Jurisprudence category: 1225 books
by Alison Dundes Renteln
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2004
In what ways and to what extent should cultural background be taken into consideration in response to legal problems? The first book-length study of the topic, The Cultural Defense provides a comprehensive overview of the debate surrounding the admissibility of cultural evidence in the courtroom....
Understanding the Nature of Law
A Case for Constructive Conceptual Explanation
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Understanding the Nature of Law explores methodological questions about how best to explain law. Among these questions, one is central: is there something about law which determines how it should be theorized? This novel book explains the importance of conceptual explanation by situating its methods...
by Roscoe Pound, Marshall. L DeRosa
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
In An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law, Roscoe Pound shows how philosophy has been a powerful instrument throughout the history of law. He examines what philosophy has done for some of the chief problems of the science of law and how it is possible to look at those problems philosophically without...
Playing Fair
Political Obligation and the Problems of Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
While much has been written on both political obligation and the justification of punishment, there has been little sustained effort to link the two. In Playing Fair, Richard Dagger aims to fill this gap and provide a unified theory of political obligation and the justification of punishment that...
Vagueness and Law
Philosophical and Legal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Vague expressions are omnipresent in natural language. As such, their use in legal texts is virtually inevitable. If a law contains vague terms, the question whether it applies to a particular case often lacks a clear answer. One of the fundamental pillars of the rule of law is legal certainty. The...
by Consultoría Concursal SLP
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Los autores han pretendido analizar en profundidad las gestiones que el artículo 33 de la Ley Concursal encomienda al Administrador Concursal con el fin de que este trabajo facilite la puesta al día de los profesionales que abordan esta temática. La obra pretende a los administradores concursales...
Children’s Rights and the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Children of almost any age can break the law, but at what age should children first face the possibility of criminal responsibility for their alleged crimes? This work is the first global analysis of national minimum ages of criminal responsibility (MACRs), the international legal obligations that...
Law's Cut on the Body of Human Rights
Female Circumcision, Torture and Sacred Flesh
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Scenes of violence and incisions into the flesh inform the demand for law. The scene of little girls being held down in practices of female circumcision has been a defining and definitive image that demands the attention of human rights, and the intervention of law. But the investment in protecting...
Ethical Issues of Human Genetic Databases
A Challenge to Classical Health Research Ethics?
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Following the boom in population databases in recent years there has been sustained and intense international debate about political processes and legal and ethical issues surrounding the protection and use of genetic data. As a result, several national and international organizations and committees...
by Alexandre Pires Vieira
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 6, 2012
A Montecristo Editora trás para os acadêmicos e os profissionais do Direito o Vade Mecum em formato digital. Publicado com diagramação simples e elegante rigorosamente atualizada até Janeiro de 2012. A legislação deste livro digital conta com indicação de alteração, link para leis...
The Child As Vulnerable Patient
Protection and Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
How can medical law and ethics take forward the issue of children's empowerment and protection? What are the key factors in considering the balance between protecting the welfare of the young and allowing them rights to autonomy? The Child as Vulnerable Patient investigates the role that a human rights...
The Reality of Precaution
Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The 'Precautionary Principle' has sparked the central controversy over European and U.S. risk regulation. The Reality of Precaution is the most comprehensive study to go beyond precaution as an abstract principle and test its reality in practice. This groundbreaking resource combines detailed case...
Conscience and the Common Good
Reclaiming the Space Between Person and State
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
Our society's longstanding commitment to the liberty of conscience has become strained by our increasingly muddled understanding of what conscience is and why we value it. Too often we equate conscience with individual autonomy, and so we reflexively favor the individual in any contest against group...
Concepts in Law and Economics
A Guide for the Curious
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
"Law and economics" involves the application of economic analysis to legal problems. Law and economics features in public policy debates as well as across the social sciences in fields such as political economy, constitutional economics, and political science. Concepts in Law and Economics: A Guide...