The Fate Of Law

Author : Austin Sarat,Thomas R. Kearns
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780472023691

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The Fate of Law by Austin Sarat,Thomas R. Kearns Pdf

For law and legal theory the end of the twentieth century is a time of contradiction; while the newly emerging politics of Eastern Europe seek to establish a new rule of law, voices in this country proclaim the "death of law." For the former, law provides hope for stability and fairness. For the latter, the fundamental values that provide a grounding for legality seem no longer secure or satisfying. The Fate of Law is a collection of five original essays, each of which discusses the problems and prospects of law in the late twentieth century. The essays pay particular attention to the impact of broad intellectual and political movements, especially feminism and postmodernism, on law and legal theory. The Fate of Law investigates what happens under the critical scrutiny of those movements and in an era of growing skepticism about law's central claim to objectivity, neutrality, and reason. It describes the struggles that ensue and the responses that are made. Each of the essays that comprise this books is written in its own style and voice; each makes it own judgments and assessments.

Author : Felix M Temple
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1913136876

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The First Law Of Fate by Felix M Temple Pdf

Author : Heather Conway
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317964346

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The Law and the Dead by Heather Conway Pdf

The fate of the dead is a compelling and emotive subject, which also raises increasingly complex legal questions. This book focuses on the substantive laws around disposal of the recently deceased and associated issues around their post-mortem fate. It looks primarily at the laws in England and Wales but also offers a comparative approach, drawing heavily on material from other common law jurisdictions including Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. The book provides an in-depth, contextual and comparative analysis of the substantive laws and policy issues around corpse disposal, exhumation and the posthumous treatment of the dead, including commemoration. Topics covered include: the legal frameworks around burial, cremation and other disposal methods; the hierarchy of persons who have a legal duty to dispose of the dead and who are entitled to possession of the deceased’s remains; offences against the dead; family burial disputes, and the legal status of burial instructions; the posthumous use of donated bodily material; and the rules around disinterment, and creating an appropriate memorial. A key theme of the book will be to look at the manner in which conflicts involving the dead are becoming increasingly common in secular, multi-cultural societies where the traditional nuclear family model is no longer the norm, and how such legal contests are resolved by courts. As the first comprehensive survey of the laws in this area for decades, this book will be of use to academics, lawyers and judges adjudicating on issues around the fate of the dead, as well as the death industry and funeral service providers.

Author : Simone Lawig-Winters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 164105199X

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Lawyers Without Rights by Simone Lawig-Winters Pdf

Lawyers Without Rights: The Fate of Jewish Lawyers in Berlin after 1933 is about the rule of law and how one government - the Third Reich in Germany - systematically undermined fair and just law through humiliation, degradation and legislation leading to expulsion of Jewish lawyers and jurists from the legal profession.

Author : Philip Bobbitt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1984-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199878581

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Constitutional Fate by Philip Bobbitt Pdf

Here, Philip Bobbitt studies the basis for the legitimacy of judicial review by examining six types of constitutional argument--historical, textual, structural, prudential doctrinal, and ethical--through the unusual method of contrasting sketches of prominent legal figures responding to the constitutional crises of their day.

Author : Nicholas M. O'Donnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 1634257332

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A Tragic Fate by Nicholas M. O'Donnell Pdf

The organized theft of fine art by Nazi Germany has captivated worldwide attention in the last twenty years. As much as any other topic arising out of World War Two, stolen art has proven to be an issue that simply will not go away. Newly found works of art pit survivors and their heirs against museums, foreign nations, and even their own family members. These stories are enduring because they speak to one of the core tragedies of the Nazi era: how a nation at the pinnacle of fine art and culture spawned a legalized culture of theft and plunder. A Tragic Fate is the first book to seriously address the legal and ethical rules that have dictated the results of restitution claims between competing claimants to the same works of art. It provides a history of Art and Culture in German-occupied Europe, an introduction to the most significant collections in Europe to be targeted by the Nazis, and a narrative of the efforts to reclaim looted artwork in the decades following the Holocaust through profiles of some of the art world's most famous and influential restitution cases.

Author : Richard L. Abel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108454658

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Law's Wars by Richard L. Abel Pdf

The US 'war on terror', which Bush declared and Obama continued, repeatedly violated fundamental rule of law values. Law's Wars: The Fate of the Rule of Law in the US 'War on Terror' is the first comprehensive account of efforts to resist and correct those violations. It focuses on responses to abuses in Abu Ghraib, efforts by Guantánamo Bay detainees to improve conditions of confinement in and win release, exposés of and efforts to end torture and electronic surveillance, and civilian casualties on the battlefield, including targeted killings. Abel deploys a law and society perspective to construct and analyze detailed narratives of the roles of victims, whistle-blowers, the media, NGOs, lawyers, doctors, politicians, military personnel, foreign governments and international organizations in defending the rule of law. Only by understanding past errors can we hope to prevent their repetition in what promises to be an endless 'war on terror'.

