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"This book fills a gap in constitutional law by investigating the global trend towards substantive constitutional adjudication of electoral legislation. On what premises is this judicial scrutiny grounded, what can explain the trend, and with what consequences for representative democracy? Given the global reach, the combination of theoretical and practical approaches, and the comparative assessment provided, this work is of interest for academics in the field of law, political science and philosophy, and for policy-makers and judges in constitutional democracies across the continents"--

The article is dedicated to the problems of European political identity and European identity as a whole conception and as a foundation for European integration. Before 24 February 2022, European political identity had been in crisis. The contradictions between the EU member states seemed to be hardly resolvable. The Russian aggression against Ukraine gave a strong impetus to the formation of European identity. However, it is still a negative incentive for unity and solidarity rather than cohesion around positive values, as well as from the outset the European integration was caused by devastating World War II as a negative experience, which should never be repeated. The text makes use of methods peculiar to the philosophical sciences, i.e. critical textual analysis, historical-analytical and comparative methods.

THE RE-DEFINITION OF THE WORLD RELIGIONS ATTITUDE TOWARD WAR GOES BEYOND A MERE ADJUSTMENT OR REDISCOVERY OF VALUES. INSTEAD, IT CARRIES WITH IT THE PROMISE OF A BASIC REVISION IN THE INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE. THREE SOCIAL SCIENCE CONTEXTS MUST BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT: THAT OF VALUES AND VALUE FORMATION; CHURCH-STATE RELATIONSHIP AND SOCIAL CONTROLS.

Section 1-Introduction -- Chapter 1-Where are we now? justice and energy transitions -- Chapter 2-Ethics without borders-world ethics, comparative philosophy, intercultural ethics for energy transitions -- Section 2-African Philosophy -- Chapter 3-Exploring marginalisation and exclusion in renewable energy development in Africa -- Chapter 4-South Africa's renewable energy independent power producer procurement programme -- Chapter 5-The role of energy technology in quality of life and well being in North Africa -- Section 3-Asian philosophy -- Chapter 6-Chinese energy evaluations -- Chapter 7-Energy ethics and Indian philosophical traditions -- Chapter 8-A question of energy ethics-the creative orthodoxy of Buddhist monks in Mongolia -- Section 4-European ethics -- Chapter 9-Contemporary European approaches to energy ethics -- Chapter 10-Energy ethics in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands -- Section 5-South America -- Chapter 11-Latin American principles and environmental ethics -- Chapter 12-Native Americans and energy development -- Section 6-Theistic traditions -- Chapter 13-(Energy) justice in theistic traditions -- Section 7-Conclusion

Introduction: The Struggle is Real -- 1. Buddhist Marxism: a Communist Hermeneutics -- 2. Samsara, Pervasion, and Conditioned Co-Production -- 3. What is Communism? Mu! -- 4. Kokka Minzoku (State Nation) - Minzoku Kokka (Nation State) -- 5. Nishida Kitarō and the Later Marx: Ground Rent, Utopia and the Pure Land -- Bibliography -- Index.

1. Introduction -- 2. The Western Suppression of Anger -- 3. Vulnerability, Volatility, and the No-Self -- 4. Buddhism's Essential Women -- 5. Buddhism, Non-Discrimination, and Inclusivity -- 6. Expressing Anger with Mindfulness -- 7. The Legacy of Elder Buddhist Nuns -- 8. Outlines of Buddhist Feminism and a Feminist Sangha.

Simon Palmer & Zhai Xiaobo, Introduction : Bentham in comparative perspective --James E. Crimmins, Dissemination and reception in the early American Republic -- Malik Bozzo-Rey, Are Bentham's ideas dangerous for French society? -- Gregor Ritschel, Germans don't strive for Happiness? Bentham's reception in German Political Thought -- Kaino Michihiro, The enduring influence of Bentham's legal and political thought in Japan : from the Meiji Restoration (1868) to the present -- Asya Ostroukh, Bentham and Bentham Studies in Russia -- Zhai Xiaobo, Debating Benthamism in modern China -- Francesco Ferraro, A lonesome sage and his zeal for the common good : Bentham's reception in Italy -- J. J. Moreso, Spanish emancipation : Bentham on law and politics in the Spanish world -- David Llewellyn, Bentham and Australia

These essays deal with various aspects of a new, rising field, socio-economics. The field is seeking to combine the variables studied by neoclassical economists with those typically studied by other social sciences. The combination is expected to provide a better understanding of economic behavior and the economy as well as society; make more reliable predictions; and be more in line with normative values we seek to uphold. The volume reflects the most recent thinking of the author on the implications of corporate governance shifting from shareholders to stakeholders. It examines the key to evolving a socio-economics and it deals with the socio-economics of decision making. The volume closes with a comparative analysis between socio-economics and communitarian thinking

International Law as a Belief System considers how we construct international legal discourses and the self-referentiality at the centre of all legal arguments about international law. It explores how the fundamental doctrines (e.g. sources, responsibility, statehood, personality, interpretation and jus cogens etc.) constrain legal reasoning by inventing their own origin and dictating the nature of their functioning. In this innovative work, d'Aspremont argues that these processes constitute the mark of a belief system. This book invites international lawyers to temporarily suspend some of their understandings about the fundamental doctrines they adhere to in their professional activities. It aims to provide readers with new tools to reinvent the thinking about international law and combines theory and practice to offer insights that are valuable for both theorists and practitioners

