Theatre Of The Rule Of Law

Author : Stephen Humphreys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139495332

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Theatre of the Rule of Law by Stephen Humphreys Pdf

Theatre of the Rule of Law presents a sustained critique of global rule of law promotion - an expansive industry at the heart of international development, post-conflict reconstruction and security policy today. While successful in articulating and disseminating an effective global public policy, rule of law promotion has largely failed in its stated objectives of raising countries out of poverty and taming violent conflict. Furthermore, in its execution, this work deviates sharply from 'the rule of law' as commonly conceived. To explain this, Stephen Humphreys draws on the history of the rule of law as a concept, examples of legal export during colonial times, and a spectrum of contemporary interventions by development agencies and international organisations. Rule of law promotion is shown to be a kind of theatre, the staging of a morality tale about the good life, intended for edification and emulation, but blind to its own internal contradictions.

Author : Michaela Jeffery
Publisher : Playwrights Canada Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 036910238X

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Wrol (Without Rule of Law) by Michaela Jeffery Pdf

Convinced the world at large can't be trusted to prioritize the well-being of adolescent girls in the event of a cataclysmic event (or just in general), a determined troupe of preteen "doomers" commit to preparing for survival in the post-collapse society they anticipate inheriting. When Maureen, Jo, Sarah, Vic, and Robbie sneak out at night to investigate an ominous hidden lair in the woods, they believe they have stumbled onto proof of what happened to a mysterious local cult that vanished over a decade ago. As they search for vital clues, examining small bones and dusty cans of food for signs of life, they fight to understand how to be understood in a world that seems to reject them. What they discover changes everything--eighth grade will never be the same. Part Judy Blume, part Rambo, this darkly comic coming-of-age story for complicated times is for any young woman who has ever been told that she is "too much," or that what she fears is illegitimate, or that what she has to say is less important than keeping the peace.

Author : Kristina Simion
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108830867

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Rule of Law Intermediaries by Kristina Simion Pdf

Examines how intermediaries work on rule of law assistance in authoritarian Myanmar, based on interviews with 100 individuals.

Author : Jeremy Farrall,Hilary Charlesworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317338390

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Strengthening the Rule of Law through the UN Security Council by Jeremy Farrall,Hilary Charlesworth Pdf

The UN Security Council formally acknowledged an obligation to promote justice and the rule of law in 2003. This volume examines the extent to which the Council has honoured this commitment when exercising its powers under the UN Charter to maintain international peace and security. It discusses both how the concept of the rule of law regulates, or influences, Security Council activity and how the Council has in turn shaped the notion of the rule of law. It explores in particular how this relationship has affected the Security Council’s three most prominent tools for the maintenance of international peace and security: peacekeeping, sanctions and force. In doing so, this volume identifies strategies for better promotion of the rule of law by the Security Council. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of international law, international relations, international development and peacekeeping.

Author : Geranne Lautenbach
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191650949

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The Concept of the Rule of Law and the European Court of Human Rights by Geranne Lautenbach Pdf

This book analyses the concept of the rule of law in the context of international law, through the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. It investigates how the court has defined and interpreted the notion of the rule of law in its jurisprudence. It places this analysis against a background of more theoretical accounts of the idea of the rule of law, drawing in ideas of political philosophy. It also provides a comparative assessment, demonstrating how the idea of the rule of law has evolved in the UK, France, and Germany. The book argues that at the core of the concept of the rule of law are the notions of legality and judicial safeguards. It states that the Court has developed the requirements of legality, which the work analyses in detail, based on that concept. It assesses the independence of the judiciary as an aspect of the rule of law in the context of the European Convention on Human Rights, and the relationship between the rule of law and the substantive contents of law. The book posits that the rule of law as seen at the Court is not mainly utilised with regard to 'freedom' rights, but is more concerned with procedural rights. It discusses the relationship between the rule of law and the view of the Convention as a constitutional instrument of the European public order, and shows that the rule of law and democracy are inextricably linked in the case law of the Court. Ultimately, the book demonstrates in its analysis of the Court's jurisprudence that the notion of the rule of law is a crucial part of the international legal order.

Author : Jarna Petman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782254362

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Finnish Yearbook of International Law by Jarna Petman Pdf

The Finnish Yearbook of International Law aspires to honour and strengthen the Finnish tradition in international legal scholarship. Open to contributions from all over the world and from all persuasions, the Finnish Yearbook stands out as a forum for theoretically informed, high-quality publications on all aspects of public international law, including the international relations law of the European Union. The Finnish Yearbook publishes in-depth articles and shorter notes, commentaries on current developments, book reviews and relevant overviews of Finland's state practice. While firmly grounded in traditional legal scholarship, it is open for new approaches to international law and for work of an interdisciplinary nature. The Finnish Yearbook is published for the Finnish Society of International Law by Hart Publishing. Volumes prior to volume 19 may be obtained from Martinus Nijhoff, an imprint of Brill Publishers.

Author : Emmanuel Roucounas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 731 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004385368

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A Landscape of Contemporary Theories of International Law by Emmanuel Roucounas Pdf

The book explores the main characteristics of contemporary theory in international law. It examines in an analytical fashion 32 schools, movements, and trends as well as the works of more than 500 authors on substantive issues of international law.

