The philosophy of legal change : theoretical perspectives and practical processes /: theoretical perspectives and practical processes. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Maciej Chmielinski and Michal Rupniewski.
• Editors: Chmieliński, Maciej; Rupniewski, Michał
• Contents: Introduction : legal change and political philosophy / Maciej Chmielinski -- Standards of law-making as the parts of normative space in the post-modern democratic states : the question of justification and legitimacy of law / Tadeusz Biernat -- Public reason, background culture, and the justification of legal change / Michal Rupniewski -- The moral, the political, and the legal : changing patterns of justification in a world of legal pluralization / Eva Weiler -- Human rights : desiderata of a theory of change / Stephen Riley -- Legal "determinism" or/and legal "creationism"? : conservative-communitarian versus contractarian approaches to legal change / Maciej Chmielinski -- Natural law ethics and the issue of legal change / Michal Rupniewski -- Natural law against natural rights in the thought of Alasdair Macintyre / Kamil Aksiuto -- Kant's conception of legal change / Eduardo Charpenel -- Economism, voluntarism, and materialist historicism : three faces of the Marxist instrumental approach to legal change / Maciej Chmielinski -- Petrifying, disregarding or reforming customs : can customary law be changed in a liberal way? / Marc Goetzmann -- The "codification moment" : an attempt to define factors of effective law reform illustrated with the example of the Swiss Civil Code of 10 December 1907 / Maria Lewandowicz -- Exogenous institutional change as coercion and the ideological neutrality litmus : the case of Polish communism / J. Patrick Higgins -- The coercive control offence : a case study on overcriminalisation / Melissa Hamilton -- Individualism in times of crisis : theorising a shift away from classic liberal attitudes to human rights post 9/11 / Ian Turner -- Is the principle of legal certainty a human right? : the legitimacy of the retroactive application of laws / Jan Tryzna -- Conclusion: the philosophy of legal change as a research method / Michal Rupniewski.
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 340/.115; Sociological jurisprudence; Law -- Philosophy; Social change; LAW / General; LAW / Comparative; LAW / Constitutional; Law (Philosophical concept); Social change; Sociological jurisprudence; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429504709; 0429504705; 9780429997693; 0429997698; 9780429997709; 0429997701; 9780429997686
• Related ISBNs: 042999768X; 9781138586284; 1138586285
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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