Search for dissertations about: "legal discourse"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 43 swedish dissertations containing the words legal discourse.

2. 1. A Call for Scientific Purity : Axel Hägerström's Critique of Legal Science

   Author : Max Lyles; Claes Peterson; Marie Sandström; Heikki Pihlajamäki; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Legal history; Axel Hägerström 1868-1939 ; Uppsala School; Scandinavian Legal Realism; philosophy; anti-metaphysics; anti-subjectivism; legal philosophy; legal science; legal positivism; legal realism; Begriffsjurisprudenz; natural law; Sweden; Legal history; Rättshistoria; Historia; History;

   Abstract : The subject matter of this study forms an analysis of Axel Hägerström’s (1868-1939) theories of law and legal science - ideas that were formative both for the Uppsala School and Scandinavian Legal Realism. By means of a close analysis of Hägerström’s epistemology and ontology, the general principles of his theory of science have been outlined, especially the marked stance of anti-metaphysics (anti-subjectivism), the logical notion of reality, and the application of conceptual analyses. READ MORE

4. 2. Förrättsligande. En studie av rättens risker och möjligheter med fokus på patientens ställning

   Author : Leila Brännström; Juridiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; law in the field of health care; patients’ rights; the legal position of the patient; Weber; Habermas; Foucault; conceptions of law; ethical and political approaches; legal approaches; judicial supremacy; regulation through legal norms; constitutional norms; Rancière; law and politics; emancipatory politics; political discourse; legal discourse; judicialization; juridification;

   Abstract : The aim of the present doctoral thesis is to study and conceptualize juridification as a phenomenon. This aim comprises analyzing the theories through which juridification as an empirical development is interpreted. In this thesis juridification signifies displacements towards legal discourse. READ MORE

5. 3. Party or patient? : Discursive practices relating to coercion in psychiatric and legal settings

   Author : Stefan Sjöström; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychiatry; Compulsory Care; Civil Commitment; Court Hearings; Discursive Practices; Discourse Analysis; Institutional Discourse; Re-contextualisation; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

   Abstract : The subject matter of this study is professional discourse concerning psychiatric assessments, particularly those relating to compulsory care. Discursive practices in two institutional settings are compared, namely a psychiatric clinic and an administrative court. READ MORE

6. 4. Sinners and citizens : bestiality and homosexuality in Sweden 1880-1950

   Author : Jens Rydström; George Chauncey; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; gay and lesbian history; gender; sodomy; homosexuality; bestiality; sexual history; modernity; welfare state; Swedish history; queer theory; medical discourse; legal discourse; Homosexualitet; attityder; historia; Sverige; 1800-talet; 1900-talet; historia; History;

   Abstract : This study is based on an analysis of more than 2,300 court cases concerning acts of bestiality and same-sex sexuality in rural and urban Sweden 1880-1950. Other written sources are forensic psychi-atric statements, mental hospital records, material from the Swedish Sex Reform movement, news-papers and scientific journals, and minutes of the Swedish Parliament and its subcommittees. READ MORE

7. 5. Implementation of International Human Rights Law: A Discourse Theoretical Study Illustrated by the Right to Family Planning in Indonesian Law

   Author : Johanna Nilsson; Juridiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; discourse analysis; reproductive rights; family planning; Indonesia; Indonesian law; international human rights law; discourse theory; International law;

   Abstract : Discourse theory methodology provides an alternative and novel framework for human rights implementation as a topic of legal research. By conceptualising implementation of international human rights norms in a national legal context as a play of discourses competing for hegemony, it becomes possible to explore the workings of human rights constructions as well as where and how implementation fails or succeeds. READ MORE