Collapsing Legitimacy: How the Crime of Aggression Could Affect the icc’s Legitimacy

Legitimacy-as-Feeling: How Affect Leads to Vertical Legitimacy Spillovers in Transnational Governance

Transnational governance schemes (TGSs) are interorganizational networks of public and/or private actors that jointly regulate global public policy issues, such as the prevention of human rights violations and the protection of ecosystems. Considering that TGSs mainly address issues of public concern, the general public represents a major source of legitimacy in transnational governance. We the...

Rationality, Legitimacy, & The Law

American legal realism was committed to examining legal reasoning in terms of the actual experiences of judges. Because the realist project sought to use social science tools to examine human nature, the contemporary rise of cognitive neuroscience provides an occasion for reexamining legal realism’s foundational critique of the law. Realism’s attempt to examine “the actual facts of judicial beh...

The Association of Effectiveness and Legitimacy

Who, Why and How : Assessing the Legitimacy of Secession

Since the breakdown of bipolarity, the international community had to cope with independence movements spreading in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe. Given the peculiar coercive character of the Soviet and Yugoslav Federations and the Soviet Union’s hegemonial rule in Central Europe, the wish for independent statehood can be understood as a sum of single secessionist movements. This art...

The Legitimacy of Prohibiting Euthanasia

Résumé Abstract John Arras se positionne contre la légalisation du suicide assisté par un médecin et celle de l’euthanasie active sur la base des coûts sociaux, qu’il anticipe comme résultat probable de cette légalisation. Arras croit que la légalisation hautement balisée du suicide assisté est le premier pas vers la légalisation de l’euthanasie active sans restriction particulière, une prédict...