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  • New Essays on the Nature of Legal Reasoning

    Edited by Dr Mark McBride, Professor James Penner ...
    Series series Law and Practical Reason
    This is the first book to bring together distinguished jurisprudential theorists, as well as up-and-coming scholars, to critically assess the nature of legal reasoning.The volume is divided into 3 parts:The first part, General Jurisprudence and Legal Reasoning, addresses issues at the intersection of general jurisprudence - those pertaining to the nature of law itself - and legal reasoning.The ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • New Essays on the Nature of Rights

    Edited by Dr Mark McBride ...
    This original collection of jurisprudential essays furthers our understanding of the nature of rights. In Part 1, Halpin considers the value of Hohfeldian neutrality when theorising about law in general, and legal rights in particular, and Kurki focuses on Hohfeld's operative notion of power. In Part 2, Kramer rebuts Wenar's objections to his Interest Theory of rights, and May provides a ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

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  • Philosophy of Law

    by Andrei Marmor ...
    Series series Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy
    In Philosophy of Law, Andrei Marmor provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary debates about the fundamental nature of law--an issue that has been at the heart of legal philosophy for centuries. What the law is seems to be a matter of fact, but this fact has normative significance: it tells people what they ought to do. Is the normative content of a law entirely determined by the facts that ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Between Authority and Interpretation

    On the Theory of Law and Practical Reason

    by Joseph Raz ...
    In this book Joseph Raz develops his views on some of the central questions in practical philosophy: legal, political, and moral. The book provides an overview of Raz's work on jurisprudence and the nature of law in the context of broader questions in the philosophy of practical reason. The book opens with a discussion of methodological issues, focusing on understanding the nature of jurisprudence ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Excitable Speech

    A Politics of the Performative

    by Judith Butler ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    ‘When we claim to have been injured by language, what kind of claim do we make?’ - Judith Butler, Excitable SpeechExcitable Speech is widely hailed as a tour de force and one of Judith Butler’s most important books. Examining in turn debates about hate speech, pornography and gayness within the US military, Butler argues that words can wound and linguistic violence is its own kind of violence. Yet ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Law

    An Introduction

    by Mark Tebbit ...
    Philosophy of Law: An Introduction provides an ideal starting point for students of philosophy and law. Setting it clearly against the historical background, Mark Tebbit quickly leads readers into the heart of the philosophical questions that dominate philosophy of law today. He provides an exceptionally wide-ranging overview of the contending theories that have sought to resolve these problems. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Philosophical Foundations of Language in the Law

    Edited by Andrei Marmor, Scott Soames ...
    Series series Philosophical Foundations of Law
    This collection brings together the best contemporary philosophical work in the area of intersection between philosophy of language and the law. Some of the contributors are philosophers of language who are interested in applying advances in philosophy of language to legal issues, and some of the participants are philosophers of law who are interested in applying insights and theories from ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Law as a Leap of Faith

    Essays on Law in General

    by John Gardner ...
    How do laws resemble rules of games, moral rules, personal rules, rules found in religious teachings, school rules, and so on? Are laws rules at all? Are they all made by human beings? And if so how should we go about interpreting them? How are they organized into systems, and what does it mean for these systems to have 'constitutions'? Should everyone want to live under a system of law? Is there ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory

    by Neil MacCormick ...
    Series series Clarendon Law Series
    What makes an argument in a law case good or bad? Can legal decisions be justified by purely rational argument or are they ultimately determined by more subjective influences? These questions are central to the study of jurisprudence, and are thoroughly and critically examined in Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory, now with a new and up-to-date foreword. Its clarity of explanation and argument make ... Read more

    $68.39 USD

  • Institutionalized Reason

    The Jurisprudence of Robert Alexy

    Edited by Matthias Klatt ...
    This volume gathers leading figures from legal philosophy and constitutional theory to offer a critical examination of the work of Robert Alexy. The contributions explore the issues surrounding the complex relations between rights, law, and morality and reflect on Alexy's distinctive work on these issues. The focus across the contributions is on Alexy's main pre-occupations - his anti-positivist ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Moral Theory

    An Introduction

    by Mark Timmons ...
    Series series Elements of Philosophy
    Moral Theory: An Introduction explores some of the historically most important and currently debated moral theories about the nature of the right and the good, including divine command theory, relativism, natural law theory, consequentialism, egoism, Kant’s ethics, ethics of prima facie duties, contractualism, virtue ethics and care ethics. Providing an introduction to moral theory that explains ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • The Logic of Legal Requirements

    Essays on Defeasibility

    Edited by Giovanni Battista Ratti, Jordi Ferrer Beltrán ...
    When a legal rule requires us to drive on the right, notarize our wills, or refrain from selling bootleg liquor, how are we to describe and understand that requirement? In particular, how does the logical form of such a requirement relate to the logical form of other requirements, such as moral requirements, or the requirements of logic itself? When a general legal rule is applied or distinguished ... Read more

    $91.99 USD