Real Legal Certainty and its Relevance - 9789087283155

Real Legal Certainty and its RelevanceEssays in honor of Jan Michiel Otto\nAuthor(s): Adriaan Bedner, Barbara Oomen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Leiden University Press, Netherlands\nImprint: Leiden University Press\nISBN-13: 9789087283155, 978-9087283155\nSynopsis\nThe concept of real legal certainty provides a much needed corrective to the general attention for legal certainty in this day and age. It emphasises relations between citizens, adds socio-legal insight, provides a view from below, and thus leads to more realistic insights on how to build state institutions. The concept was introduced by Leiden Universitys professor of Law and Governance in Developing countries Jan Michiel Otto, and can be considered a central pillar of his work. Against the backdrop of an ever-increasing interest in legal certainty in policy-making and academia, friends and colleagues of Jan Michiel Otto engage with the concept provide a wide variety of examples of its relevance. Drawing on case materi.