University of Groningen
Faculty of Law
David M. Buss is a professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, and well known among evolutionary psychologists and human ethologists for his books, such as The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating,1 The... more
Johan MG van der DennenPh.D. ... Keith F. Otterbein, How War Began (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2004), xv + 292 pages. ISBN:1-58544-330-1. ... Douglas P. Fry, The Human Potential for Peace: An anthropological challenge to... more
Drawing on the fact that justice is never explained in European legal discourse, but is used in conjunction with other principles and institutional decisions, this contribution argues that justice is used as a rhetorical tool to provide... more
In this paper I seek to de-tether the idea of agency from the epistemic pursuits of philosophers and legal scholars working on adaptive preferences and moral responsibility. What is common to such scholars is a move away from... more
This article situates the judgement of The Hague District Court in Urgenda Foundation v. the Kingdom of the Netherlands within the life of global climate change litigation. To do so, the paper concentrates on the legal particulars of... more