Methods, theory and philosophy of law

After 1989 human rights have expanded into a vernacular touching every aspect of social life.

Plato is one of the most widely read and studied philosophers of all time.

Applies comparative and theoretical perspectives to not-for-profit law, taxation and regulation to deepen understanding of the sector.

This work argues that current cryptocurrency regulation, particularly in the areas of enforcement and compliance, is inadequate.

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.

Some say that private law ought to correct wrongs or to protect rights.

Asks and answers the hardest questions about the relationship between British Islam and English law using classical pluralist theory.

This book provides an examination of whether there is a legally independent ''principle of humanity'' in international humanitarian law.

What is the best way to promote human rights in grossly repressive states when neither sanctions nor trade and investment have much effect?

Learn how to maximize your use of, and benefit from AI, personally and professionally while staying safe.

Scholars are struggling to come to grips with the picture of human agency being pieced together by researchers in the biosciences.

This book explores the various types of Appropriate Dispute Resolution (ADR) applied in Nigeria, the UK, and the US.

This book grounds judicial review in its deepest foundations: the function, authority, and objectivity of a legal system as a whole.

This book provides an interdisciplinary examination of international law by addressing four critical questions: How are international legal rules distinctive?

This edited volume covers new ground by bringing together perspectives from symbolic legislation theory on the one hand, and from biolaw and bioethics on the other hand.

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.

Democracy, Law and Governance details the transformation of the modes of governance of contemporary developed democracies and aims to define the conditions required for promoting public interest in their public policy.

This collection of essays focuses attention on the global impact of legal policies on levels of poverty.

This collection presents an analysis of the concept of secession and its constitutional accommodation alongside an assessment of the effects of secession in constitutional and international law.

Exploring the advantages and disadvantages of codifying contract law, this book considers the question from the perspectives of both civil and common law systems, referring in detail to issues of international and consumer law.

From Anthony Trollop to Sinclair Lewis, and from Jane Austen to James Joyce and John Steinbeck, many important novels touch on fundamental questions about the role of money in human affairs.

Rights of nature are on the rise worldwide, having already been recognized in several states, especially in Latin America and Asia.

This is the second volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy.

Language ideology is a concept developed in linguistic anthropology to explain the ways in which ideas about the definition and functions of language can become linked with social discourses and identities.

This volume considers whether it is possible to establish carefully tailored hate speech policies that recognize the histories and values of different countries.

Caring for Liberalism brings together chapters that explore how liberal political theory, in its many guises, might be modified or transformed to take the fact of dependency on board.

What are the right institutional settings and strategies for ensuring honesty and accountability in public life?

Develops a framework to explain shifts in judicial assertiveness towards militaries, using Pakistan as an illuminating case study.

The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Law provides a comprehensive, non-technical philosophical treatment of the fundamental questions about the nature of law.

This volume examines the property transformations in post-communist Central Eastern Europe (CEE) and focuses on the role of restitution and privatisation in such transformations.

This book invites newcomers to analytical legal philosophy to reconsider the terms in which they are accustomed to describing and defending their jurisprudential allegiances.

These specially commissioned essays by prominent lawyers and philosophers analyse a range of approaches to legal authority beyond the state.

Offers a logically structured, comprehensive, well-researched and accessible overview of legal theory and philosophy.

Can a commitment to free speech be reconciled with the regulation of pornography?

This text explores the place to locate the cut between those inequalities for which it is fair to hold one responsible, and those for which it is not.

This book develops a sociological understanding of law making in the European Union.

Legal theory has been much occupied with understanding legal systems and analysing the concept of legal system.

Aristotle and Natural Law lays out a new theoretical approach which distinguishes between the notions of 'interpretation,' 'appropriation,' 'negotiation' and 'reconstruction' of the meaning of texts and their component concepts.

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.

This book presents a collection of philosophical essays on freedom and tolerance in the Netherlands.

This book examines the possibility of creating new ways of existing beyond human rights.

Martin van Hees presents a new approach to the study of law - legal reductionism - which combines elements of legal positivism, new institutionalism and decision theory.

This Handbook discusses representative philosophers in the history of the philosophy of law and social philosophy, giving clear concise expert definitions and explanations of key personalities and their ideas.