Legal certainty in a contemporary context: private and criminal law perspectives

"This book addresses issues concerning the shifting contemporary meaning of legal certainty. The book focuses on exploring the emerging tensions that exist between the demand for legal certainty and the challenges of regulating complex, late modern societies. The book is divided into two parts:...

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Weitere Verfasser: Fenwick, Mark 1968- (HerausgeberIn), Wrbka, Stefan 1976- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Singapore Springer [2016]
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Zusammenfassung:"This book addresses issues concerning the shifting contemporary meaning of legal certainty. The book focuses on exploring the emerging tensions that exist between the demand for legal certainty and the challenges of regulating complex, late modern societies. The book is divided into two parts: the [second] part focusing on debates around legal certainty at the national level, with a primary emphasis on criminal law; and the [first] part focusing on debates at the transnational level, with a primary emphasis on the regulation of transnational commercial transactions. In the context of legal modernity, the principle of legal certainty (the idea that the law must be sufficiently clear to provide those subject to legal norms with the means to regulate their own conduct and to protect against the arbitrary use of public power) has operated as a foundational rule of law value. Even though it has not always been fully realized, legal certainty has functioned as a core value and aspiration that has structured normative debates throughout political modernity, both at a national and international level. In recent decades, however, legal certainty has come under increasing pressure from a number of competing demands that are made of contemporary law, in particular the demand that the law be more flexible and responsive to a social environment characterized by rapid social and technological change. The expectation that the law operates in new transnational contexts and regulates every widening sphere of social life has created a new degree of uncertainty, and this change raises difficult questions regarding both the possibility and desirability of legal certainty. This book compiles, in one edited volume, research from a range of substantive areas of civil and criminal law that shares a common interest in understanding the multi-layered challenges of defining legal certainty in a late modern society"--Back cover
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:vii, 194 Seiten 25 cm
ISBN:9789811001123
981100112X
9789811001147

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