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The philosophies of Beccaria and Bentham have a number of features in common: the juspositivist principle of legality, the project of minimizing criminal law, the dependence of punishment on types of action rather than types of actors, the idea of the ...
Luigi Ferrajoli
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Discovering new kinds of patient safety incidents
Every year, large numbers of patients in National Health Service (NHS) care suffer because of a patient safety incident. The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) collects large amounts of data describing individual incidents.
Bentham, James, Bentham, James
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Possibilities for Social Equity Budgeting: Critical Insights From Bentham?
ABSTRACT Considering prior ways of seeing and practical mobilisations of Social Equity Budgeting (SEB), we suggest that prior conceptualisation, research and practice can be advanced by reflecting on insights from the philosophical and political literature on equity and justice.
Laurence Ferry +2 more
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What is become of the rights of men? : are you the only men who have rights? ; moral contractarianism and the legitimation of universal human rights [PDF]
In this article I advance an account of human rights as individual claims that can be justified within the conceptual framework of social contract theories. The contractarian approach at issue here aims, initially, at a justification of morality at large,
Araujo, Marcelo de
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On-chip electrically controlled routing of photons from a single quantum dot [PDF]
Electrical control of on-chip routing of photons emitted by a single InAs/GaAs self-assembled quantum dot (SAQD) is demonstrated in a photonic crystal cavity-waveguide system.
Bentham, C. +9 more
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Track Record Arguments in Normative Ethics
ABSTRACT Track record arguments (TRAs) contend that it speaks in favor of an ethical theory (such as utilitarianism) if many of its past proponents had moral views that were controversial at their time but which we now consider to be clearly true (e.g., women's equal rights in 18th century Europe). This paper explores how to construct potentially sound
Leonard Dung
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JEREMY BENTHAM E A CONSTITUIÇÃO DO CONCEITO DE DIREITO NO PENSAMENTO JURÍDICO MODERNO
O artigo tem por escopo analisar o papel de Jeremy Bentham no desenvolvimento do conceito moderno de Direito no Ocidente. Para essa tarefa, sua obra Uma introdução aos princípios da moral e da legislação será utilizada como referência de sua contribuição
Christian Fernandes Gomes da Rosa
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‘Plucking the Mask of Mystery from its Face’: Jurisprudence and H.L.A. Hart [PDF]
Until recently, little was known of H.L.A. Hart\u27s private life. That has now changed with the publication of Nicola Lacey\u27s A Life of H.L.A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream. Drawing on Hart\u27s notebooks and correspondence, Lacey paints an
Mikhail, John
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The Transatlantic Divergence in Legal Thought: American Law and Economics vs. German Doctrinalism, The [PDF]
Law and economics has become an integral part of U.S. legal scholarship and the law school curriculum. Ever since the legal realist movement, scholars mostly view the law from an external perspective.
Gelter, Martin, Grechenig, Kristoffel
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ABSTRACT I defend the non‐instrumentalist thesis that every adult member of a political society has a pro tanto fundamental moral right to an equal democratic say in determining the content of the laws to which she is subject. I begin by giving an account of an important kind of servility that has received only glancing notice in philosophical ...
Shruta Swarup
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