Real Legal Certainty and Its Relevance : Essays in Honour of Jan Michiel Otto

Bedner, Adriaan (EDT); Oomen, Barbara (EDT)

ISBN 10: 9087283156 / ISBN 13: 9789087283155

Editore: Leiden University Press, 2018

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• Titolo: Real Legal Certainty and Its Relevance : Essays in Honour of Jan Michiel Otto
• Editore: Leiden University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9087283156
• ISBN 13: 9789087283155
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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The concept of “real legal certainty” provides a much-needed corrective to the general attention legal certainty currently receives, emphasizing relations between citizens, adding socio-legal insight, and providing a “view from below” Real legal certainty thus leads to more realistic insights on how to build state institutions. The concept was introduced by Leiden University’s professor of law and governance in developing countries Jan Michiel Otto, and can be considered a central pillar of his work.
In this volume, friends and colleagues of Otto engage with the concept of real legal certainty against the backdrop of an ever-increasing interest in legal certainty in policy-making and academia, providing a wide variety of examples of its relevance. Drawing on case material from all over the world, they show how real legal certainty can be understood in a bottom-up manner and how it is relevant for building state institutions. They also show how the concept can gain in relevance by taking non-state actors into account. In all, the volume is important reading for all whom share Otto’s interest in translating law in the books and into law in action.
 

Informazioni sugli autori

Adriaan Bedner is a professor of law and society in Indonesia at Leiden University’s Van Vollenhoven Institute.
Barbara Oomen holds a chair in the sociology of human rights at Utrecht University, and teaches at University College Roosevelt in Middelburg.
 

Adriaan Bedner is a professor of Law and Society in Indonesia at the Van Vollenhoven Institute (Leiden University). He wrote his PhD about administrative courts in Indonesia under the supervision of Jan Michiel Otto and has continued to collaborate with the latter for almost 20 years on numerous PhD-projects, the INSELA-project on environmental law in Indonesia, the INDIRA-project on land law issues, socio-legal teaching projects in Indonesia and many other things.Barbara Oomen holds a chair in the Sociology of Human Rights at Utrecht University, and teaches at University College Roosevelt in Middelburg. Her PhD research, on traditional authorities in South Africa, was supervised by prof. Otto. Since, she has worked on transitional justice, legal pluralism, human rights in the Netherlands and human rights cities at the University of Amsterdam, Columbia University and the European University Institute in Florence.