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The philosophy of legal change : theoretical perspectives and practical processes / edited by Maciej Chmielinski and Michal Rupniewski.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociological jurisprudence.
- Law--Philosophy.
- Law.
- Social change.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 269 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
- Contents:
- Introduction : legal change and political philosophy / Maciej Chmielinski
- 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
- Conclusion: the philosophy of legal change as a research method / Michal Rupniewski.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781138586284
- 1138586285
- OCLC:
- 1089840933
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