Symbolic Legislation Theory and Developments in Biolaw

Symbolic Legislation Theory and Developments in Biolaw

van Beers, Britta; van Klink, Bart; Poort, Lonneke

Springer International Publishing AG

06/2018

301

Mole

Inglês

9783319814957

15 a 20 dias

654

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Contributors.- Preface: New Challenges.- 1 Introduction: Symbolic Dimensions of Biolaw; Lonneke Poort, Britta van Beers & Bart van Klink.- Part I Symbolic Legislation: The Symbolic Quality of Law.- 2 Symbolic Legislation: An Essentially Political Concept; Bart van Klink.- 3 The Emerging Interactionist Paradigm and the Ideals of Democracy and Rule of Law; Wibren van der Burg.- 4 How Law Matters: Sociological Reflections on the Symbolic Dimension of Legislation; Rob Schwitters.- 5 The Tension between the Functions of Law: Ending Conflict vs. Dynamics; Lonneke Poort.- 6 Symbolic Legislation and Authority; Oliver W. Lembcke.- 7 On Legal Symbolism in Symbolic Legislation: A Systems Theoretical Perspective; Jiri Priban.- Part II Symbolic Approaches to Biolaw: Biolaw as a Symbolic Order.- 8 The Law and the Symbolic Value of the Body; JonathanHerring.- 9 Revisionist versus Broad Bioethics and Biolaw; Herman De Dijn.- 10 Bioeconomy, Moral Friction and Symbolic Law; Klaus Hoeyer.- 11 From Winged Lions to Frozen Embryos, Neomorts and Human-Animal Cybrids: The Functions of Law in the Symbolic Mediation of Biomedical Hybrids; Britta van Beers.- 12. The Symbolic Meaning of Legal Subjectivity; Dorien Pessers.- Part III Legislative Strategies: Regulating Biomedical Developments from a Symbolic Perspective.- 13 The Natural, the Informational, the Claimable? Human Body Material in US and European Patent Law; Sigrid Sterckx and Julian Cockbain.- 14 Material uncertainty: Nanomaterials, Regulation and Symbolic Legislation; Robert Lee and Elen Stokes.- 15 The Democratic Legitimacy of Interactive Legislation of the European Union Concerning Human Embryo Research; Nicolle Zeegers.- 16 Changing Expectations of Experts: the Symbolic Role of Ethics Committees; Lonneke Poort and Bernice Bovenkerk.- 17 Law as a Symbolic Order: Some Concluding Remarks; Britta van Beers, Bart van Klink and Lonneke Poort.
Biological aspects of human life;Commodification of the human body;Concept of Symbolic Legislation;Deficit of Egg Cell Regulation;Developments in the field of biolaw;Dimensions of the Human Body;Experts in Symbolic Legislation;Interactionist legislative strategies;Legal debate and open-endedness of legal norm development;Regulating Biolaw from a Symbolic Perspective;Symbolic Dimensions of Biolaw;Symbolic Function of Ethics Committees;Symbolic Function of Law in Bioethical Matters;Symbolic Legislation and Authority;Symbolic Legislation and Biolaw;Symbolic Legislation and Communication;Symbolic Quality of Law;Symbolic aspirations and effects of bio-ethical legislation;Symbolic dimension of biolaw on a European level;The Human Body in Law