The philosophy of legal change theoretical perspectives and practical processes / edited by Maciej Chmielinski and Michal Rupniewski.
| Other author | Chmieli¿„ski, Maciej. |
| Other author | Rupniewski, Micha¿‚. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, 2020. |
| Description | xiii, 269 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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 -- Public reason, background culture, and the justification of legal change / Michal Rupniewski -- The moral, the political, and the legal : changing patterns of justification in a world of legal pluralization / Eva Weiler -- Human rights : desiderata of a theory of change / Stephen Riley -- Legal "determinism" or/and legal "creationism"? : conservative-communitarian versus contractarian approaches to legal change / Maciej Chmielinski -- Natural law ethics and the issue of legal change / Michal Rupniewski -- Natural law against natural rights in the thought of Alasdair Macintyre / Kamil Aksiuto -- Kant's conception of legal change / Eduardo Charpenel -- Economism, voluntarism, and materialist historicism : three faces of the Marxist instrumental approach to legal change / Maciej Chmielinski -- Petrifying, disregarding or reforming customs : can customary law be changed in a liberal way? / Marc Goetzmann -- 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 -- Exogenous institutional change as coercion and the ideological neutrality litmus : the case of Polish communism / J. Patrick Higgins -- The coercive control offence : a case study on overcriminalisation / Melissa Hamilton -- Individualism in times of crisis : theorising a shift away from classic liberal attitudes to human rights post 9/11 / Ian Turner -- Is the principle of legal certainty a human right? The legitimacy of the retroactive application of laws / Jan Tryzna. |
| General note | "This volume is based on, although not exclusively composed of, papers presented at MANCEPT Workshops at the University of Manchester, September 2017" -- page x. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019009238 |
| ISBN | 9781138586284 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | ebook |
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