Methods, theory and philosophy of law

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This volume focuses on three closely-connected aspects of A mile Durkheim's work: his sociology of justice, his sociology of morality and his political sociology.

The figure of the mistress is undoubtedly controversial.

This book examines the ideology of elite lawyers and judges from the Gilded Age through the New Deal.

Hermann Heller was one of the leading public lawyers and legal and political theorists of the Weimar era, whose main interlocutors were two of the giants of twentieth century legal and political thought, Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt.

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.

Ethical issues associated with public health and health policy--related, for example,  to pandemic plans and vaccination policies (c.

It is increasingly held that international commercial arbitration is becoming colonized by litigation.

Utilizing a comparative examination of case-law from England, Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland, this volume provides a comprehensive and systematic study of the law of intervening causation (novus actus interveniens) to present an analysis of this particular judicial limitation of liability device.

This volume addresses the relationship between law and neoliberalism.

Contemporary philosophy and tort law have long enjoyed a happy union.

This book advocates for a novel doctrine of 'total lawfare' as part of a comprehensive approach to modern hybrid warfare.

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).

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book comprehensively discusses the main features of the Chinese patent law system, which not only legally 'transplants' international treaties into the Chinese context, but also maintains China's legal culture and promotes domestic economic growth.

This textbook is an essential primer for philosophy students embarking on their journey into the field of ethics and political philosophy.

A number of recent events in the last decade have renewed interest in Russian discourses on international law.

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

This book explains strategies, techniques, legal issues and the relationships between digital resistance activities, information warfare actions, liberation technology and human rights.

Legal argumentation consists in the interpretation of texts.

Legal decisions continue to mystify: why was this person sentenced to 20 years in prison, but that person to just 10 years for the same crime?

Entwicklung und Charakter des Europäischen Gemeinschaftsrechts sind wesentlich durch die Gerichtsverfassung der Gemeinschaft und die Tätigkeit der Gerichte mitgeprägt worden.

There can be no justice that is not spatial.

Advocates for a dignified constitutional democracy aimed at enabling fraternal conversation within the framework of a community of equals.

This book is a philosophical examination of the relationship between religion and social justice.

In the wake of Brexit and Trump, the debate surrounding post-truth fills the newspapers and is at the center of the public debate.

Law can be seen to consist not only of rules and decisions, but also of a framework of institutions providing a structure that forms the conditions of its workable existence and acceptance.

Examines the justification of patents, copyrights and trademarks in light of the political controversy over the TRIPS agreement.

This collection, by leading legal scholars, judges and practitioners, together with theologians and church historians, presents historical, theological, philosophical and legal perspectives on Christianity and criminal law.

Master teacher Thomas J.

What does 'the law' look like?

This book aims to find a workable interpretation of the non-appropriation principle that is compatible with both the existing international space law framework and the move of the private space industry towards the mining of asteroids and other celestial bodies.

This book explores the recent trend toward the transformation of religious symbols and practices into culture in Western democracies.

This account of business-related human rights violations details the barriers victims face when seeking remedies and offers policy solutions.

Law is widely assumed to provide contemporary society with its most important means of organizing responsibility.

This book is based on an international project conducted by the Institute for European Studies of the University CEU San Pablo in Madrid and a seminar on Vitoria and International Law which took place on July 2nd 2015 in the convent of San Esteban, the place where Vitoria spent his most productive years as Chair of Theology at the University of Salamanca.

This study of Edward Coke''s legal thought reinterprets the political and legal thought of early Stuart England.

Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems (now available in journal format), is based upon an annual colloquium held at University College London.

Ordoliberalism is a theoretical and cultural tradition of significant societal and political impact in post-war Germany.

In Strategic Justice, Peter Vanderschraaf argues that justice can be properly understood as a body of special social conventions.

Words can be misspoken, misheard, misunderstood, or misappropriated; they can be inappropriate, inaccurate, dangerous, or wrong.

Two events occurred in 1998 that had far-reaching consequences for international justice: the adoption of the Statute for the International Criminal Court by the Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries in Rome (the Rome Statute); and the arrest in London of former President Pinochet for crimes against humanity.

This book draws upon domestication science to undertake a radical reappraisal of the jurisprudence of property and intellectual property.

Legal Positivism has been the dominant school of legal philosophy for much of the last century, despite its many critics.

This engaging book examines the origins and first effects of the concept 'legal semiotics', focusing on the inventor of the term, Roberta Kevelson (1931-1998).

For the first time, this book provides an up-to-date history of product design and product design law covering 17 countries - Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden), Russia, the United States, Brazil and Australia - selected for their innovative or influential approach to design or design protection.

Sport, Law and Philosophy: The Jurisprudence of Sport discusses the intersection of law and sport and highlights its usefulness to both legal scholars and philosophers of sport.

The Concept of Injustice challenges traditional Western justice theory.