Stephen Skinner
Biographic Data
| ID | 4490477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Skinner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Skinner |
| SIGNATURE | SKINNER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4964-4857 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Fault Lines in the Rule of Law
This article critically examines the significance of the relationship between past and present for understanding liberal democratic values in the European context. The article starts by reflecting on the terms used to evaluate the apparent decline in the rule of law in Europe, including ‘backsliding’. It argues that these terms are indicative of a conceptual framework of analysis that includes a temporal dimension but is only partly historical, d…
Lethal Force, the Right to Life and the ECHR
In its case law on the use of lethal and potentially lethal force, the European Court of Human Rights declares a fundamental connection between the right to life in Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights and democratic society. This book discusses how that connection can be understood by using narrative theory to explore Article 2 law’s specificities and its deeper historical, social and political significance. Focusing on the domes…
Ideology and Criminal Law
With populist, nationalist and repressive governments on the rise around the world, questioning the impact of politics on the nature and role of law and the state is a pressing concern. If we are to understand the effects of extreme ideologies on the state’s legal dimensions and powers – especially the power to punish and to determine the boundaries of permissible conduct through criminal law – it is essential to consider the lessons of history. …
Fascism and criminal law
Fascism has been described as 'the major political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain'. Brutal, repressive and in some cases totalitarian, the fascist and authoritarian regimes of the early twentieth century, in Europe and beyond, sought to create revolutionary new orders that crushed their opponents. A central component of such regimes' exertion of control was criminal law, a focal point and key instrument of…
The Right to Life, Democracy and State Responsibility in 'Urban Guerilla' Conflict
This Grand Chamber judgment resulted from the shooting of a demonstrator, Carlo Giuliani, during the mass protests that accompanied the G8 Summit in Genoa on July 2001.1 Following an operation by a group of carabinieri military police against a protest march, a carabiniere Land Rover became isolated and was subjected to a violent attack by a crowd of demonstrators. Trapped in the back of the vehicle, suffering from the effects of tear gas and exh…
Tainted law? The Italian Penal Code, Fascism and democracy
The current Italian Penal Code is the direct descendant of the 1930 Rocco Code. Originally a hybrid of authoritarian and liberal elements, but revised and reinterpreted in the postwar Republic, the Code was nevertheless introduced under the Fascists and has not been definitively replaced or renamed. Given such roots, this article argues that the Code's legitimacy can be questioned by considering the significance of the Fascist past in terms of th…
Stories of Pain and the Pursuit of Justice
Following Robert Cover's essay on law's “field of pain and death”, Austin Sarat and Thomas Kearns have presented the bases for a “jurisprudence of violence,” part of which requires including experiential accounts of (law's) violence in legal theory. This article explores these writers' understanding of violence, its relationships with law and the relevance of its experiential impact for jurisprudence, before focusing on two methodological issues.…
A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England, 1783-1846
BEFORE the advent of ‘the long eighteenth century’, a Berlin Wall lay between the historiography of eighteenth- and of nineteenth-century Britain, generally constructed, for no very good reason, at Waterloo. On its far side lay the moral economy, gin lane, Gordon riots, and on its near the age of equipoise. The partition was embodied in the preceding volumes in the Oxford History of England series, J. Steven Watson, The Reign of George III, 1760–…
Death in Genoa
A Benevolent Institution for the Suppression of Evil’
The study of law in literature stimulates critical reflection about law and the limits of its institutions by expanding contextual analysis to include the emotive discourses of fiction. This article starts from the premisses that the orthodox separation of literary expression from social scientific writing is not immutable and that different temporal settings are not barriers to exploring themes that traverse them. It uses Joseph Conrad's The Sec…
Blackstone's Support for the Militia
First published online: 01 January 2000
A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England, 1783-1846
BEFORE the advent of ‘the long eighteenth century’, a Berlin Wall lay between the historiography of eighteenth- and of nineteenth-century Britain, generally constructed, for no very good reason, at Waterloo. On its far side lay the moral economy, gin lane, Gordon riots, and on its near the age of equipoise. The partition was embodied in the preceding volumes in the Oxford History of England series, J. Steven Watson, The Reign of George III, 1760–…
Death in Genoa
Tainted law? The Italian Penal Code, Fascism and democracy
