Law's ethical, global, and theoretical contexts : essays in honour of William Twining /

Law's Ethical, Global and Theoretical Contexts examines William Twining's principal contributions to law and jurisprudence in the context of three issues which will receive significant scholarly attention over the coming decades. Part I explores human rights, including torture, the role of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Twining, William, 1934- (honouree.), Baxi, Upendra (Editor), McCrudden, Christopher (Editor), Paliwala, Abdul (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge [UK] : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Series:Law in context.
Subjects:
Twining, William, > 1934-
Law > Philosophy.
Law and ethics.
Law > Moral and ethical aspects.
Law > Interpretation and construction.
Human rights.
Constitutional law.
Human Rights
Droit et morale.
Droit > Interprétation.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
Droit constitutionnel.
LAW > Essays.
LAW > General Practice.
LAW > Jurisprudence.
LAW > Paralegals & Paralegalism.
LAW > Practical Guides.
LAW > Reference.
Constitutional law
Human rights
Law and ethics
Law > Interpretation and construction
Law > Moral and ethical aspects
Law > Philosophy
Festschriften
Festschriften.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • An intellectual journey with William Twining : an interview (Manuel Atienza
  • and Raymundo Gama)
  • Resituating Twining's discovery of Bentham's fragment on 'torture' amidst the 21st century ce 'terror wars' (Upendra Baxi)
  • Human rights and traditional values (Christopher McCrudden)
  • Southern voices in transitional justice : a critical reflection on human rights and transition" (Fionnuala Ni Aolain)
  • Human rights and Latin American southern voices (Oscar Guardiola-Rivera)
  • Towards a socio-legal theory of indignation (Boaventura de Sousa Santos)
  • Towards a cosmopolitan pluralist theory of constitutionalism (Gavin W Anderson)
  • The state and constitutionalism in post-colonial societies in Africa (Yash Ghai
  • and Jill Cottrell)
  • Comparative law, rights, and the environment (John McEldowney)
  • Homage and heresy from a licensed subversive : theorising paradigm change in transnational economic regulation (Jane Kelsey)
  • Digital thoughtways : technology, jurisprudence, and global justice (Abdul
  • Paliwala)
  • Twining on Llewellyn and legal realism (Fred Schauer)
  • Theorizing as activity : transnational legal theory in context (Peer
  • Zumbansen)
  • Does global legal pluralism need a concept of law? (Roger Cotterrell)
  • How to do things with legislation, or, 'everything depends on the context' (David Miers)
  • How to do things with standards (Jeremy Waldron)
  • Glimmers of an awakening within analytical jurisprudence (Brian Z. Tamanaha).

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