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  • Equity, Trusts and Commerce

    Edited by Professor James Penner, Professor Paul S Davies ...
    Series series Hart Studies in Private Law
    This collection of essays, written by leading commentators from across the common law world, examines a range of topics concerning Equity and Trusts in the commercial context. The essays investigate the way in which doctrines derived from the equitable jurisdiction interact with and shape various areas of the law, including company law, commercial law and agency law. Subjects considered include ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • 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

  • Playing Offstage

    The Theater as a Presence or Factor in the Real World

    by Gigi Argyropoulou, S. P. Cerasano, Lance Duerfahrd, Joe Falocco, Uli Jäckle, Gina MacKenzie, Daniel T. O'Hara, James Penner, Brian Rhinehart, Elizabeth Sakellaridou, Horacio Sierra, Avra Sidiropoulou, Natascha Siouzouli ...
    Series series Transforming Literary Studies
    Fourteen scholars who work on campus or in the theater address this issue of what it means to play offstage. With their individual definition of what “offstage” could mean, the results were, predictably, varied. They employed a variety of critical approaches to the question of what happens when the play moves into the audience or beyond the physical playhouse itself? What are the social, cultural, ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Property Theory

    Legal and Political Perspectives

    Edited by James Penner, Michael Otsuka ...
    Property, or property rights, remains one of the most central elements in moral, legal, and political thought. It figures centrally in the work of figures as various as Grotius, Locke, Hume, Smith, Hegel and Kant. This collection of essays brings fresh perspective on property theory, from both legal and political theoretical perspectives, and is essential reading for anyone interested in the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Philosophical Foundations of Property Law

    Edited by James Penner, Henry Smith ...
    Series series Philosophical Foundations of Law
    Property has long played a central role in political and moral philosophy. Philosophers dealing with property have tended to follow the consensus that property has no special content but is a protean construct - a mere placeholder for theories aimed at questions of distributive justice and efficiency. Until recently there has been a relative absence of serious philosophical attention paid to the ... Read more

    $122.99 USD

  • Timothy Leary: The Harvard Years

    Early Writings on LSD and Psilocybin with Richard Alpert, Huston Smith, Ralph Metzner, and others

    Edited by James Penner ...
    The first collection of Leary’s writings devoted entirely to the research phase of his career, 1960 to 1965• Presents Leary’s early scientific articles and scholarly essays, including those on the Harvard Psilocybin Project, the Concord Prison Project, and the Good Friday Experiment• With an editor’s introduction that examines the Harvard Drug Scandal in detail as well as a critical preface for ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Consuming Youth

    Navigating youth from being consumers to being consumed

    by John Berard, James Penner, Rick Bartlett ...
    Today’s relentless, consumer culture—dominated by popular media’s emphasis on bigger, better, and more, and catering to teenagers every want and desire—is leaving our youth adrift in a sea of conflicting messages. Messages that every youth worker must be able to decode and redirect away from the material world towards helping young people become who God created them to be: givers instead of ... Read more

    $4.99 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