The current Italian Penal Code is the direct descendant of the 1930 Rocco Code. Originally a hybrid of authoritarian and liberal elements, but revised and reinterpreted in the postwar Republic, the Code was nevertheless introduced under the Fascists and has not been definitively replaced or renamed. Given such roots, this article argues that the Code's legitimacy can be questioned by considering the significance of the Fascist past in terms of th…
Stories of Pain and the Pursuit of Justice
Following Robert Cover's essay on law's “field of pain and death”, Austin Sarat and Thomas Kearns have presented the bases for a “jurisprudence of violence,” part of which requires including experiential accounts of (law's) violence in legal theory. This article explores these writers' understanding of violence, its relationships with law and the relevance of its experiential impact for jurisprudence, before focusing on two methodological issues.…
Blackstone's Support for the Militia
First published online: 01 January 2000
Death in Genoa
A Benevolent Institution for the Suppression of Evil’
The study of law in literature stimulates critical reflection about law and the limits of its institutions by expanding contextual analysis to include the emotive discourses of fiction. This article starts from the premisses that the orthodox separation of literary expression from social scientific writing is not immutable and that different temporal settings are not barriers to exploring themes that traverse them. It uses Joseph Conrad's The Sec…
A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England, 1783-1846
BEFORE the advent of ‘the long eighteenth century’, a Berlin Wall lay between the historiography of eighteenth- and of nineteenth-century Britain, generally constructed, for no very good reason, at Waterloo. On its far side lay the moral economy, gin lane, Gordon riots, and on its near the age of equipoise. The partition was embodied in the preceding volumes in the Oxford History of England series, J. Steven Watson, The Reign of George III, 1760–…
Stories of Pain and the Pursuit of Justice
Following Robert Cover's essay on law's “field of pain and death”, Austin Sarat and Thomas Kearns have presented the bases for a “jurisprudence of violence,” part of which requires including experiential accounts of (law's) violence in legal theory. This article explores these writers' understanding of violence, its relationships with law and the relevance of its experiential impact for jurisprudence, before focusing on two methodological issues.…
The Right to Life, Democracy and State Responsibility in 'Urban Guerilla' Conflict
This Grand Chamber judgment resulted from the shooting of a demonstrator, Carlo Giuliani, during the mass protests that accompanied the G8 Summit in Genoa on July 2001.1 Following an operation by a group of carabinieri military police against a protest march, a carabiniere Land Rover became isolated and was subjected to a violent attack by a crowd of demonstrators. Trapped in the back of the vehicle, suffering from the effects of tear gas and exh…
Tainted law? The Italian Penal Code, Fascism and democracy
The current Italian Penal Code is the direct descendant of the 1930 Rocco Code. Originally a hybrid of authoritarian and liberal elements, but revised and reinterpreted in the postwar Republic, the Code was nevertheless introduced under the Fascists and has not been definitively replaced or renamed. Given such roots, this article argues that the Code's legitimacy can be questioned by considering the significance of the Fascist past in terms of th…
Fascism and criminal law
Fascism has been described as 'the major political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain'. Brutal, repressive and in some cases totalitarian, the fascist and authoritarian regimes of the early twentieth century, in Europe and beyond, sought to create revolutionary new orders that crushed their opponents. A central component of such regimes' exertion of control was criminal law, a focal point and key instrument of…
Lethal Force, the Right to Life and the ECHR
In its case law on the use of lethal and potentially lethal force, the European Court of Human Rights declares a fundamental connection between the right to life in Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights and democratic society. This book discusses how that connection can be understood by using narrative theory to explore Article 2 law’s specificities and its deeper historical, social and political significance. Focusing on the domes…
Ideology and Criminal Law
With populist, nationalist and repressive governments on the rise around the world, questioning the impact of politics on the nature and role of law and the state is a pressing concern. If we are to understand the effects of extreme ideologies on the state’s legal dimensions and powers – especially the power to punish and to determine the boundaries of permissible conduct through criminal law – it is essential to consider the lessons of history. …
Fault Lines in the Rule of Law
This article critically examines the significance of the relationship between past and present for understanding liberal democratic values in the European context. The article starts by reflecting on the terms used to evaluate the apparent decline in the rule of law in Europe, including ‘backsliding’. It argues that these terms are indicative of a conceptual framework of analysis that includes a temporal dimension but is only partly historical, d…
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