Methods, theory and philosophy of law

The idea of multi-culturalism has had a significant impact across many areas of law.

Lawfare is a complex and evolving concept with many permutations.

In the past decade, a sense of feminist 'success' has developed within the United Nations and international law, recognized in the Security Council resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, the increased jurisprudence on gender based crimes in armed conflict from the ICTR/Y and the ICC, the creation of UN Women, and Security Council sanctions against perpetrators of sexual violence in armed conflict.

This book aims to reinvigorate normative legal scholarship that both criticizes positive law and suggests reforms for it.

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

The subject of this book is human rights law, focusing on historic achievement of a common standard viewed from a perspective of Pengchun Chang's contributions to the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

This volume showcases emerging interdisciplinary scholarship that captures the complex ways in which biological knowledge is testing the nature and structure of legal personhood.

Una de las formas más elementales por medio de la cual nos enfrentamos al mundo es buscar responsables por las cosas que llaman nuestra atención.

In an era where new areas of life and new problems call for normative solutions while the plurality of values in society challenge the very basis for normative solutions, this book looks at a growing field of research on the relations between social and legal norms.

This book offers a comprehensive summary of extant international law scholarship on the topics of self-determination and secession and positions the concepts among present-day theory and relevant practice, illustrated through various ongoing cases and historical examples.

With a Foreword by Lars Vinx, this book is the first complete English translation of the Italian jurist, Emilio Betti's classic work Die Hermeneutik als allgemeine Methodik der Geisteswissenschaften, originally published in 1962.

This title presents twenty-nine topics, prepared by leading scholars in more than 20 countries, providing a comparative analysis of cutting-edge legal topics of the 21st century.

The book is a collection of essays, which aim to situate African legal theory in the context of the myriad of contemporary global challenges; from the prevalence of war to the misery of poverty and disease to the crises of the environment.

Aristotle and Natural Law lays out a new theoretical approach which distinguishes between the notions of 'interpretation,' 'appropriation,' 'negotiation' and 'reconstruction' of the meaning of texts and their component concepts.

This textbook presents a range of classical philosophical approaches in order to show that they are unsuitable as a foundation for human rights.

We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand.

In Legal Interpretation, Kent Greenawalt focuses on the complex and multi-faceted topic of textual interpretation of the law.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of major topics in the philosophy of punishment from many of the field's leading scholars.

Hannah Arendt is one of the great outsiders of twentieth-century political philosophy.

Historian Ramses Delafontaine presents an engaging examination of a controversial legal practice: the historian as an expert judicial witness.

Fiduciary law is a critically important body of law.

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Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law -The Legacy of Modernism addresses the legacy of contemporary critiques of language for the concept of the rule of law.

Hernando de Soto is one of the world's leading public intellectuals.

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Presents a robust defence of the essential place of stable marital families in modern liberal societies.

This collection focuses on the particular nexus of popular sovereignty and constitutional change, and the implications of the recent surge in populism for systems where constitutional change is directly decided upon by the people via referendum.

Chronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of the rise of Trump's populist support in 2016, and his failed efforts to nullify the result of the 2020 election.

This book examines the international, regional and domestic human rights frameworks that establish victim rights as a central force in law and policy in the twenty-first century.

Words That Bind presents a careful and nuanced treatment of constitutional interpretation and judicial review.

Integrating research methods from linguistics with contemporary legal argumentation theory, this book highlights the complexities of legal justification by focusing on the role of value-laden language in argument construction and use.

Over 2 billion people (61% of the world's employed population) work in the informal economy.

From Anthony Trollop to Sinclair Lewis, and from Jane Austen to James Joyce and John Steinbeck, many important novels touch on fundamental questions about the role of money in human affairs.

Politically, Islam in Indonesia is part of a rich multi-cultural mix.

This volume offers a critical analysis and illustration of the challenges and promises of 'stateless' law thought, pedagogy and approaches to governance - that is, understanding and conceptualizing law in a post-national condition.

Rasmus Wandall uses quantitative and qualitative methods from studies carried out in Denmark, to address the formal and informal norms and ideologies that are used to generate decisions to imprison.

Winner of the 2022 Commendation for Excellence by the International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR).

The perennial question posed by the philosophically-inclined lawyer is 'What is law?

This book examines how the functioning of the International Criminal Court has become a forum of convergence between the common law and civil law criminal justice systems.

How do lawyers think?

No social life is possible without order.

What are the requirements for a just response to criminal wrongdoing?

The Constitutional State provides an original analytical account of the state and its associated constitutional phenomena.

Illuminating their breadth and diversity, this book presents a comprehensive and multidisciplinary view of legal documents and their manifold forms, uses, materialities and meanings.

Otfried H ffe is one of the foremost political philosophers in Europe today.

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Forgiveness brings into conversation research from multiple disciplines, offering readers a comprehensive guide to current forgiveness research.