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Author:   Aniceto Masferrer
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
Volume:   84
Weight:   0.729kg
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9783030641627

ISBN 10:   3030641627
Pages:   367
Publication Date:   10 February 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

1. Criminal Law and Morality Revisited: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.- PART I: Criminal Law and Morality: Historical Perspectives.- 2.The Rise of Ethical Reproach in Spanish Late Scholasticism.- 3. Liberties, Rights and Punishments in Modern Natural Law.- 4. Roman Dutch Criminal Law and Calvinism: Calvinist Morality in De criminibus (1644) of Antonius Matthaeus II.- 5. The Secularization of Criminal Law in the Enlightenment: Its Real Scope and Contribution Revisited.- 6. Freedom and no harm principle in ‘On liberty’ by J.S. Mill.- PART II: Criminal Law and Morality: Philosophical and Criminal Law Perspectives.- 7, Fundamentals of Ethics.- 8. Build and restore good human relationships. Overcoming the retributive paradigm as a key issue for the theory of justice.- 9. What is perfectionism?.- 10. From crime to right. The crisis of the title as reason of law.- 11.  Paternalism and moral limits of criminal law.-  12.  Human Dignity and the Protected Legal Good.- PART III: Criminal Law and Morality: Controversial Issues.- 13.: Crimes and sins: the social role of education and religion.- 14.The Role of Criminal Law in Combatting Pornography.- 15.  Justice in the End of Life: Legal Issues around the Decriminalization of Euthanasia.

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Aniceto Masferrer is a Professor of Legal History and teaches legal history and comparative law at the Faculty of Law, University of Valencia, Spain He has been a Visiting Fellow or Professor at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (2000–2003), the University of Cambridge (2005), Harvard Law School (2006–2007), Melbourne Law School (2008), the University of Tasmania (2010), Louisiana State University – The Paul M. Hebert Law Center – (2013), George Washington University Law School and at the École Normale Supérieure – Paris (2015). He has lectured at universities around the world (France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Malta, Israel, UK, Sweden, Norway, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand). He is the author of nine books (including his Spanish Legal Traditions: A Comparative Legal History Outline, Madrid, 2009; 2012, 2nd ed.) and the editor of twelve (including Post 9/11 and the State of Permanent Legal Emergency: Security and Human Rights in CounteringTerrorism, Springer, 2012; Counter-Terrorism, Human Rights and The Rule Of Law. Crossing Legal Boundaries in Defence of the State, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013; La Codificación española. Una aproximación doctrinal e historiográfica a sus influencias extranjeras, y a la francesa en particular, Thomson Reuters-Aranzadi, 2014; Human Dignity of the Vulnerable in the Age of Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Springer, 2016; The Western Codification of Criminal Law: The Myth of the Predominant French Influence in Europe and America Revisited, Springer, 2018; Comparative Legal History, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) and around hundred book chapters/articles published in Spanish, European and American law journals. He has published extensively on criminal law from an historical and comparative perspective, as well as on the codification movement and fundamental rights in the Western legal tradition.

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