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  • Languages of the Law

    Vocabularies and Uses

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Law can be seen as a motley of different languages deployed in the legal domain. The authors of the chapters share interest in what determines the scope of the vocabulary of these languages as well as in the way they are used. Thus, both the linguistic and pragmatic turns occurring in the philosophy of language are explored as exercising not mere ripple effects on legal scholarship, but rather as ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Practice Theory and Law

    On Practices in Legal and Social Sciences

    Series series Discourses of Law
    This book engages the field of practice theory in order to consider law as a social practice.Taking up the theoretical concept of practices, the contributors to this volume maintain that law can be fruitfully understood as one among other social practices. Including perspectives from philosophers of language, experts in practice theory, linguists and legal philosophers, the book examines the twin ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Theory of Legal Evidence - Evidence in Legal Theory

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book addresses theoretical problems concerning legal evidence. The concept of evidence is expected to fulfill a number of distinct roles in science and philosophy, but also in legal theory and law, some of which are complementary, while others are conflicting. In their profession, lawyers have to deal with evidence and proof. Yet the legal concept of evidence is constantly changing, and the ... Read more

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  • Clinical Results of Synovectomy in Rheumatoid Arthritis

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    In numerous puplications the results of synovectomy have been written about where either one or another viewpoint have been examined. In this publication, the attempt is made to collect as many parameters as possible so as to get a most objective picture of the therapeutic worth by studying 100 knee and 370 finger synovectomies. During the survey, among other points, the following important ... Read more

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  • Ratio Legis

    Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The book is dedicated to the theoretical problems concerning ratio legis. In the contexts of legal interpretation and legal reasoning, the two most important intellectual tools employed by lawyers, ratio legis would seem to offer an extremely powerful argument. Declaring the ratio legis of a statute can lead to a u-turn argumentation throughout the lifespan of the statute itself – in parliament, ... Read more

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  • The Legacy Of John Chisholm Smyles

    Nevada's Forgotten Man

    This is the true history of a man named John Chisholm Smyles. He was a surveyor and recorder. As a young man, he ventures out and settles in the town of DeWitt in the frontier state of Iowa. He marries the girl of his dreams. Then John works his way out west to Nevada Territory, in 1862. John becomes a respected citizen in the prominent town of Reno, Nevada. This story tells about the life John ... Read more

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  • Legal Argumentation Theory: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book offers its readers an overview of recent developments in the theory of legal argumentation written by representatives from various disciplines, including argumentation theory, philosophy of law, logic and artificial intelligence. It presents an overview of contributions representative of different academic and legal cultures, and different continents and countries. The book contains ... Read more

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  • Fundamentals of Legal Argumentation

    A Survey of Theories on the Justification of Judicial Decisions

    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

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    In this important book, Niklas Luhmann uses his powers as an analyst of the social system to examine two of the most important concepts which hold that system together and allow it to evolve: trust and power. He criticises those theoretical accounts whose roots lie in what he refers to as ideologies – accounts which use implicit beliefs in particular conceptions of human nature to explain and ... Read more

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  • Political Phenomenology

    Experience, Ontology, Episteme

    Series series Routledge Research in Phenomenology
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  • Institutionalized Reason

    The Jurisprudence of Robert Alexy

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