Methods, theory and philosophy of law

Emergencies are extreme events which threaten to cause massive disruption to society and negatively affect the physical and psychological well-being of its members.

This volume is devoted to exploring a subject which,on the surface, might appear to be just a trending topic.

This book addresses recent changes in Central and Eastern Europe in order to critically consider the impact of illiberal conservatism on constitutionalism.

This book is a response to the dangers posed to constitutional democracy by the continuous growth of executive power and the simultaneous decline of parliaments' role in policy formation.

The persistent objector rule is said to provide states with an 'escape hatch' from the otherwise universal binding force of customary international law.

A revolutionary approach exploring legal themes such as justice, legitimacy, sovereignty, and power through close readings of major works of art.

This book focuses on the subject of choice of law as a whole and provides an analysis of its various rules, principles, doctrines and concepts.

This volume addresses the pluralistic identity of the legal order.

This book introduces readers to the concept of territory as it applies to law while demonstrating the particular work that territory does in organizing property relations.

Among the most prominent and significant political and legal developments since the end of the Cold War is the proliferation of mechanisms for addressing the complex challenges of transition from authoritarian rule to human rights-based democratic constitutionalism, particularly with regards to the demands for accountability in relation to conflicts and abuses of the past.

This book explores how Indigenous Peoples are impacted by globalization and the cult of the individual that often accompanies the phenomenon.

The book examines female entrepreneurship in the nineteenth century.

The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty-here for the first time in EnglishIn 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria created a sensation when he published On Crimes and Punishments.

This Handbook brings together scholars to consider how classical liberal principles can help us understand and address social problems.

While the role of comparative law in the courts was previously only an exception, foreign sources are now increasingly becoming a source of law in regular use in supreme and constitutional courts.

An exploration of the dialectical role of repetition in international law, building on insights from philosophy, sociology, theatre and film.

This book explores the interrelation of facts and norms.

If catastrophes are, by definition, exceptional events of such magnitude that worlds and lives are dramatically overturned, the question of timing would pose a seemingly straightforward, if not redundant question.

Moving from monasticism to constitutionalism, and from antinomianism to anarchism, this book reveals law''s connection with love and freedom.

This book is the product of a major British Academy Symposium held in 2007 to mark the centenary of the birth of H.

Nearly twenty years after its original publication, The Idea of Private Law is widely recognized as a seminal contribution to legal philosophy, and one of the leading attempts to explain and justify the moral foundations of private law.

80 years after the Nuremberg trial, the prosecution of Nazi perpetrators has effectively come to an end.

The Marketization of Religion provides a novel theoretical understanding of the relationship between religion and economy of today's world.

Alors que culture et nature sont indissociables, les initiatives mises en place par les États pour préserver les ressources culturelles et naturelles ont donné naissance à des ensembles normatifs distincts.

This book provides an in-depth guide to researchers and practitioners who are interested in analysing the evolution of EU law from a national and comparative constitutional law perspective.

The book outlines the historical development of Public Law and the state from ancient times to the modern day, offering an account of relevant events in parallel with a general historical background, establishing and explaining the relationships between political, religious, and economic events.

Despite 15 years of reform efforts, the incarceration rate in the United States remains unprecedentedly high.

What makes someone responsible for a crime and therefore liable to punishment under the criminal law?

Das römische Pfandrecht bleibt eine unerschöpfliche Quelle von Rechtsproblemen, die sich bis in das geltende Recht hineinziehen.

Multi-modal argumentation with its logical, emotional, visceral and kisceral arguments is an important addition to logical argumentation, especially when real-life situations are considered.

This is the first book to bring together distinguished jurisprudential theorists, as well as up-and-coming scholars, to critically assess the nature of legal reasoning.

This book demonstrates that art is implicit in the process of administration of international justice.

Where, when, and how is the law practiced?

Bringing together world-class scholars who have devoted themselves to the study of legal obligation, this book addresses key dimensions of the current debate: providing novel insights and perspectives, as well as critically discussing the leading theories of legal obligation.

Durch die Einführung wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten in Schwerpunktbereichsprüfungen (neben Seminar- und Hausarbeiten) begeben sich Studierende bei juristischen Themenarbeiten hier oftmals auf unbekanntes Terrain.

Kent Greenawalt's From the Bottom Up constitutes a collection of articles and essays written over the last five decades of his career.

This volume is a new chapter in the future history of law.

For the first time, this book provides an up-to-date history of product design and product design law covering 17 countries - Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden), Russia, the United States, Brazil and Australia - selected for their innovative or influential approach to design or design protection.

The capabilities approach is a widely influential alternative theory of justice, popularized by Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen and also by Martha Nussbaum.

More has been said about the Hart-Fuller debate than can be considered healthy or productive even within the precious world of jurisprudential scholarship too much philosophising about how law has revelled in its own abstractness and narrowness.

This book explores developments in international law regarding the relationship between human rights law and international humanitarian law and their coapplicability in armed conflict situations.

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'One of the foremost thinkers on the transformative impact of the technology revolution' - TONY BLAIR
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The philosophical inquiry of responsibility is a major and fast-growing field.

One of the most unfortunate facts about the relationship of the United States with Latin America is that only in recent years has there been any appreciable amount of intellectual interchange with reference to law.

Religious freedom is a fundamental and relatively uncontested right in both the United States and Europe.

This volume examines the relationship between Christian legal theory and the fields of private law.

In the early 1980s, a new category of crime appeared in the criminal law lexicon.

Das Buch wendet sich nicht allein an Studenten mit ausgeprägten historischen Interessen, sondern an die Rechtsstudentinnen und Rechtsstudenten überhaupt.