Property and Human Rights in a global context

Property as a human rights concern is manifested through its incorporation in international instruments and as a subject of the law through property-related cases considered by international human rights organs. Yet, for the most part, the relationship between property and human rights has been discussed ...

Human dignity in context

explorations of a contested concept

Human dignity is the key term that the Universal Declaration on Human Rights placed at the centre of legal discourse on a global level. The Universal Declaration inspired the subsequent use of dignity in domestic constitutional documents as well as in international and regional human ...

Defences in equity

This book is the fourth in a series of essay collections on defences in private law. It addresses defences to liability arising in equity. The essays range from those adopting a mainly doctrinal perspective to others that explore the law from a more philosophical perspective ...

Handbook on legal methodology

from objective to method

Legal scholarship is one of the oldest academic disciplines, and the study of law has been passed on from generation to generation as an implicit “savoir faire”. It was presumed that all legal scholars understood the methodology of legal research, making its explicit clarification and ...

Analogy and exemplary reasoning in legal discourse

This book brings together contributions from leading figures in legal studies on analogy and related forms of reasoning in the law. Analogical reasoning-which relies on the concept of two different things being in some way like each other-is hugely important not just in the practice ...

Protecting the rights of refugees beyond european borders

establishing extraterritorial legal responsabilities

The European migration and asylum policy has been shaped by efforts to establish an efficient migration management system in order to protect the Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice from the new security threat of 'irregular migration'. Pre-border control mechanisms composed of administrative, legislative, and ...

The doctrine of conventionality control

between uniformity and legal pluralism in the Inter-American Human Rights System

The creation of the doctrine of conventionality control is one of the most recent and ambitious efforts undertaken by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to increase the effectiveness of and compliance with the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR) at the State level. It ...

Theory and practice of the European Convention on Human Rights

Since the first edition of Theory and Practice of the European Convention on Human Rights forty years ago, this book has become the leading reference in the field of human rights in Europe. It provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of the functioning of the ...

Convergences and divergences between International Human Rights, International Humanitarian and International Criminal Law

Although rooted in a similar ideal, human rights (IHRL), international criminal law (ICL) and international humanitarian law (IHL) are separate fields of law, best represented as circles, each of which overlaps with the other two. However human rights often seems to absorb the other two ...

Introducción a la teoría del Derecho

Este libro intenta presentar una guía breve de algunos de los aspectos mas expresivos de esa enorme parte de la ciencia del Derecho que tiene que ver con la teoría del Derecho.

Fenomenología semiótica y Derecho

Durante el curso académico 1998-1999 el Área de Filosofía del Derecho de la Universidad de Huelva organizó el ciclo de conferencias que aparecen ahora publicadas conjuntamente.

Borges y la criminología

El autor descubre un Borges inédito a través de una lectura criminológica de su obra. Analiza los poemas, ensayos y cuentos que retratan la violencia del hombre y del Estado, con la cárcel como arquetipo de laberinto.

Fundamentos de Filosofía del Derecho

Las investigaciones siguientes se basan en la experiencia de que la formación del Derecho aunque sin duda objeto de la libertad humana, no lo es de un arbitrio sin vínculos.

La crisis del Derecho

La filosofía del Derecho se encuentra en una encrucijada que esta dando lugar a transformaciones en su fisonomía, su practica, su agenda, e incluso sus estilos.

Fundamentos histórico-ideológicos del Derecho alemán

La Historia del Derecho, en Alemania, esta dividida conforme a las disciplinas del Derecho vigente. Difícilmente lograremos abarcar, por encima de la descripción de la historia constitucional, de la historia del Derecho penal y de la historia del Derecho privado, las ideas rectoras de nuestra ...

La destreza de Judith

estudios de cultura literaria del Derecho

Diría que los estudios de Cultura literaria del Derecho aquí reunidos bajo título de La destreza de Judith se calzan de las sandalias que deslumbraron los ojos de Holofernes y, aunque la figura y detalle de realce luminoso no haya sido revelado por la imaginación ...

Marx y el Derecho moderno

El presente volumen es fruto de un decenio de estudios y ha sido madurado en el contexto de las investigaciones marxistas italianas que en esta postguerra aportan, debe reconocerse, una importante contribución a la reconstrucción filológica y científica del pensamiento de Marx, aunque no tengan ...

The right to a fair trial in international criminal proceedings

This book examines the right to a fair trial in international criminal proceedings from a human right perspective drawing mainly from General Comments, Individual Communications to the Human Right Committee and the jurisprudence of international criminal tribunals and courts. The author shows the extent to ...

Cartas de Catón

(Trenchard & Gordon, 1720-1723)

Las ideas que han jugado un papel importante en la Historia a menudo se transforman, toman un aspecto diferente, se desvanecen o se entregan a otras que parecían opuestas en un primer momento. Así, y pese al relato liberal que habitualmente ha venido a describir ...

Human Rights futures

For the first time in one collected volume, mainstream and critical human rights scholars together examine the empirical and normative debates around the future of human rights. They ask what makes human rights effective, what strategies will enhance the chances of compliance, what blocks progress ...