Overview

Interest in republicanism as a political theory has burgeoned in recent years, but its implications for the understanding of law have remained largely unexplored. Legal Republicanism is the first book to offer a comprehensive, critical survey of the potential for creating republican accounts of fundamental issues in law and legal theory.Bringing together contributors with backgrounds in political and legal philosophy, the essays in the volume assess republicanism's historical traditions, conceptual coherence, and normative proposals. The collection offers a valuable insight into new debates taking place in republican political and legal theory. It also analyses potential republican approaches to concrete issues arising in areas of law such as criminal, constitutional and international law. Finally, the book includes comparisons between republican legal traditions and how they react to contemporary challenges. The book will be of value to political and democratic theorists, to legal philosophers and constitutional theorists, and all those interested in the legitimacy of decision-making in national and international settings.

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Author:   Samantha Besson (, Professor of Public International Law and European Law, University of Fribourg, Switzerland) ,  José Luis Martí (, Associate Professor of Law, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.714kg
ISBN:  

9780199559169

ISBN 10:   0199559163
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   26 March 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Samantha Besson and Jose Luis Marti: Introduction: Law and Republicanism - Mapping the Issues I. Republican Legal Theory 1: Philip Pettit: Law and Liberty 2: James Bohman: Cosmopolitan Republicanism and the Rule of Law II. Republican Law A. Republican Constitutional Law 3: Iseult Honohan: Republicans, Rights and the Constitutions: Is Judicial Review Compatible with Republican Self-Government 4: Richard Bellamy: The Republic of Reasons: Public Reasoning, Depoliticization, and Non-Domination B. Republican Criminal Law 5: Jose Luis Marti: The Republican Democratization of Criminal Law and Justice 6: Richard Dagger: Republicanism and Crime 7: Roberto Gargarella: Tough On Punishment: Criminal Justice, Deliberation, and Legal Alienation C. Republican International Law 8: Mortimer N.S. Sellers: The Republican Foundations of International Law 9: Samantha Besson: Ubi Ius, Ibi Civitas: A Republican Account of the International Community 10: Francis Cheneval: Multilateral Dimensions of Republican Thought 11: Cristina Lafont: Alternative Visions of a New Global Order: What Should Cosmopolitans Hope For? III. National Republicanisms and the Law 12: Jean-Fabien Spitz: The 'défense républicane': Some Remarks about the Specificity of French Republicanism 13: Justine Lacroix and Paul Magnette: French Republicanism and the European Union 14: Adam Tomkins: On Republican Constitutionalism in the Age of Commerce: Reflections from the Scottish Enlightenment

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Samantha Besson and Jose Luis Marti have produced an excellent state-of-the-art synthesis of contemporary republican theory, which amply illustrates the latter's depth, breath and vitality. They have assembled an impressive team of high-profile advocates of what they call 'legal republicanism', which they present not as a narrowly conceived theory of law but as a 'holistic approach to the political and legal organisation of a republic'. The book, therefore will be of interest not only to legal theorists but also, more generally, to theorists of politics and political philosophers. Cecile Laborde, Transnational Legal Theory The volume encompasses both theoretical and more practical approaches and one of its virtues has to be seen in the mutual influence between these two aspects. While the reflection on republican theory may help to deepen our understanding of how institutions ought to work, the republican analysis of legal fields like international or constitutional law may help in defining how to put forward a republican legal theory Marco Goldoni, Jurisprudence

Author Information

Samantha Besson is Professor of Public International Law and European Law at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland José Luis Martí is Associate Professor of Law at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona

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