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  • Looking Forward by Looking Back

    75 Years of Modern Legal Education at the University of Toronto

    Edited by Jutta Brunnee, Christopher Essert ...
    Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, this book brings together a wealth of legal scholarship first presented at a conference in March 2025.At the time of its creation, the Faculty of Law reconceptualized legal education in Ontario and beyond. Law in a Changing World pays homage to the visions of key figures in the school’s history such as founding ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Property Law in the Society of Equals

    by Christopher Essert ...
    Series series Oxford Private Law Theory
    Property is often seen as fundamentally inegalitarian, leading many to believe that a world without property would be a more equal one. Property Law in the Society of Equals challenges this view, demonstrating instead that property is essential for a society of equals. Property, as the legal realization of the idea of yours and mine, creates the conditions for us to relate to each other on equal ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

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  • The Structure of Liberty

    Justice and the Rule of Law

    by Randy E. Barnett ...
    In this book, legal scholar Randy Barnett elaborates and defends the fundamental premise of the Declaration of Independence: that all persons have a natural right to pursue happiness so long as they respect the equal rights of others, and that governments are only justly established to secure these rights. Drawing upon insights from philosophy, economics, political theory, and law, Barnett ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Compensatory Justice

    Nomos XXXIII

    Edited by John W. Chapman ...
    Series Book 27 - NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
    This Major Reference series brings together a wide range of key international articles in law and legal theory. Many of these essays are not readily accessible, and their presentation in these volumes will provide a vital new resource for both research and teaching. Each volume is edited by leading international authorities who explain the significance and context of articles in an informative and ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Rights, Persons, and Organizations: A Legal Theory for Bureaucratic Society (Second Edition)

    by Meir Dan-Cohen ...
    Corporations have legal rights, and so do many other large-scale organizations. But what does it mean to ascribe rights and "personhood" to such entities, and what is the rationale for doing so? These are central questions for an organizational society such as ours, and yet they have received consistently little attention in modern political and legal thought. The surface metaphor of treating ... Read more

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  • Reasons for Welfare

    The Political Theory of the Welfare State

    by Robert E. Goodin ...
    Series series Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy
    Robert Goodin passionately and cogently defends the welfare state from current attacks by the New Right. But he contends that the welfare state finds false friends in those on the Old Left who would justify it as a hesitant first step toward some larger, ideally just form of society. Reasons for Welfare, in contrast, offers a defense of the minimal welfare state substantially independent of any ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Politics Of Law

    A Progressive Critique, Third Edition

    by David Kairys ...
    The Politics of Law is the most widely read critique of the nature and role of the law in American society. This revised edition continues the book's concrete focus on the major subjects and fields of law. New essays on emerging fields and the latest trends and cases have been added to updated versions of the now-classic essays from earlier editions.A unique assortment of leading scholars and ... Read more

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  • Anarchy, State, and Utopia

    by Robert Nozick ...
    The foundational text of libertarian thought, named one of the 100 Most Influential Books since World War II (Times Literary Supplement)First published in response to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice, Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia has since become one of the defining texts in classic libertarian thought. Challenging and ultimately rejecting liberal, socialist, and conservative agendas, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • On the People's Terms

    A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy

    by Philip Pettit ...
    Series series The Seeley Lectures
    According to republican theory, we are free persons to the extent that we are protected and secured in the same fundamental choices, on the same public basis, as one another. But there is no public protection or security without a coercive state. Does this mean that any freedom we enjoy is a superficial good that presupposes a deeper, political form of subjection? Philip Pettit addresses this ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Justice and the Capabilities Approach

    Edited by Thom Brooks ...
    Series series The Library of Essays on Justice
    The capabilities approach is a widely influential alternative theory of justice, popularized by Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen and also by Martha Nussbaum. Justice and the Capabilities Approach is the first work of its kind to publish in one place the most influential essays in the field covering a number of topics, including constitutional law, cosmopolitanism, distributive justice, the family, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Judging Social Rights

    by Jeff King ...
    Series Book 3 - Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
    Countries that now contemplate constitutional reform often grapple with the question of whether to constitutionalise social rights. This book presents an argument for why, under the right conditions, doing so can be a good way to advance social justice. In making such a case, the author considers the nature of the social minimum, the role of courts among other institutions, the empirical record of ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Law and Economics

    A Reader

    Edited by Alain Marciano ...
    This book brings together the most authoritative articles on Law and Economics and the interaction between the two disciplines as well as the use of economic tools to analyse legal problems. Aimed at students experiencing the subject for the first time, the selections are interlaced with a wealth of features including explanatory introductions and exercises.Key features of the reader include:- The ... Read more

    $48.99 USD