Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law

Uncovers the relationship between early modern natural law ideas and conceptions of the origins of politicsReforming the Law of Nature is a stimula...

Americans claim to care about character. Over four fifths want it taught in public schools, and 95 percent think that a president's character is im...

In this volume, international specialists from new and established domains of law, media, film and virtual studies address the emergence of the jur...

Presents a new way of thinking about the relationship between law and language Are the general and the particular separated in legal rhetorics? Wha...

Thomas Green examines the Scottish Reformation from a new perspective the legal system and lawyers. For the leading lawyers of the day, the Scotti...

In The Corporation, Law and Capitalism, Grietje Baars offers a radical Marxist perspective on the role of law in the global political economy. Clos...

Through the lens of science, Hans Kelsen proposes a dynamic theory of natural law, examines Platonic and Aristotelian doctrines of justice and the ...

Designing Indicators for a Plural Legal World engages with the role of quantification in law, and its impact on law and development and judicial re...

For many inside and outside the legal academy, the right place to look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions. This book look...

For many inside and outside the legal academy, the right place to look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions. This book look...

The book explores the reality of justice, which has always stood in contrast to the rhetoric about equal rights under the law. With sections on the...

John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court presents a portrait of US Supreme Court justice John McKinley (1780-1852) and provides a penetrating...

Jamais, dans aucune autre période de lhistoire, le problème pénal na été aussi débattu quau siècle des Lumières. Or, lévénement déclencheur de ces ...

The most radical philosophy of law of our time. Gilles Deleuze has provided the most fascinating account of law of the twentieth century. Yet it is...

Are the general and the particular separated in legal rhetorics? What is the function of singular events, facts, names in legal argumentation and w...

The papers selected for this volume offer a panorama of problems and methods at the intersection of legal theory and the humanities. All taken from...

The fourth installment of the series focuses on the nexus of law and power and follows the established interdisciplinary tradition of the Carlsberg...

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

A towering and beloved figure in legal scholarship, Martha Minow explores the complicated intersection between law, justice and forgiveness, asking...

A bracing account of abuses of power and corruption in the criminal justice system. The Guardian From the fearless defense a...

Normative Subjects alludes to the fields of morality and law, as well as to the entities, self and collectivity, addressed by these clusters of nor...

Evidence - its nature and interpretation - is the key to many topical debates and concerns such as global warming, evolution, the search for weapon...

The second edition of H. P. Lee's The Australian Judiciary provides a timely update to this seminal text. The only definitive survey of the entire ...

We are at a time when international law and the law of war are particularly important. The testing of nuclear weapons that is being used in the rhe...

As a central part of the regulation of contemporary economies, intellectual property (IP) is central to all aspects of our lives. It matters for th...

Taking the Arab Spring as its case study, this book explores the role of law and constitutions during societal upheavals, and critically evaluates ...

A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence is the first-ever multivolume treatment of the issues in legal philosophy and general juri...