Search for dissertations about: "legal argument"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 33 swedish dissertations containing the words legal argument.
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1. Armed intervention, pursuing legitimacy and the pragmatic use of legal argument
Abstract : This study examines how States use legal arguments in cases of armed intervention and how this usage can influence the development of international law. The objective is to contribute to the understanding of the law on armed intervention by conducting a study of how States actually use legal arguments to justify or condemn armed interventions in actual cases. READ MORE
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2. Reasoning by Analogy - A Study on Analogy-Based Arguments in Law
Abstract : This doctoral dissertation is a study on analogy-based arguments in law. Its overarching aim is to clarify reasoning by analogy in law. A model is proposed for analyzing and assessing arguments from analogy in law. READ MORE
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3. Unfit to live among others : Essays on the ethics of imprisonment
Abstract : This thesis provides an ethical analysis of imprisonment as a mode of punishment. Consisting in an introduction and four papers the thesis addresses several important questions concerning imprisonment from a number of different perspectives and theoretical starting points. READ MORE
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4. Ethics of Imprisonment : Essays in Criminal Justice Ethics
Abstract : This licentiate thesis consists of three essays which all concern the ethics of imprisonment and what constitutes an ethically defensible treatment of criminal offenders.Paper 1 defends the claim that prisoners have a right to privacy. I argue that the right to privacy is important because of its connection to moral agency. READ MORE
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5. Individual Responsibility for the Crime of Aggression
Abstract : This thesis examines the attribution of criminal responsibility for the crime of aggression in international criminal law. Prosecuting aggression is predicated by the so-called leadership clause—an individual can be held responsible only if he or she meets the requirement of being in a position of control over or to direct state action. READ MORE