Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law

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...