Jurisprudence category: 1225 books
Das System der Rechtslehre
Exposition zum Begriff des Rechtsverhältnisses, Gesetz und Natur, Über das persönliche Recht, Die Macht des Rechts, Über den Staatsbürgervertrag
Language: German
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Diese Ausgabe wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Dieses eBook ist mit interaktiven Inhalt und Begleitinformationen versehen, einfach zu navigieren und gut gegliedert. Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) war ein deutscher Erzieher und Philosoph. Er gilt neben Friedrich...
Der sozialrechtliche Schutz von Rentnern im europaeischen Sekundaerrecht
Rechtliche Analyse des Schutzumfangs des nichterwerbstaetigen Rentners und des Rentners im Nebenerwerb in Bezug auf Altersdiskriminierung, Freizuegigkeit, Soziale Sicherheit und soziale Verguenstigungen im europaeischen Sekundaerrecht
Language: German
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Die mobilen Rentner A und B sind Unionsbürger. Rentner A möchte in einen sonnigen Unionsmitgliedstaat ziehen und in völliger Ruhe und Zufriedenheit seinen wohlverdienten Ruhestand genießen – er ist dementsprechend nichterwerbstätiger Rentner. Rentner B nimmt noch aktiv am Arbeitsleben teil,...
Puerto Rico and the Origins of U.S. Global Empire
The Disembodied Shade
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Drawing on a postcolonial legal history of the United States’ territorial expansionism, this book provides an analysis of the foundations of its global empire. Charles R. Venator-Santiago argues that the United States has developed three traditions of territorial expansionism with corresponding...
Torture and Moral Integrity
A Philosophical Enquiry
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Torture and Moral Integrity tackles a concrete moral problem that has been hotly debated by governments, scholars, and the media: the morality of interrogational torture. It discusses multiple types of torture with great philosophical acuity and seeks to explain why interrogational torture and other...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Debate about the rights of sexual minorities, whether individuals or members of same-sex couples, has become an important issue for legislatures and courts in many constitutional democracies. This volume collects together some of the more significant writings in the debate, and reflects a variety...
Normative Subjects
Self and Collectivity in Morality and Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Normative Subjects alludes to the fields of morality and law, as well as to the entities, self and collectivity, addressed by these clusters of norms. The book explores connections between the two. The conception of self that informs this book is the joint product of two multifaceted philosophical...
After Sovereignty
On the Question of Political Beginnings
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
After Sovereignty addresses the vexed question of sovereignty in contemporary social, political, and legal theory. The emergence, and now apparent implosion, of international capital exceeding the borders of known political entities, the continued expansion of a potentially endless 'War on Terror',...
The Business of Judging
Selected Essays and Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2000
Tom Bingham (1933-2010) was the 'greatest judge of our time' (The Guardian), a towering figure in modern British public life who championed the rule of law and human rights inside and outside the courtroom. The Business of Judging collects Bingham's most important writings during his period in judicial...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
EU enlargement - to countries in Central and Eastern Europe in 2004, the inclusion of Bulgaria and Romania in 2007, and increasing debates on Turkey’s membership - has dramatically transformed the European Union into a multi-religious space. Religious communities are not only shaping identities...
Irresolvable Norm Conflicts in International Law
The Concept of a Legal Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Conventionally, international legal scholarship concerned with norm conflicts focuses on identifying how international law can or should resolve them. This book adopts a different approach. It focuses on identifying those norm conflicts that law cannot and should not resolve. The book offers an unprecedented,...
by Jonathan Herring
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
We are used to thinking that most people have the capacity to make their own decisions; that they should be free to decide how to live their lives; and that it is a good thing to be self-sufficient. However, in an examination of the legal position of vulnerable adults, understood as those who have...
The Birth of Ethics
Reconstructing the Role and Nature of Morality
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Imagine a human society, perhaps in pre-history, in which people were generally of a psychological kind with us, had the use of natural language to communicate with one another, but did not have any properly moral concepts in which to exhort one another to meet certain standards and to lodge related...
by Albert Fiadjoe, Gilbert Kodilinye, Joyce Cole Georges
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
This book begins by tracing the life story of Telford Georges from the childhood years in Dominica, through the years of practice in Trinidad, followed by the Tanzania and Zimbabwe years, and culminating in The Bahamas period. Transcribed conversations with Telford are included, in which he gives...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Property has long played a central role in political and moral philosophy. Philosophers dealing with property have tended to follow the consensus that property has no special content but is a protean construct - a mere placeholder for theories aimed at questions of distributive justice and efficiency....