Jurisprudence category: 1225 books
The Foundation of the Juridico-Political
Concept Formation in Hans Kelsen and Max Weber
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Hans Kelsen and Max Weber are conventionally understood as initiators not only of two distinct and opposing processes of concept formation, but also of two discrete and contrasting theoretical frameworks for the study of law. The Foundation of the Juridical-Political: Concept Formation in Hans Kelsen...
The Reconstruction of the Juridico-Political
Affinity and Divergence in Hans Kelsen and Max Weber
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Hans Kelsen and Max Weber are conventionally understood as the original proponents of two distinct and opposed processes of concept formation generating two separate and contrasting theoretical frameworks for the study of law. The Reconstruction of the Juridico-Political: Affinity and Divergence...
Reading The Legal Case
Cross-Currents between Law and the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This volume examines the nature, function, development and epistemological assumptions of the legal case in an interdisciplinary context. Using the question of ‘reading’ as a guiding principle, it opens up new ways of understanding case law and the doctrine of precedent by bringing the law into...
Reason, Morality, and Law
The Philosophy of John Finnis
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
John Finnis is a pioneer in the development of a new yet classically-grounded theory of natural law. His work offers a systematic philosophy of practical reasoning and moral choosing that addresses the great questions of the rational foundations of ethical judgments, the identification of moral norms,...
Law in Theory and History
New Essays on a Neglected Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This collection of original essays brings together leading legal historians and theorists to explore the oft-neglected but important relationship between these two disciplines. Legal historians have often been sceptical of theory. The methodology which informs their own work is often said to be an...
The Enigma of Comparative Law
Variations on a Theme for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2013
by James R. Maxeiner
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
In this book, James R. Maxeiner takes on the challenge of demonstrating that historically American law makers did consider a statutory methodology as part of formulating laws. In the nineteenth century, when the people wanted laws they could understand, lawyers inflicted judge-made, statute-destroying,...
Global Ethics and Moral Responsibility
Hans Jonas and his Critics
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The philosophy of Hans Jonas was widely influential in the late twentieth century, warning of the potential dangers of technological progress and its negative effect on humanity and nature. Jonas advocated greater moral responsibility and taking this as a starting point, this volume explores current...
Rules of Law and Laws of Ruling
On the Governance of Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Offering an anthropological perspective, this volume explores the changing relations between law and governance, examining how changes in the structure of governance affect the relative social significance of law within situations of legal pluralism. The authors argue that there has been a re-regulation...
Permutations of Order
Religion and Law as Contested Sovereignties
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Permutations of Order makes an innovative and important contribution to current discussions about the relationship between religion and law, bringing together theoretically informed case studies from different parts of the world, relating to various types of politico-legal settings and religions....
The Interpretation of International Law by Domestic Courts
Uniformity, Diversity, Convergence
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
The Interpretation of International Law by Domestic Courts assesses the growing role of domestic courts in the interpretation of international law. It asks whether and if so to what extent domestic courts make use of the international rules of interpretation set forth in the Vienna Convention on the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
There is a growing interest within law schools in the intersections between law and different areas of social theory. The second edition of this popular text introduces a wide range of traditions in sociology and the humanities that offer provocative, contextual views on law and legal institutions.
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by Rupert Cross, J. W. Harris
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 1991
This fourth edition of Precedent in English Law presents a basic guide to the current doctrine of precedent in England, set in the wider context of the jurisprudential problems which any treatment of this topic involves. Such problems include the nature of _ratio_ _decidendi_ of a precedent and of its...
by David Luban
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
This volume brings together the most important writing on torture and the 'war on terror by one of the leading US voices in the torture debate. Philosopher and legal ethicist David Luban reflects on this contentious topic in a powerful sequence of essays including two new and previously unpublished...