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This second volume of ReConFort, published open access, addresses the decisive role of constitutional normativity, and focuses on discourses concerning the legal role of constitutional norms. Taken together with ReConFort I (National Sovereignty), it...

The essays collected in this book address legislation from the viewpoint of legal theory and provide an overview of current research in legisprudence as a new scholarly approach to lawmaking. The overall focus of the volume is on the justification of...

This book is an assault on the notion that it is empirically accurate and legally and philosophically satisfactory to see humans as atomistic entities. It contends that our welfare is inextricably entangled with that of others, and accordingly law and...

This edited volume explores ideas of legal realism which emerge through the works of Russian legal philosophers. Apart from the well-known American and Scandinavian versions of legal realism, there also exists a Russian one: readers will discover fresh...

The expression "transitional justice" emerged at the end of the Cold War, during the transition from dictatorships to democracies, and serves as a central concept in dealing with systemic injustice. This textbook examines the basic principles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782665847Author United States Sentencing CommissionFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint www.Militarybookshop.Co.UKPublisher www.Militarybookshop.Co...

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...

The field of socio-legal research has encountered three fundamental challenges over the last three decades - it has been criticized for paying insufficient attention to legal doctrine, for failing to develop a sound theoretical foundation and for not...

This peer-reviewed book features essays on the Armenian massacres of 1915-1916. It aims to cast light upon the various questions of international law raised by the matter. The answers may help improve international relations in the region. In 1915-1916,...

This book compares the respective concepts of the law of nations put forward by the Spanish theologian Francisco Suarez and by the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius. This comparison is based on the fact that both thinkers developed quite similar notions and were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798885590129Author United Kingdom LegislationFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Grangis LLCPublisher Grangis LLCWeight(grams) 1805gDimensions(mm) 297mm *...

This book offers a comprehensive investigation of privacy in the modern world. It collects 16 papers that look at this essential topic from many facets, from the personal to the technological, from the philosophical to the legal. The contributors examine...

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 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...

The present collection represents an attempt to bring together several contributions to the ongoing debate pertaining to supervenience of the normative in law and morals and strives to be the first work that addresses the topic comprehensively. It...

Politics and the political discourse occupy a central position in the modern legal theoretical discussion. The goal of this book is to reconstruct and to classify, according to ideal-typical models, the different positions taken by the major contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584779391Author Sir Fortunatus DwarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 688Imprint Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Publisher Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587365225Author Donald, A. LooseFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Fenestra Books,USPublisher Fenestra Books,USWeight(grams) 529gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

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...

This book deals with a central problem throughout the legal profession -a solution to the problem is sought and reached in some basic form. At the centre of this prob lematic is the question indicated by the title: "What is the nature of "discovery" in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Springer Book ArchivesBook InformationISBN 9789401756808Author Charles Henry AlexandrowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint SpringerPublisher Springer

Plessy v Ferguson (1897) established racial segregation in American constitutional law for over fifty years and its moral and political legacy lives on, despite attempts in the United States to counter its devastating effects during the last half...

Any contemporary state presents itself as committed to the "rule of law", and this notion is perhaps the most powerful political ideal within the current global discourse on legal and political institutions. Despite being a contested concept,...

This book presents an analysis of global legal history in Modern times, questioning the effect of political revolutions since the 17th century on the legal field. Readers will discover a non-linear approach to legal history as this work investigates the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782384552740Author Leonard William KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Alicia EditionsPublisher Alicia EditionsWeight(grams) 132g

This book intends to contribute to the consolidation of the new approach to lawmaking that has taken place in the last 20 years in legal philosophy and legal theory, spreading to other legal fields, especially criminal law. This new legislation science...

This book raises awareness about gender perspective in political and legal theories and historical analysis. The impacts of feminist political and legal theories, as well as critical legal studies, have been embedded in all the papers in different ways...

This book describes the history, present status and possible future models of clinical legal education (CLE) in 12 Asian countries, with particular focus on the Asian character of CLE as it has evolved in different countries.About the AuthorBruce Avery...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461227192Author Charles Henry OkeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher HardPress Ltd

The first Book of Legal Lists - the 10 Bests and Worsts in American law, from the Greatest and Worst Supreme Court Justices to the Greatest Legal Movies. Law aficionados and laymen alike will learn things about law that even experts do not know and...

The Nicaraguan revolution of 1978 and the subsequent violence engulfing the Central American states, causes mass migration of Latin American persons seeking territorial asylum. Latin American States and Political Refugees focuses on the questions...

The desperate need for a vast part of the global population to access better medicines in more certain ways is one of the biggest concerns of the modern era. Pills for the Poorest offers a new perspective on the much-debated issue of the links between...

Reason, Democracy, Society deals with basic points of legal theory and philosophy of law. The main contention of the book relates to the insufficiencies of the legal positivistic approach. Some of its claims are that we must sharply separate what the...

Not just for lawyers, these illuminating histories of popular law-related expressions will delight anyone fascinated by words, by history, or by law and law enforcement Law-related words and phrases abound in our everyday language, often without our...

Questions about the relationship between autonomy and authority are raised in nearly every area of moral philosophy. Although the most ob vious of these is political philosophy (especially the philosophy of law), the issues surrounding this relationship...

Plessy v Ferguson (1897) established racial segregation in American constitutional law for over fifty years and its moral and political legacy lives on, despite attempts in the United States to counter its devastating effects during the last half...

Whether in a modern legal case or a Hollywood courtroom drama, the successful practice of law rests heavily on incisive, pithy, and often witty language. This collection of more than 3,000 thematically arranged quotations includes pronouncements from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780899300337Author Wayne C. CurtisFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

To a certain extent, this book is a translation of Recht, verhaal en werke- lijkheid, published by Coutinho (Bussum, 1993). Chapters 1, 5 and 9, however, differ considerably from the original. At the basis of the Dutch book were arguments already...

This book deals with a central problem throughout the legal profession -a solution to the problem is sought and reached in some basic form. At the centre of this prob lematic is the question indicated by the title: "What is the nature of "discovery" in...