Methods, theory and philosophy of law

What is law?

In a concise, compelling argument, one of the founders and most influential advocates of the law and economics movement divides the subject into two separate areas, which he identifies with Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill.

At the intersection of law, feminism and philosophy, this book analyses the ways in which certain bodies and 'selves' continue to be treated as monstrous aberrations from the 'ideal' figure or norm.

This book intends to unite studies in different fields related to the development of the relations between logic, law and legal reasoning.

This book presents findings from a process evaluation carried out at a problem-solving court located in England: Manchester Review Court.

A coherent, wide-ranging and practical account of the role of consent in biomedicine, first published in 2007.

Do animals have legal rights?

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 book examines legal language as a language for special purposes, evaluating the functions and characteristics of legal language and the terminology of law.

This book explores the way domestic courts contribute to the maintenance of theinternational of law by providing judicial control over the exercises of public powers that may conflict with international law.

The book is an attempt to evaluate the reception of Continental philosophy (phenomenology,hermeneutics, deconstruction, etc.

Introduces students, scholars, and practitioners to the theory and history of the rule of law.

Este libro recoge una serie de estudios que, desde una perspectiva realista, afrontan algunos de los problemas más discutidos en el debate iusteórico contemporáneo.

Law's Ideal Dimension provides a comprehensive account in English of renowned legal theorist Robert Alexy's understanding of jurisprudence, as expanded upon from his publications A Theory of Legal Argumentation (OUP 1989), A Theory of Constitutional Rights (OUP 1985), and The Argument from Injustice (OUP 1992).

The specter of procedural injustice motivates many popular and scholarly objections to capital punishment.

Tuning into the collective understanding of law as lived experience, Knowing Justice is a timely and distinctive intervention in the field of law and literature.

This book is about heroes of law.

This book provides an accessible and systematic restatement of the desert model for criminal sentencing by one of its leading academic exponents.

Recent social and political developments in the EU have clearly shown the profound structural changes in European society and its politics.

This book examines what makes someone an evil person and how evil people are different from merely bad people.

Political theorists often imagine themselves as political architects, asking what an ideal set of laws or social structures might look like.

«Hace tiempo, en su clásico sobre la representación, Hanna Pitkin reconoció que no podemos entenderla plenamente sin adoptar una perspectiva sistémica.

This book critically addresses the still prevalent assumption of the individual's procedural disability in international judicial fora.

In this thought-provoking book, you'll find timeless questions explored through a fresh lens.

In 2010, Martin Loughlin, Professor of Public Law at the LSE, published Foundations of Public Law, 'an account of the foundation of the discipline of public law with a view to identifying its essential character'.

This book examines how contemporary migrants form and transform their involvement with the law in their host countries and which factors influence this relationship.

This book arises from a three-year study of Preventive Justice directed by Professor Andrew Ashworth and Professor Lucia Zedner at the University of Oxford.

Imagining New Legalities reminds us that examining the right to privacy and the public/private distinction is an important way of mapping the forms and limits of power that can legitimately be exercised by collective bodies over individuals and by governments over their citizens.

Presents a moral argument, grounded in natural law, for private property and the limits of rights.

The rule of law is sometimes expressed as 'no person is above the law'.

A wide-ranging comparative and in-depth examination of ancient legal systems and legal thought in ancient Western and Eastern societies.

This volume collects together Michael Freeman's work on the family and society, and the part law plays in defining, structuring and controlling it.

Enabling information interoperability, fostering legal knowledge usability and reuse, enhancing legal information search, in short, formalizing the complexity of legal knowledge to enhance legal knowledge management are challenging tasks, for which different solutions and lines of research have been proposed.

The Marketization of Religion provides a novel theoretical understanding of the relationship between religion and economy of today's world.

Illustrates the origin and ways of Western hegemony over other civilizations across the world.

The principle of solidarity is particularly important now because it is in juxtaposition to some current self-centered trends in politics: the crises that have upset the world in recent years, such as migrations, hegemonic aspirations, pandemics, and wars, have made self-evident the inadequacy of such selfish politics.

This work explores the relationship between Bentham's utilitarian practical philosophy and his positivist jurisprudence.

This book fills a major gap in the ever-increasing secondary literature on Hannah Arendt's political thought by providing a dedicated and coherent treatment of the many, various and interesting things which Arendt had to say about law.

Why do people evade paying taxes?

In recent years, controversy has surrounded the role of top government lawyers in the United States and the United Kingdom.

The revised edition of The Ontological Foundation of Ethics, Politics, and Law adds new concepts and discusses the views of additional thinkers.

This book presents the theory of the validity of legal norms, aimed at the practice of law, in particular the jurisdiction of the constitutional courts.

Lawmaking is paradigmatically a type of speech act: people make law by saying things.

Based on legal-philosophical research, and informed by insights gleaned from empirical case studies, this book sets out three central claims about integration requirements as conditions for attaining increased rights (ie family migration, permanent residency and citizenship) in Europe:(1) That the recent proliferation of these (mandatory) integration requirements is rooted in a shift towards 'individualised' conceptions of integration.