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  • Interlegal Reasoning

    Balancing at the Interfaces

    Edited by Gabriel Alejandro Encinas Duarte, Jan-R. Sieckmann ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book puts forward interlegal reasoning as a means of coping with normative legal pluralism, that is, with conflicts between competing legal systems, such as national law, European law, international law, and indigenous law. It introduces interlegal reasoning as a distinct conceptual category, bringing together interlegality and legal argumentation theory to address transnational challenges ... Read more

    $197.09 USD

  • The Logic of Autonomy

    Law, Morality and Autonomous Reasoning

    by Professor Dr Jan-R Sieckmann ...
    Series series Law and Practical Reason
    Autonomy is the central idea of modern practical philosophy. Understood as self-legislation, autonomy seems to require that the validity of norms depends on recognition, namely, that their addressees, being autonomous agents, recognise these norms to be valid. But how can one be bound by norms whose validity depends on their being recognised as valid by their addressees? The questions of how ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Autonomy and Law

    by Jan-R. Sieckmann ...
    Series Book 150 - Law and Philosophy Library
    This book defends the idea of autonomy as the balancing of normative arguments, which captures the essential feature of autonomous judgement as being simultaneously free and normatively bound. However, this approach runs counter to the dominant view of arguments as propositions, and to Kantian notions of autonomy. Here, it is applied to three core dimensions of law: law as legal system, as legal ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Proportionality, Balancing, and Rights

    Robert Alexy's Theory of Constitutional Rights

    Edited by Jan-R. Sieckmann ...
    Series Book 136 - Law and Philosophy Library
    The book focuses on Robert Alexy’s theory of constitutional rights. Alexy systematically presented the theory in his seminal book “Theorie der Grundrechte” (1985; Engl. translation “Theory of Constitutional Rights, 2002) and continued to develop it in numerous subsequent articles. Arguably still the most influential theory of constitutional rights, it has found widespread academic support, as well ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

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  • The Constitution of Society

    Outline of the Theory of Structuration

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade. In The Constitution of Society he outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and ... Read more

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  • The Status of Law in World Society

    Meditations on the Role and Rule of Law

    by Friedrich Kratochwil ...
    Series Book 129 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    Friedrich Kratochwil's book explores the role of law in the international arena and the key discourses surrounding it. It explains the increased importance of law for politics, from law-fare to the judicialization of politics, to human rights, and why traditional expectations of progress through law have led to disappointment. Providing an overview of the debates in legal theory, philosophy, ... Read more

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  • Feminist International

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    by Veronica Gago ...
    Translated by Liz Mason-Deese ...
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  • Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action

    Translated by Christian Lenhardt, Shierry Weber Nicholsen ...
    by Jürgen Habermas ...
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  • Human Rights: Moral or Political?

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  • Social Theory of International Politics

    by Alexander Wendt ...
    Series Book 67 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
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  • Creating Political Presence

    The New Politics of Democratic Representation

    Edited by Dario Castiglione, Johannes Pollak ...
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