Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law

Interest in victims of crime - victimology - has always spanned both the scholarly and practical realms. This volume combines a collection of essay...

There has been a huge upsurge in Hume research over the past thirty years. However, one area that has not received its due share of attention is Da...

Jurisprudence: Themes and Concepts offers an original introduction to, and critical analysis of, the central themes studied in jurisprudence course...

This handbook sets out an innovative approach to the theory of law, reconceptualising it in a material, embodied, socially contextualised and polit...

Deterrence is a theory which claims that punishment is justified through preventing future crimes, and is one of the oldest and most powerful theor...

How federalism can be used to provide recognition and accommodate ethnic groups is an important topic, not only in Africa, but in multi-ethnic comm...

The last fifty years have seen a notable expansion of philosophical scrutiny of the fundamental concepts and structures of Anglo-American criminal ...

Remorse is a powerful, important and yet academically neglected emotion. This book, one of the very few extended examinations of remorse, draws on ...

This volume collects some of the best recent writings on St. Thomass philosophy of law and includes a critical examination of Aquinass theory of th...

Emergencies are extreme events which threaten to cause massive disruption to society and negatively affect the physical and psychological well-bein...

Words can be misspoken, misheard, misunderstood, or misappropriated; they can be inappropriate, inaccurate, dangerous, or wrong. When speech goes w...

Most people believe that killing someone, while generally morally wrong, can in some cases be a permissible act. Most people similarly believe that...

Philosophical Foundations of Precedent offers a broad, deep, and diverse range of philosophical investigations of the role of precedent in law, adj...

Suitable for students or practitioners, this authoritative overview of the legislative process and statutory interpretation moves smoothly and unde...

Oaths play an important societal role. They are sworn by the likes of magistrates, soldiers, politicians, doctors and judges. It is telling that oa...

Markets are thought of by some as liberating the individual. Rather than a feudal system in which each is assigned a role or tasks by an authority,...

Non-instrumentalist private law theory has been dominated by an interpretivist methodology that seeks to understand the concepts, doctrines, and st...

Madison Powers and Ruth Faden here develop an innovative theory of structural injustice that links human rights norms and fairness norms. Norms of ...

We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to U.S. S...

This is a book about the theory of the city or commonwealth, what would come to be called the state, in early modern natural law discourse. Annabel...

Criminal tribunals, truth commissions, reparations, apologies and memorializations are the characteristic instruments in the transitional justice t...