Methods, theory and philosophy of law

This book addresses the principle of proportionality, which is currently one of the most important instruments of judicial review, from both analytical and theory of law perspectives.

This book's basic hypothesis - which it proposes to test with a cognitive-sociological approach - is that legal behavior, like every form of human behavior, is directed and framed by biosocial constraints that are neither entirely genetic nor exclusively cultural.

This book presents a collection of philosophical essays on freedom and tolerance in the Netherlands.

This book explores the legal conception of personhood in the context of contemporary challenges, such as the status of non-human animals, human-animal biological mixtures, cyborgisation of the human body, or developing technologies based on artificial autonomic agents.

In this monograph a fundamental distinction is made between law and juridical thinking.

This book will challenge the orthodox view that children cannot have the same rights as adults because they are particularly vulnerable.

This book argues that there is a strong normative argument for using the criminal law as a primary response to corporate crime.

This book offers a detailed account of the legal issues concerning the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands) by leading experts in the field.

This peer-reviewed book features essays on the Armenian massacres of 1915-1916.

This timely book offers revealing insights into the changing role of China in world governance as exemplified by the Silk Road Initiative, the People's Republic's first published major initiative for external affairs.

This book features essays that investigate the nature of legal validity from the point of view of different traditions and disciplines.

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

This book examines social aspects of humour relating to the judiciary, judicial behaviour, and judicial work across different cultures and eras, identifying how traditionally recorded wit and humorous portrayals of judges reflect social attitudes to the judiciary over time.

This book examines  how the nation - and its (fundamental) law - are 'sensed' by way of various aesthetic forms from the age of revolution up until our age of contested democratic legitimacy.

Language policies are increasingly acknowledged as being a necessary component of many decisions taken in the areas of the labor market, education, minority languages, mobility, and social inclusion of migrants.

This book offers a comprehensive investigation of privacy in the modern world.

This book analyzes emergency legislations formed in response to terrorism.

This book focuses on Boko Haram and terrorism in Nigeria, framing the conflict in an international law context.

The book is dedicated to the theoretical problems concerning ratio legis.

This book addresses current practices in customary law.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to global legal thought.

This engaging book examines the origins and first effects of the concept 'legal semiotics', focusing on the inventor of the term, Roberta Kevelson (1931-1998).

This book explores the various connections between Law and Opera, providing a comprehensive, multinational, and multidisciplinary (with approaches from jurists, philosophers, musicologist, historians) resource on the subject.

This book addresses the technological evolution of modern warfare due to unmanned systems and the growing capacity for cyberwarfare.

This book investigates whether legal reforms intended to create a market-friendly regulatory business environment have a positive impact on economic and financial outcomes.

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

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.

This book asserts that the Pacific Islands continue to struggle with the colonial legacy of plural legal systems, comprising laws and legal institutions from both the common law and the customary legal system.

This book investigates whether treaty interpretation at the ECtHR and WTO, which are sometimes perceived as promoting 'self-contained' regimes, could constitute a means for unifying international law, or, conversely, might exacerbate the fragmentation of international law.

This book discusses the impact of war on the complex interactions between various actors involved in justice: individuals and social groups on the one hand and 'the justice system' (police, judiciary and professionals working in the prison service) on the other.

This book examines the history of cosmopolitanism from its origins in the ancient world up to its use in Kantian political philosophy.

This book is based on an international project conducted by the Institute for European Studies of the University CEU San Pablo in Madrid and a seminar on Vitoria and International Law which took place on July 2nd 2015 in the convent of San Esteban, the place where Vitoria spent his most productive years as Chair of Theology at the University of Salamanca.

This book focuses on Jurgen Habermas' theorising on law, rights and democracy in light of the modern critique of law.

This book uses the structure of Machiavelli's The Prince to show how governance has changed over the last 500 years.

This book reflects on the research and career of political theorist Russell Hardin from scholars of Political Science, Philosophy, Sociology, Economics, and Law, among other disciplines.

The present collection represents an attempt to bring together several contributions to the ongoing debate pertaining to supervenience of the normative in law and morals and strives to be the first work that addresses the topic comprehensively.

This book discusses how Plato, one the fiercest legal critics in ancient Greece, became - in the longue duree - its most influential legislator.

This volume features fourteen essays that examine the works of key figures within the phenomenological movement in a clear and accessible way.

This book deals with the concept of post-Islamism from a mainly philosophical perspective, using political liberalism as elaborated by John Rawls as the key interpretive tool.

This book compares the respective concepts of the law of nations put forward by the Spanish theologian Francisco Suarez and by the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius.

This edited volume examines the very essence of the function of judges, building upon developments in the quality of justice research throughout Europe.

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.

This book explores topical issues in military ethics by according peace a central role within an interdisciplinary framework.

The book analyses the Indian Supreme Court's jurisprudence on homosexuality, its current approach and how its position has evolved in the past ten years.

The book is an accurate and accessible introduction to the complex and dynamic field of transitional and post-conflict justice, providing an overview of its recurring concepts and debated issues.

This volume looks at how courts and the police handle racial discrimination in Europe.

This book develops a responsible and practical method for evaluating the success, failure, or "e;crisis"e; of American civil-military relations among its political and uniformed elite.

This book defines the characteristics of a new discipline that is both legal and scientific: user-friendly legal science.

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

This book is an examination of how the law understands human identity and the whole notion of 'human being'.