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Last publications
- 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
Working Papers
State Power Revisited: An Analysis of the Systemic and Non-Systemic Mechanisms of Human Rights Enforcement at the Inter-State Level
This dissertation analyses the inter-state or "horizontal" enforcement of legal obligations arising from international human rights law. Using a theoretical distinction between systemic and non-systemic enforcement mechanisms, it provides an overview over various ways in which states have been
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Democratizing global governance through the use of a joint legal/market accountability system: The bet of the World Bank and Corporate Social Responsibility
The idea of this Master’s thesis was born from the observation that what is referred to as globalisation is deeply affecting the world we live in. Indeed, more and more transnational institutions are entrusted with (regulatory) powers that had always been thought of as solely belonging to
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The Year the Enlightenment Ended: "The Uses of Argument" and "La Nouvelle Rhétorique" 1958 - 2008
Paper given at the 7th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law, Boulogne-sur-mer, 1-4 July 2008 by Richard Mohr.
Abstract
The fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Uses of Argument and La Nouvelle Rhétorique provides an opportunity to consider their place at the
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Between Social Movements and Identity: The Case of the Indigenous Urban
Master thesis eximia cum laude written by David Restrepo Amariles at the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (University of Milan/University of the Basque Country) under the supervision of Prof. Anne Griffiths (The University of Edinburgh)
Mémoire de fin d’études eximia
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The decline of free thinking
Working paper written by Guy Haarscher, President of the Centre Perelman de Philosophie du Droit.
Perelman’s pseudo-argument as applied to the Creationism controversy
Working paper written by Guy Haarscher, President of the Centre Perelman de Philosophie du Droit.
Rhetoric and its abuses
by Guy Haarscher
It is difficult to measure the importance of Vico’s 1708 address for our time. What he said – in particular his criticism of the Cartesian philosophy of education – has been validated many times, notably in the second part of the XXth Century. It seems thus that the
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La diffamation collective: une notion irrémédiablement confuse?
by Guy Haarscher
A new Working Paper by Guy Haarscher.
Public Strategies for internet Co-regulation in the United States, Europe and China
by Benoît Frydman, Ludovic Hennebel et Gregory Lewkowicz
La contestation du jury populaire : symptôme d’une crise rhétorique et démocratique
Abstract :
This paper analyzes the arguments developed by those who, especially in Belgium and in France, oppose the trial by jury in criminal cases. After a short history of the origins of the jury system in Greece and England, the paper emphasizes the critiques that have been continuously
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L’évolution des critères et des modes de contrôle de la qualité des décisions de justice
Introduction :
Working Paper in French
La réflexion au sujet de la qualité des décisions de justice est assurément neuve et, à ce titre, elle intrigue et intéresse nécessairement le théoricien du droit. Non pas qu’il soit original de s’intéresser aux décisions des juges, à la
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