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La presente obra colectiva inaugura la Colección que lleva por título Delito, Conducta Criminal y Víctimas, cuyo eje fundamental se asienta en dotar de una cobertura científica -académica y práctica-, a diversas demandas sociales vinculadas con tipos penales específicos, modus operandi criminal y víctimas del delito. En este sentido, desde un prisma integrador, y bajo una cobertura mayoritariamente jurídica, criminológica y psicológica, nace la primera obra colectiva de la presente colección bajo el título Delitos de Odio. Un abordaje multidisciplinar, y cuya estructura se vertebra en una división por bloques relativas al delito de odio en primer lugar, al estudio de la conducta criminal en segundo lugar, y al análisis de los procesos de victimización en víctimas de delitos de odio en tercer y último lugar. Así pues, y bajo un total de catorce títulos, firmados por expertos/as profesionales e investigadores/as académicos, se recogen algunas de las principales inquietudes del mencionado fenómeno en relación con las técnicas de investigación, ciberinteligencia en delitos de odio y análisis de redes sociales, aspectos internacionales del ilícito, motivación para delinquir, abordaje desde la neuropsicología, aspectos psicosociales desde la intervención en centros penitenciarios, respuesta de la sociedad actual, e intervención victimal, entre otros aspectos. Siendo lo que se espera sea una obra (y Colección) actual, que sirva de precedente y referencia a una amplia audiencia académica, investigadora y profesional, dentro del ámbito que nos ocupan.

La Inteligencia Artificial está afectando a todos los aspectos de nuestras vidas y con ello a las principales categorías del Derecho, transformándolas. Todo ello hace necesario su replanteamiento y reformulación, a través de un enfoque basado en los derechos fundamentales, que ponga al individuo en el centro. En este sentido, la IA puede producir no solo ventajas para la economía, el desarrollo y las empresas, sino que conlleva también importantes riesgos. La presente publicación realiza una primera aproximación, centrándose en los efectos de estas herramientas y en las respuestas adoptadas, se profundiza en el impacto en los derechos fundamentales y en la democracia, en su aplicación para hacer frente a los desafíos de la globalización como las migraciones y el cambio climático y en la incidencia de esta tecnología en la protección de los datos personales, que puede verse vaciada de contenido.

Una Historia de la Medicina, una Historia de una Saga Familiar. De Historias de la Medicina, se pueden narrar muchas y siempre desde muy distintas y diferentes perspectivas. En el presente caso, el autor aporta una propuesta totalmente distinta al conjunto de la totalidad de su obra que ha escrito hasta hoy: Nos quiere trasladar en un viaje temporal y cronológico a lo largo de una Historia de la Medicina que abarca los últimos 300 años; siendo el punto denominador común, la línea directa de una saga familiar que ha podido permanecer y perdurar en la profesión médica a lo largo de estos 3 siglos. La Ciencia Médica es lo que es hoy gracias a nuestros antepasados que, con su gran dedicación, empeño y esfuerzo, han conseguido que tengamos hoy una sanidad muy evolucionada a la de épocas anteriores. La presente obra, Saga Tiffon: desde la Cirugía Romancista hasta la Psiquiatría y Psicología Forense. (La investigación de un viaje Histórico-Médico y Social Familiar de 3 siglos) solo vendría a explicar desde una postura humildemente descriptiva una parcela de la evolución de las múltiples Historias de la Medicina que existen. Tal como dice el autor del libro, y desde la salvedad del error, muy posiblemente la Saga Tiffon es la única línea familiar de descendencia directa (de generación en generación) que se ha dedicado a distintas especialidades de la profesión Médica a lo largo de 5 generaciones seguidas en Barcelona, y muy probablemente en toda España (abarcando desde el año 1807, incluso hasta probablemente antes). Desde la Medicina y Cirugía Romancista del siglo XIX hasta la actualidad (en el siglo XXI), dicha línea directa y sucesoria de profesionales sanitarios que se han dedicado a la salud, han ido dejando una impronta profesional en sus respectivos campos. Y, las tradiciones orales familiares que algunas se van transmitiendo de generación en generación, pero que también algunas se van lamentablemente perdiendo se intentan recoger en la presente obra. La importancia de la Memoria de las tradiciones orales familiares es la importancia de lo que somos actualmente y del devenir del futuro. Desde la perspectiva de un actual observador pasivo que contempla la evolución histórica del acontecer de los hechos, la línea familiar que es objeto de estudio no solo ha vivido la evolución de la Medicina en estos 300 años; también ha experimentado la evolución histórica de la ciudad de Barcelona, de los incendios del Gran Teatro del Liceo, de los movimientos sociopolíticos de la época, de los 5 grandes magnicidios de la Historia de España; e incluso, de los anecdóticos contactos que mantuvo, entonces, con la Casa Real de la época de Alfonso XII y de Alfonso XIII, entre otras muchas áreas más. Tal como dice el autor, ha sido una compleja y difícil obra de ingeniería arqueológico-histórica que aglutina las 5 biografías de una misma línea sucesoria familiar y longitudinalmente continuada en el tiempo. En algunos momentos, incluso, autobiográfico por parte del mismo autor y que ayudan a contextualizar el contexto. La obra viene enriquecida por importantes y destacadas aportaciones de Miembros de la Real Academia de Medicina de Cataluña, de la Real Academia de Medicina de Zaragoza, del Director del Instituto Nacional de Toxicología y Ciencias Forenses; así como, de la valiosa documentación del Archivo General de Palacio (Dirección de Colecciones Reales, Palacio Real, Patrimonio Nacional).

