Jurisprudence category: 1225 books
A New Introduction to Jurisprudence
Legality, Legitimacy and the Foundations of the Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
A New Introduction to Jurisprudence takes one of the central problems of law and jurisprudence as its point of departure: what is the law? Adopting an intermediate position between legal positivism and natural law, this book reflects on the concept of ‘liberal democracy’ or ‘constitutional democracy’.
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La France et la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme
La jurisprudence en 2009 et 2010
Language: French
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Les Éditions Anthemis vous proposent un outil complet pour comprendre la jurisprudence de la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme.Le Centre de recherche des droits de l’homme et du droit humanitaire (le C.R.E.D.H.O.) organise régulièrement depuis 1992 des journées d’étude sur la jurisprudence...
by Suri Ratnapala
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Jurisprudence offers a comprehensive overview of legal theory and philosophy. Written in plain English, it examines and demystifies the discipline's major ideas, promoting a deeper understanding of the social, moral and economic dimensions of the law. It critically assesses the major schools of jurisprudential...
by Suri Ratnapala
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Jurisprudence is about the nature of law and justice. It embraces studies and theories from a range of disciplines such as history, sociology, political science, philosophy, psychology and even economics. Why do people obey the law? How does law serve society? What is law's relation to morality? What...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
This collection provides an intellectually rigorous and accessible overview of key topics in contemporary natural law jurisprudence, an influential yet frequently misunderstood branch of legal philosophy. It fills a gap in the existing literature by bringing together leading international experts...
A Jurisprudence of Movement
Common Law, Walking, Unsettling Place
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Law moves, whether we notice or not. Set amongst a spatial turn in the humanities, and jurisprudence more specifically, this book calls for a greater attention to legal movement, in both its technical and material forms. Despite various ways the spatial turn has been taken up in legal thought, questions...
Repressive Jurisprudence in the Early American Republic
The First Amendment and the Legacy of English Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
This volume seeks to explain how American society, which had been capable of noble aspirations such as those in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, was capable of adopting one of the most widely deplored statutes of our history, the Sedition Act of 1798. It examines how the political...
Rethinking Indian Jurisprudence
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
What is law? What is the source of law? What is the law for? How does law differ from other norms or codes of conduct? What is the difference between law and morality? Who is obligated to follow the law and why? What is the difference between moral and legal obligation?
This book addresses...
Social Rights Jurisprudence
Emerging Trends in International and Comparative Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2009
In the space of two decades, social rights have emerged from the shadows and margins of human rights jurisprudence. The authors in this book provide a critical analysis of almost two thousand judgments and decisions from twenty-nine national and international jurisdictions. The breadth of the decisions...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Wild Law - In Practice aims to facilitate the transition of Earth Jurisprudence from theory into practice. Earth Jurisprudence is an emerging philosophy of law, coined by cultural historian and geologian Thomas Berry. It seeks to analyse the contribution of law in constructing, maintaining and perpetuating...
Jurisprudence
Themes and Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Jurisprudence: Themes and Concepts offers an original introduction to, and critical analysis of, the central themes studied in jurisprudence courses. The book is presented in three parts: the first two contain general themes with corresponding tutorial questions, and the third contains advanced topics....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Law is a multi-dimensional aspect of modern society that constantly shifts and changes over time. In recent years, the practice of therapeutic jurisprudence has increased significantly as a valuable discipline. Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Overcoming Violence Against Women is a comprehensive reference...
Empirical Gap in Jurisprudence
A Comprehensive Study of the Supreme Court of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2007
In jurisprudential writing, single decisions are often held up as representative without any evidence to support their representative claims. In order to address this problem, Daved Muttart has made a systematic study encompassing every judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada between 1950 and 2003.
Examining...
by Mark C. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
Natural law is a perennial though poorly represented and understood issue in political philosophy and the philosophy of law. In this 2006 book, Mark C. Murphy argues that the central thesis of natural law jurisprudence - that law is backed by decisive reasons for compliance - sets the agenda for natural...