Jurisprudence category: 1225 books

Constitutionalism affirms the idea that democracy should not lead to the violation of human rights or the oppression of minorities. This book aims to explore the relationship between constitutional law and feminism. The contributors offer a spectrum of approaches and the analysis is set across a wide...

Contemporary liberal thinkers commonly suppose that there is something in principle unjust about the legal prohibition of putatively victimless immoralities. Against the prevailing liberal view, Robert P. George defends the proposition that `moral laws' can play a legitimate, if subsidiary, role in...

This volume assembles leading scholars to examine how their respective theoretical positions relate to the artifactual nature of law. It offers a complete analysis of what is ontologically entailed by the claim that law - including legal systems, legal norms, and legal institutions - is an artifact,...

Morality and the Nature of Law explores the conceptual relationship between morality and the criteria that determine what counts as law in a given societythe criteria of legal validity. Is it necessary condition for a legal system to include moral criteria of legal validity? Is it even possible for...

Interrogating the concepts of allegiance and identity in a globalised world involves renewing our understanding of membership and participation within and beyond the nation-state. Allegiance can be used to define a singular national identity and common connection to a nation-state. In a global context,...

Los autores de Una concepción prudencial del Derecho tratamos de despertar en el lector el ansia de conocer los Derechos. Nos gustaría que nuestros lectores sintieran ganas de ser exploradores de la selva jurídica, de ser agricultores del jardín jurídico, tejedores del telar jurídico, arquitectos...

El libro Jurisprudencia Dialéctica que ahora se presenta ofrece una visión original de la doctrina jurídica, o al menos distinta de la predominante en Occidente. Su originalidad reside en buena medida en el método de estudio que emplea; la dialéctica realista. Las páginas de este libro prueban...

Análisis del derecho latinoamericano con un enfoque en los códigos civiles, la armonización del derecho y la relectura e interpretación de las fuentes. El pueblo romano antiguo, si bien era consciente de la comunidad de derecho con los otros pueblos (multa iura communia, según las palabras de...

This collection is the multifaceted result of an effort to learn from those who have been educated in an American law school and who then returned to their home countries to apply the lessons of that experience in nations experiencing social, economic, governmental, and legal transition. Written by...

Providing an introduction to law in modern society, D. J. Galligan considers how legal theory, and particularly H. L. A Hart's The Concept of Law, has developed the idea of law as a highly developed social system, which has a distinctive character and structure, and which shapes and influences people's...

Overview Traffic Offence Defence Bible is packed with the information you need to help you beat a traffic ticket. The book is within a Canadian context, and it’s unlike anything else available. It covers several key topics as well as the most common traffic offences like failing to stop...

This volume puts leading pragmatists in the philosophy of language, including Robert Brandom, in contact with scholars concerned with what pragmatism has come to mean for the law. Each contribution uses the resources of pragmatism to tackle fundamental problems in the philosophy of language, the philosophy...

In this thought provoking work, Mary Warnock explores what it is to own things, and the differences in our attitude to what we own and what we do not. Starting from the philosophical standpoints of Locke and Hume, the ownership of gardens is presented as a prime example, exploring both private and common...

Abraham Drassinower presents a new way to balance the needs of creators and users of authored works. Disentangling copyright theory from its focus on the economic value of a work as a commodity, he views a work instead as a communicative act. Infringement, according to this perspective, is an unauthorized appropriation of another’s speech.