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Texte fondateur du droit colonial français, le Code Noir a suscité beaucoup de confusions et d'erreurs, à commencer par son nom lui-même... Code Noir ou Édit de mars 1685 ? Écrit par Colbert ? Dont il n'existerait qu'une seule version ? Qui aurait réduit les esclaves à l'état de choses ?... Présentant les acquis des dernières recherches historiques, cet ouvrage corrige un certain nombre d'idées reçues sur ce texte devenu aujourd'hui éminemment symbolique.

Avant-propos de Myriam Cottias, préface de Marcel Dorigny et postface de Jacques Gillot.

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Le présent ouvrage entend confronter le droit à ce qui est communément désigné par l’idée de « but». Tout juriste s’est très certainement déjà trouvé confronté à cette question pour tenter d’établir le « but » d’une règle, d’une institution, d’un système, voire du droit dans sa généralité. Et pourtant, une partie non négligeable de la doctrine juridique estime que la question du « but » ne relève pas du droit. À la lumière des enseignements du droit public français, l’ouvrage se propose d’apporter des éléments de réponse à cette difficulté, afin de donner au « but» la place qui peut légitimement être la sienne dans la discipline juridique.

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This book investigates how defendants are assessed by criminal justice decisionmakers, such as judges, lawyers, probation officers, parole board members and those involved in restorative justice. What attitudes and emotions are defendants expected to show? How are these expectations communicated?

The book argues that defendants, at various stages of the criminal justice process, are expected to show a (more or less) free acceptance of guilt and individual responsibility along with a display of 'appropriate' emotions, ideally including 'genuine' remorse. It examines why such expressions of individual responsibility and remorse are so important to decision-makers and the state.

With contributors from across the world, the book opens new comparative possibilities and research agendas.

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Part 1: The Making of Remorse and Responsibility

1. Locating the Ideal Defendant: Punishment, Violence and Legitimacy
Stewart Field and Cyrus Tata

2. Remorse in the French Criminal Justice System: A Subterranean Influence
Virginie Gautron

3. Constructing remorse: Interactional dimensions of finding an emotion
Sharyn Roach Anleu and Kathy Mack

4. Constructing Ideal Defendants in the Pre-Sentence Phase: The Connection Between Responsibility and Potential Remorse
Louise Victoria Johansen

5. The Paradoxical Uses of 'Culture' in Judicial Assessment of Defendant Demeanour and Remorse.
Irene Van Oorschot

6. Cultural Sensitivity Training, Judicial Feelings, and Everyday Practice: Conversations at the edge of research
Kate Rossmanith

Part 2: Beyond Remorse

7. Remorse is Not Enough: Disentangling the Roles of Remorse and Insight in the Construction of the Ideal Defendant
Richard Weisman

8. The Construction of the Ideal Defendant: Comparative Understandings of the Normalisation of Guilt
Jacqueline S. Hodgson

9. Looking for the Ideal Parole Applicant?
Nicola Padfield

Part 3: The Political and Cultural Significance of Remorse and Responsibility

10. The Enactment of Political Cultures in Criminal Court Process: Remorse, Responsibility and the Unique Individual Before the French cours d'assises
Stewart Field

11. Punishment and the 'Blind Symbiosis' of Legal and Rehabilitation Work in the Making of the 'Ideal' Defendant
Cyrus Tata

12. Remorse and Restoration: The Role of Remorse in Constructing the 'Ideal Offender' of Restorative Justice
Giuseppe Maglione

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This is the first in a 4 volume set that provides the definitive account of the major issues of comparative constitutional law in 19 Asian jurisdictions.

Volume 1 explores the process and contents in the making of a new constitution. The book provides answers to questions on the causes, processes, substance and implantation involved in making new constitutions such as;

- What are the political, social, and economic factors that drive the constitution-making?
- How are constitutions made, and who makes them?
- What are the substantive contents of constitution-making?
- What kinds of legislation are enacted to implement constitutions?
- How do courts enforce constitutions?

The jurisdictions covered include: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. An essential reference for those interested in Asian constitutional law.

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Introduction, Ngoc Son Bui (University of Oxford, UK) and Mara Malagodi (University of Warwick, UK)

1.Japan's Post-War Constitution: 'Imposed' Constitution or Hybrid Between Global and Local Stakeholders?, Akiko Ejima (Meiji University, Japan)

2.Founding and/or Refounding: South Korea's 1948 Constitution, Jeong-In Yun (Korea University, Korea)

3.The Longest Constitution-Making: Making the 1946 Constitution of the Republic of China, Zhaoxin Jiang (Shandong University, China)

4.The Making of China's 1982 Constitution, Ryan Martínez Mitchell (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

5.The Making of the Hong Kong Basic Law, Pui-yin Lo (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

6.North Korean Cultural Revolution: Reading Culture in the 1972 Constitution, Immanuel Kim (George Washington University, USA)

7.The Making of the Mongolian Constitution of 1992, Gunbileg Boldbaatar (National University of Mongolia, Mongolia)

8.The Making of (Anti-)Colonial Constitution: The Indonesian 1945 Constitution, Abdurrachman Satrio (Institute for Migrant Rights, Indonesia)

9.Constitution-Making and Autochthony: The Constitution of The Federation of Malaya 1957, Andrew Harding (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

10.“A Better Command of Our Own Separate Destiny”: Singapore's 1965 Constitution and Stewarding The Transition To A New Constitutional Order, Eugene K B Tan (Singapore Management University, Singapore)

11.The Making of the 1987 Philippine Constitution, Bryan Dennis Gabito Tiojanco (University of Tokyo, Japan)

12.The Making Of Cambodia's 1993 Constitution, Ratana Taing (Pañña¯sa¯stra University of Cambodia, Cambodia)

13.State-Owned Enterprises in Vietnam's 2013 Constitution, Trang (Mae) Nguyen (Temple University, USA)

14.Democratic Facade, a Military Heart, & the Flawed Nature of Myanmar's 2008 Constitution, Jonathan Liljeblad (Australian National University, Australia)

15.Thailand's Competing Notions of Constituent Power: The Making of the 2017 Constitution in The Binary-Star Scenario, Rawin Leelapatana (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)

16.Justice as Equity and the Making of the Indian Constitution, Mithi Mukherjee (University of Colorado, USA)

17.Making and Unmaking the Constitution of Bangladesh, M Jashim Ali Chowdhury (University of Hull, UK)

18.The Failure of Transformative Constitution-Making in Sri Lanka, Mario Gomez (International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Sri Lanka)

19. Post-Conflict Constitution Making in Nepal and the Limits of Constituent Assemblies, Mara Malagodi (University of Warwick, UK)

20.Conclusion: Comparative Constitution-Making in Asia, Ngoc Son Bui (University of Oxford, UK)