítulos, além desta apresentação, a obra traz reflexões de autores nacionais e estrangeiros, com abordagens teóricas e ... Read more

    PHP999.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stability and Change in Modern Property Law

    A Comparative Approach to the Principle of Numerus Clausus

    Series series International Studies in the Theory of Private Law
    This book examines the English and German version of the numerus clausus principle which holds that there is a closed list of permitted property rights.It challenges recent views that the principle renders property law inflexible and unable to accommodate social and economic changes. Relying on a novel approach combining property theory and comparative research of English and German law, it argues ... Read more

    PHP5,987.39

  • Urban Informality

    Experiences and Urban Sustainability Transitions in Middle East Cities

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This professional book introduces an analytical framework of urban informality perspectives in the Middle East that is aligned with the Global South. The context of Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan—in the Middle East— is the transregional focus of this book. In these contexts, the book opens a new arena of academic discussion on the theory and practice of urban informality.Urban Informality: Experiences ... Read more

    PHP3,228.89

  • Revise SQE Land Law 2027

    SQE1 Revision Guide

    This book will help candidates preparing for the SQE1 exam to revise the legal concepts that underpin land law and will give them a strong base in the Functioning Legal Knowledge required for the SQE1 assessment. It demonstrates the working of the core principles of honesty and integrity in accordance with the SoSC, the SRA Principles and the Code of Conduct. It covers all the core areas of the ... Read more

    PHP1,663.19

  • The Homevoter Hypothesis

    How Home Values Influence Local Government Taxation, School Finance, and Land-Use Policies

    Just as investors want the companies they hold equity in to do well, homeowners have a financial interest in the success of their communities. If neighborhood schools are good, if property taxes and crime rates are low, then the value of the homeowner’s principal asset—his home—will rise. Thus, as William Fischel shows, homeowners become watchful citizens of local government, not merely to improve ... Read more

    PHP1,868.89

  • Trading Zones in Environmental Education

    Creating Transdisciplinary Dialogue

    Series Book 1 - [Re]thinking Environmental Education
    Environmental educators often adhere to a relatively narrow theoretical paradigm focusing on changing attitudes and knowledge, which are assumed to foster pro-environmental behaviors, which, in turn, leads to better environmental quality. This book takes a different approach to trying to understand how environmental education might influence people, their communities, and the environment. The ... Read more

    PHP10,178.59

  • Law, Time and Historical Injustices

    A Critical Analysis of Intuitive Judicial Reasoning

    This book provides a critical assessment of how judges reason in the adjudication of historical injustices.The practice of adjudication in historical cases of injustice require that, in determining collective responsibility, judges impart meaning to past injuries. This book analyses the narrative mechanisms through which this meaning is produced. Focusing on three areas of adjudication–racial ... Read more

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  • Educating for Well-Being in Law

    Positive Professional Identities and Practice

    Series series Emerging Legal Education
    Bringing together the current international body of knowledge on key issues for educating for well-being in law, this book offers comparative perspectives across jurisdictions, and utilises a range of theoretical lenses (including socio-legal, psychological and ethical theories) in analysing well-being and legal education in law. The chapters include innovative and tested research methodologies ... Read more

    PHP3,880.08