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Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
251 kr
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In Why We Vote, renowned legal scholar Owen Fiss offers a bold and daring reconstruction of judicial doctrine that gives expression to the democratic aspirations of the US Constitution. Fiss argues that embedded within the Constitution is a commitment to democracy, and that over the course of the twentieth century, the Supreme Court brought to fruition the principle that allows those who are ruled to choose their rulers. Each chapter focuses on Supreme Court cases that enlarged the freedom that democracy generates. Fiss points to rulings that allowed citizens to vote, facilitated the exercise of their right to vote, ensured the equality of votes, and provided feasible access to the ballot for independent candidates and new political parties. He celebrates these decisions and at the same time insists upon shifting the ground upon which these decisions rest--from equal protection of the laws to the recognition of a federal constitutional right to vote. Given the threat of democratic backsliding in a nation that has the world's oldest democratic constitution, Fiss's analysis and message are more important than ever.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2024204 kr
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In Why We Vote, renowned legal scholar Owen Fiss offers a bold and daring reconstruction of judicial doctrine that gives expression to the democratic aspirations of the US Constitution. Fiss argues that embedded within the Constitution is a commitment to democracy, and that over the course of the twentieth century, the Supreme Court brought to fruition the principle that allows those who are ruled to choose their rulers. Each chapter focuses on Supreme Court cases that enlarged the freedom that democracy generates. Fiss points to rulings that allowed citizens to vote, facilitated the exercise of their right to vote, ensured the equality of votes, and provided feasible access to the ballot for independent candidates and new political parties. He celebrates these decisions and at the same time insists upon shifting the ground upon which these decisions rest--from equal protection of the laws to the recognition of a federal constitutional right to vote. Given the threat of democratic backsliding in a nation that has the world''s oldest democratic constitution, Fiss''s analysis and message are more important than ever.
E-bok
Engelska, 2024204 kr
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In Why We Vote, renowned legal scholar Owen Fiss offers a bold and daring reconstruction of judicial doctrine that gives expression to the democratic aspirations of the US Constitution. Fiss argues that embedded within the Constitution is a commitment to democracy, and that over the course of the twentieth century, the Supreme Court brought to fruition the principle that allows those who are ruled to choose their rulers. Each chapter focuses on Supreme Court cases that enlarged the freedom that democracy generates. Fiss points to rulings that allowed citizens to vote, facilitated the exercise of their right to vote, ensured the equality of votes, and provided feasible access to the ballot for independent candidates and new political parties. He celebrates these decisions and at the same time insists upon shifting the ground upon which these decisions rest--from equal protection of the laws to the recognition of a federal constitutional right to vote. Given the threat of democratic backsliding in a nation that has the world''s oldest democratic constitution, Fiss''s analysis and message are more important than ever.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
2 942 kr
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Professor Fiss examines contemporary free-speech issues in the context of the collision of liberal ideas of equality and freedom with modern social structures and speculates on what role the state might play in furthering robust public debate.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2018738 kr
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Freedom of expression, long an issue that united liberals, now serves to drive them apart. Many feminists demand the banning of pornography; representatives of ethnic groups campaign for curbs on hate speech; liberal reformers work to restrict the funding of political campaigns and to regulate the press. Focusing on such issues, this book examines the collision of the traditional liberal ideals of equality and freedom with modern social structures, and speculates on what role the State might play in furthering public debate. The author analyzes the pressure on liberal thought resulting from such controversies as pornography, Mapplethorpe and artistic expression, the rights of street-corner orators, and the rise of the communications media.
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Engelska, 2018740 kr
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Freedom of expression, long an issue that united liberals, now serves to drive them apart. Many feminists demand the banning of pornography; representatives of ethnic groups campaign for curbs on hate speech; liberal reformers work to restrict the funding of political campaigns and to regulate the press. Focusing on such issues, this book examines the collision of the traditional liberal ideals of equality and freedom with modern social structures, and speculates on what role the State might play in furthering public debate. The author analyzes the pressure on liberal thought resulting from such controversies as pornography, Mapplethorpe and artistic expression, the rights of street-corner orators, and the rise of the communications media.
