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  • Rights and Reason

    Essays in Honor of Carl Wellman

    Edited by Marilyn Friedman, Larry May, K. Parsons, J. Stiff ...
    Series Book 44 - Law and Philosophy Library
    The papers in this book have been collected in celebration of Carl Wellman, who, after forty-five years, is retiring from teaching. Here I would like to highlight a few of the moments which have shaped Carl as a person and a philosopher. Although his childhood was not unhappy, Carl faced considerable challenges growing up in Manchester, New Hampshire. He ne ver knew his father; he and his mother, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • 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

  • The Legacy of John Austin's Jurisprudence

    Edited by Michael Freeman, Patricia Mindus ...
    Series Book 103 - Law and Philosophy Library
    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

    $143.99 USD

  • Legal Knowledge and Analogy

    Fragments of Legal Epistemology, Hermeneutics and Linguistics

    Edited by P.J. Nerhot ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    3 of law as an object that has always already been there, systematic and com plete. Quite the contrary. Some, indeed practically all of us, reject this sort of epistemology of law, and where the hypothesis of the coherence of the legal universe is put forward, this is in order to define it in very noticeably different terms from those traditionally used in legal scholarly accounts. If this ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Reasoning with Rules and Precedents

    A Computational Model of Legal Analysis

    by L. Karl Branting ...
    Few areas of human expertise are so well understood that they can be completely reduced to general principles. Similarly, there are few domains in which experience is so extensive that every new problem precisely matches a previous problem whose solution is known. When neither rules nor examples are individually sufficient, problem-solving expertise depends on integrating both. This book presents ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Approaches to Legal Ontologies

    Theories, Domains, Methodologies

    Edited by Giovanni Sartor, Pompeu Casanovas, Mariangela Biasiotti, Meritxell Fernández-Barrera ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The book provides the reader with a unique source regarding the current theoretical landscape in legal ontology engineering as well as on foreseeable future trends for the definition of conceptual structures to enhance the automatic processing and retrieval of legal information in the Semantic Web framework. It will thus interest researchers in the domains of the SW, legal informatics, Artificial ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Hart's Legal Philosophy

    An Examination

    by M.E. Bayles ...
    Series Book 17 - Law and Philosophy Library
    During the last half of the twentieth century, legal philosophy (or legal theory or jurisprudence) has grown significantly. It is no longer the domain of a few isolated scholars in law and philosophy. Hundreds of scholars from diverse fields attend international meetings on the subject. In some universities, large lecture courses of five hundred students or more study it. The primary aim of the ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Law, Ideology and Punishment

    Retrieval and Critique of the Liberal Ideal of Criminal Justice

    by A.W. Norrie ...
    Series Book 12 - Law and Philosophy Library
    This book is about 'Kantianism' in both a narrow and a broad sense. In the former, it is about the tracing of the development of the retributive philosophy of punishment into and beyond its classical phase in the work of a number of philosophers, one of the most prominent of whom is Kant. In the latter, it is an exploration of the many instantiations of the 'Kantian' ideas of individual guilt, ... 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

    $89.09 USD

  • Gender in Philosophy and Law

    by Laura Palazzani ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book is an introductory systematic framework in the complex and interdisciplinary sex/gender debate, focusing on philosophy of law.The volume analyses the different theories that have dealt with the gender category, highlighting the conceptual premises and the arguments of the most influential theories in the debate, which have had repercussions on the field of the ethical and juridical ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • From the American Civil War to the War on Terror

    Three Models of Emergency Law in the United States Supreme Court

    by Emily Hartz ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book offers a systematic and comprehensive account of the key cases that have come to shape the jurisprudence on emergency law in the United States from the Civil War to the War on Terror. The legal questions raised in these cases concern fundamental constitutional issues such as the status of fundamental rights, the role of the court in times of war, and the question of how to interpret ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • 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

    $89.09 USD