Rule of Law

il governo della legge ieri ed oggi

In questa rivisitazione della formula del rule of law s’intende mostrare che essa non deve essere ridotta all’individuazione di determinate caratteristiche formali dei precetti giuridici e neppure allargata sì da comprendere determinati contenuti normativi del diritto, ma che essa è rivolta ad indicare ...

Diritto e Democrazia del pensiero di Luigi Ferrajoli

Presentazione (T. Pitch). – Introduzione (S. Anastasia). – Norme, fatti, politica (T. Pitch). – Metodo assiomatizzato e teoria del diritto (S. C. Sagnotti). – In margine ai Principia iuris di Luigi Ferrajoli (F. Cerrone). – I diritti civili fra laicità e giustizia sociale (M.R. Marella). – La distinzione tra diritti ...

Elogio del moralismo

Contro malaffare e illegalità servono regole severe e istituzioni decise ad applicarle. Ma serve soprattutto una diffusa e costante intransigenza morale, un'azione convinta di cittadini che non abbiano il timore d'essere definiti moralisti, che ricordino in ogni momento che la vita pubblica esige ...

Universalismo e particolarismo nel Diritto

Revenge versus Legality

wild justice from Balzac to Clint Eastwood and Abu Ghraib

In the wake of Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary renditions, and secret torture centres in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, Revenge versus Legality addresses the relationship between law and wild or vigilante justice; between the power to enforce retribution and the desire to seek revenge. Taking up a ...

Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence

with selections from Foundations of the Law of Nature and Nations

Christian Thomasius' natural jurisprudence is essential to understanding the origins of the Enlightenment in Germany, where his importance was comparable to that of John Locke's in England. First published in 1688, Thomasius' "Institutionum Jurisprudentiae Divinae" ("Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence") attempted to draw a clear ...

Ethics in an age of terror and genocide

identity and moral choice

What causes genocide? And why do some stand by, doing nothing, while others risk their lives to help the persecuted? "Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide" analyzes riveting interviews with bystanders, Nazi supporters, and rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust to lay bare ...

Blind goddess

a reader on race and justice

Blind Goddess brings together the most significant writings of practitioners, professors, and advocates to make sense of what is perhaps the nation’s most astonishing and shameful achievement: the highest per capita incarceration of its citizens anywhere in the world, compounded by the shockingly disproportionate ...

Las claves del Derecho

El tema cen­tral de este libro es el len­gua­je del de­re­cho. El in­te­rés teó­ri­co y fi­lo­só­fi­co por el aná­li­sis lingüís­ti­co del de­re­cho, tiene al­gu­nos ...

La forza ed il ritmo delle leggi

INDICE-SOMMARIO: PARTE PRIMA: LA FORZA ED IL RITMO NEL DIRITTO CAPITOLO I. LA FORZA ED IL RITMO CAPITOLO II. IL RITMO E LA SUA PRESENZA NEL DIRITTO CAPITOLO III. IL RITMO DELLA LEGGE E LE SUE CONSEGUENZE PARTE SECONDA: LA FORZA ED IL RITMO DELLE ...

Analisi e diritto 2011

ÍNDICE (Resumen): Saggi. Esiste il neocostituzionalismo?, di Mauro Barberis. La estructura del conflicto entre autoridad y autonomía, di Juan F. Iosa. El mito de Bulyrrón, di Daniel Mendonca. Contro l'argomento dell'oscurità potenziale, di Giovanni Tuzet. A proposito di lacune. Le sentenze additive della ...

The Oxford handbook of philosophy of criminal Law

This is the first comprehensive handbook in the philosophy of criminal law. It contains seventeen original essays by leading thinkers in the field and covers the field's major topics including limits to criminalization, obscenity and hate speech, blackmail, the law of rape, attempts, accomplice ...

Practical reason in Law and morality

The concept of practical reason is central to contemporary thought on ethics and the philosophy of law - acting well means acting for good reasons. Explaining this requires several stages. How do reasons relate to actions at all, as incentives and in explanations? What are values ...

Textos jurídicos y contextos sociales en F.A. Hayek

Dentro de los subsistemas normativos que presiden el desarrollo de la sociedad, el Derecho es considerado como forma de libertad que concurre con otras defi nidas desde la religión, la moralidad, la economía, la ecología, la política, la comunicación social, el arte, etc. La coherencia ...

Críticas al funcionalismo normativista y otros temas actuales del Derecho penal

Jornadas Internacionales de Derecho Penal

El presente libro ofrece, al lector, las ponencias y debates académicos que se suscitaron durante la realización de las Jornadas Internacionales de Derecho Penal que organizó la Facultad de Derecho de la PUCP.

Técnicas de interpretación jurídica

Breviario para juristas

La interpretación constituye un banco de pruebas para el jurista. El cultor del derecho que no sepa cómo interpretar no es un jurista: sean cuales sean los esfuerzos profusos por asimilar las palabras de las leyes, estudiar de memoria las opiniones de los doctores, fijar ...

Adjudication in action

an ethnomethodology of Law, morality and justice

"Adjudication in Action" describes the moral dimension of judicial activities and the judicial approach to questions of morality, observing the contextualized deployment of various practices and the activities of diverse people who, in different capacities, find themselves involved with institutional judicial space. Exploring the manner ...

Zoopolis

a political theory of animal rights

Zoopolis offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights. Most animal rights theory focuses on the intrinsic capacities or interests of animals, and the moral status and moral rights that these intrinsic characteristics give rise to. Zoopolis shifts the debate from ...

El acoso de las fantasías

Nuestra época está infestada de fantasmas: existe un antagonismo cada vez mayor entre el proceso de abstracción acelerada de nuestras vidas –sea en el ámbito del universo digital o de las relaciones mercantiles– y el diluvio de imágenes pseudoconcretas que nos rodean. Ante esta situación ...

Why the Law is so perverse

Conundrums, puzzles, and perversities: these are Leo Katz's stock-in-trade, and in "Why the Law Is So Perverse", he focuses on four fundamental features of our legal system, all of which seem to not make sense on some level and to demand explanation. First, legal ...