Methods, theory and philosophy of law

This book builds on Heffernan's last book Rights and Wrongs: Rethinking the Foundations of Criminal Justice by examining the class and racial disparities at the heart of current law - disparities that, according to many, generate a system of criminal injustice.

This book focuses on Boko Haram and terrorism in Nigeria, framing the conflict in an international law context.

This book aims to answer the question: 'why, and by what right do some people punish others?

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.

Is legal reasoning rationally persuasive, working within a discernible structure and using recognisable kinds of arguments?

This work provides a rational framework for legislation.

Imagine a human society, perhaps in pre-history, in which people were generally of a psychological kind with us, had the use of natural language to communicate with one another, but did not have any properly moral concepts in which to exhort one another to meet certain standards and to lodge related claims and complaints.

Until now, there has been no direct and extensive engagement with the category of religion from liberal political philosophy.

Egalitarians have traditionally been suspicious of equality of opportunity.

AREND SOETEMAN In the past we lived on one earth, but in many different worlds.

This book takes up the postcolonial challenge for law and explains how the problems of legal recognition for Indigenous peoples are tied to an orthodox theory of law.

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

`The Prevention Society' is a definition that can otherwise be summarized as: the information society, the risk society, the surveillance society or the insecure society.

By any measure, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

This textbook is an ambitious and engaging introduction to the more advanced writings on Jurisprudence, primarily designed to allow students to 'get under the skin' of the topic and begin to build their critical thinking and analysis skills.

Jurisprudence is the science or body of ordered knowledge which deals with a particular species of law.

This book explores the development of mental health systems in the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) of Samoa and Tonga through an examination of several policy transfer events from the colonial to the contemporary.

Addressing the influential analysis of law and literature, this book offers a new perspective on their relationship.

This book argues that the international community has a moral duty to intervene on behalf of a population affected by a natural hazard when their government is either unable or unwilling to provide basic, life-saving assistance.

Remorse is a powerful, important and yet academically neglected emotion.

Rejecting traditional alternatives, Leo Zaibert offers an original and refreshing approach to the age-old problem of the justification of punishment.

Events: The Force of International Law presents an analysis of international law, centred upon those historical and recent events in which international law has exerted, or acquired, its force.

Adam Smith and the Philosophy of Law and Economics is a unique book.

This work of applied moral philosophy develops a comprehensive account of how adults as moral agents ascribe moral status to beings.

Tying the Autocrat''s Hands provides a comprehensive, empirical evaluation of legal reforms in contemporary China.

The gun control debate is more complex than we often acknowledge.

Scholars from many disciplines discuss the crucial roles played by narrative and metaphor in the theory and practice of law.

The essays in this volume offer a reassessment of Jeremy Bentham's strikingly original legal philosophy.

Law's Trace argues for the political importance of deconstruction by taking Derrida's reading of Hegel as its point of departure.

This central volume in the Collected Essays brings together John Finnis's wide-ranging contribution to central issues in political philosophy.

This book explores the human rights principle of participation and the human right to participation.

The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) mainly came into force in March 2003, introducing a new anti-money laundering regime.

Winner of the 2022 Commendation for Excellence by the International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR).

This book engages with a traditional yet persistent question of legal theory - what is law?

This book intends to contribute to the consolidation of the new approach to lawmaking that has taken place in the last 20 years in legal philosophy and legal theory, spreading to other legal fields, especially criminal law.

This book addresses the crisis of the juridical-political foundation within contemporary democracies.

The claim once made by philosophers of unique knowledge of the essence of humanity and society has fallen into disrepute.

The third in a series of three volumes on Contemporary Legal Theory, this volume deals with four topics: 1) the role of legal theory in the legal curriculum; 2) the teaching of legal theory; 3) the relationship of legal theory to legal scholarship; and 4) the relationship of legal theory to comparative law.

In this volume, ownership is defined as the simple fact of being able to describe something as 'mine' or 'yours', and property is distinguished as the discursive field which allows the articulation of attendant rights, relationships, and obligations.

This book critically examines the proper role of the law in protecting job security in the contemporary workplace.

This title was first published in 2001.

Neil Duxbury combines analytical legal philosophy and legal history to explore the concept of legislation.

This book presents arguments and proposals for constraining criminalization, with a focus on the legal limits of the criminal law.

This book covers how Liberal institutions - constitutional democracy, economic markets, liberal courts, free trade, international human rights - around the world are under assault by the political right and we are witnessing the emergence of post-liberal institutions.

This book provides a set of proposals for the new conceptual network required in order to establish civil law rules for a world permeated by Artificial Intelligence.