Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law

General jurisprudence is the theory of law in general, identifying features that law has wherever and whenever legal institutions exist. But it is ...

Political controversy about migration is becoming more frequent, more heated, and for certain groups, decidedly more urgent. This raises pressing q...

Critical legal studies is the most important development in progressive thinking about law of the past half century. It has inspired the practice o...

This book illustrates the deep roots of natural law doctrines in America's political culture. Originally published in 1931, the volume shows that A...

Behind the scenes of the many artists and innovators flourishing beyond the bounds of intellectual property laws Intellectual property law, or IP ...

The Secrets of Law explores the ways law both traffics in and regulates secrecy. Taking a close look at the opacity built into legal and governance...

Many today place great hope in law as a vehicle for the transformation of society and accept that law is autonomous, universal, and above all, secu...

Interrogating the concepts of allegiance and identity in a globalised world involves renewing our understanding of membership and participation wit...

Combatants are equal under the laws of armed conflict, regardless of whether the wars they fight are just or unjust, legal or illegal. They are per...

Black Letter Outlines are designed to help a law student recognize and understand the basic principles and issues of law covered in a law school co...

The judicial system in a liberal democracy is deemed to be an independent branch of government with judges free from political agendas or societal ...

Law and the Formation of Modern Europe explores processes of legal construction in both the national and supranational domains, and it provides an ...

This book contributes to current bioethical debates by providing a critical analysis of the philosophy of human death. Bernard N. Schumacher discus...

This volume seeks to explain how American society, which had been capable of noble aspirations such as those in the Declaration of Independence and...

In 1956, ICJ judge Philip Jessup highlighted the gaps between private and public international law and the need to adapt the law to border-crossing...

Protracted and bitter resistance by alter- and anti-globalisation movements shows that the globalisation of law transpires as the globalisation of ...

Religious freedom is one of the most debated and controversial human rights in contemporary public discourse. At once a universally held human righ...

A central theme of law and society is that people's ideas about law and the decisions they make to mobilize law are shaped by community norms and c...

Though much attention has been paid to different principles of justice, far less has been done reflecting on what the larger concern behind the not...

Jurisprudence has up until recently largely neglected international law as a subject of philosophizing. The Nature of International Law tries to of...

In his new book, Lewis D. Sargentich shows how two different kinds of legal argument - rule-based reasoning and reasoning based on principles and p...

'Free will skepticism' refers to a family of views that all take seriously the possibility that human beings lack the control in action - i.e. the ...

The focus of this monograph lies in the construction of a theory of legal obligation, understanding it as a discrete notion with its own defining t...

Sovereignty in premodern times evoked the dynastic figure of the 'sovereign' or territorial monarch. In modern times, it became a more abstract ide...

This book elaborates, illuminates, and illustrates a confident and attractive account of social and political liberalism in light of a rich underst...

In recent decades, new international courts and other legal bodies have proliferated as international law has broadened beyond the fields of treaty...

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...

This work is both an introduction to and a critical appraisal of the work of Rainer Forst, one of the most important political theorists in Germany...

This book takes an unflinching look at the roles and functions played by the idea of universality in international legal discourses, as well as the...

This exploration of the newly emerging, diverse, and controversial area of animal lawpresents a basic survey of the laws designed to protect animal...

A collection of 11 cutting-edge essays by leading young scholars, challenging long-held assumptions and offering new research paradigms in Philosop...

What are the grounds for and limits to obedience to the state? This book offers a fresh analysis of the debate concerning the moral obligation to o...

This first analysis of Spinoza's philosophy of law shows that he revolutionizes modern philosophy from within by developing an entirely new natural...

The first-ever multivolume treatment of the issues in legal philosophy and general jurisprudence, from both a theoretical and a historical perspect...

This volume brings together a collection of essays, many of them scholarly classics, which form part of the debates on three questions central to c...

This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society examines how law understands the past. Topics covered include the use of legal language...

The Bill of Rights is a comprehensive survey of all aspects of the U.S. Bill of Rights; from its origins to its role in modern American history. Sp...

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles within the broad parameters of interdisciplinary...

Tackling juvenile offending has become a key part of crime reduction strategies. The articles selected for this volume examine juvenile offending f...

Volume 11, the sixth of the historical volumes of A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence, offers a fresh, philosophically engaged...

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles within the broad parameters of interdisciplinary...

In No Place for Ethics, Hill argues that contemporary judicial review by the U.S. Supreme Court rests on its mistaken positivist understanding of l...

Ziel des Buches ist es, das neue Phänomen der Ethisierung des Rechts interdisziplinär zu erfassen und damit das grundsätzliche Verhältnis von Ethik...