Legitimating The Law
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Author |
: Scott Veitch |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 297 |
Release |
: 2007-11-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134107551 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134107552 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Law and Irresponsibility by : Scott Veitch
Law is widely assumed to provide contemporary society with its most important means of organizing responsibility. Across a broad range of areas of social life – from the activities of states and citizens, to work, business and private relationships – it is understood that legal regulation plays a crucial role in defining and limiting responsibilities. But Law and Irresponsibility pursues the opposite view: it explores how law organizes irresponsibility. With a particular focus on large-scale harms – including extensive human rights violations, forms of colonialism, and environmental or nuclear devastation – this book analyzes the ways in which law legitimates human suffering by demonstrating how legal institutions operate as much to deflect responsibility for harms suffered as to acknowledge them. Drawing on a series of case studies, it shows not only how law facilitates the dispersal and disavowal of responsibility, but how it does so in consistent and patterned ways. Irresponsibility is organized, and its organization is traced here to the legal forms, and the social and political conditions, that sustain ‘our’ complicity in human suffering. This innovative and interdisciplinary book provides a radical challenge to conventional thinking about law and legal institutions. It will be of considerable interest to those working in law, political and legal theory, sociology and moral philosophy.
Author |
: John Phillip Reid |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 2012-06-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781609090548 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1609090543 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Legitimating the Law by : John Phillip Reid
John Phillip Reid is one of the most highly regarded historians of law as it was practiced on the state level in the nascent United States. He is not just the recipient of numerous honors for his scholarship but the type of historian after whom such accolades are named: the John Phillip Reid Award is given annually by the American Society for Legal History to the author of the best book by a mid-career or senior scholar. Legitimating the Law is the third installment in a trilogy of books by Reid that seek to extend our knowledge about the judicial history of the early republic by recounting the development of courts, laws, and legal theory in New Hampshire. Here Reid turns his eye toward the professionalization of law and the legitimization of legal practices in the Granite State—customs and codes of professional conduct that would form the basis of judiciaries in other states and that remain the cornerstone of our legal system to this day throughout the US. Legitimating the Law chronicles the struggle by which lawyers and torchbearers of strong, centralized government sought to bring standards of competence to New Hampshire through the professionalization of the bench and the bar—ambitions that were fought vigorously by both Jeffersonian legislators and anti-Federalists in the private sector alike, but ultimately to no avail.
Author |
: James Crawford |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 485 |
Release |
: 2012-01-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521190886 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521190886 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to International Law by : James Crawford
A concise, intellectually rigorous and politically and theoretically informed introduction to the context, grammar, techniques and projects of international law.
Author |
: Jürgen Habermas |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 637 |
Release |
: 2015-10-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780745694269 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0745694268 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Between Facts and Norms by : Jürgen Habermas
This is Habermas's long awaited work on law, democracy and the modern constitutional state in which he develops his own account of the nature of law and democracy.
Author |
: Thomas R. Dye |
Publisher |
: CQ Press |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015050038473 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Top Down Policymaking by : Thomas R. Dye
In his eye-opening work, Dye explodes the myth that public policy represents the “demands of the people” and that the making of public policy flows upward from the masses. In reality, Dye argues, public policy in America, as in all nations, reflects the values, interests, and preferences of a governing elite. Top Down Policymaking is a close examination of the process by which the nation’s elite goes about the task of making public policy. Focusing on the behind-the-scenes activities of money foundations, policy planning organizations, think tanks, political campaign contributors, special-interest groups, lobbyists, law firms, influence-peddlers, and the national news media, Dye concludes that public policy is made from the top down.
Author |
: Erasmus Robertson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 72 |
Release |
: 1829 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:N11204827 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Law of Legitimation by Subsequent Marriage by : Erasmus Robertson
Author |
: Kathy Dodworth |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 283 |
Release |
: 2022-05-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781316516515 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1316516512 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Legitimation as Political Practice by : Kathy Dodworth
A radical, interdisciplinary reworking of legitimation, using ethnographic insights to explore everyday non-state authority in Tanzania.
Author |
: Rüdiger Wolfrum |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 423 |
Release |
: 2008-02-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783540777649 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3540777644 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Legitimacy in International Law by : Rüdiger Wolfrum
There has been intense debate in recent times over the legitimacy or otherwise of international law. This book contains fresh perspectives on these questions, offered at an international and interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Law and International Law. At issue are questions including, for example, whether international law lacks legitimacy in general and whether international law or a part of it has yielded to the facts of power.
Author |
: Nimer Sultany |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 417 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198768890 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198768893 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Law and Revolution by : Nimer Sultany
What is the effect of revolutions on legal systems? What role do constitutions play in legitimating regimes? How do constitutions and revolutions converge or clash? Taking the Arab Spring as its case study, this book explores the role of law and constitutions during societal upheavals, and critically evaluates the different trajectories they could follow in a revolutionary setting. The book urges a rethinking of major categories in political, legal, and constitutional theory in light of the Arab Spring. The book is a novel and comprehensive examination of the constitutional order that preceded and followed the Arab Spring in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Jordan, Algeria, Oman, and Bahrain. It also provides the first thorough discussion of the trials of former regime officials in Egypt and Tunisia. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, including an in-depth analysis of recent court rulings in several Arab countries, the book illustrates the contradictory roles of law and constitutions. The book also contrasts the Arab Spring with other revolutionary situations and demonstrates how the Arab Spring provides a laboratory for examining scholarly ideas about revolutions, legitimacy, legality, continuity, popular sovereignty, and constituent power.
Author |
: Arthur Isak Applbaum |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2019-11-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674241930 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674241932 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Legitimacy by : Arthur Isak Applbaum
At an unsettled time for liberal democracy, with global eruptions of authoritarian and arbitrary rule, here is one of the first full-fledged philosophical accounts of what makes governments legitimate. What makes a government legitimate? The dominant view is that public officials have the right to rule us, even if they are unfair or unfit, as long as they gain power through procedures traceable to the consent of the governed. In this rigorous and timely study, Arthur Isak Applbaum argues that adherence to procedure is not enough: even a properly chosen government does not rule legitimately if it fails to protect basic rights, to treat its citizens as political equals, or to act coherently. How are we to reconcile every person’s entitlement to freedom with the necessity of coercive law? Applbaum’s answer is that a government legitimately governs its citizens only if the government is a free group agent constituted by free citizens. To be a such a group agent, a government must uphold three principles. The liberty principle, requiring that the basic rights of citizens be secured, is necessary to protect against inhumanity, a tyranny in practice. The equality principle, requiring that citizens have equal say in selecting who governs, is necessary to protect against despotism, a tyranny in title. The agency principle, requiring that a government’s actions reflect its decisions and its decisions reflect its reasons, is necessary to protect against wantonism, a tyranny of unreason. Today, Applbaum writes, the greatest threat to the established democracies is neither inhumanity nor despotism but wantonism, the domination of citizens by incoherent, inconstant, and incontinent rulers. A government that cannot govern itself cannot legitimately govern others.