A False Tree Of Liberty

Author : Susan Marks
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 9780199675456

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A False Tree of Liberty by Susan Marks Pdf

This book is concerned with the history of the idea of human rights. It offers a fresh approach that puts aside familiar questions such as 'Where do human rights come from?' and 'When did human rights begin?' for the sake of looking into connections between debates about the rights of man and developments within the history of capitalism. The focus is on England, where, at the end of the eighteenth century, a heated controversy over the rights of man coincided with the final enclosure of common lands and the momentous changes associated with early industrialisation. Tracking back still further to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writing about dispossession, resistance and rights, the book reveals a forgotten tradition of thought about central issues in human rights, with profound implications for their prospects in the world today.

Author : Horatia Muir Watt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509940127

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The Law's Ultimate Frontier: Towards an Ecological Jurisprudence by Horatia Muir Watt Pdf

This important book offers an ambitious and interdisciplinary vision of how private international law (or the conflict of laws) might serve as a heuristic for re-working our general understandings of legality in directions that respond to ever-deepening global ecological crises. Unusual in legal scholarship, the author borrows (in bricolage mode) from the work of Bruno Latour, alongside indigenous cosmologies, extinction theories and Levinassian phenomenology, to demonstrate why this field's specific frontier location at the outpost of the law – where it is viewed from the outside as obscure and from the inside as a self-contained normative world – generates its potential power to transform law generally and globally. Combining pragmatic and pluralist theory with an excavation of 'shadow' ecological dimensions of law, the author, a recognised authority within the field as conventionally understood, offers a truly global view. Put simply, it is a generational magnum opus. All international and transnational lawyers, be they in the private or public field, should read this book.

Author : Eluned Summers-Bremner
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789147353

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Astray by Eluned Summers-Bremner Pdf

A meandering celebration of the indirect and unforeseen path, revealing that to err is not just human—it is everything. This book explores how, far from being an act limited to deviation from known pathways or desirable plans of action, wandering is an abundant source of meaning—a force as intimately involved in the history of our universe as it will be in the future of our planet. In ancient Australian Aboriginal cosmology, in works about the origins of democracy and surviving disasters in ancient Greece, in Eurasian steppe nomadic culture, in the lifeways of the Roma, in the movements of today’s refugees, and in our attempts to preserve spaces of untracked online freedom, wandering is how creativity and skills of adaptation are preserved in the interests of ongoing life. Astray is an enthralling look at belonging and at notions of alienation and hope.

Author : Chair of Public International Law Nehal Bhuta,Nehal Bhuta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198901921

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Human Rights in Transition by Chair of Public International Law Nehal Bhuta,Nehal Bhuta Pdf

Human Rights in Transition combines rich theoretical reflections with practice-informed observations about human rights to consider the present, the recent and distant past, and the future of human rights.

Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Liberty
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024786071

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On Liberty by John Stuart Mill Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1803
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000050004

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The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine Or Monthly Political and Literary Censor by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1803
Category : English literature
ISBN : IND:30000080769791

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The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1803
Category : Literature, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39015065624713

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The Anti-Jacobin Review and Protestant Advocate by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ukri Soirila
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509938926

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The Law of Humanity Project by Ukri Soirila Pdf

This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the role of humanity in international law, offering a fresh perspective to a discussions with global implications. The 1990s and the first decade of the twenty-first century witnessed the sporadic emergence of a new vision of global law. Although the vision has taken many different forms, all instances of it have been uniform in the attempt of radically altering how we understand international law by seeking to posit the human as the primary subject of the international legal order and humanity as its main source of legitimacy. Together, this book calls these instances “the law of humanity project”. In so doing, it also paints a picture of and critically assesses a particular moment in the history of international law – a moment which may have already come to a sudden end as a consequence of the current populist backlash in world politics, but during which it seemed inevitable that the law of humanity vision would come to play an increasingly important role in world affairs.

