The Philosophy of Legal Change: Theoretical Perspectives and Practical Processes

ISBN-13: 9781138586284 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 270 str.

Maciej Chmieliński; Michal Rupniewski

Opis

This book examines the rapid and multi-directional processes of change to which democratic legal systems have recently been subject.

Spis treści

Introduction: Legal Change and Political Philosophy (Maciej Chmieliński); Part I. General Theories; Chapter 1. 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); Chapter 2. Public Reason, Background Culture, and the Justification of Legal Change (Michał Rupniewski); Chapter 3. The Moral, the Political, and the Legal – Changing Patterns of Justification in a World of Legal Pluralization (Eva Weiler); Chapter 4. Human Rights: Desiderata of a Theory of Change (Stephen Riley); Part II. Paradigmatic Political Philosophies of Legal Change; Chapter 5. Legal “Determinism” or/and Legal “Creationism”? Conservative-communitarian versus Contractarian Approaches to Legal Change (Maciej Chmieliński); Chapter 6. Natural Law Ethics and the Issue of Legal Change (Michał Rupniewski); Chapter 7. Natural Law against Natural Rights in the Thought of Alasdair MacIntyre (Kamil Aksiuto); Chapter 8. Kant’s Conception of Legal Change (Eduardo Charpenel); Chapter 9. Economism, Voluntarism, and Materialist Historicism: Three Faces of the Marxist Instrumental Approach to Legal Change. (Maciej Chmieliński); III. Practical Processes; Chapter 10. Petrifying, Disregarding or Reforming Customs: Can Customary Law be Changed in a Liberal Way? (Marc Goetzmann); Chapter 11. 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); Chapter 12. Exogenous Institutional Change as Coercion and The Ideological Neutrality Litmus: the Case of Polish Communism (J. Patrick Higgins); Chapter 13. The Coercive Control Offence: A Case Study on Overcriminalisation (Melissa Hamilton); Chapter 14. Individualism In Times of Crisis – Theorising a Shift away from Classic Liberal Attitudes to Human Rights post 9/11. (Ian Turner); Chapter 15. 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 (Michał Rupniewski)