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Gandhi’S Prophecy: Corporate Violence And A Mindful Law For Bhopal, Nehal A. Patel Dec 2015

Gandhi’S Prophecy: Corporate Violence And A Mindful Law For Bhopal, Nehal A. Patel

Nehal A. Patel

AbstractOver thirty years have passed since the Bhopal chemical disaster began,and in that time scholars of corporate social responsibility (CSR) havediscussed and debated several frameworks for improving corporate responseto social and environmental problems. However, CSR discourse rarelydelves into the fundamental architecture of legal thought that oftenbuttresses corporate dominance in the global economy. Moreover, CSRdiscourse does little to challenge the ontological and epistemologicalassumptions that form the foundation for modern economics and the role ofcorporations in the world.I explore methods of transforming CSR by employing the thought ofMohandas Gandhi. I pay particular attention to Gandhi’s critique ofindustrialization and principle of swadeshi (self-sufficiency) …


An Approach To The Regulation Of Spanish Banking Foundations, Miguel Martínez Jun 2015

An Approach To The Regulation Of Spanish Banking Foundations, Miguel Martínez

Miguel Martínez

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the legal framework governing banking foundations as they have been regulated by Spanish Act 26/2013, of December 27th, on savings banks and banking foundations. Title 2 of this regulation addresses a construct that is groundbreaking for the Spanish legal system, still of paramount importance for the entire financial system insofar as these foundations become the leading players behind certain banking institutions given the high interest that foundations hold in the share capital of such institutions.


Contrato, Operación Económica Y Equilibrio Contractual, Carlos Tamani May 2015

Contrato, Operación Económica Y Equilibrio Contractual, Carlos Tamani

Carlos Tamani

n el presente trabajo se cuestiona el criterio del análisis económico del derecho que sostiene la inutilidad de la excesiva onerosidad de la prestación y de la lesión, en razón de que los contratos son en sí desequilibrados, por lo que no son necesarias figuras legales que apunten a remediar tal desequilibrio. En opinión del autor, debe comprenderse de forma correcta la noción del equilibrio contractual, entendiéndose, al efecto, al contrato como una operación económica. En tal sentido, el equilibrio contractual no se identificaría con una equivalencia de prestaciones sin que exista un intercambio de prestaciones querido por ambas partes; …