Jurisprudence category: 1225 books

When people disagree about justice and about individual rights, how should political decisions be made among them? How should they decide about issues like tax policy, welfare provision, criminal procedure, discrimination law, hate speech, pornography, political dissent and the limits of religious...

Law's Ethical, Global and Theoretical Contexts examines William Twining's principal contributions to law and jurisprudence in the context of three issues which will receive significant scholarly attention over the coming decades. Part I explores human rights, including torture, the role of evidence...

This book investigates the dynamic intertwinement of law and morality, with a focus on new and developing fields of law. Taking as its starting point the debates and mutual misunderstandings between proponents of different philosophical traditions, it argues that this theoretical pluralism is better...

Jurisprudence. Philosophy of Law. Uncertainty of Law and Constitutional Government. This book looks at Uncertainty and Law: Constitutional Uncertainty; Legal Uncertainty; Individual Rights; Effects of Uncertainty

This collection engages with current issues on equal protection in the USA, as seen from the perspectives of leading academics in this area. Contributors with a range of perspectives interrogate the legal, theoretical and factual assumptions which shape case law and consider the extent to which they...

Jurisprudence. Philosophy of Law. Uncertainty of Law and Constitutional Government. This book looks at Government and Law: The State; Theory and Practice of Government; Jefferson's Principle and Change; the Ideal State. American Government and Rule of Law

Jurisprudence. Philosophy of Law. Uncertainty of Law and Constitutional Government. This book looks at Prospects for Constitutional Government: War and Peace; Limited Government and Individual Rights; Pax Americana; Wealth and Change; Right to Self Defense

Jurisprudence. Philosophy of Law. Uncertainty of Law and Constitutional Government. This book looks at the causes of law: law as an artifact; the efficient, material, formal and final causes of law; and the errors of positivism

The first book of its kind dedicated to an assessment of the legality of boxing, The Legality of Boxing: A Punch Drunk Love? assesses the legal response to prize fighting and undertakes a current analysis of the status of boxing in both criminal legal theory and practice. In this book, Anderson...

The contents of the January-February 2015 issue (Volume 124, Number 4) are: Articles: * "Cost-Benefit Analysis of Financial Regulation: Case Studies and Implications," John C. Coates IV * "Beyond the Indian Commerce Clause," Gregory Ablavsky Essays: * "On...

This book takes its cue from the observation that jurisdiction - as the speech of law - articulates or proclaims law. Without jurisdiction the law would be speechless, without authority and authorisation. So too would be critics who approach the law or want to live lawfully. As a field of legal knowledge...

Jurisprudence. Philosophy of Law. Uncertainty of Law and Constitutional Government. This book looks at Courts and Law: Original Intent; Judicial Activism; Reserved Rights and Powers; Political Questions; Constitutionalism

Jurisprudence. Philosophy of Law. Uncertainty of Law and Constitutional Government. This book looks at Literature and law: Greek; Roman; English; American;French; German; RussiaN

Jurisprudence. Philosophy of Law. Uncertainty of Law and Constitutional Government. This book looks at History and Law: Jewish, Greek, Roman, English and American Law, the Bill of Rights and Corporate Pewrsonas