Jurisprudence category: 1225 books
Law's Practical Wisdom
The Theory and Practice of Law Making in New Governance Structures in the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This book develops a sociological understanding of law making in the European Union. In particular, the book focuses on the social function of law in new governance structures promoting decentralized and flexible procedures that encourage deliberation, participation of stakeholders, and public dialogue....
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This volume features the leading contemporary articles that are part of, or related to, the 'new masculinities' approach in this sphere. These comprise an impressive range of theoretical and empirical work including important cultural and ethnographic analyses. They emphasise the relationship between...
Speech Out of Doors
Preserving First Amendment Liberties in Public Places
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
The Supreme Court has emphasized that expressive liberties require 'breathing space' in which to thrive. At a minimum, speakers need places in which to assemble, speak, and petition government. This book is a comprehensive examination of First Amendment rights in public places. It shows that the literal...
The Right Not to be Criminalized
Demarcating Criminal Law's Authority
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
This book presents arguments and proposals for constraining criminalization, with a focus on the legal limits of the criminal law. The book approaches the issue by showing how the moral criteria for constraining unjust criminalization can and has been incorporated into constitutional human rights...
Exploring Courtroom Discourse
The Language of Power and Control
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This volume presents a combination of practical, empirical research data and theoretical reflection to provide a comparative view of language and discourse in the courtroom. The work explores how the various disciplines of law and linguistics can help us understand the nature of "Power and Control"...
by Anna Mancini
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 20, 2013
La manera en que vemos a los autores, los libros y al mercado editorial, está fuertemente marcada por la historia. La tecnología ha evolucionado mucho más rápido que nuestras mentalidades. Las leyes de derechos de autor alrededor del mundo fueron creadas para los libros...
Die unzulaessige Sanktionsschere
Zur Strafbarkeit des Richters bei Ankuendigung einer unverhaeltnismaeßig großen Strafmaßdifferenz im Rahmen der Urteilsabsprache
Language: German
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Verfahrensbeschleunigende Absprachen sind im Strafprozess allgegenwärtig. Im Rahmen einer solchen Absprache kündigt das Gericht regelmäßig eine Sanktionsschere an – einen gemilderten Strafrahmen für den Fall eines Geständnisses und eine höhere Straferwartung für ein streitiges Weiterverhandeln....
Die Jugendstrafe wegen «schaedlicher Neigungen» gemaeß § 17 II Fall 1 JGG
Gemessen an den Grundsaetzen angemessenen Strafens
Language: German
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Schon seit einiger Zeit vermehrt sich die Kritik an der Erziehungsstrafe des § 17 II Fall 1 JGG. Die Autorin greift diese Kritik auf und befasst sich mit der Frage, ob die Jugendstrafe wegen schädlicher Neigungen als intensiver Eingriff des Staates in die Rechte des Bürgers rechtsstaatlichen Grundsätzen...
Camosci e girachiavi
Storia del carcere in Italia
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Il carcere è un mondo immerso nella società, ma è anche un’istituzione sempre pronta a ripararsi dagli sguardi estranei, nascondendosi dietro le mura di cinta. Un’istituzione che si trasforma, ma che rivela anche un’impressionante continuità nei meccanismi che dominano il suo funzionamento...
Architectures of Justice
Legal Theory and the Idea of Institutional Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Law can be seen to consist not only of rules and decisions, but also of a framework of institutions providing a structure that forms the conditions of its workable existence and acceptance. In this book Olsen and Toddington conduct a philosophical exploration and critique of these conditions: what...
Authorities
Conflicts, Cooperation, and Transnational Legal Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Interactions between state, international, transnational, and intra-state law involve overlapping, and sometimes conflicting, claims to legitimate authority. This has led scholars to new theoretical explanations of sovereignty, constitutionalism, and legality, but there has been little treatment of...
Democracy and Ontology
Agonism between Political Liberalism, Foucault and Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
This book investigates the relationship between liberal democracies and ontology, that is, philosophical claims about the constitution of agents and the social world. Many philosophers argue that ontology needs to be avoided in political and legal philosophy. In fact, political liberalism, a highly...
Legal Reason
The Use of Analogy in Legal Argument
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Legal Reason describes and explains analogical reasoning, the distinctive feature of legal argument. It challenges the prevailing view that analogical reasoning is a logically flawed, defective form of deductive reasoning. Drawing on work in epistemology and cognitive psychology, the book shows that...
Loro diranno, noi diciamo
Vademecum sulle riforme istituzionali
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Gustavo Zagrebelsky e Francesco Pallanteargomentano per il rinnovamento di una democrazia partecipata, contro le modifiche della Costituzione – di cui si vorrebbero cambiare ben 47 articoli (oltre un terzo del totale) – e contro la legge elettorale. Oltre alle critiche di merito (contraddizioni,...