Human Rights, Language And Law: Proceedings Of The 24th World Congress Of The International Association For Philosophy Of Law And Social Philosophy, Beijing, 2009. Volume 2 Proceedings Of The 24th World Congress Of The International Association For Philos

The book comprises a selection of papers delivered at the 24th IVR World Congress, divided into four sections. The first, Human Rights and Justice in a Global Perspective, centres on the problems of the foundation of Human Rights and the legitimacy of Political Power. The second deals with Public Policy, Economics and Social Rights. In the section called Law, Language and Literature the focus is on the multiple ways in which Law can relate to language, discourses and literature. The fourth and final section analyses some of the recent Transformations in Legal Dogmatics and in Private Law. These topics are all of capital importance in contemporary societies, which reflect the complexity of pluralism and the increasing expansion and transformation of the law, which no longer seems to be comprehensible by a merely positivistic model of the "sources of law". In order to understand the nature of law and the requirements to interpret it as well as to adjust it to the needs of contemporary states and communities, a theorist or analyst needs to embark on an interdisciplinary approach, which can be found in all of the essays in this volume. I. Human Rights And Justice In A Global Perspective -- Cosmopolitanism And Politics : Double Edges And Tensions Between Human Rights And Justice / Jacob Dahl Rendtorff -- A Difference In The Conceptions Of The Self As The Subject Of Human Rights Between The West And Japan : Can Confucian Self Be Strong Enough To Exercise Positive Liberty In An Authoritarian Society? / Akihiko Morita -- Frontiers Of Genetics : Human Rights And The Right To Health / Carla Faralli, Sandra Pattaro -- Ii. Public Policy, Economics And Social Rights -- Human Rights And Justice In Brazil / Álvaro Felipe Oxley Da Rocha -- Discounting The Future? : Cost-benefit Analysis And Sustainability / Klaus Mathis -- Iii. Law, Language And Literature -- Towards A Hermeneutical Approach To Legal Metaphor / Alberto Vespaziani -- Pathologies Of Legal Reasoning Or Legal Reasoning As A Pathology? : Two Interpretations Of The Stranger / E. Irem Aki, Wojciech Zaluski -- Killing Me Softly With Your Words? : An Analysis Of Power Dynamics In Chinese Court Mediation Discourse / Cheng Zhaoyang -- Iv. Transformations In Legal Dogmatics And Private Law -- Public Intervention In Contracts : Is It The End Of Private Law As We Know It? / Marcos Vinício Chein Feres, Denis Franco Silva -- Relational Justice : Mediation And Odr Through The World Wide Web / Pompeu Casanovas, Marta Poblet, José Manual López Cobo -- Private Law In The Shadow Of Public Law : A Legacy Of 20th Century Marxism And The Soviet Legal Model / Murray Raff, Anna Taitslin. Edited By Thomas Bustamante And Oche Onazi. Includes Bibliographical References. Table of Contents Introduction I Human Rights and Global Justice in a Global Perspective Cosmopolitanism and Politics: Double edges and tensions between human rights and justice A Difference in the Conceptions of the Self as the Subject of Human Rights between the West and Japan: Can Confucian Self be strong enough to exercise positive liberty in an authoritarian society? Frontiers of Genetics: Human Rights and the Right to Health II Public Policy, EconomIcs and Social Rights Human Rights and Justice in Brazil Human Rights and Justice in Brazil III Law, Language and Literature Towards a Hermeneutical Approach to Legal Metaphor Pathologies of Legal Reasoning or Legal Reasoning as a Pathology? Two Interpretations of The Stranger Killing Me Softly with Your Words? – An Analysis of Power Dynamics in Chinese Court Mediation Discourse IV Transformations in Legal Dogmatics and Private Law Public intervention in contracts: Is it the end of private law as we know it? Relational Justice: Mediation and ODR through the World Wide Web Private Law in the Shadow of Public Law: A Legacy of 20th Century Marxism and the Soviet Legal Model Authors