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El Mobbing En La Esfera Pública: El Fenómeno Y Sus Características, Brian Martin, Florencia Pena Saint Martin
El Mobbing En La Esfera Pública: El Fenómeno Y Sus Características, Brian Martin, Florencia Pena Saint Martin
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
In workplace studies, mobbing is a recognised phenomenon worldwide (Hoel, Cooper and Faragher, 2001; McKay et al., 2008; Oceguera, Aldrete and Ruíz, 2009; Rayner and Keashly, 2005; Seydl, 2005; and many others). It can be defined as a group systematically attacking a person's reputation for a long period of time, using negative communication as a weapon. The intention is to destroy the target's value as a reliable individual, initially causing them to lose power and prestige, with the long-term goal of achieving their dismissal, resignation or general ostracism. Our aim is to demonstrate that this kind of behaviour can also …
Harry Potter Contra El Legalismo, O La Magia Republicana Del Pluralismo Jurídico, Luis Gomez Romero
Harry Potter Contra El Legalismo, O La Magia Republicana Del Pluralismo Jurídico, Luis Gomez Romero
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
This essay undertakes a radical criticism of legalist ideologies through a pluralist revision of the sources of law. Literary texts –specifically, the Harry Potter series of novels– are catalogued as sources of law. For this purpose, the law inscribed in fictional narrative worlds is considered as a matter that concerns the law in the real-world and the lives of audiences who read such fictional worlds. Law is literature and literature is law. On this basis, the article analyzes from a republican perspective the fictionalization of the rule of law in the Potter novels.