Law And Irresponsibility

Author : Scott Veitch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134107568

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Law and Irresponsibility by Scott Veitch Pdf

Law is widely assumed to provide contemporary society with its most important means of organizing responsibility. Across a broad range of areas of social life – from the activities of states and citizens, to work, business and private relationships – it is understood that legal regulation plays a crucial role in defining and limiting responsibilities. But Law and Irresponsibility pursues the opposite view: it explores how law organizes irresponsibility. With a particular focus on large-scale harms – including extensive human rights violations, forms of colonialism, and environmental or nuclear devastation – this book analyzes the ways in which law legitimates human suffering by demonstrating how legal institutions operate as much to deflect responsibility for harms suffered as to acknowledge them. Drawing on a series of case studies, it shows not only how law facilitates the dispersal and disavowal of responsibility, but how it does so in consistent and patterned ways. Irresponsibility is organized, and its organization is traced here to the legal forms, and the social and political conditions, that sustain ‘our’ complicity in human suffering. This innovative and interdisciplinary book provides a radical challenge to conventional thinking about law and legal institutions. It will be of considerable interest to those working in law, political and legal theory, sociology and moral philosophy.

Author : Robert Kolb
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781786434715

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The International Law of State Responsibility by Robert Kolb Pdf

This highly readable book examines the law of State responsibility, presenting it as a fundamental aspect of public international law. Covering the key aspects of the topic, it combines a clear overview with use of specific case studies in order to provide a deeper understanding.

Author : Angeliki Samara
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04
Category : Responsibility to protect (International law)
ISBN : 0367532824

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Beyond the Responsibility to Protect in International Law by Angeliki Samara Pdf

This book offers a critical appraisal of the international legal idea of the 'Responsibility to Protect'. This original approach to an increasingly important topic will prove invaluable to those working in international law, international relations, politics and legal theory.

Author : Arthur Ripstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001-03-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521003075

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Equality, Responsibility, and the Law by Arthur Ripstein Pdf

Examines responsibility and luck as these issues arise in tort law, criminal law, and distributive justice.

Author : Lawrence E. Mitchell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780300137767

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Corporate Irresponsibility by Lawrence E. Mitchell Pdf

Mitchell declares that managers should be freed from the legal and structural constraints that make it difficult for them to exercise ordinary moral judgment and be held accountable for their actions. He demonstrates the extent to which contemporary corporate behavior represents a corruption of our cherished liberal values of personal freedom and individuality.

Author : H.L.A. Hart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199534777

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Punishment and Responsibility by H.L.A. Hart Pdf

This collection of essays represents H.L.A. Hart's landmark contribution to the philosophy of criminal responsibility and punishment. This edition reproduces the original text, adding a new critical introduction by John Gardner, a leading contemporary criminal law theorist.

Author : Elena G. Popkova,Konstantin V. Vodenko
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030384975

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Public Administration and Regional Management in Russia by Elena G. Popkova,Konstantin V. Vodenko Pdf

This book addresses current challenges in public administration and regional management in Russia. By taking into account socio-economic factors, as well as key ethnic, cultural and social processes in multicultural regions, it identifies the prerequisites for successful public governance and regional management. The respective contributions cover a broad range of topics, including digitalization trends, managerial approaches, diversification strategies, and corporate cultures. Moreover, the book discusses the effects of ethnopolitical tensions and interethnic tolerance on public administration in Russia’s multicultural regions. Given its scope, the book offers a valuable resource for scholars and public servants at governmental institutions.

Author : André Nollkaemper,Dov Jacobs,Jessica N. M. Schechinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107107083

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Distribution of Responsibilities in International Law by André Nollkaemper,Dov Jacobs,Jessica N. M. Schechinger Pdf

Exploring theoretical foundations for the distribution of shared responsibility, this book provides a basis for the development of international law.

Author : Angeliki Samara
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Responsibility to protect (International law)
ISBN : 0367429705

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Beyond the Responsibility to Protect in International Law by Angeliki Samara Pdf

This book offers a critical appraisal of the international legal idea of the 'Responsibility to Protect'. The idea that the international community has a responsibility to protect populations at risk has become the prominent mode and structure of address in response to mass human atrocities, gross human rights violations and large-scale loss of life. Although the 'international community' of liberal international law and of legal cosmopolitanism for the most part projects a self-assured collective project, this book maintains that it transforms global ethical responsibility into a project of governance, management and control. Pursuing this argument, and drawing on critical legal literature, critical international relations and on ideas of responsibility and ethical relationality in the work of Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler, the book develops a concept of 'irresponsibility'. This concept is then juxtaposed to the dominant Responsibility to Protect discourse. By exposing and acknowledging 'the sites of irresponsibility' of the Responsibility to Protect, the book argues that irresponsibility itself can become the condition of ethical responsibility and the possibility of justice. This original approach to an increasingly important topic will prove invaluable to those working in international law, international relations, politics and legal theory.

