Impartiality, Neutrality and Justice

Impartiality, Neutrality and Justice
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Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : UOM:49015003319051
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Synopsis Impartiality, Neutrality and Justice by : Paul Joseph Kelly

Justice as Impartiality confronts issues at the heart of modern political philosophy. This work examines Barry's thesis, expanding the discussion beyond the text to wider issues at the centre of contemporary debates about the nature and theories of distributive justice. It brings together responses from a range of Barry's critics including feminists, utilitarians, mutual advantage theorists, care theorists and anti-contractarians.

Impartial Justice

Impartial Justice
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Publisher : Lexington Books
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : 9780739177228
ISBN-13 : 0739177222
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Synopsis Impartial Justice by : Eric T. Kasper

This book examines the right to a neutral and detached decisionmaker as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court. This right resides in the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment guarantees to procedural due process and in the Sixth Amendment’s promise of an impartial jury. Supreme Court cases on these topics are the vehicles to understand how these constitutional rights have come alive. First, the book surveys the right to an impartial jury in criminal cases by telling the stories of defendants whose convictions were overturned after they were the victims of prejudicial pretrial publicity, mob justice, and discriminatory jury selection. Next, the book articulates how our modern notion of judicial impartiality was forged by the Court striking down cases where judges were bribed, where they had other direct financial stakes in the outcome of the case, and where a judge decided the case of a major campaign supporter. Finally, the book traces the development of the right to a neutral decisionmaker in quasi-judicial, non-court settings, including cases involving parole revocation, medical license review, mental health commitments, prison discipline, and enemy combatants. Each chapter begins with the typically shocking facts of these cases being retold, and each chapter ends with a critical examination of the Supreme Court’s ultimate decisions in these cases.

Justice as Impartiality

Justice as Impartiality
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Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages : 315
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ISBN-10 : 0198290926
ISBN-13 : 9780198290926
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Synopsis Justice as Impartiality by : Brian Barry

Standing against the trend towards relativism in political philosophy, this work offers a contemporary restatement of the Enlightenment idea that certain basic principles can validly claim the allegiance of every reasonable human being

Humanitarianism and the Quantification of Human Needs

Humanitarianism and the Quantification of Human Needs
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 270
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ISBN-10 : 9781000762594
ISBN-13 : 1000762599
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Humanitarianism and the Quantification of Human Needs by : Joël Glasman

This book provides a historical inquiry into the quantification of needs in humanitarian assistance. Needs are increasingly seen as the lowest common denominator of humanity. Standard definitions of basic needs, however, set a minimalist version of humanity – both in the sense that they are narrow in what they compare, and that they set a low bar for satisfaction. The book argues that we cannot understand humanitarian governance if we do not understand how humanitarian agencies made human suffering commensurable across borders in the first place. The book identifies four basic elements of needs: As a concept, as a system of classification and triage, as a material apparatus, and as a set of standards. Drawing on a range of archival sources, including the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), and the Sphere Project, the book traces the concept of needs from its emergence in the 1960s right through to the present day, and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s call for “evidence-based humanitarianism.” Finally, the book assesses how the international governmentality of needs has played out in a recent humanitarian crisis, drawing on field research on Central African refugees in the Cameroonian borderland in 2014–2016. This important historical inquiry into the universal nature of human suffering will be an important read for humanitarian researchers and practitioners, as well as readers with an interest in international history and development.

Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Model Rules of Professional Conduct
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Publisher : American Bar Association
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : 1590318730
ISBN-13 : 9781590318737
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Model Rules of Professional Conduct by : American Bar Association. House of Delegates

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Model Code of Judicial Conduct

Model Code of Judicial Conduct
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Publisher : American Bar Association
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 1590318390
ISBN-13 : 9781590318393
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Model Code of Judicial Conduct by : American Bar Association

Humanitarian Ethics

Humanitarian Ethics
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 374
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ISBN-10 : 9780190613327
ISBN-13 : 0190613327
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Synopsis Humanitarian Ethics by : Hugo Slim

Humanitarians are required to be impartial, independent, professionally competent and focused only on preventing and alleviating human suffering. It can be hard living up to these principles when others do not share them, while persuading political and military authorities and non-state actors to let an agency assist on the ground requires savvy ethical skills. Getting first to a conflict or natural catastrophe is only the beginning, as aid workers are usually and immediately presented with practical and moral questions about what to do next. For example, when does working closely with a warring party or an immoral regime move from practical cooperation to complicity in human rights violations? Should one operate in camps for displaced people and refugees if they are effectively places of internment? Do humanitarian agencies inadvertently encourage ethnic cleansing by always being ready to 'mop-up' the consequences of scorched earth warfare? This book has been written to help humanitarians assess and respond to these and other ethical dilemmas.

Neutrality in Contemporary International Law

Neutrality in Contemporary International Law
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Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 9780198739760
ISBN-13 : 0198739761
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Neutrality in Contemporary International Law by : James Upcher

While some have argued that neutrality has become irrelevant, this volume asserts that neutrality continues to be a key concept of the law of armed conflict. Neutrality in Contemporary International Law details the rights and duties of neutral states and demonstrates how the rules of neutrality continue to apply in modern day conflicts.

The Handbook of Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflicts

The Handbook of Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflicts
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 630
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ISBN-10 : 0198298676
ISBN-13 : 9780198298670
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis The Handbook of Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflicts by : Dieter Fleck

This book offers the most authoritative commentary and analysis of international humanitarian law applicable in armed conflict available. It is based upon the Joint Service Regulation for the German Ministry of Defence, augmented with extensive international references, and accompanied bycommentary by a team of distinguished and internationally renowned experts. Whilst the past decades have seen consistent development of international law applicable in armed conflict, culminating in a series of International Covenants and Protocols, world events in recent years have made reassessment of the law both a timely and topical concern. This Handbook available for the first time in paperback will serve as an indispensable reference source for practising lawyers and academics working in the field of international humanitarian law and for military personnel worldwide.

The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration

The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration
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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages : 1174
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ISBN-10 : 3030421201
ISBN-13 : 9783030421205
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration by : Mitja Sardoč

The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration aims to provide a comprehensive presentation of toleration as the foundational idea associated with engagement with diversity. This handbook is intended to provide an authoritative exposition of contemporary accounts of toleration, the central justifications used to advance it, a presentation of the different concepts most commonly associated with it (e.g. respect, recognition) as well as the discussion of the many problems dominating the controversies on toleration at both the theoretical or practical level. The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration is aimed as a resource for a global scholarly audience looking for either a detailed presentation of major accounts of toleration, the most important conceptual issues associated with toleration and the many problems dividing either scholars, policy-makers or practitioners.