Amicus Certus publishes two essays by Ricardo Rivero Ortega, Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Salamanca, in Brazilian Portuguese, translated from their English editions, Law and Artificial Intelligence and Law and Human Evolution.

Direito e Inteligência Artificial. Quatro estudos (84 pp.): Kindle eBook and paperback.

Direito e Evolução Humana (96 pp.): Kindle eBook and paperback.

The eBooks are on Amazon.com.br and every other Kindle store; the paperbacks on Amazon.es and the other Amazon stores that sell KDP print books.

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Ricardo Rivero Ortega traces the legacy of the School of Salamanca — Vitoria, Soto, Suárez — in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States: the ideas on consent, natural law and the limits of power that travelled from the Salamanca lecture halls to Philadelphia. It opens the Spain’s Legacy in North America collection and is published in English and Spanish, as an eBook only.

The Influence of the School of Salamanca on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States (EN): Kindle eBook (€2.99); La influencia de la Escuela de Salamanca en la Declaración de Independencia y la Constitución de los Estados Unidos (ES): Kindle eBook (€2.99). In all 17 Amazon stores.

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A short essay by Ricardo Rivero Ortega on the paradoxes of subjective social rights: what happens when a social right is recognised as a claim enforceable before the courts, and the tensions it opens with budgets and with equality. Published in English translation and in the original Spanish, as an eBook only.

Paradoxes of Subjective Social Rights (EN): Kindle eBook (€2.99); Paradojas de los derechos sociales subjetivos (ES): Kindle eBook (€2.99). In all 17 Amazon stores.

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Amicus Certus publishes in English three studies by Ricardo Rivero Ortega, Professor of Administrative Law and former Rector of the University of Salamanca:

• “The Obligation. Regulation of Public Duties” (162 pages): what the law may demand of citizens, and how duties are regulated.
• “Law and Artificial Intelligence. Four Studies” (78 pages): four studies on what artificial intelligence changes for the law.
• “Law and Human Evolution” (88 pages): the law seen in the light of human evolution.

The three books form the Ricardo Rivero Ortega: Law Collection on Amazon (paperback from €9.99, Kindle €4.99). Two short essays complete the picture, each in Spanish and in English and priced at €2.99 on Kindle: Paradoxes of Subjective Social Rights and The Influence of the School of Salamanca on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.

Four studies by Ricardo Rivero Ortega on artificial intelligence and administrative law — smart public management among them — published in English in the Law Collection. A short book for lawyers and public managers who want to understand what AI changes in public administration.

Law and Artificial Intelligence: Kindle eBook (€4.99), paperback (€9.99). In all 17 Amazon stores.

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In “Law and Human Evolution” Ricardo Rivero Ortega explores the relationship between human evolution and the law: what evolutionary biology tells us about the origin of norms, and what the jurist can learn from it. Published in English in the Law Collection.

Law and Human Evolution: Kindle eBook (€4.99), paperback (€9.99). In all 17 Amazon stores.

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Ricardo Rivero Ortega, professor of administrative law at the University of Salamanca, examines in “The Obligation” the regulation of public duties: what binds the citizen before the administration, and within which limits. Published in English in the Ricardo Rivero Ortega: Law Collection.

The Obligation: Kindle eBook (€4.99), paperback (€11.99). In all 17 Amazon stores.

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