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- State Power Revisited: An Analysis of the Systemic and Non-Systemic Mechanisms of Human Rights Enforcement at the Inter-State Level
- The Inter-American Reception of the U.S. Counterterrorism Doctrine
- Genocide Denials and the Law
- Legality and Legitimacy: The Legal and Political Philosophy of Popular Sovereignty in the New Latin American Constitutions
- Recommendations & Explanatory Report on International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law in Situations of Armed Conflict
Books
Genocide Denials and the Law
by Thomas Hochmann, Genocide Denials and the Law, edited by Ludovic Hennebel and Thomas Hochmann.
Genocide Denials and the Law, edited by Ludovic Hennebel and Thomas Hochmann.
Ludovic Hennebel and Thomas Hochmann (eds.), Genocide Denials and the Law, Oxford University Press, New York, 2011.
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Legality and Legitimacy: The Legal and Political Philosophy of Popular Sovereignty in the New Latin American Constitutions
A vigorous constitutional movement has characterized the last two decades of Latin American politics. Claiming to recover popular sovereignty through the establishment of new constitutions the reformers, led by the Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, aim at moving beyond the heritage of liberal
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Souveraineté, droit et gouvernementalité. Lecture du politique à partir de Bodin
by Thomas Berns
Souveraineté, droit et gouvernementalité. Lecture du politique à partir de Bodin, Léo Scheer (collection Non et Non), Paris, 2005
Get the book on Amazon.fr
Review :
Review by Sara Miglietti dans Materiali Foucaldiani
Responsabilités des entreprises et corégulation
by Benoît Frydman, Thomas Berns, Ludovic Hennebel et Gregory Lewkowicz
Berns, Thomas, Docquir, Pierre-François, Frydman, Benoît, Hennebel, Ludovic, Lewkowicz, Gregory, Responsabilités des entreprises et corégulation, Bruxelles, coll. « Penser le Droit » - No. 6, Bruylant, 2007, 230 p. [ISBN : 978-2-8027-2292-2]
Source : Bruylant
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Violence de la loi à la Renaissance. L’originaire du politique chez Machiavel et Montaigne.
by Thomas Berns
T. Berns, "Violence de la loi à la Renaissance. L’originaire du politique chez Machiavel et Montaigne", Kimé, Paris, 2000
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Philosophy of tax
by Thomas Berns
T. Berns, J.C. Dupont et M. Xifaras (dir.), Philosophie de l’impôt, éd. Bruylant, Bruxelles, 2006
Does Tax be a subject matter for philosophy or is it a mere technical issue for experts concerned about Tax’s output against Tax-fraud, -evasion or -avoidance? Ideologies, whether pro or
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Humanités
by Julie Allard et Thomas Berns
T. Berns, J. Allard (dir.), Humanités, 2005, Editions Ousia
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Le droit saisi par le collectif
by Thomas Berns
T. Berns (dir.), Le droit saisi par le collectif, Bruylant (Collection "Droits, territoires, cultures"), Bruxelles, 2004, 421 p.
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Syndicats et société civile: des liens à (re)découvrir
by Thomas Berns, Selma Bellal, Fabrizio Cantelli et Jean Faniel
Jean Faniel, Selma Bellal, Fabrizio Cantelli (dir.), Syndicats et société civile, Labor, Bruxelles, 2003
Collectif book about the relations between trade unions and civil society.
Machiavel: maintenir le conflit
by Thomas Berns
T. Berns (dir.), Machiavel: maintenir le conflit, Mineure de la Revue Multitudes, n°13, Paris, 2003, p.135-175
To download, go to Multitudes review website
Le sens des lois. Histoire de l’interprétation et de la raison juridique. Second edition 2007, reviewed and abridged.
Second edition 2007, reviewed and abridged. L.G.D.J., Bruylant (collection Penser le droit), 696p.
This book tells us the histoty of textual construction from Antiquity laws till our days.
Variables et variations de la liberté d’expression en Europe et aux Etats-Unis
Variables et variations de la liberté d’expression en Europe et aux Etats-Unis, coll. Droit et Justice, n° 72, Nemesis-Bruylant, Bruxelles, 2007, 295 p.
For further information, see website of the editor.
Rapport définitif de la « Commission de réforme de la Cour d’assises » remis à madame la Ministre de la Justice le 23 décembre 2005
Frydman, Benoît et Verstraeten, Raf, Rapport définitif de la « Commission de réforme de la Cour d’assises » remis à madame la Ministre de la Justice, 23 décembre 2005.