El Dr. Julio César Velásquez Santos se ha consolidado como una figura híbrida y necesaria en el panorama cultural contemporáneo: estratega legal, gestor cultural con sensibilidad artística profunda y creador que sostiene su voz en espacios internacionales. Con más de dos décadas de trayectoria que incluye treinta años como intérprete, compositor y productor, Velásquez es un operador práctico que entiende la dimensión íntima de la vulnerabilidad del creador, habiendo transitado él mismo los desafíos de la industria musical y las artes escénicas.Su perfil académico es robusto: abogado con Maestría en Propiedad Intelectual y Nuevas Tecnologías de la Universidad de la Rioja [España) y estudios en periodismo y comunicación. Su verdadero diferencial radica en su liderazgo como CEO de Arte Global Internacional, desde donde ha gestionado la protección jurídica de un catálogo diverso que incluye el Ballet Folclórico de Antioquia, pintores y escultores de renombre, con presencia en dieciocho países.Bajo el nombre artístico de Julio Miguel, ha dejado huella en escenas musicales nacionales e internacionales, demostrando que la dualidad entre creador y defensor legal no es contradicción sino complementariedad que amplifica la capacidad de empoderamiento. Su trayectoria incluye más de setecientas producciones discográficas. Entre sus logros más resonantes: ser socio de sociedades de gestión colectiva como SAYCO y ACINPRO, participar en la campaña nacional "Basta Ya" impulsada por el Congreso de la República para prevenir el maltrato infantil, y registrar los primeros derechos de autor a artistas que hoy son referentes mundiales. Su éxito "Vivir un Instante" ocupó los primeros lugares en las listas del pop urbano colombiano.Velásquez se ha distinguido por ser pionero en alfabetización legal de artistas, abogando por un modelo donde la persona creadora retiene y administra su soberanía patrimonial.

A revelatory study of how Black churches turn the financial system back against predatory lenders. When American churches face financial difficulties, a disproportionately high number of Black churches reorganize under chapter 11 bankruptcy. There are no easy explanations for this distinction: not location, denomination, leadership structure, or the reasons for the loans. In Forgive Us Our Debts, legal scholar Pamela Foohey asks why, then, Black churches account for two-thirds of all congregations that file for chapter 11 bankruptcy every year. Drawing on case studies of six Black churches and one white church, and 150 interviews with church leaders, members, and attorneys, Foohey finds answers in a long history of predatory lending. Unable to negotiate with recalcitrant loan officers, Black churches turn to the legal system to force reasonable concessions from lenders to prevent the stripping of their wealth and the destruction of their communities. While the structural discrimination remains, these churches have found in the bankruptcy system a refuge and some power to fight back.

A timely investigation of what is at stake when AI takes legal decision-making out of human hands. Artificial intelligence is proliferating in many professions, and the legal field is no exception. In The Rule of Law After Artificial Intelligence, Katie Szilagyi investigates the philosophical and practical implications of using AI in legal spaces, beginning with several fundamental questions: What is the law supposed to do, and from where does it derive its authority? Would law still achieve these aims if automated? How might automation affect the rule of laws integrity and democratic institutions operations? Blending legal philosophy, applied case studies, and insights from both critical legal scholarship and science and technology studies, Szilagyi argues that law and storytelling are deeply connected. Through creating and contesting the law, we make sense of the information around us and generate narratives about our collective world. These narratives are not static: legal precedent evolves, and legal deliberation on hard cases can help to resolve unclear or unprecedented social issues. Szilagyi demonstrates that technological innovations make the rule of law vulnerable because large language models and machine learning undermine the visioning function of legal narratives, collapsing exercises of legal interpretation into mere administration. Datafication of lawbuilt on the biased data of our cultural pastthreatens longstanding legal ideals, lessens the constraints against abuses of power by private actors, and hamstrings societys ability to reach a more egalitarian future. Szilagyi argues instead for centering narratives within the law and, in turn, rediscovering the tales the law tells us about who we are.

