Títulos en Legislación

Crímenes reales, misterios históricos y casos que aún inquietan al mundo. ¿Qué ocurre cuando cruzamos la línea entre lo conocido y lo inexplicable? El Umbral es un recorrido inquietante a través de los siglos, donde el crimen, el miedo y el misterio revelan algo más profundo que la violencia: revelan la condición humana.

The Executor Handbook: A Plain-English Guide to Navigating Probate, Settling an Estate, and Serving as Executor with Confidence is designed for people who have been named as executor and now need to understand what comes next. If you’re handling an estate for a parent, spouse, other relative, or friend, this book walks through the probate process in straightforward language and helps you understand the responsibilities, decisions, and common problems that often arise along the way. Serving as executor can feel overwhelming at first.

What if you could begin law school knowing what to expect before your first day of class? "The ABCs of Law School: Diary of a First Year Student" takes listeners behind the scenes of the first year of law school through Teresa Power's own experiences as a law student. Written by Teresa Power, J...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This is the official ⁠OpenStax Business Law I Essentials 2e audiobook⁠, produced by ⁠Audileo⁠, a valued OpenStax Technology Partner. Business Law I Essentials 2e is a brief introductory textbook designed to meet the scope and sequence...

What happens when the law promises liberty—but delivers injustice? In this incisive essay from *Civilization in the United States*, renowned Harvard law professor and civil-liberties advocate Zechariah Chafee, Jr. examines the widening divide between America’s democratic ideals and the legal...

Este libro explora las raíces del sistema penal mexicano y explica que su diseño, producto del golpe de Estado militar en 1920, sentó las bases para un siglo de injusticia.

Women today are more equal than at any other time in American history. The #MeToo movement has transformed American workplaces. Christian power is weakening as the US grows increasingly secular. Democrats currently control Washington. And yet in this moment of growing equality and diminishing...

A Editora Contracorrente tem a satisfação anunciar a publicação da edição em língua portuguesa do audiolivro Uma breve história do Direito: a matriz europeia nos últimos dois milênios e meio, originalmente publicado pela Harvard University Press e de autoria da aclamada historiadora Tamar Herzog.

El contenido de esta obra se encuentra distribuido en 16 capítulos en los que abordamos diversos temas tales como la protección de los derechos de los privados de libertad, el Concordato suscrito entre la Republica Dominicana y la Santa Sede en 1954, la dignidad como fundamento del estado social, democrático y de derecho, la especial trascendencia o relevancia constitucional, los Estados de Excepción y los derechos fundamentales en la Republica Dominicana, el derecho de propiedad, la constitucionalización del derecho penal y del municipal, entre otros.

After the United Nations established International Women's Year (IWY) in 1975, Congress mandated and funded state conferences to elect delegates to attend the National Women's Conference in Houston in 1977. At that conference, Bella Abzug, Gloria Steinem, and other feminists adopted a National Plan of Action, endorsing the hot-button issues of abortion rights, the Equal Rights Amendment, and gay rights - then a new issue in national politics.

A brilliant, no-nonsense profile of the criminal mind, newly updated in 2022 to include the latest research, effective methods for dealing with hardened criminals, and an urgent call to rethink criminal justice from expert witness Stanton E. Samenow, Ph.D. “Utterly compelling reading, full of...

Dans "Souvenirs de la cour d'assises", André Gide nous invite à un voyage introspectif unique. En tant que juré, il devient un observateur privilégié de l'âme humaine, confronté aux méandres de la psyché et aux limites de la justice. Avec une lucidité et une sensibilité à fleur de peau, Gide nous entraîne dans les coulisses des procès, nous faisant partager ses doutes, ses interrogations et ses émotions. Il décortique les motivations des accusés, les nuances de leurs actes et les mécanismes psychologiques qui les sous-tendent.

The deeply practical, funny and relatable guide to relationships - including how to improve communication and practice conflict-resolution - from a divorce lawyer who’s seen it all. James J. Sexton (also known as @nycdivorcelawyer) has spent over two decades in the trenches of high-stakes...

Leigh Gilmore provides a new account of #MeToo that reveals how storytelling by survivors propelled the call for sexual justice beyond courts and high-profile cases. At a time when the cultural conversation was fixated on appeals to legal and bureaucratic systems, narrative activism—storytelling in the service of social change—elevated survivors as authorities. Their testimony fused credibility and accountability into the #MeToo effect: uniting millions of separate accounts into an existential demand for justice and the right to be heard.

In the first edition of A Country Called Prison, Mary Looman and John Carl presented persuasive data calling for downsizing of America's prisons. Their novel approach continues in their second edition, shifting the beliefs many people have about prisons and their role in the American society. Since the original edition was published, the landscape of incarceration has been changing.

In Israel on Trial: Examining the History, the Evidence, and the Law, United States District Judge Roy K. Altman brings legal rigor to the world’s most contentious debate. Applying courtroom-tested standards—burden of proof, corroboration, chain of custody—he examines claims of colonialism, apartheid, and genocide with dispassionate precision.

The First ADA Title II Case Against the Nevada Department of Corrections is a firsthand account of one man’s fight for disability rights inside one of the nation’s most restrictive correctional systems. Drawing from official records, filings, and lived experience, Andreas Gabriel Yescas documents how a simple request for medical accommodation escalated into a landmark ADA Title II challenge. This book walks listeners through the timeline of events, the evidence submitted, and the legal obstacles faced along the way.

In today's creator economy, musicians, writers, filmmakers, and other content creators often fall victim to exploitative contracts, misunderstandings about rights, unauthorized use of their work, lack of attribution, unfair platform policies, and outright idea theft. Many creators are young and...

'I may not have been one of the founding mothers of the Constitution, but I am one of its founding daughters. Founding a nation is a continuous process, one without end. This is where I have lived, loved and worked—and that is where home is. The Constitution of India is not just a text...

What would you do if someone threatened to leak your private photos? Or harassed you at work? Is your live-in relationship legally valid? What are your inheritance rights as a woman? Should you sign a prenuptial agreement? Do you know how to protect yourself when your rights are violated? Indian...