Law, Morality and Power: Global Perspectives on Violence and the State
edited by Stephen King, Carlo Salzani & Owen Staley
ISBN: 978-1-84888-041-2
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Contents
Introduction: Law, Morality and Power
Stephen King, Carlo Salzani & Owen Staley
Section 1 Theories of Violence and the State
The Sentence is the Goal: Agamben’s Notion of Law
Carlo Salzani
The Faces of Violence in Paul Ricoeur: Three Fundamental Dimensions
Sylvia Cristina Gabriel
A Christian Anarchist Critique of Violence: From Turning the Other Cheek to a Rejection of the State
Alexandre Christoyannopoulos
Re-Establishing the Tie between Law, Morality and Political Power: Modern Legal-Rationalism as the Alternative to Legal-Positivism and Legal-Realism
Mehmet Ruhi Demiray
Private Law in the Service of Distributive Aims: Three Classic Positions
Tommi Ralli
Section 2 Violence of the State
The Radical Evangelism of Bartolomé de Las Casas
Owen Staley
Control Orders: The Beginning of the End?
Los Watkins
Discontent and Civil Disobedience in an Unjust State: A Case Study of Tribal Protests in India
Nithya Anand & Nishant Gokhale
Developments in the Criminal Law in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Abolition of the Death Penalty and Justifications for Punishment
George Novisi Vukor-Quarshie
Unequal Distribution of Justice: Legitimacy of Violence and Juvenile Delinquents’ Struggles Against It in the Court Files
Bengü Kurtege Sefer
Section 3 Personal and Political Violence
The State’s Dominion: Physical Violence and Consent
Stephen King
A Right to Kill?
Ben Livings
Does the Refined Adversary System Refine the Gender Discrimination? Rape Trial and its Courtroom Culture in Taiwan
Carol Chih-Chieh Lin
Human Resources Assessment and Digging Up Dirt: Getting Around the Libel Laws
Orlan Lee
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