Häftad, Engelska, 1998
283 kr
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How free is the speech of someone who can't be heard? Not very--and this, Owen Fiss suggests, is where the First Amendment comes in. In this book, a marvel of conciseness and eloquence, Fiss reframes the debate over free speech to reflect the First Amendment's role in ensuring public debate that is, in Justice William Brennan's words, truly "uninhibited, robust, and wide-open."Hate speech, pornography, campaign spending, funding for the arts: the heated, often overheated, struggle over these issues generally pits liberty, as embodied in the First Amendment, against equality, as in the Fourteenth. Fiss presents a democratic view of the First Amendment that transcends this opposition. If equal participation is a precondition of free and open public debate, then the First Amendment encompasses the values of both equality and liberty.By examining the silencing effects of speech--its power to overwhelm and intimidate the underfunded, underrepresented, or disadvantaged voice--Fiss shows how restrictions on political expenditures, hate speech, and pornography can be defended in terms of the First Amendment, not despite it. Similarly, when the state requires the media to air voices of opposition, or funds art that presents controversial or challenging points of view, it is doing its constitutional part to protect democratic self-rule from the aggregations of private power that threaten it.Where most liberal accounts cast the state as the enemy of freedom and the First Amendment as a restraint, this one reminds us that the state can also be the friend of freedom, protecting and fostering speech that might otherwise die unheard, depriving our democracy of the full range and richness of its expression.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
375 kr
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Pillars of Justice explores the purpose and possibilities of life in the law through moving accounts of thirteen lawyers who shaped the legal world during the past half century.Some, such as Thurgood Marshall, were Supreme Court Justices. Others, like John Doar and Burke Marshall, set the civil rights policies of the federal government during the 1960s. Some, including Harry Kalven and Catharine MacKinnon, have taught at the greatest law schools of the nation and nourished the liberalism rooted in the civil rights era. Jurists from abroad—Aharon Barak, for example—were responsible for the rise of the human rights movement that today carries the burden of advancing liberal values. These lawyers came from diverse backgrounds and held various political views. What unites them is a deep, abiding commitment to Brown v. Board of Education as an exceptional moment in the life of the law—a willingness to move mountains, if need be, to ensure that we are living up to our best selves. In tracing how these lawyers over a period of fifty years used the Brown ruling and its spirit as a beacon to guide their endeavors, this history tells the epic story of the liberal tradition in the law.For Owen Fiss, one of the country’s leading constitutional theorists, the people described were mentors, colleagues, friends. In his portraits, Fiss tries to identify the unique qualities of mind and character that made these individuals so important to the institutions and legal principles they served.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2003
848 kr
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After decades of hand-wringing and well-intentioned efforts to improve inner cities, ghettos remain places of degrading poverty with few jobs, much crime, failing schools, and dilapidated housing. Stepping around fruitless arguments over whether or not ghettos are dysfunctional communities that exacerbate poverty, and beyond modest proposals to ameliorate their problems, one of America's leading experts on civil rights gives us a stunning but commonsensical solution: give residents the means to leave. Inner cities, writes Owen Fiss, are structures of subordination. The only way to end the poverty they transmit across generations is to help people move out of them--and into neighborhoods with higher employment rates and decent schools. Based on programs tried successfully in Chicago and elsewhere, Fiss's proposal is for a provocative national policy initiative that would give inner-city residents rent vouchers so they can move to better neighborhoods. This would end at last the informal segregation, by race and income, of our metropolitan regions.Given the government's role in creating and maintaining segregation, Fiss argues, justice demands no less than such sweeping federal action. To sample the heated controversy that Fiss's ideas will ignite, the book includes ten responses from scholars, journalists, and practicing lawyers. Some endorse Fiss's proposal in general terms but take issue with particulars. Others concur with his diagnosis of the problem but argue that his policy response is wrongheaded. Still others accuse Fiss of underestimating the internal strength of inner-city communities as well as the hostility of white suburbs. Fiss's bold views should set off a debate that will help shape urban social policy into the foreseeable future. It is indispensable reading for anyone interested in social justice, domestic policy, or the fate of our cities.
Häftad, Engelska, 1996
604 kr
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Professor Fiss examines contemporary free-speech issues in the context of the collision of liberal ideas of equality and freedom with modern social structures and speculates on what role the state might play in furthering robust public debate.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2003
1 099 kr
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The Law As It Could Be gathers Fiss's most important work on procedure, adjudication and public reason, introduced by the author and including contextual introductions for each piece—some of which are among the most cited in Twentieth Century legal studies. Fiss surveys the legal terrain between the landmark cases of Brown v. Board of Education and Bush v. Gore to reclaim the legal legacy of the Civil Rights Movement. He argues forcefully for a vision of judges as instruments of public reason and of the courts as a means of shaping society in the image of the Constitution.In building his argument, Fiss attends to topics as diverse as the use of the injunction to restructure social institutions; how law and economics have misunderstood the role of the judge; why the movement seeking alternatives to adjudication fails to serve the public interest; and why Bush v. Gore was not the constitutional crisis some would have us believe. In so doing, Fiss reveals a vision of adjudication that vindicates the public reason on which Brown v. Board of Education was founded.
