Derecho de daños tecnológicos, ciberseguridad e insurtech.


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El desarrollo de las tecnologías de la información y su relevancia en el ámbito socioeconómico ha generado un verdadero cambio a nivel global denominado 4ª Revolución Industrial, en el que las Tecnologías de la Información y la hiperconectividad constituyen un pilar fundamental para la sociedad actual. Así, el ecosistema digital ha adquirido una enorme relevancia social y jurídica que está transformando la sociedad del Siglo XXI.Las actuales realidades socioeconómicas plantean nuevos paradigmas y situaciones de las que se pueden derivar todo género de daños. Así, la presente obra elabora una clasificación comprensiva de los distintos tipos de bienes y derechos que puedan padecer algún detrimento como consecuencia de las actividades llevadas a cabo en el ciberespacio.Y en particular, sobre aquellos en los que pueda recaer el interés del derecho privado. Todo ello, nos permitirá estudiar los conceptos y definiciones propias de la ciberseguridad y la gestión de los riesgos tecnológicos.La transferencia y gestión de estos riesgos se llevará a cabo por medio del denominado Insurtech que atiende a las realidades introducidas por los sistemas tecnológicos actuales, como el blockchain, la economía colaborativa, el IoT, y la Inteligencia Artificial. Y todo ello, constituye el entorno por el que el National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) considera que la Industria Aseguradora está modificando sus políticas y modelos comerciales para abordar un nuevo panorama competitivo.En definitiva, la obra trata de reunir un amplio conocimiento técnico y jurídico, para definir el marco del derecho de daños en el ámbito tecnológico; y, abordar la importancia de la ciberseguridad como elemento esencial para la gestión de los riesgos tecnológicos, y su transferencia financiera por medio de las novedades introducidas por el Insurtech.










Credit Nation


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How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on credit Even before the United States became a country, laws prioritizing access to credit set colonial America apart from the rest of the world. Credit Nation examines how the drive to expand credit shaped property laws and legal institutions in the colonial and founding eras of the republic. In this major new history of early America, Claire Priest describes how the British Parliament departed from the customary ways that English law protected land and inheritance, enacting laws for the colonies that privileged creditors by defining land and slaves as commodities available to satisfy debts. Colonial governments, in turn, created local legal institutions that enabled people to further leverage their assets to obtain credit. Priest shows how loans backed with slaves as property fueled slavery from the colonial era through the Civil War, and that increased access to credit was key to the explosive growth of capitalism in nineteenth-century America. Credit Nation presents a new vision of American economic history, one where credit markets and liquidity were prioritized from the outset, where property rights and slaves became commodities for creditors' claims, and where legal institutions played a critical role in the Stamp Act crisis and other political episodes of the founding period.







Problems of the War


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The African Canadian Legal Odyssey


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The African Canadian Legal Odyssey explores the history of African Canadians and the law from the era of slavery until the early twenty-first century. This collection demonstrates that the social history of Blacks in Canada has always been inextricably bound to questions of law, and that the role of the law in shaping Black life was often ambiguous and shifted over time. Comprised of eleven engaging chapters, organized both thematically and chronologically, it includes a substantive introduction that provides a synthesis and overview of this complex history. This outstanding collection will appeal to both advanced specialists and undergraduate students and makes an important contribution to an emerging field of scholarly inquiry.




Consequences of Possession


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The first coherent analysis of the topic of possession from a comparative and historical legal perspective. The volume comprises contributions from some very distinguished scholars from the civilian tradition (Germany, Italy) as well as the common law (England) and mixed legal systems (Quebec, Scotland, South Africa).




Against the Death Penalty


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The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty—here for the first time in English In 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria created a sensation when he published On Crimes and Punishments. At its centre is a rejection of the death penalty as excessive, unnecessary, and pointless. Beccaria is deservedly regarded as the founding father of modern criminal-law reform, yet he was not the first to argue for the abolition of the death penalty. Against the Death Penalty presents the first English translation of the Florentine aristocrat Giuseppe Pelli's critique of capital punishment, written three years before Beccaria's treatise, but lost for more than two centuries in the Pelli family archives. Peter Garnsey examines the contrasting arguments of the two abolitionists, who drew from different intellectual traditions. Pelli was a devout Catholic influenced by the writings of natural jurists such as Hugo Grotius, whereas Beccaria was inspired by the French Enlightenment philosophers. While Beccaria attacked the criminal justice system as a whole, Pelli focused on the death penalty, composing a critique of considerable depth and sophistication. Garnsey explores how Beccaria's alternative penalty of forced labour, and its conceptualisation as servitude, were embraced in Britain and America, and delves into Pelli's voluminous diaries, shedding light on Pelli's intellectual development and painting a vivid portrait of an Enlightenment man of letters and of conscience. With translations of letters exchanged by the two abolitionists and selections from Beccaria's writings, Against the Death Penalty provides new insights into eighteenth-century debates about capital punishment and offers vital historical perspectives on one of the most pressing questions of our own time.




Ancient Law, Ancient Society


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An engaging look at how ancient Greeks and Romans crafted laws that fit--and, in turn, changed--their worlds