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...