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In Property Rights: A Re-Examination , James Penner returns to and develops a project that he has been engaged in for nearly three decades: to replace the influential 'bundle of rights' picture of property, which he regards as irredeemably flawed, with an alternative account—one that regards property as a unified entitlement. In this review article, I expound and analyse the central features of Penner's theory. I defend the view that, in its original iteration, Penner's account was trebly monistic: it regarded property as a single entitlement justified by a single human interest and protected by a single duty of non-interference. I go on to critically examine one of Penner's central ideas—that to understand property it is necessary to understand its justification. Along the way, I trace how Penner's account has evolved and explain how certain alterations have put some problems to bed while generating others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The text is a review of the book "1900-2020. A History of Natural Law" written by Francesco Viola, emeritus professor of philosophy of law at the University of Palermo. The book recaps the history of natural law in the last 120 years, addressing classical and contemporary theories. The author highlights the "revivals" of natural law and the importance of the relationship between positive law and justice. The book seeks to revitalize the debate on this topic and is divided into five chapters that address different historical periods and their relationship with natural law. Contemporary theories of natural law and their confrontation with current ethical pluralism are also mentioned. [Extracted from the article]

The book "The Artifactual Nature of Law" is a compilation of essays that explore the theory of Law as an artifact. The authors discuss topics such as the nature of legal norms, the process of law application, and legal personality. It is argued that Law is a normative and evaluative reality that depends on human decisions. The essays also analyze intentionality in Law as an artifact and the possible deficiencies of legal artifacts. The text reflects on the relationship between the normative and the factual, and highlights the importance of identifying what is specifically legal. [Extracted from the article]

The article analyzes the book "Law and Morality. Regarding the Embryo" by Luigi Ferrajoli, which addresses the issue of the embryo from a philosophical and legal perspective. The 53/1985 ruling of the Constitutional Court in Spain is discussed, which protects the embryo as a legal good but does not recognize its own personality. The author also questions the intervention of the State in the private moral life of citizens and the prohibition of abortion based on the idea that life precedes birth. Ferrajoli defends the right to abortion and argues that criminalization only leads to illegal and clandestine abortions. He proposes that the law intervene through judgments instead of laws and addresses surrogacy, proposing the exclusion of obligations for the gestational woman. [Extracted from the article]

Mark Walters's book examines the intellectual development and legacy of Albert Venn Dicey, one of the most influential constitutional theorists of the twentieth century. By sifting through an impressive array of published and unpublished sources, Walters reconstructs Dicey's characteristic legal turn of mind and invites readers to interpret it in the best possible light by highlighting implicit, but unarticulated, connections between his theory of constitutional law and the much older tradition of common law constitutionalism. The book deepens one's understanding of the historical context that enveloped and informed Dicey's distinct legal perspective and convincingly debunks the popular assumption that his influential constitutional theory repurposes Austinian conceptions of law and sovereignty. Furthermore, the book questions whether other aspects of Dicey's constitutional theory – particularly, his provocative excursus on the relationship between the rule of law and droit administratif – should be reconsidered in light of subtle revisions in his later works. While Walters's pluralistic interpretation of Dicey's assessment of droit administratif is more tentative, it sheds an important new light on how his highly influential constitutional theory might be rehabilitated to enable contemporary public lawyers and theorists to grapple with otherwise intractable problems through the common law method of reasoning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The text is a review of the book "On the Reality of Law. Legal Philosophy" written by Alfredo Cruz Prados. The author addresses topics related to the philosophy of law, such as the concept of law, its relationship with morality, the theory of natural rights, and the knowledge of law. He focuses on the perspective of classical legal realism, especially in the way Michel Villey understands it. The author argues that in modern legal thinking, the theory of natural rights is the only way in which natural law has found a place. He also discusses the relationship between natural rights and human nature, and suggests that the foundation of natural rights is freedom as a condition of man. [Extracted from the article]

The book "The Way of Experience or the Exit from the Labyrinth" by Spanish philosopher Juan Manuel Burgos proposes to reconsider the demands of human knowledge based on the ideas of classical realism tradition. The author seeks to overcome the objections of modern and postmodern rationalism and empiricism, as well as to find a way out of the fragmenting labyrinth of postmodern epistemology. Burgos takes experience as a starting point, following the path initiated by Karol Wojtyla in his book "Person and Action". The author analyzes different Western epistemological proposals, such as classical realism, Hume's empiricism, Kantian constructivism, and Husserlian phenomenology. He highlights the difficulties of the Thomistic model of knowledge and the need to consider human subjectivity for adequate personal knowledge. The author of the article analyzes different epistemological approaches, starting with Hume's skeptical empiricism, who argues that sensory data lack coherence and stability. Then he refers to Kant's rationalism, who proposes that forms are created by the human mind to structure experience. However, the author challenges this solution by arguing that the laws of reality are not in our mind. Finally, Husserl is mentioned, who adopts an idealistic stance by putting extramental reality in parentheses. The author argues that Karol Wojtyla's thinking can overcome the labyrinth of modern knowledge by recognizing that the starting point of knowledge lies in objective and subjective experience. In addition, he develops the "method of integral experience" that emphasizes conscious interaction with reality as the starting point of human knowledge. The author of the book analyzes the relationship between ordinary knowledge and scientific and philosophical knowledge. The question is raised of whether there is continuity between both types of knowledge or if only the latter is true. The idea that scientism is the only valid form of knowledge is criticized, and a broader and more open vision of truth is proposed. The author argues that critical knowledge must start from ordinary knowledge and that without the latter, there would be no knowledge at all. The question of the meaning of reality is also addressed, and a partial reworking of metaphysics and anthropology centered on the notion of person is proposed. In summary, the book seeks to update and strengthen the issue of human knowledge, incorporating the contributions of modern and contemporary authors. [Extracted from the article]

The text is a review of the book "The Birth of Philosophy of Law" by Rafael Ramis Barceló. The author questions the idea that the notion of "philosophy of law" was born with Gustav Hugo and seeks to study previous manuals and theses to determine if the expression changes its meaning from Hugo onwards. The importance of resorting to direct sources instead of second-hand citations is highlighted. Various theorists of legal positivism in the 19th century are mentioned, such as Ludwig Knapp, Rudolph von Jhering, and Carl Bergbohm. The author connects the philosophia iuris of the 17th and 18th centuries with the 19th-century debate on the "philosophy of law". [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on a book "Breaching the Bronze Wall" by Francisco Apellániz on decisive end to the Cairo Sultanate, the regime of Mamluk sultans which had dominated the Arabic-speaking Eastern Mediterranean for two and a half centuries. It mentions evolution that the legal regime underwent in the period bridging the Mamluk to Ottoman periods. It also mentions Islamic jurisprudence made it clear that the optimal evidence.

The article is a review of the book "El derecho como bien jurídico. Un'introduzione alla filosofia del diritto" written by Carlos José Errázuriz in collaboration with Petar Popović. The book offers an introduction to the philosophy of law and is aimed at both future canonists and scholars of philosophy and legal theory. The author presents the notion of "bien jurídico" (legal good) as equivalent to the idea of "justice" and highlights the importance of human rights as an expression of fundamental legal goods. The book addresses the relationship between legal goods, legal norms, and subjective rights, and defends an ethical and altruistic perspective in legal relationships. [Extracted from the article]