Methods, theory and philosophy of law

'This is an outline of a coherence theory of law.

Reasonableness is at the centre of legal debate, both in academic circles and in practice.

Enhanced knowledge of the nature and causes of mental disorder have led increasingly to a need for the recruitment of 'cognitively vulnerable' participants in biomedical research.

1 PURPOSE AND TOPIC We live in the age of treaties.

The Honourable William Cox AC RFD ED, Governor of Tasmania The issue of human dignity was given a new impetus at the end of the Second World War as a reaction to the horrors of the Jewish holocaust and other Nazi atrocities.

Jurisprudence, according to Cassirer, is not merely the systematic, conceptual pursuance of ethics.

This book - which is the result of several years of research, discussion, writing and re-writing - consists of three parts and eight chapters.

Autonomy in the Law considers one of the most important benefits of the rule of law.

A signal feature of legal and political institutions is that they exercise coercive power.

Believing the wrong thing may sometimes have drastic consequences.

This book intends to help understand and apply principles and rules better.

There is a veritable gold rush mentality in the life science world as scientists, entrepreneurs and multinationals are staking claims to the 'code of life' embodied in the world's current stock of plants, animals, microbes and human populations.

Costa and Zolo share the conviction that a proper understanding of the rule of law today requires referring to a global problematic horizon.

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Legal semiotics emphasizes the contingency and fluidity of legal concepts and stresses the existence of overlapping, competing and coexisting legal discourses.

Leibniz is known to the wide public and to many scholars mainly as a logician and mathematician, and as the creator of a fascinating but strange metaphysical system.

This book, which consist of three chapters and two appendices, is intended to connect subjects that have usually been considered as detached or not strongly connected: constitutionalism, legal argumen- tion and legal ethics.

The theory in the book is based on the latest research in argumentation theory, and especially on new applications of artificial intelligence (AI) to legal argumentation.

Anyone reflecting on the methodology of legal reasoning faces a difficult task.

Arguing Fundamental Rights explores the path-breaking Theory of Constitutional Rights of Robert Alexy.

Discussions of rights are ubiquitous.

The accession of eight post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (and also of Malta and Cyprus) to the European Union in 2004 has been heralded as perhaps the most important development in the history of European integration so far.

Being Apart from Reasons deals with the question of how we should go about using reasons to decide what to do.

Rights language is a fundamental feature of the modern world.

Liberal theories have long insisted that cultural diversity in democratic societies can be accommodated through classical liberal tools, in particular through individual rights, and they have often rejected the claims of cultural minorities for group rights as illiberal.

Adoption has always had a political dimension.

The area of Information Technology and Lawyers is a fascinating one.

Moral Dilemmas in Real Life purports to supply ways of thinking of, perhaps even dealing with, the ins and outs of ethical argument.

Liberal defences of nationalism have become prevalent since the mid-1980's.

Medical Law and Moral Rights discusses live issues arising in modern medical practice.

Studies in Legal Logic is a collection of nine interrelated papers about the logic, epistemology and ontology of law.

A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence is the first-ever multivolume treatment of the issues in legal philosophy and general jurisprudence, from both a theoretical and a historical perspective.

Challenging the conventional wisdom that constitutional courts are the best device that democratic systems have for the protection of individual rights, Wojciech Sadurski examines carefully the most recent wave of activist constitutional courts: those that have emerged after the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe.

Some years ago, on request of the German Political Science Association (DVPW), an empirical investigation On the state and the orientation of political science in the Federal Republic of Germany"e; was conducted by Carl Bohret.

At all times physicians were bound to pursue not only medical tasks, but to reflect also on the many anthropological and metaphysical aspects of their discipline, such as on the nature of life and death, of health and sickness, and above all on the vital ethical dimensions of their practice.

What happens when two systems, law and medicine, are joined in the arena of the court?

The present work is a fair record of work I've done on the fallacies and related matters in the fifteen years since 1986.

Knowledge Discovery from Legal Databases is the first text to describe data mining techniques as they apply to law.

The philosophical discussion of state punishment is well on in years.

Accounts of natural law moral philosophy and theology sought principles and precepts for morality, law, and other forms of social authority, whose prescriptive force was not dependent for validity on human decision, social influence, past tradition, or cultural convention, but through natural reason itself.

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This book examines how the Roman, French and English legal systems have each dealt with the issue of unforeseen, supervening events which have rendered the performance of contractual obligations either impossible or fundamentally different in nature, sometimes known as Force Majeure or Acts of God.

How do Supreme Court justices decide their cases?

The Judge as Political Theorist examines opinions by constitutional courts in liberal democracies to better understand the logic and nature of constitutional review.

According to conventional wisdom in American legal culture, the 1870s to 1920s was the age of legal formalism, when judges believed that the law was autonomous and logically ordered, and that they mechanically deduced right answers in cases.

Should the Supreme Court have the last word when it comes to interpreting the Constitution?

This book presents a new perspective on the debate around legitimacy, politics and constitutional law in Supreme Courts.

The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development provides an interdisciplinary, agenda-setting survey of the fields of migration and development, bringing together over 60 expert contributors from around the world to chart current and future trends in research on this topic.