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L’Affaire Harry. Petite Scientifiction, Vinciane Despret, Serge Gutwirth
L’Affaire Harry. Petite Scientifiction, Vinciane Despret, Serge Gutwirth
Serge Gutwirth
Departing from a fictive situation the article envisions the possibility to confer the status of legal person to apes. It explores the existing legal debate and notes that there is a crucial difference between the status of person from a legal and from a symbolic perspective. The article further considers the consequences of an adaptation of the law in this sense, not for the humans as is usually the case, but for the other animals who would not benefit from such change.
Beyond Identity ?, Serge Gutwirth
Beyond Identity ?, Serge Gutwirth
Serge Gutwirth
The concept of ‘identity’ offers little hope, even when it is subtly and dynamically conceived. My reasons for this scepticism are clear. On the one hand, collective identities are always constraining reductions, limiting the freedom of self-determination of the individual, reducing him or her to one or two of his/her characteristics. On the other, in most of its common understandings, the individual concept of ‘identity’ refers to something static, pre-existing, determining and even ‘imprisoning’ the individual. Even when such a narrow view is not taken and when the concept of individual identity is more subtly and dynamically conceived, I persist, …
The Evaluation Of Legal Science. The Vl.I.R.-Model For Integral Quality Assessment Of Research In Law : What Next ?, Serge Gutwirth
The Evaluation Of Legal Science. The Vl.I.R.-Model For Integral Quality Assessment Of Research In Law : What Next ?, Serge Gutwirth
Serge Gutwirth
It is impossible to assess legal research on the basis of international bibliometric evaluation techniques more or less widely accepted in other scientific disciplines. To negatively evaluate a Belgian legal researcher because he has too few ISI publications is the same as saying that a Thai restaurant is no good because there are no chips or pizzas on the menu. If legal science has its own validity criteria it should also have its own evaluation criteria. Indeed, the best solution is to use the thorough quality-content assessment and comparative peer review ; but for reasons already explained, the peer review …
Blurring Als Methode, Ideologie Als Resultaat: Walgrave’S Restorativisme” (Een Reactie Op De Locomotieftekst “Criminologie En Strafrechtelijk Beleid” Van Lode Walgrave), Serge Gutwirth
Serge Gutwirth
Een reactie op een tekst van Lode Walgrave die tegelijk een aanval is op het restorativisme, en in het bijzonder zijn door Walgrave uitgedragen maximalistische variant
Data Protection In The Case Law Of Strasbourg And Luxemburg : Constitutionalisation In Action, Paul De Hert, Serge Gutwirth
Data Protection In The Case Law Of Strasbourg And Luxemburg : Constitutionalisation In Action, Paul De Hert, Serge Gutwirth
Serge Gutwirth
Seemingly, the history of data protection is a success story culminating in the recognition of data protection as a separate fundamental right in the 2000 EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. This paper assesses the future of the approach taken towards data protection. Using Lessig’s typology, the EU Charter should be regarded as a transformative constitution rather than as a codifying constitution. Of these two types, the transformative constitution is clearly the more difficult to realize, since it must act when the constitutional moment is over. Lessig is sceptical about the role of the courts when it comes to realizing such …