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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 W.L. RobisonFormat HardbackPage Count 277Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law International

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...

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...

This anthology highlights the theoretical foundations as well as the various applications of Behavioural Law and Economics in European legal culture. By the same token, it fosters the dialogue between European and American Law and Economics scholars. The...

This book examines the most controversial issues concerning the use of pre-drafted clauses in fine print, which are usually included in consumer contracts and presented to consumers on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. By applying a multi-disciplinary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782384552764Author Leonard William KingFormat HardbackPage Count 98Imprint Alicia EditionsPublisher Alicia EditionsWeight(grams) 318g

This book examines the legal principle of judicial independence in comparative perspective with the goal of advancing a better understanding of the idea of an independent judiciary more generally. From an initial survey of judicial systems in different...

This book presents the results of research project financed by the Hague Institute for the Internationalization of Law (HiiL) and carried out at the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) of Tilburg University. The project team shows that...

The book outlines the historical development of Public Law and the state from ancient times to the modern day, offering an account of relevant events in parallel with a general historical background, establishing and explaining the relationships between...

This volume presents philosophical contributions examining questions of the grounding and justification of taxation and different types of taxes such as inheritance, wealth, consumption or income tax in relation to justice and the concept of a just...

In this book the author investigates what is common to the German idea of the Rechtsstaat and the Anglo-American idea of the Rule of Law. He argues that, although dressed up in rather different garb, these two concepts are in fact based on the same...

This book investigates the origins and development of human rights discourse in Finnish legal scholarship in the twentieth century. It provides a detailed account of how human rights were understood before they had legal relevance in a positivist sense,...

Dr Peng He in her book addresses various issues, drawing on Western and Chinese sources for her argument for a 'communicative' theory of law making. This book is both timely and important in the Chinese context. Her argument depends upon the insight that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584773559Author Samuel E ThorneFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Publisher Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Weight(grams) 472g

This book focuses on the problems of rules, rule-following and normativity as discussed within the areas of analytic philosophy, linguistics, logic and legal theory. Divided into four parts, the volume covers topics in general analytic philosophy,...

This book approaches education as a vital human good, both because it fosters the development of intellectual, moral and civic virtues, and because it promotes the development of valuable skills for work and for life. Accordingly, debates on justice,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783030077464Author Luigi CominelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint SpringerPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 304g

In this monograph a fundamental distinction is made between law and juridical thinking. Law is the content of legal rules and the systems of legal rules. Juridical thinking is the handling of the law by the lawyers. To this distinction corresponds a...

This book investigates the origins and development of human rights discourse in Finnish legal scholarship in the twentieth century. It provides a detailed account of how human rights were understood before they had legal relevance in a positivist sense,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584770619Author Claude Hermann Walter JohnsFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Publisher Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Weight(grams) 327g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Springer Book ArchivesBook InformationISBN 9789024702886Author Edward G. BallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Kluwer Academic PublishersPublisher Springer

This book is concerned with a central question in contemporary legal theory: how to describe global law? In addressing this question, the book brings together two features that are different and yet connected to one another: the conceptual description of...