Présentation de l'éditeur

Cet essai place la Constitution de la Cinquième République dans son contexte, celui de plus de deux siècles d’instabilité constitutionnelle. Elle est l’héritage d’une histoire contrastée et tourmentée, marquée par la récurrence des guerres civiles. Elle est dans une large mesure la synthèse des constitutions précédentes. L’élection du président au suffrage universel direct est son axe majeur. Monarchique, parlementaire, référendaire, elle est aussi déclaratoire, décisionnaire, délibérative. Elle peut être majoritaire ou cohabitante. Elle a été septennale, elle est devenue quinquennale.

Synthèse, synthèse dynamique du fait des métamorphoses du régime. Le contrôle de constitutionnalité des lois est l’une de ces dynamiques. Synthèse inachevée, qui demeure perfectible. Combiner État de droit et État démocratique demande d’un côté de mieux organiser et mettre en oeuvre le référendum, de l’autre de consacrer l’existence d’un authentique pouvoir judiciaire, unique, indépendant et constitutionnel – un pouvoir, comme les autres, limité et contrôlé.

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Introduction

Chapitre I : Cent soixante-dix ans d’instabilité constitutionnelle (1789-1958)

1. La période révolutionnaire (1789-1799)
2. Le moment Napoléon (1799-1815)
3. L’ère des Chartes (1814-1848) ou les dernières chances de la monarchie
4. Une république éphémère, la Seconde République (1848-1851)
5. Le Second Empire (1852-1870) ou la deuxième chance du bonapartisme
6. La Troisième République ou le parlementarisme absolu (1870-1940)
7. L’Occupation, Vichy, la France libre : de l’État français au Gouvernement provisoire de la République française
8.  La Quatrième République (1944-1958) ou le retour du parlementarisme absolu

Chapitre II : La Cinquième République et ses métamorphoses (1958-2020)

1. La Constitution du 4 octobre 1958 : une genèse originale
2. Une constitution mixte
3. La constitution comme processus
4. La constitution comme norme
5. Un régime existentiel

Chapitre III : La passion constitutionnelle française

1. L’absence de consensus constitutionnel français
2. L’enracinement des institutions républicaines
3. Questions en débat

Conclusion

Présentation de l'éditeur

In seinem neuen Buch zeigt Axel Honneth, was es aus der philosophischen Tradition über einen vernünftigen Begriff der Freiheit noch zu lernen gibt, was sich heute der Realisierung einer solchen Freiheit in den Weg stellt und woher schließlich die Anregungen für eine weitere Verwirklichung von Freiheit stammen können. In einem ersten Schritt unternimmt er eine zwischen Hegel und Marx vermittelnde Begriffsklärung, während sich der zweite Teil sozialen Problemfeldern zuwendet, in denen die gegenwärtigen Hindernisse einer Realisierung von Freiheit besonders deutlich ins Auge fallen. Abschließend wird der Versuch unternommen, Triebkräfte zu bestimmen, die dem Kampf für die Freiheit heute neuen Aufschwung verleihen könnten.

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This book presents a review of historical and emerging legal issues that concern the interpretation of the international crime of genocide.

The Polish legal expert Raphael Lemkin formulated the concept of genocide during the Nazi occupation of Europe, and it was then incorporated into the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. This volume looks at the issues that are raised both by the existing international law definition of genocide and by the possible developments that continue to emerge under international criminal law. The authors consider how the concept of genocide might be used in different contexts, and see whether the definition in the 1948 convention may need some revision, also in the light of the original ideas that were expressed by Lemkin. The book focuses on specific themes that allow the reader to understand some of the problems related to the legal definition of genocide, in the context of historical and recent developments.

As a valuable contribution to the debate on the significance, meaning and application of the crime of genocide the book will be essential reading for students and academics working in the areas of Legal History, International Criminal Law, Human Rights, and Genocide Studies.

