Author: Myres S Mac DougalPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789024729111
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Power and Policy in Quest of the Law
Author: Myres S Mac DougalPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789024729111
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Power and Policy in Quest of the Law: Essays in Honor of Eugene Victor Rostow /edited by
Author: The Rule of Laws
Author: Fernanda PiriePublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541617959
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
From ancient Mesopotamia to today, the epic story of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations Rulers throughout history have used laws to impose order. But laws were not simply instruments of power and social control. They also offered ordinary people a way to express their diverse visions for a better world. In The Rule of Laws, Oxford scholar Fernanda Pirie traces the rise and fall of the sophisticated legal systems underpinning ancient empires and religious traditions, while also showing how common people—tribal assemblies, merchants, farmers—called on laws to define their communities, regulate trade, and build civilizations. Although legal principles originating in Western Europe now seem to dominate the globe, the variety of the world’s laws has long been almost as great as the variety of its societies. What truly unites human beings, Pirie argues, is our very faith that laws can produce justice, combat oppression, and create order from chaos.
The Power of Legality
Author: Nikolas M. RajkovicPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107145058
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Legality today commands substantial currency in world affairs, and this volume examines the struggle over its meaning in diverse practices.
The Oxford Handbook on the Sources of International Law
Author: Samantha BessonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198745362
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1233
Book Description
This handbook examines the sources of international law, how the understanding of sources changed throughout the history of international law; how the main legal theories understood sources; the relationship between sources and the legitimacy of international law; and how sources differ across the various sub-areas of international law.--
Politics and the Histories of International Law
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004461809
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
This book brings together 18 contributions by authors from different legal systems and backgrounds. They address the political implications of the writing of the history of legal issues ranging from slavery over the use of force and extraterritorial jurisdiction to Eurocentrism.
Law, Power, and the Sovereign State
Author: Michael Ross FowlerPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271039114
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet bloc, it is timely to ask what continuing role, if any, the concept of sovereignty can and should play in the emerging &"new world order.&" The aim of Law, Power, and the Sovereign State is both to counter the argument that the end of the sovereign state is close at hand and to bring scholarship on sovereignty into the post-Cold War era. The study assesses sovereignty as status and as power and examines the issue of what precisely constitutes a sovereign state. In determining how a political entity gains sovereignty, the authors introduce the requirements of de facto independence and de jure independence and explore the ambiguities inherent in each. They also examine the political process by which the international community formally confers sovereign status. Fowler and Bunck trace the continuing tension of the &"chunk and basket&" theories of sovereignty through the history of international sovereignty disputes and conclude by considering the usefulness of sovereignty as a concept in the future study and conduct of international affairs. They find that, despite frequent predictions of its imminent demise, the concept of sovereignty is alive and well as the twentieth century draws to a close.
The Law in Quest of Itself
Author: Lon L. FullerPublisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584770163
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Fuller, Lon L. The Law in Quest of Itself. Boston: Beacon Press, 1966. [vi], 150 pp. Reprinted 1999 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 99-32863. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-016-9. ISBN-10: 1-58477-016-3. Cloth. $60.* Three lectures by the Harvard Law School professor examine legal positivism and natural law. In the course of his analysis Fuller discusses Kelsen's theory as a reactionary theory, and Hobbes' theory of sovereignty. He defines legal positivism as the viewpoint that draws a distinction "between the law that is and the law that ought to be..." (p.5) and interprets natural law as that which tolerates a combination of the two. He looks at the effects of positivism's continued influence on American legal thinking and concludes that law as a principle of order is necessary in a democracy.
THE RULE OF LAWS
Author: FERNANDA PIRIEPublisher:
ISBN: 9781788163033
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Rule of Law and the Separation of Powers
Author: Richard Paul BellamyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780754624639
Category : Rule of law
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This collection of eighteen key essays from jurists, political theorists and public law political scientists, explores the role law plays in the political system. The first eleven essays identify the standard features associated with the rule of law. The next seven essays then explore how different ways of separating and dispersing power contribute to this democratic style of rule by forcing politicians and judges alike to treat people as equals and regard none as above the law.