Alexander Heinze untersucht die unterschiedliche Interpretation der Beweisoffenlegungsregelungen vor dem Internationalen Strafgerichtshof (IStGH) und schlägt ein neues System der Beweisoffenlegung vor, in dem die Parteien die Konsequenzen ihres Handels im Allgemeinen und der Verletzung ihrer Offenlegungspflichten im Speziellen in Grundzügen voraussehen können. Durch eine kritische Rechtsprechungsanalyse weist er nach, dass die uneinheitliche Einordnung des geltenden IStGH-Prozesssystems über die Anwendung der systematischen Auslegungsmethode direkte Auswirkungen auf die Lösung prozessualer Fragestellungen hat, von denen die Beweisoffenlegung das prominenteste Beispiel darstellt. Aus diesem Grund klassifiziert der Autor den IStGH-Prozess neu und kommt zu dem Schluss, dass es sich bei dem IStGH um ein »hierarchisch« strukturiertes Gericht in Form einer internationalen Organisation handelt, dessen Prozesssystem dem »programmatischen« Ideal gleicht. Diese Klassifizierung wird nun als allgemeine Rechtslehre im technischen Sinne für eine weite systematische Auslegung fruchtbar gemacht und direkt auf die bestehenden Beweisoffenlegungsregelungen angewendet. Aufwendige philosophische und rechtstheoretische Überlegungen werden so mit einer hoch relevanten und praktischen Fragestellung verknüpft. »International Criminal Procedure and Disclosure« analyses the different interpretations of disclosure rules at the International Criminal Court (ICC) and introduces a new disclosure regime, where the parties will be able to actually foresee the consequences of their conduct (i.e. non-disclosure). Through a critical case law analysis Heinze illustrates that an inconsistent classification of the nature of the ICC-process has – via the application of a contextual interpretation – a direct impact on decisions about concrete procedural issues, of which disclosure is the most prominent example. For this very reason Heinze re-classifies the ICC-process and concludes that the ICC is a hierarchically structured international organisation with a »policy-implementing« form of procedure, that nevertheless contains adversarial elements usually found in a system of coordinate authority with a »conflict-solving« form of justice. This classification serves as a »general jurisprudence« in its technical sense, which enables the Judges to conduct a coherent contextual interpretation. The book thereby establishes a connection between legal theory, philosophy, sociology and comparative law on the one hand and a highly relevant procedural question on the other hand. Alexander Heinze untersucht die unterschiedliche Interpretation der Beweisoffenlegungsregelungen vor dem Internationalen Strafgerichtshof (IStGH) und schlägt ein neues System der Beweisoffenlegung vor. Dieses ist das Resultat einer konsequenten Anwendung des IStGH-Statuts auf der Grundlage einer einheitlichen allgemeinen Rechtslehre, die der Autor im Zuge seiner Arbeit entwickelt. Aufwendige philosophische und rechtstheoretische Überlegungen werden so mit einer relevanten und praktischen Fragestellung verknüpft. Alexander Heinze, geboren 1983 und aufgewachsen im Internat des Thomanerchores Leipzig, studierte von 2002 bis 2008 Rechtswissenschaften an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, wo er 2008 sein Erstes Juristisches Staatsexamen ablegte. Er ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Kriminalwissenschaftlichen Institut der Universität Göttingen, Abteilung für ausländisches und internationales Straf- und Strafprozessrecht bei Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Kai Ambos. Zudem ist er Dozent der Vorlesung »Einführung in die deutsche Rechtssprache und juristische Arbeitsmethoden« und Mitglied des Legal Tools Projekts des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs. Alexander Heinze wurde im Februar 2014 promoviert und erhielt für seine Arbeit im selben Monat den Fakultätspreis des Jahres 2013 für die beste Dissertation. Alexander Heinze, born in Borna/Germany in 1983, graduated from Georg-August-University of Göttingen School of Law in 2008. In the same year, he became research assistant at the Institute of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and International Criminal Law, Department for Foreign and International Criminal Law to Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Kai Ambos. He is lecturer of the course »Einführung in die deutsche Rechtssprache und juristische Arbeitsmethoden« (Introduction to the German legal language and methodology) at the University of Göttingen and member of the ICC's Legal Tools Project. In February 2014, Alexander Heinze received a doctor's degree for his thesis »International Criminal Procedure and Disclosure« and was awarded with the University of Göttingen School of Law Prize for the best dissertation in 2013.

The intertwinement of EC law and national law may create unforeseeability in situations where EC law invades the national cases, which gives rise to the very question of legal certainty in EC law. This study contributes to the contemporary discussion, which wrestles with the following questions in particular: - What have been the visions and objectives for European integration in the last decades? - How to describe European Union as a political entity and a legal system? - What is the relationship between legal certainty, rule of law, various general principles and human rights? - What is the core of legal certainty on the basis of the case study? - What kind of legal arguments and patterns of justification are there from a comparative perspective? - How has the term 'legal certainty' been defined in the Nordic legal theory? - How predictable and acceptable are the interpretations of the European Court of Justice - is it "running wild"? Legal certainty relates to the principle of non-retroactivity and the protection of legitimate expectations in particular, but more profoundly it can be related to the conceptual scale for weighing up and balancing between formal justice and material fairness in legal decision-making. This scale is illustrated by presenting the terms 'formal', 'factual' and 'substantive' legal certainty