Prof. Kevin Aquilina: Treatise on the Principles of Maltese Public Law, Book One - Midsea Books Limited, 2024, cxviii + 1003pp.
Treatise on the Principles of Maltese Public Law is the first comprehensive treatise, that will consist of around ten volumes, on Maltese Public Law from an inter-disciplinary perspective. It offers to the reader an updated, holistic, and inter-disciplinary approach to the study of Maltese Public Law.
This treatise is conceived and planned as an original, pioneering, innovative, and – due to its interdisciplinary and eclectic contribution that goes beyond a legalistic conception of the subject-matter – an out of the box approach that will hopefully pave the way to further in-depth analysis of Maltese Public Law. The treatise draws upon non-legal disciplines pertinent to law, such as philosophy, theology, sociology, criminology, political science, public policy, international relations, literature, and government studies. It contributes to repositioning the current limited understanding of Maltese legal science that is more focused inwardly than outwardly.
Book One of the Treatise discusses the juridical nature of Maltese Public Law by proposing a new definition of Law; Studies Law and cognate disciplines, namely Law and Society, the science of law, jurisprudence, and philosophy of law, legal science as distinct from social science, law and culture, the conundrum of the just law, the nuance between legal and licit, and law versus policy, decision, and the State. It distinguishes Public Law from Private Law and introspects this distinction through a case study on the divorce law; discriminates between Eternal Law, Divine Law, Natural Law, and Positive Law, unpacks the international dimension of Public Law in all its guises and flavours; compares and contrasts Military Law, Martial Law, and Public Emergency Law; studies: law making power by contraposing the Constitution to Parliament, the relationship between law and morality, Public Law and non-legally binding typologies of obligations and non-legal disciplines; and depicts the dissimilarities between criminal, administrative, military, disciplinary, and environmental offences, and civil wrongs.
A pre-publication offer of €125 (instead of €150) is available from the publisher till 31 October 2024.
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