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Title

Facing the limits of the law / by Erik Claes, Wouter Devroe, Bert Keirsbilck.

Publication

Berlin ; London : Springer, 2009.

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Additional Authors

• Claes, Erik.
• Devroe, Wouter.
• Keirsbilck, Bert

Description

xv, 533 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Many legal experts no longer share an unbounded trust in the potential of law to govern society efficiently and responsibly. They often experience the 'limits of the law', as they are confronted with striking inadequacies in their legal toolbox, with inner inconsistencies of the law, with problems of enforcement and obedience, and with undesired side-effects, and so on. The contributors to this book engage in the challenging task of making sense of this experience. Against the background of broader cultural transformations (such as globalisation, new technologies, individualism and cultural diversity), they revisit a wide range of areas of the law and map different types of limits in relation to some basic functions and characteristics of the law. Additionally, they offer a set of strategies to manage justifiably law's limits, such as dedramatising law's limits, conceptual refinement ('constructivism'), striking the right balance between different functions of the law, seeking for complementarity between law and other social practices.

Subject

• Jurisprudence
• Constitutional law

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The limits of the law (introduction) / Erik Claes, Wouter Devroe and Bert Keirsbilck -- Private law and the limits of legal dogmatics / Marc A. Loth -- The limits of the law of obligations / Kurt Willems -- Labour law and the limits of dogmatic legal thinking / Mathieu van Putten -- The limits of consumer law in Europe / Bert Keirsbilck -- The limits of legality in the criminal law / Erik Claes and Michal Krolikowski -- Corporate wrongdoing and the limits of the criminal law / Mark Fenwick -- Regulating prison life : a case study of the inmate disciplinary system / Luc Robert -- Criminal law, victims, and the limits of therapeutic consequences / Tom Daems -- Restorative justice, freedom, and the limits of the law / Johan Deklerck -- Rebuilding trust in the former Yugoslavia : overcoming the limits of the formal justice system / Marta Valiñas -- Legitimacy in the European Union and the limits of the law / Stefanie Dierckxsens -- The limits of the law and the development of the EU / René Foqué and Jacques Steenbergen -- The limits of substantive international economic law : in support of reasonable extraterritorial jurisdiction / Cedric Ryngaert -- When law meets power : the limits of public international law and the resource to military force / Tom Ruys -- Is the rule of law a limit on popular sovereignty? / David Haljan -- Constitutional ideals, national identity, and the limits of the law / Bram Delbecke -- Privacy rights as human rights : no limits? / Aagje leven -- The limits of the international petition right for individuals : a case study of the ECtHR / Willem Verijdt -- The limits of human rights law in human development / Wouter Vandenhole -- Limits of human rights protection from the perspective of legal anthropology / Stihn Deklerck, Ellen Desmet, Marie-Claire Foblets, Joke Kusters and Jogchum Vrielink -- Functions and limits of patent law / Geertrui Van Overwalle and Esther van Zimmeren -- Technology and law / Mireille Hildebrandt -- Darknets and the future of freedom of expression in the information society / Hans Graux -- Facing the limits of the law (conclusion) / Erik Claes and Bert Keirsbilck.

ISBN

• 9783540798552 (hbk.)
• 3540798552 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 231885837
• SCSB-10359149

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library