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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “verena klappstein”
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  • Languages of the Law

    Vocabularies and Uses

    Edited by Verena Klappstein, Maciej Dybowski ...
    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

  • Theory of Legal Evidence - Evidence in Legal Theory

    Edited by Verena Klappstein, Maciej Dybowski ...
    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

    $179.09 USD

  • Ratio Legis

    Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives

    Edited by Verena Klappstein, Maciej Dybowski ...
    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

    $89.09 USD

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    Edward Westermarck’s Moral and Social Theory

    by Otto Pipatti ...
    While highly respected among evolutionary scholars, the sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher Edward Westermarck is now largely forgotten in the social sciences. This book is the first full study of his moral and social theory, focusing on the key elements of his theory of moral emotions as presented in The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas and summarised in Ethical Relativity. ... Read more

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  • Legal Argumentation Theory: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Christian Dahlman, Eveline Feteris ...
    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

    $134.09 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

    $134.09 USD

  • Trust and Power

    Translated by John Raffan, Kathryn Rooney, Howard Davis ...
    by Niklas Luhmann ...
    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

    $23.00 USD

  • Institutionalized Reason

    The Jurisprudence of Robert Alexy

    Edited by Matthias Klatt ...
    This volume gathers leading figures from legal philosophy and constitutional theory to offer a critical examination of the work of Robert Alexy. The contributions explore the issues surrounding the complex relations between rights, law, and morality and reflect on Alexy's distinctive work on these issues. The focus across the contributions is on Alexy's main pre-occupations - his anti-positivist ... Read more

    $120.59 USD

  • Recognition

    A Chapter in the History of European Ideas

    by Axel Honneth ...
    Series series The Seeley Lectures
    The idea that we are mutually dependent on the recognition of our peers is at least as old as modernity. Across Europe, this idea has been understood in different ways from the very beginning, according to each country's different cultural and political conditions. This stimulating study explores the complex history and multiple associations of the idea of 'Recognition' in Britain, France and ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Logic of Legal Requirements

    Essays on Defeasibility

    Edited by Giovanni Battista Ratti, Jordi Ferrer Beltrán ...
    When a legal rule requires us to drive on the right, notarize our wills, or refrain from selling bootleg liquor, how are we to describe and understand that requirement? In particular, how does the logical form of such a requirement relate to the logical form of other requirements, such as moral requirements, or the requirements of logic itself? When a general legal rule is applied or distinguished ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • Kant's Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim

    Edited by Amélie Oksenberg Rorty, James Schmidt ...
    Series series Cambridge Critical Guides
    Lively debates about narratives of historical progress, the conditions for international justice, and the implications of globalisation have prompted a renewed interest in Kant's Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim. The essays in this volume, written by distinguished contributors, discuss the questions that are at the core of Kant's investigations. Does the study of history convey ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Kant's Metaphysics of Morals

    A Critical Guide

    Edited by Lara Denis ...
    Series series Cambridge Critical Guides
    Immanuel Kant's Metaphysics of Morals (1797), containing the Doctrine of Right and Doctrine of Virtue, is his final major work of practical philosophy. Its focus is not rational beings in general but human beings in particular, and it presupposes and deepens Kant's earlier accounts of morality, freedom and moral psychology. In this volume of newly-commissioned essays, a distinguished team of ... Read more

    $38.59 USD