Jurisprudence

Taking a critical attitude of dissatisfaction towards rights, the central premise of this book is that rights are technologies of governmentality. They are a regulating discourse that is itself managed through governing tactics and techniques - hence...

We live in a world of legal pluralism, where a single act or actor is potentially regulated by multiple legal or quasi-legal regimes imposed by state, substate, transnational, supranational and nonstate communities. Navigating these spheres of complex...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760462703Author Ann GenoveseFormat PaperbackImprint ANU PressPublisher ANU Press

This is a gedenkshrift to one of Scotland's most prominent jurists. This book analyses in depth the distinctively Scottish themes in the life and work of Sir Neil MacCormick, the world-renowned legal philosopher and prominent Scottish public...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399535533Author Reader in Human Rights Law Senthorun Sunil RajFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh...

After the Realist Revolution extends the existing academic study of American common law into new and previously unexplored areas. Marin Scordato examines the conventional understanding of appellate court lawmaking and the profound change in the common...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783515130363Author Andre Ferreira Leite de PaulaFormat HardbackPage Count 313Imprint Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbHPublisher Franz Steiner Verlag...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362091284Author Harry Lushington StephenPage Count 166Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434414793Author Henry FieldingFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 386g

This collection of essays is the first edited volume in the English language which is entirely dedicated to the work of Eugen Ehrlich. Eugen Ehrlich (1862-1922) was an eminent Austrian legal theorist and professor of Roman law. He is considered by many...

Readings in the Philosophy of Law brings together central texts on such topics as legal reasoning, the limits of individual liberty, responsibility and punishment, and international law. The included selections provide superb coverage of both classic and...

The Constitution of Risk is the first book to combine constitutional theory with the theory of risk regulation. It argues that constitutional rulemaking is best understood as a means of managing political risks. Constitutional law structures and...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587980374Author Story, JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint Beard BooksPublisher Beard BooksWeight(grams) 522g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921536786Author Miranda ForsythFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint ANU PressPublisher ANU Press

The Constitution of Risk is the first book to combine constitutional theory with the theory of risk regulation. It argues that constitutional rulemaking is best understood as a means of managing political risks. Constitutional law structures and...

Theatre of the Rule of Law presents a sustained critique of global rule of law promotion - an expansive industry at the heart of international development, post-conflict reconstruction and security policy today. While successful in articulating and...

In Applied Jurisprudence and Principles of Legal Practice, Albert Keating argues that substantive jurisprudence may be extended to include concepts of applied jurisprudence and principles of legal practice. He advances his argument by asserting that the...

Any effort to understand how law works has to take seriously its main players - judges. Like any performance, judging should be evaluated by reference to those who are its best exponents. Not surprisingly, the debate about what makes a 'great judge' is...

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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