Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

1.. HARD CASES 5. Legal Rights A. Legislation . . . We might therefore do well to consider how a philosophical judge might develop, in appropriate cases, theories of what legislative purpose and legal principles require. We shall find that he would construct these theories in the same manner as a philosophical referee would construct the character of a game. I have invented, for this purpose, a lawyer of superhuman skill, learning, patience and acumen, whom I shall call Hercules. I suppose that Hercules is a judge in some representative American jurisdiction. I assume that he accepts the main uncontroversial constitutive and regulative rules of the law in his jurisdiction. He accepts, that is, that statutes have the general power to create and extinguish legal rights, and that judges have the general duty to follow earlier decisions of their court or higher courts whose rationale, as l

Taking Rights Seriously

Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace

“WHAT can men do, what do they do, and what do they want to do ?”—these are the uestions that Prof. Thorndike seeks to answer in a very comprehensive and elaborate treatise. His undertaking is inspired by the belief that man has the possibility of almost complete control of his fate if only he will be guided by science, and that his failures are attributable to ignorance or folly. The main approach is through biological psychology, but all the social sciences are appealed to and utilized in an effort to deal with the human problem as a whole. The relative immaturity of the sciences dealing with man is continually stressed, but it is claimed that they provide a body of facts and principles which are “far above zero knowledge”, and that even now they are capable of affording valuable guidance in the shaping of public policy. Human Nature and the Social Order By E. L. Thorndike. Pp. xx + 1020. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940.) 18s. net.

Human Nature and the Social Order

Scholars of culture, humanities and social sciences have increasingly come to an appreciation of the importance of the legal domain in social life, while critically engaged socio-legal scholars around the world have taken up the task of understanding "Law's Empire" in all of its cultural, political, and economic dimensions. The questions arising from these intersections, and addressing imperialisms past and present forms the subject matter of a special symposium issue of Social Identities under the editorship of Griffith University's Rob McQueen, and UBC's Wes Pue and with contributions from McQueen, Ian Duncanson, Renisa Mawani, David Williams, Emma Cunliffe, Chidi Oguamanam, W. Wesley Pue, Fatou Camara, and Dianne Kirkby. This paper introduces the volume, forthcoming in late 2007. The central problematique of this issue has previously been explored through the 2005 Law's Empire conference, an informal but vibrant postcolonial legal studies network.

Law's Empire

....................................................................................................................... III TABLE DES MATIÈRES .................................................................................................... V LISTE DES SIGLES ......................................................................................................... VII REMERCIEMENTS .......................................................................................................... IX INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................. 1 CHAPITRE I : REVUE DE LITTÉRATURE ET CADRE THEORIQUE ..................... 11 1. 1. REVUE DE LITTÉRATURE ............................................................................................. 14 1.1. 1. La lutte contre l’impunité : un impératif moral discuté ........................................ 14 1. 1. 2. Téléologique et utilitariste .............................................................................. 15 1. 1. 3. Fonctionnaliste et instrumentaliste ................................................................. 17 1. 1. 4. Culturaliste et historique ................................................................................ 23 1. 2. CADRE THÉORIQUE ..................................................................................................... 31 1. 2. 1. Dignité humaine et principe de dignité ............................................................... 31 1. 2. 2. Impératif moral hypothétique, impératif moral catégorique ................................ 38 1. 2. 3. Morale et éthique, déontologisme et conséquentialisme...................................... 42 1. 2. 4. Lutter contre l’impunité : une définition ............................................................. 49 1. 2. 5. La sanction et la morale ..................................................................................... 68 1. 2. 6. Lutter contre l’impunité : une idée consubstantielle du système international ..... 75 1. 2. 7. Lutter contre l’impunité : lutte morale et contractualisation socio-politique du principe de dignité ......................................................................................................... 81 1. 2. 8. Droit et morale, éthique, kantisme : une relation étroite ...................................... 95 1. 2. 9. Droit(s) : questions et enjeux théoriques ............................................................. 98 1. 2. 10. Le droit : du discours commun aux questions et enjeux théoriques ................. 100 1. 2. 11. Le droit : une question (de) politique et de domination ................................... 106 1. 2. 12. Le droit : une question d’attribution de signification objective et d’interprétation authentique .................................................................................................................. 109

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Justice pénale internationale : la lutte contre l’impunité en tant qu’impératif moral