Methods, theory and philosophy of law

This book considers the inherent complexities of private law; relevant to property, tort, contract, legal method and legal theory.

This book demonstrates the importance of a duty-based approach to morality.

This book is a wide-ranging synthesis of market developments in body tissue.

In this collection of essays -- a follow up to My Way and Our Stories -- John Martin Fischer defends the contention that moral responsibility is associated with "e;deep control.

This book examines the issue of injustice, and our responses to it, in a range of contemporary contexts.

Band 4 der Gesammelten Schriften enthält hauptsächlich Hans Wagners Aufsätze zur Philosophie der Antike, insbesondere zu Platon und Aristoteles.

The trial is central to the institutional framework of criminal justice.

Transparency is a fundamental principle of justice.

Since the mid-1970s, Congress has passed hundreds of overrides-laws that explicitly seek to reverse or modify judicial interpretations of statutes.

A group of philosophers, historians and lawyers assess the nature and significance of customary law.

Recent social and political developments in the EU have clearly shown the profound structural changes in European society and its politics.

Lawyers, law students and their teachers all too frequently overlook the most comprehensive, adaptable and practical analysis of legal discourse ever devised: the classical art of rhetoric.

Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen here poses the question: "e;Is affirmative action morally (un)justifiable?

In one of the lengthiest, noisiest, and hottest legal debates in U.

The Public's Law is a theory and history of democracy in the American administrative state.

Obligations: New Trajectories in Law provides a critical analysis of the role of obligations in contemporary legal and social practices.

This book discusses the emergence of a new concept of law at the global level in the field of sustainable development.

The third in a series of three volumes on Contemporary Legal Theory, this volume deals with four topics: 1) the role of legal theory in the legal curriculum; 2) the teaching of legal theory; 3) the relationship of legal theory to legal scholarship; and 4) the relationship of legal theory to comparative law.

This book offers a distinctive approach to the right not to be subjected to enforced disappearance.

Many today place great hope in law as a vehicle for the transformation of society and accept that law is autonomous, universal, and above all, secular.

This book brings together a group of international scholars to discuss theoretical and comparative considerations of judicial accountability.

Hegel and Global Justice details the relevance of the thought of G.

What does the right to be oneself entail?

"e;What characterizes the act of justice is not resort to a court and to judges; it is not the intervention of magistrates (even if they had to be simple mediators or arbitrators).

This book examines the patriarchal nature of fundamental Christianity and offers a critique of the new natural lawyers'' school of thought.

This book systematically discusses the contents of the administrative right to know, the right to information, the right to gene, euthanasia and other emerging rights.

Erudite and timely, this book is a key contribution to the renewal of radical theory and politics.

Volume 8, the third of the historical volumes of A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence, offers a history of legal philosophy in common-law countries from the 17th to the 19th century.

El iusnaturalismo egoísta de Thomas Hobbes es una interpretación general de la teoría jurídica de Hobbes, y muestra la dependencia de dicha teoría respecto de la filosofía moral y epistemológica del filósofo inglés.

Pedro Dorado Montero was one of Spain's most relevant authors.

Conscience and the Common Good reframes the debate about conscience by bringing its relational dimension into focus.

Formally, the law is based solely on reasoned analysis, devoid of ideological biases or unconscious influences.

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 concrete situations in which judges are faced with a legislature and an executive that consciously and systematically discard the ideals of the rule of law.

A Pragmatic Approach to Libertarian Free Will argues that the kind of free will required for moral responsibility and just desert is libertarian free will.

Starting in the 1970s, conservatives learned that electoral victory did not easily convert into a reversal of important liberal accomplishments, especially in the law.

This book investigates the limits of the legitimate role of the state in regulating the human body.

This volume offers an up-to-date overview of the much-debated issue of how a democracy may defend itself against those who want to subvert it.

Examines questions of allegiance and identity in a globalised world through the disciplines of law, politics, philosophy and psychology.

Addressing the relationship between law and the visual, this book examines the importance of photography in Central, East, and Southeast European show trials.

This book is the first to address the multi-faceted influence of the global financial crisis on the national constitutions of the countries most affected.

While masculinities theory has had much to say on relationships of subordination, few feminist legal scholars have examined the implications of masculinities theory for feminist legal theory.

In this comprehensive and accessible sourcebook, Ilias Arnaoutoglou presents a collection of ancient Greek laws, which are situated in their legal and historical contexts and are elucidated with relevant selections from Greek literature and epigraphical testimonies.

In this book, experts from the fields of law and philosophy explore the works of Aristotle to illuminate the much-debated and fascinating relationship between emotions and justice.

Conklin's thesis is that the tradition of modern legal positivism, beginning with Thomas Hobbes, postulated different senses of the invisible as the authorising origin of humanly posited laws.