Is public power really subject to the law? The second volume of José Ramón Chaves García’s series answers in two themes and 78 pages: the subjection of public administration to the law and to legal principles, from the review of political, discretionary and regulatory acts to non-judicial oversight, and the application and interpretation of legal rules, from their scope in space and time to interpretation in the age of artificial intelligence. In Spanish.

Derecho administrativo mínimo. Volumen II: Kindle eBook (€6.99), paperback (€9.99). In all 17 Amazon stores.

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“Minimal Administrative Law. Volume II: Subjection to Statute and Law. Application and Interpretation” is the English edition of the second volume of José Ramón Chaves García’s series: the subjection of public administration to statute and law, from the review of political, discretionary and regulatory acts to non-judicial oversight, and the application and interpretation of legal rules, up to interpretation in the age of artificial intelligence.

The translation is a complete, thoroughly edited English version of the Spanish text. It is on sale in every Amazon store in paperback (82 pages, €9.99) and as a Kindle eBook (€4.99).

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José Ramón Chaves García takes stock of his school years at a Piarist college in 1970s Spain — the noises and smells of the school, the rules of the game, the playground, the bestiary of teachers, the field trips — through the eyes of the schoolboy he was. The new edition corrects the misprints of the earlier one and has a new cover (in Spanish).

Los que fuimos escolapios en la EGB: Kindle eBook (€3.99), paperback (€12.99). In all 17 Amazon stores.

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Odysseus, a gifted young man born of a successful scientific experiment, goes out into the world looking for a job, love and some certainty, and finds a big village of anxious scientists, impossible women and bar-stool philosophers. It is José Ramón Chaves García’s coming-of-age novel, reissued by Amicus Certus, revised and with a new cover (in Spanish).

Nada más serio que no tomarnos en serio: Kindle eBook (€3.99), paperback (€12.99). In all 17 Amazon stores.

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“Ciencia, Conciencia y Justicia”, José Ramón Chaves García’s essay on legal epistemology — “knowing the law is not the same as knowing statutes” — reaches Italian readers as “Scienza, Coscienza e Giustizia. Per sapere di diritto non basta conoscere le leggi”.

It is the first translation in the Amicus Certus catalogue. It keeps the foreword by José Ramón Alonso and the cover illustration by José Manuel Esteban Guijarro, and it incorporates the author’s second round of corrections, so the Italian text matches the latest Spanish edition.

The Italian edition is available as a Kindle eBook (€7.99) and as a 509-page paperback (€24.99) on Amazon.it and in every other Amazon store.

“Minimal Administrative Law. Volume I: Genesis, Evolution and Challenges of Administrative Law” is the English edition of José Ramón Chaves García’s short primer on the origins and the present of administrative law, written for students, practitioners and curious readers who want the whole picture in eighty pages.

The translation is a complete, thoroughly edited English version of the Spanish text. It is on sale in every Amazon store in paperback (81 pages, €9.99) and as a Kindle eBook (€4.99).

Volume I of a work that traces the genesis and evolution of administrative law and examines the challenges it faces today, in 81 brisk pages. Published in English translation and in the original Spanish (“Derecho administrativo mínimo I”).

Minimal Administrative Law. Volume I (EN): Kindle eBook (€4.99), paperback (€9.99); Derecho administrativo mínimo. Volumen I (ES): Kindle eBook (€6.99), paperback (€9.99). In all 17 Amazon stores.

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In “Juristas con servilleta” José Ramón Chaves García gathers legal vignettes and reflections drawn from the everyday life of the courts, in the direct, approachable style his blog readers know. The Amicus Certus edition, revised and with a new cover, comes in three formats (in Spanish).

Juristas con servilleta: Kindle eBook (€5.99), paperback (€14.99), hardcover (€39.95). In all 17 Amazon stores.

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Knowing the law takes more than knowing statutes. On that idea José Ramón Chaves García builds a wide-ranging essay on legal epistemology — what the jurist knows, how, and the part conscience and justice play in that knowledge — with a foreword by the neuroscientist José Ramón Alonso and a cover illustration by José Manuel Esteban Guijarro. The book is in Spanish; an Italian edition is also available.

Ciencia, Conciencia y Justicia (ES): Kindle eBook (€5.99), paperback (€19.99), hardcover (€34.95); Scienza, Coscienza e Giustizia (IT): Kindle eBook (€7.99), paperback (€24.99). In all 17 Amazon stores.

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