Jurisprudence category: 1225 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
The pluralist turn in jurisprudence has led to a search for new ways of thinking about law. The relationships between state law and other legal orders such as international, customary, transnational or indigenous law are particularly significant in this development. Collecting together new work by...
by JamesBernard Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This volume collects some of the best recent writings on St. Thomas‘s philosophy of law and includes a critical examination of Aquinas‘s theory of the relation between law and morality, his natural law theory, as well as the modern reformulation of his approach to natural rights. The volume shows...
Entre droit et non droit dans la jurisprudence internationale
Étude sommaire sur une nouvelle vision de la fonction judiciaire internationale
Language: French
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Le juge international est-il libre d'interpréter? Sa contribution au droit est-elle figée dans un schéma typique et rigoureux? La jurisprudence montre une grande ouverture vers des facteurs non juridiques qui modifie sensiblement la fonction judiciaire internationale et favorise l'évolution d'un...
by Edward Mussawir
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Jurisdiction in Deleuze: The Expression and Representation of Law explores an affinity between the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and jurisprudence as a tradition of technical legal thought. The author addresses and reopens a central aesthetic problem in jurisprudence: the difference between the expression...
Law as if Earth Really Mattered
The Wild Law Judgment Project
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
This book is a collection of judgments drawn from the innovative Wild Law Judgment Project. In participating in the Wild Law Judgment Project, which was inspired by various feminist judgment projects, contributors have creatively reinterpreted judicial decisions from an Earth-centred point of view...
Supreme Court Jurisprudence in Times of National Crisis, Terrorism, and War
A Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
From the foundation of the American Republic, presidents have had to deal with both internal and external national security threats. From President Washington and his policy of neutrality during the wars between Great Britain and France in the eighteenth century, to President Lincoln and the war to...
Social Systems Theory and Judicial Review
Taking Jurisprudence Seriously
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This book demonstrates the empirical gains and integrative potentials of social systems theory for the sociology of law. Against a backdrop of classical and contemporary sociological debates about law and society, it observes judicial review as an instrument for the self-steering of a functionally...
Forms Liberate
Reclaiming the Jurisprudence of Lon L Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Lon L Fuller's account of what he termed 'the internal morality of law' is widely accepted as the classic twentieth century statement of the principles of the rule of law. Much less accepted is his claim that a necessary connection between law and morality manifests in these principles, with the result...
Modern Jurisprudence
A Philosophical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This book provides a concise and accessible guide to modern jurisprudence, offering an examination of the major theories and systematic discussion of themes such as legality and justice. It gives readers a better understanding of the rival viewpoints by exploring the historical developments which...
by AndreSantos Campos
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This volume collects some of the best writings on Spinoza‘s philosophy of law and includes a critical examination of Spinoza‘s theory of the types of law, his natural law theory, as well as the modern reformulation of his approach to the nature of laws and to natural rights. This collection of...
Compromised Jurisprudence
Native Title Cases Since Mabo
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
The effects of the evolution of native title on Australian jurisprudence are carefully examined in this updated chronicle that covers everything from the original decision Mabo v Queensland [No.2] to the significant High Court cases in 2002 and the recent Bennell decision in 2008. This remarkably...
The Judicial Application of Human Rights Law
National, Regional and International Jurisprudence
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, over 165 countries have incorporated human rights standards into their legal systems: the resulting jurisprudence from diverse cultural traditions creates new dimensions to concepts first articulated in 1948. In this revised second...
Judicial Application of European Union Law in post-Communist Countries
The Cases of Estonia and Latvia
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
This book discusses how the plurality of legal norms operating in the European Union can be balanced to produce a functioning, sustainable and legitimate legal system. Presenting a conceptual framework for assessing and comparing transformations of national judicial systems in the context of EU membership,...
The Great Juristic Bazaar
Jurists' Texts and Lawyers' Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Some law students find jurisprudence daunting, impersonal, dry and seemingly detached from practical affairs. William Twining believes that many jurists have been fascinating people struggling with questions that are both historically significant and relevant to contemporary issues. This book brings...