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Cambridge University Press Dispute Processes
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging study considers the primary forms of decision-making negotiation, mediation, umpiring, as well as the processes of avoidance and violence in the context of rapidly changing discourses and practices of civil justice across a range of jurisdictions. Many contemporary discussions in this fieldand associated projects of institutional designare taking place under the broad but imprecise label of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). The book brings together and analyses a wide range of materials dealing with dispute processes, and the current debates on and developments in civil justice. With the help of analysis of materials beyond those ordinarily found in the ADR literature, it provides a comprehensive and comparative perspective on modes of handling civil disputes. The new edition is thoroughly revised and is extended to include new chapters on avoidance and self-help, the ombuds, Online Dispute Resolution and pressures of institutionalisation.Trade Review'A gem of a book, this third edition is a thoroughly updated revision of a classic and unique text. With new content in areas such as dispute avoidance, ODR and the institutionalisation of ADR, this collection is a brilliant resource for students of civil justice, dispute resolution and conflict studies, providing access to a rich tapestry of academic material supported by expert commentary.' Bryan Clark, Professor of Law and Civil Justice, Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University'The third edition of Dispute Processes is a welcome and substantial addition to the literature and provides an invaluable teaching resource. Comparative and socio-legal, it provides both a historical and contemporary analysis of dispute resolution, set in the context of legal pluralism. This is a major achievement!' Carly Stychin, Director, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London'This immensely important work by a distinguished pair of dispute resolution scholars offers a richly textured and thoughtful articulation of the social, political, religious and theoretical underpinnings driving ADR developments from a global and comparative perspective. It is essential reading for anyone studying, analysing or engaging with the dispute resolution field.' Shahla Ali, Professor and Associate Dean (International), Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong'Palmer and Roberts is the modern classic on ADR, now in its third edition with the expansion of comparative materials that greatly enrich the scope of the volume for reference and teaching purposes. In many ways, the authors have produced a comparative legal treatise as well as enriching their contribution to ADR itself. Those practising or teaching any of the alternative means of dispute resolution will find this volume indispensable.' William E. Butler, Dickinson Law, Pennsylvania State University, and Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law, University of London'This is simply the deepest book on disputing processes in the English language. Situating the processes of dispute resolution in history, culture, religion, politics and different legal systems, it explores both the intellectual history of dispute handling and the more practical variations of different processes used in different contexts. Unlike many texts which extol only the virtues of informal disputing methods (mediation or negotiation), or others that criticise them, this work of careful scholarship spans the range of processes in Western, Eastern (e.g. China) and Southern (Africa) regions, and provides materials for learning about both the merits and concerns of each kind of process, and allows a balanced assessment of when a particular process might be 'appropriate' for the particular dispute at hand. This new edition is most welcome in its consideration of newer hybridised forms of dispute processing and comparative analysis of new developments in the field, including online dispute resolution, both in court systems and in non-governmental and private venues. The text offers suggestions for viewing of films that illustrate the cultural variations in dispute processing, which will enliven any teaching in this field. This book is a magnificent illustration of how legal pluralism now operates in the world. A MUST-read for every scholar, practitioner and student of conflict resolution.' Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Distinguished Professor of Law and Political Science, University of California–Irvine, and A. B. Chettle Professor of Law, Dispute Resolution and Civil Procedure Emerita, Georgetown University'In the search for better forms and processes of decision-making, the book by Palmer and Roberts provides us with detailed and insightful understandings of both the theoretical underpinnings and practical aspects of dispute resolution, with a comprehensive and impartial coverage of the thinking, practices and reform in a range of legal cultures, both East and West. It shows the importance of the complex historical, social, cultural and legal contexts of dispute resolution processes, and provides many thought-provoking comments and ideas. It is not surprising that the text has established itself as the essential guide for academics, practitioners, policy-makers, students and the general public interested in thinking about dispute resolution.' Dr Weixia Gu, Associate Professor of Law, The University of Hong Kong, and Associate Member, International Academy of Comparative Law'A must-read book for students, researchers and practitioners eager to learn about dispute resolution discourse from a comparative, interdisciplinary, critical and cutting-edge perspective. Dispute Processes does much more than examine the theory and practice of dispute resolution processes. It represents a unique contribution to the study of the jurisprudence of dispute resolution. It encourages the reader to question current policy and legal developments towards the formalisation and institutionalisation of informal justice found in many jurisdictions around the world. Drawing upon an impressive and unique variety of sources spanning from sociology to politics to anthropology, and enriched by the authors' own fieldwork research, this book inspires new empirical and theoretical questions within dispute resolution and access-to-justice discourses. It also provides a sophisticated assessment of the variety of dispute resolution processes that legal systems and their legal cultures present. In particular, in arguing that informal justice is to be found in all cultures and at all times, this book elevates the study of dispute resolution beyond the Western - Non-Western dichotomy. Ultimately, this is a book about respect for the other and about equality … both essential elements in the successful resolution of disputes.' Maria Federica Moscati, Senior Lecturer in Family Law, Sussex University'For a student who takes a keen interest in dispute processes, the work of Palmer and Roberts offered great insights into the academic discussion. The work not only is helpful to my studies, but has fundamentally redefined the way I see dispute processes and resolutions. In particular, I applaud Palmer and Roberts's tremendous effort in drawing readers' attention beyond dispute processes and resolution as formalised by Western legal systems, and presenting a wide picture of ADR, which has always been part of human society.' Bryan Lai, student, Sussex Law School, University of Sussex'This 3rd Edition of Dispute Processes: ADR and the Primary Forms of Decision-Making is a valuable resource for all those interested in the nature of disputes, the processes by which to resolve them and their place in society. It draws on a rich body of theory in exploring the many complex issues that arise in resolving disputes and their processes. Its approach is multidisciplinary, for example offering sociological, anthropological, historical and comparative perspectives, which sets it apart from a usual approach to the examination of alternative dispute resolution processes, and as such, offers diverse and intellectually stimulating discussion of issues relevant to the on-going debates about informal and formal justice. The additions made to this 3rd edition are very welcome. The new chapters on Arbitration, the Ombuds process, on-line dispute resolution and the ever-continuing dialogue about the institutionalisation of ADR are a necessary and pertinent addition to the already rich material provided by this book. Additionally, for students of ADR, the roleplays and further reading list enhance this edition's content further. This book is most definitely required reading for all dispute resolution scholars and students alike!' Debbie De Girolamo, School of Law, Queen Mary University of LondonTable of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Cultures of decision-making: precursors to the emergence of ADR; 3. The debates around civil justice and the movement towards procedural innovation; 4. Disputes and dispute processes; 5. Development of disputes, avoidance and self help; 6. Negotiations; 7. Mediation; 8. Umpiring: courts and tribunals; 9. Umpiring: arbitration; 10. Hybrid forms and processual experimentation; 11. The ombuds and its diffusion: from public to private; 12. ODR and its diffusion: from private to public; 13. Institutionalization of ADR; 14. Reflections; Appendix A. Some role plays; Bibliography; Further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System
