Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law

The presented collection of studies by several authors is an attempt at a multi-level analysis of the contemporary and newest issues of Public and ...

The book examines the main problems of criminal law of post-Soviet states through the prism of global institutional transformations in politics and...

Tuning into the collective understanding of law as lived experience, Knowing Justice is a timely and distinctive intervention in the field of law a...

This book builds on Heffernan's last book Rights and Wrongs: Rethinking the Foundations of Criminal Justice by examining the class and racial dispa...

When it comes to sex, no means no, but yes doesn't always mean yes. Cases where a person's yes to sex should be treated as a no are uncontroversial...

In Homelessness, Liberty and Property, Terry Skolnik establishes a novel theory about the government's duties to end homelessness, maintain public ...

Natural Property Rights presents a novel theory of property based on individual, pre-political rights. The book argues that a just system of proper...

Unlike statutory law, which relies on the explicit formulation of rules, common law is thought to emerge from a complex doctrine of precedential co...

How should we assess the social structures that govern human conduct and settle whether we are bound by their rules? One approach is to ask whether...

A century after the publication of Evgeny Pashukanis pivotal book General Theory of Law and Marxism, this collection presents a comprehensive accou...

Only recently have philosophers and psychologists begun to consider empirical research methods to inform questions and debates in legal philosophy....

This open access book explains the factors that cause the poor functioning or failure of certain legal institutions or the success of others in the...

How should we assess the social structures that govern human conduct and settle whether we are bound by their rules? One approach is to ask whether...

This text will examine U.S. Supreme Court cases which highlight, feature and illuminate some facets of natural law reasoning since the Courts decre...

Verbrechen wider die Natur gelten während der frühen Neuzeit als besonders schwerwiegende Vergehen. Sie werden daher in drastischer Weise und oftma...

Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (b. 1930, d. 2019) is one of Europe's foremost legal scholars and political thinkers. As a scholar of constitutional law...