An indispensable introduction to legal reasoning, updated for todays political and legal environment. Since it was first published nearly five decades ago, Reason in Law has become the starting point for understanding legal reasoning, a critical component of the rule of law. The editors show how judges can integrate all the elements of a case to persuasively explain their rulingsand, even more importantly, why they sometimes fail to do so. Drawing on cases old and new, Reason in Law enables readers to become sophisticated judges of judging. Now in its tenth edition, Reason in Law includes a new chapter on the increasingly contentious and politically consequential field of administrative law and addresses recent developments in the American legal landscape, including growing conservatism in the federal judiciary and the flood of lawsuits brought against the second Trump administration. It also analyzes new cases on the First Amendment rights of high schoolers, transgender civil rights, the responsibilities universities have for student safety, Donald Trumps sweeping claims of executive power, and historic Supreme Court decisions expanding the rights of gun owners and allowing states to criminalize abortion. As always, Reason in Law connects legal theory with empirical research on the American judicial system, showing how trustworthy legal reasoning helps preserve social peace and the rule of law.

This is the last of three volumes dealing with the International Legal Environment (see list in back of book), included in the Collected Research Studies of the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada. The Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS 3) culminated in the adopted of the United Nations convention on the law of the sea in 1982. Since then 150 countries, including Canada, have signed this historic treaty. It affects Canada's four major ocean industries: fishing, offshore petroleum, shipping and ocean mining. As Canada contemplates ratification of this agreement, it must consider these as well as several other maritime matters, including transit management, offshore development, marine-technology development and ocean-science policy. This volume delineates the issues and their implications for Canada's future at sea, and recommends the establishment of an independent advisory body to ensure serious and comprehensive treatment of maritime concerns.

Indigenous Spiritualities and Religious Freedom investigates the complex relationship between Indigenous legal orders and Canadian law, emphasizing the richness of Indigenous spiritual practices alongside their historical and ongoing suppression by the Canadian state. It critically examines the role and limitations of the Canadian Charter of Right's section 2(a), which guarantees freedom of religion, in protecting the spiritual lives of Indigenous communities. The book highlights the holistic nature of Indigenous spiritual beliefs, which view the spiritual as immanent and closely tied to land and specific locations. The book reveals how, by contrast, the Anglo-American conception of religious freedom often separates spiritual and religious matters from civic and political concerns, and so fails to provide meaningful protection for Indigenous cultural and spiritual practices. Many essays in this collection propose alternative approaches to the relationship between Canadian law and Indigenous legal orders, particularly regarding Indigenous spiritual practices. Ultimately, Indigenous Spiritualities and Religious Freedom reveals the challenges, and perhaps the futility, of seeking significant protection for Indigenous spiritual practices within the existing framework of religious freedom.

Indigenous peoples in Canada are striving for greater economic prosperity and political self-determination. Investigating specific legal, economic, and political practices, and including research from interviews with Indigenous political and business leaders, this collection seeks to provide insights grounded in lived experience. Covering such critical topics as economic justice and self-determination, and the barriers faced in pursuing each, Wise Practices sets out to understand the issues not in terms of sweeping empirical findings but through particular experiences of individuals and communities. The choice to focus on specific practices of law and governance is a conscious rejection of idealized theorizing about law and governance and represents an important step beyond the existing scholarship. This volume offers readers a broad scope of perspectives, incorporating contemporary thought on Indigenous law and legal orders, the impact of state law on Indigenous peoples, theories and practices of economic development, and grounded practices of governances. While the authors address a range of topics, each does so in a way that sheds light on how Indigenous practices of law and governance support the social and economic development of Indigenous peoples.