Book SynopsisThe debate over judicial review typically frames law's meaning as either rigid or elastic, strictly given or subjectively interpreted. By examining the operation of the wider legal system, this book provides a new framework for understanding objective judicial review.Table of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. An Objective Legal System: 2. Objectivity - getting reality right; 3. Objectivity in a legal system - three cornerstones; 4. The moral imperative of the rule of law; 5. The moral authority beneath the law; 6. A written constitution - bedrock legal authority; Part II. Implications for Judicial Review: 7. Judicial review - the reigning accounts' failure; 8. Objective judicial review - understanding the law in context; 9. Proper review in contemporary conditions; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Kants Doctrine of Right
Book SynopsisPublished in 1797, the Doctrine of Right is Kant's most significant contribution to legal and political philosophy. This commentary analyzes Kant's system of individual rights and guides readers through the most difficult passages of the Doctrine, explaining Kant's terminology, method and ideas in the light of his intellectual environment.Table of ContentsIntroduction and methods of interpretation; 1. The idea of the juridical state and the postulate of public law; 2. The state of nature and the three leges; Appendix. Iustitia tutatrix, iustitia commutativa, and iustitia distributiva and their differences; 3. The right to freedom; 4. The permissive law in the Doctrine of Right; 5. The external mine and thine; 6. Intelligible possession of land; 7. The 'state in the idea'; 8. The state in reality; 9. International and cosmopolitan law; 10. The 'idea of public law' and its limits; 11. Contract law I. Why must I keep my promise?; 12. Contract law II. Kant's table of contracts; 13. Criminal punishment; 14. The human being as a person; Appendix I. On the logic of 'ought' implies 'can'; Appendix II. The system of rules of imputation; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Jus Cogens International Law and Social Contract
Book SynopsisOne of the most complex doctrines in contemporary international law, jus cogens is the immediate product of the socialization of the international community following the Second World War. However, the doctrine resonates in a centuries-old legal tradition which constrains the dynamics of voluntarism that characterize conventional international law. To reconcile this modern iteration of individual-oriented public order norms with the traditionally state-based form of international law, Thomas Weatherall applies the idea of a social contract to structure the analysis of jus cogens into four areas: authority, sources, content and enforcement. The legal and political implications of this analysis give form to jus cogens as the product of interrelation across an individual-oriented normative framework, a state-based legal order, and values common to the international community as a whole.Trade Review'[Weatherall's] volume has the virtue of delving deeply into international and national jurisprudence to examine how courts have referred to jus cogens and what effects have resulted. The compilation of national court judgments referring to jus cogens is, on its own, quite impressive …' Dinah Shelton, American Journal of International Law'Mediating between the view that the moral dimension of human dignity itself explains the peremptory force and the view that the legal effects of jus cogens are simply based on state consent, Weatherall would like to reconcile natural law and positivist approaches.' Thomas Kleinlein, The European Journal of International Law'This short review does not allow for a more detailed analysis of this work, and cannot, therefore, do justice to Weatherall's extensive argumentation. While some readers may feel as though certain questions posed by the author remain unsettled, it is likely that the sheer complexity of this topic, which builds upon all of international law's foundational notions, makes such an impression inevitable. In sum, this book should be recommended: as the ILC is about to consider the first report of its Special Rapporeur on Jus Cogens, Weatherall's volume stands as an indispensable resource for the fascinating debates to come.' Sevrine Knuchel, Netherlands International Law ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: peremptory norms of general international law (jus cogens); 1. The authority of jus cogens; 2. Material and formal sources of jus cogens; 3. Peremptory norms and the individual; 4. Peremptory norms and the state; Conclusion: international law and social contract.
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Cambridge University Press The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice
Book SynopsisTransitional justice is distinguished from retributive, corrective, and distributive justice in Murphy's innovative analysis of this debated concept. The discussion is illustrated by case studies, making the book an accessible read for philosophers, political and social scientists, policy analysts, and legal and human rights scholars and activists.Trade Review'Colleen Murphy develops, and delivers, the bold argument that transitional justice - the way a society reckons with massive human rights abuses - is not ordinary justice. It is not reducible to retributive or restorative principles, nor to case-by-case determinations; rather, it is distinctive justice, because it is concerned with the just pursuit of societal transformation and relational repair. Murphy's book is a game-changer: a must-read for anyone concerned with the theory, practice, and policy of post-conflict rebuilding.' Mark A. Drumbl, Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University, Virginia'Murphy offers an outstanding analysis. This ambitious book constructs a novel way of conceiving the 'justice' in transitional justice, provoking discussion on a topic that has received little sustained analysis in the burgeoning transitional justice literature.' Margaret Urban Walker, Journal of Global Ethics'Colleen Murphy's new book on transitional justice displays her signature blend of analytic rigor, elegant writing, and empirically anchored theorizing. She follows up her excellent first book on political reconciliation with a volume on what it means to transform a war-torn society so that it can, ultimately, become reconciled. The just pursuit of political transformation, Murphy argues, is at the heart of the idea of transitional justice. This is the best, most ambitious philosophical account of transitional justice that I know of. The book can be read with utility by scholars and students seeking to understand the unique conditions and dilemmas surrounding transitions, as well as by policy makers interested in fashioning decent and legitimate transitional institutions.' Nir Eisikovits, Ethics'In The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice, Colleen Murphy develops a theoretical framework for understanding the conditions, objectives, and processes of transitional justice. It is a very interesting and useful contribution to the literature on transitional justice … the book helps us to rethink how we - practitioners, interested parties, and scholars - can more coherently, effectively, and justly respond to past wrongdoing.' Roger Duthie and David Tolbert, International Center for Transitional Justice'By reframing justice away from legal accountability and toward the evaluation of legal responses based on their contributions to reforming political relationships, between citizen and state and among citizens, she moves past the increasingly unsolvable debates that have preoccupied the field.' Laurel E. Fletcher, University of California, Berkeley School of Law'Murphy deserves accolades for traversing numerous disciplinary divides in her approach to transitional justice. For scholars seeking to build more bridges between international law and philosophy, this books offers an excellent way as to how it can be done.' Steven R. Ratner, University of Michigan Law School'Murphy eloquently argues that transitional justice is not like normal justice; it is qualitatively different because of the fundamentally distinct circumstances that constitute periods of political transition. These include: (a) pervasive structural inequality; (b) normalized collective and political wrongdoing; (c) serious existential uncertainty; and (d) fundamental uncertainty about authority. These background circumstances mean that ordinary ideas of retribution, corrective justice, and restitution do not cater to the needs of societies undergoing transition from authoritarianism/mass violence to democracy/peace. The misfit with these usual concepts of justice is so acute that we must craft an entirely new, distinct brand of justice that follows its own logic and answers to its own self-consciously defined first principles.' James Stewart, University of British Columbia'… the book is a sophisticated and analytic account of a timely topic, and merits a careful read by those with an interest in the challenges of transitioning from injustice to justice in circumstances that make the transition, without good guidance of the kind Murphy offers, seem impossible to achieve.' Patti Lenard, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews'Murphy's