Abstract :
La "Commission de réforme de la Cour d’assises" a été créée en novembre 2004 par Madame la Vice-Première
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Société civile et démocratisation des organisations internationales
by Benoît Frydman, Nicolas Angelet, Corinne Clavé, Olivier Corten, Damien De Blic, Pierre Klein, Ruth Mackenzie, Philippe Sands et Laurence Weerts
Frydman, Benoît coauteur avec Angelet, Nicolas, Clavé, Corinne, Corten, Olivier, De Blic, Damien, Klein, Pierre, Mackenzie, Ruth, Sands, Philippe et Weerts, Laurence, Société civile et démocratisation des organisations internationales, Gand, Academia Press, 2005, 241 p. [ISBN : 9789038208558]
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La Propriété
by Mikhail Dorel Xifaras
2004 collection Fondements de la politique, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris
This book is a shortened and reviewed version of my PhD. It provides a theory of property. Nowadays the 19th Century dogmatic consensus defining property as the absolute right of a person on a material thing, is
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Le sens des lois. Histoire de l’interprétation et de la raison juridique.
2005 L.G.D.J., Bruylant (collection Penser le droit), 696p.
L’auditoire universel dans l’argumentation juridique
by G. C. Christie et Guy Haarscher
2005 Bruylant ( collection Penser le droit)
Les juges dans la mondialisation
by Antoine Garapon et Julie Allard
2005 Seuil - La république des idées
John Adams (Ecrits politiques et philosophiques, choix de textes, introduction, traduction et notes de Jean-Paul Goffinon)
2004 Presses universitaires de Caen
Classer les droits de l’homme
2004 Bruylant
This book deals in a first part with the question of the need for the classification of human rights, but also with other questions central to the debate such as those of the indivisibility and the interdependence of human rights, and of human rights hierarchies. In the second
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Philosophie du droit
by Guy Haarscher et Benoît Frydman
2002 Dalloz (Paris)
This books proposes a new analysis of classic topics in legal philosophy with an outlook informed by history and philosophical tradition but mainly focused on contemporary issues. Main topics : Justice (ch. 1); State, Market and Civil Society (ch. 2); Judicial Ruling (ch. 3)
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Dworkin et Kant. Réflexions sur le jugement
by Julie Allard, Préface de Pierre Bouretz
Préface de Pierre Bouretz
2001 Editions de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles
The responsibility to say what is right and to settle conflicts is borne more than ever by judges. Yet judgement remains a problematic and controversary notion. Is it a technical reasoning which consists in the
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L’université en questions. Marché des savoirs, nouvelle agora, tour d’ivoire?
by Julie Allard, Guy Haarscher et Maria Puig De La Bellacasa
2001 Labor
A key site of democratic life, the university is more and more often subject of society’s demands. Without expecting it to renounce its traditional missions of teaching and research, we ask the university to be competitive, to instil a spirit of citizenship, to create professionals
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Léo Strauss : philosophie, art d’écrire, politique
by Benoît Frydman, Emmanuel Cattin, Laurent Jaffro et Alain Petit
2000 Vrin (Paris)
This book presents Leo Strauss’s work and examines the strategies used by philosophers in order both to disclose and to dissimulate their doctrines. The essays collected in this book test the "art of writing" hypothesis and try to measure the potential and the limits of
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Eprouver l’universel
by Mikhail Dorel Xifaras et Kenta Ohji
1999 Kimé, Paris
European universalism traditionnaly confuses universalism with its own pretentions. It’s contemporary version (Habermas, for example), based on the model of communicational exchange is not less confused, as it proposes procedures of legitimation that are said to be valid in any
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Les transformations du droit moderne
1999 Story-Scientia
This book accounts for the main transformations of Modern law in four key areas : the legal system; the social contract; how the law is applied to cases and the regulation of personal relationships. Going back to the early age of Modern law, the book is nevertheless chiefly
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La plaidoirie
1998 Bruylant (Bruxelles)
This book provides concrete information and clear advice for pleading efficiently before Belgian Courts. It collects contributions from senior attorneys, judges and experts in judicial argumentation.
Egalité et politique
by Guy Haarscher
1982 Travaux du Centre de Philosophie du Droit
Aux origines de la Révolution américaine : John Adams - la passion de la distinction
1996 Editions de l’Université libre de Bruxelles (Collection de philosophie politique et juridique)
Art et techniques de la plaidoirie aujourd’hui
by Guy Haarscher, Benoît Frydman, L. Gratiot, C. Mécary et S. Bensimon
1995 Berger-Levrault (Paris)
This book collects a series of oral arguments that have been recently submitted to French Courts in various kinds of litigation. Each pleading is put into the context of the case. It is analysed and critisized by attorneys, judges and experts. It provides a clear
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