Jurisprudence category: 1225 books
Law and Sacrifice
Towards a Post Apartheid Theory of Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
In the wake of apartheid, Law and Sacrifice draws on the uniquely expansive protection of fundamental rights now entrenched in the South African Constitution to outline a new theory of law.
The South African Constitution not only protects the rights of people against abuses of power by the...
by Alun Howard Gibbs
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
The challenge of thinking about the place of constitutionalism beyond the conventional categories of the nation state has become a principal concern for legal and political scholars. This book casts this issue in a different light by exploring the implications for the constitutionalism of legal integration...
The Legal Relation
Legal Theory after Legal Positivism
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
What is law? The usual answer is that the law is a system of norms. But this answer gives us at best half of the story. The law is a way of relating to one another. We do not do this as lovers or friends and not as people who are interested in obtaining guidance from moral insight. In a legal context,...
The Sense of Justice
Empathy in Law and Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
In The Sense of Justice, distinguished legal author Markus Dirk Dubber undertakes a critical analysis of the “sense of justice”: an overused, yet curiously understudied, concept in modern legal and political discourse. Courts cite it, scholars measure it, presidential candidates prize it, eulogists...
Constitutionalism
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Constitutionalism: Past, Present, and Future is the definitive collection of Dieter Grimm's most influential writings on constitutional thought and interpretation. The essays included in this volume explore the conditions under which the modern constitution could emerge; they treat the characteristics...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The contributors in this volume address the fundamental relationship between the state and its citizens, and among the people themselves. Discussion centers on a recent decision by the United States Supreme Court in the case of Kelo v. City of New London. This case involved the use of eminent domain...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This book is the first to approach Jacques Rancière’s work from a legal perspective. A former student of Louis Althusser, Rancière is one of the most important contemporary French philosophers of recent decades: offering an original and path-breaking way to think politics, democracy and aesthetics....
The Right to Life and the Value of Life
Orientations in Law, Politics and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This groundbreaking book is the first collection to investigate the law, political science and ethical perspectives collectively in relation to the right and value of life. Its contributions from international roster of scholars are organized around five themes: a theoretical positioning of life and...
Sovereignty in Post-Sovereign Society
A Systems Theory of European Constitutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Sovereignty marks the boundary between politics and law. Highlighting the legal context of politics and the political context of law, it thus contributes to the internal dynamics of both political and legal systems. This book comprehends the persistence of sovereignty as a political and juridical...
Retribution, Justice, and Therapy
Essays in the Philosophy of Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
One might legitimately ask what reasons other than vanity could prompt an author to issue a collection of his previously published essays. The best reason, I think, is the belief that the essays hang together in such a way that, as a book, they produce a whole which is in a sense greater than the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
This book examines the role and importance of reason and emotion in justice and the law. Eight lawyers and philosophers of law consider law's basis in the universal human need for society, our innate sense of justice, and many other powerful inclinations and emotions, including the desire for fairness...
The Globalization of Adoption
Individuals, States, and Agencies across Borders
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
This book expands our understanding of a growing, yet largely unstudied phenomenon: the flow of children across borders through intercountry adoption. What explains the spread of intercountry adoption through the international system over time? McBride investigates the interconnected networks of states,...
Patenting Lives
Life Patents, Culture and Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Patenting Lives includes contributions from various interests and perspectives, both in the context of current international developments in life patents and the global agenda of harmonization of international intellectual property. The book is divided into five sections reflecting the critical issues...
Church, State, and Family
Reconciling Traditional Teachings and Modern Liberties
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2019
This book defends the fundamental place of the marital family in modern liberal societies. While applauding modern sexual freedoms, John Witte, Jr also defends the traditional Western teaching that the marital family is an essential cradle of conscience, chrysalis of care, and cornerstone of ordered...