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"The problem of absolutes" refers to the difficulty of grounding and defending absolute prohibitions in a legal system that is rationalized on the basis of means-ends rationality. (An example might be the difficulty in identifying an absolute prohibition on torture that is not susceptible to being reinterpreted, read down, or negotiated away.) In the present paper, I associate this difficulty in the first instance with Max Weber's account of the rationalization of law and the distancing of law from any sense of sacred or transcendent obligation. But other developments need to be considered as well. I argue that the problem is as much about morality as it is about law. The two-law and morality-develop together in a complementary way, and the problem of legal absolutes tends to be matched by a corresponding difficulty with moral absolutes, just as the desanctification of law tends to be matched by a desanctification of morality"--

Establishes the principles that govern the environmental policy and the basic norms for the regulation of the administration of the environment and the actions of the citizens and society in general, with the goal to protect the environment and achieve the sustainable development of the Country.

The presentation explores whether housing law and anti-discrimination law can be reflected upon jointly in order to address socioeconomic inequalities, understood as major constraints to the access to adequate housing. The first section analyses the prohibition of discrimination on the grounds of socioeconomic status as contained in selected international human rights instruments and in European Union law, in light of the guidance of the bodies tasked with their interpretation and application. The second section focuses specifically on housing, examining how the aforementioned prohibition applies in this field and which specific mechanisms ought to be put in place to effectively secure the right to housing of low-income groups.

The Chain Novel of Civil Law – Dworkin, Brandom and the Rational Practice of Law outside of Common Law Systems -- The Civil Law as Foundation of the Common Law: Roscoe Pounds looks at the Origins of the Common Law -- Progress in Purity v. Purity in Progress. On: "The Law works itself pure -- In the Mix: Common Law and Civil Law Approaches United -- Presumption(s) of Correctness (?): Comparing the Methodological Relevance of Judicial Precedents in Civil Law and in Common Law Systems -- A Matter of Choice: On China's Transition to a Civil Law System -- Xxx -- Between Guidance and Discretion: Mainstream and Critical Portrayals of Judges in the Civil Law and (American) Common Law Worlds -- Civil Law is only more or less Common Law – why Overstate the Difference? -- Common Law and Civil: Tree Diagram or Pyramid of Norms? -- A Positive Turn: Originalism between Common Law and Civil Law -- Common Law, Civil Law, and the Data of Legal Philosophy -- A Post Mortem on Legal Science? -- Two Faces of judicial decision making. On the concept of judicial precedent in the Civil Law Countries -- Common Law and Civil Law – The Matter of Constitutional Reasoning.

This book is one of the first to link company law to the law of succession by concentrating on family businesses. It shows that, to understand the legal framework underlying the daily operations of family businesses, one needs legal analysis, empirical data, psychological and sociological knowledge. The book works on the premise that, since many businesses have been founded by families, practitioners need to develop an understanding of the legal background of such businesses and build up experience to be able to create contracts, trusts, foundations and other legal mechanisms to give shape to systems and procedures for the transfer of shares and control within the family. Comparing the national legal order, techniques, and mechanisms in a range of countries, the book examines parallel developments in these fields of law across the world. Finally, it demonstrates the room for companies, shareholders and the members of a family to develop individual solutions within the legal framework for transferring businesses and shares to the next generation