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The Concert of Civilizations
Are Western and Islamic political and constitutional ideas truly predestined for civilizational clash? In order to understand this controversy The Concert of Civilizations begins by deriving and redefining a definition of constitutionalism that is suitable for comparative, cross-cultural analysis. The rule of law, reflection of national character, and the clear delineation and limitation of governmental power are used as lenses through which thinkers like Cicero, Montesquieu, and the authors of The Federalist Papers can be read alongside al-Farabi, ibn Khaldun, and the Ottoman Tanzimat decrees. Bridging the civilizational divide is a chapter comparing the Magna Carta with Muhammad’sConstit...
The Force of Law
Many legal theorists maintain that laws are effective because we internalize them, obeying even when not compelled to do so. In a comprehensive reassessment of the role of force in law, Frederick Schauer disagrees, demonstrating that coercion, more than internalized thinking and behaving, distinguishes law from society’s other rules. Reinvigorating ideas from Jeremy Bentham and John Austin, and drawing on empirical research as well as philosophical analysis, Schauer presents an account of legal compliance based on sanction and compulsion, showing that law’s effectiveness depends fundamentally on its coercive potential. Law, in short, is about telling people what to do and threatening the...
New Approaches to Social Contract Theory
This book discusses new directions in social contract theory. While social contract theory has a long history in moral and political philosophy, social circumstances have significantly changed over time. It presents new approaches to social contract theory that apply to such conditions, addressing some of most pressing social problems today.
The Nature of International Law
The Nature of International Law provides a comprehensive analytical account of international law within the prototype theory of concepts.
Cosmopolitanism, State Sovereignty and International Law and Politics
This book assesses the relationship between cosmopolitanism and sovereignty. Often considered to be incompatible, it is argued here that the two concepts are in many ways interrelated and to some extent rely on one another. By introducing a novel theory, the work presents a detailed philosophical analysis to illustrate how these notions might theoretically and practically work together. This theoretical inquiry is balanced with detailed empirical discussion highlighting how the concepts are related in practice and to expose the weaknesses of stricter interpretations of sovereignty which present it as exclusionary. Finally, the book looks at territorial disputes to explore how sovereignty and cosmopolitanism can successfully operate together to deal with global issues. The work will be of interest to academics and researchers in the areas of Legal Philosophy, Legal Theory and Jurisprudence, Public International Law, International Relations and Political Science.
Sovereignty as Value
Sovereignty as Value is one of the first books to examine sovereignty using solely a normative approach. Through fourteen original essays, the book seeks to understand its viability in a globalized world, thus taking into account the inclusion of a language of rights, limitation and legitimacy. The authors’ focus is on whether sovereignty as a normative concept might be understood as a criterion of legitimate power and authority; as a foundational concept of public ethics applied to political and legal institutions. How should notions of legitimacy be linked with the notion of sovereignty? In what manner is sovereignty challenged by territoriality and territorial control? How does sovereignty relate to political legitimacy? Are all the forms of sovereign authority legitimate? Does the project of advancing human rights globally conflict with the logic of exclusion inherent in the classic notion of national sovereignty? These are some of the questions that will be assessed in this collective volume.
Hans Kelsen in America - Selective Affinities and the Mysteries of Academic Influence
This volume explores the reasons for Hans Kelsen’s lack of influence in the United States and proposes ways in which Kelsen’s approach to law, philosophy, and political, democratic, and international relations theory could be relevant to current debates within the U.S. academy in those areas. Along the way, the volume examines Kelsen’s relationship and often hidden influences on other members of the mid-century Central European émigré community whose work helped shape twentieth-century social science in the United States. The book includes major contributions to the history of ideas and to the sociology of the professions in the U.S. academy in the twentieth century. Each section of ...
The Project of Positivism in International Law
"This book analyses international legal positivists' desire to emulate the success of the empirical methods applied in the biological and physical sciences; their wish to work with law with the certainty that natural facts started to provide as the natural sciences method developed". -- PREFACE.
Riumanizzare il diritto
In Réhumaniser le droit, un saggio sia per gli avvocati sia per il grande pubblico, l’autrice descrive il processo avanzato di disumanizzazione del diritto, basato sul culto della ragione e sulla svalutazione delle emozioni (evidente davanti a norme sempre più artificiali, pensiero legale autoreferenziale, avvocati burocratici, giudici robotici, popolo smobilitato). In realtà, questa tecnocrazia legale è solo una pericolosa illusione. Come ben sappiamo, il disprezzo per gli affetti è una strategia destinata al fallimento e la cronaca ce lo dimostra, presentandoci molte manifestazioni del ritorno violento dell’emotività repressa (terrorismo, tribunale mediatico, demagogia legislativa, rivolte popolari). Impariamo finalmente dalle nostre esperienze collettive riscoprendo l’irriducibile umanità del diritto e le sue virtù dimenticate. Riscopriamo la strada di un’etica giuridica dell’umiltà, della buona fede e della buona volontà.
Scritti di informatica e diritto - volume 2
I due volumi constano di dodici capitoli ciascuno e tracciano una storia del cinquantennio fondativo dell’informatica giuridica attraverso i principali scritti sulla storia del calcolo anche meccanico e sull’informatica giuridica pubblicati da Mario G. Losano dal 1966 al 2014. La prefazione di Paolo Garbarino (che come rettore istituì in Italia il primo corso triennale di informatica giuridica presso l’Università del Piemonte Orientale) segue la storia accademica e personale di Losano, mentre la prefazione di Massimo Cavino sintetizza l’arco storico lungo cui si collocano i suoi scritti. Il primo volume traccia una storia del calcolo automatico e della “giuscibernetica” anche a...
