All Outputs (6)

At the crossroads of law and ideology: The ideology of law as a reflection of social ontology? (2017)
Journal Article
Platsas, A. E. (2017). At the crossroads of law and ideology: The ideology of law as a reflection of social ontology?. Wroclaw Review of Law, Administration and Economics, 7(2), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1515/wrlae-2018-0013

The paper examines the link between ideology in law and social ontology. Whereas academic enquiries have thus far mainly concentrated on the link between law per se and social reality, the question of the relationship of the ideology of law and socia... Read More about At the crossroads of law and ideology: The ideology of law as a reflection of social ontology?.

Law as an enabling device (2017)
Journal Article
Platsas, A. E. (2017). Law as an enabling device. International Journal of Law and Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, 3(2), 25-33

To many, law may be perceived as nothing more than a restrictive device. To the legal scholar, however, law may be perceived as an enabling device, even where it restricts. Nonetheless, it would not be appropriate to maintain that every restrictive n... Read More about Law as an enabling device.

The Cambridge handbook of human dignity: Interdisciplinary perspectives (2017)
Journal Article
Platsas, A. E. (2017). The Cambridge handbook of human dignity: Interdisciplinary perspectives. International Journal of Human Rights, 21(5), 650-651. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2017.1298090

The academic examination of the concept of dignity in the theoretical disciplines is certainly one which has not been as thorough as one may have anticipated. Considering the concept’s centrality for human existence, it would seem that the exploratio... Read More about The Cambridge handbook of human dignity: Interdisciplinary perspectives.

A cosmopolitan ethos for our future lawyers (2015)
Journal Article
Platsas, A. E. (2015). A cosmopolitan ethos for our future lawyers. Law Journal of the Higher School of Economics, 1, 150-168

This article advocates the strengthening of the spirit of cosmopolitanism in modern legal education. In contrast to the epistemic environment of predominantly domestic and nation-oriented discourses across law schools and faculties around the world,... Read More about A cosmopolitan ethos for our future lawyers.

Law in the spirit of our age: Between modernism and post-modernism? (2015)
Journal Article
Platsas, A. E. (2015). Law in the spirit of our age: Between modernism and post-modernism?. Juridiskā Zinātne, 8, 198-213

The paper examines the epistemic position of the subject of law vis-à-vis modernity, postmodernity and the related themes of modernism and postmodernism, taking Western jurisprudence as the analytical paradigm. Western jurisprudence is given a wider... Read More about Law in the spirit of our age: Between modernism and post-modernism?.

The rule of law in the modern European context: A critical note (2013)
Journal Article
Platsas, A. E. (2013). The rule of law in the modern European context: A critical note. Contemporary Readings in Law and Social Justice, 2013(2), 333-337

The Rule of Law as a concept in contemporary Europe is not one which has the exact same connotations as the connotations which the concept used to have decades ago. It grew to become a significantly wider concept than traditionally perceived. Its val... Read More about The rule of law in the modern European context: A critical note.