Amicus Certus Collection

José Ramón Chaves García

A wide-ranging legal essay arguing that knowing the law takes more than knowing statutes: a journey through legal epistemology, with a foreword by José Ramón Alonso.

José Ramón Chaves García

Humour and food in the legal world: the lunches of judges, prosecutors and lawyers, anecdotes of famous jurists, recipes for a good law and the lawsuits born in the kitchen. In Spanish.

José Ramón Chaves García

An inventory of school memories seen through a schoolboy's eyes: the noises and smells of the school, the rules of the game, the playground, the bestiary of teachers, the field trips and everything Spanish primary school in the seventies taught… and did not. In Spanish.

José Ramón Chaves García

A coming-of-age novel: 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 dunghill philosophers. Humour, tenderness and homespun philosophy. In Spanish.

José Ramón Chaves García

Volume I of a work that traces the genesis and evolution of administrative law and examines the challenges it faces today.

José Ramón Chaves García

Volume II of a work that examines the full subjection of public administration to the law and to legal principles, and how legal rules are applied and interpreted, from judicial review of discretion to interpretation in the age of artificial intelligence.