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  • Legal Institutions

    by D.W. Ruiter ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Building on his contributions to institutional legal theory in Institutional Legal Facts of 1993 (Law and Philosophy Library, volume 18), the author presents a comprehensive theory of legal institutions. To that end, the initial theoretical approach, which mainly concentrated on problems connected with legal powers and legal acts (acts-in-law), is widened to allow for the development of a theory ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Institutional Legal Facts

    Legal Powers and their Effects

    by D.W. Ruiter ...
    Series Book 18 - Law and Philosophy Library
    Law is traditionally conceived as consisting of norms of conduct and power-conferring norms. This conception, however, is unable to account for a variety of elements of modern legal systems that differ significantly from the classical notions. This book concerns the problem of which results of human activity can obtain legal validity. The author makes use of recent findings in speech act theory, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Semiotics of International Law

    Trade and Translation

    by Evandro Menezes de Carvalho ...
    Series Book 91 - Law and Philosophy Library
    Language carries more than meanings; language conveys a means of conceiving the world. In this sense, national legal systems expressed through national languages organize the Law based on their own understanding of reality. International Law becomes, in this context, the meeting point where different legal cultures and different views of world intersect.The diversity of languages and legal systems ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Freedom of Expression in a Diverse World

    Edited by Deirdre Golash ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The essays in this volume consider issues at the intersection of freedom of expression and racial, cultural, and gender diversity. The claims of those whose cultures and beliefs differ from our own are no longer the exclusive province of diplomats, as the Danish newspaper that published cartoons ridiculing Mohammed quickly learned. Negotiating the claims of freedom of expression as they come into ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Rule of Law in Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Mortimer Sellers, Tadeusz Tomaszewski ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)

    $143.99 USD

  • Global Perspectives on Subsidiarity

    Edited by Michelle Evans, Augusto Zimmermann ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Global Perspectives on Subsidiarity is the first book of its kind exclusively devoted to the principle of subsidiarity. It sheds new light on the principle and explores and develops the many applications of the principle of subsidiarity. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the principle in all its facets, from its philosophical origins in the writings of Aristotle and Aquinas, to its ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Informatics and the Foundations of Legal Reasoning

    Edited by Z. Bankowski, Ulrike Hahn, I. White ...
    Series Book 21 - Law and Philosophy Library
    Informatics and the Foundations of Legal Reasoning represents a close collaboration between a wide range of disciplines and countries. Fourteen papers, together with a long analytical introduction by the editors, were selected from the contributions of legal theorists, computer scientists, philosophers and logicians who were members of an International Working Group supported by the European ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Legal Signs Fascinate

    Kevelson's Research on Semiotics

    by Frank Fleerackers, Jan M. Broekman ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This engaging book examines the origins and first effects of the concept ‘legal semiotics’, focusing on the inventor of the term, Roberta Kevelson (1931-1998). It highlights the importance of her ideas and works which have contributed to legal theory, legal interpretation and philosophy of language.Kevelson’s work is particularly relevant today, in our world of global electronic communication ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Right to Be Punished

    Modern Doctrinal Sentencing

    by Gabriel Hallevy ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Does an offender have the right to be punished? "The right to be punished" may sound like an oxymoron, but it is not necessarily so. With the emergence of modern criminal law, the offender gained the right to be punished by rational criminal law rather than being lynched by an angry mob. The present-day offender may have the right to be punished by doctrinal sentencing rather than being subjected ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Past and Present Interactions in Legal Reasoning and Logic

    Edited by Matthias Armgardt, Patrice Canivez, Sandrine Chassagnard-Pinet ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume explores the relation between legal reasoning and logic from both a historical and a systematic perspective. The topics addressed include, among others, conditional legal acts, disjunctions in legal acts, presumptions and conjectures, conflicts of values, Jørgensen´s Dilemma, the Rhetor´s Dilemma, the theory of legal fictions and the categorization of contracts. The unifying ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Judicial Applications of Artificial Intelligence

    Edited by Giovanni Sartor, L. Karl Branting ...
    The judiciary is in the early stages of a transformation in which AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology will help to make the judicial process faster, cheaper, and more predictable without compromising the integrity of judges' discretionary reasoning. Judicial decision-making is an area of daunting complexity, where highly sophisticated legal expertise merges with cognitive and emotional ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Giving Reasons

    A Linguistic-Pragmatic Approach to Argumentation Theory

    by Lilian Bermejo Luque ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a new, linguistic approach to Argumentation Theory. Its main goal is to integrate the logical, dialectical and rhetorical dimensions of argumentation in a model providing a unitary treatment of its justificatory and persuasive powers. This model takes as its basis Speech Acts Theory in order to characterize argumentation as a second-order speech act complex. The result is a ... Read more

    $89.09 USD