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La eutanasia en España
No pocas personas, organizaciones e instituciones han sido excluidas del proceso de elaboración de la Ley de Regulación de la Eutanasia en España. Se optó por tramitarla de modo abreviado, sin que apenas pudiera existir debate público. Fue presentada por el partido que apoya al Gobierno de coalición, sin informe del Comité de Bioética. Apenas hubo debate parlamentario, pues se considera la política una mera cuestión de votos. Tramitada como proposición, un Gobierno con mayoría puede impedir la participación de órganos consultivos, y así se hizo. Sus promotores pueden intentar sofocar el debate público, pero no pueden impedirlo. Este volumen recoge algunas de esas voces discrepantes —médicos, juristas y filósofos—, para facilitar a los lectores otros puntos de vista y promover un sano pluralismo que favorezca la salud democrática.
La universidad
La Universidad debe ser lo que ha sido durante siglos y debiera seguir siendo hoy y mañana: una institución que, lejos acomodarse a la mentalidad utilitarista y mercantilista que predominan en la actualidad, busca el conocimiento de la realidad como fin, y no como mero medio para la obtención de un beneficio o de un puesto de trabajo. No renunciamos a que la Universidad proporcione una buena formación que capacite profesionalmente a quienes pasan por ella, sino a la mera transmisión de una formación estrictamente profesional, desprovista de aquel bagaje cultural e intelectual que pasa por la lectura de los grandes autores, de esos gigantes a los que necesitamos subirnos para contemplar...
The Western Codification of Criminal Law
This volume addresses an important historiographical gap by assessing the respective contributions of tradition and foreign influences to the 19th century codification of criminal law. More specifically, it focuses on the extent of French influence – among others – in European and American civil law jurisdictions. In this regard, the book seeks to dispel a number of myths concerning the French model’s actual influence on European and Latin American criminal codes. The impact of the Napoleonic criminal code on other jurisdictions was real, but the scope and extent of its influence were significantly less than has sometimes been claimed. The overemphasis on French influence on other civil law jurisdictions is partly due to a fundamental assumption that modern criminal codes constituted a break with the past. The question as to whether they truly broke with the past or were merely a degree of reform touches on a difficult issue, namely, the dichotomy between tradition and foreign influences in the codification of criminal law. Scholarship has unfairly ignored this important subject, an oversight that this book remedies.
Post 9/11 and the State of Permanent Legal Emergency
The terrorist attacks occurred in the United States on 11 September 2001 have profoundly altered and reshaped the priorities of criminal justice systems around the world. Atrocities like the 9/11 attacks, the Madrid train bombings of March 2003, and the terrorist act to the United Kingdom of July 2005 threatened the life of democratic nations. The volume explores the response of democratic nation-states to the problems of terrorism and counter-terrorism within the framework of the Rule of Law. One of the primary subjects of study is the ways in which the interests of the state (security from external threats, the maintenance of civil peace, and the promotion of the commonwealth) are balanced or not with the liberty and freedom of the citizens of the state. The distinctive aspect of this focus is that it brings a historical, political, philosophical and comparative approach to the contemporary shape and purposes of the criminal justice systems around the world.
Comparative Legal History
The specially commissioned papers in this book lay a solid theoretical foundation for comparative legal history as a distinct academic discipline. While facilitating a much needed dialogue between comparatists and legal historians, this research handbook examines methodologies in this emerging field and reconsiders legal concepts and institutions like custom, civil procedure, and codification from a comparative legal history perspective.
Counter-Terrorism, Human Rights and the Rule of Law
ŠA deep and thoughtful exploration of counter-terrorism written by leading commentators from around the globe. This book poses critical questions about the definition of terrorism, the role of human rights and the push by many governments for more secu
A Companion to Western Legal Traditions
This volume offers an extensive introduction to Western legal traditions from antiquity to the twentieth century. Drawing from a variety of scholarly writings, both in English and in translation, thirteen leading scholars present the current state of western legal history research and pave the way for new debates and future study. This is the ideal sourcebook for graduate students, as it enables them to approach the key questions of the field in an accessible way. Contributors are: Aniceto Masferrer, C.H. (Remco) van Rhee, Seán P. Donlan, Stephan Dusil, Gerald Schwedler, Jean-Louis Halpérin, Jan Hallebeek, Agustín Parise, Heikki Pihlajamäki, Dirk Heirbaut, Bernd Kannowski, Adolfo Giuliani, Olivier Moréteau, and Jacques Vanderlinden.
The Legal Doctrines of the Rule of Law and the Legal State (Rechtsstaat)
This book explores the development of both the civil law conception of the Legal State and the common law conception of the Rule of Law. It examines the philosophical and historical background of both concepts, as well as the problem of the interrelation between the two doctrines. The book brings together twenty-five leading scholars from around the world and provides both general and specific jurisdictional perspectives of the issue in both contemporary and historical settings. The Rule of Law is a legal doctrine the meaning of which can only be fully appreciated in the context of both the common law and the European civil law tradition of the Legal State (Rechtsstaat). The Rule of Law and the Legal State are fundamental safeguards of human dignity and of the legitimacy of the state and the authority of state prescriptions.
Precursor Crimes of Terrorism
This illuminating book offers a timely assessment of the development and proliferation of precursor crimes of terrorism, exploring the functions and implications of these expanding offences in different jurisdictions. In response to new modes and sources of terrorism, attempts to pre-empt potential attacks through precursor offences have emerged. This book examines not only the meanings and effectiveness of this approach, but also the challenges posed to human rights and social and economic development.
Vernacular Law
A new understanding of the transformative effect of vernacular writing on customary law in medieval France.
