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This book explores challenges for law brought about by various disruptive realities, exploring the past as well as the future. Contributions examine the law and revolution in 1918, challenges posed by more gradual political or technological transformations, the effects of globalisation, and challenges posed for law by the Covid-19 pandemic.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Law, Justice and (R)evolution 1920-2020; 2. Law and Revolution; Part I: Law and Revolution Before and After 1918; 3. The Idea of Revolution in 1918; 4. Ivan Žolger, A Forgotten (R)evolutionary in the Constitutional Processes of Two Successive Polities in 1918?; 5.
Ius et Vis - Two Understandings of the Origins of Law; 6. Understanding the Law; Part II: Law, Policies and Politics; 7. Criminal Law and Crime Policy in Transition Countries: Between Human Rights and Effective Crime Control; 8. Evolution or Revolution? The Future of Criminal Justice in England and Wales after Brexit; 9. Law, Evolution and Constitutional Courts; 10. Plotting (R)evolution? On Critical EU International Relations Law; 11. The Quiet Revolution of Global Governance Law; Part III: Law and (Dis)continuity; 12.
Rechtsdogmatik and Change; 13. Artificial Intelligence - An important Part of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR): Challenges and Chances for Europe; 14. Litigating the Innovation Paradox; Part IV: Law and the Changing Social World; 15. (R)evolution of the Social Security Law in a Changing World: From protecting the poor to the workers and finally every member of the society?; 16. Social Security and Democracy; 17. Surrogate Mother, Co-Mother, Biological or Genetic Mother, Legal or Social Mother: Which is the real one?; Part V: Rethinking the law; 18.
De Minimis Non Curat Lex? Law and Little Things; 19. Legal Monism and the Challenge of Legal Pluralisms; 20. Shall the Justice of the Whole Earth Not Do Justice? The Revolutionary Copernican Moment in the Relationship of God's Law, Humanity and Justice; 21. Epilogue: Law and Justice in a Time of the Pandemic
About the author
Matej Accetto is President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia and Associate Professor of European Law at the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Law.
Katja Škrubej is Associate Professor of Legal History at the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Law and its former Vice-Dean.
Joseph H.H Weiler is University Professor at NYU School of Law and Senior Fellow at the Harvard Center of European Studies.
