Methods, theory and philosophy of law

This volume addresses the study of family law and society in Europe, from medieval to contemporary ages.

The Economics of Lawmaking explores the relative advantages and limits of alternative sources of law.

Wenige Autoren wurden in den letzten Jahren so intensiv und extensiv diskutiert wie Carl Schmitt.

Scholars from political science and law examine the latest research on the constitutionalization of politics in comparative perspective.

This book seeks to further the understanding of the human experience of coerced and forced ignorance on social, human rights and criminal justice related topics, drawing together scholars from multiple, disciplinary fronts.

Written to be accessible to all readers with a basic knowledge of tort law, this book adopts an approach which is both easily comprehended, yet also innovative and illuminating.

This book develops and defends a conception of commitment and explores its limits.

Studies in Law, Politics, andSociety provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles within thebroad parameters of interdisciplinary legal scholarship.

While an abundance of literature covers the right of states to defend themselves against external aggression, this is the first book dedicated to the right to personal self-defense in international law.

Lawyers and the law have long been the object of popular criticism and satire for the obscurity and incomprehensibility of their language.

Why is there so much attention on Kant's global politics in present day law and philosophy?

This book, formed as a series of essays in honour of Professor Carl Baudenbacher, addresses the very art of judicial reasoning, and features contributions from many of the foremost current or former national, supranational, or international judges.

This collection explores and illustrates issues arising from 'political' approaches to human rights in contrast to the more traditional 'moral' approaches.

This book deals with the development of constitutional law in China and Visegrad states by employing a comparative perspective.

This book examines the subtle ways in which rhetorics of sacrifice have been re-appropriated into the workings of the global political economy in the 21st century.

Forgotten Reformer traces criminal justice practice and reform developments in late nineteenth-century America through the life and career of Robert McClaughry, a leading reformer.

This book explores the consequences of eight exemplary cases around which the common law developed to reveal the diverse and uncoordinated attempts by the courts to adapt the law to changing conditions.

"El libro de autoría del ilustre jurista Jorge Isaac Torres Manrique presenta aportes al Derecho, especialmente en lo que se refiere a los derechos fundamentales y la perspectiva interdisciplinar, permitiendo nuevos aspectos al ordenamiento jurídico actual.

Provides students with an introduction to legal philosophy, using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to reflect on human rights.

Hans Vaihinger (1852-1933) was an important and fascinating figure in German philosophy in the early twentieth century, founding the well-known journal Kant-Studien.

The imagined community of the nation,which served as the affective basis for the post-French Revolution social contract, as well as its institutional counter-part, the welfare state, are currently under great stress as states lose control over what once was referred to as the national economy In this book a number of authors historians, legal scholars, political theorists consider the fate of national democracy in the age of globalization.

This book explore the power of judicial review as held by the United States Supreme Court.

This book analyses the phenomenon of digitally mediated property and considers how it problematises the boundary between human and nonhuman actors.

As trade and production have increasingly crossed international boundaries, private bodies and governments alike have sought new ways to regulate labour standards and advance goals of fairness and social justice.

Americans have a deeply ambivalent relationship to guns.

In one of the lengthiest, noisiest, and hottest legal debates in U.

Zehn Jahre nach dem Inkrafttreten des Völkerstrafgesetzbuches (VStGB) vereinigt der vorliegende Sammelband unterschiedliche Blickwinkel und Perspektiven auf das noch junge Gesetzeswerk und dessen Praxis.

The Routledge Handbook of Law and Death provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary scholarship on the intersections of law and death in the 21st century.

The main feature of this work is that it explores criminal behavior from all aspects of Tinbergen's Four Questions.

1 PURPOSE AND TOPIC We live in the age of treaties.

Seminar-, Bachelor-, Masterarbeiten und Dissertationen sollen die Fähigkeit der Studierenden zu selbstständigem wissenschaftlichem Arbeiten belegen.

The law relating to general defences is one of the most important areas in the criminal law, yet the current state of the law in the United Kingdom reveals significant problems in the adoption of a consistent approach to their doctrinal and theoretical underpinnings, as exemplified by a number of recent developments in legislation and case law.

The problem of moral luck is that there is a contradiction in our common sense ideas about moral responsibility.

This book considers the challenges of constitution-making when gender equity and agency are goals.

Uberto Scarpelli (1924–1993) es una figura central en la filosofía del derecho italiana del siglo pasado.

Unless considered on a practical level, where a precise distribution of social goods is chosen, John Rawls's and Gerald Cohen's approaches to social justice cannot be complementary.

This book focuses on the problems of rules, rule-following and normativity as discussed within the areas of analytic philosophy, linguistics, logic and legal theory.

This volume offers a critical analysis and illustration of the challenges and promises of 'stateless' law thought, pedagogy and approaches to governance - that is, understanding and conceptualizing law in a post-national condition.

This edited volume focuses on what Hannah Arendt famously called "e;the raison d'etre of politics"e;: freedom.

Written by the eminent German legal historian, Michael Stolleis, these two 'Essays on Legal History' offer an original and compelling history of the symbolism through which law is characterised as being 'above' us.

This book explores the development of mental health systems in the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) of Samoa and Tonga through an examination of several policy transfer events from the colonial to the contemporary.

High levels of police corruption have been a persistent historical tendency in police services throughout the world.

From the ancient beginnings of Western legal tradition, law has been conceived as traversed by a fundamental tension between power (will) and reason.

This book addresses practical issues in connoisseurship and authentication, as well as the legal implications that arise when an artwork's authenticity is challenged.

Drafting Legislation sets out to prove Sir William Dale's doctrine that the rules for drafting good quality legislation are the same in common and civil systems of law.