Methods, theory and philosophy of law

This book, based on the theory of Marxism-Leninism, aims to study the essence, content and features of various legal systems in China in different historical periods, as well as the rules of the development of Chinese legal systems.

This volume brings together a range of influential essays by distinguished philosophers and political theorists on the issue of global justice.

The international doctrine of human rights is one of the most ambitious parts of the settlement of World War II.

As a distinct scholarly contribution to law, feminist legal theory is now well over three decades old.

This volume explores the continuous line from informal and unrecorded practices all the way up to illegal and criminal practices, performed and reproduced by both individuals and organisations.

The concept of human dignity is already embedded in the constitutional architecture of the European Union and throughout the world, but it remains a slippery and elusive concept.

This collection of essays offers thoughtful discussions of major challenges confronting the theory and practice of citizenship in a globalized, socially fragmented, and multicultural world.

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 anthology illustrates how law and economics is developing in Europe and what opportunities and problems - both in general and specific legal fields - are associated with this approach within the legal traditions of European countries.

Under pressure from globalisation, the classical distinction between domestic and international law has become increasingly blurred, spurring demand for new paradigms to construe the emerging postnational legal order.

This collective work provides a chronological and up-to-date reconstruction of the three-round debate between Robert Alexy and Ralf Poscher.

An edited volume that offers a critical re-evaluation of three fundamental and interlocking themes in American democracy.

In political theory, the traditional model of state power was that elected officials make policy decisions which are then faithfully executed by a lower cadre of public servants.

Globalisierung und Recht - so lautete der Titel eines rechtswissenschaftlichen Kongresses, den die Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (AvH) und der Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD) in Zusammenarbeit mit der Japan Foundation for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) im September/Oktober 2005 in Tokio ausgerichtet haben.

Brings a distinctive approach to bear on topics such as guilt, punishment and self-respect.

Judicial systems are under increasing pressure: from rising litigation costs and decreased accessibility, from escalating accountability and performance evaluation expectations, from shifting burdens of case management and alternative dispute resolution roles, and from emerging technologies.

This book challenges the idea that the Rule of Law is still a universal European value given its relatively rapid deterioration in Hungary and Poland, and the apparent inability of the European institutions to adequately address the illiberalization of these Member States.

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This book is a collection of articles that the author has pondered for a long time on the legal theory and practice of China's civil law.

This book explores the unusual and unique experience of direct democracy in the small state of New Zealand, where referendums have been a persistent feature of the political landscape for over a century.

This book - one in the four-volume set, Global Governance and the Quest for Justice - focuses on human rights in the context of 'globalisation' together with the principle of 'respect for human rights and human dignity' viewed as one of the foundational commitments of a legitimate scheme of global governance.

This book describes the development of human rights in the People's Republic of China since 1949.

This book discusses the question of whether legal interpretation is a scientific activity.

This book gathers together leading voices in virtue theory-an increasingly influential aspect of legal theory in the 21st century-to take stock of virtue jurisprudence's evolution and suggest ways in which this approach can be further developed.

Over the course of the twentieth century, democracies demonstrated an uncanny ability to win wars when their survival was at stake.

This book restores to view a masterpiece of beauty and legal scholarship, which has been lost for almost two hundred years.

An exploration of the dialectical role of repetition in international law, building on insights from philosophy, sociology, theatre and film.

This book argues that citizens have a moral right to decide by which criteria they grant migrants citizenship, as well as to control access to their territory in the first place.

'Debating Law' is a new, exciting series that gives scholarly experts the opportunity to offer contrasting perspectives on significant topics of contemporary, general interest.

In modern liberal democracies, rights-based judicial intervention in the policy choices of elected bodies has always been controversial.

Law and economics can be considered as the most exciting development in legal scholarship in recent decades.

Adopts an interdisciplinary approach to study ''expert ignorance'', or the power of experts who continually admit the limits of their knowledge.

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Explores how the distribution of costs and benefits determine our intuition about fairness to provide a balanced look at the psychology of justice.

This collection of essays by an international group of authors explores the ways in which law and legal institutions are used in countries coming to terms with traumatic pasts and, in some cases, traumatic presents.

This book tells the story of how, over centuries, people, society and culture created laws affecting supply of information.

This book intends to help understand and apply principles and rules better.

Judicial decision-making may ideally be impartial, but in reality it is influenced by many different factors, including institutional context, ideological commitment, fellow justices on a panel, and personal preference.

The Criminalization series arose from an interdisciplinary investigation into criminalization, focussing on the principles that might guide decisions about what kinds of conduct should be criminalized, and the forms that criminalization should take.

This book examines how the Roman, French and English legal systems have each dealt with the issue of unforeseen, supervening events which have rendered the performance of contractual obligations either impossible or fundamentally different in nature, sometimes known as Force Majeure or Acts of God.

Law in the Courts of Love traces the literary history and diversity of past legal systems.

This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data-processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine.

"El profesor Juan Fernando Segovia, doctor en Derecho y en Historia, investigador del CONICET, profesor en distintos momentos y durante cuarenta y cinco años en la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo y en la Universidad de Mendoza, es una de las figuras más salientes del pensamiento tradicional hispánico durante los últimos decenios del siglo xx y los primeros del xxi.