Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law

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

According to the dominant account of rights, there are two ways to permissibly kill people: they have done something to forfeit their right to life...

By reading two bodies of literature not normally read together the outlaw literature and espionage literature Conor McCarthy shows how these genr...

Ronald Dworkin (1931-2013), an American legal philosopher, jurist, and scholar, was a stalwart advocate of human rights and dignity who developed a...

In response to a climate in which respect for international law and the law of the European Union is rapidly losing ground, Paul Gragl advocates fo...

This is a gedenkshrift to one of Scotland's most prominent jurists. This book analyses in depth the distinctively Scottish themes in the life and w...

Humans are justificatory beingsthey offer, demand, and require justifications. The rules and institutions they follow rest on justification narrati...

Since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, over 165 countries have incorporated human rights standards into their legal s...

The enterprise of comparative law is familiar, yet its conceptual whereabouts remain somewhat obscure. Comparing Law: Comparative Law as Reconstruc...

Mythologies, writes veteran human rights lawyer Michael Tigar, are structures of words and images that portray people, institutions, and events in ...

Mythologies, writes veteran human rights lawyer Michael Tigar, are structures of words and images that portray people, institutions, and events in ...

Challenging the usual introductions to the study of law, A Critical Introduction to Law argues that law is inherently political and reflects the in...

The emergence of a decentralized, fragmented, and low-cost Internet opened up possibilities for persons with disabilities to lead an independent an...

While common law is developed by the courts and judges and may well be the prime authorities for the development of law, and while French private l...

Americans have a deeply ambivalent relationship to guns. The United States leads all nations in rates of private gun ownership, yet stories of gun ...

The natural law tradition is rooted in the understanding that society has a place within the universe as a whole. Just as the universe has a natura...

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

A considerable number of books and papers have analyzed normative concepts using new techniques developed by logicians; however, few have bridged t...

Proportionality in Action presents an empirical and comparative exploration of the proportionality doctrine, based on detailed accounts of the appl...

Starting in the latter part of the 20th century, the law of sexual offenses, especially in the West, began to reflect a striking divergence. On the...

The central focus of this edited collection is on the ever-growing practice, in liberal states, to claim exemption from legal duties on the basis o...

The second edition of this book provides a concise and accessible guide to modern jurisprudence, offering an examination of the major theories as w...

Jurisprudence in an African Context is devoted to the philosophy of law, in a way that engages earnestly with African thought and the African conte...

Samuel Pufendorf was a pivotal figure in the early German Enlightenment and, along with Grotius, the great renewer of natural law theory. His versi...

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What role can resources that go beyond text play in the development of moral education in law schools and law firms? How can these resources - espe...

Since the earliest days of philosophy, thinkers have debated the meaning of the term happiness and the nature of the good life. But it is only in r...

Problems of constitutional interpretation have many faces, but much of the contemporary discussion has focused on what has come to be called origin...

Cosmopolitanism is the idea of humanity as a single community or polis. Beyond particularities, all human beings (and in some versions of cosmopoli...

This book argues that Kants theory of international relations should be interpreted as an attempt to apply the principles of reason to history in g...

This handbook provides a systematic overview of the legal concept and the meaning of human dignity for each European state and the European Union. ...

In this book, legal scholar Randy Barnett elaborates and defends the fundamental premise of the Declaration of Independence: that all persons have ...

This book advances a theoretical account of contract law, grounded in value pluralism. Arguing against attempts to delineate branches of legal doct...

Pressing ethical issues are at the foreground of newfound knowledge of how the brain works, how the brain fails, and how information about its func...

Since the earliest days of philosophy, thinkers have debated the meaning of the term happiness and the nature of the good life. But it is only in r...

Published in 1797, the Doctrine of Right is Kant's most significant contribution to legal and political philosophy. As the first part of the Metaph...

In Elements of Legislation, Neil Duxbury examines the history of English law through the lens of legal philosophy in an effort to draw out the diff...

Problems of constitutional interpretation have many faces, but much of the contemporary discussion has focused on what has come to be called origin...