accessible and engaging book provides a normatively clear and philosophically rigorous theory of transitional justice that is a valuable contribution to a burgeoning literature on a complex moral and political subject. … its clarity helps to illuminate where future philosophical work on this complex theme should go.' Catherine Lu, Criminal Law and Philosophy'This book will be very useful to those who are interested in post-conflict rebuilding, conflict transformation, and reconciliation. The author asks us to reconsider conventional ideas about transitional justice and to focus on the role that relational change can play in it. Although Murphy's research needs to be fully contextualized to establish its relationship with ideas explored in other relevant literature, this book will help theorists and practitioners to comprehend the complex yet unsolved relation between 'doing justice' and 'social transformation' in transitional societies.' Kang Hyuk Min, Journal of Conflict Transformation and Security'The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice advances this work in important ways, by developing a bold case for the importance of transitional justice. The book is a rewarding intellectual journey, and offers a provocative framework for transforming theory and practice.' Bronwyn Leebaw, Perspectives on PoliticsTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. Circumstances of transitional justice; 2. The problem of transitional justice; 3. Societal transformation; 4. The just pursuit of transformation; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Dispute Processes
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging study considers the primary forms of decision-making negotiation, mediation, umpiring, as well as the processes of avoidance and violence in the context of rapidly changing discourses and practices of civil justice across a range of jurisdictions. Many contemporary discussions in this fieldand associated projects of institutional designare taking place under the broad but imprecise label of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). The book brings together and analyses a wide range of materials dealing with dispute processes, and the current debates on and developments in civil justice. With the help of analysis of materials beyond those ordinarily found in the ADR literature, it provides a comprehensive and comparative perspective on modes of handling civil disputes. The new edition is thoroughly revised and is extended to include new chapters on avoidance and self-help, the ombuds, Online Dispute Resolution and pressures of institutionalisation.Trade Review'A gem of a book, this third edition is a thoroughly updated revision of a classic and unique text. With new content in areas such as dispute avoidance, ODR and the institutionalisation of ADR, this collection is a brilliant resource for students of civil justice, dispute resolution and conflict studies, providing access to a rich tapestry of academic material supported by expert commentary.' Bryan Clark, Professor of Law and Civil Justice, Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University'The third edition of Dispute Processes is a welcome and substantial addition to the literature and provides an invaluable teaching resource. Comparative and socio-legal, it provides both a historical and contemporary analysis of dispute resolution, set in the context of legal pluralism. This is a major achievement!' Carly Stychin, Director, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London'This immensely important work by a distinguished pair of dispute resolution scholars offers a richly textured and thoughtful articulation of the social, political, religious and theoretical underpinnings driving ADR developments from a global and comparative perspective. It is essential reading for anyone studying, analysing or engaging with the dispute resolution field.' Shahla Ali, Professor and Associate Dean (International), Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong'Palmer and Roberts is the modern classic on ADR, now in its third edition with the expansion of comparative materials that greatly enrich the scope of the volume for reference and teaching purposes. In many ways, the authors have produced a comparative legal treatise as well as enriching their contribution to ADR itself. Those practising or teaching any of the alternative means of dispute resolution will find this volume indispensable.' William E. Butler, Dickinson Law, Pennsylvania State University, and Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law, University of London'This is simply the deepest book on disputing processes in the English language. Situating the processes of dispute resolution in history, culture, religion, politics and different legal systems, it explores both the intellectual history of dispute handling and the more practical variations of different processes used in different contexts. Unlike many texts which extol only the virtues of informal disputing methods (mediation or negotiation), or others that criticise them, this work of careful scholarship spans the range of processes in Western, Eastern (e.g. China) and Southern (Africa) regions, and provides materials for learning about both the merits and concerns of each kind of process, and allows a balanced assessment of when a particular process might be 'appropriate' for the particular dispute at hand. This new edition is most welcome in its consideration of newer hybridised forms of dispute processing and comparative analysis of new developments in the field, including online dispute resolution, both in court systems and in non-governmental and private venues. The text offers suggestions for viewing of films that illustrate the cultural variations in dispute processing, which will enliven any teaching in this field. This book is a magnificent illustration of how legal pluralism now operates in the world. A MUST-read for every scholar, practitioner and student of conflict resolution.' Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Distinguished Professor of Law and Political Science, University of California–Irvine, and A. B. Chettle Professor of Law, Dispute Resolution and Civil Procedure Emerita, Georgetown University'In the search for better forms and processes of decision-making, the book by Palmer and Roberts provides us with detailed and insightful understandings of both the theoretical underpinnings and practical aspects of dispute resolution, with a comprehensive and impartial coverage of the thinking, practices and reform in a range of legal cultures, both East and West. It shows the importance of the complex historical, social, cultural and legal contexts of dispute resolution processes, and provides many thought-provoking comments and ideas. It is not surprising that the text has established itself as the essential guide for academics, practitioners, policy-makers, students and the general public interested in thinking about dispute resolution.' Dr Weixia Gu, Associate Professor of Law, The University of Hong Kong, and Associate Member, International Academy of Comparative Law'A must-read book for students, researchers and practitioners eager to learn about dispute resolution discourse from a comparative, interdisciplinary, critical and cutting-edge perspective. Dispute Processes does much more than examine the theory and practice of dispute resolution processes. It represents a unique contribution to the study of the jurisprudence of dispute resolution. It encourages the reader to question current policy and legal developments towards the formalisation and institutionalisation of informal justice found in many jurisdictions around the world. Drawing upon an impressive and unique variety of sources spanning from sociology to politics to anthropology, and enriched by the authors' own fieldwork research, this book inspires new empirical and theoretical questions within dispute resolution and access-to-justice discourses. It also provides a sophisticated assessment of the variety of dispute resolution processes that legal systems and their legal cultures present. In particular, in arguing that informal justice is to be found in all cultures and at all times, this book elevates the study of dispute resolution beyond the Western - Non-Western dichotomy. Ultimately, this is a book about respect for the other and about equality … both essential elements in the successful resolution of disputes.' Maria Federica Moscati, Senior Lecturer in Family Law, Sussex University'For a student who takes a keen interest in dispute processes, the work of Palmer and Roberts offered great insights into the academic discussion. The work not only is helpful to my studies, but has fundamentally redefined the way I see dispute processes and resolutions. In particular, I applaud Palmer and Roberts's tremendous effort in drawing readers' attention beyond dispute processes and resolution as formalised by Western legal systems, and presenting a wide picture of ADR, which has always been part of human society.' Bryan Lai, student, Sussex Law School, University of Sussex'This 3rd Edition of Dispute Processes: ADR and the Primary Forms of Decision-Making is a valuable resource for all those interested in the nature of disputes, the processes by which to resolve them and their place in society. It draws on a rich body of theory in exploring the many complex issues that arise in resolving disputes and their processes. Its approach is