Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law

Is the government ever justified in restricting offensive speech? This question has become particularly important in relation to communications whi...

This book describes the history, present status and possible future models of clinical legal education (CLE) in 12 Asian countries, with particular...

In 1998, France was one of the 44 signatory states of the Washington Declaration. This study examines to what extent the Republic has fulfilled its...

Since Americas founding, natural law principles play a critical role in the development of rights and human dignity. Commencing with the notion tha...

This book sheds light on the processes that have transformed national citizenship of the European Union's member states and explains the legislativ...

This book is an attempt to provide a philosophical answer to the simple question, What is the law? as well as address the various debates this ques...

As a distinct scholarly contribution to law, feminist legal theory is now well over three decades old. Those three decades have seen consolidation ...

This versatile and pedagogically effective book brings together in a coordinated way the rich and diverse perspectives and 80 years combined teachi...

American Legislative Practice examines how legislatures develop and enact statutes through a blend of theory and practical considerations. The auth...

This title provides an analytical overview of the field of conflicts and explains all major choice-of-law approaches in simple and straightforward ...

The Sixth Edition offers a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the vital field of legislation and regulation. It addresses efforts by Pres...

The authors of the sixteenth edition are proud of the book's heritage, which dates to 1936. At the same time, they are mindful of the needs of stud...

This book is designed for use in courses in law schools and university departments of philosophy. It can serve as a text for basic and advanced cou...

This book is designed for a two-credit course dealing primarily with choice of law. The text runs approximately 300 pages and is designed to give s...

This innovative book offers a case-based approach to arguments about the nature of law and persuasion. Its unifying insight is that every decided ...

This coursebook introduces students to feminist jurisprudence. The first three chapters develop the historical range of feminist theories. Subseque...

Develop perspective on the conflicts of law arena with Borchers's broad vantage point. Topics covered include issues involving domicile; jurisdicti...

Learning Conflict of Laws is designed to teach aspiring litigators. Contemporary fact patterns bring doctrines to life. Hypotheticals and simulati...

This Concise Hornbook guides students through the complex concepts and principles underlying the law of domestic and international conflicts. The b...

While traditional American legal education has focused primarily on the judicial branch of government, legislatures and regulatory agencies are res...

Interest in victims of crime - victimology - has always spanned both the scholarly and practical realms. This volume combines a collection of essay...

There has been a huge upsurge in Hume research over the past thirty years. However, one area that has not received its due share of attention is Da...

Jurisprudence: Themes and Concepts offers an original introduction to, and critical analysis of, the central themes studied in jurisprudence course...

This handbook sets out an innovative approach to the theory of law, reconceptualising it in a material, embodied, socially contextualised and polit...

Deterrence is a theory which claims that punishment is justified through preventing future crimes, and is one of the oldest and most powerful theor...

How federalism can be used to provide recognition and accommodate ethnic groups is an important topic, not only in Africa, but in multi-ethnic comm...

The last fifty years have seen a notable expansion of philosophical scrutiny of the fundamental concepts and structures of Anglo-American criminal ...

Remorse is a powerful, important and yet academically neglected emotion. This book, one of the very few extended examinations of remorse, draws on ...

This volume collects some of the best recent writings on St. Thomass philosophy of law and includes a critical examination of Aquinass theory of th...

Emergencies are extreme events which threaten to cause massive disruption to society and negatively affect the physical and psychological well-bein...

Words can be misspoken, misheard, misunderstood, or misappropriated; they can be inappropriate, inaccurate, dangerous, or wrong. When speech goes w...

Most people believe that killing someone, while generally morally wrong, can in some cases be a permissible act. Most people similarly believe that...

Philosophical Foundations of Precedent offers a broad, deep, and diverse range of philosophical investigations of the role of precedent in law, adj...

Suitable for students or practitioners, this authoritative overview of the legislative process and statutory interpretation moves smoothly and unde...

Oaths play an important societal role. They are sworn by the likes of magistrates, soldiers, politicians, doctors and judges. It is telling that oa...

Markets are thought of by some as liberating the individual. Rather than a feudal system in which each is assigned a role or tasks by an authority,...

Non-instrumentalist private law theory has been dominated by an interpretivist methodology that seeks to understand the concepts, doctrines, and st...

Madison Powers and Ruth Faden here develop an innovative theory of structural injustice that links human rights norms and fairness norms. Norms of ...

We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to U.S. S...

This is a book about the theory of the city or commonwealth, what would come to be called the state, in early modern natural law discourse. Annabel...

Criminal tribunals, truth commissions, reparations, apologies and memorializations are the characteristic instruments in the transitional justice t...