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Why Lawyers Derail Justice: Probing the Roots of Legal Injustices by Dr. John C. Anderson
Booksplease Price: £37.39The "rule of law" has become a shibboleth of American democracy, but the emphasis on procedural and abstract rather than substantive justice that is embedded both in the workings of our judicial... -
Happiness and Goodness: Philosophical Reflections on Living Well by Steven M. Cahn 9780231172417
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.32How should we evaluate the success of each person's life? Countering the prevalent philosophical perspective on the subject, Steven M. Cahn and Christine Vitrano defend the view that our well-being... -
Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia and Individual Freedom by Ronald M. Dworkin
Booksplease Price: £15.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679733195Author Ronald DworkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Justice and the Capabilities Approach Thom Brooks 9781138107731
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.67The capabilities approach is a widely influential alternative theory of justice, popularized by Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen and also by Martha Nussbaum. Justice and the Capabilities Approach is... -
Political Fraternity: Democracy beyond Freedom and Equality by Angel Puyol
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Fraternity is a feeling, and a moral virtue, but fraternity is also a political concept. The French Revolution proclaimed an ethical and political ideal with its three principles: liberty, equality... -
Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law by Seana Valentine Shiffrin 9780691157023
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.73To understand one another as individuals and to fulfill the moral duties that require such understanding, we must communicate with each other. We must also maintain protected channels that render... -
Isaiah Berlin: A Celebration by Edna Ullmann-Margalit 9780226840970
Booksplease Price: £35.91This volume gathers tributes, reflections and commentaries on the great thinker Isaiah Berlin and his philosophy, politics and life - including contributions from Michael Ignatieff, Leon Wieseltier,... -
Justice and Injustice in Law and Legal Theory by Austin Sarat 9780472066254
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14Running through the history of jurisprudence and legal theory is a recurring concern about the connections between law and justice and about the ways law is implicated in injustice. In earlier times... -
From Liberal Values to Democratic Transition: Essays in Honor of Janos Kis by Ronald William Dworkin 9789639241770
RRP: £122.00Booksplease Price: £108.13The book contains twelve essays by Stephen Holmes, Frances M. Kamm, Maria Ludassy, Steven Lukes, Gyorgy Markus, Andras Sajo, Gaspar Miklos Tamas, Andrew Arato, Timothy Garton Ash, Bela Greskovits,... -
Concealment and Revelation: Esotericism in Jewish Thought and its Philosophical Implications by Moshe Halbertal 9780691125718
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.20During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, great new trends of Jewish thought emerged whose widely varied representatives--Kabbalists, philosophers, and astrologers--each claimed that their... -
The Ethics of Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and... -
The Ethics of Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah 9780691254074
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.35A bold vision of liberal humanism for navigating today's complex world of growing identity politics and rising nationalismCollective identities such as race, nationality, religion, gender, and... -
Political Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century: Essential Essays Steven M. Cahn 9780813346908
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Moving beyond the work of Rawls and his critics, this concise collection contains critical essays in contemporary political philosophy. All have been chosen for their importance and accessibility,... -
Toleration and Freedom from Harm: Liberalism Reconceived by Andrew Jason Cohen
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Toleration matters to us all. It contributes both to individuals leading good lives and to societies that are simultaneously efficient and just. There are personal and social matters that would be... -
New Essays on the Fish-Dworkin Debate by Thomas Bustamante 9781509961795
Booksplease Price: £113.11This book considers the seminal debate in jurisprudence between Ronald Dworkin and Stanley Fish. It looks at the exchange between Dworkin and Fish, initiated in the 1980s, and analyses the role the... -
In the Beginning Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument by Bernard Williams
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers of the past fifty years. Widely respected as a moral philosopher, Williams began to write about politics in a... -
Europe: The Faltering Project by Jurgen Habermas 9780745646497
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34The future of Europe and the role it will play in the 21st century are among the most important political questions of our time. The optimism of a decade ago has now faded but the stakes are higher... -
Europe: The Faltering Project by Jurgen Habermas 9780745646404
Booksplease Price: £56.13The future of Europe and the role it will play in the 21st century are among the most important political questions of our time. The optimism of a decade ago has now faded but the stakes are higher... -
Constitutional Politics: Essays on Constitution Making, Maintenance, and Change by Sotirios A. Barber 9780691088693
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.90What does it mean to have a constitution? Scholars and students associated with Walter Murphy at Princeton University have long asked this question in their exploration of constitutional politics and... -
Constitutional Faith by Sanford Levinson 9780691152400
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08This book examines the "constitutional faith" that has, since 1788, been a central component of American "civil religion". By taking seriously the parallel between wholehearted acceptance of the... -
The Notion of Equality by Mane Hajdin
