Methods, theory and philosophy of law

At some point, everyone living in the United States has some type of interaction with the American judicial system.

Disputes over government policies rage in a number of areas.

Disputes over government policies rage in a number of areas.

Understood one way, the branch of contemporary philosophical ethics that goes by the label "e;metaethics"e; concerns certain second-order questions about ethics-questions not in ethics, but rather ones about our thought and talk about ethics, and how the ethical facts (insofar as there are any) fit into reality.

Understood one way, the branch of contemporary philosophical ethics that goes by the label "e;metaethics"e; concerns certain second-order questions about ethics-questions not in ethics, but rather ones about our thought and talk about ethics, and how the ethical facts (insofar as there are any) fit into reality.

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

A blindfolded woman holding a balance and a sword personifies one of our most significant virtues.

A blindfolded woman holding a balance and a sword personifies one of our most significant virtues.

Modern states claim rights of jurisdiction and control over particular geographical areas and their associated natural resources.

Terrorism, the use of military force in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, and the fatal police shootings of unarmed persons have all contributed to renewed interest in the ethics of police and military use of lethal force and its moral justification.

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.

Necessity is a notoriously dangerous and slippery concept-dangerous because it contemplates virtually unrestrained killing in warfare and slippery when used in conflicting ways in different areas of international law.

Necessity is a notoriously dangerous and slippery concept-dangerous because it contemplates virtually unrestrained killing in warfare and slippery when used in conflicting ways in different areas of international law.

This book focuses on the subject of choice of law as a whole and provides an analysis of its various rules, principles, doctrines and concepts.

This book focuses on the subject of choice of law as a whole and provides an analysis of its various rules, principles, doctrines and concepts.

This volume examines the linguistic problems that arise in efforts to translate between law and the social sciences.

Normative Subjects alludes to the fields of morality and law, as well as to the entities, self and collectivity, addressed by these clusters of norms.

As a linguistically-grounded, critical examination of consent, this volume views consent not as an individual mental state or act but as a process that is interactionally-and discursively-situated.

An interdisciplinary conversation between law and Christian thought exists, but has so far been centered in the legal academy.

An interdisciplinary conversation between law and Christian thought exists, but has so far been centered in the legal academy.

We live more and more of our lives online; we rely on the internet as we work, correspond with friends and loved ones, and go through a multitude of mundane activities like paying bills, streaming videos, reading the news, and listening to music.

We live more and more of our lives online; we rely on the internet as we work, correspond with friends and loved ones, and go through a multitude of mundane activities like paying bills, streaming videos, reading the news, and listening to music.

Paradigms of International Human Rights Law explores the legal, ethical, and other policy consequences of three core structural features of international human rights law: the focus on individual rights instead of duties; the division of rights into substantive and nondiscrimination categories; and the use of positive and negative right paradigms.

Paradigms of International Human Rights Law explores the legal, ethical, and other policy consequences of three core structural features of international human rights law: the focus on individual rights instead of duties; the division of rights into substantive and nondiscrimination categories; and the use of positive and negative right paradigms.

Most people assume that criminal offenders have only been convicted of a single crime.

Most people assume that criminal offenders have only been convicted of a single crime.

Kent Greenawalt's From the Bottom Up constitutes a collection of articles and essays written over the last five decades of his career.

This book argues that ignorance of law should usually be a complete excuse from criminal liability.

This book argues that ignorance of law should usually be a complete excuse from criminal liability.

The rule of law paradigm has long operated on the premise that independent judges disregard extralegal influences and impartially uphold the law.

The first book length study of property-owning democracy, Republic of Equals argues that a society in which capital is universally accessible to all citizens is uniquely placed to meet the demands of justice.

The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes collects twenty-six newly commissioned, original chapters on the philosophy of the English thinker Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679).

War remains a grim fixture of the human landscape, and because of its tremendous and ongoing impact on the lives of millions of people, has always attracted the attention of careful, rigorous, and empathetic moral philosophers.

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There is no book of political strategy more canonical than Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince, but few ethicists would advise policymakers to treat it as a bible.

There is no book of political strategy more canonical than Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince, but few ethicists would advise policymakers to treat it as a bible.

This book assembles leading legal, political, and moral philosophers to examine the legacy of the work of Ronald Dworkin.

This book assembles leading legal, political, and moral philosophers to examine the legacy of the work of Ronald Dworkin.

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.

References to hate have become ubiquitous in the modern response to group defamation and violence in liberal democracies.

The essays in this volume answer to anxieties that the pragmatist tradition has had little to say about justice.

Jewish copyright law is a rich body of jurisprudence that developed in parallel with modern copyright laws and the book privileges that preceded them.

In this collection of essays -- a follow up to My Way and Our Stories -- John Martin Fischer defends the contention that moral responsibility is associated with "e;deep control.

This book answers two basic but under-appreciated questions: first, how does the American criminal justice system address a defendant's family status?

Emotions, Values, and the Law brings together ten of John Deigh's essays written over the past fifteen years.

This volume collects thirteen of David Schmidtz's essays on the question of what it takes to live a good life, given that we live in a social and natural world.

Despite widespread admiration for the First Amendment's protection of speech, this iconic feature of American legal thought has never been adequately theorized.

The Economics of Lawmaking explores the relative advantages and limits of alternative sources of law.

Of all the steps in the Supreme Court's decision-making process, only one is visible to the public: the oral arguments.

Law in the Age of Pluralism contains a collection of essays on the intersection of legal and political philosophy.