Natural Law and Domestic Government in the Early Modern Period /
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Natural Law and Domestic Government in the Early Modern Period examines how natural law informed evolving ideas of governance from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Through case studies spanning France, the Low Countries, England, Iberia, and colonial America, this volume explores how jurists, theologians, and political thinkers grappled with questions of sovereignty and justice. Contributors analyse influential figures from Bodin and Coke to Tuldenus and Lipsius, tracing how natural law intersected with legal concepts of rights, obligations, contracts, and associations. By uncovering diverse and contested uses of natural law, this collection offers a nuanced account of its enduring role in shaping early modern statecraft and political thinking. Contributors are: Marie Seong-Hak Kim, Rafael Cronje Mateus, Jeffrey Dymond, Pedro Ricardo da Silva Santos, Geert Sluijs, Paolo Astorri, Lars Cyril Nørgaard, Rosalind Acland, Carlos Pérez-Crespo, Signy Gutnick Allen, Sarah Limão Papa, and Alain Wijffels.
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1 online resource (292 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004748712
Hans Kelsen and the natural law tradition /
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Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition provides the first sustained examination of Hans Kelsen's critical engagement, itself founded upon a distinctive theory of legal positivism, with the Natural Law Tradition. This edited collection commences with a comprehensive introduction which establishes the character of Kelsen's critical engagement as a general critique of natural law combined with a more specific critique of representative thinkers of the Natural Law Tradition. The subsequent chapters are then devoted to a detailed analysis of Kelsen's engagement with prominent theorists from the Natural Law Tradition. The volume concludes with an exploration, focusing upon the delineation of a non-positivist legal theory in the debate between Robert Alexy and Joseph Raz, of the continued presence of Kelsenian legal positivism in contemporary legal theory.
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Includes papers presented at "Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition : An International, Interdisciplinary Conference" hosted at Edge Hill University, UK in September 2013.--ECIP Acknowledgements. :
1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004390393 :
2211-2014 ;