Legal history and philosophy 12 results

The rule of law is one of the most important topics discussed both in the legal community and in wider society. This book presents dozens of reports on the situation in various European and non-European legal systems. It answers questions about the conditions for ensuring the rule of law and about the risks and challenges faced by the democratic state of law today.

Marking the centenary of the death of Albert Venn Dicey, this book addresses Dicey’s work and its continued influence today from a variety of perspectives. 

 

L’ouvrage rend hommage aux différentes facettes de Xavier Dieux, avocat, professeur, arbitre et philosophe. Il comprend des contributions dans les domaines tels que le droit des sociétés, le droit des obligations, le droit financier et bancaire, l’arbitrage, la théorie du droit et la philosophie, l’économie et l’art.

How does the law apprehend the economical, political and military differences ? This book explores the role the law has played and continues to play in the confrontation between the strong and the weak.

L'ouvrage, hommage à Yves Poullet, propose des réflexions sur l'influence réciproque du droit et de la technologie.

This book is for everyone interested in the historical development of the ideas on crime and punishment and their impact on the criminal justice system and the fight against crime more widely. This is the first published study not only to discuss the development of criminology and the criminal justice systems of Western Europe (Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Great Britain and Italy) but also to delve into the interplay with the evolution of the system in the United States from the end of the eighteenth century up to this day.

La recherche juridique en quête de reconnaissance, dans un contexte scientifique en mutation. Legal research in quest of recognition, in a changing scientific background.

Genocidal Gender and Sexual Violence examines how the experiences of victims of genocidal gender and sexual violence have been addressed on a theoretical and practical level.

This edited volume will focus on developments in the prosecution of cases of sexual violence in (post-)conflict situations. The prosecution of those cases raises new and challenging questions as to how to build evidence, but also how to address victims’ concerns in that process. It will address innovations and challenges of empirical and other new kinds of social scientific, archival and medical data collection techniques; the development of evidence in relation to charges ranging from sexual violence as a war crime to genocide; and evidentiary and procedural differences and difficulties involved in prosecuting sexual victimization in domestic versus international courts.

This book examines the question why – from an economic perspective – society should enforce certain violations through criminal law, while others through private or administrative law.

The study of international crimes, like war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, deserves to grow into a separate and fully fledged specialization within criminology: supranational criminology. This book aims to repair the fundamental and historical neglect of criminology and to break out of a state of denial by putting international crimes on the criminological agenda.

This study assesses the supranational criminal prosecution of sexual violence, notably whether supranational criminal law and procedure are adequate from the perspective of victims of sexual violence.