Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law

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

The book transcends conventional social scientific method, political theory and its understanding of global governance to make the study of the phi...

This book examines the development of a contemporary internal debate among Muslim minorities living in Western Europe and North America to establis...

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

Shame punishment has existed for perhaps as long as people have been punished, and the issue has been revisited in recent years to help improve cri...

A philosophical and legal argument for equal access to good lawyers and other legal resources.Should your risk of wrongful conviction depend on you...

This book examines the intricate dynamics of when individuals adhere to laws, taking into account the context in which laws attempt to shape human ...

This versatile and pedagogically effective book brings together in a coordinated way the rich and diverse perspectives and more than 80 years combi...

This volume examines the relationship between law and sacrifice as a crucial nexus for theorizing the dynamics of creation, destruction, transcende...

In The Limits of the Rule of Law in China, fourteen authors from different academic disciplines reflect on questions that have troubled Chinese and...

Ferdinand von Schirach war lange Strafverteidiger, bevor er mit dem Erzählband Verbrechen einen sensationellen Debüterfolg feierte. Seither hat er ...

What contribution has the law made to the work of analyst and patient in the consulting room? And what insights may be drawn from putting psycholog...

This unique volume develops a new philosophy of law and a new theory of law enforcement. The concepts developed provide the basis for a general uni...

topology, since the set of nodes with highest degree represents the main core of thetaxonomywith the shortestaveragedistance-concepts.The domainofm...

A collection of original contributions by philosophers working in the ethics of punishment, gathering new perspectives on various challenging topic...

Quelle place occupe le droit dans lEncyclopédie de Diderot et de DAlembert? Quels rapports le mouvement encyclopédique et lesprit de la Déclaration...

Explores the aesthetic frames that mediate the sense(s) and experiences of justiceClose analysis of films such as Pan's Labyrinth, High Heels, Comm...

This book addresses a surprisingly overlooked Foucauldian conundrum: what is the logical relationship between modern law and power? Jacopo Martire ...

Will social media lead to social law? The force of legal remediation? Virtual courts and online judges? Paperless trials? Electronic discovery? All...

Over his long and illustrious career, Knud Haakonssen has explored the role of natural law in formulating doctrines of obligation and rights in acc...

A collection of essays discussing Herbert Hart's writings on responsibility. The essays focus upon Hart's work on causation in the law and on the j...

In seiner Rechtslehre formuliert Kant das allgemeine Rechtsgesetz als obersten Grundsatz des Rechts. Es dient als ein überpositives Kriterium dafür...

Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory is a biennial forum for some of the best new work in private law theory by scholars from around the world. The...

Privacy is gravely endangered in the digital age, and we, the digital citizens, are its principal threat, willingly surrendering it to avail oursel...

This book argues that human dignity and law stand in a privileged relationship with one another. Law must be understood as limited by the demands m...

Alors que culture et nature sont indissociables, les initiatives mises en place par les États pour préserver les ressources culturelles et naturell...

Alors que culture et nature sont indissociables, les initiatives mises en place par les États pour préserver les ressources culturelles et naturell...

This collection offers a powerful and coherent study of the transformation of the multinational enterprise as both an object and subject of law wit...

Just Prospering? Plato and the Sophistic Debate about Justice introduces new research about the first secular discussions concerning the value of j...

This book systematically discusses the contents of the administrative right to know, the right to information, the right to gene, euthanasia and ot...

Unprecedented demands have recently arrived at the doorstep of courts and parliaments the world over: nonhuman animals should receive some of the r...

This book examines the international, regional and domestic human rights frameworks that establish victim rights as a central force in law and poli...

States across the globe spend billions of dollars fighting terrorism annually. As well as strategic questions about the way in which the money shou...

States across the globe spend billions of dollars fighting terrorism annually. As well as strategic questions about the way in which the money shou...

Gerichtsentscheidungen können ohne Bezugnahmen auf andere Texte weder getroffen noch verfasst werden, Zitate sind in Gerichtsentscheidungen omniprä...

In Debating Medieval Natural Law: A Survey, Riccardo Saccenti examines and evaluates the major lines of interpretation of the medieval concepts of ...

Written with students in mind, Professor Raymond Wacks brings legal theory to life through his lucid and entertaining style. The author has crafted...

Looking at two of the key paradigms of the post-Cold War eranational sovereignty, and human rights this book examines the possibilities for their ...