Author : Jean-Pierre Gauci,Barrie Sander
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781040032831

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Teaching International Law by Jean-Pierre Gauci,Barrie Sander Pdf

The practice of teaching international law is conducted in a wide range of contexts across the world by a host of different actors – including scholars, practitioners, civil society groups, governments, and international organisations. This collection brings together a diversity of scholars and practitioners to share their experiences and critically reflect on current practices of teaching international law across different contexts, traditions, and perspectives to develop existing conversations and spark fresh ones concerning teaching practices within the field of international law. Reflecting on the responsibilities of teachers of international law to engage with and confront histories, contemporary crises, and everyday events in their teaching, the collection explores efforts to decenter the teacher and the law in the classroom, opportunities for dialogical and critical approaches to teaching, and the possibilities of co-producing non-conventional pedagogies that question the mainstream underpinnings of international law teaching. Focusing on the tools and techniques used to teach international law to date, the collection examines the teaching of international law in different contexts. Traversing a range of domestic and regional contexts around the world, the book offers insights into both the culture of teaching in particular domestic settings, aswell as the structural challenges and obstacles that arise in terms of who, what, and how international law is taught in practice. Offering a unique window into the personal experiences of a diversity of scholars and practitioners from around the world, this collection aims to nurture conversations about the responsibilities, approaches, opportunities, and challenges of teaching international law.

Author : Matilde Cazzola
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000480849

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The Political Thought of Thomas Spence by Matilde Cazzola Pdf

The book is an intellectual analysis of the political ideas of English radical thinker Thomas Spence (1750–1814), who was renowned for his "Plan", a proposal for the abolition of private landownership and the replacement of state institutions with a decentralized parochial organization. This system would be realized by means of the revolution of the "swinish multitude", the poor labouring class despised by Edmund Burke and adopted by Spence as his privileged political interlocutor. While he has long been considered an eccentric and anachronistic figure, the book sets out to demonstrate that Spence was a deeply original, thoroughly modern thinker, who translated his themes into a popular language addressing the multitude and publicized his Plan through chapbooks, tokens, and songs. The book is therefore a history of Spence's political thought "from below", designed to decode the subtle complexity of his Plan. It also shows that the Plan featured an excoriating critique of colonialism and slavery as well as a project of global emancipation. By virtue of its transnational scope, the Plan made landfall in the British West Indies a few years after Spence's death. Indeed, Spencean ideas were intellectually implicated in the largest slave revolt in the history of Barbados.

Author : Tobias Smollett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1803
Category : English literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433066596937

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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias Smollett Pdf

Author : Matthias Mahlmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781316877562

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Mind and Rights by Matthias Mahlmann Pdf

Mind and Rights combines historical, philosophical, and legal perspectives with research from psychology and the cognitive sciences to probe the justification of human rights in ethics, politics and law. Chapters critically examine the growth of the human rights culture, its roots in history and current human rights theories. They engage with the so-called cognitive revolution and investigate the relationship between human cognition and human rights to determine how insights gained from modern theories of the mind can deepen our understanding of the foundations of human rights. Mind and Rights argues that the pursuit of the human rights idea, with its achievements and tragic failures, is key to understand what kind of beings humans are. Amidst ongoing debate on the universality and legitimacy of human rights, this book provides a uniquely comprehensive analysis of great practical and political importance for a culture of legal justice undergirded by rights. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Gautam Bhatia
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509967629

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Horizontal Rights by Gautam Bhatia Pdf

This book provides a new conceptual model for considering constitutional rights from a comparative perspective. A prestigious club bars women from standing for executive positions. A homeowner refuses to rent their house to a person on grounds of their race. Each of these real-life cases involves the exercise of private power, which deprives individuals of their rights. Can these individuals invoke the Constitution in response? Horizontal Rights: An Institutional Approach brings a fresh perspective to these age-old, yet fraught issues. This book argues that constitutional scholarship and doctrine, across jurisdictions, has proceeded from an inarticulate premise called 'default verticality.' This is based on a set of underlying philosophical assumptions, which presumes that constitutional rights are presumptively applicable against the State, and need special justification to be applied against private parties. Departing from default verticality and its assumptions, this book argues that constitutional rights should apply horizontally between private parties where the existence of an economic, social, or cultural institution creates a difference in power between the parties, and allows one to violate the rights of the other. The institutional approach aims to be both theoretically convincing, as well as a providing a workable model for constitutional adjudication. It applies both to classic issues such as restrictive covenants, as well as cutting-edge contemporary legal problems around the regulation of platform work and the distribution of property upon divorce. This promises to be an exciting new contribution to the global conversation around constitutional rights and private power.

Author : Gleider Hernández
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : International law
ISBN : 9780192848260

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International Law by Gleider Hernández Pdf

International Law presents a comprehensive yet student-focused approach to the subject, providing a contemporary and stimulating account of international law. With critical coverage delivered through a wide range of learning features, students are encouraged to engage with legal debates and controversies. Digital formats and resources The second edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources. - The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks There is also a wide range of online resources that support the book, including: - Author tutorial videos for each chapter - Discussion questions - Critical thinking frameworks - A glossary of international law terms - A history of international law timeline