Methods, theory and philosophy of law

This book seeks to further the understanding of the human experience of coerced and forced ignorance on social, human rights and criminal justice related topics, drawing together scholars from multiple, disciplinary fronts.

Edmund Husserl's ideas, informed by Kant's Critiques, constituted a point of departure when rereading philosophical problems of subject and subjectivity.

This book draws on concrete cases of collaboration between anthropologists and legal practitioners to critically assess the use of anthropological expertise in a variety of legal contexts from the point of view of the anthropologist as well as of the decision-maker or legal practitioner.

Domestic courts are entrusted with the application of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), as faithful trustees of the rights protected in the Convention.

This book provides an in-depth exploration of the Jewish legal tradition, or halakhah, through the lens of modern legal philosophy.

The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty-here for the first time in EnglishIn 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria created a sensation when he published On Crimes and Punishments.

This book proposes a regulatory system for ensuring that AI makes fair decisions.

Experts believe that self-driving cars will be much safer than conventional cars.

This book is the first Western-language monograph on the study of the Qingshui River manuscripts.

The aesthetics of law deals with the relationship between law and beauty by searching for aesthetic values in the law itself (an internal perspective), by finding material related to law in art and culture (an external perspective), and, lastly, by demonstrating the impact of legal norms on what can be broadly understood as beauty (law as a tool of aestheticization).

The primary aim of this book is to provide clear and reliable information on a number of central topics in comparative law.

In defiance of the refugee abyss, this book presents the flesh of pained bodies and the breath of displaced voices, contributing to the thread of traces yet to be forged and the politics yet to emerge, in a world where Relation takes precedence.

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 examines the way in which undercover police investigation has come to be regulated in Australia.

A theme of growing importance in both the law and philosophy and socio-legal literature is how regulatory dynamics can be identified (that is, conceptualised and operationalised) and normative expectations met in an age when transnational actors operate on a global plane and in increasingly fragmented and transformative contexts.

This volume brings together an international group of legal scholars to discuss different approaches to lawmaking.

Band 4 der Gesammelten Schriften enthält hauptsächlich Hans Wagners Aufsätze zur Philosophie der Antike, insbesondere zu Platon und Aristoteles.

This book analyzes the ethics of men buying and selling sex to one another.

This book addresses the importance of the body in legal theory, through an analysis of the film Fifty Shades of Grey.

This book focuses on a comparative study of claim interpretation in the United States and China and addresses the question of whether the law of claim interpretation functions similarly or differently in the two countries.

This book proposes a paradigm shift in the way that 'the state of exception'-as it is usually named in legal and political theory-is to be understood.

This book is an account of the tension between the need for order and the desire for freedom during the tense years of the Weimar Republic.

This book assembles critical contributions on the work of TRS Allan, the Professor Emeritus of Jurisprudence and Public Law at the University of Cambridge, whose leading work in legal and constitutional theory spans almost 45 years.

The law of the sea imposes a long-established duty to rescue persons in distress, which connotes one of the most important tools in safeguarding safety of life at sea.

Zwischen Rechtsverständnissen, nach denen es nur juridische, nicht aber moralische Rechte geben kann, und einem individualethischen Ansatz, nach dem Personen moralische Rechte haben, gibt es einen anhaltenden Streit.

The idea of the Good Life - of what constitutes human thriving, is, implicitly, the foundation and justification of the law.

Philosophers considering the relationship between law and morality are often divided into two schools: natural law theory and legal positivism.

Philosophers considering the relationship between law and morality are often divided into two schools: natural law theory and legal positivism.

We borrow and lend possessions, sign up to social networking sites, agree to sexual advances, and undergo medical procedures-all by giving consent.

We borrow and lend possessions, sign up to social networking sites, agree to sexual advances, and undergo medical procedures-all by giving consent.

The topic of banning mandatory retirement has sparked debate as ageing populations transform societies.

The topic of banning mandatory retirement has sparked debate as ageing populations transform societies.

This book examines what it identifies as an increasing juridification of politics.

This book examines what it identifies as an increasing juridification of politics.

This book builds on Head's previous work on Soviet legal scholar Evgeny Pashukanis, challenging Western academics who separate Pashukanis's theories from the complex realities of the Soviet state's decline under Stalin.

This book builds on Head's previous work on Soviet legal scholar Evgeny Pashukanis, challenging Western academics who separate Pashukanis's theories from the complex realities of the Soviet state's decline under Stalin.