Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law

In Bezug auf das Problem des rechtswidrigen Rechts herrschte eine Kontroverse zwischen zwei Schülern Hans Kelsens (1881-1973): Adolf Julius Merkl (...

Diese Arbeit, die im Schnittpunkt von Sprachwissenschaft, Philologie und Hermeneutik steht, untersucht die sprachliche Konstituierung konzeptueller...

Tirades against legal theatrics are nearly as old as law itself, and yet so is the age-old claim that law must not merely be done: it must be seen ...

Fair Opportunity and Responsibility lies at the intersection of moral psychology and criminal jurisprudence and analyzes responsibility and its rel...

In recent years, controversy has surrounded the role of top government lawyers in the United States and the United Kingdom. Allegations of bad lawy...

In the context of our increasingly global legal order, Pierre Legendres God in the Mirror reconsiders the place of law within the division of exist...

John Gardner was one of the most prolific, widely read, and influential scholars working in philosophy of law. This book celebrates, explores, and ...

Every cohort of voters may dream of being 'the people' under the sway of serial visions of sovereignty; or understand itself, more modestly, as co-...

Anthony Carty offers an internal critique of the discipline of international law whilst showing the necessary place for philosophy within this subj...

Organized around specific questions, theses and arguments, Philosophy of Law: Introducing Jurisprudence helps students get to grips with the fascin...

The law of torts is concerned with what we owe to one another in the way of obligations not to interfere with, or impair, each other's urgent inter...

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

This casebook aspires to help students understand and think systematically about the techniques of statutory interpretation. It blends exposition ...

This unique collection of essays covers many of the important facets of law enforcement ethics, including the selection, training, and supervision ...

Jury nullification, in its simplest definition, occurs when a jury returns a not guilty verdict for a defendant it believes to be legally guilty of...

Probing Human Dignity from multiple disciplinary backgrounds by scholars from a variety of countries and different cultures is an intense intellect...

The 2023 Supplement incorporates important developments that have arisen or deepened since the publication of the sixth edition of the Casebook in ...

This book examines the roles played by narrative and culture in the construction of legal cases and their resolution. It is articulated in two part...

A book on legal philosophy, necessarily, focuses attention on law. In addition to this focus, An Introduction to an African Legal Philosophy focuse...

The last decade has witnessed a particularly intensive debate over methodological issues in legal theory. The publication of Julie Dickson's Evalua...

Advances in new neuroscientific research tools and technologies have not only led to new insight into the processes of the human brain, they have a...

Advances in new neuroscientific research tools and technologies have not only led to new insight into the processes of the human brain, they have a...

Methodology in Private Law Theory: Between New Private Law and Rechtsdogmatik represents a first-of-its-kind dialogue between leading lights in Ger...

Saskia Lettmaier explores what is arguably the greatest transformation to have occurred within the Western law of marriage in the last five hundred...

Die Gewaltenteilung als Ordnungs- und Strukturprinzip ist Bestandteil fast aller modernen Verfassungen und in erster Linie auf das vorliegende Werk...

Sprache ist das zentrale Instrument sozialer Interaktion. Jede Form der Regulierung von Sprache, jedes Verbot, das eine Äußerung bei Strafe verbiet...

Globalisierung vernetzt Akteure, Orte und soziale Dynamiken auf eine Weise, die vom Recht nur ungenau erfasst wird. Insbesondere für ein transnatio...

This book deals with consensual mechanisms in criminal proceedings analyzed comparatively. In the first place, it addresses the common systemic fo...

The articles collected in the book present a view of legal education in Central and Eastern Europe, considering the relationship between democracy ...

Universities are pressed to compete within the global scene of international higher education. What is the status of the national or local language...

The Free Speech Discussion Forum is an annual event that is designed to bring together prominent scholars from all over the world to discuss cuttin...

For courses covering multicultural issues in law enforcement.A classic text in peacekeeping, cultural awareness, and diversity in law enforcementMu...

Since 2013, an organization called the Nonhuman Rights Project has brought before the New York State courts an unusual requestasking for habeas cor...

The law enables private parties to undo the wrongs committed against them, allowing victims to seek redress. A distinctive kind of justice governs ...

This title explores the normative foundations of European contract law. It addresses fundamental political questions on contract law in Europe from...

This title explores the normative foundations of European contract law. It addresses fundamental political questions on contract law in Europe from...

This is the seventh volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Since its revival in the 1970s political philosophy has been a vibrant field ...

Legal norms may forbid, require, or authorize a particular form of behavior. The law of contracts, for example, informs people how to enter into ag...

This is a book about the legal fiction that sometimes we know what we don't. The willful ignorance doctrine says defendants who bury their heads in...

Many people assume that what morally justifies private ownership of property is either individual freedom or social welfare, defined in terms of ma...

If the term were given its literal meaning, international law would be law between 'nations'. It is often described instead as being primarily betw...