Author : Anna Chadwick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192557216

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Law and the Political Economy of Hunger by Anna Chadwick Pdf

This book is an inquiry into the role of law in the contemporary political economy of hunger. In the work of many international institutions, governments, and NGOs, law is represented as a solution to the persistence of hunger. This presentation is evident in the efforts to realize a human right to adequate food, as well as in the positioning of law, in the form of regulation, as a tool to protect society from 'unruly' markets. In this monograph, Anna Chadwick draws on theoretical work from a range of disciplines to challenge accounts that portray law's role in the context of hunger as exclusively remedial. The book takes as its starting point claims that financial traders 'caused' the 2007-8 global food crisis by speculating in financial instruments linked to the prices of staple grains. The introduction of new regulations to curb the 'excesses' of the financial sector in order to protect the food insecure reinforces the dominant perception that law can solve the problem. Chadwick investigates a number of different legal regimes spanning public international law, international economic law, transnational governance, private law, and human rights law to gather evidence for a counterclaim: law is part of the problem. The character of the contemporary global food system-a food system that is being progressively 'financialized'-owes everything to law. If world hunger is to be eradicated, Chadwick argues, then greater attention needs to be paid to how different legal regimes operate to consistently privilege the interests of the wealthy few over the needs of poor and the hungry.

Author : Julie Stone Peters
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192653598

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Law as Performance by Julie Stone Peters Pdf

Tirades against legal theatrics are nearly as old as law itself, and yet so is the age-old claim that law must not merely be done: it must be "seen to be done." Law as Performance traces the history of legal performance and spectatorship through the early modern period. Viewing law as the product not merely of edicts or doctrines but of expressive action, it investigates the performances that literally created law: in civic arenas, courtrooms, judges' chambers, marketplaces, scaffolds, and streets. It examines the legal codes, learned treatises, trial reports, lawyers' manuals, execution narratives, rhetoric books, images (and more) that confronted these performances, praising their virtues or denouncing their evils. In so doing, it recovers a long, rich, and largely overlooked tradition of jurisprudential thought about law as a performance practice. This tradition not only generated an elaborate poetics and politics of legal performance. It provided western jurisprudence with a set of constitutive norms that, in working to distinguish law from theatrics, defined the very nature of law. In the crucial opposition between law and theatre, law stood for cool deliberation, by-the-book rules, and sovereign discipline. Theatre stood for deceptive artifice, entertainment, histrionics, melodrama. And yet legal performance, even at its most theatrical, also appeared fundamental to law's realization: a central mechanism for shaping legal subjects, key to persuasion, essential to deterrence, indispensable to law's power, —as it still does today.

Author : Alison J. Ayers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351710374

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A Global Political Economy of Democratisation by Alison J. Ayers Pdf

The late-twentieth century is often portrayed as an ‘Age of Democratisation’, with democracy heralded as the best of all political systems. Yet democracy has multiple meanings, values and significances. The start of the twenty-first century has witnessed a massive revival of interest in the meaning and role of democracy, not least as democracy understood in one highly particular sense has been increasingly recognised to be in crisis. This book presents these deliberations in a new light by moving beyond the concept of the sovereign state as the dominant framework of enquiry and by rejecting the primacy of the state and the categorical separation of the ‘domestic’ and the ‘international’. Instead, Ayers elaborates an account of democratisation through the global political economy, encompassing a trenchant critique of mainstream democracy promotion in theory and practice, and opening-up possibilities for different histories of democratisation autonomous of the Western liberal and neoliberal project. This innovative work will prove useful to scholars and students in the fields of Politics, Political Economy, International Relations, Development, African Studies, History, Geography and Sociology.

Author : Frans-Willem Korsten
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509944361

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Art as an Interface of Law and Justice by Frans-Willem Korsten Pdf

This book looks at the way in which the 'call for justice' is portrayed through art and presents a wide range of texts from film to theatre to essays and novels to interrogate the law. 'Calls for justice' may have their positive connotations, but throughout history most have caused annoyance. Art is very well suited to deal with such annoyance, or to provoke it. This study shows how art operates as an interface, here, between two spheres: the larger realm of justice and the more specific system of law. This interface has a double potential. It can make law and justice affirm or productively disturb one another. Approaching issues of injustice that are felt globally, eight chapters focus on original works of art not dealt with before, including Milo Rau's The Congo Tribunal, Elfriede Jelinek's Ulrike Maria Stuart, Valeria Luiselli's Tell Me How It Ends and Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives. They demonstrate how through art's interface, impasses are addressed, new laws are made imaginable, the span of systems of laws is explored, and the differences in what people consider to be just are brought to light. The book considers the improvement of law and justice to be a global struggle and, whilst the issues dealt with are culture-specific, it argues that the logics introduced are applicable everywhere.

Author : Louis D. Frohlich,Charles Schwartz
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781584777656

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The Law of Motion Pictures by Louis D. Frohlich,Charles Schwartz Pdf

Important early treatise on film and theatre copyright protection and law. Originally published: New York: Baker, Voorhis and Company, 1918. lvi, 943 pp. Thomas Edison established the first American movie studio in 1893. The first studio in Hollywood opened in 1911. By 1918 the motion picture industry was one of the five largest business sectors in the United States. Based on the "large body of case law peculiar to the industry" that had accrued by 1918, this is the first treatise to offer "a statement of the motion picture law" (v). Chapters examine the rights and liabilities of authors, producers, studio personnel, actors, distributors and theatre owners. There are also interesting sections on topics such as ticket immorality and the production or viewing of movies on Sundays.

Author : Paul Raffield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 1509905502

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The Art of Law in Shakespeare by Paul Raffield Pdf

Author : Michael John-Hopkins
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351996747

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The Rule of Law in Crisis and Conflict Grey Zones by Michael John-Hopkins Pdf

8 Regulating military operations abroad: the extraterritorial effect of human rights and the potential modalities of parallel application of the right to life under human rights law and international humanitarian law -- 9 Conclusions: grey zones of war and peace in our globally networked information environment -- Index

Author : Sir William Nevill Montgomerie Geary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Theater
ISBN : CHI:088775948

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The Law of Theatres and Music-halls by Sir William Nevill Montgomerie Geary Pdf