Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law

This books essays aim subversively and resolutely to replace the hegemonic discursive frame governing comparative law. Beyond harnessing negative c...

A collection that focuses on the role of European law in colonial contexts and engages with recent treatments of this theme in known works written ...

Winner of the 2021 Scribes Book AwardFrom two legal luminaries, a highly original framework for restoring confidence in a government bureaucracy in...

The Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law reflects exciting developments in scholarship dedicated to reinvigorating the study of the broad field o...

This book is a defense of political liberalism as a feminist liberalism. The first half of the book develops and defends a novel interpretation of ...

An account of a fundamental change in American legal thought, from a conception of law as something found in nature to one in which law is entirely...

Over the past 20 years, the Restitution Commission in the Netherlands has had a decisive influence on international restitution practice relating t...

This book focuses on decision-making by non-state justice institutions at the interface of traditional, religious, and state laws. The authors disc...

This text explores the place to locate the cut between those inequalities for which it is fair to hold one responsible, and those for which it is n...

This interdisciplinary study explores the interaction between memory and transitional justice in post-dictatorship Argentina and Uruguay and develo...

What are the prospects for ambitious political reform in communities of traditional, passionate, and even self-righteous citizens? Can thoughtful l...

This interdisciplinary study explores the interaction between memory and transitional justice in post-dictatorship Argentina and Uruguay and develo...

This book examines the experiences of gay and bisexual men who lived in Scotland during an era when all homosexual acts were illegal, tracing the h...

Private international law has long been understood as a doctrinal and technical body of law, without interesting theoretical foundations or implica...

In Sharing Territories, Cara Nine defends a river model of territorial rights. On a river model, groups are assumed to be interdependent and overla...

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

When a trial lawyer stands before a jury to argue a case about a Black victim killed by a white person, how should the lawyer best argue the case? ...

The prominent constitutional law scholars fascinating (and yes, mind-boggling) argument that we dont need the Constitution after all For some, to ...

Written by one of the foremost Italian philosophers of the 20th century, Emanuele Severino's Law and Chance (Legge e Caso) explores the metaphysica...

We are all subjected to the power of the state and other entities such as the EU. But what justifies the far-reaching power of these institutions? ...

David Boonin presents a new account of the non-identity problem: a puzzle about our obligations to people who do not yet exist. Our actions sometim...