Author : Naiade el-Khoury
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 29,12 MB
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004439765
In Irrational Human Rights? An Examination of International Human Rights Treaties Naiade el-Khoury pursues the question how effective international human rights treaties really are and offers a discussion on the effects of treaty mechanisms.
Author : Francesco Parisi
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 20,63 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804751445
This collection of essays explores the most relevant developments at the interface of economics and psychology, giving special attention to models of irrational behavior, and draws the relevant implications of such models for the design of legal rules and institutions. The application of economic models of irrational behavior to law is especially challenging because specific departures from rational behavior differ markedly from one another. Furthermore, the analytical and deductive instruments of economic theory have to be reshaped to deal with the fragmented and heterogeneous findings of psychological research, turning towards a more experimental and inductive methodology. This volume brings together pioneering scholars in this area, along with some of the most exciting developments in the field of legal and economic theory. Areas of application include criminal law and sentencing, tort law, contract law, corporate law, and financial markets.
Author : Dan Ariely
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 19,71 MB
Release : 2008-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 006135323X
Intelligent, lively, humorous, and thoroughly engaging, "The Predictably Irrational" explains why people often make bad decisions and what can be done about it.
Author : Justin E. H. Smith
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 18,71 MB
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0691210519
"What every leader needs to know about dignity and how to create a culture in which everyone thrives. This landmark book from an expert in dignity studies explores the essential but under-recognized role of dignity as part of good leadership. Extending the reach of her award-winning book Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict, Donna Hicks now contributes a specific, practical guide to achieving a culture of dignity. Most people know very little about dignity, the author has found, and when leaders fail to respect the dignity of others, conflict and distrust ensue. She highlights three components of leading with dignity: what one must know in order to honor dignity and avoid violating it; what one must do to lead with dignity; and how one can create a culture of dignity in any organization, whether corporate, religious, governmental, healthcare, or beyond. Brimming with key research findings, real-life case studies, and workable recommendations, this book fills an important gap in our understanding of how best to be together in a conflict-ridden world."--
Author : Susan Stefan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,37 MB
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0199981205
When should we try to prevent suicide? Should it be facilitated for some people, in some circumstances? For the last forty years, law and policy on suicide have followed two separate and distinct tracks: laws aimed at preventing suicide and, increasingly, laws aimed at facilitating it. In Rational Suicide, Irrational Laws legal scholar Susan Stefan argues that these laws co-exist because they are based on two radically disparate conceptions of the would-be suicide. This is the first book that unifies policies and laws, including constitutional law, criminal law, malpractice law, and civil commitment law, toward people who want to end their lives. Based on the author's expert understanding of mental health and legal systems, analysis of related national and international laws and policy, and surveys and interviews with more than 300 suicide-attempt survivors, doctors, lawyers, and mental health professionals, Rational Suicide, Irrational Laws exposes the counterproductive nature of current policies and laws about suicide. Stefan proposes and defends specific reforms, including increased protection of mental health professionals from liability, increased protection of suicidal people from coercive interventions, reframing medical involvement in assisted suicide, and focusing on approaches to suicidal people that help them rather than assuming suicidality is always a symptom of mental illness. Stefan compares policies and laws in different states in the U.S. and examines the policies and laws of other countries in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, including the 2015 legalization of assisted suicide in Canada. The book includes model statutes, seven in-depth studies of people whose cases presented profound ethical, legal, and policy dilemmas, and over a thousand cases interpreting rights and responsibilities relating to suicide, especially in the area of psychiatric malpractice.
