Legal Certainty in a Contemporary Context

Private and Criminal Law Perspectives
Herausgegeben:Fenwick, Mark; Wrbka, Stefan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Thisbook addresses issues concerning the shifting contemporary meaning of legalcertainty. The book focuses on exploring the emerging tensions that existbetween the demand for legal certainty and the challenges of regulatingcomplex, late modern societies. The book is divided into two parts: the firstpart focusing on debates around legal certainty at the national level, with aprimary emphasis on criminal law; and the second part focusing on debates atthe transnational level, with a primary emphasis on the regulation oftransnational commercial transactions.

Inthe context of legal modernity, the principle of legal certainty-the idea thatthe law must be sufficiently clear to provide those subject to legal norms withthe means to regulate their own conduct and to protect against the arbitraryuse of public power-has operated as a foundational rule of law value. Eventhough it has not always been fully realized, legal certainty has functioned asa core value and aspiration that has structured normative debates throughoutpolitical modernity, both at a national and international level.

Inrecent decades, however, legal certainty has come under increasing pressurefrom a number of competing demands that are made of contemporary law, inparticular the demand that the law be more flexible and responsive to a socialenvironment characterized by rapid social and technological change. Theexpectation that the law operates in new transnational contexts and regulatesevery widening sphere of social life has created a new degree of uncertainty,and this change raises difficult questions regarding both the possibility anddesirability of legal certainty.

This book compiles, in one edited volume, research from a range ofsubstantive areas of civil and criminal law that shares a common interest inunderstanding the multi-layered challenges of defining legal certainty in alate modern society. The book will be of interest both to lawyers interested inunderstanding the transformation of core rule of law values in the context ofcontemporary social change and to political scientists and social theorists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Nature Singapore / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-981-10-0112-3
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 461g
• ISBN-13: 9789811001123
• ISBN-10: 981100112X
• Artikelnr.: 43903833

Autorenporträt

Mark Fenwick Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Kyushu University, Japan Stefan Wrbka Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Kyushu University, Japan

Inhaltsangabe

The Shifting Meaning of Legal Certainty (Mark Fenwick and Stefan Wrbka).- Part I - Perspectives from Private Law.- Comments on Legal Certainty from the Perspective of European, Austrian and Japanese Private Law (Stefan Wrbka).- Intellectual Property, Private Ordering and Legal Certainty(Branislav Hazucha).- Considerations on the Transnationality of International Commercial Arbitration Awards in the Context of the Demand for Legal Certainty (Jason D. Hitch).- The Notion of Consumer under EU Legislation and EU Case Law: Between the Poles of Legal Certainty and Flexibility (Jakob Søren Hedegaard and Stefan Wrbka).- Legal Certainty and Trusts in China (Zhen Meng).- Part II - Perspectives from Criminal Law.- Multilingual Norms in European Criminal Law (Georg C. Langheld).- Empirical Judgement in Criminal Proceedings (Sebastian Stehle).- The Multiple Uncertainties of the Corporate Criminal Law (Mark Fenwick).- Types of offenders - A Criminological Perspective in Historical Contexts (Kathrin Höffler).- International Criminal Law as a Means to Fight the 'Hostes Humani Generis'? - On the Dangers of the Concept of Enemy Criminal Law (Andreas Werkmeister).

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The Shifting Meaning of Legal Certainty (Mark Fenwick and Stefan Wrbka).- Part I – Perspectives from Private Law.- Comments on Legal Certainty from the Perspective of European, Austrian and Japanese Private Law (Stefan Wrbka).- Intellectual Property, Private Ordering and Legal Certainty(Branislav Hazucha).- Considerations on the Transnationality of International Commercial Arbitration Awards in the Context of the Demand for Legal Certainty (Jason D. Hitch).- The Notion of Consumer under EU Legislation and EU Case Law: Between the Poles of Legal Certainty and Flexibility (Jakob Søren Hedegaard and Stefan Wrbka).- Legal Certainty and Trusts in China (Zhen Meng).- Part II – Perspectives from Criminal Law.- Multilingual Norms in European Criminal Law (Georg C. Langheld).- Empirical Judgement in Criminal Proceedings (Sebastian Stehle).- The Multiple Uncertainties of the Corporate Criminal Law (Mark Fenwick).- Types of offenders – A Criminological Perspective in Historical Contexts (Kathrin Höffler).- International Criminal Law as a Means to Fight the ‘Hostes Humani Generis’? – On the Dangers of the Concept of Enemy Criminal Law (Andreas Werkmeister).