Author : Mark E. Neely
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195080322

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The Fate of Liberty by Mark E. Neely Pdf

Reassesses Lincoln's civil liberties record and examines his responses to particular wartime problems

Author : Bruce R. Sievers
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781584658955

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Civil Society, Philanthropy, and the Fate of the Commons by Bruce R. Sievers Pdf

Traces the historical development of civil society and philanthropy in the West and analyzes their role in solving the problems faced by modern liberal democracy

Author : Katell Berthelot,Joseph E. David,Marc Hirshman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199959822

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The Gift of the Land and the Fate of the Canaanites in Jewish Thought by Katell Berthelot,Joseph E. David,Marc Hirshman Pdf

A compelling analysis of Jewish thought from ancient times to the present on the issue of the gift of the land of Israel and the fate of the Canaanites.

Author : Philippe Ciffroy,Alice Tediosi,Ettore Capri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319595023

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Modelling the Fate of Chemicals in the Environment and the Human Body by Philippe Ciffroy,Alice Tediosi,Ettore Capri Pdf

This volume focuses on modelling the fate of chemicals in the environment and the human body to arrive at an integrated exposure assessment. It covers five broad topics, namely: future challenges in exposure assessment; the evolution of human health and environmental risk assessment; standard documentation for exposure models; modelling different environmental components (i.e. surface waters, atmosphere, soil, groundwater, plants, aquatic organisms and mammals); and the fate of contaminants in humans. This work draws on the authors’ and editors’ extensive experience and a range of different research activities, including case studies, that have led to the development of MERLIN-Expo, a standardised software package for simulating the fate of chemicals in the main environmental systems and in the human body in an integrated manner. It will be of considerable interest to researchers and students, risk managers, and policy- and decision-makers whose work involves environmental protection and human health.

Author : Sarah Shair-Rosenfield
Publisher : Weiser Center for Emerging Dem
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472131501

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Electoral Reform and the Fate of New Democracies by Sarah Shair-Rosenfield Pdf

How elites influenced major electoral reform in the emerging democracy of Indonesia

Author : Robert V. Stover
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015017682553

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Making it and Breaking it by Robert V. Stover Pdf

Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781503627680

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Toward the Critique of Violence by Walter Benjamin Pdf

Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence," this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation of a work that is widely recognized as a classic of modern political theory. The volume includes twenty-one notes and fragments by Benjamin along with passages from all of the contemporaneous texts to which his essay refers. Readers thus encounter for the first time in English provocative arguments about law and violence advanced by Hermann Cohen, Kurt Hiller, Erich Unger, and Emil Lederer. A new translation of selections from Georges Sorel's Reflections on Violence further illuminates Benjamin's critical program. The volume also includes, for the first time in any language, a bibliography Benjamin drafted for the expansion of the essay and the development of a corresponding philosophy of law. An extensive introduction and afterword provide additional context. With its challenging argument concerning violence, law, and justice—which addresses such topical matters as police violence, the death penalty, and the ambiguous force of religion—Benjamin's work is as important today as it was upon its publication in Weimar Germany a century ago.

Author : Austin Sarat,Thomas R. Kearns
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 0472023780

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Law's Violence by Austin Sarat,Thomas R. Kearns Pdf

In bringing together accomplished and thoughtful scholars of different disciplines, with a command of literature ranging from the legal to the literary, and in relating the works to the central arguments of the late Professor Robert Cover, Sarat and Kearns have created a first-rate up-to-date exposition of this important and complicated issue, namely, how to understand better the violence implicit and explicit in law.--Legal Studies Forum The relationship between law and violence is made familiar to us in vivid pictures of police beating suspects, the large and growing prison population, and the tenacious attachment to capital punishment in the United States. Yet the link between law and violence and the ways that law manages to impose pain and death while remaining aloof and unstained are an unexplored mystery. Each essay in this volume considers the question of how violence done by and in the name of the law differs from illegal or extralegal violence--or, indeed, if they differ at all. Each author draws on a distinctive disciplinary tradition-- literature, history, anthropology, philosophy, political science, or law. Yet each reminds us that law, constituted in response to the metaphorical violence of the state of nature, is itself a doer of literal violence. Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science and Chair of the Program in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College. Thomas R. Kearns is William H. Hastie Professor of Philosophy, Amherst College.