Methods, theory and philosophy of law

This handbook advances the interdisciplinary field of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) by identifying thirty-five topics of ongoing research.

Formulation of Appropriate Laws: A New Multidisciplinary Modelling Approach and an Application to Electronic Funds Transfer Regulation.

This book examines the possibility of creating new ways of existing beyond human rights.

The book discusses discrimination based on sexual orientation in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Constitutional Court of Korea.

Kirk Ludwig develops a novel reductive account of plural discourse about collective action and shared intention.

This collection of essays presents Jeffrie G.

This volume examines the relationship between law and sacrifice as a crucial nexus for theorizing the dynamics of creation, destruction, transcendence, and violence within the philosophical and legal discourse of western society.

Ambiguity - an expression or utterance giving rise to at least two mutually exclusive interpretations - has been traditionally regarded as an ever-present, and therefore trivial, feature of EU law, alongside other forms of linguistic indeterminacy.

The philosophical discussion of state punishment is well on in years.

What role can resources that go beyond text play in the development of moral education in law schools and law firms?

David Luban analyzes the torture debate in the struggle against terrorism from a sophisticated philosophical and legal perspective.

What do different concepts like true lie, bad luck, honest thief, old news, spacetime, glocalization, symplexity, sustainable development, constant change, soft law, substantive due process, pure law, bureaucratic efficiency and global justice have in common?

El iusnaturalismo egoísta de Thomas Hobbes es una interpretación general de la teoría jurídica de Hobbes, y muestra la dependencia de dicha teoría respecto de la filosofía moral y epistemológica del filósofo inglés.

'Why do we vote in schools?

This book presents a new perspective on the debate around legitimacy, politics and constitutional law in Supreme Courts.

This book addresses current developments concerning the interpretation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the part of international courts and tribunals.

This book investigates whether treaty interpretation at the ECtHR and WTO, which are sometimes perceived as promoting 'self-contained' regimes, could constitute a means for unifying international law, or, conversely, might exacerbate the fragmentation of international law.

Normative Subjects alludes to the fields of morality and law, as well as to the entities, self and collectivity, addressed by these clusters of norms.

This book fills a major gap in the ever-increasing secondary literature on Hannah Arendt's political thought by providing a dedicated and coherent treatment of the many, various and interesting things which Arendt had to say about law.

This book presents 12 essays that focus on the analysis of the problems prompted by cyber operations (COs).

Los problemas acerca de la noción de prueba y de la justificación de las decisiones jurídicas sobre los hechos son de capital importancia teórica y práctica.

The book distils and articulates international law as a social construct.

This volume examines the contributions to International Law of individual members of the Advisory Committee of Jurists in the League of Nations, and the broader national and discursive legal traditions of which they were representative.

This book analyses and reconstructs the European Convention on Human Rights standard of application and execution of preventive deprivation of liberty.

During the 20th century many countries embarked on a process of constitutional secularization by which the role of religion gradually became limited.

In recent years, philosophical discussions of free will have focused largely on whether or not free will is compatible with determinism.

While masculinities theory has had much to say on relationships of subordination, few feminist legal scholars have examined the implications of masculinities theory for feminist legal theory.

Este libro constituye un ejercicio de filosofía del Derecho privado, entendida de un modo amplio, tanto en lo que hace a la filosofía como al Derecho privado.

Justice, the State and International Relations offers a review of historical traditions of international ethical and political theory in the light of modern developments in political philosophy.

Otra forma de acercarse al derecho es posible, es el espíritu que sintetiza, este libro; y una de esas otras formas es la literatura.

An accessible, comprehensive, and high quality companion to legal philosophy written by a stellar cast of international contributors.

In contrast to other figures generated within social theory for thinking about outsiders, such as Rene Girard's 'scapegoat' and Zygmunt Bauman's 'stranger', Foucault's Monsters and the Challenge of Law suggests that the figure of 'the monster' offers greater analytical precision and explanatory power in relation to understanding the processes whereby outsiders are constituted.

Combining theory with real-world examples, this book explores the classic problems of legal ethics and the philosophy of law.

The Oxford Handbook of International Legal Theory provides an accessible and authoritative guide to the major thinkers, concepts, approaches, and debates that have shaped contemporary international legal theory.

A major statement from one of the most influential political and legal theorists writing today.

Law, Rights and Power: Re-Reading Foucault is the first collection in English to fully address the relevance of Foucault's thought for law.

The book is the most comprehensive in its area and analyses many jurisdictions that have received little attention.

Todo el tiempo, con maestría, densidad y competencia, el profesor Ricardo invita al lector o lectora a esta travesía, marcada por avances y retrocesos, en el proceso de construcción histórica de los derechos de las personas.

This book provides a comprehensive political and legal examination of jus cogens, a complex doctrine essential to contemporary international society.

Law can be seen as a motley of different languages deployed in the legal domain.

Mercy is a marginalized virtue in contemporary public life, but understanding its complex conceptual history suggests how that might change.

Can a commitment to free speech be reconciled with the regulation of pornography?

This volume considers the impact that changing family norms have had on the responsibilities that the law allocates to people in family relationships.

After World War II, states transformed into 'collective fortresses' in order to protect competing ideological systems.