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Kierkegaardian Ethics and the Rule of Law
We approach law with deep ambivalence. On the one hand, we take immense pride in living under the rule of law. On the other hand, we often catch...
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Self-Legislation and the Apriority of the Moral Law
Marcus Willaschek and I have argued against the widespread assumption that Kant claims the Moral Law—the supreme principle of morality—is (or must be...
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Swords and diamonds—Thich Nhat Hanh on the law of identity
The Diamond Sutra is one of the earliest and most treasured of the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras and had a wide influence on the development of Zen...
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Legal Tech, the Law Firm and the Imagination of the Right Legal Answer
Legal tech is growing, and its growth provokes anxieties about the future of the legal profession as such. In this article, we examine the impact of...
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The Role of the Law in Critical Theory: An Engagement with Hardt and Negri’s Commonwealth
This paper discusses the role of Law and Legal Thinking in Critical Theory with specific reference to the arguments that Michael Hardt and Antonio...
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A comparative ethical analysis of the Egyptian clinical research law
BackgroundIn this study, we examined the ethical implications of Egypt’s new clinical trial law, employing the ethical framework proposed by Emanuel...
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Reconfiguring Sovereignties Through the Law: Indigenous Patrimonialization in the Americas
Since the last third of the twentieth century, the indigenous peoples of the Americas have claimed their sovereignty. There, it is possible to...
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Cross-jurisdictional Data Transfer in Health Research: Stakeholder Perceptions on the Role of Law
Large data-intensive health research programmes benefit from collaboration amongst researchers who may be located in different institutions and...
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Morality and the Law
Even if the recreational use of illicit drugs were morally wrong, that is only one premise of the moralist argument. The other premise is legal...
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Law-Technology Lag or Law as Technology in the Big Data Age
In an data-driven world, people increasingly value the protection and security of their personal data. Many states have adopted or are in the process...
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Wittgenstein on Weyl: the law of the excluded middle and the natural numbers
In one of his meetings with members of the Vienna Circle, Wittgenstein discusses Hermann Weyl’s brief conversion to intuitionism and criticizes his...
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The Law of Non-contradiction and Global Philosophy of Religion
This article focuses on the applications of philosophical logic in the discipline of philosophy of religion of both ‘Eastern’ and ‘Western’...
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Methodological Individualism and the Foundations of the “Law and Economics” Movement
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the methodological foundations of the law and economics movement, with a special emphasis on the role and...
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The Normative Challenges of AI in Outer Space: Law, Ethics, and the Realignment of Terrestrial Standards
The paper examines the open problems that experts of space law shall increasingly address over the next few years, according to four different sets...
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The explanatory nature of constraints: Law-based, mathematical, and causal
This paper provides an analysis of explanatory constraints and their role in scientific explanation. This analysis clarifies main characteristics of...
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Racial Capitalism and the Dialectics of Development: Exposing the Limits and Lies of International Economic Law
International economic law is peculiar. It claims universal character, yet eschews engagement with many, if not all, the racialised features of the...
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How the Welfare State Tries to Protect Itself Against the law: Luhmann and new Forms of Social Immune Mechanism
Sociologist Niklas Luhmann argued that the law functions as society’s immune system by regulating conflicts that threaten the certainty of...
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A Plural Nomos: Law, Life, and Knowledge
Even in its limited state-based form, human law owes its existence to the natural physical world with its self-created value systems. What is...
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Kelsen: Methodological Individualism in the Social Theory of Law
The status and nature of the state have been the traditional source of claims about the reality of supra-individual social entities. Kelsen was the...
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The Robot and Human Futures: Visualising Autonomy in Law and Science Fiction
This article argues that legal discourses about robots are framed within a limiting ‘human paradigm.’ While this is not a specific failure of...