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  • Law, Liberty, and the Rule of Law

    Edited by Imer B. Flores, Kenneth E. Himma ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    In recent years, there has been a substantial increase in concern for the rule of law. Not only have there been a multitude of articles and books on the essence, nature, scope and limitation of the law, but citizens, elected officials, law enforcement officers and the judiciary have all been actively engaged in this debate. Thus, the concept of the rule of law is as multifaceted and contested as ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • 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

  • Interpretation of Law in the Age of Enlightenment

    From the Rule of the King to the Rule of Law

    Edited by Yasutomo Morigiwa, Michael Stolleis, Jean-Louis Halperin ...
    Series Book 95 - Law and Philosophy Library
    A collaboration of leading historians of European law and philosophers of law and politics identifying and explaining the practice of interpretation of law in the 18th century. The goal: establishing the actual practice in the Age of Enlightenment, and explaining why this was the case. The ideology of the Age was that law, i.e., the will of the sovereign, can be explicitly and appropriately stated ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • A Theory of Legal Sentences

    by Manuel Atienza, J. Ruiz Manero ...
    Series Book 34 - Law and Philosophy Library
    Legal statements are, according to the authors, the most basic elements of the law. Nevertheless they must be considered not only as the pieces of a puzzle, but also as the components of a dynamic and highly complex reality: the law of contemporary society. The book presents an analysis of the different types of legal statements (mandatory rules, principles, power-conferring rules, definitions, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education

    Edited by Jan M. Broekman, Francis J. Mootz III ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book offers educational experiences, including reflections and the resulting essays, from the Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law and Semiotics held during 2008 – 2011 at Penn State University’s Dickinson School of Law. The texts address educational aspects of law that require attention and that also are issues in traditional jurisprudence and legal theory. The book introduces education in legal ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Freedom, Rights And Pornography

    A Collection of Papers by Fred R. Berger

    Edited by Bruce Russell ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    In the essays that follow, Fred Berger argues for freedom of expression, civil disobedience, affirmative action and what he calls liberal judicial activism and against sex-role stereotyping, paternalism and the censorship of pornography. Underlying his liberalism is a unified theory. That theory consists of a conception of rights, a theory of value and a theory of government. The conception of a ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Rights and Decisions

    Formal Models of Law and Liberalism

    by Martin V.B.P.M. van Hees ...
    Series Book 23 - Law and Philosophy Library
    The game-theoretic analysis of rights forms a rapidly growing field of study to which this book makes an important contribution. Van Hees combines the game-theoretic approach with the results and tools from logic, in particular from the logic of norms. The resulting synthesis between logic and game theory provides a firm foundation for the game-theoretic approach. The analysis shows how different ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Democratizing Constitutional Law

    Perspectives on Legal Theory and the Legitimacy of Constitutionalism

    Edited by Thomas Bustamante, Bernardo Gonçalves Fernandes ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This volume critically discusses the relationship between democracy and constitutionalism. It does so with a view to respond to objections raised by legal and political philosophers who are sceptical of judicial review based on the assumption that judicial review is an undemocratic institution. The book builds on earlier literature on the moral justification of the authority of constitutional ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • The Rationality and Justification of Legislation

    Essays in Legisprudence

    Edited by A. Daniel Oliver-Lalana, Luc J. Wintgens ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The essays collected in this book address legislation from the viewpoint of legal theory and provide an overview of current research in legisprudence as a new scholarly approach to lawmaking. The overall focus of the volume is on the justification of legislation, with a special emphasis on the intricate notion of legislative rationality. With the rational justification of legislation as their ... 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

  • 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

  • Normativity in Legal Sociology

    Methodological Reflections on Law and Regulation in Late Modernity

    by Reza Banakar ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The field of socio-legal research has encountered three fundamental challenges over the last three decades – it has been criticized for paying insufficient attention to legal doctrine, for failing to develop a sound theoretical foundation and for not keeping pace with the effects of the increasing globalization and internationalization of law, state and society. This book examines these three ... Read more

    $107.09 USD