Présentation de l'éditeur

In Animals as Legal Beings, Maneesha Deckha critically examines how Canadian law and, by extension, other legal orders around the world, participate in the social construction of the human-animal divide and the abject rendering of animals as property. Through a rigorous but cogent analysis, Deckha calls for replacing the exploitative property classification for animals with a new transformative legal status or subjectivity called "beingness."

In developing a new legal subjectivity for animals, one oriented toward respecting animals for who they are rather than their proximity to idealized versions of humanness, Animals as Legal Beings seeks to bring critical animal theorizations and animal law closer together. Throughout, Deckha draws upon the feminist animal care tradition, as well as feminist theories of embodiment and relationality, postcolonial theory, and critical animal studies. Her argument is critical of the liberal legal view of animals and directed at a legal subjectivity for animals attentive to their embodied vulnerability, and desirous of an animal-friendly cultural shift in the core foundations of anthropocentric legal systems.

Theoretically informed yet accessibly presented, Animals as Legal Beings makes a significant contribution to an array of interdisciplinary debates and is an innovative and astute argument for a meaningful more-than-human turn in law and policy.

Maneesha Deckha is a professor and Lansdowne Chair in Law at the University of Victoria.

Sommaire

1. No Escape: Anti-Cruelty Law’s Property Foundations
2. What’s Wrong with Personhood?: The Humanizing Impact of Anthropos
3. Toward a Post-Anthropocentric Legal Ontology
4. Beingness: A New Legal Subjectivity for Animals
5. Liberal Humanism Repackaged?
6. Conclusion

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This book provides a systematic and comprehensive study of the legal concept of equity as it operates in contemporary international law. A principle with a long pedigree, equity has been present in legal thought and in municipal legal systems since antiquity. Introduced in international legal decisions through claims commissions and arbitral tribunals, equity became progressively part and parcel of the international law mainstream. From international cultural heritage law to the law on climate change, from maritime boundary delimitations to decisions on security for costs in investment arbitration, the relevance of equity is more far-reaching than has previously been acknowledged. 

In contrast with earlier studies on the topic, this book is informed by a body of judicial and arbitral case law that has never been so substantial and varied. It also draws extensively on the prolific case law of investment tribunals, gaining insights from a valuable source that is typically overlooked in public international law scholarship. As the importance of international law increases, covering continuously new domains, the value of equity increases with it. It is this new equity in the international law of the 21st century that this book explores.

Sommaire

1:Introduction

Part I: Preliminary Matters

2:Origins of Equity

3:Equity Before International Courts and Tribunals

Part II: Equity in General

4:The Purpose of Equity

5:Traditional Typology of Equity

6:Power to Resort to Equity

Part III: Specific Aspects of Equity

7:Jurisdiction ex Aequo et Bono

8:Variations on Equity and Related Concepts

9:Equity, Compensation, and Costs

10:Conclusion

Présentation de l'éditeur

En parcourant plus de trois siècles d’interprétations sur Tommaso Campanella, Luca Addante démasque l’incroyable sédimentation de mythes et d’usages apologétiques et politiques qui ont déformé le profil d’un des plus importants philosophes de l’époque moderne.

Traducteurs : Guillaume Alonge, Jérémie Barthas

Présentation de l'éditeur

Sept affaires et procès entre les années 830 et l’an mil sont révélés par de multiples récits qui n’en forment finalement qu’un grâce au réemploi d’épisodes antérieurs. Ils sont les ancêtres des procès politiques et ecclésiastiques des derniers siècles du Moyen Âge.