Law, Morality and Power: Global Perspectives on Violence and the State / Edited by Stephen King; Carlo Salzani; Owen Staley.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	King, Stephen (Editor), Salzani, Carlo (Editor), Staley, Owen (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2010.
Series:	Inter-Disciplinary Press Philosophy & Religion Special E-Book Collection, 2009-2016, ISBN: 9789004401013.
Subjects:	Political violence. State-sponsored terrorism. Violence. terrorism. violence. Political violence State-sponsored terrorism Violence
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

Intro
Law, Morality and Power: Global Perspectives on Violence and the State
Table of Contents
Introduction: Law, Morality and Power
Section 1: Theories of Violence and the State
The Sentence is the Goal: Agamben's Notion of Law
The Faces of Violence in Paul Ricoeur: Three Fundamental Dimensions
A Christian Anarchist Critique of Violence: From Turning the Other Cheek to a Rejection of the State
Re-Establishing the Tie between Law, Morality and Political Power: Modern Legal- Rationalism as the Alternative to Legal- Positivism and Legal-Realism
Private Law in the Service of Distributive Aims: Three Classic Positions
Section 2: Violence of the State
The Radical Evangelism of Bartolomé de Las Casas
Control Orders: The Beginning of the End?
Discontent and Civil Disobedience in an Unjust State: A Case Study of Tribal Protests in India
Developments in the Criminal Law in Post- Apartheid South Africa: Abolition of the Death Penalty and Justifications for Punishment
Unequal Distribution of Justice: Legitimacy of Violence and Juvenile Delinquents' Struggles Against it in the Court Files
Section 3: Personal and Political Violence
The State's Dominion: Physical Violence and Consent
A Right to Kill?
Does the Refined Adversary System Refine the Gender Discrimination? Rape Trial and its Courtroom Culture in Taiwan
Human Resources Assessment and Digging Up Dirt: Getting Around the Libel Laws

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