Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law

This volume collects some of the best writings on Spinozas philosophy of law and includes a critical examination of Spinozas theory of the types of...

Advancing legal scholarship in the area of mixed legal systems, as well as comparative law more generally, this book expands the comparative study ...

In considering diffusion from a global perspective, this book provides timely new insights into its application in a variety of fields and at many ...

The importance of simulation in education, specifically in legal subjects, is here discussed and explored within this innovative collection. Demons...

This book introduces the thought of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) into the discussion about natural law. For many critics, natural law is not natur...

Wejen Chang brings a fresh perspective to the most prominent Chinese classical philosophers Confucius, Laozi, Mozi, Zhuangzi, Mencius, Xunzi, Lord...

The Idea of a Moral Economy is the first modern edition and English translation of three questions disputed at the University of Paris in 1330 by t...

Combining her expertise in legal theory and judicial practice in a continental European civil-law system, Jeanne Gaakeer explores the intertwinemen...

With a strong focus on constitutional law, this book examines the legal as well as the political power of 'the people' in constitutional democracie...

The first book to investigate the place of law in modern and contemporary dramaIllustrates the role of contemporary theatre in articulating legal a...

This book expands on established doctrine in legal history and sets out a challenge for legal philosophers. The English medieval village community ...

This collection presents an analysis of the concept of secession and its constitutional accommodation alongside an assessment of the effects of sec...

This book develops principles of proper sentence justification, presents results of comparative empirical study on sentence justifications in the p...

This volume brings together an international team of scholars to debate Cicero's role in the narrative of Roman law in the late Republic a role th...

This accessible book provides an evaluative review of justice at the locus of the magistrates court. Written by a magistrate, this book uses differ...

This accessible book provides an evaluative review of justice at the locus of the magistrates court. Written by a magistrate, this book uses differ...

This book presents a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study into the various goals assigned to international criminal trials. It starts from the ...

This book presents an ethical discussion of the possible future Universal Declarations of (diverse specific nonhuman) Animal Rights. It contributes...

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Forgiveness brings into conversation research from multiple disciplines, offering reader...

This title was first published in 2000. The trend in the public courts and in the private sector toward resolving civil cases through mediation, as...

The main task of this book is to deliver an in-depth analysis of the idea of the state in the reflection of Robert von Mohl (17991875). This German...

This book is a philosophical inquiry into indigenous African legal ethics, asking what is African about African legal ethics?Taking us beyond a geo...

A fundamental re-assessment of Cicero's place in Roman law This volume brings together an international team of scholars to debate Cicero's role in...

Bringing together leading academics hailing from different cultural and scholarly horizons, this book revisits legal hermeneutics by making particu...

This book aims to augment the Ashgate series by taking stock of the current state of migration law literature. It also aims to sketch out the conto...

The orthodox view is that rights complement democracy. This book critically examines this view in the context of EU fundamental rights, specificall...

This book surveys secondary literature on the biggest questions that have animated the field of Islamic law since its beginnings. It offers scholar...

This title was first published in 2001. Legal systems are posited on the assumption that people are rational intentional agents who can choose to f...

This collection explores and illustrates issues arising from political approaches to human rights in contrast to the more traditional moral approac...

It is generally accepted in legal and bioethical discourse that the patient has a right to self-determination. In practice though, this is often no...

This book explores the question of justification of law. It examines some perennial jurisprudential debates and suggests that law must find its jus...

This book investigates the dynamic intertwinement of law and morality, with a focus on new and developing fields of law. Taking as its starting poi...

This title was first published in 2000: Robert S. Summers is a distinguished legal theorist whose work has had significant influence in Europe as w...

A number of recent events in the last decade have renewed interest in Russian discourses on international law. This book evaluates and presents a c...

This volume presents a combination of practical, empirical research data and theoretical reflection to provide a comparative view of language and d...

This book presents arguments and proposals for constraining criminalization, with a focus on the legal limits of the criminal law. The book approac...

From the ancient beginnings of Western legal tradition, law has been conceived as traversed by a fundamental tension between power (will) and reaso...

This book explores the recent trend of enhancing the role of the people in constitutional change. It traces the reasons underlying this tendency, t...

This volume focuses on three closely-connected aspects of Ãmile Durkheim's work: his sociology of justice, his sociology of morality and his politi...

What contribution has the law made to the work of analyst and patient in the consulting room? And what insights may be drawn from putting psycholog...

In an era where new areas of life and new problems call for normative solutions while the plurality of values in society challenge the very basis f...

The third edition of Ingrid Detter's authoritative work explores the changing legal context of modern warfare in light of events over the last deca...

What do different concepts like true lie, bad luck, honest thief, old news, spacetime, glocalization, symplexity, sustainable development, constant...

This book brings legal and academic perspective to the theory and practice surrounding the right to a fair hearing within a reasonable time. This f...

This book examines the relationship between international human rights discourse and the justifi cations for criminal punishment. Using interdiscip...

This book argues that the effective protection of fundamental rights in a contemporary, multicultural society requires not only tolerance and respe...

Deliberation and Decision explores ways of bridging the gap between two rival approaches to theorizing about democratic institutions: constitutiona...

This book examines the interstices among statutory enactment, constitutional convention and formal constitution in which quasi-constitutionality ex...