From Needs to Rights—A Socio-Legal Account of Bridging Moral and Legal Universalism via Ethical Pluralism

From Needs to Rights—A Socio-Legal Account of Bridging Moral and Legal Universalism via Ethical Pluralism

The question of the universality of human rights has much in common with the question of the universality of ethics. In the form of a multidisciplinary reflexive survey, the aim of this article is to show how human rights discourses derive from more basic principles related to basic needs. These needs are the universal grammar for moral principles, which will be distinguished from ethical norms...

The Internet, Legal Regulation and Legal Pluralism

Considerable academic effort is being expended in considering how to regulate various activities on the internet, particularly those as relate to obscene material, breaches of privacy and challenges to intellectual property rights. Post and Johnson (1997) offer the following solution which is typical; 'We believe that the most obvious answer to this question -existing territorial sovereigns -ma...

Ethical, moral, and legal issues in speech and language pathology.

Legal and ethical matters

As David and Brierley (1968) pointed out, each political society in the world has its own law. In fact, it frequently happens that several laws coexist within the same state. Moreover, law is not static; it is in a state of flux, of evolution. The development of the law is shaped by logic, history, custom and utility, as well as the accepted standards of right conduct (Cardozo, 1921). It is the...

Causes of Judicial and Legal Criminal Policy Disagreement in Drug-Related Offenses from the Legal-Ethical Approach

Background: The legislative review of the criminal record on the crime of repetition and the severity of the punishment for repeated offenders indicates that the legislator firstly used various laws to include repetition of crime, and in some cases such as drug offenses and for criminal reasons. It has taken into account a certain degree of exacerbation that is markedly different from what is s...