multidisciplinary, for example offering sociological, anthropological, historical and comparative perspectives, which sets it apart from a usual approach to the examination of alternative dispute resolution processes, and as such, offers diverse and intellectually stimulating discussion of issues relevant to the on-going debates about informal and formal justice. The additions made to this 3rd edition are very welcome. The new chapters on Arbitration, the Ombuds process, on-line dispute resolution and the ever-continuing dialogue about the institutionalisation of ADR are a necessary and pertinent addition to the already rich material provided by this book. Additionally, for students of ADR, the roleplays and further reading list enhance this edition's content further. This book is most definitely required reading for all dispute resolution scholars and students alike!' Debbie De Girolamo, School of Law, Queen Mary University of LondonTable of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Cultures of decision-making: precursors to the emergence of ADR; 3. The debates around civil justice and the movement towards procedural innovation; 4. Disputes and dispute processes; 5. Development of disputes, avoidance and self help; 6. Negotiations; 7. Mediation; 8. Umpiring: courts and tribunals; 9. Umpiring: arbitration; 10. Hybrid forms and processual experimentation; 11. The ombuds and its diffusion: from public to private; 12. ODR and its diffusion: from private to public; 13. Institutionalization of ADR; 14. Reflections; Appendix A. Some role plays; Bibliography; Further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Public International Law Theory of Hans Kelsen Believing In Universal Law Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
Book SynopsisThis analysis of Hans Kelsen's international law theory takes into account the context of the German international legal discourse in the first half of the twentieth century, including the reactions of Carl Schmitt and other Weimar opponents of Kelsen. The relationship between his Pure Theory of Law and his international law writings is examined, enabling the reader to understand how Kelsen tried to square his own liberal cosmopolitan project with his methodological convictions as laid out in his Pure Theory of Law. Finally, Jochen von Bernstorff discusses the limits and continuing relevance of Kelsenian formalism for international law under the term of 'reflexive formalism', and offers a reflection on Kelsen's theory of international law against the background of current debates over constitutionalisation, institutionalisation and fragmentation of international law. The book also includes biographical sketches of Hans Kelsen and his main students Alfred Verdross and Joseph L. Kunz.Table of Contents1. Method and construction of international law in nineteenth century German scholarship; 2. Kelsenian formalism as critical methodology in international law; 3. An 'objective' architecture of international law: Kelsen, Kunz, and Verdross; 4. The new actors of universal law; 5. Legal sources as universal instruments of law creation; 6. The international judiciary as the functional center of universal law; 7. The role of the international legal scholar in Kelsen - a concluding reflection; Epilogue. On Kelsenian formalism in international law.
£29.44
Cambridge University Press The Legal Process and the Promise of Justice
Book SynopsisMalcolm Feeley is one of the founding giants of the law and society field, whose vast scholarship examines legal process from the inner workings of criminal courts to the possibility of prison reform. This volume offers essays by leading law and society scholars who reflect on, analyze, and expand Feeley's scholarship.Trade Review'Malcolm Feeley’s writings about America’s contradictory crime wars and criminal justice reform efforts are essential elements of modern criminology. The contributors to this volume take Feeley’s thinking in new and innovative directions that no student or scholar of our continuing predicament will want or can afford to miss. A guide to a futuristic Feeleyian criminology!' John Hagan, John D. MacArthur Professor Professor of Sociology and Law, Northwestern University, Illinois'An extraordinary collection of insightful studies that follow the steps of Malcolm Feeley in relation to the legal process and the promise of justice. It explores the vibrant legacy of this brilliant scholar for the present and it will be a source of inspiration for the future theoretical and empirical developments in these key socio-legal themes, both inside and outside the English speaking contexts.' Máximo Sozzo, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina'This festschrift for Malcolm Feeley, with contributions from eighteen distinguished scholars, provides powerful accounts of how lawyers and judges link policies of crime and punishment to fundamental problems of governing contemporary societies. Provocative and compelling, this collection confronts the current challenges to liberal democracies and the rule of law with trenchant, grounded analyses.' Susan S. Silbey, Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology'Far from being only a much deserved tribute to Malcolm Feeley, this book opens up new perspectives. By recalling the numerous insights of his scholarship, from The Process is the Punishment to debates on court reform or sociology of legal professionals, this rich array of scholars put these studies in perspective and demonstrate how fruitful his perspective is for socio-legal studies, in several national contexts. The same could even be said beyond that specific field, from the sociology of organizations to public policy analysis.' Liora Israël, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, ParisTable of ContentsIntroduction Jonathan Simon, Hadar Aviram and Rosann Greenspan; Part I. The Process is the Punishment: 1. Adversarial bias and the criminal process: infusing the organizational perspective on criminal courts with insights from behavioral science Hadar Aviram; 2. Malcolm Feeley's concept of law Issa Kohler-Hausmann; 3. Process as intergenerational punishment: are children casualties of parental court experiences? Kay Levine and Volkan Topalli; 4. The process is the problem Shauhin Talesh; Part II. Court Reform on Trial: 5. Vaping on trial: e-cigarettes, law, and society Eric Feldman; 6. Japanese court reform on trial David T. Johnson and Setsuo Miyazawa; 7. Court reform and comparative criminal justice David Nelken; 8. The birth of the penal organization: why prisons were born to fail Ashley T. Rubin; 9. The misbegotten: infanticide in Victorian England Lawrence M. Friedman; Part III. Judicial Policymaking and the Modern State: 10. Judicial deference in the modern state Lauren B. Edelman; 11. Judges, labor, and economic inequality Paul Frymer; 12. Administrative 'states' of judicial policy on gender-motivated violence Christine B. Harrington; 13. Can courts abolish mass incarceration? Jonathan Simon; 14. Policy making by out-of-court settlements: intelligence informers at the Israeli High Court of Justice Menachem Hofnung; Part IV. Political Liberalism and the Legal Complex: 15. The international legal complex: Wang Yu and the global response to repression of China's political lawyers Terence C. Halliday; 16. The legal profession's promise of justice: choices and challenges in legal and socio-legal work Mark Fathi Massoud; 17. The varieties of judicial independence and the judiciary's role in political reform Edward L. Rubin; 18. The legal complex and lawyers-in-chief Kim Lane Scheppele.
£104.50
Cambridge University Press Statutory Interpretation
Book SynopsisStatutory interpretation involves the reconstruction of the meaning of a legal statement when it cannot be considered as accepted or granted. This phenomenon needs to be considered not only from the legal and linguistic perspective, but also from the argumentative one - which focuses on the strategies for defending a controversial or doubtful viewpoint. This book draws upon linguistics, legal theory, computing, and dialectics to present an argumentation-based approach to statutory interpretation. By translating and summarizing the existing legal interpretative canons into eleven patterns of natural arguments - called argumentation schemes - the authors offer a system of argumentation strategies for developing, defending, assessing, and attacking an interpretation. Illustrated through major cases from both common and civil law, this methodology is summarized in diagrams and maps for application to computer sciences. These visuals help make the structures, strategies, and vulnerabilities of legal reasoning accessible to both legal professionals and laypeople.Trade Review'The authors do not assume extensive prior knowledge of the five varied disciplines that the work integrates, defining key concepts as needed and pointing out relevant areas of controversy in the literature … This work will be of primary interest to researchers in artificial intelligence and law, statutory interpretation, argumentation theory, and pragmatics.' Emily Da Silva, Canadian Law Library ReviewTable of Contents1. Interpretation and statutory interpretation; 2. Statutory interpretation as problem solving; 3. Interpretation and pragmatics: legal ambiguity; 4. Pragmatic maxims and presumptions in legal interpretation; 5. Arguments of statutory interpretation and argumentation schemes; 6. Classification and formalization of interpretative schemes.
