Bedner Adriaan (ed.).. Real Legal Certainty and its Relevance: Essays in Honor of Jan Michiel Otto. Leiden University Press,2018. — 261 p.. 2018
What are the chances that an Egyptian villager who is entitled to receive subsidised bread realises this right? What is the likelihood that an Indonesian city dweller who has lived for more than 40 years on a plot without disturbance obtains state recognition for her tenure? What are the prospects that a Libyan who lost his apartment under Gaddafi receives compensation? And what, to highlight another part of this puzzle, is needed to empower the Egyptian, the Indonesian, or the Libyan state institutions in such a manner that these chances increase? Which dynamics are at work in such cases? These questions, we venture, constitute the red thread that runs through the academic work of Jan Michiel Otto, who founded the field of Law, Governance and Development at Leiden University, and held the chair in this field from 2000 onwards. They led him to coin the concept of ‘real legal certainty' in his inaugural lecture in 2000 (Otto 2000b), and to expand on it in a volume on the implementation of the law in China (Otto 2002b). And although he never provided any further theoretical elaboration and seldom referred to the concept explicitly, it constitutes the backdrop to most of what he has since written. What is more, it is a concept with important potential in this day and age.
Books and textbooks on the discipline Theory of state and law:
- Allen Danielle, Benkler Yochai et al. (eds.). A Political Economy of Justice. The University of Chicago Press,2022. — 416 p. - 2022 ãîä
- Alexander Larry, Sherwin Emily. Advanced Introduction to Legal Reasoning. Edward Elgar,2021. — 200 p. - 2021 ãîä
- Ayupova Z.K.. Theory of state and law: textbook. - Almaty: Kazakh University,2015. - 192 pages. - 2015 ãîä
- Easteal Patricia (ed.). Justice Connections. Cambridge Scholars Publishing,2014. — 322 p. - 2014 ãîä
- Aarnio Aulis. Essays on the Doctrinal Study of Law. Springer Netherlands,2011. — 221 p. - 2011 ãîä
- Laski Harold J.. Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty. Batoche Books, Kitchener,1999. — 172 ð. - 1999 ãîä
- Barnes Rudolph C.. Military Legitimacy: Might and Right in the New Millennium.Frank Cass,1996. — 198 p. - 1996 ãîä
- Inis Claude L.. Myths about the State. States and the Global System. Macmillan Press,1988. — 213 p. - 1988 ãîä