Pluralism and Law /
While the modern world is divided into roughly 200 sovereign states, many of the problems we are experiencing are global in scale and cannot be solved by nation states acting alone. The one world has many different traditions, too: very different ideas exist about how a nation state should be organi...
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Formal Justice as a Common Language
- 2. Retribution in the Transition to Democracy
- 3. Hate Speech and the Law: A Canadian Perspective
- 4. Human Rights and the Partial Eclipse of Justice
- 5. L'état, les pouvoirs et la liberté
- 6. Pluralism, Social Conflict, and Tolerance
- 7. Humanitarian Intervention and the Self-Image of the State
- 8. The Boundaries of Democratic Pluralism
- 9. Law, Rights and Democracy after Totalitarianism
- 10. A `Struggle Approach' to Human Rights
- 11. Ethics Codes: The Regulatory Norms of a Globalized Society?- 12. Plurality of Cultures and Natural Law
- 13. Cultural Pluralism and the Idea of Human Rights
- 14. Legal Reasoning and Systematization of Law
- 15. A Perspective on Comparative Legal Methodology and its Barriers
- 16. A Semiotic Perspective on the Comparison of Analogical Reasoning in Secular and Religious Legal Systems
- 17. Why is Legal Reasoning Defeasible?- 18. Legal Logic, Its Existence, Nature and Use
- 19. Collective Intentions, Legislative Intents, and Social Choice
- The Authors.