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Cambridge University Press Subsidiarity
Book Synopsis''Subsidiarity'' is vague and contested, yet popular in scholarship about international law due to its role in the European Union (EU). Which conceptions of subsidiarity are more justifiable, and how might they contribute to international law? A principle of subsidiarity concerns how to establish, allocate, or use authority within a social or legal order, stating a rebuttable presumption for the local. Various historical patterns, practices, principles, and justifications offer different recommendations. Seven normative theories vary in how immunity protecting or person promoting they are. The latter appear more justifiable and withstand criticism often raised against subsidiarity. Some conceptions of person promoting subsidiarity serve as a structuring principle for international law and fullfills several criteria of a general principle of law. It can harmonize domestic and international law but is not sufficient to reduce fragmentation among sectors with different objectives.
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Cambridge University Press Philosophy and International Law
Book SynopsisIn Philosophy and International Law, David Lefkowitz examines core questions of legal and political philosophy through critical reflection on contemporary international law. Is international law really law? The answer depends on what makes law. Does the existence of law depend on coercive enforcement? Or institutions such as courts? Or fidelity to the requirements of the rule of law? Or conformity to moral standards? Answers to these questions are essential for determining the truth or falsity of international legal skepticism, and understanding why it matters. Is international law morally defensible? This book makes a start to answering that question by engaging with recent debates on the nature and grounds of human rights, the moral justifiability of the law of war, the concept of a crime against humanity, the moral basis of universal jurisdiction, the propriety of international law governing secession, and the justice of international trade law.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. John Austin: enforcement and international law; 3. H. L. A. Hart: social rules, officials, and international law; 4. Ronald Dworkin: interpretivism and international law; 5. An international rule of law?; 6. The legitimacy of international law; 7. International human rights law: concepts and grounds of human rights; 8. The law of war and its relationship to the morality of war; 9. International criminal law: crimes against humanity and universal jurisdiction; 10. International law and secession; 11. International trade law: free trade, fair trade, and trade in stolen goods.
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Pearson Learning Solutions The United States Department of Homeland Security
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Harvard University Press Corruption in America
Book SynopsisWhen Louis XVI gave Ben Franklin a diamond-encrusted snuffbox, the gift troubled Americans: it threatened to corrupt him by clouding his judgment. By contrast, in 2010 the Supreme Court gave corporations the right to spend unlimited money to influence elections. Zephyr Teachout shows that Citizens United was both bad law and bad history.
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The Catholic University of America Press Natural Law and Thomistic Juridical Realism
Book SynopsisProposes a novel legal-philosophical approach to understanding the intersection between law and morality. The book does so by analysing the conditions for the existence of a juridical domain of natural law from the perspective of the tradition of Thomistic juridical realism.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd H.L.A. Hart
Book SynopsisH.L.A. Hart is among the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, with an especially great influence on the philosophy of law. His 1961 book The Concept of Law has become an enduring classic of legal philosophy, and has also left a significant imprint on moral and political philosophy. In this volume, leading contemporary legal and political philosopher Matthew H. Kramer provides a crystal-clear analysis of Hart’s contributions to our understanding of the nature of law. He elucidates and scrutinizes every major aspect of Hart’s jurisprudential thinking, ranging from his general methodology to his defense of legal positivism. He shows how Hart’s achievement in The Concept of Law, despite the evolution of debates in subsequent decades, remains central to contemporary legal philosophy because it lends itself to being reinterpreted in light of new concerns and interests. Kramer therefore pays particular attention to the strength of Hart’s insights in the context of present-day disputes among philosophers over the reality of normative entities and properties and over the semantics of normative statements.This book is an invaluable guide to Hart’s thought for students and scholars of legal philosophy and jurisprudence, as well as moral and political philosophy.Trade Review"Matthew Kramer is one of the most important figures in legal theory today. His deep analysis of H.L.A. Hart's legal philosophy will be an invaluable resource for scholars and serious students of jurisprudence."—Brian Bix, University of Minnesota "Written with Kramer’s characteristic care and attention to detail, this marvelous book provides a sympathetic, yet critical, account of Hart's views on the nature of law and of legal reasoning. A valuable source of insight for student and seasoned scholar alike."—Wil Waluchow, McMaster University
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Classiques Garnier Au Fondement Des Droits: Droit Naturel Et Droits
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Classiques Garnier La Parole Donnee: Le Contrat Comme Representation
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Force Et Fragilite Des Normes: Les Principes de
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Hans Kelsen Werke: Band 3: Veröffentlichte
Book SynopsisBand 3 der HKW enthält Kelsens Publikationen aus den Jahren 1911 bis 1917, umfasst also die Phase nach dessen Habilitation bis in die letzten Jahre der Donaumonarchie. Die insgesamt 25 Beiträge zeigen ein vielschichtiges Bild des Autors: Neben mehreren Buchbesprechungen und kleineren, tagesaktuellen Arbeiten finden sich Studien, in denen Kelsen den in seiner Habilitationsschrift (HKW 2) grundgelegten ideologiekritisch-positivistischen Ansatz weiterentwickelt und entfaltet; zentrale Schriften des Übergangs von einer statischen zu einer dynamischen Rechtsbetrachtung markieren "Zur Lehre vom Gesetz im formellen und materiellen Sinn" (1913), "Zur Lehre vom öffentlichen Rechtsgeschäft" (1913), "Reichsgesetz und Landesgesetz nach österreichischer Verfassung" (1914), "Über Staatsunrecht. Zugleich ein Beitrag zur Frage der Deliktsfähigkeit juristischer Personen und zur Lehre vom fehlerhaften Staatsakt" (1914) sowie "Die Rechtswissenschaft als Norm- oder als Kulturwissenschaft" (1916). In mehreren Beiträgen widmet er sich Wesen und Wert der Rechtssoziologie, was ihm eine literarische Kontroverse mit dem Hauptvertreter dieser Richtung, Eugen Ehrlich, einbringt. Kelsens Engagement für die Arbeiterbildung dokumentiert sich in dem den Einflüssen des Charakters und der Weltanschauung feinsinnig nachspürenden Aufsatz "Politische Weltanschauung und Erziehung" (1913). Die Kriegszeit, in der Kelsen zuletzt für den k.u.k. Kriegsminister Rudolf Freiherr von Stöger-Steiner tätig ist, schlägt sich in einem Beitrag nieder, der unter anderem Kelsens politischen Realitätssinn zeigt: "Zur Reform der verfassungsrechtlichen Grundlagen der Wehrmacht Österreich-Ungarns" (1917/1918).
