Selected Articles B. McLachlin: Imagining the Other: Legal Rights and Diversity in the Modern World A. R. Bernstein: Rawls' Law of Peoples on Just War, Human Rights and Toleration C. Brown: Decent Peoples, Outlaw States, Burdened Societies Kok-chor Tan: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in The Law of Peoples A. Macleod: Rawls on Human Rights D. A. Reidy: Rawls on Global Economic Justice I. Trujillo: How Can the International Duty of Assistance Be Justified F. J. Blazques Ruiz: Derechos humanos, Globalizacion, Migraciones J. A Baker: The Conceptual Geography of Restorative Justice H. Khatchadourian: Compensation & Reparation as Forms of Compensatory Justice R. Madrid: Deconstruction and Universality of Law B. Bravo Lira: Fortdauer und Problematik des Rechtsstaats in Iberoamerika R. Tamayo: Rights, Distribution, and Access to Justice I. B. Flores: Assessing Democracy and Rule of Law: Access to Justice R. Vazquez: On Equality and Education S. Morimura: The Nature of Obligation to Future Generations F. Fernandez-Creuhet Lopez: Good Practice: a Critical View M. J. Falcon y Tella: The Presumption of Innocence and Civil Disobedience C. B. Gray: Two Visions of Equality a.o.

Aus dem Inhalt: Derek Morgan and Gillian Douglas: The Constitution of the Family; Three Waves for Plato Michael Freeman: The Austin Lecture: The Private and the Public Katherine O'Donovan: Love's Law: Moral Reasoning in Family Law Ruth Chadwick: Moral Reasoning in Family Law: A Response to Katherine O'Donovan Bob Brecher: What is Wrong with the Family? John Eekelaar: Parenthood, Social Engineering and Rights Brenda Almond: Parenthood - Social Construct or Fact of Nature? Kenneth Norrie: Medical Treatment of Children and Young Persons John Haldane: Children, Families, Autonomy and the State Sandra Marshall: Whose Child is it Anyway ? Derek Morgan: Hope of Deliverance? The Metamorphosis of Surrogacy

Aus dem Inhalt: A. Aarnio: One Right Answer and the Majority Principle - H. Aoi: Fikentschers Theorie der Fallnorm - J. A. G. Amado: Justicia, Democracia y Validez del Derecho en J. Habermas - O. Ballweg: Phronesis versus Practical Philosophy - J. Bengoetxea: Legal System as a Regulative Ideal - N. Brieskorn: Die Kantische Maxime und die richterliche Rechtsanwendung - D. Buchwald: Rational Legal Justification - E. Bulygin: On Legal Interpretation - N. MacCormick and J. Wroblewski: On Justification and Interpretation - U. Dopfer: Ontologie der sozialen Rolle als Grundlage strafrechtlicher Entscheidungen - V. Frosini: Prolegomena zur Auslegung des Rechts - A. Gangel: Rechtsprechung, Rechtsanwendung und Vernunftsgebrauch - M. P. Golding: Substantive Interpretation in Common Law Elaboration - M. van Hoecke: The Use of Unwritten Legal Principles by Courts - H.-R. Horn: Are there Several Theories of Legal Argumentation? - R. Kevelson: The Confusion of Language in Legal Thought - F. Lachmayer: Visualisierung in der Rechtswissenschaft - P. J. van Niekerk: The Relevance of the Distinction between Legal Principles and Legal Rules - M. Pavcnik: "Rechtsanwendung" oder normative Konkretisierung des Gesetzes? - A. Peczenik: Why shall Legal Reasoning be Coherent? - K. Pleszka: Empirisches Wissen als Grundlage der teleologischen Interpretation - u.a.

"Proceedings of the fifth Kobe lectures, Tokyo and Kyoto, December 1998."--T.p.

Challenges to law at the end of the 20th Century.- v.3.

Res. en inglés.

Aus dem Inhalt: > I. Plenarvotrage: R. Alexy: Eine diskurstheoretische Konzeption der praktischen Vernunft u O. Weinberger: Der Streit um die praktische Vernunft u II. Offentlicher Vortrag: M. Kriele: Zur Universalitat der Menschenrechte u III. Arbeitsgruppenreferate: J. M. Adeodato: Practical Regularities in Underdeveloped Countries u J. L. Bazan / R. Madrid: Racionalidad y Razonabilidad en el Derecho u V. Black: Putting Power in its Place u J. de Sousa e Brito: Praktische Vernunft und Utilitarismus u A. G. Conte: Deontisch vs. anankastisch u W. Eichhorn: Uber eine verfehlte und doch unverzichtbare Idee der praktischen Vernunft u U. Fazis: Theorie und Ideologie der Postmoderne u F. Galindo: La Teoriaa de los Sistemas Sociales como Teoriaa de la Practica Juriadica u G. den Hartogh: Authority and the Balance of Reasons u V. Held. Feminist Morality and the Role of Law u F. Jacobs: Das Paradigma der praktischen Unvernunft u H. Kaptein: The Morals of Post-Modern Human Rights u J. Llompart: Die praktische Vernunft praktisch betrachtet: die Argumentation mit der Menschenwurde u C. W. Maris: Horror Vacui and the Problems of Modern Legal Philsophy u R. Martin: On G. H. von Wright's Theory of Practical Inference u K. A. Papageorgiou: Kant, ein Rechtsmoralist? Ein Blick auf seine angewandte Ethik u u.a. (Franz Steiner 1993)

Many recent political and economic transformations pose difficult questions of legal and social theory. Yet, although these questions are now raised with new urgency, the basic questions are not new. They have long been central features of legal and social philosophy in its most general form. What principles explain or justify legal institutions or decisions, thereby transforming coercion to authority? Are there or could there be any such universal principles? Can any philosophical theory account for such principles? How, if at all, do philosophical theories of law and politics apply to particular issues? And finally, what, if any, do such practical applications tell us about general theories and principles? The essays in this volume represent the efforts of an international group of scholars to understand these general aspects of legal philosophy.