Author : Paul Tiedemann
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 3031322924
This textbook presents a range of classical philosophical approaches in order to show that they are unsuitable as a foundation for human rights. Only the conception of human dignity –based on the Kantian distinction between price and dignity – can provide a sufficient basis. The derivation of human rights from the principle of human dignity allows us to identify the most crucial characteristic of human rights, namely the protection of personhood. This in turn makes it possible (1) to distinguish between real moral human rights and spurious ones, (2) to assess the scope of protection for many codified human rights according to the criteria of “core” and “yard,” and (3) offers a point of departure for creating new, unwritten human rights. This philosophical basis supports a substantial reassessment of the case law on human rights, which will ultimately allow us to improve it with regard to legal certainty, clarity and cogency. In the second edition, errors have been corrected in numerous places, the text has been made clearer and easier to understand. In addition, more recent human rights issues have been newly included, especially those related to the Corona epidemic and climate change. The textbook is primarily intended for advanced law students who are interested in a deeper understanding of human rights. It is also suitable for humanities students, and for anyone in the political or social arena whose work involves human rights and their enforcement. Each chapter is divided into four parts: Abstracts, Lecture, Recommended Reading, and Questions to check reader comprehension. Sample answers are included at the end of the book.
Author : Lisa Webley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Public law
ISBN : 0198853181
'Complete Public Law' combines extracts from key primary and secondary materials with jargon-free text to provide a resource for the student new to the study of constitutional and administrative law.
Author : Erwann Michel-Kerjan
Publisher : Public Affairs
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1586487809
The authors explore how discoveries in decision sciences will enhance traditional ideas about economics and challenges the conventional wisdom about how to make the right decisions in an emerging new era, in a book that includes informative charts.
Author : Dr. A. A. GADWAL
Publisher : Ashok Yakkaldevi
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 49,8 MB
Release : 2020-06-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 1716820448
Meaning and Concepts: Human rights are universal norms framed for and rights granted to the of the people of the whole world against the political, social, and legal abuse. All human beings irrespective of their sex, race, religion, language, place of birth are entitled to enjoy their human rights. The provisions and practice of human rights protects all human beings from exploitation, humiliation, deprivation, violence and injustice. Human rights emphases on humanitarian approach towards all human being, it believes in and promotes human values, ethics, morals, dignity, justice, liberty, equality and integrity of all human beings. Human rights are supported by constitution and legal machinery of the state. The origin of the human rights is traced to framed back in in Magana Carta under Declaration of Human Rights. Before understanding the origin, nature and provision in human rights one must know the basic concepts used in, hence an attempt is made here to explain the concepts used in the draft of human rights some of them are as following: Human Values In common parlance it is said that, an individual has value or importance or an object of use has this much value, the two usages have different meaning. Human values is immeasurable and distinctive from the value of an object. Human values have been employed so distinctively in different ways and times. The term Value is originated from the Latin word Valere. Which means ‘to be of worthy’. The concise Oxford dictionary defines the term Value ‘as the worth, desirability or utility of a thing’. In other words Value means Relative worth or importance. Monetary or material worth, Values are the ideas customs institutions etc of a society towards which the people of the group have an effective regard. These values may be positive, as cleanliness, freedom, or education, negative, as security, crime or blasphemy. The aim of education is concerned with values of all kinds, modern education itself is value oriented. The social aims and believes which are regarded as the important aspect of a culture then the different aspects of culture are also values.
Author : Erez Yoeli
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 14,9 MB
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1541619463
Two MIT economists show how game theory—the ultimate theory of rationality—explains irrational behavior We like to think of ourselves as rational. This idea is the foundation for classical economic analysis of human behavior, including the awesome achievements of game theory. But as behavioral economics shows, most behavior doesn’t seem rational at all—which, unfortunately, to cast doubt on game theory’s real-world credibility. In Hidden Games, Moshe Hoffman and Erez Yoeli find a surprising middle ground between the hyperrationality of classical economics and the hyper-irrationality of behavioral economics. They call it hidden games. Reviving game theory, Hoffman and Yoeli use it to explain our most puzzling behavior, from the mechanics of Stockholm syndrome and internalized misogyny to why we help strangers and have a sense of fairness. Fun and powerfully insightful, Hidden Games is an eye-opening argument for using game theory to explain all the irrational things we think, feel, and do.