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Mohr Siebeck Hans Kelsen Werke
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Grenzen der Selbstbindung im Privatrecht:
Book SynopsisDas aufklärerische Ideal des freien und selbstbestimmten Menschen bildet einen Eckpfeiler des deutschen Privatrechts. Es findet seinen Ausdruck im Prinzip der Privatautonomie und ihrer wichtigsten Ausprägung, der Vertragsfreiheit. Aus dieser liberalen Grundhaltung speist sich eine weitgehende Ablehnung rechtspaternalistischer Freiheitsbeschränkung. Diesen antipaternalistischen Bekenntnissen zum Trotz ist das Zivilrecht von zahlreichen paternalistischen Regelungen durchsetzt. Dieses "Paternalismusparadox" nimmt Klaus Ulrich Schmolke zum Anlass, den Voraussetzungen und Grenzen rechtspaternalistischer Intervention in die Freiheit zur vertraglichen Selbstbindung nachzuspüren und aus den hierbei gewonnenen Erkenntnissen eine Konzeption der Zulässigkeitsbedingungen von Rechtspaternalismus im vertraglichen Privatrechtsverkehr zu entwickeln. Hierfür lotet er das Potential der verhaltensökonomischen Einsichten über das menschliche Entscheidungsverhalten zur Begründung rechtspaternalistischer Intervention in die Vertragsfreiheit aus. Seine Ergebnisse überprüft er anhand der Referenzgebiete des Familien-, Gesellschafts- und Verbraucherrechts.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Kriminologie - Kriminalpolitik - Strafrecht:
Book SynopsisMit der Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Hans-Jürgen Kerner wird ein Jurist und Kriminologe gewürdigt, dessen Werk und Wirken bei hohem wissenschaftlichem Anspruch nie den Praxisbezug vermissen ließ. Die Interdisziplinarität seiner Arbeiten und das Bestreben, Kriminalpolitik aktiv mitzugestalten, waren und sind wichtige Aspekte seiner Arbeiten. Hans-Jürgen Kerners Schaffenskraft und die Weite seines wissenschaftlichen Œuvre spiegeln sich in rund 700 Veröffentlichungen wider, darunter 40 Monographien und 34 Sammel- bzw. Herausgeberwerke. Zu einem Zeitpunkt, zu dem sich die deutsche Kriminologie wieder intensiv und kritisch mit ihrer Geschichte und ihrer kriminalpolitischen wie wissenschaftlichen Bedeutung beschäftigt, trägt die Festschrift mit Beiträgen zu den Bereichen Kriminologie, Kriminalprävention und Kriminalpolitik, Strafrecht und Jugendstrafrecht sowie Strafverfahren und Strafvollzug auch dazu bei, das wissenschaftliche Profil der Kriminologie zu schärfen.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Jahrbuch des öffentlichen Rechts der Gegenwart.
Book SynopsisAuch der neue Band des Jahrbuchs bemüht sich bei den Abhandlungen um Grundsatzfragen des öffentlichen Rechts und aktuelle verfassungsrechtliche Probleme im deutschen und europäischen Raum. Behandelt sind Themen wie "Die Verfassungslehrer" (G. Zagrebelsky), Europäisierung, Landesverfassungsrichter und" Rechtsschutzgarantien des internationalen Rechts". Die "Berichte" wenden sich den Verfassungsentwicklungen besonders in der Türkei sowie in den USA, Kenia und Äthiopien zu. Die im Laufe der letzten drei Jahrzehnte geschaffenen neuen Kategorien wie "Antrittsvorlesungen" (vier Beiträge) sowie "Staatsrechtslehre in Selbstdarstellungen" (K. Stern) sind beibehalten."Unauffällig und anscheinend unbemerkt ist es Zeitfür ein Jubiläum: Seit 30 Jahren, seit dem 1983 erschienenen 32. Band,gibt Häberle in der Nachfolge von Gerhard Leibholz das Jahrbuch heraus,das durchaus /sein /Jahrbuch geworden ist."Herbert Günther Staatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2013, 919
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Menschenrechte und Frieden als Rechtsprinzipien
Book SynopsisIn modernen multidimensionalen Friedensmissionen begrenzen sich Menschenrechtsschutz und Friedenssicherung vielfach gegenseitig. Wegen des fragmentarischen Zustands des jus post bellum und des Fehlens einer überzeugenden Konkretisierungsmethode gelingt es Sicherheitsrat und Peacekeepern nicht immer, konkurrierende Schutzziele auf legitime Weise zum Ausgleich zu bringen. Hartmut Henninger nimmt diesen Befund zum Anlass, die Völkerrechtsordnung als verfasste und wertgebundene Prinzipienordnung zu rekonstruieren. Er entwirft ein Entscheidungsmodell, das scheinbar unverbundene Regelungsfragmente und politische Konzepte zusammenführt und operationalisiert. Auf dieser Grundlage nimmt er Stellung zu drängenden Rechtsfragen der Konfliktnachsorge und setzt sich kritisch mit Praxisfällen auseinander. Der Autor zeigt, dass das Völkerrecht auch an seinen Grenzen zu nachvollziehbaren und rationalen Lösungen befähigt.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Verantwortung, Reversibilität und Verschulden
Book SynopsisBénédict Winiger geht der Frage nach, unter welchen Bedingungen von jemandem gesagt werden kann, er handle verantwortlich oder unverantwortlich. Diese Frage beschäftigt die Menschheit seit jeher und stellt sich jedem von uns bei allen Entscheidungen. Eine historische Analyse zeigt eingangs verschiedene Antworten in alten mesopotamischen, kleinasiatischen, griechischen und römischen Texten, die die moderne Rechtsphilosophie entscheidend geprägt haben. Der Autor vertritt sodann folgende zwei Thesen: Jemand verhält sich dann verantwortlich, wenn er durch sein Handeln einem möglichen Opfer jene Lebensperspektive zurückgeben kann - und im Schadensfalle tatsächlich zurückgibt, die es ohne das schädigende Ereignis haben würde (Kriterium der Reversibilität). Zudem verhält sich derjenige verantwortlich, den bei der Handlungsbestimmung und der tatsächlichen Handlung kein Verschulden trifft (Kriterium des Verschuldens).
