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To Punish Or To Restore? A False Alternative, Serge Gutwirth, Paul De Hert
To Punish Or To Restore? A False Alternative, Serge Gutwirth, Paul De Hert
Serge Gutwirth
The authors claim that restorative justice is mainly an ideological movement that lacks convincing empirical, anthropological or legal grounds. Instead of trying to make criminal law more restorative, or even trying to replace penal law by an alternative system of restorative law, restorative thinkers had better turn to the opportunities that the civil law offers for ‘horizontal’ conflict resolution. Their critique of restorativist ideology does not imply that the authors want to defend criminal justice as it is administered today in Western Europe, to the contrary. On the one hand the scope of criminal law could and should be drastically …
Le Port De Signes Convictionnels Par Des Agents Publics, Cécile Mathieu, Paul De Hert, Serge Gutwirth
Le Port De Signes Convictionnels Par Des Agents Publics, Cécile Mathieu, Paul De Hert, Serge Gutwirth
Serge Gutwirth
Les auteurs se penchent sur une des questions analysées par le Comité de pilotage des Assises de l’Interculturalité, à savoir le port des signes convictionnels par les agents publics. L’analyse de cette question a d’ailleurs donné lieu à une recommandation du Comité de pilotage, qui a suggéré l’adoption d’une interdiction du port des signes convictionnels limitée aux agents publics titulaires d’une fonction d’autorité. Cette question est intimement liée au devoir de neutralité de l’Etat, qui est souvent mobilisé pour justifier une interdiction, à un point tel que, dans le débat public, toute position autre qu’une interdiction générale est vue par …
Protecting Dignitary Interests Of Biobank Research Participants : Lessons From Havasupai Tribe Vs. Arizona Board Of Regents, Kristof Van Assche, Serge Gutwirth, Sigrid Sterckx
Protecting Dignitary Interests Of Biobank Research Participants : Lessons From Havasupai Tribe Vs. Arizona Board Of Regents, Kristof Van Assche, Serge Gutwirth, Sigrid Sterckx
Serge Gutwirth
This paper discusses the recent Havasupai case with a view to investigating the concept of dignitary harm and its relevance in the context of biobank research. The Native American Havasupai tribe objected to research that had been done on their blood samples and to results that were stigmatising and disruptive to their selfunderstanding. We show that the Havasupai case holds particularly valuable lessons regarding appropriate consent requirements, the level of protection offered by anonymisation procedures, and the scope of participants' right to withdraw consent. Next we consider the Code of Federal Regulations and identify major flaws which are exposed by …