Focusing on the concepts of popular consent, representation, limit, and resistance to tyranny as essential features of modern theories of parliamentary democracy, Monahan shows a continuity in use of these concepts across the alleged divide between the Mi

Over the past two decades or so, legal literature has devoted much attention to various human rights issues at both the national and international levels. Yet there has been comparatively little written on the concept and importance of individual duty within the human rights discourse. This book attempts to comprehensively and systematically examine the corollary of human right - the principle of individual duty - from a number of different perspectives, including history, the law (principally international human rights and humanitarian law and national constitutional law), philosophy, jurisprudence, religion, and ethics. The author attempts to demonstrate that a greater emphasis upon individual duties is consistent with a cultural relativist critique, natural law theory, the experience of national legal systems and regional human rights systems, certain socio-political philosophies and conventional sociological postulates, and the dictates of good public policy. The author urges the assignment of a greater, indeed revived, role for the principle of individual duty in order to achieve a more salutary balance between rights and duties and in the relationship between individual freedom and the welfare of the general community.

International human rights law grants individuals both rights and responsibilities. In this respect international criminal and international humanitarian law are no different. As members of the public international law family they are charged with the regulation, maintenance and protection of human dignity. The right and duty to disobey manifestly illegal orders traverses these three schools of public international law. This book is the first systematic study of the right to conscientious objection under international human rights law. Understanding that rights and duties are not mutually exclusive but complementary, this study analyses the right to conscientious objection and the duties of individuals under international law from various perspectives of public international law.

Hearn, William Edward. The Aryan Household Its Structure and its Development. An Introduction to Comparative Jurisprudence. London and New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1891. viii, 494 pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-124-0. Cloth. $100. * Originally published in Melbourne in 1878, this is a reprint of the first Anglo-American edition. "Recommended by Pound for 'the legal institutions of Indo-European peoples.' Pound. Outlines [of Lectures on Jurisprudence]: 229." Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 108. Chapter titles include Law and Custom, The Law and Custom of Property, The Rise of Civil Jurisdiction.