Methods, theory and philosophy of law

Offers a comprehensive philosophical analysis of transparency in government.

Rarely in the short history of liberal-democratic government has a primer on basic liberal-democratic values and institutions been more needed than now.

Examines contemporary perspectives on law through Twining''s scholarly work and with a focus on ethical, global and theoretical contexts.

Italian Constitutional Justice in Global Context is the first book ever published in English to provide an international examination of the Italian Constitutional Court (ItCC), offering a comprehensive analysis of its principal lines of jurisprudence, historical origins, organization, procedures, and its current engagement with transnational European law.

This Handbook discusses representative philosophers in the history of the philosophy of law and social philosophy, giving clear concise expert definitions and explanations of key personalities and their ideas.

Free speech has been a historically volatile issue in higher education.

This book deals with the concept of post-Islamism from a mainly philosophical perspective, using political liberalism as elaborated by John Rawls as the key interpretive tool.

This book provides a set of proposals for the new conceptual network required in order to establish civil law rules for a world permeated by Artificial Intelligence.

Whilst feminist philosophy has frequently engaged with political theory, this original book instead considers legal theory and the practical operation of law.

This volume collects key influential papers that have animated the debate about information computer ethics over the past three decades, covering issues such as privacy, online trust, anonymity, values sensitive design, machine ethics, professional conduct and moral responsibility of software developers.

All knowledge is always a matter of change, as this book underlines.

In the Supreme Courts 2008 ruling on whether Guantanamo detainees could be barred from U.

The book describes in a retrospective way how dignity and human rights evolved.

Jurisprudence is the science or body of ordered knowledge which deals with a particular species of law.

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

This is a timely contribution to the debate on the rights and liberties of religion, beliefs, and conscience in an age of secularization.

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

This book deals with the concept of post-Islamism from a mainly philosophical perspective, using political liberalism as elaborated by John Rawls as the key interpretive tool.

Awarded the 2013 Birks Book Prize by the Society of Legal Scholars, Women, Judging and the Judiciary expertly examines debates about gender representation in the judiciary and the importance of judicial diversity.

This book examines the law and its practice in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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

Tackling juvenile offending has become a key part of crime reduction strategies.

This book demonstrates the importance of Leon Duguit for property theory in both the civil and common law world.

Zum 70-jährigen Jubiläum des Bundesverfassungsgerichts im Jahr 2021 betrachtet dieser Band die Rechtsprechung des höchsten deutschen Gerichts zu religiös-weltanschaulichen Fragen.

This volume collects six original essays by internationally respected researchers who have devoted themselves to the study of legal obligation.

The book brings together 33 state-of-the-art chapters on the import and the pros and cons of legal positivism.

Building Better Beings presents a new theory of moral responsibility.

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

Brings together leading philosophers and legal scholars to explore the practical implications of free will skepticism for law and society.

The right to security of person is widely recognized but little understood.

Lying is a familiar and morally important phenomenon.

This book intertwines two major themes in contemporary legal theory - the concepts of human dignity and the problem of the autonomy and limits of the law - while also addressing two other key aspects - the first one concerned with human rights practices and foundations (in their direct connections with the issue of dignity), the second one considering the role that the law's aspirations attribute to the experience of an autonomous subject-person (and the demands that identify his/her position in the dialectical counterpoint with the rethinking of a community).

This accessible book analyses transitional justice and discusses how it differs from retributive, corrective, and distributive justice.

Explores the role of international legal scholars in the construction of legal knowledge, looking at examples from the cyberwar debate.

The Chinese have, since ancient times, professed a non-litigious outlook.

It is increasingly argued that a focus on environmental sustainability is fundamental to effective and equitable governance, and ultimately for the good of mankind.

This book considers the efficacy of the common regulatory model of the licensing regime as a means of regulating animal use in England, with a particular focus on wild animals and the regime's ability to ensure animal welfare needs are met.

A partir de la obra de Giovanni Tarello, y bajo su maestria, se ha conformado en Genova un grupo de investigadores que conto enseguida con el empuje de Silvana Castignone y Riccardo Guastini, y en el que se formaron filosofos del derecho como Mauro Barberis, Paolo Comanducci y Pierluigi Chiassoni, entre otros.

This book delves into the transformative efforts that sought to redefine punishment and rehabilitation, highlighting the pivotal role of Community Service Orders (CSO) and the legislative push to abandon the use of Short-Term Prison Sentences (STPS) for fine default.

A theoretical analysis of the structure of expropriation in investment law, investigating the foundations for contemporary scholarship and practice.

This book is a comprehensive guide for legal, business, and technology professionals seeking to understand the intersection of sustainability and emerging technologies in the legal ecosystem.

A framework for the exploration of accountability deficits (gaps) and overloads (overlaps) in the context of public governance regimes.

"La forma del derecho pretende explicar el derecho entendiendo que esa explicación no es aclaración conceptual, sino inteligibilidad institucional, que la teoría del derecho busca hacer inteligibles instituciones que efectivamente existen.