Book Review: Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy, 1678–1865 by Alexandra Ganser.

Autor: Cotter, Hayley
Zdroj: International Journal of Maritime History; Aug2023, Vol. 35 Issue 3, p504-506, 3p
Abstrakt: Is Ganser arguing for a contrapuntal reading of the natural and positive law divide as it relates to the pirate figure? Ganser's disjointed method leaves the reader to wonder: What broader role I do i images play in Ganser's theory? And yet, in traditional legal thought, natural law and positive law rest at opposite ends of the jurisprudential spectrum, and as the twentieth-century debates demonstrate, a hard-line commitment to positive law generally precludes espousal of natural law. [Extracted from the article]
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