Jurisprudence category: 1225 books

This volume explores how societies are addressing challenging questions about the relationship between expression, traditional and societal values, and the transformations introduced by new information communications technologies. It seeks to identify alternative approaches to the role of speech and...

Este libro del profesor de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Católica San Pablo de Arequipa-Perú, José Chávez-Fernández Postigo, se trata de un trabajo temáticamente profundo, porque su materia es el fundamento último del Derecho, de ese modo no se queda el profesor peruano en la fenomenología...

El orden público designa el conjunto de principios (escritos o no) que se consideran en un orden jurídico como fundamentales y cuyo respeto es a ese título imperativo. Él aparece entonces como una garantía (u obstáculo, depende) a la solución de litigios comerciales internacionales por medio...

El presente volumen pretende ofrecer a los alumnos de la Facultad de Derecho que cursan asignaturas del estilo de Derecho Eclesiástico del Estado o Derecho y Factor Religioso, un conjunto de supuestos prácticos, todos reales, que puedan ayudarles a concretar lo que quizás perciban como algo puramente...

Can constitutional amendments be unconstitutional? The problem of 'unconstitutional constitutional amendments' has become one of the most widely debated issues in comparative constitutional theory, constitutional design, and constitutional adjudication. This book describes and analyses the increasing...

Great cases are those judicial decisions around which the common law develops. This book explores eight exemplary cases from the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia that show the law as a living, breathing and down-the-street experience. It explores the social circumstances in which the...

Este libro se basa en la convicción de que el derecho es, fundamentalmente, una práctica argumentativa. Esta característica central del derecho se aprecia con claridad en el proceso judicial. Los diferentes actores del proceso buscan conseguir sus objetivos mediante el uso de los mejores argumentos...

This practical handbook follows the successful flexicover format of Blackstone's Police Operational Handbook and is designed to complement that publication by offering guidance on good practice in core policing areas. Aimed at junior patrol officers, student officers and trainee detectives, it draws...

Ronald Dworkin is widely accepted as the most important and most controversial Anglo-American jurist of the past forty years. And this same-named volume on his work has become a minor classic in the field, offering the most complete analysis and integration of Dworkin's work to date. This third edition...

Law depends on various modes of classification. How an act or a person is classified may be crucial in determining the rights obtained, the procedures employed, and what understandings get attached to the act or person. Critiques of law often reveal how arbitrary its classificatory acts are, but no...

This is the first attempt to provide an in-depth moral assessment of the heart of the modern human rights enterprise: the system of international legal human rights. It is international human rights law--not any philosophical theory of moral human rights or any "folk" conception of moral...

The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Law provides a comprehensive, non-technical philosophical treatment of the fundamental questions about the nature of law. Its coverage includes law’s relation to morality and the moral obligations to obey the law, the main philosophical debates about...

Teaching Law re-imagines law school teaching and scholarship by going beyond crises now besetting the legal academy and examining deeper and longer-lasting challenges. The book argues that the legal academy has long neglected the need to focus teaching and scholarship on the ideals of justice that...

Corporations have legal rights, and so do many other large-scale organizations. But what does it mean to ascribe rights and "personhood" to such entities, and what is the rationale for doing so? These are central questions for an organizational society such as ours, and yet they have received...