Jurisprudence category: 1225 books
The Unsteady State
General Jurisprudence for Dynamic Social Phenomena
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Analytical jurisprudence often proceeds with two key assumptions: that all law is either contained in or traceable back to an authorizing law-state, and that states are stable and in full control of the borders of their legal systems. What would a general theory of law be like and do if these long-standing...
by Simeon C.R. Mcintosh
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Historically, revolution has been one of the principal means of founding a new state. But can this new state have any moral legitimacy, born as it is out of violence? That is the critical question for legal theorists. The late Hans Kelsen, arguably one of the leading legal theorists and philosophers...
Notarial Practice and Malpractice in the Philippines
Rules, Jurisprudence, and Comments
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Notarization of documents performs an important role in Philippine legal and business documents. This book hopes to provide lawyers and notaries public a guide to the proper performance of notarial acts. Featuring cases that show how , why, and to what extent Philippine laws and jurisprudence have...
Responsabilité, indemnisation et recours
CUP 174 - Morceaux choisis
Language: French
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Les Éditions Anthemis vous proposent un outil complet pour comprendre la responsabilité, l'indemnisation et le recours.Le droit de la responsabilité civile extracontractuelle, droit essentiellement prétorien, est en perpétuelle évolution. Deux ans à peine après le recyclage organisé par la CUP...
L’accès à la justice
CUP 173
Language: French
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Les Éditions Anthemis vous proposent un outil complet pour comprendre l'accès à la justice.Le thème de l’accès à la justice n’est pas neuf : il imprègne profondément les racines de la tradition juridique de common law (« For every right, there is a remedy ; where there is no remedy, there...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2019
Great Christian Jurists and Legal Collections in the First Millennium is a systematic collection of essays describing how Christian leaders and scholars of the first millennium in the West contributed to law and jurisprudence and used written norms and corrective practices to maintain social order...
Jurisprudence of National Identity
Kaleidoscopes of Imperialism and Globalisation from Aotearoa New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Presenting a unique blend of historical and contemporary research from a range of interdisciplinary and theoretical analysis, this book examines the intersection of 'race', gender and national identity. Focusing on New Zealand, the book highlights the ways in which shifts in national identity shape...
Taking the Stand
My Life in the Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
America's most prominent legal mind and the #1 bestselling author of Chutzpah and The Best Defense, Alan Dershowitz, recounts his legal autobiography, describing how he came to the law, as well as the cases that have changed American jurisprudence over the past 50 years, most of which he has personally...
Reason and Imagination
The Selected Correspondence of Learned Hand
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Judge Learned Hand is an icon of American Law. Though he was never nominated to our country's highest court, Hand is nevertheless more frequently quoted by legal scholars and in Supreme Court decisions than any other lower court judge in our history. He was the model for all judges who followed him,...
by Frederic Bastiat
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
First published in 1850 as a pamphlet, The Law by Frederic Bastiat defines the nature of law and the role of government. It is essential reading for law students and anyone interested in jurisprudence.
by Eugene Ehrlich, Klaus A. Ziegert
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The innovative and revolutionary scholarship of the eminent Austrian legal theorist and professor of Roman law, Eugen Ehrlich (1862-1922), is of a very high caliber. His work has not only held its place well in view of what legal theory, especially sociological legal theory, has to offer, but is also...
Evgeny Pashukanis
A Critical Reappraisal
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
A thorough examination of Pashukanis’ writings, this book is a significant contribution to a proper assessment of Pashukanis’ work, the value of his theoretical legacy and the contemporary relevance of Marxist legal theory.
Interest in the best-known Soviet legal scholar, Evgeny Pashukanis,...
The End of Human Rights
Critical Thought at the Turn of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
The introduction of the Human Rights Act has led to an explosion in books on human rights, yet no sustained examination of their history and philosophy exists in the burgeoning literature. At the same time, while human rights have triumphed on the world stage as the ideology of postmodernity, our...
A Matter of Interpretation
Federal Courts and the Law - New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a judge like this can maneuver through earlier cases to achieve the desired aim—"distinguishing one prior case...