Plunder

Author: Ugo Mattei
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405178949
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
Plunder examines the dark side of the Rule of Law and explores how it has been used as a powerful political weapon by Western countries in order to legitimize plunder – the practice of violent extraction by stronger political actors victimizing weaker ones. Challenges traditionally held beliefs in the sanctity of the Rule of Law by exposing its dark side Examines the Rule of Law's relationship with 'plunder' – the practice of violent extraction by stronger political actors victimizing weaker ones – in the service of Western cultural and economic domination Provides global examples of plunder: of oil in Iraq; of ideas in the form of Western patents and intellectual property rights imposed on weaker peoples; and of liberty in the United States Dares to ask the paradoxical question – is the Rule of Law itself illegal?

The Law

Author: Frédéric Bastiat
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 1610163273
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 74

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Humanitarianism

Author: Antonio De Lauri
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789004431133
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
Humanitarianism: Keywords is a comprehensive dictionary designed as a compass for navigating the conceptual universe of humanitarianism.

The Law by Frederic Bastiat

Author: Frederic Bastiat
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789562910118
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Bastiat's The Law is the classic work which defines the right and just system of laws for a free people, and demonstrates how such laws facilitate a free society.

Plunder of the Commons

Author: Guy Standing
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241396336
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
'One of the most important books I've read in years' Brian Eno We are losing the commons. Austerity and neoliberal policies have depleted our shared wealth; our national utilities have been sold off to foreign conglomerates, social housing is almost non-existent, our parks are cordoned off for private events and our national art galleries are sponsored by banks and oil companies. This plunder deprives us all of our common rights, recognized as far back as the Magna Carta and the Charter of the Forest of 1217, to share fairly and equitably in our public wealth. Guy Standing leads us through a new appraisal of the commons, stemming from the medieval concept of common land reserved in ancient law from marauding barons, to his modern reappraisal of the resources we all hold in common - a brilliant new synthesis that crystallises quite how much public wealth has been redirected to the 1% in recent decades through the state-approved exploitation of everything from our land to our state housing, health and benefit systems, to our justice system, schools, newspapers and even the air we breathe. Plunder of the Commons proposes a charter for a new form of commoning, of remembering, guarding and sharing that which belongs to us all, to slash inequality and soothe our current political instability.

The Law of Nations

Author: Emer de Vattel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : International law
Languages : en
Pages : 668

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The Turning Point in Private Law

Author: Ugo Mattei
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1786435187
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description
Can private law assume an ecological meaning? Can property and contract defend nature? Is tort law an adequate tool for paying environmental damages to future generations? This book explores potential resolutions to these questions, analyzing the evolution of legal thinking in relation to the topics of legal personality, property, contract and tort. In this forward thinking book, Mattei and Quarta suggest a list of basic principles upon which a new, ecological legal system could be based. Taking private law to represent an ally in the defence of our future, they offer a clear characterization of the fundamental legal institutions of common law and civil law, considering the challenges of the Anthropogenic era, technological tools of the Internet era, and the global rise of the commons. Summarizing the fundamental institutions of private law: property rights, legal personality, contract, and tort, the authors reveal the limits of these legal institutions in relation to historical international evolution and their regulation in the contexts of catastrophic ecological issues and technological developments. Engaging and thoughtful, this book will be interesting reading for legal scholars and academics of private law and, in particular, those wishing to understand the role of law when facing technological and ecological challenges.

The Unconstitutionality of Slavery

Author: Lysander Spooner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Enslaved persons
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth

Author: Martti Koskenniemi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009038206
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1127

Book Description
To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth shows the vital role played by legal imagination in the formation of the international order during 1300–1870. It discusses how European statehood arose during early modernity as a locally specific combination of ideas about sovereign power and property rights, and how those ideas expanded to structure the formation of European empires and consolidate modern international relations. By connecting the development of legal thinking with the history of political thought and by showing the gradual rise of economic analysis into predominance, the author argues that legal ideas from different European legal systems - Spanish, French, English and German - have played a prominent role in the history of global power. This history has emerged in imaginative ways to combine public and private power, sovereignty and property. The book will appeal to readers crossing conventional limits between international law, international relations, history of political thought, jurisprudence and legal history.

The Life of the Law

Author: Laura Nader
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520231635
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Evolving an Ethnography of Law: A Personal Document 2 Lawyers and Anthropologists 3 Hegemonic Processes in Law: Colonial to Contemporary 4 The Plaintiff: A User Theory Epilogue Bibliography Index.