En este libro se presentan datos estadísticos sobre la delincuencia económica y sus relaciones con el crimen organizado y la corrupción, así como sobre las reacciones nacionales e internacionales frente a estas graves formas de delincuencia. Además, describe el contexto constitucional que delimita sus ámbitos, funciones, características y vinculaciones con el derecho penal administrativo y el derecho penal fiscal, tomando en cuenta el desarrollo y la influencia de las empresas en la vida económica y política. Estudio que analiza el contexto social, histórico y económico en el que se desarrollan los delitos económicos y las regulaciones para reprimir a los responsables. El libro presenta también los problemas doctrinarios que surgen en la aplicación del derecho penal común a los diversos aspectos del derecho penal económico. Para ello, considera tanto el respeto del principio de legalidad como las principales cuestiones referidas a la teoría del delito y la participación delictuosa, poniendo especial atención al análisis y discusión de la atribución de responsabilidad penal a las personas jurídicas y a las empresas. Se trata de un material de gran utilidad tanto para estudiantes de derecho como para cualquiera que busque ampliar sus conocimientos en el área del derecho penal económico. Con este objeto, además del estudio de diversas cuestiones teóricas y de los casos que se describen en los anexos, se presentan regulaciones jurídicas extranjeras que son analizadas bajo la perspectiva del derecho comparado.

In this first comprehensive analysis of state organized crime from the perspective of international law, Decoeur discusses how international law can and should be used to tackle state organized crime and argues for the development of international legal mechanisms specifically designed to address this issue.

This is the first monograph to scrutinize the relationship between the concept of international legal personality as a theoretical construct and the position of the ultimate subject, the individual, as a matter of positive international law. By testing the four main theoretical conceptions of international legal personality against historical and existing norms of positive international law that regulate the conduct of individuals, the book argues that the common narrative in contemporary scholarship about the development of the role of the individual in the international legal system is flawed. Contrary to conventional wisdom, international law did not apply to states alone until World War II, only to transform during the second half of the 20th century so as to include individuals as its subjects. Rather, the answer to the question of individual rights and obligations under international law is - and always was - strictly empirical. It follows, of course, that the entities governed by a particular norm tell us nothing about the legal system to which that norm belongs. Instead, the distinction between international law and national law turns exclusively on whether the source of the norm in question is international or national in kind. Against the background of these insights, the book shows how present-day international lawyers continue to allow an idea, which was never more than a scholarly invention of the 19th century, to influence the interpretation and application of international law. This state of affairs has significant real-world ramifications as international legal rights and obligations of individuals (and other non-state entities) are frequently applied more restrictively than interpretation without presumptions regarding 'personality' would merit.

The UN Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses is crucial for protecting sources of fresh water. Examining the settlement of water disputes, relationships between legal instruments, and the role of the courts in resolving disagreements, this book is vital to all who seek a deep understanding of water law.

Focusing on how states have utilized the persistent objector rule in practice, this volume details how the rule emerged and operates, how it should be conceptualised, and what its implications are for the binding nature of customary international law.