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  • Character, Liberty and Law

    Kantian Essays in Theory and Practice

    by J.G. Murphy ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Jeffrie G. Murphy's third collection of essays further pursues the topics of punishment and retribution that were explored in his two previous collections: Retribution, Justice and Therapy and Retribution Reconsidered. Murphy now explores these topics in the light of reflections on issues that are normally associated with religion: forgiveness, mercy, and repentance. He also explores the general ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Retribution Reconsidered

    More Essays in the Philosophy of Law

    by J.G. Murphy ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Jeffrie G. Murphy's second collection of essays further pursues the topics of punishment and retribution that were explored in his 1979 collection Retribution, Justice and Therapy.Murphy now explores these topics in the context of political philosophy as well as moral philosophy, and he now begins to develop some doubts about the version of the retributive theory with which his name has long been ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Retribution, Justice, and Therapy

    Essays in the Philosophy of Law

    by J.G. Murphy ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    One might legitimately ask what reasons other than vanity could prompt an author to issue a collection of his previously published essays. The best reason, I think, is the belief that the essays hang together in such a way that, as a book, they produce a whole which is in a sense greater than the sum of its parts. When this happens, as I hope it does in the present case, it is because the essays ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • 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

    $89.09 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

  • Responsibility and Criminal Liability

    by C.T. Sistare ...
    Series Book 7 - Law and Philosophy Library
    autonomy principally in tenns of the agent's conscious choice of ends or conduct. From this, the cognitivist emphasis on mental states and their contents naturally follows. The presence of specified mental states, as signifying agent choice, thus becomes the hallmark of responsible conduct. Capacities model theorists, by contrast, interpret personal autonomy and agent responsibility in tenns of ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Judges Against Justice

    On Judges When the Rule of Law is Under Attack

    by Hans Petter Graver ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book explores concrete situations in which judges are faced with a legislature and an executive that consciously and systematically discard the ideals of the rule of law. It revolves around three basic questions: What happen when states become oppressive and the judiciary contributes to the oppression? How can we, from a legal point of view, evaluate the actions of judges who contribute to ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Fundamentals of Legal Argumentation

    A Survey of Theories on the Justification of Judicial Decisions

    by Eveline T. Feteris ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is an updated and revised edition of Fundamentals of Legal Argumentation published in 1999. It discusses new developments that have taken place in the past 15 years in research of legal argumentation, legal justification and legal interpretation, as well as the implications of these new developments for the theory of legal argumentation. Almost every chapter has been revised and updated, ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Judgments of Love in Criminal Justice

    by Farhad Malekian ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This volume is a new chapter in the future history of law. Its general perspective could not be more original and its critical ethical edge on the state of international law could not be timelier. It explores a compassionate philosophical approach to the genuine substance of law, criminal procedure, international criminal law and international criminal justice. It divides law into three ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Reasons for Action and the Law

    by M.C. Redondo ...
    Series Book 43 - Law and Philosophy Library
    A focus on reasons for action and practical reason is the perspective chosen by many contemporary legal philosophers for the analysis of some central questions of their discipline. This book offers a critical evaluation of that approach, by carefully examining the empirical, logical and normative problems hidden behind the concepts of `reason for action' and `practical reasoning'. Unlike most ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • A Critical Appraisal of Karl Olivecrona's Legal Philosophy

    by Torben Spaak ...
    Series Book 108 - Law and Philosophy Library
    This book offers a critical appraisal of Karl Olivecrona’s legal philosophy. Based on Olivecrona’s critique of the view that law has binding force, the analysis of the concept and function of a legal rule, and the idea that law is a matter of organized force, the book argues that Olivecrona’s legal philosophy is a unique contribution to twentieth century legal philosophy. It shows how Olivecrona’s ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence

    Volume 6: A History of the Philosophy of Law from the Ancient Greeks to the Scholastics

    Edited by Fred D. Miller Jr., Carrie-Ann Biondi ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The first-ever multivolume treatment of the issues in legal philosophy and general jurisprudence, from both a theoretical and a historical perspective. The work is aimed at jurists as well as legal and practical philosophers. Edited by the renowned theorist Enrico Pattaro and his team, this book is a classical reference work that would be of great interest to legal and practical philosophers as ... Read more

    $170.09 USD