Innocent people are regularly convicted of crimes they did not commit. A number of systemic factors have been found to contribute to wrongful convictions, including eyewitness misidentification, false confessions, informant testimony, official misconduct, and faulty forensic evidence. In Miscarriages of Justice in Canada, Kathryn M. Campbell offers an extensive overview of wrongful convictions, bringing together current sociological, criminological, and legal research, as well as current case-law examples. For the first time, information on all known and suspected cases of wrongful conviction in Canada is included and interspersed with discussions of how wrongful convictions happen, how existing remedies to rectify them are inadequate, and how those who have been victimized by these errors are rarely compensated. Campbell reveals that the causes of wrongful convictions are, in fact, avoidable, and that those in the criminal justice system must exercise greater vigilance and openness to the possibility of error if the problem of wrongful conviction is to be resolved.

Throughout the British colonies in the nineteenth century, judges were expected not only to administer law and justice, but also to play a significant role within the governance of their jurisdictions. British authorities were consequently concerned about judges' loyalty to the Crown, and on occasion removed or suspended those who were found politically subversive or personally difficult. Even reasonable and well balanced judges were sometimes threatened with removal. Using the career histories of judges who challenged the system, Dewigged, Bothered, and Bewildered illuminates issues of judicial tenure, accountability, and independence throughout the British Empire. John Mc. Laren closely examines cases of judges across a wide geographic spectrum, from Australia to the Caribbean, and from Canada to Sierra Leone, who faced disciplinary action. These riveting stories provide helpful insights into the tenuous position of the colonial judiciary and the precarious state of politics in a variety of British colonies.

Contemporary philosophy still lacks a satisfying theory of punishment, one that adequately addresses our basic moral concerns. Yet, as the crisis of incarceration in the United States and elsewhere shows, the need for a deeper understanding of punishments purpose has never been greater. In Punishment and the History of Political Philosophy, Arthur Shuster offers an insightful study of punishment in the works of Plato, Hobbes, Montesquieu, Beccaria, Kant, and Foucault. Through careful interpretation of their key texts, he argues that continuing tensions over retributions role in punishment reflect the shift in political philosophy from classical republicanism to modern notions of individual natural rights and the social contract. This book will be vital reading for political theorists, philosophers, criminologists, and legal scholars looking for a new perspective on the moral challenges faced by the modern criminal justice system.

In a popular sense, 'law' connotes the rules of a society, as well as the institutions that make and enforce those rules. Although laws are created and interpreted in legislatures and courtrooms by individuals with very specialized knowledge, the practice and making of law is closely tied to other systems of knowledge. To emphasize this often downplayed connection, Rehumanizing Law examines the law in relation to narrative, a fundamental mode of human expression. Randy D. Gordon illustrates the bridge between narrative and law by considering whether literature can prompt legislation. Using Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Gordon shows that literary works can figure in important regulatory measures. Discussing the rule of law in relation to democracy, he reads Melville's Billy Budd and analyzes the O.J. Simpson and Rodney King cases. This highly original and creative study reconnects the law to its narrative roots by showing how and why stories become laws.

Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, this book brings together a wealth of legal scholarship first presented at a conference in March 2025. At the time of its creation, the Faculty of Law reconceptualized legal education in Ontario and beyond. Looking Forward by Looking Back pays homage to the visions of key figures in the schools history such as founding dean Cecil Caesar Augustus Wright, Katherine Swinton, and John Willis among many other leading lights within the faculty. Embarking on a journey of exploration and reflection, the contributors to this volume look forward by looking back at the transformation charted by the school and its faculty. The contributors depict how the examined scholars consistently developed approaches to legal and social issues that were not only innovative and influential when first introduced but that continue to be insightful and generative in our evolving world. Essential reading for law professors, practitioners, and students, Looking Forward by Looking Back calls attention to the rich history of legal wisdom that emerged from the Faculty of Law and its sustained impact.

Indigenous Spiritualities and Religious Freedom investigates the complex relationship between Indigenous legal orders and Canadian law, emphasizing the richness of Indigenous spiritual practices alongside their historical and ongoing suppression by the Canadian state. It critically examines the role and limitations of the Canadian Charter of Right's section 2(a), which guarantees freedom of religion, in protecting the spiritual lives of Indigenous communities. The book highlights the holistic nature of Indigenous spiritual beliefs, which view the spiritual as immanent and closely tied to land and specific locations. The book reveals how, by contrast, the Anglo-American conception of religious freedom often separates spiritual and religious matters from civic and political concerns, and so fails to provide meaningful protection for Indigenous cultural and spiritual practices. Many essays in this collection propose alternative approaches to the relationship between Canadian law and Indigenous legal orders, particularly regarding Indigenous spiritual practices. Ultimately, Indigenous Spiritualities and Religious Freedom reveals the challenges, and perhaps the futility, of seeking significant protection for Indigenous spiritual practices within the existing framework of religious freedom.

