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Legal Republicanism Samantha Besson (, Professor of Public International Law and European Law, University of Fribourg, Switzerland)

Legal Republicanism By Samantha Besson (, Professor of Public International Law and European Law, University of Fribourg, Switzerland)

Summary

Interest in republicanism as a political theory has burgeoned in recent years, but its implications for the understanding of law have remained largely unexplored. Legal Republicanism is the first book to offer a comprehensive, critical survey of the potential for creating republican accounts of fundamental issues in law and legal theory.

Legal Republicanism Summary

Legal Republicanism: National and International Perspectives by Samantha Besson (, Professor of Public International Law and European Law, University of Fribourg, Switzerland)

Interest in republicanism as a political theory has burgeoned in recent years, but its implications for the understanding of law have remained largely unexplored. Legal Republicanism is the first book to offer a comprehensive, critical survey of the potential for creating republican accounts of fundamental issues in law and legal theory. Bringing together contributors with backgrounds in political and legal philosophy, the essays in the volume assess republicanism's historical traditions, conceptual coherence, and normative proposals. The collection offers a valuable insight into new debates taking place in republican political and legal theory. It also analyses potential republican approaches to concrete issues arising in areas of law such as criminal, constitutional and international law. Finally, the book includes comparisons between republican legal traditions and how they react to contemporary challenges. The book will be of value to political and democratic theorists, to legal philosophers and constitutional theorists, and all those interested in the legitimacy of decision-making in national and international settings.

Legal Republicanism Reviews

Samantha Besson and Jose Luis Marti have produced an excellent state-of-the-art synthesis of contemporary republican theory, which amply illustrates the latter's depth, breath and vitality. They have assembled an impressive team of high-profile advocates of what they call 'legal republicanism', which they present not as a narrowly conceived theory of law but as a 'holistic approach to the political and legal organisation of a republic'. The book, therefore will be of interest not only to legal theorists but also, more generally, to theorists of politics and political philosophers. * Cecile Laborde, Transnational Legal Theory *
The volume encompasses both theoretical and more practical approaches and one of its virtues has to be seen in the mutual influence between these two aspects. While the reflection on republican theory may help to deepen our understanding of how institutions ought to work, the republican analysis of legal fields like international or constitutional law may help in defining how to put forward a republican legal theory * Marco Goldoni, Jurisprudence *

About Samantha Besson (, Professor of Public International Law and European Law, University of Fribourg, Switzerland)

Samantha Besson is Professor of Public International Law and European Law at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland Jose Luis Marti is Associate Professor of Law at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona

Table of Contents

I. REPUBLICAN LEGAL THEORY; II. REPUBLICAN LAW; A. REPUBLICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW; B. REPUBLICAN CRIMINAL LAW; C. REPUBLICAN INTERNATIONAL LAW; III. NATIONAL REPUBLICANISMS AND THE LAW

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GOR013647238
9780199559169
0199559163
Legal Republicanism: National and International Perspectives by Samantha Besson (, Professor of Public International Law and European Law, University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Oxford University Press
2009-03-26
368
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