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"Americans have never been more divided, and we're ripe for a breakup. The bitterness, the gridlock, the growing tolerance of violence, invite us to think that we'd be happier were we two different countries. In all the ways that matter, save for the naked force of law, we are already two nations. There's a second reason why secession beckons. We're over-big, one of the biggest countries in the world. Smaller countries are happier and less corrupt....
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A distinguished jurist provides insights into the judicial role by asking and answering the question, "What is it that I do when I decide a case?" In this legal classic, Benjamin N. Cardozo - an Associate Supreme Court Justice of the United States from 1932-38 - explains a judge's conscious and unconscious decision-making processes. Cardozo handed down opinions that stressed the necessity for the law to adapt to the realities and needs of contemporary...
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"Free speech is under attack at colleges and universities today, with critics on and off campus challenging the value of open inquiry and freewheeling intellectual debate. Too often speakers are shouted down, professors are threatened, and classes are disrupted. In Speak Freely, Keith Whittington argues that universities must protect and encourage free speech because vigorous free speech is the lifeblood of the university. Without free speech, a university...
4) Ethics
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The significance of this text in Ethics lies in its effort to awaken a vital conviction of the genuine reality of moral problems and the value of reflective thought in dealing with them. To this purpose are subordinated the presentation in Part I. of historic material, the discussion in Part II. of the different types of theoretical interpretation, and the consideration, in Part III., of some typical social and economic problems which characterize...
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The absence of a clear, universally accepted legal definition of torture is not just a theoretical issue; the practical consequences of confusion over what precisely constitutes torture are severe. Using waterboarding as a case study, Torque analyzes the language of torture, the morality of torture, and the importance of communicating an explicit US policy in order to maintain accountability and diplomatic relations.
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A controversial call to put honor at the center of morality To the modern mind, the idea of honor is outdated, sexist, and barbaric. It evokes Hamilton and Burr and pistols at dawn, not visions of a well-organized society. But for philosopher Tamler Sommers, a sense of honor is essential to living moral lives. In Why Honor Matters, Sommers argues that our collective rejection of honor has come at great cost. Reliant only on Enlightenment liberalism,...
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El debate en torno al positivismo jurídico se mantiene a lo largo de los últimos siglos. Desde el siglo XIX hasta el XXI aparece un hilo que conecta y comunica las ideas jurídicas. En esta constante, el último en proponer su desafío ha sido el neoconstitucionalismo. Desarrollado durante años y a través de autores diferentes entre sí, bien puede decirse que el término "neoconstitucionalismo" tiene fecha de nacimiento en este libro, publicado...
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Santo Tomás de Aquino es uno de los más grandes filósofos de la historia universal. Su monumental obra Suma de teología no solo ha sido un referente de primer orden para la doctrina de la Iglesia, sino que ha sido y será determinante en las más variadas expresiones de las ciencias sociales y, por supuesto, en el derecho. La teoría de la ley, las profundas reflexiones sobre el derecho natural, la teoría de la justicia y su relación con el...
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"Possibly the most emotionally charged debate taking place in the United States today centers on the Second Amendment to the Constitution and the rights of citizens to bear arms. In the wake of the Sandy Hook school massacre in Connecticut, the gun rights movement, headed by the National Rifle Association, appears more intractable than ever in its fights against gun control laws. The core argument of Second Amendment advocates is that the proliferation...
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Widely hailed as one of the most significant works in modern political philosophy, John Rawls's Political Liberalism (1993) defended a powerful vision of society that respects reasonable ways of life, both religious and secular. These core values have never been more critical as anxiety grows over political and religious difference and new restrictions are placed on peaceful protest and individual expression. This anthology of original essays suggests...
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Seana Valentine Shiffrin is professor of philosophy and the Pete Kameron Professor of Law and Social Justice at the University of California, Los Angeles.
To understand one another as individuals and to fulfill the moral duties that require such understanding, we must communicate with each other. We must also maintain protected channels that render reliable communication possible, a demand that, Seana Shiffrin argues, yields a prohibition against...
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Here are six historic essays on the state of race relations during the Reconstruction and early twentieth century, written from the African American point of view. These essays show us how far race relations have progressed, and sadly, how far we have yet to go. Included are "Industrial Education for the Negro" by Booker T. Washington, "The Talented Tenth" by W.E. Burghardt DuBois, "The Disfranchisement of the Negro" by Charles W. Chesnutt, "The Negro...
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The Science of Right has for its object the principles of all the laws which it is possible to promulgate by external legislation. Where there is such a legislation, it becomes, in actual application to it, a system of positive right and law; and he who is versed in the knowledge of this system is called a jurist or jurisconsult (jurisconsultus). A practical jurisconsult (jurisperitus), or a professional lawyer, is one who is skilled in the knowledge...
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Términos como transformación, evolución o cambio presiden el devenir de los últimos dos siglos. Resulta innegable que, en momentos y aspectos diferentes, la sociedad moderna ha experimentado profundos desarrollos en las ciencias, la economía y la política, lo que hace necesario enfrentarla a diferentes procesos de fundamentación y crítica. La Filosofía del Derecho no podía quedar al margen de esta continua revolución: bien puede decirse...
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With the integration of these 3 Laws of Life we can understand Evolution and therefore its Purpose, answering the questions that several human disciplines (Science, Theology, Philosophy) pose separately, which furthermore seem to hit rock bottom if not answered from a Theory of Everything that integrates them: scientists should be able to accept that a Dimension of Unicity exists where there is no matter to analyse nor physical or chemical law to...
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Dieciséis ensayos dedicados a la discusión de problemas vinculados a la prueba, la argumentación y la justicia.
El libro está dividido en tres partes. La primera analiza la argumentación en materia de hechos y procura esclarecer el rol que cumplen hoy las pruebas científicas en la toma de decisiones judiciales, centrándose en diversos problemas que plantea la epistemología clásica. ¿Qué criterio de objetividad guía las prácticas jurídicas?...
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Este libro expone la relación entre el Derecho y la política en la obra de Hanna Arendt. El planteamiento principal es que la reivindicación y reconceptualización que Arendt hace de la política permite concebir un lugar para el Derecho que lejos de obstaculizar la acción ciudadana y la democracia directa, busca potenciarlas. El Derecho en la teoría política arendtiana sirve para garantizar la capacidad de actuar de los seres humanos en el...
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David Kennedy is Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
In this provocative and timely book, David Kennedy explores what can go awry when we put our humanitarian yearnings into action on a global scale--and what we can do in response.
Rooted in Kennedy's own experience in numerous humanitarian efforts, the book examines campaigns for human rights, refugee protection, economic development, and for humanitarian limits to the...
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Andrei Marmor is professor of philosophy, Maurice Jones Jr. Professor of Law, and director of the Center for Law and Philosophy at the University of Southern California. His books include Social Conventions: From Language to Law (Princeton) and Law in the Age of Pluralism.
In Philosophy of Law, Andrei Marmor provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary debates about the fundamental nature of law-an issue that has been at the heart of legal...
20) On Settling
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Robert E. Goodin is professor of government at the University of Essex and distinguished professor of philosophy and social and political theory at Australian National University.
The hidden value of settling
In a culture that worships ceaseless striving, "settling" seems like giving up. But is it? On Settling defends the positive value of settling, explaining why this disdained practice is not only more realistic but more useful than an excessive...
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