The Long Arc of Legality
Title | The Long Arc of Legality PDF eBook |
Author | David Dyzenhaus |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 491 |
Release | 2022-01-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316518051 |
Explores how the central question of philosophy of law is the legal subject's: how can that be law for me?
The Long Arc of Justice
Title | The Long Arc of Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Mohr |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 157 |
Release | 2007-05 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0231135211 |
Richard D. Mohr adopts a humanistic and philosophical approach to assessing public policy issues affecting homosexuals. His nuanced case for legal and social acceptance applies widely held ethical principles to various issues, including same-sex marriage, AIDS, and gays in the military. Mohr examines the nature of prejudices and other cultural forces that work against lesbian and gay causes and considers the role that sexuality plays in national rituals. In his support of same-sex marriage, Mohr defines matrimony as the development and maintenance of intimacy through which people meet their basic needs and carry out their everyday living, and he contends that this definition applies equally to homosexual and heterosexual couples. By drawing on culturally, legally, and ethically based arguments, Mohr moves away from tired political rhetoric and reveals the important ways in which the struggle for gay rights and acceptance relates to mainstream American society, history, and political life.
Legality and Legitimacy
Title | Legality and Legitimacy PDF eBook |
Author | David Dyzenhaus |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
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This text investigates one of the oldest questions of legal philosophy - the relationship between law and legitimacy. It analyses the legal theories of three public lawyers of the Weimar era, Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen, and Hermann Heller.
The Arc of Due Process in American Constitutional Law
Title | The Arc of Due Process in American Constitutional Law PDF eBook |
Author | E. Thomas Sullivan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2013-07-04 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0199990808 |
In The Arc of Due Process in American Constitutional Law, Sullivan and Massaro identify the historical underpinnings of due process while describing the evolution of the American due process doctrine.
The Arc of Protection
Title | The Arc of Protection PDF eBook |
Author | T. Alexander Aleinikoff |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2019-10-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1503611426 |
The international refugee regime is fundamentally broken. Designed in the wake of World War II to provide protection and assistance, the system is unable to address the record numbers of persons displaced by conflict and violence today. States have put up fences and adopted policies to deny, deter, and detain asylum seekers. People recognized as refugees are routinely denied rights guaranteed by international law. The results are dismal for the millions of refugees around the world who are left with slender prospects to rebuild their lives or contribute to host communities. T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Leah Zamore lay bare the underlying global crisis of responsibility. The Arc of Protection adopts a revisionist and critical perspective that examines the original premises of the international refugee regime. Aleinikoff and Zamore identify compromises at the founding of the system that attempted to balance humanitarian ideals and sovereign control of their borders by states. This book offers a way out of the current international morass through refocusing on responsibility-sharing, seeing the humanitarian-development divide in a new light, and putting refugee rights front and center.
Arc of Justice
Title | Arc of Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Boyle |
Publisher | Henry Holt and Company |
Pages | 445 |
Release | 2007-04-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1429900164 |
Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for manufacturing jobs, and tensions often flared with the KKK in ascendance and violence rising. Ossian Sweet, a proud Negro doctor-grandson of a slave-had made the long climb from the ghetto to a home of his own in a previously all-white neighborhood. Yet just after his arrival, a mob gathered outside his house; suddenly, shots rang out: Sweet, or one of his defenders, had accidentally killed one of the whites threatening their lives and homes. And so it began-a chain of events that brought America's greatest attorney, Clarence Darrow, into the fray and transformed Sweet into a controversial symbol of equality. Historian Kevin Boyle weaves the police investigation and courtroom drama of Sweet's murder trial into an unforgettable tapestry of narrative history that documents the volatile America of the 1920s and movingly re-creates the Sweet family's journey from slavery through the Great Migration to the middle class. Ossian Sweet's story, so richly and poignantly captured here, is an epic tale of one man trapped by the battles of his era's changing times.
Hobbes and the Law
Title | Hobbes and the Law PDF eBook |
Author | David Dyzenhaus |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2012-08-30 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1107022754 |
A collection of essays devoted to the legal thought of Thomas Hobbes, arguably the greatest political philosopher to write in English.