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  • A Jurisprudence of Movement

    Common Law, Walking, Unsettling Place

    by Olivia Barr ...
    Series series Space, Materiality and the Normative
    Law moves, whether we notice or not. Set amongst a spatial turn in the humanities, and jurisprudence more specifically, this book calls for a greater attention to legal movement, in both its technical and material forms. Despite various ways the spatial turn has been taken up in legal thought, questions of law, movement and its materialities are too often overlooked. This book addresses this ... Read more

    $68.99 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

  • The Aboriginal Tent Embassy

    Sovereignty, Black Power, Land Rights and the State

    Edited by Gary Foley, Andrew Schaap ...
    The 1972 Aboriginal Embassy was one of the most significant indigenous political demonstrations of the twentieth century. What began as a simple response to a Prime Ministerial statement on Australia Day 1972, evolved into a six-month political stand-off between radical Aboriginal activists and a conservative Australian government. The dramatic scenes in July 1972 when police forcibly removed the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Graphic Justice

    Intersections of Comics and Law

    Edited by Thomas Giddens ...
    The intersections of law and contemporary culture are vital for comprehending the meaning and significance of law in today’s world. Far from being unsophisticated mass entertainment, comics and graphic fiction both imbue our contemporary culture, and are themselves imbued, with the concerns of law and justice. Accordingly, and spanning a wide variety of approaches and topics from an international ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Law, Immunization and the Right to Die

    by Jennifer Hardes ...
    Law, Immunization and the Right to Die focuses on the urgent matter of legal appeals and judicial decisions on assisted death. Drawing on key cases from the United Kingdom and Canada, the book focuses on the problematic paternalism of legal decisions that currently deny assisted dying and questions why the law fails to recognize what many describe as "compassionate motives" for assisted death. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Interpreting Statutes

    A Comparative Study

    by D. Neil MacCormick, Robert S. Summers ...
    Series series Applied Legal Philosophy
    This book is a work of outstanding importance for scholars of comparative law and jurisprudence and for lawyers engaged in EC law or other international forms of practice. It reviews, compares and analyses the practice of interpretation in nine countries representing Europe as well as the US and Argentina in common and civil law; it also explores implications for general theories of interpretation ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Causes of Law

    Philosophy of Law, #2

    by James Constant ...
    Series Book 2 - Philosophy of Law
    Jurisprudence. Philosophy of Law. Uncertainty of Law and Constitutional Government. This book looks at the causes of law: law as an artifact; the efficient, material, formal and final causes of law; and the errors of positivism ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World Bank Legal Review, Volume 5

    Fostering Development through Opportunity, Inclusion, and Equity

    Edited by Hassane Cisse, N. R. Madhava Menon, Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Vincent O. Nmehielle ...
    Series series Law, Justice, and Development Series
    This volume will explore the potentially transformative role of effective laws and legal institutions in providing people with more opportunity that is both inclusive and equitable. Laws, legal frameworks and judicial institutions can create opportunity by providing the space to build human capital and assets, create jobs, and encourage individuals and organizations to make productive investments ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Legal Order

    by Santi Romano ...
    Translated by Mariano Croce ...
    Series series Law and Politics
    First published in 1917 (Part 1) and 1918 (Part 2), with a second edition in 1946, this is the first English translation of Santi Romano’s classic work, L’ordinamento giuridico (The Legal Order). The main focus of The Legal Order is the notion of institution, which Romano considers to be both the core and distinguishing feature of law. After criticising accounts of the nature of law centred on ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Justice and the Slaughter Bench

    Essays on Law's Broken Dialectic

    by Alan Norrie ...
    In this follow-up to Law and the Beautiful Soul, Alan Norrie addresses the split between legal and ethical judgment. Shaped by history, law’s formalism both eschews and requires ethics. The first essays consider legal form in its practical aspect, and the ethical problems encountered (‘law’s architectonic’). The later essays look at the complex underlying relation between law and ethics (‘law’s ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Crime Fiction and the Law

    Edited by Maria Aristodemou, Fiona Macmillan, Patricia Tuitt ...
    Series series Birkbeck Law Press
    This book opens up a range of important perspectives on law and violence by considering the ways in which their relationship is formulated in literature, television and film. Employing critical legal theory to address the relationship between crime fiction, law and justice, it considers a range of topics, including: the relationship between crime fiction, legal reasoning and critique; questions ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Compromised Jurisprudence

    by Lisa Strelein ...
    Native title has dramatically altered the law and public policy in Australia. It has had a fundamental impact on social relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians and the courts have played a central role in its development, and continue to do so. Compromised Jurisprudence established itself as a well-priced and accessible introduction to the subjectof native title. This revised ... Read more

    $22.99 USD