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The battles between proponents and opponents of judicial supremacy have recently intensified in the US and also in Europe. I summarise the debates in political philosophy, legal theory and ... Social and Political Philosophy (Faculty of Humanities) and of Sociology (Faculty of Social Sciences) at the University from anonymous reviewers and from Leonard Besselink, Nik de Boer, Bas Schotel, Marcel
fundamental rights. It uses the political philosophy of John Rawls to assess why we should attach priority to certain rights and which rights should therefore be considered fundamental rights. On this basis it ... important, and be very careful in allowing restrictions on fundamental rights for the purpose of protecting this market access. This article uses the political philosophy of John Rawls and his philosophical
. Moreover, social ecology is a philosophy and movement that emerged from environmental activist Murray Bookchin’s theories within the second wave of ecocriticism. Thus, this article analyzes Ballard’s The ... environmental activist with political philosophy in background. Following Bookchin and Mumford, many scholars and thinkers have contributed to the theory of social ecology. One of the most recent scholars and
Online political microtargeting involves monitoring people’s online behaviour, and using the collected data, sometimes enriched with other data, to show people-targeted political advertisements ... . Introduction Political campaigns are increasingly combining data-driven voter research with personalised political advertising: online political microtargeting.1 Through political microtargeting, a political
This article is produced from Machiavelli's thesis of Ethics of Religion. The religious critique of Niccolo dia Bernardo dei Machiavelli, which is in agreement with the political and religious ... , to reduce the influence of religious policy. Because according to him, the political power of the state itself is not the Catholic church. Unlike classical tradition, it offered to the protection of
? needs used within the political debate may be featured as a homogeneous concept, the legal traditions that need to host victim-oriented arrangements differ. Indeed, the apparent political consensus with ... Victim Support was, however, felt to be beneficial.41 Nevertheless, the expansion of the oral VIS remained a contentious issue within the Dutch debate. In the wake of the political debate with regard to
foundational philosophy, capable of rapid and effective development. The growth in interest in surface metrology stems mainly from the need to control the manufacture of armaments during the Second World War and ... unprepared and, consequently, the progress was sporadic. This overall review is given in two parts. Part I focuses on the historical philosophy of surface metrology and Part II discusses the progress within
If architecture is politics, then the rise of data-driven computing systems will transform the course, if not the conditions of possibility for the political. Provoked by the work of artists Ruti ... Toronto Law Journal, no. 2, pp. 196-224. R. Sela & M. Amir (eds.), Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds (2016). The distinction between 'politics' and 'the political' stems from C. Lefort, The Political
. Each utopia contains political, economic, historical and sociological connections as it consists of the ideal social construct. An ideal society cannot be designed that does not contain economic elements ... desired order of economic life in the slavery period utopias. Economics is the subject of moral philosophy or ethics in ancient economic thought. In almost all of the antiquity, there is the belief that
Anasır-ı erbaa theory that has been inherited to the Islamic philosophy from ancientGreek have been used by almost all Muslim philosophiers in their philosophy. In thesame way XVIII. century Ottoman
generations and gained different aspects based on mentality of every nation. Architecture, which is a reflection of social life, has being changed continuously due to political, economic, social and cultural
financial and migration crises, serves only to highlight the gap between rhetoric and reality. We identify two main reasons for this, namely a lack of legal competence and a lack of political will. We then ... greater calls for the EU to respond to these challenges, at the very time when there is a lack of significant political will to act. These problems are exacerbated by the fact that some perceive the EU to
a plan for overcoming them; but in Diogenes a political programme that cannot attain its own ends, and in Zeno a political solution that comes unmoored from its foundations. Today, the International ... defines the cosmopolitanism position as follows: ?The nebulous core shared by all cosmopolitan views is the idea that all human beings, regardless of their political affiliation, are (or can and should be
essential. The barriers and obstacles preventing a more extensive application of problem-solving criminal justice is also discussed, drawing on points connected to sentencing parameters, ‘political will’ and ... considerations of legal principle and sentencing parameters, issues of politics and ?political will? and on aspects of legal culture. It is argued there are legal cultural impediments to advancing this approach
In the run-up to the Re-Unification of the East and West Germany in the 1990's the governments faced a problem, how do we integrate two political systems without causing a collapse of the economy and ... the communist political system and his teachings shaped the concept of ownership throughout the USSR. Furthermore, as the study of the pre-1990s East German law will show, it was strongly influenced by
facilitated the acceptance of the operation by both the peoples and the political figures in the country. With this aspect, the article underlines that the case of Liberia presents many lessons for ... constrained by political pressures and reliance on ad hoc economic and military actions, it nevertheless provides new opportunities for enhancing a just world order through the use of humanitarian intervention
Constitutional conventions are rules of political practice accepted as binding by those concerned in the working of the constitution. This peculiar category of constitutional rules occupies an ... conventions are rules of political practice accepted as obligatory by those concerned in the working of the constitution.1 This category of rules occupies a position between mere political practice and
marginalization of intra-unit minorities. The article therefore examines the institutional, political, legal and policy safeguards that exist for intra-unit minorities. It proposes four mechanisms that aim to ... Ethiopia aims to empower politically mobilized ethno-national groups by granting territorial and political autonomy to some of the major groups at constituent unit and local level. The federal system
of an ?autonomous tradition? in political philosophy that adheres to the ideal of public space as a cooperative venture of autonomous individuals, only bound by the rules that they have set themselves ... development of Dutch administrative law, the ?autonomous? tradition of political and legal artificiality and abstract integrity can be clearly recognized in the legal thought of J.T. Buys (1826-1893) and J.A
express their personal views on religious, political or other subjects, whether it is through speech, writing, wearing religious symbols or membership of an association or church? In this article the limits ... opinions about political, religious, or other matters. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), judges? organisations and several authors have adopted this line The freedom of the judge is a topical
