Methods, theory and philosophy of law

This book celebrates Andreas (Andrew) von Hirsch's pioneering contributions to liberal criminal theory.

This book provides a concise and accessible guide to modern jurisprudence, offering an examination of the major theories and systematic discussion of themes such as legality and justice.

This collection of essays takes as its starting point Arthur Ripstein's Force and Freedom: Kant's Legal and Political Philosophy, a seminal work on Kant's thinking about law, which also treats many of the contemporary issues of legal and political philosophy.

This collection of essays takes as its starting point Arthur Ripstein's Force and Freedom: Kant's Legal and Political Philosophy, a seminal work on Kant's thinking about law, which also treats many of the contemporary issues of legal and political philosophy.

Forty years after his death, Hans Kelsen (1881-1973) remains one of the most discussed and influential legal philosophers of our time.

Forty years after his death, Hans Kelsen (1881-1973) remains one of the most discussed and influential legal philosophers of our time.

More than 50 years after it was first published, The Concept of Law remains the most important work of legal philosophy in the English-speaking world.

There is a growing interest within law schools in the intersections between law and different areas of social theory.

Judging Positivism is a critical exploration of the method and substance of legal positivism.

Judging Positivism is a critical exploration of the method and substance of legal positivism.

How can we characterise law and legal theory in the twenty-first century?

How can we characterise law and legal theory in the twenty-first century?

This book explores the relevance of virtue theory to law from a variety of perspectives.

This book explores the relevance of virtue theory to law from a variety of perspectives.

This book uses Niklas Luhmann's systems theory to explore how the legal system operates as one of modern society's subsystems.

This book uses Niklas Luhmann's systems theory to explore how the legal system operates as one of modern society's subsystems.

Legal theorists consider their discipline as an objective endeavour in line with other fields of science.

Legal theorists consider their discipline as an objective endeavour in line with other fields of science.

Critical legal studies is the most important development in progressive thinking about law of the past half century.

A landmark work of political and legal philosophy, Ronald Dworkin's Taking Rights Seriously was acclaimed as a major work on its first publication in 1977 and remains profoundly influential in the 21st century.

A landmark work of political and legal philosophy, Ronald Dworkin's Taking Rights Seriously was acclaimed as a major work on its first publication in 1977 and remains profoundly influential in the 21st century.

This book elaborates and interrogates the idea of evil corporations from a diverse range of disciplines.

Modos de describir el derecho consiste en un análisis de los actos de habla por medio de los cuales se intenta describir el derecho.

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.

The Law was originally published as a pamphlet in 1850 by Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850).

One of the secrets within the legal profession is that the stories behind the cases matter more than the legal doctrines involved.

The growing interest in the relationship between religion and law is, in the case of Christianity, often viewed in monolithic terms.

This book analyses constitutional conventions as a powerful but largely neglected framework for studying the law and politics of constitutions.

The government has no power greater than to take away a person's freedom or even life.

The question The Republic sets out to define is "e;What is justice?

This important new book penetrates that veil of secrecy with thirteen interviews tape recorded in the chambers of the respective judges.

This book focuses on how to improve the collection, analysis and responsible use of data on global migration and international mobility.

Organized around specific questions, theses and arguments, Philosophy of Law: Introducing Jurisprudence helps students get to grips with the fascinating yet often complex realm of legal philosophy.

Chronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of both Trump's efforts to erode democracy's essential elements and opposition to those efforts.

Two Books of the Elements of Universal Jurisprudence was Pufendorf's first work, published in 1660.

Samuel Pufendorf's Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion (published in Latin in 1687) is a major work on the separation of politics and religion.

The Divine Feudal Law sets forth Pufendorf's basis for the reunion of the Lutheran and Calvinist confessions.

Originally published in German in 1936, The Natural Law is the first work to clarify the differences between traditional natural law as represented in the writings of Cicero, Aquinas, and Hooker and the revolutionary doctrines of natural rights espoused by Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau.

According to Bruno Leoni, the greatest obstacle to rule of law in our time is the problem of overlegislation.

Roscoe Pound, former dean of Harvard Law School, delivered a series of lectures at the University of Calcutta in 1948.

Christian Thomasius's natural jurisprudence is essential to understanding the origins of the Enlightenment in Germany, where his importance was comparable to that of John Locke's in England.

Henry Home, Lord Kames, was the complete "e;Enlightenment man,"e; concerned with the full spectrum of human knowleEAe and its social use.

One of the main goals of this book is to determine if, in the works of some of the key authors in the history of Italian political philosophy, a notion of "e;efficacy"e; can be found.

This book proposes a paradigm shift in the way that 'the state of exception'-as it is usually named in legal and political theory-is to be understood.

This book explores the historical and legal importance of two principles, Quod Omnes Tangit, and Tianxia Wei Gong, which have played significant roles in European and Chinese political and legal history.

This book argues that law, regulation, and technology can be understood as particular kinds of governance projects, and their credentials assessed according to an overarching concept of good governance.

This book is about heroes of law.

Developing criminal justice systems?

This reference guide provides the reader straightforward coverage on the controversial and often complicated topic of how the U.