Product Description: The book is a collection of essays, which aim to situate African legal theory in the context of the myriad of contemporary global challenges; from the prevalence of war to the misery of poverty and disease to the crises of the environment...read more

Product Description: Poverty, exclusion and lack of participation are symptomatic of state and market-based approaches to human rights. Oche Onazi uses Nigeria as a case study to show how the idea of community is a better alternative, capable of inspiring the poor and the vulnerable to organise themselves democratically and claim ownership of the processes that determine their human rights...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: This volume contains a selection of papers delivered at the 24th World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR). All papers address the challenge of the construction of a global ethics in the context of fragmented and pluralist societies, in which the idea of an ethical space seems to be an unachievable project, but also an indispensable device for cooperation between individuals, communities, and states...read more

Product Description: The volume comprises a selection of papers delivered at the 24th IVR World Congress. All papers address the challenge of the construction of a Global Ethics in the context of fragmented and pluralist societies, in which the idea of an Ethical Space seems to be an unachievable project, but also an indispensable device for cooperation between individuals, communities and states...read more