Part I: Identifying the Legal Person -- 1. The Troublesome ‘Person (Bartosz Brozek) -- 2. Legal Persons as Abstractions (Ngaire Naffine) -- 3. The Idea of Non-Personal Subjects of Law (Tomasz Pietrzykowski) -- Part II Persons, Things and Rights -- 4. Why Things Can Hold Rights: Reconceptualizing the Legal Person (Visa Kurki) -- 5. The Right of a House (Qing Xiangyang) -- 6. Animals' Race Agai…
Chapter 1: Logics for Normative Supervenience (Antonino Rotolo) -- Chapter 2: Propositional and Doxastic Justification: Their Relationship and a Questionable Supervenience Claim (Giorgio Volpe) -- Chapter 3: Moral Properties: Some Epistemological, Ontological, and Normative Dimensions (Robert Audi) -- Chapter 4: Reasons and Supervenience (Daniel Laurier) -- Chapter 5: The Dubious Moral Superve…
Introduction: The International Criminal Court – Old Wine in a New Bottle? -- The Historical Concepts of Colonialism and Neo-colonialism -- Introduction Part I -- European Colonialism and Neo-colonialism -- Legal Colonialism by European States -- Imposition of Laws and Western Values in the Field of International Criminal Law -- Introduction Part II -- The Universalisation of Western Values s…
Introduction -- The Law Of Nations: Between The Natural Law And The Positive Law -- The Basis Of Law For Francisco Suárez -- The Basis Of Law For Hugo Grotius -- The Law Of The People In Suárez -- The Law Of Nations In Hugo Grotius -- Conclusion.This book compares the respective concepts of the law of nations put forward by the Spanish theologian Francisco Suárez and by the Dutch jurist Hugo…
1. The Problem of Judicial Independence -- 2. Judicial Independence in Malaysia -- 3. Judicial Independence in Pakistan -- 4. Conclusion.This book examines the legal principle of judicial independence in comparative perspective with the goal of advancing a better understanding of the idea of an independent judiciary more generally. From an initial survey of judicial systems in different countri…
Introduction (María Elósegui) -- Part I: Theoretical and Legal Framework -- Chapter 1. Human Dignity as the Keystone of the Protection of Rights (Rainer Arnold) -- Chapter 2. The Reasonable : Towards a Real Interculturality” (Aranzazu Novales) -- Chapter 3. Denial or Justification of Genocide as a Criminal Offence in European Law (María Elósegui) -- Part II: Specific Thematic Cases Studie…
1. Criminal Justice in Need of a Paradigm Shift -- 2. Punishment and Human Sociality -- 3. Human Dignity – The Right to be a Person -- 4. Criminal Justice Respecting Human Dignity -- 5. Differences Between Traditional Criminal Justice and a Human Dignity Based Approach.This book analyses the rights of crime victims within a human rights paradigm, and describes the inconsistencies resulting fr…
Part I - The Norm of Love in the Chambers of Criminal Justice: 1 Surveillance of the Norm of Love in Criminal Law -- 2 The Oxytocin of Love in the Context of Medical Science -- 3 The Rule of Love for the Interrogation of Criminal Justice -- 4 The Modus Operandi of the Norm of Love in Criminal Justice -- 5 The Right to Demand Love in Criminal Justice -- Part II - The Rule of Love in the Aquarium…
1. Introduction -- 2. Core Concepts, Research Approach and Reasoning -- 3. The Research Question, Theories and Methods -- 4. Use of Findings -- 5. System-building -- 6. Previous Attempts to Increase the Scientificity of Legal Science -- 7. Anomalies of Normal Legal Science, Applications of User-friendly Legal Science -- 8. Conclusions. .This book defines the characteristics of a new disciplin…
This book is an examination of how the law understands human identity and the whole notion of ‘human being’. On these two notions the law, usually unconsciously, builds the superstructure of ‘human rights’. It explores how the law understands the concept of a human being, and hence a person who is entitled to human rights. This involves a discussion of the legal treatment of those of so…