Jurisprudence category: 1225 books

Bringing together the most seminal articles written by leading international experts, this volume discusses all aspects of freedom of the press. The papers in the first part of this volume discuss the meaning of press freedom and its relationship to freedom of speech, while those in the second part...

The New England Law Review offers its issues in convenient digital formats for e-reader devices, apps, pads, and smartphones. This second issue of Volume 50 (Wint. 2016) features a Book Symposium analyzing Prof. Amy Gajda's new study 'The First Amendment Bubble: How Privacy and Paparazzi Threaten...

The New England Law Review's third issue of Volume 50 (Spr. 2016) features a thoughtful Symposium on the legacy, scholarship, and impact of the late Mary Joe Frug. Contributors are Dean Martha Minow of Harvard Law, Professors Gerald Frug and Joseph William Singer of Harvard Law, Prof. Laura Underkuffler...

The New England Law Review offers its issues in convenient digital formats for e-reader devices, apps, pads, and phones. This third issue of Volume 49 (Spr. 2015) features an extensive and important Symposium on "Educational Ambivalence: The Story of the Academic Doctorate in Law," presented...

The New England Law Review now offers its issues in convenient and modern ebook formats for e-reader devices, apps, pads, smartphones, and computers. This first issue of Volume 48, Fall 2013, was published in 2014 and contains articles and presentations from leading figures of the academy, the judiciary,...

The New England Law Review offers its issues in convenient digital formats for e-reader devices, apps, pads, and phones. This first issue of Volume 51 (2017) features an extensive and important Symposium, "Behavioral Legal Ethics," with contributions by Catherine Gage O'Grady, Milton C....

The New England Law Review now offers its issues in convenient digital formats for e-reader devices, apps, pads, smartphones, and computers. This second issue of Volume 49 (2015) contains articles by leading figures of the legal community. Contents of this issue include: Articles: "A Reliable...

Ever since H.L.A. Hart's self-description of The Concept of Law as an 'exercise in descriptive sociology', contemporary legal theorists have been debating the relationship between legal theory and sociology, and between legal theory and social science more generally. There have been some who have...

Intoxicants, substances that alter a person's mental and physiological state, are a continuing obsession. In their effect on the mind and body, intoxicants go to the heart of what it means to be human. In the tensions between 'free' and uninhibited consumption on the one hand, and the pressures of...

In Calvin's Political Theology and the Public Engagement of the Church, Matthew J. Tuininga explores a little appreciated dimension of John Calvin's political thought, his two kingdoms theology, as a model for constructive Christian participation in liberal society. Widely misunderstood as a proto-political...

Dr Peng He in her book addresses various issues, drawing on Western and Chinese sources for her argument for a ‘communicative’ theory of law making. This book is both timely and important in the Chinese context. Her argument depends upon the insight that what is important in societies is not just...

Adjudicative tribunals in both criminal and non-criminal cases rely on the concept of the 'burden of proof' to resolve uncertainty about facts. Perhaps surprisingly, this concept remains clouded and deeply controversial. Written by an internationally renowned scholar, this book explores contemporary...

A leading law journal features a digital edition as part of its worldwide distribution, using quality ebook formatting and active links. This current 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...