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The focus of this book is on the epistemological and hermeneutic implications of data science and artificial intelligence for democracy and the Rule of Law. How do the normative effects of automated decision systems or the interventions of robotic fellow...

This book offers educational experiences, including reflections and the resulting essays, from the Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law and Semiotics held during 2008 - 2011 at Penn State University's Dickinson School of Law. The texts address educational...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998421506Author Omar FigueroaFormat HardbackPage Count 358Imprint Lux Law PublishingPublisher Lux Law PublishingWeight(grams) 644g

The book presents a new focus on the legal philosophical texts of Aristotle, which offers a much richer frame for the understanding of practical thought, legal reasoning and political experience. It allows understanding how human beings interact in a...

The book provides the reader with a unique source regarding the current theoretical landscape in legal ontology engineering as well as on foreseeable future trends for the definition of conceptual structures to enhance the automatic processing and...

Language carries more than meanings; language conveys a means of conceiving the world. In this sense, national legal systems expressed through national languages organize the Law based on their own understanding of reality. International Law becomes, in...

This volume provides discussions of both the concept of responsibility and of punishment, and of both individual and collective responsibility. It provides in-depth Socratic and Kantian bases for a new version of retributivism, and defends that version...

You arrive at university to embark upon your journey to ‘think like a lawyer’, but is simply knowing the law enough to gain you the best marks? What do you need to do, exactly, to achieve a first-class law degree and promising professional career? For...

This book explores how the design, construction, and use of robotics technology may affect today's legal systems and, more particularly, matters of responsibility and agency in criminal law, contractual obligations, and torts. By distinguishing between...

This volume presents two Leibnizian writings, the Specimen of Philosophical Questions Collected from the Law and the Dissertation on Perplexing Cases. These works, originally published in 1664 and 1666, constitute, respectively, Leibniz's thesis for the...

This book is a thorough treatise concerned with coherence and its significance in legal reasoning. The individual chapters present the topic from the general philosophical perspective, the perspective of legal-theory as well as the viewpoint of cognitive...

The book presents a new focus on the legal philosophical texts of Aristotle, which offers a much richer frame for the understanding of practical thought, legal reasoning and political experience. It allows understanding how human beings interact in a...

This book presents a definition of terrorism that is broad and descriptive and much needed to prevent misunderstanding. The book identifies the features that make terrorism 'wrong', including coerciveness, the violation of rights and undermining of trust...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943386666Author Henry FarleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Capraro PressPublisher Capraro PressWeight(grams) 152g

If, as John Rawls famously suggests, justice is the first virtue of social institutions, how are we to understand the institution of contract law? This book proposes a Rawlsian theory of contract law. It argues that justice requires that we understand...

Liberal theories have long insisted that cultural diversity in democratic societies can be accommodated through classical liberal tools, in particular through individual rights, and they have often rejected the claims of cultural minorities for group...

Not the Marrying Kind is a new and comprehensive exploration of the contemporary same-sex marriage debates in several jurisdictions including Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. It departs from much of the existing...

How is religion, particularly non-Christianness, conceptualised and represented in English law? What is the relationship between religion, race, ethnicity and culture in these conceptualisations? What might be the socio-political effects of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584774853Author Theodore F T PlucknettFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Publisher Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Weight(grams) 531g

This book throws new light on the way in which the Internet impacts on democracy. Based on Jurgen Habermas' discourse-theoretical reconstruction of democracy, it examines one of the world's largest, most diverse but also most unequal democracies, Brazil,...

This book highlights how conversion via communication is one of the most important issues in legal thinking. A major aspect is its link with language - legal texts, judgments, opinions and legal concepts included. Further, conversion is connected to all...

This book revisits the discourse theories of Habermas and Foucault in a Chinese context. After arguing that Habermas's Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy is too normative and idealistic, it presents Foucault's Discourse Theory of Power Relations to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616190712Author Theodore F T PlucknettFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Publisher Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Weight(grams) 367g

This book discusses the question of whether legal interpretation is a scientific activity. The law's dependency on language, at least for the usual communication purposes, not only makes legal interpretation the main task performed by those whose work...

This book explores the legal conception of personhood in the context of contemporary challenges, such as the status of non-human animals, human-animal biological mixtures, cyborgisation of the human body, or developing technologies based on artificial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789041118745Author Michael BaurmannFormat HardbackPage Count 170Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law International

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962978002Author Michael S TwinchekFormat PaperbackPage Count 490Imprint MtwinchekPublisher MtwinchekWeight(grams) 581g

This book presents the current state of the art regarding the application of logical tools to the problems of theory and practice of lawmaking. It shows how contemporary logic may be useful in the analysis of legislation, legislative drafting and legal...

Historian Ramses Delafontaine presents an engaging examination of a controversial legal practice: the historian as an expert judicial witness. This book focuses on tobacco litigation in the U.S. wherein 50 historians have witnessed in 314 court cases...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985682663Author Omar FigueroaFormat HardbackPage Count 730Imprint Lux Law PublishingPublisher Lux Law PublishingWeight(grams) 1960g

This book provides theoretical tools for evaluating the soundness of arguments in the context of legal argumentation. It deals with a number of general argument types and their particular use in legal argumentation. It provides detailed analyses of...

This book focuses on the impact of technology on taxation and deals with the broad effect of technology on diverse taxation systems. It addresses the highly relevant eTax issue and argues that while VAT may not be the ultimate solution with regard to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584778851Author Henry Campbell BlackFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Publisher Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Weight(grams) 1098g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358963489Author Rakesh BholaFormat PaperbackPage Count 317Imprint Zorba BooksPublisher Zorba Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789041118356Author Wade L. RobisonFormat HardbackPage Count 277Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law InternationalWeight(grams) 1290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783662389249Author Ilmar TammeloFormat PaperbackPage Count 109Imprint Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KPublisher Springer-Verlag Berlin...

Roman law forms a vital part of the intellectual background of many legal systems currently in force in Continental Europe, Latin America, East Asia and other parts of the world. Knowledge of Roman law, therefore, constitutes an essential component of a...

Use of argumentation methods applied to legal reasoning is a relatively new field of study. The book provides a survey of the leading problems, and outlines how future research using argumentation-based methods show great promise of leading to useful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798892073561Author Alex RuskellFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Aspen PublishingPublisher Aspen PublishingWeight(grams) 254g

This textbook uses cases in family law to illustrate both traditional philosophical problems in the law as well as problems that are unique to family law. In the beginning chapters family law cases are employed to introduce the reader to philosophical...