Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law

Drawing on insights from literary theory and analytical philosophy, this book analyzes the intersection of law and literature from the distinct and...

This title was first published in 2002. Gender has become a culturally laden signifier. Sometimes used to differentiate the social from the biologi...

First published in 1999, this volume explores the nature of adjudication in the common law tradition from a feminist postmodernist perspective. The...

As a result of recent scandals concerning evidence and proof in the administration of criminal justice - ranging from innocent people on death row ...

Every successive generation finds fresh reasons for the study of natural law. Current interest in the natural law may well be due to a pervasive mo...

The concept of learning to think like a lawyer is one of the cornerstones of legal education in the United States and beyond. In this book, Jeffrey...

This book was first published in 2003.Justice, Humanity and the New World Order offers a refreshing analysis of current jurisprudential concerns re...

This title was first published in 2003.This book explores the interaction of globalization and the development of law. The framework of the book is...

Recent social and political developments in the EU have clearly shown the profound structural changes in European society and its politics. Reflect...

This title was first published in 2002.The wide range of essays contained within this volume present contemporary thinking on the legal and ethical...

This title was first published in 2003. The Logic of Equality proposes a formal-logical method for examining the indeterminacy of legal discourse, ...

This study provides a representation of the broad spectrum of theoretical work on topics related to business ethics, with a particular focus on cor...

Illuminating the idea of legality by a consideration of its moral nature, this book explores the emergence and development of two rival traditions ...

When we compromise on justice, we accept or acquiesce to an arrangement that we judge to be unjust, or at least not fully just. Such arrangements a...

First published in 1998, this text is the prefatory first part of Austins Lectures on Jurisprudence or the Philosophy of Positive Laws and first ap...

First published in 1997, this volume delves into the most influential theories of economic justice, which ground themselves in utilitarian or relat...

Althusser and Law is the first book specifically dedicated to the place of law in Louis Althussers philosophy. The growing importance of Althussers...

General principles of law have made, and are likely further to make, a significant contribution to our understanding of the constituent elements of...

This title was first published in 2000: This volume of essays explores a number of fundamental constitutional law questions in a variety of histori...

This book demonstrates the empirical gains and integrative potentials of social systems theory for the sociology of law. Against a backdrop of clas...

Exploring the advantages and disadvantages of codifying contract law, this book considers the question from the perspectives of both civil and comm...

Addressing the relationship between law and the visual, this book examines the importance of photography in Central, East, and Southeast European s...

This volume presents new research on the use of experimental methodologies in moral and social philosophy. The contributions reflect the growing pl...

This book examines the extent to which Brexit has impacted upon the operation of the British Constitution, prompting in turn consideration of how s...

Lawfare is a complex and evolving concept with many permutations. It is a term that is used to describe both a judicialisation of politics where th...

This book examines the issue of injustice, and our responses to it, in a range of contemporary contexts.In her ground-breaking book The Faces of In...

Over 2 billion people (61% of the worlds employed population) work in the informal economy. Due to its pervasiveness, informality plays a major r...

Dismembers and remembers the sensual and spiritual body of Lady Justice in a wholly novel interpretation of the optical allegory of Iustitia Prese...

The law is heavily implicated in creating, maintaining, and reproducing racialised hierarchies which bring about and preserve acute global disparit...

The law is heavily implicated in creating, maintaining, and reproducing racialised hierarchies which bring about and preserve acute global disparit...

Rainer Bauböck is the worlds leading theorist of transnational citizenship. He opens this volume with a question that is crucial to our thinking on...

Rainer Bauböck is the worlds leading theorist of transnational citizenship. He opens this volume with a question that is crucial to our thinking on...

Legal decisions continue to mystify: why was this person sentenced to 20 years in prison, but that person to just 10 years for the same crime? Why ...

In legal jurisprudence, the phenomenon of hard cases presents itself as a dilemma between the legal positivists and the natural law realists. Of th...

In legal jurisprudence, the phenomenon of hard cases presents itself as a dilemma between the legal positivists and the natural law realists. Of th...

Brooke at the Bar is a candid, lively, and sometimes humorous autobiography by Brooke Wunnicke, the first woman to be a trial and appellate attorne...

In Judges, Judging, and Judgment, Chad M. Oldfather offers an accessible, interdisciplinary account of the constraints and pressures on judges in o...

In Judges, Judging, and Judgment, Chad M. Oldfather offers an accessible, interdisciplinary account of the constraints and pressures on judges in o...

This book provides a new interpretation of ordoliberalism the influential German version of neoliberalism by exploring the political, legal, and ...

Reconstructing Parentage is a comprehensive investigation into what makes someone a parent. Drawing on liberal-egalitarian philosophy, the book arg...

Reconstructing Parentage is a comprehensive investigation into what makes someone a parent. Drawing on liberal-egalitarian philosophy, the book arg...

This timely and compelling book delves into the dynamic interpretation of Hans Kelsens General Theory of Norms through the lens of 21st-century jur...

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to French contract law with a focus on the role of consent and the evolution of consensualism, consid...

As readers of classic Russian literature know, the nineteenth century was a time of pervasive financial anxiety. With incomes erratic and banks ina...

The Routledge Handbook of Causality and Causal Methods adopts a pluralistic, interdisciplinary approach to causality. It formulates distinct questi...

Deutsches Verfassungsrecht   1806 1918Das auf mehrere Bände angelegte Werk präsentiert nahezu das gesamte deutsche Verfassungsrecht des Zeitraumes...