La ley natural en la telaraña de la razón

Ética, derecho y política de John Locke

La obra de John Locke viene generalmente considerada como el punto de inflexión entre la tradición escolástica y la renovación de las tendencias racionalistas en el siglo xvii. Su prestigio se asienta en la afirmada pulcritud de una obra rigurosamente científica que, no obstante el ...

Las ficciones del Derecho latinoamericano

"Las ficciones que describe el profesor Esquirol son fundamentalmente dos: en primer lugar, que el derecho latinoamericano es concebido como una mera proyección del europeo y, en segundo lugar, que el derecho latinoamericano, no importa cúanto lo intente, continúa siendo un esfuerzo social fallido porque ...

Equality for inegalitarians

This book offers a new and compelling account of distributive justice and its relation to choice. Unlike luck egalitarians, who treat unchosen differences in people's circumstances as sources of unjust inequality to be overcome, Sher views such differences as pervasive and unavoidable features of ...

Debates in values-based practice

arguments for against

Demands on healthcare systems are increasingly complex and diverse. Consumerism, multiculturalism and regulation challenge practitioners and policymakers. This has led to urgent debate about the value and purpose of healthcare as people seek to make serious, well-thought through decisions. This book helps readers to make ...

Disability and the good human life

This collection of original essays, from both established scholars and newcomers, takes up a recent debate in philosophy, sociology, and disability studies on whether disability is intrinsically a harm that lowers a person's quality of life. While this is a new question in disability ...

Active citizenship and disability

implementing the personalisation of support

This book provides an international comparative study of the implementation of disability rights law and policy focused on the emerging principles of self-determination and personalisation. It explores how these principles have been enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ...

Jewish bioethics

rabbinic Law and theology in their social and historical contexts

This book presents the discourse in Jewish law and rabbinic literature on bioethical issues, highlighting practical problems in their socio-historical contexts. Yechiel Michael Barilan discusses end-of-life care, abortion, infertility treatments, the brain death debate, and the organ market. Barilan also presents the theology and spirituality ...

Abuso de Derecho

en civil, comercial, procesal, laboral y administrativo

Lo realmente apasionante en el estudio del abuso de derecho está en que pone en evidencia la existencia de diversas opiniones sobre los aspectos esenciales de la ciencia jurídica que comienza por el concepto mismo de lo que es el Derecho, su íntima relación con ...

Politics of happiness

connecting the philosophical ideas of Hegel, Nietzsche and Derrida to the political ideologies of happiness

This unique and engaging study argues that the Western concern with achieving happiness should be understood in terms of its relationship to the political ideologies that have emerged since the Enlightenment. To do so, each chapter examines the place that happiness occupies in the construction ...

Rights and private Law

In recent years a strand of thinking has developed in private law scholarship which has come to be known as 'rights' or 'rights-based' analysis. Rights analysis seeks to develop an understanding of private law obligations that is driven, primarily or exclusively, by the recognition of ...

Libro homenaje al Profesor Rafael Barranco Vela

INDICE: VOLUMEN I: 1. Artículos publicados en el número 54 de la revista Direito Público (Brasil) 2. Teoría general del derecho 3. Derecho Europeo 4. Constitución y Jurisdicción Constitucional 5. Poder Judicial 6. Administración Pública y Derecho Administrativo 7. Derecho Autonómico VOLUMEN II: 1. Derecho ...

Diritto e potere

saggi si Kelsen

Le norme costitutive

I. Norme, norme prescrittive e norme costitutive. – II Le norme costitutive nel pensiero e nell’esperienza giuridica.

La guerra e la pace

"Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum: grata superveniet, quae non sperabitur hora". (Orazio, Epistole, I, 4). Questi versi riassumono, eloquentemente, la dialettica tra guerra e pace nella vita di ciascuno. Nascentes morimur. l'uomo combatte tutta la vita, contro l'inevitabile conclusione. Una lotta silenziosa ...

Understanding restorative justice

how empathy can close the gap created by crime

This unique book is a clear and detailed introduction that analyses how restorative justice nurtures empathy, exploring key themes such as responsibility, shame, forgiveness and closure. The core notion of the book is that when a crime is committed, it separates people, creating a 'gap ...

Cultural Law

international, comparative, and indigenous

Cultural law is a new and exciting field of study and practice. The core themes of linguistic and other cultural rights, cultural heritage, traditional crafts and knowledge, the performing arts, sports, and religion are of fundamental importance to people around the world, engaging them at ...

Gender and global justice

Issues of global justice have received increasing attention in academic philosophy in recent years but the gendered dimensions of these issues are often overlooked or treated as peripheral. This groundbreaking collection by Alison Jaggar brings gender to the centre of philosophical debates about global justice ...

The legal theory of Carl Schmitt

The Legal Theory of Carl Schmitt provides a detailed analysis of Schmitt's institutional theory of law, mainly developed in the books published between the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s. By reading Schmitt's overall work through the lens of ...

The experience of tragic judgment

Adjudication between conflicting normative universes that do not share the same vocabulary, standards of rationality, and moral commitments cannot be resolved by recourse to traditional principles. Such cases are always in a sense tragic. And what is called for, in our pluralistic and conflictual world ...

The concept of injustice

This book insists upon a re-thinking of Western theories of Justice. For 2500 years, philosophers have subordinated the concept of injustice to the concept of justice, as if injustice were only a secondary, derivative notion. This book summons literary classics, notably Shakespeare, to argue that ...