Legitimating The Law

Author : Scott Veitch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134107560
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Irresponsibility written by Scott Veitch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-14 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The law is often thought to be primarily concerned with organising responsibility by creating and imposing various obligations. This book offers a contrasting view - namely that legal institutions, through their practices, concepts and categories, in fact deflect responsibility, instead promoting an irresponsibility of sorts. This stance challenges the conventional way in which the law and its bodies have been consistently viewed.

Author : James Crawford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521190886
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to International Law written by James Crawford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise, intellectually rigorous and politically and theoretically informed introduction to the context, grammar, techniques and projects of international law.

Author : John Phillip Reid
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1609090543
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legitimating the Law written by John Phillip Reid and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Phillip Reid is one of the most highly regarded historians of law as it was practiced on the state level in the nascent United States. He is not just the recipient of numerous honors for his scholarship but the type of historian after whom such accolades are named: the John Phillip Reid Award is given annually by the American Society for Legal History to the author of the best book by a mid-career or senior scholar. Legitimating the Law is the third installment in a trilogy of books by Reid that seek to extend our knowledge about the judicial history of the early republic by recounting the development of courts, laws, and legal theory in New Hampshire. Here Reid turns his eye toward the professionalization of law and the legitimization of legal practices in the Granite State—customs and codes of professional conduct that would form the basis of judiciaries in other states and that remain the cornerstone of our legal system to this day throughout the US. Legitimating the Law chronicles the struggle by which lawyers and torchbearers of strong, centralized government sought to bring standards of competence to New Hampshire through the professionalization of the bench and the bar—ambitions that were fought vigorously by both Jeffersonian legislators and anti-Federalists in the private sector alike, but ultimately to no avail.

Author : Scott Veitch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134107552
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Irresponsibility written by Scott Veitch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-14 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jürgen Habermas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745694268
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Facts and Norms written by Jürgen Habermas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Habermas's long awaited work on law, democracy and the modern constitutional state in which he develops his own account of the nature of law and democracy.

Author : Thomas R. Dye
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Top Down Policymaking written by Thomas R. Dye and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his eye-opening work, Dye explodes the myth that public policy represents the “demands of the people” and that the making of public policy flows upward from the masses. In reality, Dye argues, public policy in America, as in all nations, reflects the values, interests, and preferences of a governing elite. Top Down Policymaking is a close examination of the process by which the nation’s elite goes about the task of making public policy. Focusing on the behind-the-scenes activities of money foundations, policy planning organizations, think tanks, political campaign contributors, special-interest groups, lobbyists, law firms, influence-peddlers, and the national news media, Dye concludes that public policy is made from the top down.

Author : Jack Knight
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479888699
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Legitimacy written by Jack Knight and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the political, legal, and philosophical dimensions of political legitimacy Scholars, journalists, and politicians today worry that the world’s democracies are facing a crisis of legitimacy. Although there are key challenges facing democracy—including concerns about electoral interference, adherence to the rule of law, and the freedom of the press—it is not clear that these difficulties threaten political legitimacy. Such ambiguity derives in part from the contested nature of the concept of legitimacy, and from disagreements over how to measure it. This volume reflects the cutting edge of responses to these perennial questions, drawing, in the distinctive NOMOS fashion, from political science, philosophy, and law. Contributors address fundamental philosophical questions such as the nature of public reasons of authority, as well as urgent concerns about contemporary democracy, including whether “animus” matters for the legitimacy of President Trump’s travel ban, barring entry for nationals from six Muslim-majority nations, and the effect of fundamental transitions within the moral economy, such as the decline of labor unions. Featuring twelve essays from leading scholars, Political Legitimacy is an important and timely addition to the NOMOS series.

Author : Kathy Dodworth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316516512
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legitimation as Political Practice written by Kathy Dodworth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-19 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical, interdisciplinary reworking of legitimation, using ethnographic insights to explore everyday non-state authority in Tanzania.

Author : Per Andersen
Publisher : Djoef Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788757433197
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Legitimacy written by Per Andersen and published by Djoef Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many ways, the crucial point about law is the question of whether the law is legitimate, as this ensures that the citizens of a society (voluntarily) obey the law. This book is an anthology arising from an interdisciplinary investigation into the relationship between law and legitimacy. The collection offers a variety of new perspectives and discusses a range of issues, including the legitimacy of the international criminal court, the EU's regulation of smoking and tobacco, and the protection of consumers. The book's contributors draw not only on legal sources in their investigations, but also on philosophy, history, and sociology for a truly interdisciplinary approach. Contents include: Introduction to Law and Legitimacy * From Jean Bodin to Michael Boss: On Legitimacy and Legitimacy Crises in a Historical Perspective * In the Name of the Law: How Consistency Can Enhance Legal Legitimacy * The International Criminal Court and the Legitimacy of Exercise * Towards Legitimacy in Above-National Rule-Making: Procentralization in Multi-Stakeholder Public Regulation * Consumer Protection and the Internal Market * In Search of Legitimacy in Regulating Tobacco and Smoking. [Subject: Law, Legal Philosophy]

Author : Andreas Føllesdal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107034604
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legitimacy of International Human Rights Regimes written by Andreas Føllesdal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traverses the disciplines of law, political philosophy and international relations in assessing the normative legitimacy of international human rights regimes.