Jurisprudence category: 1225 books

In Pursuit of Right and Justice chronicles the life of the United States District Court's Judge Edward Weinfeld, from his humble Lower East Side origins to his distinction as one of the nation's most respected federal judges. Judge Edward Weinfeld's personal growth and socio-economic mobility provides...

The**Risale-i Nur Collection is full of "general principles," not only related to the Islamic Jurisprudence but also to all the fields of Islam or Islamic life and Islamic branches of knowledge. Based on or specially favored with profound wisdom having its source in the Divine Wisdom or...

Developing criminal justice systems? This is a paradox to unveil for one to justify any meaning of this administrative/judicial paradigm in the contemporary criminal jurisprudence. Nakibuule explores insights on plea bargainings impact on criminal justice delivery. Learn what plea bargaining could...

Introduction to Critical Legal Theory provides an accessible introduction to the study of law and legal theory. It covers all the seminal movements in classical, modern and postmodern legal thought, engaging the reader with the ideas of jurists as diverse as Aristotle, Hobbes and Kant, Marx, Foucault...

Jurisprudence. Philosophy of Law. Uncertainty of Law and Constitutional Government. This book looks at Wealth and Law: Minority Rule;Legislation and Revolution; Government by Lawyers; Lawyers and Wealth

Wild law is a groundbreaking approach to law that stresses human dependence on nature. For the first time, this volume brings together voices from the leading proponents of wild law around the world. It introduces readers to the idea of wild law and considers its relationship to environmental law, the rights of nature, science, religion, property law and international governance.

Conceptualizing the curse as the representation of a foundational, mythical violence that is embedded within juridical discourse, *Shakespeare’s Curse:The Aporias of Ritual Exclusion in Early Modern Royal Drama *pursues a reading of Richard III, King John, and King Lear in order to analyse the...

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law is a forum for some of the best new philosophical work on law, by both senior and junior scholars from around the world. The essays range widely over issues in general jurisprudence (the nature of law, adjudication, and legal reasoning), the philosophical foundations...

Justice and the Ethics of Legal Interpretation addresses how it is that legal texts -laws, statutes and regulations – can, and do have meaning. Conventionally, legal decisions are justified with reference to language. But since language is always open to interpretation, and so cannot fully justify...

This volume exposes some of the various issues raised in relation to Muslim communities in Europe by putting the intellectual and legal traditions into dialogue. It brings together a number of scholars of Shari’a and Islamic law with counterparts from the parallel European disciplines of hermeneutics,...

What can law’s popular cultures do for law, as a constitutive and interrogative critical practice?　 This collection explores such a question through the lens of the ‘cultural legal studies’ movement, which proffers a new encounter with the ‘cultural turn’ in law and legal theory.　 Moving...

This book is the product of a major British Academy Symposium held in 2007 to mark the centenary of the birth of H.L.A. Hart, the most important legal philosopher and one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century. The book brings together contributions from seventeen of...

Law is part of the process by which people construct their views of the world. In Material Law, distinguished scholar John Brigham focuses on the places where law and material life intersect, and how law creates and alters our social reality. Brigham looks at an eclectic group of bodies and things—from...

The contents for the March 2018 issue (Number 5) include: * Article, "Presidential Control over International Law," Curtis A. Bradley and Jack L. Goldsmith * Article, "Statutory Interpretation on the Bench: A Survey of Forty-Two Judges on the Federal Courts of Appeals,"...