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
382 kr
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The Law As It Could Be gathers Fiss's most important work on procedure, adjudication and public reason, introduced by the author and including contextual introductions for each piece—some of which are among the most cited in Twentieth Century legal studies. Fiss surveys the legal terrain between the landmark cases of Brown v. Board of Education and Bush v. Gore to reclaim the legal legacy of the Civil Rights Movement. He argues forcefully for a vision of judges as instruments of public reason and of the courts as a means of shaping society in the image of the Constitution.In building his argument, Fiss attends to topics as diverse as the use of the injunction to restructure social institutions; how law and economics have misunderstood the role of the judge; why the movement seeking alternatives to adjudication fails to serve the public interest; and why Bush v. Gore was not the constitutional crisis some would have us believe. In so doing, Fiss reveals a vision of adjudication that vindicates the public reason on which Brown v. Board of Education was founded.
E-bok
Engelska, 2009622 kr
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After decades of hand-wringing and well-intentioned efforts to improve inner cities, ghettos remain places of degrading poverty with few jobs, much crime, failing schools, and dilapidated housing. Stepping around fruitless arguments over whether or not ghettos are dysfunctional communities that exacerbate poverty, and beyond modest proposals to ameliorate their problems, one of America''s leading experts on civil rights gives us a stunning but commonsensical solution: give residents the means to leave. Inner cities, writes Owen Fiss, are structures of subordination. The only way to end the poverty they transmit across generations is to help people move out of them--and into neighborhoods with higher employment rates and decent schools. Based on programs tried successfully in Chicago and elsewhere, Fiss''s proposal is for a provocative national policy initiative that would give inner-city residents rent vouchers so they can move to better neighborhoods. This would end at last the informal segregation, by race and income, of our metropolitan regions. Given the government''s role in creating and maintaining segregation, Fiss argues, justice demands no less than such sweeping federal action. To sample the heated controversy that Fiss''s ideas will ignite, the book includes ten responses from scholars, journalists, and practicing lawyers. Some endorse Fiss''s proposal in general terms but take issue with particulars. Others concur with his diagnosis of the problem but argue that his policy response is wrongheaded. Still others accuse Fiss of underestimating the internal strength of inner-city communities as well as the hostility of white suburbs. Fiss''s bold views should set off a debate that will help shape urban social policy into the foreseeable future. It is indispensable reading for anyone interested in social justice, domestic policy, or the fate of our cities.
Häftad, Spanska, 2024
268 kr
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E-bok
PDF, Spanska, 2019105 kr
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Las democracias liberales comparten la entronización de la libertad de expresión como valor fundamental del sistema político. Sin embargo, no todos los que afirman este valor coinciden en su contenido y alcances. Nuestra comprensión acerca del significado de la libertad de expresión y las responsabilidades estatales necesarias para asegurar su goce varía en función de la teoría que justifique y sustente esa libertad. En el debate jurídico y filosófico, dos familias teóricas se han enfrentado por su justificación: una la entiende como expresión de la autonomía de las personas y otra la comprende como una precondición de la democracia. Estas ideas se ven forzadas a enfrentar un nuevo desafío, el surgimiento de los fenómenos asociados a la era digital.¿En qué medida el principio que subyace a la libertad de expresión es independiente o tributario de un contexto de hecho que ha cambiado? ¿Tal como la entienden los defensores de la teoría democrática estaba asociada al surgimiento de los medios de comunicación masiva o es un valor universal no afectado por el contexto? ¿El surgimiento de internet debería cambiar nuestra comprensión de lo que valoramos cuando protegemos la libertad de expresión? Este libro presenta el trabajo de cuatro autores centrales del debate. La selección de sus artículos los encadena de modo que nos transporta a un diálogo entre ellos y sus ideas, nos abre nuevos interrogantes y provee herramientas teóricas para la toma de decisiones y de partido frente a los nuevos desafíos de la libertad de expresión en el mundo y, en especial, en América Latina.
