The Medieval Foundations of International Law

The Medieval Foundations of International Law
Author: Dante Fedele
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 719
Release: 2021-04-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004447121

Dante Fedele’s new work of reference reveals the medieval foundations of international law through a comprehensive study of a key figure of late medieval legal scholarship: Baldus de Ubaldis (1327-1400).

Justice and Unjusticiability

Justice and Unjusticiability
Author: Ermanno Calzolaio
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2019
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3643910991

The book tries to identify the main contours of unjusticiability and non-justiciability from an historical and comparative perspective distinguishing between common law world and civil law tradition. In the light of a general overview, the aim of this publication is to reflect on the utility of paving the way for a much wider approach to unjusticiability. More precisely, some scholars have recently suggested that such a notion could embrace all the situations where a court does not decide a case, so that it is impossible for the plaintiff to have the case decided by a court. A first category covers the situations where the court refuses to judge because it does not want to judge. A second category is related to all the cases where there is an impossibility to reach a decision. Any case where the judge cannot or does not wish to make justice--si iudex non facit iustitiam--continues to indicate a series of new (and old) questions.

Information and Power in History

Information and Power in History
Author: Ida Nijenhuis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2020-01-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429797885

The relationship between information and power is a relevant subject for all times. Today’s perceived ‘information revolution’ has caused information to become a separate object of study during the last two decades for several disciplines. As the contemporary perspective is dominant, information history as a discipline of its own has not yet crystallized. In bringing together studies around a new research agenda on the relationship between information and power across time and space, presenting various governance regimes, media, materials, and modes of communication, this book forces us to rethink the prospects and challenges for such a new discipline.

Experts in Science and Society

Experts in Science and Society
Author: Elke Kurz-Milcke
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2007-05-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0306479648

Taking the viewpoint that experts are consulted when there is something important at stake for an individual, a group, or society at large, this volume explores expertise as a relational concept. In order to be culturally comparative, this volume includes examples and discussions of experts in different countries and even in different time periods. The topics include the roles of political experts, scientific experts, medical experts, and legal experts.