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Informationsverwaltungsrecht: Zur kognitiven
Book Synopsis"Informationsverwaltungsrecht" bezeichnet weder ein neues Teilgebiet des Besonderen Verwaltungsrechts noch eine spezifische Umakzentuierung des Allgemeinen Verwaltungsrechts. Angesprochen ist damit vielmehr das Verwaltungsrecht unter den Bedingungen der modernen, globalisierten Wissensgesellschaft. Das Informationsverwaltungsrecht ist in diesem Sinne ein Recht, das sich reflexiv auf die wechselweise Beeinflussung seiner normativen und seiner kognitiven Dimension einstellt und es unternimmt, diesen Vorgang aktiv zu gestalten: als die rechtliche Anleitung einer angemessenen Informationsverarbeitung der Administrative, die zugleich zur rechtsinternen Wissenskonstruktion beiträgt und damit als prozedurales Gesamtarrangement eine neue Form von Entscheidungsfindung qua Rechtsanwendung ermöglicht. Ino Augsberg skizziert die wesentlichen theoretischen und dogmatischen Konsequenzen, die aus dieser Ausgangslage folgen.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Die Sicherheitsverfassung: Eine systematische
Book SynopsisDie Verfassung der Bundesrepublik ist faktisch nicht nur im Grundgesetz, sondern auch in den nunmehr über 130 Bänden verfassungsgerichtlicher Entscheidungen zu finden. Dies gilt in besonderer Weise für das Recht der inneren Sicherheit, das vom Bundesverfassungsgericht binnen der letzten Dekade in einer beeindruckenden Rechtsprechung verfassungsrechtlich durchwirkt wurde. Hierfür stehen Entscheidungen wie jene zum großen Lauschangriff, zur Rasterfahndung, zur Onlinedurchsuchung oder zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung. Diese umfangreiche Rechtsprechung wird von Steffen Tanneberger in ein System gebracht. Hierzu war zunächst eine induktive Methode zu entfalten, die den systematischen Brüchen und Kontingenzen der Rechtsprechung Rechnung trägt, zugleich aber wiederkehrende Argumentationsfiguren freizulegen vermag. Am Ende steht die derzeitige Antwort des Bundesverfassungsgerichts auf die Frage nach der rechten Balance von Freiheit und Sicherheit: Die Sicherheitsverfassung.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Christentum und Menschenrechte: Schöpfungs- oder Lernprozeß?
Book SynopsisDas Verhältnis von Christentum und Menschenrechten ist hochgradig ambivalent: Nebeneinander begegnen die Reklamation einer christlichen 'Alleinautorschaft' an den modernen Grundrechten sowie der Hinweis darauf, dass christliche Würdenträger die neuzeitlichen Menschenrechtskataloge anfangs als Ausgeburt des Individualismus und Rationalismus erbittert bekämpft haben. In seinem Essay zeichnet Fabian Wittreck zunächst die eminente politische Relevanz der Fragestellung nach, bevor er anhand der Quellen belegt, dass beide Positionen deutlich zu kurz greifen. Der anfängliche Widerstand gegen die Menschenrechtsidee verdeckt bei näherem Hinsehen weniger eine Fundierungs- als eine Ermöglichungsfunktion des Christentums, das im Gegensatz zu anderen Weltreligionen insbesondere infolge der Trennung von 'weltlich' und 'geistlich' Raum für die Entwicklung der Menschenrechtsidee durch das Vernunftnaturrecht lässt. Zugleich enthält die biblische Lehre Ansatzpunkte, die heute eine christliche Theologie der Menschenrechte tragen (und zugleich die kritische Frage nach der Geltung der Menschenrechte in den Kirchen aufwerfen).
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Verantwortbares Richterrecht: Eine
Book SynopsisStaatsorgane sollen die Verantwortung für jene Entscheidungen tragen, die sie treffen. Mit der entscheidungstreffenden Verantwortung der Judikative wird auch in demokratischen Rechtsstaaten unangemessen umgegangen, die rechtliche Zulässigkeit und Legitimität des maßgeblichen Richterrechts meistens nur unzureichend reflektiert. Die richterliche Rechtsgewinnung und ihre jeweiligen Methodiken zeichnen sich demgemäß aus durch mangelnde Transparenz sowie nahezu flächendeckende, aber z.T. entbehrliche Komplexität. Vor diesem Hintergrund entwirft Pedro S. d. M. Aleixo ein Modell präskriptiver richterlicher Rechtsgewinnungsmethodik, welches die bei der richterlichen Rechtsgewinnung erforderliche Verantwortungsverteilung transparent darstellt. Durch eine verantwortungsbezogene Unterscheidung von Auslegung und Rechtsetzung wird die Auslegung durch den Richter objektiver und die Rechtsgewinnung insgesamt einfacher handhabbar.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Das Geständnis
Book SynopsisObwohl in der Praxis von überragender Bedeutung, enthält das Strafprozessrecht keine konkreten Vorgaben zum Umgang mit einem Geständnis des Beschuldigten. Die Rechtsnatur des Geständnisses bestimmt Jens Andreas Sickor deshalb ausgehend von rechtshistorischen und rechtsvergleichenden Betrachtungen sowie unter Rückgriff auf die Prozessstruktur und das Beweisrecht der StPO. Zugleich unterzieht er den Umgang der Strafverfahrenspraxis mit dem Geständnis einer kritischen Betrachtung. Dazu zählen z.B. die Tauglichkeit des Geständnisses als "Wahrheitsgewinnungsmittel", die - auch durch Strafverfolgungsorgane gesetzten - Ursachen für Falschgeständnisse sowie die Legitimierbarkeit und die Gefahren der strafmildernden Berücksichtigung eines Geständnisses. Besonderes Augenmerk wird auf die Folgen des Verständigungsverfahrens (§ 257c StPO) sowie auf die Bedeutung des Geständnisses in Kronzeugenregelungen gelegt.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Gläubigerschädigung
Book SynopsisDie Verletzung schuldrechtlicher Verpflichtungen, insbesondere die Nichterfüllung von Verträgen, ist nach heutigem Verständnis grundsätzlich kein strafwürdiges Unrecht. Ein "Schuldnerstrafrecht" gab und gibt es freilich dennoch. Sein Terrain beschränkt sich auch keineswegs auf das Arbeits- und Insolvenzstrafrecht, sondern reicht möglicherweise noch weiter - von der Verletzung der Unterhaltspflicht über das unerlaubte Entfernen vom Unfallort bis hin zum Betrug. Auf der Grundlage einer Normentheorie, die subjektive Gläubigerrechte und Straftatbestände unmittelbar miteinander verknüpft, untersucht Andreas Popp die Erfassung gläubigerschädigenden Verhaltens durch das deutsche Strafrecht seit dem RStGB 1871 und die dogmatischen und rechtstheoretischen Problemstellungen, die sich damit verbinden.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Evidenzbasierte Jurisprudenz: Methoden
