Methods, theory and philosophy of law

This Companion volume provides an examination of all aspects of Smith''s thought.

This up-to-date resource on restorative justice theory and practice is the literature's most comprehensive and authoritative review of original research in new and contested areas.

This book explores the ambit of the notion of persecution in international law and its relevance in the current geopolitical context, more specifically for refugee women.

This collection of essays by an international group of authors explores the ways in which law and legal institutions are used in countries coming to terms with traumatic pasts and, in some cases, traumatic presents.

An edited volume that offers a critical re-evaluation of three fundamental and interlocking themes in American democracy.

Law and Transcendence examines and develops the philosophy of British Philosopher Gillian Rose.

What is the nature of law and what is the best way to discover it?

Law as Art presents a radical new legal theory, the Law as Art Hypothesis, which conceives law, not as a system of rules, but as a distinctive kind of art work.

This comparative philosophy of law book aims at formulating a new analytical approach to the Islamic legal tradition based on 'juridical categories', a concept that facilitates comprehension and understanding of juridical phenomena.

This book addresses the discursive importance of the prosecution's opening statement before an international criminal tribunal.

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

The premise of this book is that a shift of vantage will help elucidate various important issues of law related to judging, to bills of rights and to more abstract questions of legal philosophy.

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Capturing the Change: Universalising Tendencies in Legal Interpretation Joanna Jemielniak and Przemys aw Mik aszewicz International and supranational integration on the European continent, as well as the harmonisation of the rules of international trade and the accompanying dev- opment and global popularity of the resolution of commercial disputes through arbitration, constantly exerts a considerable in uence on modern legal systems.

This book provides insights into the viability of the idea of global constitution.

This volume discusses EU criminal justice from three perspectives.

This book's essays aim subversively and resolutely to replace the hegemonic discursive frame governing comparative law.

Customary law and traditional authorities continue to play highly complex and contested roles in contemporary African states.

This book reframes the fundamentals of decisionmaking under uncertainty.

This anthology introduces the ideas of four jurists who present distinct ''Southern'' perspectives on human rights.

Sovereignty, as a concept, is in a state of flux.

This book offers a jurisprudential meditation on and methodological performance of how feminist and legal thought come into relation.

El libro va desgranando los argumentos que permiten concluir que el pragmatismo ofrece una teoria vacia del derecho, que el pluralismo valorativo refleja de modo inadecuado la naturaleza de los conceptos morales, que el originalismo constitucional presenta una vision empobrecedora del rol de una constitucion en una sociedad democratica y que el positivismo juridico contemporaneo esta basado en una teoria erronea del significado y en una vision desacertada de la naturaleza de la autoridad.

In law, gains, like losses, don't always lie where they fall.

This textbook presents a range of classical philosophical approaches in order to show that they are unsuitable as a foundation for human rights.

Vulnerability theory offers an alternative to social-contract and rights-based paradigms.

Hunger, disease, poverty, environmental insecurity, illegitimate governance, civil war, and international conflict are only a few of the causes of today's global turmoil and gross human suffering.

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.

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

This timely book offers revealing insights into the changing role of China in world governance as exemplified by the Silk Road Initiative, the People's Republic's first published major initiative for external affairs.

Seit den 1990er Jahren wird in der breiten Gesellschaft eine weltweit gültige Menschenrechtsverpflichtung multinationaler Unternehmen gefordert.

This book unravels the intricate tapestry of Chinese state-society and government-citizen interactions in both legal historical and contemporary contexts.

A concise, pithy and attractively humane account of some fundamental questions of social existence.

First published in 1998, this book explores the links between theories of feminism and the practice of law, and does so through an examination of a number of contemporary themes in feminist legal studies.

In this book Joseph Raz develops his views on some of the central questions in practical philosophy: legal, political, and moral.

Legal theory, political sciences, sociology, philosophy, logic, artificial intelligence: there are many approaches to legal argumentation.

Bringing together established academics and new researchers, the chapters in this collection interrogate the operation of 'the public' in a range of different legal, illegal and alegal spaces.

Wie andere Gebräuche und Gepflogenheiten ist auch die „Festschrift-Kultur“ ins Gerede gekommen.

Emmanuel Levinas' re-formulation of subjectivity, responsibility and the good has radically influenced post-structuralist thought.

This book is a thorough treatise concerned with coherence and its significance in legal reasoning.

This book discusses how Plato, one the fiercest legal critics in ancient Greece, became - in the longue duree - its most influential legislator.

Examining legal argumentation by states and other actors in the settings where it mostly transpires - outside of courts, Talking International Law challenges the realist assumption that legal argumentation is largely inconsequential.

This book contains the first English translations of Santi Romano's important essays, 'On the Decree Laws and the State of Siege During the Earthquakes in Messina and Reggio Calabria' (1909) and 'The Modern State and its Crisis' (1910).

This book examines the most controversial issues concerning the use of pre-drafted clauses in fine print, which are usually included in consumer contracts and presented to consumers on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.

This book explores innovative and context-driven political and legal policy measures designed to expand the powers of the African Union (AU) in order to meaningfully drive the continental integration process.

How can otherwise normal, moral persons - as citizens, voters, and jurors - participate in a process that is designed to take the life of another?

This book has two aims.

Hernando de Soto is one of the world's leading public intellectuals.