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Science, Scientists, Politics, and Environmental Law
1996This chapter discusses the parameters of the relationships between science, the environment, and policy-making in the context of three basic questions as they refer to the republics of the former Soviet Union (FSU). First, how do scientists and science influence environmental policy-making, on both national and international levels?
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Political and economic instrumentalisation of science: Towards an extended concept of corruption
Systems research and behavioral sciencePopular perception holds that science has been distorted by the pressure of expectations of economic utility or political desirability. Grounded in Niklas Luhmann's system theory, this paper examines the interplay of the political, economic and ...
Krešimir Žažar, Steffen Roth
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The Kishon Affair: Science, Law, and the Politics of Causation
Science in Context, 2010ArgumentThis article describes how science and law were called upon (and failed) to resolve a controversy that created a painful rift between the Israeli State and some of its elite soldiers. The controversy, which came to be known as “the Kishon affair,” erupted in 2000, when veterans of an elite and secretive unit in the Israeli navy claimed that ...
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International Environmental Law
Much of the writing in contemporary international environmental law is passionately and uncritically advocative. Although Dr. Louka's book is plainly animated by a deep concern for the preservation of the environment of the planet and the realization ...
E. Louka
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Women, Feminism, Gender and Law in Political Science:
Women & Politics, 1995Research on women and the law within the discipline of Political Science has advanced from inserting women into conventional legal paradigms, to attacking law itself as male, to understanding law as gendered. Obstacles within the discipline, however, hinder scholars in incorporating the latest and most sophisticated work in feminist theory ...
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Bridging the Chasm: Public Law and Political Science
1999Abstract The chasm referred to in the title of this chapter is the one that has long existed between the academic disciplines of law and political science, particularly as they have been taught and researched in UK universities. This chapter argues that the existence of this academic divide has been damaging to both disciplines, given
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Bridging the Chasm between Law and Political Science
Government and Opposition, 2000Robert Thomas
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