Book SynopsisWie gewinnen Juristen ihr Wissen über die Lebenswelt, die sie regeln? Erfahrung ist eine wichtige Erkenntnisquelle, aber die komplex vernetzte Wissensgesellschaft erfordert zunehmend auch empirische Rechtsforschung. Dabei sind die Methoden empirischer Forschung gar nicht so leicht zu handhaben und ihre Ergebnisse nicht so einfach zu interpretieren, wie man annehmen möchte. Hanjo Hamann erörtert deshalb die Grundlagen quantitativ-empirischen Forschens und verbindet die kritische Reflexion empirischer Erkenntnismöglichkeiten mit spezifisch juristischen Erkenntnisinteressen. Daraus entsteht eine pragmatische Rezeptionslehre, die nach dem Vorbild der "evidenzbasierten Medizin" besonderen Wert auf sogenannten Metastudien legt. Deren praktischen Nutzen erprobt der Autor vor allem an den empirischen Grundannahmen des gesellschaftsrechtlichen "Kollegialprinzips", die sich aus dessen dogmatischer und rechtsvergleichender Analyse ergeben.Hanjo Hamann erhielt für seine Dissertation den Dissertationspreis der Esche Schümann Commichau Stiftung, den Telekom-Preis für Zivilrecht der Universität Bonn sowie die Otto-Hahn-Medaille der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Organtransplantation und
Book SynopsisDas deutsche Recht kennt fürsorglich gemeinte Verbote, die den Bürger davor schützen sollen, sich selbst zu schädigen. In diesem Geiste agierend lässt sich der deutsche Gesetzgeber im Recht der Organtransplantation selbst von der dramatischen Organknappheit nicht abhalten, vollverantwortlichen Akteuren enge Grenzen für gesundheits- und lebensrettende Organspenden zu ziehen und Überschreitungen dieser Grenzen - auch wenn mit bester Absicht begangen - sogar zu bestrafen. Jörg Scheinfeld hinterfragt die Berechtigung dieser Strafnormen: de lege lata auf den Ebenen des Straf- und Verfassungsrechts sowie de lege ferenda auf dem Feld der Rechtsethik. Bezogen auf die Spende von Organen im engeren Sinn macht Jörg Scheinfeld die mit dem geltenden Strafrechtspaternalismus verfolgten Zwecke sichtbar und misst sie an den grundlegenden Prinzipien des Strafrechts.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Jahrbuch für Erbrecht und Schenkungsrecht: Band 4
Book SynopsisDer Verein "Hereditare Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Erbrecht e.V."" verfolgt das Ziel der wissenschaftlichen Erforschung des Erbrechts und des Rechts der lebzeitigen Vermögensnachfolge. Es gehört zu den Hauptanliegen des Vereins, die Verbindung von Wissenschaft und Praxis zu fördern. Das von ihm herausgegebene Jahrbuch für Erbrecht und Schenkungsrecht will die Vielfalt aller Zugänge zu erbrechtlichen Fragestellungen widerspiegeln. Zu diesem Zweck nimmt es sowohl theoretische Abhandlungen als auch praxisorientierte Beiträge auf. Es enthält unter anderem die Vorträge des jährlich stattfindenden "Bochumer Erbrechtssymposiums".
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Der Grundsatz der Totalreparation:
Book SynopsisDer Grundsatz der Totalreparation, so wie er im BGB zum Ausdruck kommt, bildet einen juristischen Sonderweg: In anderen Rechtsordnungen und auch in den internationalen Regelwerken finden sich nämlich - vor allem innerhalb des Vertragsrechts - teils erhebliche Einschränkungen der Schadensersatzpflicht. Zudem sah sich die stets uneingeschränkte Schadensersatzverpflichtung auch in Deutschland immer wieder mitunter heftiger Kritik ausgesetzt. Feras Gisawi zielt auf eine historische Erklärung dieses Sonderweges und sieht die Grundlagen des heutigen Rechts im deutschen Naturrechtsdiskurs der Neuzeit. Er weist nach, dass die dort entwickelten Vorstellungen und Wertungen das Postulat uneingeschränkten Schadensersatzes gedanklich überlagert und argumentativ stabilisiert haben. Diese Wertungen waren prägend für die weitere deutsche (Natur)Rechtsentwicklung bis zum BGB.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Die Natur des Rechts bei Gustav Radbruch
Book SynopsisGustav Radbruch war Deutschlands berühmtester Rechtsphilosoph im 20. Jahrhundert. Seine gehaltvollen, aber auch spannungsreichen Schriften prägen die deutschsprachige Rechtsphilosophie bis heute. Im Zentrum von Radbruchs Lehre steht sein neukantianisch geprägter Rechtsbegriff, der im Laufe der Zeit eine Reihe von Veränderungen erfahren hat. Die Beiträge in diesem Band sind Radbruchs Rechtsbegriff im Allgemeinen und den Wandlungen dieses Rechtsbegriffs im Besonderen gewidmet. Nach der orthodoxen Lesart vertrat Radbruch vor dem Kriege eine rechtspositivistische Lehre, wurde unter dem Eindruck der nationalsozialistischen Gräuel jedoch zum Naturrecht bekehrt. Zunehmend wird gesehen, dass diese 'Bekehrungsthese' zu Ungereimtheiten führt. Verschiedene Beiträge dieses Bandes betonen demgegenüber die Kontinuität nichtpositivistischer Elemente in der Entwicklung von Radbruchs Rechtsbegriff.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Anwendung und Auslegung von Recht in Portugal und
Book SynopsisMethodenlehre wird immer noch oft allein aus nationaler Sicht gesehen. Lösungsansätze in anderen Jurisdiktionen werden dann gerne als "nicht methodisch" beschrieben. Gleichermaßen werden die vier Auslegungselemente pauschal auf Savigny zurückgeführt und die Prämissen der Methodenlehre der Nachkriegszeit hingenommen, ohne sie zu problematisieren. Ausgehend von einer eigenen Savigny-Interpretation und bereichert durch die in Portugal und Brasilien gemachten Erfahrungen gibt Benjamin Herzog den Denkanstoß, die Wortlautgrenze und das teleologische Denken zu hinterfragen. Er fordert dies aber nicht für die lusophonen Rechte. Geprägt vom Respekt vor der Andersartigkeit fremder Rechtskulturen problematisiert er statt dessen, wie man in Portugal und Brasilien unter anderen historischen, verfassungsrechtlichen und sozioökonomischen Voraussetzungen als in Deutschland Recht anwendet und auslegt.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Haftung und Verhalten: Eine ökonomische
Book SynopsisÖkonomische Modelle zur Untersuchung des Rechts beruhten lange weitestgehend unreflektiert auf der homo oeconomicus -Annahme. Verhaltenswissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zeigen jedoch, dass Menschen ihre Entscheidungen systematisch anders treffen als der homo oeconomicus. Sie sind insbesondere lediglich begrenzt rational und haben komplexe Präferenzen. Da rechtliche Regelungen in einem konkreten sozialen Kontext wirken, dürfen diese Erkenntnisse nicht unberücksichtigt bleiben. Stefan Korch stellt wesentliche systematische Abweichungen von der Rationalverhaltensannahme vor und erörtert, welche Auswirkungen die Auflösung der Annahme auf die ökonomische Theorie des Rechts hat (Behavioral Law and Economics). Als Untersuchungsgegenstand dient dabei das Haftungsrecht, weil sich menschliche Verhaltensweisen wie unrealistischer Optimismus und Selbstüberschätzung sowie komplexe Präferenzen darauf besonders auswirken.Die Arbeit wurde mit dem 'Rödl-Promotionspreis 2015' der Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg sowie dem 'Förderpreis der Schmitz-Nüchterlein-Stiftung 2015' ausgezeichnet.
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