Methods, theory and philosophy of law

Intoxicants, substances that alter a person's mental and physiological state, are a continuing obsession.

Judicial equity developed in England during the medieval period, providing an alternative access to justice for cases that the rigid structures of the common law could not accommodate.

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

Punishment is a topic of increasing importance for citizens and policymakers.

Over 2 billion people (61% of the world's employed population) work in the informal economy.

This timely and compelling book delves into the dynamic interpretation of Hans Kelsen's General Theory of Norms through the lens of 21st-century jurisprudential debates.

Some of the most basic doctrines of property law are very old, many dating to the medieval era.

In the United States today criminal justice can vary from state to state, as various states alter the Modern Penal Code to suit their own local preferences and concerns.

Nicola Lacey's book presents a feminist critique of law based on an analysis of the ways in which the very structure or method of modern law is gendered.

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 is based on a doctoral thesis submitted to Yale University Law School in 1968.

This book investigates the legal evolution of the "e;free soil principle"e; in England, France and the Low Countries during the Early Modern period (ca.

What should we call law when it is not the law of one or several states?

This book delves into legal and ethical concerns over the increased weaponization of outer space and the potential for space-based conflict in the very near future.

Written by distinguished legal and linguistic scholars and practitioners from the EU institutions, the contributions in this volume provide multidisciplinary perspectives on the vital role of language and culture as key forces shaping the dynamics of EU law.

This book aims to examine and critically analyse the role that religion has and should have in the public and legal sphere.

The book examines female entrepreneurship in the nineteenth century.

Bioethics, Law, and Human Life Issues: A Catholic Perspective on Marriage, Family, Contraception, Abortion, Reproductive Technology, and Death and Dying draws on the Magisterial teaching of the Catholic Church to outline a Catholic response to a host of controversial issues related to human life.

This book represents a unique endeavor to elucidate the story of Kosovo's unilateral quest for statehood.

This is the first book to give a collective treatment of philosophical issues relating to tax.

The orthodox view is that rights complement democracy.

This publication identifies and discusses important challenges affecting eHealth in the EU and North America in the three areas of law, ethics and governance.

Over the past two decades or so, legal literature has devoted much attention to various human rights issues at both the national and international levels.

This book provides a reimagining of how Western law and legal theory structures the human-earth relationship.

How can we live together without subordination and oppression?

In Jurisprudence as Ideology, Valerie Kerruish asks how it is that people who are put down, let down and kept down by law can be thought to have a general political obligation to obey it.

This book places context at the core of the Islamic mechanism of ifta' to better understand the process of issuing fatwas in Muslim and non-Muslim countries, thus highlighting the connection between context and contemporaneity, on one hand, and the adaptable perception of Islamic law, on the other.

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

International law's rich existence in the world can be illuminated by its objects.

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

This book explains that penitentiaries were originally designed to bring about penance, and that this has been lost in the assembly line of mass incarceration.

On behalf of Professor Hugh Brady, Director and Senior Fellow, The Flag Research Center at the University of Texas School of Law, "e;Flags, Color, and the Legal Narrative: Public Memory, Identity, and Critique (Springer 2021) has been selected as the recipient of our Gherardi Davis Prize is presented for a significant contribution to vexillological research for the year 2021.

Das Werk des hochklassischen Juristen Sextus Caecilius Africanus sticht dadurch hervor, dass es trotz der Geringschätzung, die der Schüler Julians zuweilen in der modernen Forschung erfährt, überaus wirkungsvoll war: Obwohl Africans Quästionen in Lenels Palingenesie gerade einmal 35 Spalten füllen, enthalten sie doch nicht wenige der „klassischen Texte“, an denen sich spätere Juristengenerationen in Wissenschaft und Unterricht abgearbeitet haben.

The first volume of the Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy illustrates the remarkable scope of contemporary legal philosophy.

A novel reading of Kant''s model for peace revealing the fascinating theoretical tensions that affect it.

This book puts the spotlight on a different and neglected aspect of law drafting and reform: the question of size.

Advances in modern biotechnology have produced profound and far-reaching implications for the relationship between humans, animals and the environment.

Of all the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson had the most substantial direct experience with the issues surrounding intellectual property rights and their impact on creativity, invention, and innovation.

This book explores the historical and legal importance of two principles, Quod Omnes Tangit, and Tianxia Wei Gong, which have played significant roles in European and Chinese political and legal history.

Fourteen leading scholars explore the lives of seven of the most famous Jewish lawyers in the history of international law.

Twenty-five leading contemporary theorists of criminal law tackle a range of foundational issues about the proper aims and structure of the criminal law in a liberal democracy.

Die Neuauflage:Ein neuer Teil zur "Fallbearbeitung" ergänzt das Skript und erläutert übergreifend den Umgang mit dem Sachverhalt für Klausur und Hausarbeit.

The Book takes the approach of a critique of the prevailing international environmental law-making processes and their systemic shortcomings.