Jurisprudence category: 1225 books
Overcriminalization
The Limits of the Criminal Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
The United States today suffers from too much criminal law and too much punishment. Husak describes the phenomena in some detail and explores their relation, and why these trends produce massive injustice. His primary goal is to defend a set of constraints that limit the authority of states to enact...
The Foundations of Australian Public Law
State, Power, Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
In The Foundations of Australian Public Law, Anthony J. Connolly brings together the two traditionally discrete areas of constitutional and administrative law to present Australian public law as a single, integrated body. Exploring the themes of state, power and accountability in Australia, the text...
Law and Language
Effective Symbols of Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Completed in 1964, Harold J. Berman's long-lost tract shows how properly negotiated, translated and formalised legal language is essential to fostering peace and understanding within local and international communities. Exemplifying interdisciplinary and comparative legal scholarship long before they...
Les solutions de l'ancien droit romain aux problèmes juridiques modernes
L'exemple du droit des brevets d'invention
Language: French
Release Date: December 21, 2013
Notre droit et sa philosophie ont été conçus pour un monde où la richesse économique était matérielle.
Bien que ce monde n'existe plus, ses lois persistent et freinent de développement économique.
Le droit des brevets...
Diversity and Tolerance in Socio-Legal Contexts
Explorations in the Semiotics of Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Why is there so much resistance to recent issues of tolerance and diversity? Despite efforts of the international community to encourage open-mindedness, recent attempts at international, political and economic integration have shown that religious, cultural and ethnic tolerance and diversity remain...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Cicero and Modern Law contains the best modern writings on Cicero's major law related works, such as the Republic, On Law, On Oratory, along with a comprehensive bibliography of writings on Cicero's legal works. These works are organized to reveal the influence of Cicero's writings upon the history...
by Emily McGill
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The essays collected for this volume represent the best scholarly literature on Hugo Grotius available in the English language. In the English speaking world Grotius is not as well known as his fellow 17th century political philosophers, Thomas Hobbes or John Locke, but in legal theory Grotius is...
Absolute Poverty and Global Justice
Empirical Data - Moral Theories - Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Absolute poverty causes about one third of all human deaths, some 18 million annually, and blights billions of lives with hunger and disease. Developing universalizable norms aimed at tackling absolute poverty and the complex and multilayered problems associated with it, this book considers the levels,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
It has long been recognized that court trials, both criminal and civil, in the common law system, operate around pairs of competing narratives told by opposing advocates. In recent years, however, it has increasingly been argued that narrative flows in many directions and through every form of legal...
The Confluence of Law and Religion
Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Work of Norman Doe
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Since the early 1990s, politicians, policymakers, the media and academics have increasingly focused on religion, noting the significant increase in the number of cases involving religion. As a result, law and religion has become a specific area of study. The work of Professor Norman Doe at Cardiff...
The Latin American Casebook
Courts, Constitutions, and Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Traditionally relegated because of political pressure and public expectations, courts in Latin America are increasingly asserting a stronger role in public and political discussions. This casebook takes account of this phenomenon, by offering a rigorous and up-to-date discussion of constitutional...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Providing a comprehensive analysis of drug misuse, dependence and the ways in which different parts of the world have responded to these problems, this volume examines aspects of the contemporary drug problem, the related debate and the way in which society is responding to it. Various controversial...
Law, Liberty and State
Oakeshott, Hayek and Schmitt on the Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Oakeshott, Hayek and Schmitt are associated with a conservative reaction to the 'progressive' forces of the twentieth century. Each was an acute analyst of the juristic form of the modern state and the relationship of that form to the idea of liberty under a system of public, general law. Hayek had...
The Classic Social Contractarians
Critical Perspectives from Contemporary Feminist Philosophy and Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
How can we live together without subordination and oppression? What does it mean to treat each other as free and equal persons? This book uses contemporary feminist insights to examine aspects of the classic social contractarians' arguments, focusing specifically upon the work of Hobbes, Spinoza,...