[PDF] Rule Of Law For Nature eBook

Author : Christina Voigt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 30,41 MB
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107513219

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'Human laws must be reformulated to keep human activities in harmony with the unchanging and universal laws of nature.' This 1987 statement by the World Commission on Environment and Development has never been more relevant and urgent than it is today. Despite the many legal responses to various environmental problems, more greenhouse gases than ever before are being released into the atmosphere, biological diversity is rapidly declining and fish stocks in the oceans are dwindling. This book challenges the doctrinal construction of environmental law and presents an innovative legal approach to ecological sustainability: a rule of law for nature which guides and transcends ordinary written laws and extends fundamental principles of respect, integrity and legal security to the non-human world.

Author : Christina Voigt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 14,85 MB
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107043263

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Questions the doctrinal construction of environmental law and looks for innovative legal approaches to ecological sustainability.

Author : Christina Voigt
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category :
ISBN : 9781107517158

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Questions the doctrinal construction of environmental law and looks for innovative legal approaches to ecological sustainability.

Author : Matthew Kramer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,16 MB
Release : 2007-06-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139463969

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What is objectivity? What is the rule of law? Are the operations of legal systems objective? If so, in what ways and to what degrees are they objective? Does anything of importance depend on the objectivity of law? These are some of the principal questions addressed by Matthew H. Kramer in this lucid and wide-ranging study that introduces readers to vital areas of philosophical enquiry. As Kramer shows, objectivity and the rule of law are complicated phenomena, each comprising a number of distinct though overlapping dimensions. Although the connections between objectivity and the rule of law are intimate, they are also densely multi-faceted.

Author : Christina Voigt
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 24,43 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781107618442

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Questions the doctrinal construction of environmental law and looks for innovative legal approaches to ecological sustainability.

Author : Jonathan Crowe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,10 MB
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1108498302

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Presents a systematic, contemporary defence of the natural law outlook in ethics, politics and jurisprudence.

Author : M. A. Yadugiri
Publisher : Foundation Books
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 44,32 MB
Release : 2006-08-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9788175962583

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Knowledge of legal language and the ability to use it effectively are essential requirements for students who have chosen to study law. A comprehensive course in English specially prepared for undergraduate students of law, this book aims to train students in both these aspects.

Author : Larry Alexander
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,90 MB
Release : 2001-08-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 0822380021

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Rules perform a moral function by restating moral principles in concrete terms, so as to reduce the uncertainty, error, and controversy that result when individuals follow their own unconstrained moral judgment. Although reason dictates that we must follow rules to avoid destructive error and controversy, rules—and hence laws—are imperfect, and reason also dictates that we ought not follow them when we believe they produce the wrong result in a particular case. In The Rule of Rules Larry Alexander and Emily Sherwin examine this dilemma. Once the importance of this moral and practical conflict is acknowledged, the authors argue, authoritative rules become the central problems of jurisprudence. The inevitable gap between rules and background morality cannot be bridged, they claim, although many contemporary jurisprudential schools of thought are misguided attempts to do so. Alexander and Sherwin work through this dilemma, which lies at the heart of such ongoing jurisprudential controversies as how judges should reason in deciding cases, what effect should be given to legal precedent, and what status, if any, should be accorded to “legal principles.” In the end, their rigorous discussion sheds light on such topics as the nature of interpretation, the ancient dispute among legal theorists over natural law versus positivism, the obligation to obey law, constitutionalism, and the relation between law and coercion. Those interested in jurisprudence, legal theory, and political philosophy will benefit from the edifying discussion in The Rule of Rules.

Author : American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 34,28 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781590318737

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The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.