Methods, theory and philosophy of law

Tyranny is pervasive.

Rejecting traditional alternatives, Leo Zaibert offers an original and refreshing approach to the age-old problem of the justification of punishment.

A theoretical and practical exploration of the constitutional bar against cruel and unusual punishments, excessive bail, and excessive fines.

This is the first book-length study in English of Kant''s legal metaphors, whose philosophical importance has so far been overlooked.

Highlights the threats posed by nuclear weapons and shows a way to denuclearization through the application of international law.

A comparative and empirical analysis of proportionality in the case law of six constitutional and supreme courts.

Explores the effects in theory and in practice of recent foreign inspired legal reforms in East Asia and Oceania.

Explains impeachment from its English roots through 250 years of American constitutional experience, including the case against President Trump.

Reconstructs existing comparative law scholarship into a coherent analytic framework so as to both fend off current charges of theoretical arbitrariness and guide future work.

Nili develops a novel conception of ''the people'', both as an agent with its own moral integrity, and as an owner of public property.

This books highlights the impact of Christianity on the history of law and societal policies in the Low Countries.

Explains impeachment from its English roots through 250 years of American constitutional experience, including the case against President Trump.

Nili develops a novel conception of ''the people'', both as an agent with its own moral integrity, and as an owner of public property.

An agenda-setting multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex phenomenon of responsibility in negligence.

An agenda-setting multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex phenomenon of responsibility in negligence.

How should the law deal with the challenges of advancing biotechnology?

Shows how Christian leaders before 1000 CE understood law and used normative texts and practices for social order and eternal salvation.

Illustrates the origin and ways of Western hegemony over other civilizations across the world.

Makes a significant contribution to substantive representation, and examines the various political identities of justices in the American political system.

Shows that the diverse ways of reasoning and judging in our law arise from the same root: a commitment to liberal legality.

The first book-length treatment to describe and explain how legal orders can be interwoven and what to do about it.

A comprehensive exploration of contemporary debates in Just War Theory, addressing moral, political, and legal issues.

A comprehensive exploration of contemporary debates in Just War Theory, addressing moral, political, and legal issues.

The book brings together a refreshing collection of new essays on property theory, from legal, philosophical and political perspectives.

Scholars from many disciplines discuss the crucial roles played by narrative and metaphor in the theory and practice of law.

Combining autobiography and scholarship, this volume asks how lawyers and legal theorists'' experiences affect their legal practice and research.

What does ''think like a lawyer'' mean in times of legal crisis?

What does ''think like a lawyer'' mean in times of legal crisis?

The book explores the role and importance of reason and emotion in justice and the law.

A comprehensive study of proportional analysis in free speech theory, this book challenges US Supreme Court''s categorical approach and helps readers understand the breadth of concerns arising from regulations impacting expression.

A comprehensive study of proportional analysis in free speech theory, this book challenges US Supreme Court''s categorical approach and helps readers understand the breadth of concerns arising from regulations impacting expression.

A theory of religious freedom for the modern era that uses natural law from ancient Greek, Jewish, Christian and Islamic sources.

Property law should expand opportunities for individual and collective self-determination and restrict options of interpersonal domination.

Property law should expand opportunities for individual and collective self-determination and restrict options of interpersonal domination.

A comprehensive collection exploring the theoretical and practical connections between constitutionalism and deliberative democracy.

This book takes an original and comparative approach to issues of causation in tort law across many European legal systems.

A comprehensive collection exploring the theoretical and practical connections between constitutionalism and deliberative democracy.

Offers a logically structured, comprehensive, well-researched and accessible overview of legal theory and philosophy.

Offers a comprehensive exploration of transnational law and advances a framework for investigating transnational regulatory institutions.

Offers a comprehensive exploration of transnational law and advances a framework for investigating transnational regulatory institutions.

Offers a logically structured, comprehensive, well-researched and accessible overview of legal theory and philosophy.

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

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

Engages with the life and work of Larry Alexander to explore puzzles and paradoxes in legal and moral theory.

Malcolm Feeley''s classic scholarship on courts, criminal justice, legal reform, and the legal complex, examined by law and society scholars.

Provides students with an introduction to legal philosophy, using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to reflect on human rights.

This accessible book analyses transitional justice and discusses how it differs from retributive, corrective, and distributive justice.

This accessible book analyses transitional justice and discusses how it differs from retributive, corrective, and distributive justice.

This book explores the jurisprudence from international, regional and national sources on the interpretation and application of human rights concepts.

This book offers a critique of the principal contemporary approaches to international law alongside its own novel perspectives.