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  • Leibniz: Logico-Philosophical Puzzles in the Law

    Philosophical Questions and Perplexing Cases in the Law

    Edited by Bernardo Pieri, Alberto Artosi, Giovanni Sartor ...
    Series Book 105 - Law and Philosophy Library
    This volume presents two Leibnizian writings, the Specimen of Philosophical Questions Collected from the Law and the Dissertation on Perplexing Cases. These works*,* originally published in 1664 and 1666, constitute, respectively, Leibniz’s thesis for the title of Master of Philosophy and his doctoral dissertation in law. Besides providing evidence of the earliest development of Leibniz’s thought ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    Edited by Michael Freeman, Patricia Mindus ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This is the first ever collected volume on John Austin, whose role in the founding of analytical jurisprudence is unquestionable. After 150 years, time has come to assess his legacy. The book fills a void in existing literature, by letting top scholars with diverse outlooks flesh out and discuss Austin’s legacy today. A nuanced, vibrant, and richly diverse picture of both his legal and ethical ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • On the Limits of Constitutional Adjudication

    Deconstructing Balancing and Judicial Activism

    by Juliano Zaiden Benvindo ...
    Juliano Z. Benvindo investigates the current movement of constitutional courts towards political activism, especially by focusing on the increasing use of the balancing method as a “rational” justification for this process. From the critical perception of the serious risks of this movement to democracy, the book takes as examples two constitutional realities, Germany and Brazil, in order to ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • A Real Mind

    The Life and Work of Axel Hägerström

    by Patricia Mindus ...
    Series Book 87 - Law and Philosophy Library
    This comprehensive presentation of Axel Hägerström (1868-1939) fills a void in nearly a century of literature, providing both the legal and political scholar and the non-expert reader with a proper introduction to the father of Scandinavian realism. Based on his complete work, including unpublished material and personal correspondence selected exclusively from the Uppsala archives, A Real Mind ... Read more

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  • Precedent in the United States Supreme Court

    Edited by Christopher J. Peters ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This volume presents a variety of both normative and descriptive perspectives on the use of precedent by the United States Supreme Court. It brings together a diverse group of American legal scholars, some of whom have been influenced by the Segal/Spaeth "attitudinal" model and some of whom have not. The group of contributors includes legal theorists and empiricists, constitutional lawyers and ... Read more

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  • African Legal Theory and Contemporary Problems

    Critical Essays

    Edited by Oche Onazi ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The book is a collection of essays, which aim to situate African legal theory in the context of the myriad of contemporary global challenges; from the prevalence of war to the misery of poverty and disease to the crises of the environment. Apart from being problems that have an indelible African mark on them, a common theme that runs throughout the essays in this book is that African legal theory ... Read more

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  • Freedom, Recognition and Non-Domination

    A Republican Theory of (Global) Justice

    by Fabian Schuppert ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book offers an original account of a distinctly republican theory of social and global justice. The book starts by exploring the nature and value of Hegelian recognition theory. It shows the importance of that theory for grounding a normative account of free and autonomous agency. It is this normative account of free agency which provides the groundwork for a republican conception of social ... Read more

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  • Racism and the Law

    The Legacy and Lessons of Plessy

    Edited by Gerald Postema ...
    Plessy v Ferguson (1897) established racial segregation in American constitutional law for over fifty years and its moral and political legacy lives on, despite attempts in the United States to counter its devastating effects during the last half century. Ironically, in the current debate over affirmative action, Justice Harlan's eloquent dissent has been used to justify attacks on government ... Read more

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  • Juristic Concept of the Validity of Statutory Law

    A Critique of Contemporary Legal Nonpositivism

    by Andrzej Grabowski ...
    Translated by Malgorzata Kieltyka ...
    This book presents the theory of the validity of legal norms, aimed at the practice of law, in particular the jurisdiction of the constitutional courts. The postpositivist concept of the validity of statutory law, grounded on a critical analysis of the basic theories of legal validity elaborated up to now, is introduced. In the first part of the book a contemporary German nonpositivist conception ... Read more

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  • Systematic Approaches to Argument by Analogy

    Edited by Henrique Jales Ribeiro ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The present volume assembles a relevant set of studies of argument by analogy, which address this topic in a systematic fashion, either from an essentially theoretical perspective or from the perspective of it being applied to different fields like politics, linguistics, literature, law, medicine, science in general and philosophy. All result from original research conducted by their authors for ... Read more

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  • Normativity in Legal Sociology

    Methodological Reflections on Law and Regulation in Late Modernity

    by Reza Banakar ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The field of socio-legal research has encountered three fundamental challenges over the last three decades – it has been criticized for paying insufficient attention to legal doctrine, for failing to develop a sound theoretical foundation and for not keeping pace with the effects of the increasing globalization and internationalization of law, state and society. This book examines these three ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Reasoning with Rules

    An Essay on Legal Reasoning and Its Underlying Logic

    by Jaap Hage ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Rule-applying legal arguments are traditionally treated as a kind of syllogism. Such a treatment overlooks the fact that legal principles and rules are not statements which describe the world, but rather means by which humans impose structure on the world. Legal rules create legal consequences, they do not describe them. This has consequences for the logic of rule- and principle-applying arguments ... Read more

    $188.09 USD