Constructed Preferences and Legal Commitments

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Simon
Keyword(s):  
Constructed Preferences ◽  
Legal Commitments

scholarly journals Climate paradox of the G-8: legal obligations, policy declarations and implementation gap

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (spe) ◽  
pp. 30-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Guenter Brauch
Keyword(s):  
Climate Policy ◽  
Kyoto Protocol ◽  
Policy Performance ◽  
Implementation Gap ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
Ghg Reduction ◽  
Legal Commitments

This article analyzes the climate policy performance of the G-8 from 1992 to 2012 based on their legal commitments (Annex-1 and Annex-B countries) under the UNFCCC (1992) and the Kyoto Protocol (1997) and their policy declarations on their GHG reduction goals until 2050. A climate paradox has emerged due to a growing implementation gap in Canada, USA and Japan, while Russia, Germany, UK, France and Italy fulfilled their GHG reduction obligation.

The Second Coming of Dignity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Simon
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
Institutional Racism ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Determinate Sentencing ◽  
Legal Commitments

In this chapter, Jonathan Simon argues that the modern criminal system should adopt the value of dignity as its governing ideal. The chapter argues that the legality principle—once a primary engine for strengthening the criminal system’s democratic legitimacy—has exhausted its sociological and jurisprudential power. Surveying 150 years of criminal legal commitments, this chapter shows how the legality principle rose to prominence as a vehicle for reform and accountability, and then fell under pressure from mass incarceration and institutional racism. Accordingly, the legality principle should be supplemented with a dignity principle, “an increasingly prominent value in legal systems internationally since the middle of the 20th century.” Simon traces the development of various forms of dignity in Supreme Court jurisprudence, from police procedure to prison conditions, determinate sentencing, and mental health. The chapter concludes that “the great banner reading ‘nulla poena sine lege’ must now be, not lowered, but joined by another banner of ‘no crime and no punishment without respect for human dignity.’”

Part II Approaches, Ch.24 Feminist Approaches to International Law

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Otto Dianne
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Legal Commitments

This chapter describes encounters between feminism and international law in four parts. It begins by outlining the diversity of feminist visions for (and against) international law to highlight the dynamism of the field, the contestation between its various political and legal commitments, and the different ways that the feminist subject of law is conceived. Secondly, the chapter examines the range of critical analyses that feminists have developed in the wake of a particular 1991 American Journal of International Law (AJIL) article. The chapter then explores the trajectories of feminist reform projects in international law. Lastly, this chapter highlights the paradoxes of feminist engagement with international law, arguing that the practices of critique and reform, and their productive tensions, are essential to resisting the law’s colonization of feminist politics and keeping feminist imaginaries of a better world alive.

scholarly journals KEKUATAN HUKUM AKTA PERJANJIAN TANPA BEA MATERAI

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Lukman Santoso
Keyword(s):  
Civil Procedure ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Traffic Law ◽  
The People ◽  
The Law ◽  
Stamp Duty ◽  
Governing Law ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Legal Commitments

Legal Commitments in essence is the governing law of interest between individuals. Subject engagement in the modern era, there are all kinds nomenclature attached to a deed of contract. This paper aims to peel around Strength Without Legal Deed Stamp Duty. Functions seal as defined in the law No. 13 is a tax on documents used by the people in the traffic law to prove a situation, the fact and deed that is civil. Submitted written evidence in civil procedure should be affixed with a seal to be used as evidence in court. But this does not mean the absence of the stamp in written evidence causing it unlawful legal act performed, only the deed of legal actions that do not qualify to be used as evidence in court. As for determining the validity of the deed of contract is pursuant to Article 1320 of the Civil Code. Hukum Perikatan pada hakikatnya merupakan hukum yang mengatur tentang kepentingan antara perseorangan. Perihal perikatan di era modern, muncul beragam nomenklatur yang melekat dalam sebuah akta perjanjian. Tulisan ini bertujuan mengupas seputar  Kekuatan Hukum Akta Perjanjian Tanpa Bea Materai. Fungsi meterai yang sebagaimana ditegaskan dalam undang-undang No 13 Tahun adalah sebagai pajak atas dokumen yang digunakan masyarakat dalam lalu lintas hukum untuk membuktikan suatu keadaan, kenyataan dan perbuatan yang bersifat perdata. Alat bukti tertulis yang diajukan dalam acara perdata harus dibubuhi meterai agar dapat digunakan sebagai alat bukti pengadilan. Namun hal ini bukan berarti dengan tiadanya materai dalam alat bukti tertulis menyebabkan tidak sahnya perbuatan hukum yang dilakukan, hanya saja akta dari perbuatan hukum yang dilakukan itu tidak memenuhi syarat untuk dapat digunakan sebagai alat bukti pengadilan. Adapun yang menentukan sahnya akta perjanjian adalah sesuai ketentuan Pasal 1320 KUH Perdata.

A Four-Step Process for Formulating and Evaluating Legal Commitments Under the Paris Agreement

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.A. Brown ◽  
H. Breakey ◽  
P. Burdon ◽  
B. Mackey ◽  
P. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Step Process ◽  
Legal Commitments

The transience of constructed preferences

2008 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Simon ◽  
Daniel C. Krawczyk ◽  
Airom Bleicher ◽  
Keith J. Holyoak
Keyword(s):  
Constructed Preferences

Law, Empire, and the Sultan

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samy A. Ayoub
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Imperial Authority ◽  
Probative Value ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Legal Opinions ◽  
Legal Commitments

This book is the first study of late Ḥanafism in the early modern Ottoman Empire. It examines Ottoman imperial authority in authoritative Ḥanafī legal works from the Ottoman world of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries CE, casting new light on the understudied late Ḥanafī jurists (al-mutaʾakhkhirūn). By taking the madhhab and its juristic discourse as the central focus and introducing “late Ḥanafism” as a framework of analysis, this study demonstrates that late Ḥanafī jurists assigned probative value and authority to the orders and edicts of the Ottoman sultan. This authority is reflected in the sultan’s ability to settle juristic disputes, to order specific opinions to be adopted in legal opinions (fatāwā), and to establish his orders as authoritative and final reference points. The incorporation of sultanic orders into authoritative Ḥanafī legal commentaries, treatises, and fatwā collections was made possible by a shift in Ḥanafī legal commitments that embraced sultanic authority as an indispensable element of the lawmaking process.

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