Legal Rules, Moral Norms and Democratic Principles (Hardcover)

Contents: Karolina M. Cern/Bartosz Wojciechowski: Postmetaphysical approach to moral autonomy and justification of the thesis of the necessary relations between the legal and moral discourse ? Marco Antonio Oliveira de Azevedo: Commands and Claims ? Maciej Pichlak: The Autonomy from Morality as a Moral Claim: on Some Paradox of Legal Positivism ? Martin ?kop: Legal Rules, Moral Norms and Arbitrariness ? Barbara Weber: Between Rationality (Habermas) and Sympathy (Rorty): Two Pragmatic Perspectives on Human Rights ? Sebastian Sykuna/Jerzy Zajadlo: Towards a New Theory of Hard Cases ? Massimo Leone: Citizens of a Lesser God - Religious Minorities and the Legal Discourse of Multi-Cultural Democracies: the Case of Canada ? Marta Soniewicka: How Dangerous Can the Sterilized Needle Be? Torture, Terrorism, and the Self-Refutation of the Liberal-Democratic State ? Paul Bouissac: The Legal Status of Animals: From Perpetrators of Wrongs to Victims of Abuses ? Piotr W. Juchacz: Public Hearing: On the Dangers of Adversarial Participation ? Jose Manuel Aroso Linhares: Law in/as Literature as an alternative humanistic discourse. The Unavoidable Resistance to Legal Scientific Pragmatism or the Fertile Promise of a Communitas Without Law? ? Leszek Leszczynski: Legal Certainty and Legal Discretion in the Statutory Legal Law ? Lin Yuchuan: Confucianism and the Localization of Chinese Political Democracy ? Agnieszka Chodun: Influence of Internationalisms on communicativeness of legal discourse ? Romina Amicolo: Legal Rules in the Name of Democracy and Democracy in the Name of Legal Rules: Parallel Deaths of Socrates and Julius Caesar.