Methods, theory and philosophy of law

This book provides a comprehensive, systematic theory of moral responsibility.

The essays in this volume illustrate the difficult real world ethical questions and issues arising from accelerating technological change in the military and security domains, and place those challenges in the context of rapidly shifting geopolitical and strategic frameworks.

European integration is an open-ended, ongoing process which has been deeply challenged by integral world capitalism.

This book is exceptional in the sense that it provides an introduction to law in general rather than the law of one specific jurisdiction, and it presents a unique way of looking at legal education.

Written by experts from within their communities, this book compares the legal regimes of Christian churches as systems of religious law.

Both Perelman's collaborators, Professors Haarscher and Ingber, shared with me their deep personal insights about origins, birth and phases of the develop- ment of the New Rhetoric.

This book uses the early twentieth century surveillance reports of urban vice reformers in New York, Chicago, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, as well as the US vice report for the League of Nations' Special Body on Trafficking in Women and Children (from 1927) and French police memoirs, treatises, and histories of vice enforcement in late nineteenth century and early twentieth century Paris to highlight the way in which American reliance on undercover tactics drove American vice enforcement policy, leading to a clash with French vice enforcement policy before the League of Nations.

This book presents an analysis of the sociology of law, combining theory with a range of empirical issues.

This book addresses the disparity between positive non-treaty law and its scholarly assessment in the area of moral concepts, understood as altruistic as opposed to reciprocal legal obligations.

Jede Herrschaftsordnung bedarf der Legitimation.

The mismatch between goals and means is a major cause of crisis in labour law.

This book offers a series of original essays by an international group of scholars whose work looks comparatively at law's attempts to deal with the past.

This book addresses the importance of the body in legal theory, through an analysis of the film Fifty Shades of Grey.

The chapters in this book analyze the relationship between core concepts of the common good and the work of American political philosopher John Rawls.

This is a coursebook designed for students of translation, which will also benefit professional translators as it covers key issues in contemporary legal translation.

This book discusses the relation between morality and politics, and morality and law, a field that has been studied for more than two thousand years The law is a part of human culture, and this touches upon a dynamic reality that is connected to the relation between nature and freedom, nature and culture.

This book is concerned with how we can make sense of the confusing landscape of individualistic explanation in international law.

Constitutions are often seen as the product of the free will of a people exercising their constituent power.

This collective volume delves into the criminal responsibility of judges under authoritarian regimes, with case studies from Germany, Argentina, and Chile, examining their involvement in criminal human rights abuses and failures to protect victims from such crimes.

Several of the most divisive moral conflicts that have beset Americans in the period since World War II have been transmuted into constitutional conflicts and resolved as such.

This monograph makes a seminal contribution to existing literature on the importance of Roman law in the development of political thought in Europe.

Inspired by the works of Professor Marcelo Neves, in this book colleagues come together to explore how their research has been influenced by non-European and post-colonial approaches.

New Critical Legal Thinking articulates the emergence of a stream of critical legal theory which is directly concerned with the relation between law and the political.

The Function of Law in the International Community, first published in 1933, is one of the seminal works on international law.

The book juxtaposes economic analysis with moral philosophy, political theory, egalitarianism, and other methodological principles.

De la obra de Cesare Beccaria se ha escrito que «fermentó en las conciencias, renovó las instituciones y cambió las costumbres, hasta convertirse en patrimonio moral, inconsciente pero irrenunciable, de toda la humanidad».

This book addresses two countervailing challenges to theory and policy in law and economics.

Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical explores the idea that legal authority is no longer related to national sovereignty, but to the 'moral' attempt to nurture life.

Disagreement is one of the deepest and most pervasive topics in philosophy; arguably its very bedrock, and is an ever-increasing feature of politics, ethics, public policy, science and many other areas.

How do we understand and justify the particular partialities that discrimination law tries to protect against?

The intercultural contexts and new configurations in Europe offer fertile ground for social conflict, tensions and threat.

Cultural Difference on Trial: The Nature and Limits of Judicial Understanding comprises a sustained philosophical exploration of the capacity of the modern liberal democratic legal system to understand the thought and practice of those culturally different minorities who come before it as claimants, defendants or witnesses.

This book radically rethinks the philosophical basis of copyright in the arts.

This book is the product of a major British Academy Symposium held in 2007 to mark the centenary of the birth of H.

Dieses Buch beleuchtet das traditionsreiche Rechtsinstitut der Enteignung aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven in systematischer Absicht.

This book collects new contributions from an international group of leading scholars - including many who have worked closely with Agamben - to consider the impact of Agamben's thought on research in the humanities and social sciences.

"e;Patenting Nanomedicines: Legal Aspects, Intellectual Property and Grant Opportunities"e; focusses on the fundamental aspects of Patenting Nanomedicines applied in different "e;Drug Delivery and Targeting Systems"e;.

This book assesses the relationship between cosmopolitanism and sovereignty.

Soviet Russia will conquer all the millions of problems that stand in its way, on one condition: as long as the cause of the political education of the broad masses of the people continually advances.

This book explores how Indigenous Peoples are impacted by globalization and the cult of the individual that often accompanies the phenomenon.

Popular sovereignty - the doctrine that the public powers of state originate in a concessive grant of power from "e;the people"e; - is the cardinal doctrine of modern constitutional theory, placing full constitutional authority in the people at large, rather than in the hands of judges, kings, or a political elite.

This book critically explores the development of radical criminology through a range of written Ancient Greek works including epic and lyrical poetry, drama and philosophy, across different chapters.

The idea of a cultural defense in criminal law is often ridiculed as "e;multiculturalism run amok "e;.

The Criminalization series arose from an interdisciplinary investigation into criminalization, focussing on the principles that might guide decisions about what kinds of conduct should be criminalized, and the forms that criminalization should take.

Over the course of the twentieth century, democracies demonstrated an uncanny ability to win wars when their survival was at stake.

General principles of law have made, and are likely further to make, a significant contribution to our understanding of the constituent elements of global justice.