Methods, theory and philosophy of law

This book addresses how the erosion of traditional forms of political association and legal regulation has given rise to a pluralism of "e;imperfect communities"e; constantly exposed to the risk of dissolution.

The history of ideas on rule of law for world order is a fascinating one, as revealed in this comparative study of both Eastern and Western traditions.

This new book advances a fresh philosophical account of the relationship between the legislature and courts, opposing the common conception of law, in which it is legislatures that primarily create the law, and courts that primarily apply it.

This book investigates law's interaction with practical reasons.

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.

Marrying legal doctrine from five pioneering and conversant jurisdictions with contemporary political philosophy, this book provides a general theory of discrimination law.

Hegels »Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts« zählen zu den klassischen und wirkungsmächtigsten Werken der neuzeitlichen Rechts- und Staatsphilosophie.

The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law provides a comprehensive overview of critical topics in fiduciary law and theory through chapters authored by leading scholars.

Privacy, which digital citizens eagerly relinquish, is not so essential to the health and welfare of democracy after all.

Criminal Law: Historical, Ethical, and Moral Foundations, 3rd edition, blends legal and moral reasoning in the examination of crimes and explores the history relating to jurisprudence and roots of criminal law.

This book offers a multidisciplinary account of the 'rule of law' as a central pillar of the classical liberal tradition.

This book points to a crisis at the heart of modern family law's treatment of "e;collaborative family-making"e;: gamete contributions, surrogate motherhood, adoption, functional parenthood, foster care, and kin caregiving.

Mechanical Choices details the intimate connection that exists between morality and law: the morality we use to blame others for their misdeeds and the criminal law that punishes them for these misdeeds.

Although our moral lives would be unrecognisable without them, roles have received little attention from analytic moral philosophers.

Do animals have legal rights?

Chinas traditional system of dispute resolution and maintenance of order in society has been treated by Western scholars as legal history, but because the Chinese system is radically different from European systems in its conceptual structure and therefore does not fit into the familiar categories and models of Western law and jurisprudence, such treatment has been inadequate and often misleading.

Examines different ways of understanding power in copyright, trademark and patent policy.

Criminalization is a new series arising from an interdisciplinary investigation into the issue of criminalization, focussing on the principles and goals that should guide decisions about what kinds of conduct are to be criminalized, and the forms that criminalization should take.

A New Introduction to Jurisprudence takes one of the central problems of law and jurisprudence as its point of departure: what is the law?

Das "Recht ex machina" ist ein Traum, den die Menschheit seit langem träumt.

This edited collection considers the work of one of the most important legal philosophers of our time, Professor Gerald J Postema.

A definitive perspective on the development of the South African legal system in the early twentieth century.

Using a multi-disciplinary approach, this volume shows how international law shapes behavior.

This book considers the relationship between proportionality and facts in constitutional adjudication.

The notion of "e;natural law"e; has repeatedly furnished human beings with a shared grammar in times of moral and cultural crisis.

This book provides a new, linguistic approach to Argumentation Theory.

The development of an international human rights jurisprudence on criminalization is in its relative infancy.

The major intellectual interest throughout this book is to offer a study on China's legal legacy, through Liang Shu-ming's eyes.

This volume looks at how courts and the police handle racial discrimination in Europe.

This book builds a case for how social norms are neither mere conventions nor are they merely anthropological phenomena, which are relativistic.

Dieciséis ensayos dedicados a la discusión de problemas vinculados a la prueba, la argumentación y la justicia.

This book brings together a large and diverse collection of philosophical papers addressing a wide variety of public policy issues.

The academic disciplines of law and sociocultural anthropology have a long but at times contentious history of drawing on each other in order to study and understand law and human experience in its diverse manifestations.

Depression is amorphous.

This volume examines cases of accommodation and recognition of minority practices: cultural, religious, ethnic, linguistic or otherwise, under state law.

Not the Marrying Kind is a new and comprehensive exploration of the contemporary same-sex marriage debates in several jurisdictions including Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Die Arbeit befasst sich mit den im StGB verwendeten Gesetzestechniken zur Strafschärfung, insbesondere der Regelbeispielsmethode für besonders schwere Fälle.

This book explores the legal conception of personhood in the context of contemporary challenges, such as the status of non-human animals, human-animal biological mixtures, cyborgisation of the human body, or developing technologies based on artificial autonomic agents.

The attitude we take to power is almost invariably one of distrust, never more so than when it claims to be sovereign.

This collection on transitional justice sits as part of a library of essays on different concepts of 'justice'.

Vor dem Hintergrund einer religionsgeschichtlichen und naturphilosophischen Rekonstruktion des frühneuzeitlichen Gesetzesbegriffs beschreibt der Autor die Ablösung einer theologisch fundierten durch eine philosophisch begründete Moral.

Nobody's Law shows how people - who are disappointed, disenchanted, and outraged about the justice system - gradually move away from law.

First published in 1980, Natural Law and Natural Rights is widely heralded as a seminal contribution to the philosophy of law, and an authoritative restatement of natural law doctrine.

Medicinal and aromatic crops (MACs) are high-value crops since the natural products obtained from them are low-volume high-value commodities that have numerous applications in various sectors such as the food, beverage, food supplement, flavor and fragrance, perfumery and cosmetics, pharmaceutical and aromatherapy industries.

Extending law beyond the human, the book probes the conceptual openings, methodological challenges and ethical conundrums of law in a time of deep socio-ecological disturbances and transitions.

This book offers a detailed account of the legal issues concerning the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands) by leading experts in the field.

This collection of essays emphasizes society's increasingly responsible engagement with ethical challenges in emerging medical technology.

Ethics and regulation have become catchwords of the late 1990s, yet relatively little has been written about the ethical discourse and regulation of the legal professions in England and Wales.