The Philosophy of Legal Change (eBook, ePUB)

Theoretical Perspectives and Practical Processes
Redaktion: Chmielinski, Maciej; Rupniewski, Michal

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the rapid and multi-directional processes of change to which democratic legal systems have recently been subject.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429997693
• Artikelnr.: 57083052

Autorenporträt

Michä Rupniewski is Assistant Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of ¿ód¿, Branch in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland. Maciej Chmieli¿ski is Professor of Law, member of the Department of Political and Legal Doctrines and the Alexis de Tocqueville Center for Political and Legal Thought within the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of ¿ód¿.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Legal Change and Political Philosophy (Maciej Chmieli
ski); Part I. General Theories; Chapter 1. Standards of Law-making as the Parts of Normative Space in the Post-modern Democratic States: The Question of Justification and Legitimacy of Law (Tadeusz Biernat); Chapter 2. Public Reason, Background Culture, and the Justification of Legal Change (Michä Rupniewski); Chapter 3. The Moral, the Political, and the Legal - Changing Patterns of Justification in a World of Legal Pluralization (Eva Weiler); Chapter 4. Human Rights: Desiderata of a Theory of Change (Stephen Riley); Part II. Paradigmatic Political Philosophies of Legal Change; Chapter 5. Legal "Determinism" or/and Legal "Creationism"? Conservative-communitarian versus Contractarian Approaches to Legal Change (Maciej Chmieli
ski); Chapter 6. Natural Law Ethics and the Issue of Legal Change (Michä Rupniewski); Chapter 7. Natural Law against Natural Rights in the Thought of Alasdair MacIntyre (Kamil Aksiuto); Chapter 8. Kant's Conception of Legal Change (Eduardo Charpenel); Chapter 9. Economism, Voluntarism, and Materialist Historicism: Three Faces of the Marxist Instrumental Approach to Legal Change. (Maciej Chmieli
ski); III. Practical Processes; Chapter 10. Petrifying, Disregarding or Reforming Customs: Can Customary Law be Changed in a Liberal Way? (Marc Goetzmann); Chapter 11. The "Codification Moment": An Attempt to Define Factors of Effective Law Reform Illustrated with the Example of the Swiss Civil Code of 10 December 1907 (Maria Lewandowicz); Chapter 12. Exogenous Institutional Change as Coercion and The Ideological Neutrality Litmus: the Case of Polish Communism (J. Patrick Higgins); Chapter 13. The Coercive Control Offence: A Case Study on Overcriminalisation (Melissa Hamilton); Chapter 14. Individualism In Times of Crisis - Theorising a Shift away from Classic Liberal Attitudes to Human Rights post 9/11. (Ian Turner); Chapter 15. Is the Principle of Legal Certainty a Human Right? The Legitimacy of the Retroactive Application of Laws (Jan Tryzna); Conclusion: the Philosophy of Legal Change as a Research Method (Michä Rupniewski)