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  • In Search of Common Ground on Abortion

    From Culture War to Reproductive Justice

    Edited by Robin West, Justin Murray, Meredith Esser ...
    Series series Gender in Law, Culture, and Society
    This book brings together academics, legal practitioners and activists with a wide range of pro-choice, pro-life and other views to explore the possibilities for cultural, philosophical, moral and political common ground on the subjects of abortion and reproductive justice more generally. It aims to rethink polarized positions on sexuality, morality, religion and law, in relation to abortion, as a ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Choosing Not to Choose

    Understanding the Value of Choice

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    Our ability to make choices is fundamental to our sense of ourselves as human beings, and essential to the political values of freedom-protecting nations. Whom we love; where we work; how we spend our time; what we buy; such choices define us in the eyes of ourselves and others, and much blood and ink has been spilt to establish and protect our rights to make them freely. Choice can also be a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Sovereignty in Post-Sovereign Society

    A Systems Theory of European Constitutionalism

    by Jiří Přibáň ...
    Series series Applied Legal Philosophy
    Sovereignty marks the boundary between politics and law. Highlighting the legal context of politics and the political context of law, it thus contributes to the internal dynamics of both political and legal systems. This book comprehends the persistence of sovereignty as a political and juridical concept in the post-sovereign social condition. The tension and paradoxical relationship between the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Controversies in American Federalism and Public Policy

    Edited by Christopher P. Banks ...
    Series series Controversies in American Constitutional Law
    This interdisciplinary collection presents a scholarly treatment of how the constitutional politics of federalism affect governments and citizens, offering an accessible yet comprehensive analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court’s federalism jurisprudence and its effect on the development of national and state policies in key areas of constitutional jurisprudence. The contributors address the impact ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Reconstructing Judicial Review

    by Dr Sarah Nason ...
    This book offers a new interpretation of judicial review in England and Wales as being concerned with the advancement of justice and good governance, as opposed to being concerned primarily with ultra vires or common law constitutionalism. It is developed both from examining the functions and values that ought to be served by judicial review, and from analysis of empirical 'social' facts about ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Hobbes on Legal Authority and Political Obligation

    by Luciano Venezia ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Hobbes on Legal Authority and Political Obligation develops a new interpretation of Hobbes's theory of political obligation. According to the account developed in the book, the directives issued by the sovereign as introducing authoritative requirements, so that subjects are morally obligated to obey them. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Rights

    A Critical Introduction

    by Tom Campbell ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Political Philosophy
    We take rights to be fundamental to everyday life. Rights are also controversial and hotly debated both in theory and practice. Where do rights come from? Are they invented or discovered? What sort of rights are there and who is entitled to them? In this comprehensive introduction, Tom Campbell introduces and critically examines the key philosophical debates about rights.The first part of the book ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Social Systems Theory and Judicial Review

    Taking Jurisprudence Seriously

    by Katayoun Baghai ...
    Series series Studies in Modern Law and Policy
    This book demonstrates the empirical gains and integrative potentials of social systems theory for the sociology of law. Against a backdrop of classical and contemporary sociological debates about law and society, it observes judicial review as an instrument for the self-steering of a functionally differentiated legal system. This allows close investigation of the US Supreme Court’s jurisprudence ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Courtroom as a Space of Resistance

    Reflections on the Legacy of the Rivonia Trial

    by Awol Allo ...
    Series series Critical Studies in Jurisprudence
    Fifty years before his death in 2013, Nelson Mandela stood before Justice de Wet in Pretoria's Palace of Justice and delivered one of the most spectacular and liberating statements ever made from a dock. In what came to be regarded as "the trial that changed South Africa", Mandela summed up the spirit of the liberation struggle and the moral basis for the post-Apartheid society. In this blistering ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Vulnerability

    Reflections on a New Ethical Foundation for Law and Politics

    Edited by Martha Albertson Fineman, Anna Grear ...
    Series series Gender in Law, Culture, and Society
    Martha Albertson Fineman’s earlier work developed a theory of inevitable and derivative dependencies as a way of problematizing the core assumptions underlying the ’autonomous’ subject of liberal law and politics in the context of US equality discourse. Her ’vulnerability thesis’ represents the evolution of that earlier work and situates human vulnerability as a critical heuristic for exploring ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Judge and Jurist

    Essays in Memory of Lord Rodger of Earlsferry

    Edited by Andrew Burrows, David Johnston, QC, Reinhard Zimmermann ...
    Lord Rodger of Earlsferry was a distinguished judge and scholar. He was a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and the author of many high quality law journal articles and two books. Written in memory of Lord Rodger, this collection contains 47 essays by Lord Rodger's friends and colleagues from the UK and Europe. The essays reflect Lord Rodger's role as a leading judge and also his ... Read more

    $159.29 USD

  • A Test of Faith?

    Religious Diversity and Accommodation in the European Workplace

    Edited by Marie-Claire Foblets, Katayoun Alidadi ...
    Series series Cultural Diversity and Law in Association with RELIGARE
    Issues of religious diversity in the workplace have become very topical and have been raised before domestic courts and the European Court of Human Rights. Examining the controversial and constantly evolving position of religion in the workplace, this collection brings together chapters by legal and social science scholars and provides a wealth of information on legal responses across Europe, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD