Jurisprudence category: 1225 books
Animals, Biopolitics, Law
Lively Legalities
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Typically, the legal investigation of nonhuman life, and of animal life in particular, is conducted through the discourse of animal rights. Within this discourse, legal rights are extended to certain nonhuman animals through the same liberal framework that has afforded human rights before it. Animals,...
by Yale Law Journal
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
"Symposium: The Meaning of the Civil Rights Revolution" is, in effect, a new and extensive book of contemporary thought on civil rights. In February 2014, the Yale Law Journal held a symposium at Yale Law School marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the simultaneous...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
We can only claim to understand another legal system when we know the context surrounding the positive law in which lawyers are trained. To avoid ethnocentricity and superficiality, we must go beyond judicial decisions, doctrinal writings and the black-letter law of codes and statutes and probe the...
Corruption and the Secret of Law
A Legal Anthropological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This volume presents an anthropological perspective on the hidden continuities between corruption and law. The authors argue that the two opposites, corruption and law, are inextricably linked - with the possibility of the former already inscribed into the latter. Taking a critical stance towards...
Mirrors of Justice
Law and Power in the Post-Cold War Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
Mirrors of Justice is a groundbreaking study of the meanings of and possibilities for justice in the contemporary world. The book brings together a group of both prominent and emerging scholars to reconsider the relationships between justice, international law, culture, power, and history through...
by Claudio Corradetti, Nir Eisikovits
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
This book addresses the theoretical underpinnings of the field of transitional justice, something that has hitherto been lacking both in study and practice. With the common goal of clarifying some of the theoretical profiles of transitional justice strategies, the study is organized along crucial...
The Courtroom as a Space of Resistance
Reflections on the Legacy of the Rivonia Trial
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Fifty years before his death in 2013, Nelson Mandela stood before Justice de Wet in Pretoria's Palace of Justice and delivered one of the most spectacular and liberating statements ever made from a dock. In what came to be regarded as "the trial that changed South Africa", Mandela summed...
Arendtian Constitutionalism
Law, Politics and the Order of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The meaning and function of law in Hannah Arendt's work has never been the subject of a systematic reconstruction. This book examines Arendt's work and reconstructs her ideas through political, legal and constitutional theory, and shows that her engagement with law is continuous as well as crucial...
by Joel Feinberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 1984
This first volume in the four-volume series The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law focuses on the "harm principle," the commonsense view that prevention of harm to persons other than the perpetrator is a legitimate purpose of criminal legislation. Feinberg presents a detailed analysis of the concept...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This volume gathers together sixteen seminal articles, all written by leading scholars, which articulate and effectuate the influence of Derrida's scholarship on the field of law. The articles included in this collection are underpinned by the authors' shared belief that the intellectual challenges...
The Persistent Advocate and the Use of Force
The Impact of the United States upon the Jus ad Bellum in the Post-Cold War Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive, dispassionate empirical analysis and assessment of the discernible impact that the US has had upon the jus ad bellum in the post-Cold War era. The work focuses on the substantive areas of the jus ad bellum with which the US has most often and significantly engaged...
Imagining New Legalities
Privacy and Its Possibilities in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Imagining New Legalities reminds us that examining the right to privacy and the public/private distinction is an important way of mapping the forms and limits of power that can legitimately be exercised by collective bodies over individuals and by governments over their citizens. This book does not...
Freedom and Force
Essays on Kant’s Legal Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
This collection of essays takes as its starting point Arthur Ripstein's Force and Freedom: Kant's Legal and Political Philosophy, a seminal work on Kant's thinking about law, which also treats many of the contemporary issues of legal and political philosophy. The essays offer readings and elucidations...
by Hanoch Dagan
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
In the myriad choices of interpretation judges face when confronted with rules and cases, legal realists are concerned with how these doctrinal materials carry over into judicial outcomes. What can explain past judicial behavior and predict its future course? How can law constrain judgments made by...