Methods, theory and philosophy of law

For many years, Antony Duff has been one of the world's foremost philosophers of criminal law.

This text addresses the corporate causes of the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the emergence of modern Republican China.

When asked to describe wartime atrocities, acts of terrorism, and serial killers, many of us reach for the word 'evil'.

Shaping the Normative Landscape is an investigation of the value of obligations and of rights, of forgiveness, of consent and refusal, of promise and request.

This volume examines the role of League of Nations committees, particularly the Advisory Committee of Jurists (ACJ) in shaping the statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ).

In A Comparative Analysis of Cicero and Aquinas, Charles P.

En el presente libro, German Sucar se propone avanzar sobre el topico sosteniendo que todo intento serio de respuesta exige una indagacion acerca de las diferentes teorias sobre la naturaleza del derecho, asi como de la distincion de ciertos niveles de analisis.

Discusses natural law as a traditional but highly contested source of canon law.

Collective Action, Philosophy and Law brings together two important strands of philosophical analysis.

The current legal and political context is perhaps more congenial than ever before to considering claims made by minorities for the protection of some aspect of their identity.

What one can know depends on one's evidence.

A century after the publication of Evgeny Pashukanis' pivotal book General Theory of Law and Marxism, this collection presents a comprehensive account and analysis of his key concept of legal form.

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This book offers its readers an overview of recent developments in the theory of legal argumentation written by representatives from various disciplines, including argumentation theory, philosophy of law, logic and artificial intelligence.

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes, investigating such questions as: What does it mean to be an agent?

This book's essays seek to cleanse comparative law of some of the epistemic detritus it has been collecting and that has been cluttering its theory and practice to the point where this flotsam has effectively stultified 'good' comparison.

The Sovereignty of Human Rights advances a legal theory of international human rights that defines their nature and purpose in relation to the structure and operation of international law.

Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen here poses the question: "e;Is affirmative action morally (un)justifiable?

Sixty years after Jessup''s Transnational Law Lectures, this collection traces the field''s development and significance to the present day.

Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems (now available in journal format), is based upon an annual colloquium held at University College London.

This collection of essays explores the different ways the insights from complexity theory can be applied to law.

Considering the steady increase in intellectual property rights in the last century, does it make sense to speak of 'user's rights' and can limitations on intellectual liberty be justified from a rights-based perspective?

If the term were given its literal meaning, international law would be law between 'nations'.

In this translation of Saint Thomas Aquinas's The Treatise on Law, R.

Legisprudence considers a variety of perspectives and relies on contributions from numerous different disciplines.

First published in 1989, Punishment examines the practice of punishment, not simply as a typical sanction employed by the state but as a pervasive feature of social organisation in both past and contemporary societies.

This book provides a legal historical insight into colonial laws on enslavement and the plantation system in the British West Indies.

This is the fourth volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy.

This book seeks to re-appreciate the concept of customary international law as a form of spontaneous societal self-organisation, and to develop the methodological consequences that ensue from this conception for the practice of its application.

This is a book about the legal fiction that sometimes we know what we don't.

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, which honor the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner, are presented annually at each of nine universities in the United States and Great Britain.

This book contributes conceptually, theoretically and morally to a deeper understanding of the distinctive Asian perceptions of punishment, justice and human rights.

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.

This book's essays seek to cleanse comparative law of some of the epistemic detritus it has been collecting and that has been cluttering its theory and practice to the point where this flotsam has effectively stultified 'good' comparison.

This book collects the latest research by leading Bentham scholars and challenges the dominant understandings of Bentham in legal and political philosophy.

This title was first published in 2000.

This book explores the recent trend of enhancing the role of the people in constitutional change.

This book offers new readings of Kant's "e;universal law"e; and "e;humanity"e; formulations of the categorical imperative.

In this follow-up volume to the critically acclaimed The Constitutional State, N.

This book sheds light on the processes that have transformed national citizenship of the European Union's member states and explains the legislative changes that have taken place since the mid-1980s in Germany, Hungary and Poland.

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

Shakespearean Genealogies of Power proposes a new view on Shakespeare's involvement with the legal sphere: as a visible space between the spheres of politics and law and well able to negotiate legal and political, even constitutional concerns, Shakespeare's theatre opened up a new perspective on normativity.

Cultural Difference on Trial: The Nature and Limits of Judicial Understanding comprises a sustained philosophical exploration of the capacity of the modern liberal democratic legal system to understand the thought and practice of those culturally different minorities who come before it as claimants, defendants or witnesses.

An edited and annotated edition of one of the classic works of Western legal and political thought.

This volume assembles leading scholars to examine how their respective theoretical positions relate to the artifactual nature of law.

Judicial systems are under increasing pressure: from rising litigation costs and decreased accessibility, from escalating accountability and performance evaluation expectations, from shifting burdens of case management and alternative dispute resolution roles, and from emerging technologies.