The list of those who have purchased a copy of The Art of the Real Estate Deal over the years include investors, lawyers, developers, builders, accountants, planners, appraisers, bankers, and lenders, all of whom have welcomed the book into their libraries as a single source reference on all real estate, related issues. The original version, published in 1997, was a primer on the basic principles in real estate valuation, risk assessment and management, negotiation, and creative financing. Subsequent editions were broadened to include choosing a capitalization rate, the use of leverage, tax and liability concerns, and the choice of acquisition vehicle. The latest version has again been expanded to include instruction and guidance on joint ventures, strategies, and tactics. A practising lawyer of over sixty years, Barry Lipson has much to offer from his personal experience as lead lawyer in some of the largest real estate developments in Canada and the United States. This updated and expanded fifth edition of The Art of the Real Estate Deal navigates the complexities of real estate law and presents a text foundational to cracking any real estate deal.

Federally Regulated Insurers in Canada is a first of its kind textbook, deconstructing and explaining the regulation in Canada of federally regulated insurers and the complex challenges it poses. Such entities comprise the vast majority of insurers in Canada. Governments regulate insurers, including their insurance products, given their very important roles and the position of power that insurers have vis-à-vis most consumers. As a result, this regulation focuses on two key objectives: protecting the financial rights and interests of insureds and, in the case of life insurance policies, beneficiaries; and contributing to public confidence in the insurance sector and the financial system as a whole. Furthermore, governments use the following two key means to pursue these objectives: prudential regulation, which incites insurers to prudently identify, control, and manage the various risks they face; and market conduct regulation, which, regarding insurance products, incites insurers to treat their customers fairly throughout the life cycle of these products. Federally Regulated Insurers in Canada initially explores the fundamentals necessary to examine these two types of regulation, including how they compare with insurance law. The textbook then examines the aims of, and rationale for, these two types of regulation. It also provides an in-depth view of two key regulators in the area, and explores how these regulators regulate and supervise insurers.

An invaluable resource for legal practitioners and students alike, the fourth edition of Remedies provides a rich and accessible entry point into the study of remedies in private law. The law of judicial remedies, including the law of damages, spans the entire field of substantive private law, encompassing contracts, torts, and property. A pragmatic understanding of remedies is essential for civil litigators: it offers critical insights into specific legal rules and arrangements. Remedies: The Law of Damages is a succinct, practical handbook for legal professionals and a rich resource for those studying judge-made law. This comprehensive work on Canadian law of damages focuses on remedial approaches and rationales for breaches of contract, tortious conduct, and interference with property interests. Extensively updated, this new edition highlights expanded coverage of personal injuries, compensation for harm to economic interests, and cases such as BC v Fraser Health Authority and Saadati v Moorhead, among others. Law professors Jamie Cassels and Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey offer original insights into the law of damages and propose future directions to ensure fairness and justice for parties within the legal system. Packed with authoritative commentary and practical guidance, the new edition of Remedies is an indispensable resource for practitioners, scholars, and students seeking clarity and depth in Canadian law of damages.

In The Judicial Role in a Diverse Federation, Robert Schertzer uses the example of the Supreme Court of Canada to examine how apex courts manage diversity and conflict in federal states. Schertzer argues that in a diverse federation where the nature of the federal system is contested the courts should facilitate negotiation between conflicting parties, rather than impose their own vision of the federal system. Drawing on a comprehensive review of the Supreme Court federalism jurisprudence between 1980 and 2010, he demonstrates that the court has increasingly adopted this approach of facilitating negotiation by acknowledging the legitimacy of different understandings of the Canadian federation. This book will be required reading both for those interested in Canadas Supreme Court and for those engaged in broader debates about the use of federalism in multinational states.

An interdisciplinary analysis of the ways in which symbolic acts create social norms, Power and Legitimacy is an important contribution to the growing body of scholarship on law and literature. Drawing on the theoretical insights of Judith Butler and Pierre Bourdieu, Anne Quéma demonstrates the effect of symbolic violence on the creation of social and political legitimacy. Examining modern jurisprudence theory, statutory law, and the family within the modern Gothic novel, Quéma shows how the forms and effects of political power transform as one shifts from discourse to discourse. An impressive integration of the scholarship in these three fields, Power and Legitimacy is a thought-provoking analysis of the basis of power and the law.