Methods, theory and philosophy of law

In 2010, Martin Loughlin, Professor of Public Law at the LSE, published Foundations of Public Law, 'an account of the foundation of the discipline of public law with a view to identifying its essential character'.

In 2010, Martin Loughlin, Professor of Public Law at the LSE, published Foundations of Public Law, 'an account of the foundation of the discipline of public law with a view to identifying its essential character'.

This book provides a comprehensive theory of the rights upon which tort law is based and the liability that flows from violating those rights.

This book provides a comprehensive theory of the rights upon which tort law is based and the liability that flows from violating those rights.

PRAISE FOR THE BOOK Despite the existing scholarly literature on criminal defences, many issues remain contested or unresolved.

PRAISE FOR THE BOOK Despite the existing scholarly literature on criminal defences, many issues remain contested or unresolved.

Some say that private law ought to correct wrongs or to protect rights.

Some say that private law ought to correct wrongs or to protect rights.

This book provides an accessible and systematic restatement of the desert model for criminal sentencing by one of its leading academic exponents.

This book provides an accessible and systematic restatement of the desert model for criminal sentencing by one of its leading academic exponents.

Lord Leonard Hoffmann remains one of the most important and influential English jurists.

Lord Leonard Hoffmann remains one of the most important and influential English jurists.

The meaning and function of law in Hannah Arendt's work has never been the subject of a systematic reconstruction.

The meaning and function of law in Hannah Arendt's work has never been the subject of a systematic reconstruction.

Transparency is a fundamental principle of justice.

Transparency is a fundamental principle of justice.

This book focuses on a comparative study of claim interpretation in the United States and China and addresses the question of whether the law of claim interpretation functions similarly or differently in the two countries.

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Crime is a source of endless fascination and fear.

This book provides a complex insight into how law, as a distinct tool and technology, conceptualizes and operationalizes race, ethnicity and nationality.

The international refugee regime is fundamentally broken.

How should the state face the challenge of radical pluralism?

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This book argues that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) should reconsider its approach to hate speech cases and develop a robust protection of freedom of expression as set out in the benchmark case of Handyside v the United Kingdom.

Immigration, Citizenship and Insecurity: An Australian Story explores how Australia's policies on migration and nationality have shaped citizenship and social inclusion.

Edmund Husserl's ideas, informed by Kant's Critiques, constituted a point of departure when rereading philosophical problems of subject and subjectivity.

En los diversos articulos recopilados en este libro, Eugenio Bulygin muestra que una clara distincion entre normas y proposiciones normativas es esencial no solo para comprender el discurso normativo sino tambien para elaborar una justificacion adecuada a uno de los desafios centrales de la logica deontica: la posibilidad de una genuina logica de normas.

In jurisprudential writing, single decisions are often held up as representative without any evidence to support their representative claims.

In early Upper Canada the attorney general was little more than a skilled functionary -- the Crown's chief legal counsel; by the mid-nineteenth century he had become a leading member of cabinet and generally premier.

While a functional concept of crime under the common law has ancient roots, theoretical and doctrinal formulations emerged in the nineteenth century.

This co-operative venture by thirty-eight leading Canadian lawyers, jurists, and scholars is the first published survey on a major scale to cover nearly all aspects of Canadian relations with international organization.

This book is composed of five chapters, each containing a series of cases which courts have disposed of according to a particular jurisprudential insight, followed by a series of readings which present the same insight from a more abstract and general point of view.

As the state comes to play a larger role in the community the question of the extent to which government is subject to the general law of the land assumes increasing importance.

Canada is covered by a system of law and governance that largely obscures and ignores the presence of pre-existing Indigenous regimes.

In The Judicial Role in a Diverse Federation, Robert Schertzer uses the example of the Supreme Court of Canada to examine how apex courts manage diversity and conflict in federal states.

In The Judicial Role in a Diverse Federation, Robert Schertzer uses the example of the Supreme Court of Canada to examine how apex courts manage diversity and conflict in federal states.

Ideas of justice have traditionally focused on what individuals owe to one another and have drawn our attention to what is considered fair – what one of us owes to another is justly matched by what the other owes to them.

Ideas of justice have traditionally focused on what individuals owe to one another and have drawn our attention to what is considered fair – what one of us owes to another is justly matched by what the other owes to them.

En la doctrina jurídica actual predomina la idea de que entre los derechos fundamentales surgen continuamente conflictos que se deben decidir mediante la ponderación, y en especial a través de la aplicación del test de proporcionalidad.

Law and justice must qualitatively evolve in order to provide for a society, which is less fragile in terms of stability and is able to address dissent, where multiple identities constantly compete for assertion and legitimisation.

Scholars from political science and law examine the latest research on the constitutionalization of politics in comparative perspective.

This book offers a contemporary understanding of the state of the art of "e;crimmigration"e; with a focus on the European Union and challenges this paradigm of intersecting criminal justice and immigration control.

The culture of the ius commune has been a unifying element of European and Western legal civilization.

Since its inception in 2001, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been met with resistance by various African states and their leaders, who see the court as a new iteration of colonial violence and control.

Several books have been written on the Rwandan Genocide and the Sierra Leonean civil war.

Plato is one of the most widely read and studied philosophers of all time.

Fascism is a well-defined historical phenomenon, but its political-ideological offshoots have extended into today's democracies.

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.

Las iniciativas de lenguaje claro aspiran a servir como instrumento para garantizar principios de gobierno abierto y transparencia; para promover la confianza en las instituciones; para garantizar un acceso real a la Justicia y a las decisiones judiciales; para incentivar la participación a partir del acceso y el entendimiento de información pública veraz; para impulsar comportamientos o para facilitar el cumplimiento de obligaciones y procedimientos de la Administración Pública.