Jurisprudence category: 1225 books
Human Rights and Empire
The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
Erudite and timely, this book is a key contribution to the renewal of radical theory and politics. Addressing the paradox of a contemporary humanitarianism that has abandoned politics in favour of combating evil, Douzinas, a leading scholar and author in the field of human rights and legal theory,...
The Vantage of Law
Its Role in Thinking about Law, Judging and Bills of Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
The premise of this book is that a shift of vantage will help elucidate various important issues of law related to judging, to bills of rights and to more abstract questions of legal philosophy. The work begins by focussing on the jurisprudential issue of whether it is desirable to keep separate the...
Kadi on Trial
A Multifaceted Analysis of the Kadi Trial
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Thejudgment of the European Court of Justice concerning the Kadi case has raised substantive and procedural issues that have caught the attention of scholars from many disciplines including EU law, constitutional law, international law and jurisprudence. This book offers a comprehensive view of the...
by Bebhinn Donnelly
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Exploring the relationship between natural law theory and the philosophy of law, Bebhinn Donnelly proposes a new approach to natural law theory - one which addresses some of the tradition's shortcomings and advances further its approach to Hume's dichotomy. Key features: ¢ Provides a clear definition...
by Ruti G. Teitel
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Among the most prominent and significant political and legal developments since the end of the Cold War is the proliferation of mechanisms for addressing the complex challenges of transition from authoritarian rule to human rights-based democratic constitutionalism, particularly with regards to the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
In recent years we have witnessed major developments in philosophical inquiry concerning the nature of law and, with the continuing development of international and transnational legal institutions, in the phenomenon of law itself. This volume gathers leading writers in the field to take stock of...
The Logic of Legal Requirements
Essays on Defeasibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
When a legal rule requires us to drive on the right, notarize our wills, or refrain from selling bootleg liquor, how are we to describe and understand that requirement? In particular, how does the logical form of such a requirement relate to the logical form of other requirements, such as moral requirements,...
Vulnerability
Reflections on a New Ethical Foundation for Law and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Martha Albertson Fineman’s earlier work developed a theory of inevitable and derivative dependencies as a way of problematizing the core assumptions underlying the ’autonomous’ subject of liberal law and politics in the context of US equality discourse. Her ’vulnerability thesis’ represents...
Justice as Friendship
A Theory of Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This book explores the question of justification of law. It examines some perennial jurisprudential debates and suggests that law must find its justification in morality. Drawing upon the Aristotelian inspiration that friends have no need for justice - in (ideal) friendship, we behave justly - Seow...
Legisprudence
Practical Reason in Legislation
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This book establishes legisprudence, in contrast to jurisprudence, as a legal theory of rational law-making. It suggests that by rejecting the common wisdom about the nature of political law-making, legislation could be improved and streamlined. Using the methods, theoretical insights and tools of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
This handbook is a detailed reference source comprising original articles covering the origins, history, theory and practice of Islamic law. The handbook starts out by dealing with the question of what type of law is Islamic law and includes a critical analysis of the pedagogical approaches to studying...
Legal, Moral, and Metaphysical Truths
The Philosophy of Michael S. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Perhaps more than any other scholar, Michael Moore has argued that there are deep and necessary connections between metaphysics, morality, and law. Moore has developed every contour of a theory of criminal law, from philosophy of action to a theory of causation. Indeed, not only is he the central...
Stanley Fish on Philosophy, Politics and Law
How Fish Works
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Fish's writings on philosophy, politics and law comprise numerous books and articles produced over many decades. This book connects those dots in order to reveal the overall structure of his argument and to demonstrate how his work in politics and law flows logically from his philosophical stands...
by James Constant
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Jurisprudence. Philosophy of Law. Uncertainty of Law and Constitutional Government. This book looks at Argument and Program for Certainty in Law: The Status Quo; New Politics; New Constitution; New Laws; Law and Entropy