E-bok
Spanska, 2019105 kr
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Las democracias liberales comparten la entronización de la libertad de expresión como valor fundamental del sistema político. Sin embargo, no todos los que afirman este valor coinciden en su contenido y alcances. Nuestra comprensión acerca del significado de la libertad de expresión y las responsabilidades estatales necesarias para asegurar su goce varía en función de la teoría que justifique y sustente esa libertad. En el debate jurídico y filosófico, dos familias teóricas se han enfrentado por su justificación: una la entiende como expresión de la autonomía de las personas y otra la comprende como una precondición de la democracia. Estas ideas se ven forzadas a enfrentar un nuevo desafío, el surgimiento de los fenómenos asociados a la era digital.¿En qué medida el principio que subyace a la libertad de expresión es independiente o tributario de un contexto de hecho que ha cambiado? ¿Tal como la entienden los defensores de la teoría democrática estaba asociada al surgimiento de los medios de comunicación masiva o es un valor universal no afectado por el contexto? ¿El surgimiento de internet debería cambiar nuestra comprensión de lo que valoramos cuando protegemos la libertad de expresión? Este libro presenta el trabajo de cuatro autores centrales del debate. La selección de sus artículos los encadena de modo que nos transporta a un diálogo entre ellos y sus ideas, nos abre nuevos interrogantes y provee herramientas teóricas para la toma de decisiones y de partido frente a los nuevos desafíos de la libertad de expresión en el mundo y, en especial, en América Latina.
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PDF, Spanska, 2026397 kr
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La presente obra colectiva, "Teoría Analítica del Derecho. Filosofía del derecho de los juristas", bajo mi coordinación, reúne las contribuciones de algunos de los juristas más influyentes del mundo –exceptuando, por supuesto, a mi propia persona–, quienes analizan de forma rigurosa los fundamentos del lenguaje y el razonamiento jurídico. Desde la distinción entre el lenguaje del derecho y el lenguaje sobre el derecho (Guastini), pasando por el nacimiento de la analytical jurisprudence y por el análisis del lenguaje del derecho que ofrece Cusi-Alanoca, según el cual: "Es en este sentido –según Cusi-Alanoca– que la teoría analítica del derecho revela su profundo vínculo con el positivismo jurídico, relación que explora en su recorrido histórico y conceptual. Al centrarse en el derecho positivo y en el análisis lógico-conceptual del lenguaje, la teoría analítica del Derecho ''ofrece un fundamento conceptual al positivismo jurídico'', proporcionando las herramientas metodológicas que permiten comprender el derecho desde su estructura lingüística y formal, más que desde presupuestos morales o metafísicos", este volumen reconstruye sistemáticamente los fundamentos, principios, interpretación, judicialización y el papel del juez frente a las lagunas jurídicas.A lo largo de cinco capítulos, la antología aborda la teoría formal del derecho (Ferrajoli), los límites de la lógica en los sistemas jurídicos reales (Ratti), la teoría principialista de los derechos fundamentales como normas de optimización (Alexy), la naturaleza de las presunciones entre el razonamiento práctico y la verdad procesal (Aguiló Regla), la hermenéutica y la construcción normativa de la intención legislativa (Poscher), los modelos de adjudicación y el juez como garante de la moralidad pública (Fiss), así como una tipología de las lagunas normativas y no normativas (Chiassoni). En el capítulo final, Jorge L. Rodríguez examina críticamente la justificación de las decisiones judiciales, la irrelevancia del objetivismo moral para dicha justificación y las condiciones que requiere una decisión judicial como verdaderamente justificada, junto al análisis del creacionismo judicial desde los enfoques realista y garantista (Guastini, Cusi-Alanoca).En síntesis, "Teoría Analítica del Derecho. Filosofía del derecho de los juristas" no es solo una antología o una compilación de ensayos: es una mirada sistemática que consolida el estudio del derecho como construcción racional, autónoma y dependiente del lenguaje, donde pensar desde la visión jurídica equivale a pensar con precisión sobre las formas del deber ser y del poder. Una obra imprescindible para juristas, teóricos y operadores jurídicos que buscan comprender el derecho desde su estructura lingüística y formal, y participar en la crítica y transformación del saber jurídico.José L. Cusi-Alanoca
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
213 kr
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Owen Fiss has been a leading legal scholar for over 30 years, yet before 2001 it would have seemed unlikely for him to write about national security and the laws of war; his focus was civil procedure and equal protection. But, when the War on Terror began to shroud legal proceedings in secrecy, he realised that the bulwarks of procedure that shield the individual from the awesome power of the state were dissolving. A War Like No Other will be an essential intellectual foundation for all concerned about constitutional rights and the law in a new age.