Law's ethical, global, and theoretical contexts
Subtitle: essays in honour of William Twining
By: edited by Upendra Baxi, Christopher McCrudden, and Abdul Paliwala
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Cambridge [UK]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9781107116405
Subjects: Human rights; Moral and ethical aspects; Law; Constitutional law; Interpretation and construction; Philosophy; Law and ethics
Description: Law's Ethical, Global and Theoretical Contexts examines William Twining's principal contributions to law and jurisprudence in the context of three issues. Part I explores human rights, including torture, the role of evidence in human rights cases, the emerging discourse on 'traditional values', the relevance of 'Southern voices' to human rights debates, and the relationship between human rights and peace agreements. Part II assesses the impact of globalization through the lenses of sociology and comparative constitutionalism, and features an analysis of the development of pluralistic ideas of law in the context of privatization. Finally, Part III addresses issues of legal theory, including whether global legal pluralism needs a concept of law, the importance of context in legal interpretation, the effect of increasing digitalization on legal theory, and the utility of feminist and postmodern approaches to globalization and legal theory.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An intellectual journey with William Twining : an interview (Manuel Atienza; title: and Raymundo Gama); title: Resituating Twining's discovery of Bentham's fragment on 'torture' amidst the 21st century ce 'terror wars' (Upendra Baxi); title: Human rights and traditional values (Christopher McCrudden); title: Southern voices in transitional justice : a critical reflection on human rights and transition" (Fionnuala Ni Aolain); title: Human rights and Latin American southern voices (Oscar Guardiola-Rivera); title: Towards a socio-legal theory of indignation (Boaventura de Sousa Santos); title: Towards a cosmopolitan pluralist theory of constitutionalism (Gavin W Anderson); title: The state and constitutionalism in post-colonial societies in Africa (Yash Ghai; title: and Jill Cottrell); title: Comparative law, rights, and the environment (John McEldowney); title: Homage and heresy from a licensed subversive : theorising paradigm change in transnational economic regulation (Jane Kelsey); title: Digital thoughtways : technology, jurisprudence, and global justice (Abdul; title: Paliwala); title: Twining on Llewellyn and legal realism (Fred Schauer); title: Theorizing as activity : transnational legal theory in context (Peer; title: Zumbansen); title: Does global legal pluralism need a concept of law? (Roger Cotterrell); title: How to do things with legislation, or, 'everything depends on the context' (David Miers); title: How to do things with standards (Jeremy Waldron); title: Glimmers of an awakening within analytical jurisprudence (Brian Z. Tamanaha).