Ana María Prieto del Pino

La obra constituye un estudio profundo, riguroso y totalmente actualizado del uso de información privilegiada en el mercado de valores (operaciones de iniciados). El análisis realizado huye de simplificaciones y apriorismos, y no elude ninguno de los múltiples y complejos aspectos tanto jurídicos como económicos implicados en el tema. La investigación asume como primer objetivo (capítulos I-III) tratar de determinar el grado de acierto de la decisión de penalizar el uso de información privilegiada en el mercado de valores. La obtención de una respuesta favorable a la opción punitiva lleva a efectuar un pormenorizado análisis de los artículos 285, 286, 287 y 288 del Código penal español a la luz del principio de prohibición de exceso (capítulos IV y V), plagado de propuestas de interpretación de dichos preceptos de lege lata y de reforma de los mismos de lege ferenda. Rasgo especialmente destacado del trabajo es su carácter interdisciplinario, puesto que el análisis jurídico-penal del tema se asienta sobre la base que le proporciona el detenido estudio de numerosos problemas y cuestiones de Derecho constitucional, Derecho comunitario, Derecho mercantil, Derecho civil, Derecho administrativo, Economía aplicada, Economía financiera, Análisis económico del Derecho y Criminología. La interdisciplinariedad de la obra queda de manifiesto no sólo en su contenido, sino también en la vastísima bibliografía utilizada, tanto nacional como extranjera (fundamentalmente estadounidense, canadiense, británica, alemana, suiza, italiana y francesa). Esta obra puede interesar a profesionales y estudiosos tanto del mundo del Derecho como del mundo de la Economía; y, en general, a todo aquél que quiera profundizar en la dinámica de funcionamiento del mercado de valores y en los problemas jurídicos y económicos que derivan de su dependencia respecto del mercado de información. 

This book is a follow up to Lessons of Spanish Substantive Criminal Law. General Part I. Scope of Application of the Spanish Substantive Criminal Law (2017). Its main purpose is to fill an existing gap by providing Spanish students with an updated comprehensive overview of typicity as a category of the legal theory of crime. Therefore, a number of key issues are addressed in considerable depth, such as the criminal behaviour as action or omission, action/omission as a typical behaviour and the agents thereof , the kinds of typical structures, the objective type of result crimes (factual causation, legal causation), the subjective type of intentional crimes, negligent offences, omission offences, the stages of fulfilment of the crime, and principals and accessories to the crime. Notwithstanding this, given that it has been conceived as a course-book, footnotes have not been used in order to render the text easier to read. Every lesson is closed by a self-assessment multiple choice quiz section and an appendix containing the right answers has been included, so that students themselves can test the level of knowledge acquisition they have reached. Moreover, this book aims to be a useful tool for Spanish scholars and legal practitioners in order to improve their ability to use English in both academic and professional contexts and to increase their knowledge of this language in the field of criminal law. Another purpose of this work is to provide foreign scholars and law professionals with a starting point for researching Spanish substantive criminal law.

The main purpose of this book is to fill an existing gap by providing Spanish law students with an updated comprehensive overview of the scope of application of the Spanish substantive criminal law. Therefore, topics belonging to the field of international procedural cooperation, such as extradition and the European arrest warrant have been omitted entirely. Basic concepts relating to issues such as the role of criminal law and its legitimating principles, the theories of punishment, security measures, the sources of the Spanish substantive criminal law as well as the temporal and spatial scope thereof are addressed in considerable depth. Notwithstanding this, given that it has been conceived as a course-book, footnotes have not been used in order to render the text easier to read. A final self-assessment multiple choice quiz section and an appendix containing the right answers have been included, so that students themselves can test the level of knowledge acquisition they have reached. Moreover, this book aims to be a useful tool for Spanish scholars and legal practitioners in order to improve their ability to use English in both academic and professional contexts and to increase their knowledge of this language in the field of criminal law. Another purpose of this work is to provide foreign scholars and law professionals with a starting point for researching Spanish substantive criminal law.