Suchergebnisse

Legal change and political philosophy / Maciej Chmielinski -- Standards of law-making as the parts of normative space in the post-modern democratic states : the question of justification and legitimacy of law / Tadeusz Biernat -- Public reason, background culture, and the justification of legal change / Michal Rupniewski -- The moral, the political, and the legal : changing patterns of justification in a world of legal pluralization / Eva Weiler -- Human rights : desiderata of a theory of change / Stephen Riley -- Legal "determinism" or/and legal "creationism"? : conservative-communitarian versus contractarian approaches to legal change / Maciej Chmielinski -- Natural law ethics and the issue of legal change / Michal Rupniewski -- Natural law against natural rights in the thought of Alasdair Macintyre / Kamil Aksiuto -- Kant's conception of legal change / Eduardo Charpenel -- Economism, voluntarism, and materialist historicism : three faces of the Marxist instrumental approach to legal change / Maciej Chmielinski -- Petrifying, disregarding or reforming customs : can customary law be changed in a liberal way? / Marc Goetzmann -- The "codification moment" : an attempt to define factors of effective law reform illustrated with the example of the Swiss Civil Code of 10 December 1907 / Maria Lewandowicz -- Exogenous institutional change as coercion and the ideological neutrality litmus : the case of Polish communism / J. Patrick Higgins -- The coercive control offence : a case study on overcriminalisation / Melissa Hamilton -- Individualism in times of crisis : theorising a shift away from classic liberal attitudes to human rights post 9/11 / Ian Turner -- Is the principle of legal certainty a human right? : the legitimacy of the retroactive application of laws / Jan Tryzna -- Conclusion: the philosophy of legal change as a research method / Michal Rupniewski.

Foreword / Shaheeza Lalani and Clarence Siziba -- Preface / Edith Brown Weiss -- Introduction / Severn Cullis-Suzuki -- Equity in international law / Thomas Cottier -- All-affected, non-identity and the political representation of future generations: linking intergenerational justice with democracy / Michael Rose -- Guardians for future generations : bringing intergenerational justice into the heart of policy-making / Catherine Pearce -- Intergenerational justice and the concept of common concern in marine resource allocation and ocean governance / Judith Schali -- Equity across generations in international and domestic water law / Otto Spijkers -- Intergenerational justice : promotion of renewables and the water protection objective / Karolis Gudas and Simona Weber -- Intergenerational climate justice / Anna Aseeva -- Balancing the role and responsibilities of business in society / Sonia Gawlick and Jean Brice Audoye -- Genocide denial as an intergenerational injustice / Melanie Altanian -- Intergenerational justice and international migration : some insights from law and economics / Philip C. Hanke -- Funding the future : sovereign wealth funds as promoters of intergenerational equity / Xenia Karametaxas -- Striking a balance between the protection of foreign investment and the safeguard of cultural heritage in international investment agreements : can general exceptions make a difference? / Roberto Claros -- Looking forward : intergenerational justice in the context of indigenous rights in canada / Amyn Lalji -- Epilogue : voices of the future for sustainability / Jona David

For most, the right place to look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions. This interdisciplinary collection looks for law in the "wrong places"--sites and spaces in which no formal law appears--geographic regions beyond the law's reach, everyday practices ungoverned by law, works of art that have escaped law's constraints. Beyond showing law to be determined by or determinative of cultural phenomena, the contributors show how law is itself interwoven with language, text, image, and culture

Pt. 1. Foundations. Habermas's reconstructive approach: theoretical premises -- pt. 2. The discourse theory. Discourse and argumentation -- Moral and legal discourse -- Discourse and value pluralism -- pt. 3. Habermas's theory of democracy. Historical context and the legacy of German legal-political thought -- Public sphere -- Civil society and civil disobedience -- Deliberative democracy -- pt. 4. The legal system. The system of rights -- The procedural paradigm -- Judicial adjudication.

What does it mean for courts and other legal institutions to be culturally sensitive? What are the institutional implications and consequences of such an aspiration? To what extent is legal discourse capable of accommodating multiple cultural narratives without losing its claim to normative specificity? And how are we to understand meetings of law and culture in the context of formal and informal legal processes, when demands are made to accommodate cultural difference? The encounter of law and culture is a polycentric relation, but these questions draw our attention to law and legal institutions as one site of encounter warranting further investigation, to map out the place of culture in the domains of law by relying on the insights of law, anthropology, politics, and philosophy. Culture in the Domains of Law seeks to examine and answer these questions, resulting in a richer outlook on both law and culture

Debt, death, and redemption : toward a soterial-legal history of the Turner Rebellion / Christopher Tomlins -- The concept of law in global societal constitutionalism / Jiri Priban -- Portraying the legal in socio-legal studies through legal-naming events / Natalie Ohana -- Sex/gender equality : taking a break from the legal to transform the social / Sharon Cowan -- Fluid legal labels and the circulation of socio-technical objects : the multiple lives of 'fake' medicines / Emilie Cloatre -- Solar panels, home owners and leases : the lease as a socio-legal object / Caroline Hunter -- Bringing the technical into the socio-legal : the metaphors of law and legal scholarship of a 21st century European Union / Paul James Cardwell and Tamara Hervey -- Territory and human rights : mandatory possession proceedings / David Cowan -- Legal technology in an age of austerity : documentation, 'functional' incontinence and the problem of dignity / Helen Carr -- Following the law or using the law? : decision making in medical manslaughter / Andrew Sanders and Danielle Griffiths -- A sociolegal metatheory / Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

Wie die Finanzmarktkrise eindruecklich gezeigt hat, versetzt die Insolvenz eines Kredit- bzw. eines Finanzdienstleistungsinstituts alle Beteiligten in eine schwierige Lage. Diese Arbeit ist an der Schnittstelle zwischen Bank- und Insolvenzrecht angesiedelt und bietet einen umfassenden Ueberblick ueber die insolvenzrechtliche Abwicklung der in 1 Abs. 1 S. 2,Abs. 1a S. 2 KWG aufgefuehrten Bankgeschaefte und Finanzdienstleistungen. Es werden die Besonderheiten derartiger Vertraege herausgearbeitet und deren Auswirkungen im Insolvenzverfahren aufgezeigt. Im Vordergrund der Studie steht dabei die