Jurisprudence category: 1225 books
Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law
Bridging Idealism and Realism
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Rule of law and constitutionalist ideals are understood by many, if not most, as necessary to create a just political order. Defying the traditional division between normative and positive theoretical approaches, this book explores how political reality on the one hand, and constitutional ideals on...
The John F. Sonnett Memorial Lectures at Fordham University School of Law
A Half-Century of Advocacy and Judicial Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This book represents the distinguished Sonnett lecture series sponsored by Fordham’s Law School that has taken place for the last 45 years. In this collection, U.S. Supreme Court Justices, a Lord Chancellor of England, three Chief Justices of Ireland, a Chief Justice of South Africa, a President...
Law’s Political Foundations
Rivers, Rifles, Rice, and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Law’s Political Foundations explains the development of the two basic systems of public and private law and their historical transformations. Examining the historical development of law in China, Japan, Western Europe, and Hispanic America, Haley argues that law is a product, rather than a constitutive element, of political systems.
Phraseology in Legal and Institutional Settings
A Corpus-based Interdisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This volume presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of major developments in the study of how phraseology is used in a wide range of different legal and institutional contexts. This recent interest has been mainly sparked by the development of corpus linguistics research, which has both demonstrated...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Since its inception in 1998 the Human Rights Act (HRA) has come in for a wide variety of criticism on legal, constitutional, political and cultural grounds. More recently, this criticism escalated significantly as politicians have seriously considered proposals for its abolition. This book examines...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
To what extent is the language of judicial opinions responsive to the political and social context in which constitutional courts operate? Courts are reason-giving institutions, with argumentation playing a central role in constitutional adjudication. However, a cursory look at just a handful of constitutional...
by Satvinder Juss
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
How should international law approach the critical issue of movement of peoples in the 21st century? This book presents a radical reappraisal of this controversial problem. Challenging present-day ideas of restrictions on freedom of movement and the international structure that controls entry to states,...
by Richard Ekins
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Are legislatures able to form and act on intentions? The question matters because the interpretation of statutes is often thought to centre on the intention of the legislature and because the way in which the legislature acts is relevant to the authority it does or should enjoy. Many scholars argue...
God vs. the Gavel
The Perils of Extreme Religious Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Clergy sex abuse, polygamy, children dying from faith healing, companies that refuse to do business with same-sex couples, and residential neighborhoods forced to host homeless shelters - what do all of these have in common? They are all examples of religious believers harming others and demanding...
by New England Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
The New England Law Review now offers its issues in convenient digital formats for e-reader devices, apps, pads, smartphones, and computers. This first issue of Volume 49 (Fall 2014) contains articles by leading figures of the legal community. Contents of this issue include:
Articles:
"How...
Agreements
A Philosophical and Legal Study
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Combining rigorous philosophical analysis with a deep knowledge of law, this study of agreements illuminates legal doctrine by philosophical theory and vice versa. Against the prevailing philosophical view of agreements, the book argues that they are to be understood in terms not of promises but of...
Translating the Social World for Law
Linguistic Tools for a New Legal Realism
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
This volume examines the linguistic problems that arise in efforts to translate between law and the social sciences. We usually think of "translation" as pertaining to situations involving distinct languages such as English and Swahili. But realistically, we also know that there are many kinds of...
Ancient Legal Thought
Equity, Justice, and Humaneness From Hammurabi and the Pharaohs to Justinian and the Talmud
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2019
This is a study of what constituted legality and the role of law in ancient societies. Investigating and comparing legal codes and legal thinking of the ancient societies of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, India, the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire and of the ancient Rabbis, this volume examines how...
by Jens David Ohlin, Larry May
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Necessity is a notoriously dangerous and slippery concept-dangerous because it contemplates virtually unrestrained killing in warfare and slippery when used in conflicting ways in different areas of international law. Jens David Ohlin and Larry May untangle these confusing strands and perform a descriptive...