Methods, theory and philosophy of law

Judicial decision-making may ideally be impartial, but in reality it is influenced by many different factors, including institutional context, ideological commitment, fellow justices on a panel, and personal preference.

In this age of collections that is ours, many volumes of collections are published.

This book examines the legal principle of judicial independence in comparative perspective with the goal of advancing a better understanding of the idea of an independent judiciary more generally.

The Humanity of Private Law presents a new way of thinking about English private law.

What one can know depends on one's evidence.

Your guest at dinner kisses you.

In recent decades the debate among scholars, lawyers, politicians and others about how societies deal with their past has been constant and intensive.

This textbook is an ambitious and engaging introduction to the more advanced writings on Jurisprudence, primarily designed to allow students to 'get under the skin' of the topic and begin to build their critical thinking and analysis skills.

In an ideal world, the laws of Congress--known as federal statutes--would always be clearly worded and easily understood by the judges tasked with interpreting them.

This book explores the relevance of virtue theory to law from a variety of perspectives.

Besides generating wealth, globalization makes victims, including victims of new forms of crime.

Aunque Alexy ha sido criticado por destacados juristas alemanes y una parte de esa crítica ha sido publicada también fuera del circuito alemán, no se ha introducido hasta ahora una postura alternativa, cuyas objeciones han obtenido el espacio para un debate en pie de igualdad con la teoría de los principios.

This book analyses the abuse of idealism with particular reference to China's Cultural Revolution.

Following the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, and again during the Gorbachev and Yel'tsin eras, the issue of individual legal rights and freedoms occupied a central place in the reformist drive to modernize criminal justice.

The Handbook of Business Ethics: Philosophical Foundations is a standard interdisciplinary reference handbook in the field of business ethics.

The third edition of Ingrid Detter's authoritative work explores the changing legal context of modern warfare in light of events over the last decade.

Elaborates and illustrates a radical version of political and social liberalism rooted in a rich understanding of fulfilment and flourishing.

This book celebrates Andreas (Andrew) von Hirsch's pioneering contributions to liberal criminal theory.

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Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes, investigating such questions as: What does it mean to be an agent?

This work explains the nature of constitutional rights.

This book explores both the possibilities and limits of arguments from human nature in the context of human rights.

This book, based on the theory of Marxism-Leninism, aims to study the essence, content and features of various legal systems in China in different historical periods, as well as the rules of the development of Chinese legal system.

Introduces an Islamic theory of social justice to inform the theories and design of global intellectual property regimes.

This book discusses how Plato, one the fiercest legal critics in ancient Greece, became - in the longue duree - its most influential legislator.

This book provides an epistemological study of the great Islamic scholar of Banjarese origin, Syeikh Muhammad Arsyad al-Banjari (1710-1812) who contributed to the development of Islam in Indonesia and, in general, Southeast Asia.

Glen Newey argues that toleration is not just desirable but, given the nature of politics, inescapable.

Philip Jessup coined the term "e;transnational law"e; in his Storrs Lecture on Jurisprudence delivered in 1956 to describe law that regulates activities or actions that transcend national borders.

The book shows that civil disobedience is generally more defensible than private conscientious objection.

Torture and Moral Integrity tackles a concrete moral problem that has been hotly debated by governments, scholars, and the media: the morality of interrogational torture.

This book uses the monographic study of litigation subjects, prosecution, trial, and enforcement to reveal the formation, operation, and development of criminal proceeding conventions in the Tang Dynasty.

This book offers the first theoretical approach to rules of evidence and the practice of judicial proof in China written in English by a Chinese professor.

This is the first ever collected volume on John Austin, whose role in the founding of analytical jurisprudence is unquestionable.

The aim of this book is to explore what it means to live a life under the law.

Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health examines critical issues and debates including access to knowledge and medicinal products, human rights and development, innovations in life technologies and the possibility for ethical frameworks for intellectual property law and its application in public health.

In the existing literature, there is no universal standard for defining obscenity.

This book answers two basic but under-appreciated questions: first, how does the American criminal justice system address a defendant's family status?

This book investigates the dynamic intertwinement of law and morality, with a focus on new and developing fields of law.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

A dialogue between international responsibility lawyers and legal philosophers laying the groundwork for new research and legal reform.

Lawyers, law students and their teachers all too frequently overlook the most comprehensive, adaptable and practical analysis of legal discourse ever devised: the classical art of rhetoric.

Die Autoren legen eine Darstellung der Rechtsgeschichte vom Ende des weströmischen Reiches bis zum Umbruch um 1800 vor, die sich in Gliederung und Perspektive von der älteren, ausgesprochen oder unausgesprochen auf den Staat bezogenen Rechtsgeschichte löst.

Ranging over a host of issues, Property Rights: A Re-Examination pinpoints and addresses a number of theoretical problems at the heart of property theory.

This book compares the respective concepts of the law of nations put forward by the Spanish theologian Francisco Suarez and by the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius.

It is a sine qua non of legal practice that lawyers should not allow themselves to act for two clients whose interests may,potentially, conflict.

This exploration of the newly emerging, diverse, and controversial area of animal lawpresents a basic survey of the laws designed to protect animals, analyzing and critiquing them, and proposing a future where the legal regime properly recognizes and protects the inherent worth of all animals.

Analysing international law through the prism of "e;cynicism"e; makes it possible to look beyond overt disregard for international law, currently discussed in terms of a backlash or crisis.