Jurisprudence category: 1225 books
by Stanford Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
A leading law journal features a digital edition as part of its worldwide distribution, using quality ebook formatting and active links. This issue of the Stanford Law Review contains studies of law, economics, and social policy by recognized scholars on diverse topics of interest to the academic...
Culpable Carelessness
Recklessness and Negligence in the Criminal Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The question of when a person is culpable for taking an unjustified risk of harm has long been controversial in Anglo-American criminal law doctrine and theory. This survey of the approaches adopted in England and Wales, Canada, Australia, the United States, New Zealand and Scotland argues that they...
by Jeremy Gans
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Modern Criminal Law of Australia, 2nd edition is a comprehensive guide to interpreting and understanding every statutory offence provision in every Australian jurisdiction. The text takes a unique approach to explaining Australian criminal law, emphasising the importance of statutory interpretation,...
The Unexpected Scalia
A Conservative Justice's Liberal Opinions
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Antonin Scalia was one of the most important, outspoken, and controversial Justices in the past century. His endorsements of originalism, which requires deciding cases as they would have been decided in 1789, and textualism, which limits judges in what they could consider in interpreting text, caused...
by Bal Sokhi-Bulley
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Taking a critical attitude of dissatisfaction towards rights, the central premise of this book is that rights are technologies of governmentality. They are a regulating discourse that is itself managed through governing tactics and techniques – hence governing (through) rights. Part I examines the...
Wrongful Convictions and the DNA Revolution
Twenty-Five Years of Freeing the Innocent
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
For centuries, most people believed the criminal justice system worked - that only guilty defendants were convicted. DNA technology shattered that belief. DNA has now freed more than three hundred innocent prisoners in the United States. This book examines the lessons learned from twenty-five years...
Making the Modern Criminal Law
Criminalization and Civil Order
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
The Criminalization series arose from an interdisciplinary investigation into criminalization, focussing on the principles that might guide decisions about what kinds of conduct should be criminalized, and the forms that criminalization should take. Developing a normative theory of criminalization,...
Affect and Legal Education
Emotion in Learning and Teaching the Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
The place of emotion in legal education is rarely discussed or analysed, and we do not have to seek far for the reasons. The difficulty of interdisciplinary research, the technicisation of legal education itself, the view that affect is irrational and antithetical to core western ideals of rationality...
Securing Rights for Victims
A Process Evaluation of the National Crime Victim Law Institute's Victims' Rights Clinics
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
This book discusses how some clinics have won significant gains at the appellate and federal court levels concerning victim standing, the rights to be consulted and heard, and the right to privacy. Some have won significant victories in gaining standing for victims and expanding the definition of...
Health Law's Kaleidoscope
Health Law Rights in a Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Within contemporary society the themes of globalization, health and regulation interlock in complex patterns, changing in response to the mix of cultural differences, regulatory preferences and available resources. To turn the kaleidoscope and to change the mix is to change the pattern. This book...
Liberal Criminal Theory
Essays for Andreas von Hirsch
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This book celebrates Andreas (Andrew) von Hirsch's pioneering contributions to liberal criminal theory. He is particularly noted for reinvigorating desert-based theories of punishment, for his development of principled normative constraints on the enactment of criminal laws, and for helping to bridge...
Roberto Esposito
Law, Community and the Political
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Roberto Esposito: Law, Community and the Political provides a critical legal introduction to this increasingly influential Italian theorist’s work, by focusing on Esposito’s reconceptualisation of the relationship between law, community and the political. The analysis concentrates primarily on...
by Sean Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
This latest Revised edition of Letting Property for Profit is written against the backdrop of a falling housing market, but also rising rents as buyers find it difficult to obtain finance. It will be particularly suited to new entrants to the buy-to-let investment market, providing a detailed analysis...
Free Expression and Democracy
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Free Expression and Democracy takes on the assumption that limits on free expression will lead to authoritarianism or at least a weakening of democracy. That hypothesis is tested by an examination of issues involving expression and their treatment in countries included on The Economist's list of fully...