Methods, theory and philosophy of law

This title was first published in 2002: This book is an analysis of the ways in which mental states ground attributions of responsibility to persons.

The Logic of Liberal Rights uses basic logic to develop a model of argument presupposed in all disputes about civil rights and liberties.

This Element offers a critical review of forensic linguistic studies in the Philippines.

Legal pluralism involves the coexistence of multiple forms of law.

Among several contesting views about the purpose of development and how progress should be evaluated, human rights and capabilities (or human development) stand out as two approaches that are concerned first and foremost with the well-being of individuals, their freedom, dignity and empowerment.

In the United States today criminal justice can vary from state to state, as various states alter the Modern Penal Code to suit their own local preferences and concerns.

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.

Events: The Force of International Law presents an analysis of international law, centred upon those historical and recent events in which international law has exerted, or acquired, its force.

This book seeks to question the widely held assumption in Europe that to have knowledge of law is simply to have knowledge of rules.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the legal and regulatory framework for the nuclear industry from an Asian perspective.

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

Taking a critical attitude of dissatisfaction towards rights, the central premise of this book is that rights are technologies of governmentality.

Die Sammlung soll kaleidoskopartig ein Gesamtbild des seit der Antike intensiv gepflegten Nachdenkens über Recht und damit des Rechts als kultureller Erscheinung vermitteln; ein Gesamtbild, das Unentbehrlichkeit, ja sogar Glanz, ebenso aber auch Elend von Recht, Justiz und Rechtswissenschaft reflektiert.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of major topics in the philosophy of punishment from many of the field's leading scholars.

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Forgiveness brings into conversation research from multiple disciplines, offering readers a comprehensive guide to current forgiveness research.

The Ancient Greek notion of agonism, meaning struggle, has been revived in radical legal and political theory to rethematize class conflict and to conceptualize the conditions of possibility of freedom and social transformation in contemporary society.

This book argues that the moral quality of an act comes from the agent's inner states.

An historical analysis of how ethnicity shaped international law and why it is relevant to minorities and ethnic conflicts today.

This book presents an ethnography of dispute processing by non-state forums and actors in rural India.

This book explores the question of whether the ideal right to science and culture exists.

This book brings together academics, legal practitioners and activists with a wide range of pro-choice, pro-life and other views to explore the possibilities for cultural, philosophical, moral and political common ground on the subjects of abortion and reproductive justice more generally.

In the wake of Brexit and Trump, the debate surrounding post-truth fills the newspapers and is at the center of the public debate.

This book reflects on the research and career of political theorist Russell Hardin from scholars of Political Science, Philosophy, Sociology, Economics, and Law, among other disciplines.

This book explores how judiciaries in different parts of the world are responding to climate change and how climate change intersects with the law.

Leading scholars from a startling array of disciplinary perspectives chart an exciting new course for legal research in this first volume of a two-volume series.

This book explains what inalienable rights are and how they restrict the behavior of their possessors.

Esta obra explora y desarrolla los temas iusfilosóficos que subyacen a una concepción argumentativa del Derecho (que el autor presentó hace unos años en su Curso de argumentación jurídica), esto es, cómo entender el Derecho, el conocimiento jurídico, la justicia o la propia filosofía del Derecho.

This Handbook brings together 40 of the world's leading scholars and rising stars who study international law from disciplines in the humanities - from history to literature, philosophy to the visual arts - to showcase the distinctive contributions that this field has made to the study of international law over the past two decades.

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Advocates for a dignified constitutional democracy aimed at enabling fraternal conversation within the framework of a community of equals.

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.

This book assesses the role of social justice in legal scholarship and its potential future development by focusing upon the 'leading works' of the discipline.

Solon (c 658-558 BC) is famous as both statesman and poet but also, and above all, as the paramount lawmaker of ancient Athens.

This book defines the characteristics of a new discipline that is both legal and scientific: user-friendly legal science.

This volume explores new interfaces between linguistics and jurisprudence.

Islamic jurisprudence is a much misunderstood system.

This interdisciplinary collection examines the significance of constitutions in setting the terms and conditions upon which market economies operate.

When does the exercise of an interest constitute a human right?

This book provides a thoroughgoing discussion of the modes of reasoning utilized in judge-made (or common) law.

This is a revised and extensively rewritten edition of one of the most influential monographs on legal philosophy published in recent years.

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

Islamic legal theory (usA l al-fiqh) is literally regarded as 'the roots of the law' whilst Islamic jurists consider it to be the basis of Islamic jurisprudence and thus an essential aspect of Islamic law.

This book is a response to the dangers posed to constitutional democracy by the continuous growth of executive power and the simultaneous decline of parliaments' role in policy formation.

Law is traditionally conceived as consisting of norms of conduct and power-conferring norms.

In this book I argue for an approach that conceives human rights as both moral and legal rights.

Rudolf von Jherings wissenschaftliches Werk hat in gleich zweifacher Hinsicht Grenzen gesprengt: zum einen nationale Grenzen im Sinne eines bisher nur in Ansätzen erforschten ›legal transfer‹, der weit über die Grenzen Europas hinausreicht, sowie zum anderen Grenzen zwischen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen wie Recht, Soziologie oder Kulturanthropologie.

This book explores a hitherto unexamined possibility of justifiable disobedience opened up by John Rawls' Law of Peoples.