Methods, theory and philosophy of law

Forst takes a fresh perspective on the assessment of criminal justice policy.

A fully revised and comprehensive overview of the legal principles governing the entry of people into Australia.

Benjamin Gregg believes human rights can be created by the ordinary people whom they address and are valid only if embraced by those to whom they apply.

A legal-theoretical account of collective rights, grounded in the normative-moral view of ''value collectivism''.

A fully revised and comprehensive overview of the legal principles governing the entry of people into Australia.

Benjamin Gregg believes human rights can be created by the ordinary people whom they address and are valid only if embraced by those to whom they apply.

A legal-theoretical account of collective rights, grounded in the normative-moral view of ''value collectivism''.

This book aims to reinvigorate normative legal scholarship that both criticizes positive law and suggests reforms for it.

This book aims to reinvigorate normative legal scholarship that both criticizes positive law and suggests reforms for it.

This book is intended to promote discussion and understanding of customary law and to explore its continued relevance in sub-Saharan Africa.

This volume argues that the commitment to justice is a fundamental motive and that it sometimes takes priority over self-interest.

This volume argues that the commitment to justice is a fundamental motive and that it sometimes takes priority over self-interest.

An edited volume that offers a critical re-evaluation of three fundamental and interlocking themes in American democracy.

A systematic analysis of extraterritorial obligations and state responsibility for private actors under international refugee law.

An edited volume that offers a critical re-evaluation of three fundamental and interlocking themes in American democracy.

Nobody's Law shows how people - who are disappointed, disenchanted, and outraged about the justice system - gradually move away from law.

This book discusses the salience of the caste question in UK law.

On the eight-hundredth anniversary of the Magna Carta, Women and the Magna Carta investigates what the charter meant for women's rights and freedoms from an historical and legal perspective.

The law serves a function that is not often taken seriously enough by ethicists, namely practicability.

Among the societies that experienced a political transition away from authoritarianism in the 1980s, South Korea is known as a paragon of 'successful democratization.

The Global Diamond Industry: Economics and Development brings together a collection of papers covering various aspects of the diamond industry including economics, law, history, sociology and development across two volumes.

This book describes the history, present status and possible future models of clinical legal education (CLE) in 12 Asian countries, with particular focus on the Asian character of CLE as it has evolved in different countries.

This book examines the U.

Hobbes on Legal Authority and Political Obligation develops a new interpretation of Hobbes's theory of political obligation.

Despite the existence of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child there still exists a debate on whether children can really hold rights.

The new world created through Anglophone emigration in the 19th century has been much studied.

Justice reinvestment was introduced as a response to mass incarceration and racial disparity in the United States in 2003.

This groundbreaking book offers in-depth analysis of the modern Islamic state, applying a quantitative measurement of how Muslim majority nations meet the definition.

This book examines the experiences of gay and bisexual men who lived in Scotland during an era when all homosexual acts were illegal, tracing the historical relationship between Scottish society, the state and its male homosexual population using a combination of oral history and extensive archival research.

Laws are essential to the lives of all British citizens and crucial to the survival of British Governments.

This book focuses on decision-making by non-state justice institutions at the interface of traditional, religious, and state laws.

The book transcends conventional social scientific method, political theory and its understanding of global governance to make the study of the philosophical essence of the international legal system fully accessible.

This text explores the place to locate the cut between those inequalities for which it is fair to hold one responsible, and those for which it is not.

This unique volume develops a new philosophy of law and a new theory of law enforcement.

In recent years there has been a widely-recognized and serious lack of rational and civil public discussion about current issues.

Socio-legal studies have had an ambivalent relationship with the 'legal' - one of its defining aspects, but at the same time one that the discipline has sought to transcend or even leave behind.

This book examines the treatment of suspects in interrogation and explores issues surrounding the right to silence.

A fresh theory on how individuals respond to inequalities occurring within their own communities.

In this insightful collection, a broad range of scholars analyzes a core issue for socio-legal studies, what is understood by the 'socio' of the 'socio-legal'.

In the case City of Boerne v.

This introductory book offers a coherent history of twentieth century crime and the law in Britain, with chapters on topics ranging from homicide to racial hate crime, from incest to anarchism, from gangs to the death penalty.

This interdisciplinary study explores the interaction between memory and transitional justice in post-dictatorship Argentina and Uruguay and develops a theoretical framework for bringing these two fields of study together through the concept of critical junctures.

Examining the 'Conciliation in Equity' program in Colombia, this book provides a dramatic, cross-cultural example of community justice and a model for developing alternative methods of resolving crime and conflict.

China's infamous death penalty record is the product of firm Party-state control and policy-setting.

Why do some rules have the status of law while others do not?

This book provides a unique insight into the way policing is performed.

What are the grounds for and limits to obedience to the state?

How is religion, particularly non-Christianness, conceptualised and represented in English law?

The Mexican government's full-frontal attack on the powerful drugs cartels has achieved mixed results.

This book, for the first time, brings Niklas Luhmann's work into dialogue with other theoretical positions, including Lacan, Derrida, Deleuze, gender studies, bioethics, translation, ANT, eco-theories and complexity theory.