Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law

Contract as Promise is a study of the philosophical foundations of contract law in which Professor Fried effectively answers some of the most commo...

What defines the social practices we currently call norms? They make theft forbidden, eating with a fork advisable, and paintings beautiful. Norms ...

While the role of comparative law in the courts was previously only an exception, foreign sources are now increasingly becoming a source of law in ...

Nearly half of all privately owned firearms in the world are in American hands. The U.S. homicide rate is 6 times higher than the average of all de...

Private International Law is often criticized for failing to curb private power in the transnational realm. The field appears disinterested or powe...

International law's rich existence in the world can be illuminated by its objects. International law is often developed, conveyed and authorized th...

The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) is the principle regional human rights treaty for the African continent. Adopted in 1981, ...

This is a collection of Canadian legal decisions, primarily from the Supreme Court of Canada, along with international cases that have bearing on C...

This volume brings together the most important writing on torture and the 'war on terror by one of the leading US voices in the torture debate. Phi...

How does a lawyer think? Does legal intuition exist? Do lawyers need imagination? Why is legal language so abstract? It is no longer possible to an...

This volume provides a unique overview of methodologies that are conducive to a successful legal transplant in East Asia and Oceania. Each chapter ...

While almost everyone has heard of human rights, few will have reflected in depth on what human rights are, where they originate from and what they...

This collection explores some of the many ways in which constitutional orders engage with, and are shaped by, their exteriors. Constitutional and l...

Can we talk about 'the people' as an agent with its own morally important integrity? How should we understand ownership of public property by 'the ...

The Law of Loyalty is a study of the principles governing the use of legal powers that are held for other-regarding ends. It addresses both public ...

In the past decade, a sense of feminist 'success' has developed within the United Nations and international law, recognized in the Security Council...

An interdisciplinary work that comparatively studies rule of law practices and the relationship between the rule of law and regional integration, a...

This book fills a major gap in the ever-increasing secondary literature on Hannah Arendt's political thought by providing a dedicated and coherent ...

Modern society is riven by social divisions: between conservatives and progressives; liberals and socialists; the mainstream and the rise of far-ri...