Methods, theory and philosophy of law

Examines the concept of a legal order in the context of globalisation from the perspective of inclusion and exclusion.

This book examines procedural trials using the procedure of excluding illegal evidence as an example.

Feminist approaches to international law have been mischaracterised by the mainstream of the discipline as being a niche field that pertains only to women's lived experiences and their participation in decision-making processes.

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What does it mean to say that a particular war is just or unjust, that terrorism is always wrong, or that torture can sometimes be morally justified?

This book challenges the pervasive assumption that all religious conduct deserves constitutional protection.

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

Legisprudence considers a variety of perspectives and relies on contributions from numerous different disciplines.

Responding to increasing global anxiety over the ethics education of military personnel, this volume illustrates the depth, rigour and critical acuity of Professional Military Ethics Education (PMEE) with contributions by distinguished ethical theorists.

This collection brings together essays from leading figures in the field of medical law and ethics which address the key issues currently challenging scholars in the field.

This book provides original perspectives on the work of one of the most important thinkers in international law today.

More has been said about the Hart-Fuller debate than can be considered healthy or productive even within the precious world of jurisprudential scholarship too much philosophising about how law has revelled in its own abstractness and narrowness.

This new English translation of Solov'ev's principal ethical treatise, written in his later years, presents Solov'ev's mature views on a host of topics ranging from a critique of individualistic ethical systems to the death penalty, the meaning of war, animal rights, and environmentalism.

This book critically engages with theories of the recognition of states under international law.

Now, for the first time, there is a comprehensive, eminently readable book designed to focus thinking in the area of contract law.

John Henry Schlegel recovers a largely ignored aspect of American Legal Realism, a movement in legal thought in the 1920s and 1930s that sought to bring the modern notion of empirical science into the study and teaching of law.

This book explores the cultures of philosophy and the law as they interact with neuroscience and biology, through the perspective of American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes' Jr.

Practical Reason and Norms focuses on three problems: In what way are rules normative, and how do they differ from ordinary reasons?

This collection of essays explores the different ways the insights from complexity theory can be applied to law.

When talking about his film Salo, Pasolini claimed that nothing is more anarchic than power, because power does whatever it wants, and what power wants is totally arbitrary.

How does law possess the normative force it requires to direct our actions?

Pacifism is popular.

This accessible book provides an evaluative review of justice at the locus of the magistrates' court.

The first work of analytical legal theory exploring law''s relations to environment, security, and technology as preconditions of legal order.

The concepts and values that underpin traditional constitutionalism are increasingly being challenged by political realities that place substantial power beyond the state.

This timely anthology brings into sharp relief the extent of violence against women.

This volume considers the ethics of policing and imprisonment, focusing particularly on mass incarceration and police shootings in the United States.

The Case of Speluncean Explorers: Nine New Opinions includes a reprint of Lon Fuller's classic article and a much-needed revision of and addition to the five opening s originally expressed in the case by five Supreme Court Judges

This yearbook focuses on law and its interdisciplinarity in India.

This book argues for a mixed theory of legal punishment that treats both crime reduction and retribution as important aims of the state.

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From his first readers to the present, Friedrich Nietzsche has found supporters and detractors on every point of the political spectrum.

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This unifying proposal for understanding distributive justice discourse across cultures sheds light on how best to understand political philosophy.

The philosophy of Hans Jonas was widely influential in the late twentieth century, warning of the potential dangers of technological progress and its negative effect on humanity and nature.

This book provides a unique insight into the way policing is performed.

This book examines legal language as a language for special purposes, evaluating the functions and characteristics of legal language and the terminology of law.

Criminalization is a new series arising from an interdisciplinary investigation into the issue of criminalization, focussing on the principles and goals that should guide decisions about what kinds of conduct are to be criminalized, and the forms that criminalization should take.

This book provides valuable insights into various contemporary issues in public and private maritime law, including interdisciplinary aspects.

The book examines one of the most debated issues in current international law: to what extent the international legal system has constitutional features comparable to what we find in national law.

This edited volume analyzes participatory practices in art and cultural heritage in order to determine what can be learned through and from collaboration across disciplinary borders.

This work analyzes the history of the application of Islamic law (Shari`ah) in Nigeria.

Recent social developments, such as demographic change, skill shortages and new medical technologies, have necessitated a transition in the traditional roles of health-care professions.

Necessity is a notoriously dangerous and slippery concept-dangerous because it contemplates virtually unrestrained killing in warfare and slippery when used in conflicting ways in different areas of international law.

Disgorgement of profits is not exactly a household word in private law.

The Case of Speluncean Explorers: Nine New Opinions includes a reprint of Lon Fuller's classic article and a much-needed revision of and addition to the five opening s originally expressed in the case by five Supreme Court Judges