Using an innovative history of the constitutional right to privacy, and inspired by Emersonian Justices like Brandeis and Douglas, this book rescues the meaning of privacy from prevalent liberal thinking by proposing a general theory of rights based on a spiritual-ecological jurisprudence tradition at the heart of American law.
This study analyzes the process of constitutional interpretation, that is, the methodology by which the Supreme Court goes about interpreting the Constitution, and offers a comprehensive view of constitutional law through the lens of history, political science, and jurisprudence.
This book proposes an explicit recognition of criminology as a moral science: a philosophically textured appreciation of the presence and role of values in people's reasoning and motivation, set within an empirically rigorous social-scientific account.
The third volume of the Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy series focuses on one of the most fiercely contested issues in contemporary legal philosophy: the question of the importance of legal reasoning and how to properly engage with it.
The third volume of the Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy series focuses on one of the most fiercely contested issues in contemporary legal philosophy: the question of the importance of legal reasoning and how to properly engage with it.
This book proposes an explicit recognition of criminology as a moral science: a philosophically textured appreciation of the presence and role of values in people's reasoning and motivation, set within an empirically rigorous social-scientific account.
"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.
El análisis económico del derecho (AED) es una escuela del pensamiento económico originaria de Estados Unidos que utiliza los principios de la ciencia económica para predecir las consecuencias que una norma o una sentencia producirán en la sociedad o en las partes de un litigio, contribuyendo así a orientar al legislador y al juez para mejorar tanto el diseño de la ley, como el dictado de sentencias.
"Estas páginas recogen algunos de los momentos importantes de la vida de Gregorio Peces-Barba Martínez (Madrid, 1938-Oviedo, 2012), del profesor, del investigador y del hombre político de Estado que fue.
Los trabajos de Juan Ruiz Manero, además de haber ejercido una extraordinaria influencia en la filosofía del Derecho, han permitido replantear problemas usualmente percibidos como complejos y desordenados, logrando una comprensión simple e integrada de los mismos.
This book explores a foundational philosophical tension in contemporary retributivism, revealing ambiguities in its approach to punishment between two conflicting conceptions of restoration: legal justice and ethical love.
The Social Contract Rediscovered conducts a critical analysis of the historical evolution of legitimacy, tracing its development from natural law to positive law and finally to post-modern critiques.
The Social Contract Rediscovered conducts a critical analysis of the historical evolution of legitimacy, tracing its development from natural law to positive law and finally to post-modern critiques.
This book argues that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) should reconsider its approach to hate speech cases and develop a robust protection of freedom of expression as set out in the benchmark case of Handyside v the United Kingdom.
This book considers how, during the unprecedented global lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the normal order of everyday life, of the rule of law, of power itself was interrupted, and hence the nomos of this earth was suspended.
This book considers how, during the unprecedented global lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the normal order of everyday life, of the rule of law, of power itself was interrupted, and hence the nomos of this earth was suspended.
Exploring the dynamics of law-making in a world where the pace of technological change is outstripping our capacity to capture new forms of transnational crime, this book uses the innovative concept of unlawfulness to examine the crimes of the global overworld, forming a unique analysis of global order in the twenty-first century.
