Jurisprudence

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...

This book examines the role and importance of reason and emotion in justice and the law. Eight lawyers and philosophers of law consider law's basis in the universal human need for society, our innate sense of justice, and many other powerful inclinations...

In almost every field of law,from tort and contract to environmental law and criminal justice, issues about 'risk' are increasingly of interest to lawyers. At the same time, there has been little general enquiry into the nature of the contact between law...

What is law? The usual answer is that the law is a system of norms. But this answer gives us at best half of the story. The law is a way of relating to one another. We do not do this as lovers or friends and not as people who are interested in obtaining...

This book articulates an empirically grounded theory of law applicable throughout history and across different societies. Unlike natural law theory or analytical jurisprudence, which are narrow, abstract, ahistorical, and detached from society,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781103447374Author Daniel Henry CullimoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint BiblioLifePublisher BiblioLifeWeight(grams) 290g

Methodological and metaphilosophical disputes in the contemporary philosophy of law are very vivid. Basic issues remain controversial. The purpose of the book is to confront approaches of Anglo-Saxon and continental philosophy of law to the following...

Prosecutors are the most powerful actors in the legal system. Their decisions have significant implications for how crime is defined, who is charged, and the punishment they receive. This volume draws together classic and recent scholarship that...

This book is unique in presenting an interdisciplinary conversation between jurists and logicians. It brings together scholars from both law and philosophy, and looks at the application of 'the new logics' to law and legal ordering, in a number of legal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781108427715Author Jeffrey L. DunoffFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

This book is unique in presenting an interdisciplinary conversation between jurists and logicians. It brings together scholars from both law and philosophy, and looks at the application of 'the new logics' to law and legal ordering, in a number of legal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587981449Author Felix S. CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 548Imprint Beard BooksPublisher Beard Books

In July 2007, the School of Law at the University of Warwick hosted an international conference on 'Shakespeare and the Law'. This was a truly interdisciplinary event, which included contributions from eminent speakers in the fields of English, history,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362091154Author Walter ScottPage Count 44Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

This book demonstrates the empirical gains and integrative potentials of social systems theory for the sociology of law. Against a backdrop of classical and contemporary sociological debates about law and society, it observes judicial review as an...

'Jurisprudence', the author writes, 'is a most hospitable word. It can be understood to include not only the analysis of legal concepts, but also all those topics which are discussed under the rubric 'philosophy of law'. Writers on these subjects are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682358399Author Ignacio L GötzFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Strategic Book PublishingPublisher Strategic Book PublishingWeight(grams) 508g

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This book is the first detailed reconstruction of the late work of John Rawls, who was perhaps the most influential philosopher of the twentieth century. Rawls's 1971 treatise, A Theory of Justice, stimulated an outpouring of commentary on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584770237Author John AustinFormat HardbackPage Count 492Imprint Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Publisher Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Weight(grams) 889g

This book offers a critical re-evaluation of three fundamental and interlocking themes in American democracy: the relationship between race and politics, the performance and reform of election systems and the role of courts in regulating the political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789780232467Author Yahaya Yunusa BambaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Malthouse Press Ltd,NigeriaPublisher Malthouse Press Ltd,NigeriaWeight(grams)...

Despite its mystique as the greatest Anglo-American legal protection, habeas corpus' history features power plays, political hypocrisy, ad hoc jurisprudence, and failures in securing individual liberty. This book tells the story of the writ from medieval...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362090805Author William Brodie GurneyPage Count 478Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Originalism is a force to be reckoned with in constitutional interpretation. At one time a monolithic theory of constitutional interpretation, contemporary originalism has developed into a sophisticated family of theories about how to interpret and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781108717526Author Bartosz BrożekFormat PaperbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781463352028Author Felipe De Jesus Fierro AlvidrezFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint PalibrioPublisher PalibrioWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781998788804Author Charles MwewaFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint American College of PhysiciansPublisher American College of PhysiciansWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434405531Author Rudyard KiplingFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 218g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781482868425Author Archana MishraFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Partridge IndiaPublisher Partridge IndiaWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608881109Author Professor Alan MacFarlaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Nimble BooksPublisher Nimble BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

This collection represents the latest research from leading scholars whose work has helped to frame our understanding of Bentham since the publication of H. L. A. Hart's Essays on Bentham. The authors explore fundamental areas of Bentham's thought,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789780232139Author Muhammed Tawfiq LadanFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Malthouse Press Ltd,NigeriaPublisher Malthouse Press Ltd,NigeriaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584774389Author Williamson S OldhamFormat HardbackPage Count 852Imprint Lawbook ExchangePublisher Lawbook ExchangeWeight(grams) 1678g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357966573Author Ranulf De GlanvillePage Count 212Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587980367Author Story, JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Beard BooksPublisher Beard BooksWeight(grams) 476g

Law is best interpreted in the context of the traditions and cultures that have shaped its development, implementation, and acceptance. However, these can never be assessed truly objectively: individual interpreters of legal theory need to reflect on how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434416810Author OuidaFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 508g

An important part of the legal domain has to do with rule-governed conduct, and is expressed by the use of notions such as norm, obligation, duty and right. These require us to acknowledge the normative dimension of law. Normativity is, accordingly, to...

In The Common Law Inside the Female Body, Anita Bernstein explains why lawyers seeking gender progress from primary legal materials should start with the common law. Despite its reputation for supporting conservatism and inequality, today's common law...