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Introduction (Marco Odello & Piotr Łubiński, eds)

PART I Theoretical and Historical Framework 

Agnieszka Bieńczyk-Missala, Rafał Lemkin’s Concept of Genocide vs. the Genocide Convention

Olga Wasiuta, Crime of genocide in Ukraine (1932-1933)

Hanna Schieve, Kingpins of Contention: Local-level Dynamics of Mobilization in the Rwandan Genocide

PART II International and National Legal Dimensions 

Tamas Hoffmann, The crime of genocide in its (nearly) infinite domestic variety

Kamil Boczek - Responsibility of members of the government and other public officials pursuant to Article IV of the 1948 UN Convention on the Protection and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Łukasz Dawid Dąbrowski, Transnational Corporations’ Liability for Genocide under International Law

PART III Challenges and New Developments

Ruth Amir, Probing the Boundaries of the Genocide Convention: Children as a Protected Group

Michala Chadimova, Interaction between Genocide and Superior Responsibility - Conviction for a Special Intent Crime without Proving Special Intent!?

Milena Ingelevič-Citak & Marcin Marcinko, "Kill Them All and Let God Sort Them Out" or Why Religiously Motivated Terrorism Should Not Be Confused with the Crime of Genocide

Tamas Adany, Blurring the Distinction between Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide

Marco Odello, Genocide and Culture: Revisiting their Relationship 70 years after the Genocide Convention

Piotr Łubiński, Social Media Incitement to Genocide – ECHR countries perspective

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The development of private law across the common law world is typically portrayed as a series of incremental steps, each one delivered as a result of judges dealing with marginally different factual circumstances presented to them for determination. This is said to be the common law method. According to this process, change might be assumed to be gradual, almost imperceptible. If this were true, however, then even Darwinian-style evolution – which is subject to major change-inducing pressures, such as the death of the dinosaurs – would seem unlikely in the law, and radical and revolutionary paradigms shifts perhaps impossible. And yet the history of the common law is to the contrary. The legal landscape is littered with quite remarkable revolutionary and evolutionary changes in the shape of the common law.

The essays in this volume explore some of the highlights in this fascinating revolutionary and evolutionary development of private law. The contributors expose the nature of the changes undergone and their significance for the future direction of travel. They identify the circumstances and the contexts which might have provided an impetus for these significant changes.

The essays range across all areas of private law, including contract, tort, unjust enrichment and property. No area has been immune from development. That fact itself is unsurprising, but an extended examination of the particular circumstances and contexts which delivered some of private law's most important developments has its own special significance for what it might indicate about the shape, and the shaping, of private law regimes in the future.

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FOUNDATIONS

1. Revolution and Evolution in Private Law 
Sarah Worthington

2. Revolutions in Private Law? 
David Ibbetson

3. Private Law's Revolutionaries: Authors, Codifiers and Merchants? 
Hector L MacQueen

4. Paradigms Lost or Paradigms Regained? Legal Revolutions and the Path of the Law 
TT Arvind

DOCTRINES

5. Risk Revolutions in Private Law 
Jenny Steele

6. The Unacknowledged Revolution in Liability for Negligence
Steve Hedley

7. A Revolution in Vicarious Liability: Lister, the Catholic Child Welfare Society Case and Beyond 
Paula Giliker

8. Revolutions in Contractual Interpretation: A Historical Perspective 
Joanna McCunn

9. Revolutions and Counterrevolutions in Equitable Estoppel 
Andrew Robertson

10. Reflections on the Restitution Revolution 

1. England and Wales 
Amy Goymour

2. Australia 
Elise Bant

3. Canada 
Mitchell McInnes

4. South Africa 
Helen Scott

5. A Judicial Perspective 
Sir Terence Etherton MR

11. Revolutions in Personal Property: Redrawing the Common Law's Conceptual Map 
Sarah Worthington

GENERAL ISSUES

12. Modern Equity: Revolution or Renewal from Within? 
Pauline Ridge

13. Concurrent Liability: A Spluttering Revolution 
Paul S Davies

14. The Illegality Revolution 
Graham Virgo

15. The Revolutionary Trajectory of EU Contract Law towards Post-national Law
Hugh Collins