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The Tradition of Destruction (Kafka’s Law)

2021
In chapter 4, “The Tradition of Destruction,” Gil Anidjar sharpens our conceptions of destruction and forces us to confront the limits of our desires for survival and redemption in social, political, and theological terms. He focuses on Kafka’s The Trial, where the law is essentially reduced to nothing.
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The Tradition of International Law

2004
Considered in the broadest terms, the tradition of international law or the law of nations stands as a tradition of great antiquity, and with its origins lying in classical Greek-Roman civilization and with its subsequent evolution going on continuously throughout the Middle Ages.
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The Architecture of Law: Rebuilding Law in the Classical Tradition

2023
What is law? How should law be made? Using St. Thomas Aquinas's analogy of God as an architect, Brian McCall argues that classical natural law jurisprudence provides an answer to these questions far superior to those provided by legal positivism or the 'new' natural law theories.
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The American Tradition of International Law

2004
Abstract This volume, the first of two, charts the history and emergence of international law in the American common law tradition, from its English roots in the late 18th century to the outbreak of World War I in 1914. At the end of the 18th century it made little sense anywhere in the English-speaking world to talk of either ...
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The Nature of Traditional Criminal Law

2019
Defining crime or criminal law is a difficult task. From a legalistic perspective, one could simply state that crime is conduct that is punishable by law. Building on such an approach, criminal law could be defined, in a circular manner, as ‘a branch of law which deals with those acts, attempts and omissions of which the state may take cognisance by ...
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The French Tradition of International Law

2020
As international lawyers, we know what international law is. But how should we approach “tradition?” Tradition, after all, is not a concept that has any meaning or relevance in the universe of the law, as long as the law is understood as it dominantly is as a set of rules produced according to certain predetermined formal processes. As a matter of fact,
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The Advent of Preventive Criminal Law: An Erosion of the Traditional Criminal Law?

Criminal Law Forum, 2017
Criminal law in contemporary societies is undergoing a transformation or according to some, even a paradigm shift. The reach of criminal law is now extended to terrains that were hitherto immune to criminalization. These new forms of criminalization. in post-heroic risk societies are targeting conduct well before it causes a harm. The prime examples of
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Law out of Context: A Comment on the Creation of Traditional Law Discussion

Journal of African Law, 1984
The ways in which local normative systems and processes of decision-making in Third World states have been interpreted and transformed by colonial and postcolonial lawyers, administrators and social scientists have received much scholarly attention. During the past 15 years in particular, the “creation of traditional law” in Africa and the “myth of ...
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The Laws of the Damascus Document: Sources, Tradition and Redaction

, 1998
C. Hempel
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The Tradition of Natural Law

2020
Vulkan Kuic, Yves R. Simon
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