Author : Herbert Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Free will and determinism
ISBN : UCAL:B4250247

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Freedom and Responsibility by Herbert Morris Pdf

Author : Michael S. Moore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199599516

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Causation and Responsibility by Michael S. Moore Pdf

The concept of causation is fundamental to ascribing moral and legal responsibility for events. Yet the relationship between causation and responsibility remains unclear. What precisely is the connection between the concept of causation used in attributing responsibility and the accounts of causal relations offered in the philosophy of science and metaphysics? How much of what we call causal responsibility is in truth defined by non-causal factors? This book argues that much of thelegal doctrine on these questions is confused and incoherent, and offers the first comprehensive attempt since Hart and Honoré to clarify the philosophical background to the legal and moral debates.The book first sets out the place of causation in criminal and tort law and outlines the metaphysics presupposed by the legal doctrine. It then analyses the best theoretical accounts of causation in the philosophy of science and metaphysics, and using these accounts criticises many of the core legal concepts surrounding causation - such as intervening causation, forseeability of harm and complicity. It considers and rejects the radical proposals to eliminate the notion of causation from law byusing risk analysis to attribute responsibility. The result of the analysis is a powerful argument for revising our understanding of the role played by causation in the attribution of legal and moral responsibility.

Author : Tony Honoré
Publisher : Hart Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999-05-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781841130057

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Responsibility and Fault by Tony Honoré Pdf

Honore (formerly civil law, Oxford U.) develops themes implicit in his and Herbert Hart's 1985 Causation in the Law. In seven essays, he proposes a theory of outcome responsibility that finds intervening in the world to be sufficient to make someone responsible. To act and be responsible is to take risks, he says, so that responsibility can be a matter of luck rather than fault or merit. US distribution is by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Kumar, Vikas,Malhotra, Geetika
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781799817932

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Examining the Roles of IT and Social Media in Democratic Development and Social Change by Kumar, Vikas,Malhotra, Geetika Pdf

Social media has emerged as a powerful tool that reaches a wide audience with minimum time and effort. It has a diverse role in society and human life and can boost the visibility of information that allows citizens the ability to play a vital role in creating and fostering social change. This practice can have both positive and negative consequences on society. Examining the Roles of IT and Social Media in Democratic Development and Social Change is a collection of innovative research on the methods and applications of social media within community development and democracy. While highlighting topics including information capitalism, ethical issues, and e-governance, this book is ideally designed for social workers, politicians, public administrators, sociologists, journalists, policymakers, government administrators, academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on social advancement and change through social media and technology.

Author : Paula Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317950707

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Corporate Social Irresponsibility by Paula Alexander Pdf

Corporate Social Irresponsibility focuses on ethical failures in order to relate corporate responsibility to business ethics, corporate governance, and organization effectiveness. The book advocates a strategic approach to CSR – ethical management cannot, and should not, be divorced from effective management. Corporate social responsibility has transitioned from oxymoron into a defining challenge of the twenty first century. Taking the recent financial crisis as a starting point, Alexander examines the underlying ethical and legal crises these events expose in the business world. The problems that have come to light go beyond issues of firm financial performance into the integrity of the manufacturing and marketing processes, and relations with consumers. As such, the book presents a model that resolves the apparent conflict between maximizing shareholder value, and meeting the interests of other firm stakeholders. Alexander presents a balanced view, contrasting her model with alternative approaches. The book also covers the impact of globalization on management, the ethics of outsourcing, the limits of regulation, as well as poverty alleviation and social entrepreneurship. Blending a comprehensive theoretical framework with a broad range of cases, this book covers the latest major changes in US legislation, as well as recent corporate scandals making it a valuable accompaniment to any course in CSR, business ethics, or business, government and society.

Author : Hannes Hansen-Magnusson,Antje Vetterlein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429556814

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The Routledge Handbook on Responsibility in International Relations by Hannes Hansen-Magnusson,Antje Vetterlein Pdf

What does responsibility mean in International Relations (IR)? This handbook brings together cutting-edge research on the critical debates about responsibility that are currently being undertaken in IR theory. This handbook both reflects upon an emerging field based on an engagement in the most crucial theoretical debates and serves as a foundational text by showing how deeply a discussion of responsibility is embedded in broader questions of IR theory and practice. Contributions cover the way in which responsibility is theorized across different approaches in IR and relevant neighboring disciplines and demonstrate how responsibility matters in different policy fields of global governance. Chapters with an empirical focus zoom in on particular actor constellations of (emerging) states, international organizations, political movements, or corporations, or address how responsibility matters in structuring the politics of global commons, such as oceans, resources, or the Internet. Providing a comprehensive overview of IR scholarship on responsibility, this accessible and interdisciplinary text will be a valuable resource for scholars and students in many fields including IR, international law, political theory, global ethics, science and technology, area studies, development studies, business ethics, and environmental and security governance.