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £48.10This title was first published in 2001. In the articles collected in this anthology, contemporary analytic philosophers examine the ways in which the notion of equality functions in moral and... -
Philosophy of Law by Andrei Marmor
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.99In Philosophy of Law, Andrei Marmor provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary debates about the fundamental nature of law--an issue that has been at the heart of legal philosophy for... -
Freedom's Orphans: Contemporary Liberalism and the Fate of American Children by David L. Tubbs 9780691134703
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.68Has contemporary liberalism's devotion to individual liberty come at the expense of our society's obligations to children? Divorce is now easy to obtain, and access to everything from violent movies... -
The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia by N. Gorsuch 9780691140971
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia provides the most thorough overview of the ethical and legal issues raised by assisted suicide and euthanasia--as well as the most comprehensive argument... -
Dworkin and His Critics: With Replies by Dworkin Justine Burley (National University of Singapore) 9780631197669
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £37.42Dworkin and His Critics provides an in-depth, analytical discussion of Ronald Dworkin's ethical, legal and political philosophical writings, and it includes substantial replies from Dworkin himself... -
Dworkin and His Critics: With Replies by Dworkin by Justine Burley 9780631197652
RRP: £112.95Booksplease Price: £99.12Dworkin and His Critics provides an in-depth, analytical discussion of Ronald Dworkin's ethical, legal and political philosophical writings, and it includes substantial replies from Dworkin himself... -
Brennan and Democracy by Frank I. Michelman
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.29In Brennan and Democracy, a leading thinker in U.S. constitutional law offers some powerful reflections on the idea of "constitutional democracy," a concept in which many have seen the makings of... -
Democratic Rights: The Substance of Self-Government by Corey Brettschneider 9780691149301
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25When the Supreme Court in 2003 struck down a Texas law prohibiting homosexual sodomy, it cited the right to privacy based on the guarantee of "substantive due process" embodied by the Constitution... -
Great Cases in Constitutional Law by Robert P. George
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.73Slavery, segregation, abortion, workers' rights, the power of the courts. These issues have been at the heart of the greatest constitutional controversies in American history. And in this concise and... -
That Eminent Tribunal: Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution by Christopher Wolfe 9780691116686
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.73The role of the United States Supreme Court has been deeply controversial throughout American history. Should the Court undertake the task of guarding a wide variety of controversial and often... -
The Ideal of Equality by Matthew Clayton 9780333971192
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.12One of the central debates within contemporary Anglo-American political philosophy concerns how to formulate an egalitarian theory of distributive justice which gives coherent expression to... -
The Media, Journalism and Democracy by Margaret Scammell 9781138729599
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.66This title was first published in 2000. Offering original insights into the relationship between media and democratic theory, this volume brings together a renowned collection of international... -
A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law - New Edition by Antonin Scalia 9780691174044
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.46We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a judge like... -
Humanities in Review: Volume 1 by Ronald M. Dworkin 9780521271059
Booksplease Price: £31.53The articles in this volume cover a wide range of intellectually exciting issues, written by people who were considered at the summit of their fields of enquiry. Though the individual topics... -
Philosophy of Law as an Integral Part of Philosophy: Essays on the Jurisprudence of Gerald J Postema by Thomas Bustamante 9781509945603
Booksplease Price: £35.83This edited collection considers the work of one of the most important legal philosophers of our time, Professor Gerald J Postema. It includes contributions from expert philosophers of law. The... -
Essays on the Doctrinal Study of Law by Aulis Aarnio 9789400716544
Booksplease Price: £112.12Essays on the Doctrinal Study of Law is a summary of the author's 40 years of research in the fields of civil law and the philosophy of law. The main focus is on the two main tasks in the doctrinal... -
Philosophy of Law as an Integral Part of Philosophy: Essays on the Jurisprudence of Gerald J Postema by Thomas Bustamante 9781509933884
Booksplease Price: £86.73This edited collection considers the work of one of the most important legal philosophers of our time, Professor Gerald J Postema. It includes contributions from expert philosophers of law. The... -
The Liberal State and the Politics of Virtue by Ludvig Beckman 9781138516212
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94At the start of the new millennium there has been a growing awareness that traditional political institutions and ideologies do not correspond to the demands and aspirations held by many individuals... -
Philosophy and Democracy: An Anthology by Thomas Christiano 9780195136609
Booksplease Price: £61.03This volume collects some of the leading essays in contemporary democratic theory published in the past thirty years. The anthology presents the work of a select group of contributors (including... -
Liberalism at the Crossroads: An Introduction to Contemporary Liberal Political Theory and Its Critics by Christopher Wolfe 9780742532717
Booksplease Price: £51.70Liberalism at the Crossroads offers succinct, accessible, and well-written surveys of the ideas of the leading participants in the contemporary philosophical debate about liberalism. Christopher...