Methods, theory and philosophy of law

This book presents a broad overview of succession law, encompassing aspects of family law, testamentary law and legal history.

This volume summarizes the achievements on rule of law in China for the ten years from 2002 to 2012, particularly focusing on areas such as judicial review, anti-monopoly, reform of government agencies, the circulation of rural Land contracted management rights, and the protection of children's rights.

The law enables private parties to undo the wrongs committed against them, allowing victims to seek redress.

This title was first published in 2001: This book brings together the experiences of a diverse range of leading human rights advocates and activists to demonstrate strategies for protecting human rights.

This title was first published in 2002.

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

In the context of the technological disruption of law and, in particular, the prospect of governance by machines, this book reconsiders the demand that we should respect the law, simply because it is the law.

This classic collection of essays, first published in 1968, has had an enduring impact on academic and public debates about criminal responsibility and criminal punishment.

This volume explores the concepts of legal power and legal competence in fourteen original, cutting-edge chapters by leading legal theorists.

The law enables private parties to undo the wrongs committed against them, allowing victims to seek redress.

Following significant changes in the legal profession since the 1980s, how do new organizational forms and actors at the edge of the law impact upon our understanding of the changing nature of the core values of mainstream legal professionalism?

The book makes a comprehensive analysis of the basic principles and theories of military law, restructuring the theoretic framework of military law.

Lord Rodger of Earlsferry was a distinguished judge and scholar.

Taken together, the articles collected in this volume offer readers a reliable, illuminating, up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to both the political philosophy of John Rawls and the most significant of the scholarly debates it has generated and is likely to generate in coming years.

This book analyses a middle position between single enumerations in a regular federal-like and a regular autonomy-like distribution of legislative powers by examining constitutional legislation in three countries (Canada, Denmark and Finland) that have established separate enumerations for the national level and the sub-state level.

This book presents a distinctive version of a contractarian approach to law and justice.

La obra de Juan-Ramón Capella (Barcelona, 1939-2024) constituye una referencia imprescindible en el filosofar sobre el derecho y la política en España.

Rarely in the short history of liberal-democratic government has a primer on basic liberal-democratic values and institutions been more needed than now.

In considering diffusion from a global perspective, this book provides timely new insights into its application in a variety of fields and at many levels of both legal and non-legal orderings.

Questions about the relationship between autonomy and authority are raised in nearly every area of moral philosophy.

This book offers a critical appraisal of Karl Olivecrona's legal philosophy.

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.

This edited work collates novel contributions on contemporary topics that are related to human rights.

Contemporary Muslims face a challenge: how should they define the relationship between normative Islamic jurisprudence--worked out by classical jurists over the course of centuries-and the reality that confronts them in their everyday lives.

Sykes' The Society of Captives has stood as a classic of modern penology for nearly 60 years.

This book presents a sustained critique of ''rule of law promotion'', revealing the myths and contradictions that pervade the field.

This unparalleled Companion provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to Islamic law to all with an interest in this increasingly relevant and developing field.

Contract as Promise is a study of the philosophical foundations of contract law in which Professor Fried effectively answers some of the most common assumptions about contract law and strongly proposes a moral basis for it while defending the classical theory of contract.

Philosophical interest in disability is rapidly expanding.

Much socio-legal scholarship assumes that even if experiences of law and time differ, people and laws exist within an overarching, shared timeframe.

This book adds impetus to the nexus between human rights, human rights education and material reality.

As society struggles to cope with the many repercussions of assisted life and death, the evening news is filled with stories of legal battles over frozen embryos and the possible prosecution of doctors for their patients' suicide.

PATRICKNERHOT Since the two operations overlap each other so much, speaking about fact and interpretation in legal science separately would undoubtedly be highly artificial.

This is a book on "e;equity in the civil law tradition"e; from the double perspective of legal history and comparative law.

This book contains a series of essays discussing the uses of precedent as a source of law and a basis for legal arguments in nine different legal systems, representing a variety of legal traditions.

Religious freedom is now widely accepted as fundamental to any liberal democracy.

The relationship between Law and Anthropology can be considered as having been particularly intimate.

This collection studies the rise of neutral bodies as a challenge to the constitutional paradigm of the nation state.

Perhaps more than any other scholar, Michael Moore has argued that there are deep and necessary connections between metaphysics, morality, and law.

This book defends an event-causal theory of libertarian free will and argues that the belief in such free will plays an important, if not essential, role in supporting certain important values.

With over sixty cases as support, this text presents the philosophy of law as a perpetual series of debates with overlapping lines and cross connections.

This yearbook focuses on law and its interdisciplinarity in India.

Dissent in courts has always existed.

In the nineteenth century many Canadians took pride in their country's policy of liberal treatment of Indians.

Contempt of court has been aptly described as the Proteus of the legal world, assuming an almost infinite diversity of forms.

This book examines how, in response to crises, law tends to construct singular 'events' that obscure the underlying structural causes that any adequate response needs to acknowledge and address.

Exploring the advantages and disadvantages of codifying contract law, this book considers the question from the perspectives of both civil and common law systems, referring in detail to issues of international and consumer law.